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Maybe it's just that the standards of menace have been so raised by the likes of Calvin and Hobbes or Bart Simpson but I can't remember ever seeing Dennis engage in behavior that would make him a poor children's party guest. He wears a tiny suit to church for goodness sake! He's really just a menace because the strip is called Dennis the Menace but who told the inhabitants of the strip that? Who is going around badmouthing this precocious kid who at worst doesn't always live up to 1950s standards of etiquette? I ask but we all already know it's Mr. Wilson, Mr. Wilson is making the neighbor kid a social pariah out of a sort of misplaced dissatisfaction and inadequacy that his pension wasn't enough to settle him in a gated community with no children.

—BananaSam
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Special offer – Friday only!

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On this final day of the Comics Curmudgeon Garage Sale, I have three important announcements –

One – From his vacation paradise at scenic Secret Location, Josh extends a hearty “thank you” for all the generous contributions he’s received during the past week. Josh says, “You folks are great!”

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Emotional wreckage Friday!

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Hurry – last day!

Thank you thank you!

Apartment 3G, 9/5/07, 9/7/07

Hahahahahahahaha. Oh, Eric, Eric, Eric, this is not wise. Just remember, you yellow-shirted morsel: you are no Dr. Drew Corey M.D. and Margo, sir, is no Dawn Weston.

Family Circus, 9/7/07

I don’t know which is more disturbing here: a creative process that begins with drawing the circle because that’s the hard part, or the family dynamics of Jeffy drawing his brother ridiculing his father.

Sally Forth, 9/7/07

Hee. Worst Grandma ever!

Happy Friday, everybody!

— Uncle Lumpy

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The elements of style

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Funky Winkerbean, 9/6/07

Yeah, Crazy Harry — smells like something crawled in there and died. But this is Funky Winkerbean, so it’s probably a puppy. Or your Mom.

Mary Worth, 9/6/07

Mary Worth is pushing this “lost in the funhouse” plot a little too literally. What’s that behind the glass in panel 2 — a leprechaun or a four-foot trophy?

Phantom, 9/5/07, 9/6/07

OK. “Tagger” Tendai wants to sit home and draw her dream hero, who will turn out to be the Phantom: “Then I woke up, and it was all reality!” Nice. But look at those locations: what is this, Westchester County, Africa?

— Uncle Lumpy