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Rex Morgan, M.D., 1/13/13

I do really wonder at the plot development process that brought us a Rex Morgan, M.D., storyline that includes a sensitive treatment of breast cancer and its medical, economic, and psychological effects on people without health insurance, but also features sexy strippers getting into a cat fight over Rex. Was it conceived of as a single, organic whole, appearing as a creative vision in the writer’s mind? Is it the result of some synthesis, the product of a debate external (e.g., desperate stakeholders with conflicting visions arguing in a boardroom) or internal (e.g., a devil on the writer’s shoulder shouting “STRIPPERS!” and an angel shouting “CANCER!”)? Whatever got us here, it’s pretty great.

Two things in particular I’m fascinated by today are the waistline of BW’s pants, which seems to improbably dip down in the front to better showcase her washboard abs, and her nickname. I guess it’s pronounced “Bee Doubleyou,” but that doesn’t have any fewer syllables and is more awkward to pronounce than “Brenda Woods.” Plus the lack of periods when it’s written out seems a little odd. Is she maybe saying “Bwuh”?

Spider-Man, 1/13/13

“So it’s much more dramatically interesting this way than if he were, say, defeated by a super-hero, right? Everybody likes it better this way, right? So, um, that was my plan all along?”

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Heathcliff, 1/12/13

Heathcliff enjoys eating actual putrefying garbage, much to the disgust of humans.

Lockhorns, 1/12/13

As Leroy is all too well aware, the Lockhorns’ friends are prepared to unleash a hail of bullets on both of them with very little provocation.

Pluggers, 1/12/13

WHAAAT A PLUGGER DRIVING A FOREIGN CAR BUILT BY ACTUAL COMMUNISTS HERESY UNCLEAN

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Would you like this week’s top comment? I imagine you would!

“Sorry, folks, but when Mary Worth says ‘cocoa’ she doesn’t mean sex. She of course means a drab, tepid, beige beverage which tastes nothing like cocoa.” –Digger

And the runners up! Very funny!

“I hope the rest of the week consists of the Parker clan sitting around the table marveling at the size of the check. On Saturday, the Revolution starts and the Parkers are the first ones guillotined.” –Calvin’s Cardboard Box

“Even with a rifle pointed at him, Mark remained calm. The monkey was close, in the trees. He spread his consciousness out to the nearby animals. There was a salt-water crocodile nearby; Mark touched its primitive reptile brain and brought it closer, just in case the monkey failed. But that wouldn’t happen. He saw Juan through faceted eyes of a hundred mosquitos. Distraction, if he needed it. And he saw Juan out of the monkey’s eyes, smelled the fear on the man with the monkey’s nose. Nature, red in tooth and claw, took a deep breath. And pounced.” –Voshkod

“The rack zoom on Jeff’s dissociative episode in panel 2 really highlights the non-Euclidean geometry of the car. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s strip, in which Jeff slams on the brakes, garroting Mary with the seatbelt that’s apparently stretched over her jugular, and the Eschermobile tumbles out of the two-dimensional confines of the comic and into Marmaduke.” –Nate

“Mark Trail: There is nothing quite like wrapping up and recapping a bizarre and idiotic series of events, while making empty promises of ‘stories,’ over a great lunch of mustard straight from the jar.” –Marc

“Awww snap! This is the moment all of us Anne Eiffell/TJ ’shippers have been waiting for! No, it’s not, there’s no such thing.” –OMEGA SUPREME

“In fact, Evans, why don’t you stop drawing your female characters in cat-fights and dedicate you spare time to depictions of an unhappy TJ. You know, TJ dropping his ice-cream cone, TJ missing the bus in a rainstorm, TJ in the waiting room at the VD clinic. I WILL PAY YOU GOOD MONEY TO SEE THESE!” –pugfuggly

“I hope Sherry has good health insurance. She has probably acquired at least a dozen kinds of exotic Kraven-pelt parasites by now, apart from the lung damage caused by Kraven’s very special brand of B.O.” –Poteet

“Teacher says every time a bell rings, Margo houses down some more Goldschläger.” –Doctor Handsome

“Yep, Jeff’s black, orange and pink auto color scheme makes perfect sense.” –Doodle Bean

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