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My little friend is not so little anymore, Toby! In fact, she's quite large! Enormous, in fact! Nine foot six and getting taller by the day! It's actually quite alarming! We're getting into I'm a Virgo territory here! Did you watch that miniseries, by the way? It was on Amazon Prime a couple of years ago! Jharrel Jerome is a treasure! Some great performances by Elijah Wood and Walton Goggins as well, which reminds me that I need to start my Justified rewatch. Oh, Margo Martindale is another treasure, especially as a voice in BoJack Horseman. Anyway, Olive is a giant, is the point I'm trying to make.

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Cleats, 3/20/06

No.

No, no, no.

Simply unacceptable.

No.

Simulated gang sign in panel three: also no. Especially no.

Meanwhile, Rex and Troy are getting ready to chow down on wieners!

Ah, it shouldn’t be funny, and yet it is.

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Metapost: Help a brother out

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Comics Curmudgeon readers: I know that some — nay, perhaps many — of you toil in the IT field. And, if you read this site, you clearly have a great sense of humor. Thus, I beg of you: please submit your entries to a challenge I help run over at IBM’s developerWorks site. Basically, we’re trying to put together an April Fool’s-themed fake news edition, a la the Onion or the Daily Show, only focused on tech. Follow that link and then scroll down to the bottom to find out how to enter. You could win a free developerWorks t-shirt … and everlasting fame! So hop to it.

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Single-payer health care is his madeleine

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Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/19/06

For once, I’m not going to use a discussion of Rex Morgan, M.D., to impugn the title character’s heterosexuality. Instead, I want to draw your attention to the good doctor’s facial expression in the second panel of the second row. Have we ever seen Rex look more melancholy than he does at that moment? The ellipsis between “about” and “universal” seems to speak volumes. What’s going on behind those troubled, blandly handsome features? Is he thinking of a better world, where medical costs are controlled by social contract and doctors can pursue their calling without worrying about the profit motive? Is he thinking of all the patients who get inadequate care because they aren’t fully insured? Uninsured patients like a certain sexy blond archaeologist … who needed help with his hand, and then his head … and then his heart … and who just left like he was never there, unmarked except for the terrible emptiness he left in Rex’s innermost soul …

Oh, wait, I said I wasn’t going to talk about this, didn’t I? Sorry about that.

I’m beginning to wonder if Dr. Troy is less medical socialist and more golf shark. After all, Rex was wiping up the links with him until he dropped the UHI-bomb, which got Rex all agitated — as it would any doctor, no matter what his stance on it. I would have started with malpractice insurance premiums and not gotten to wholesale reform of the medical profession until the back nine, but that’s just me.

Dr. Troy appears to be the master of psychological warfare, actually. All he had to do was say “tree line” and he gave Rex (in panel two) a case of the shakes as bad as a poker junkie desperate for his next fix.