tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53806532024-02-28T04:29:25.731-08:00Alley Oop watchThe world's stupidest comic strip analyzed on a semi-regular basis.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-42918513995803816712010-04-22T14:10:00.000-07:002010-04-22T14:15:38.865-07:00Lazy cartooningWhen I mentioned in the last post that the Benders would probably be well served to extend the fight sequence over several weeks, I neglected to mention that this would require drawing more than one fight scene that they use over and over and over again.<br />Because, as you can see below, that is precisely what the Benders have done.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzXi_8z1KJ4qpzoLrGoVJ6v0VwZOBnTektAUzULXp5y0YCkcLizSRAorl1-DS7ebbU0OCFbuoO6Cqr4wUiNpSAwJ5RQDk6E2f-AcWdmbs5FlDViC4GOdmGMbg0AWunnXYZQqLQg/s1600/316169.full.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 114px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzXi_8z1KJ4qpzoLrGoVJ6v0VwZOBnTektAUzULXp5y0YCkcLizSRAorl1-DS7ebbU0OCFbuoO6Cqr4wUiNpSAwJ5RQDk6E2f-AcWdmbs5FlDViC4GOdmGMbg0AWunnXYZQqLQg/s400/316169.full.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463072958076262050" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-ZKOQOSBJKKMxmZEJGpEMDtaTtFsg5UDevHVz6fdJf2d5aNE7BNHSO4Ut-K34Dn8jaIbITdEQgWuYrLM0KSSEjCmQJEnXesNMXV29I9cyjrJZ8QDIBMA7nHpx2hMugvwDug9CA/s1600/317032.full.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 114px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-ZKOQOSBJKKMxmZEJGpEMDtaTtFsg5UDevHVz6fdJf2d5aNE7BNHSO4Ut-K34Dn8jaIbITdEQgWuYrLM0KSSEjCmQJEnXesNMXV29I9cyjrJZ8QDIBMA7nHpx2hMugvwDug9CA/s400/317032.full.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463073180256317922" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJilRk32Boaqizg4ptUfrh18_xr_TSIfzyo-zFtmJ4E3N37jAK9tKnVqr8vp1mXKW_RC6qj0cX04SQoIrYRHJnyHxHzv_YoPi7x9HsTmVe8Lk-8KOgsJVZv60C5ZQc74pWYFjQw/s1600/317033.full.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 115px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJilRk32Boaqizg4ptUfrh18_xr_TSIfzyo-zFtmJ4E3N37jAK9tKnVqr8vp1mXKW_RC6qj0cX04SQoIrYRHJnyHxHzv_YoPi7x9HsTmVe8Lk-8KOgsJVZv60C5ZQc74pWYFjQw/s400/317033.full.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463073373403889394" /></a><br /><br />In the April 15 strip, we get the first scene of the melee with Oop grimacing as he clups a Lemmian with a red bandana upside the head. Behind him to his left is Foozie with an uncertain look on his face as he is set upon by a clone of the guy that Oop just bashed. And to the right of Oop is Wooly locked in a struggle with three Lemmians - one has grabbed his club, another has his left arm and a third looks like he’s going to hit him while he is being restrained. And immediately behind Oop is a menacing-looking bald-headed Lemmian with both arms up in the air looking like he is going to try and tackle Oop from behind.<br />So far so good. Then on Sunday we get a repeat of the same picture since the Benders have given up on producing new materials for Sunday and just rehash scenes from the previous week.<br />Finally, on Monday, April 20, we resume with the fight.... except that it is simply the exact same fight scene as before only flipped so that whereas earlier Oop was swinging his club with his right hand, now he is singing with his left hand and so forth. So the Benders did as little work as possible. Alley Oop is still in the process of hitting the same guy, Wooly is now off screen, but everything else is just the same as it was the week prior.<br />Then on Tuesday, April 21, we get a change. Oop is STILL hitting the same guy (flipped back again and using his right arm once more) and we can now see Wooly once more still in t he exact same position. The only difference now is that the bald-headed guy behind Oop suddenly has a club in his left hand that he is swinging awkwardly at Oop’s hat. Why the sudden importance being placed on the hat is beyond me. The fact that Oop stops in the middle of a fight to liberate Moo so that he can retrieve his top hat is stupid beyond compare.<br />And it’s not even worth noting that in the split second it takes for the swinging club to strike Oop’s hat, he has already switched his club from his right hand to his left hand.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-83809911951746559192010-04-19T09:43:00.000-07:002010-04-19T09:50:53.507-07:00More Wham! Bam! Pow! please<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHeYaEiuoVmBHMSklToCgpNzNhQfBxE53h6m7OSPVktnubb7gV9wzkgCWEbZJ05lvb3-_g1_3raY5B7s2HHMwNP4jYF5tbELfBS2Db_tS8dT2_3KfQp06sEYw7xg65r6ZpL7E_Q/s1600/316169.full.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 114px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHeYaEiuoVmBHMSklToCgpNzNhQfBxE53h6m7OSPVktnubb7gV9wzkgCWEbZJ05lvb3-_g1_3raY5B7s2HHMwNP4jYF5tbELfBS2Db_tS8dT2_3KfQp06sEYw7xg65r6ZpL7E_Q/s400/316169.full.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461892030220734930" /></a><br />Finally, after weeks of Alley Oop and the Moovians behaving like sniveling cowards, they finally show some life in this April 15 comic. Maybe the Benders decided to take a clue from the new movie “Kick-Ass.” Here, for an all-too-brief moment, we have Alley Oop acting like the hero he is supposed to be and whaling away at the Lemmians. The Benders could run several weeks worth of this fight scene and improve the strip greatly. Oop should be able to take on five or six of these guys at a time. Instead, all we’ve seen him and the rest of the Moovians do is immediately surrender everytime they see more than two Lemmians together at one time. It’s pathetic!<br />But no. One brief glimpse is all we get and then we have to turn the focus back to Oola and some Lemmian deserter having a long, drawn-out, pointless conversation. Yawn.<br />If we are lucky, we may get one more brief glimpse of the fight before Oop blows his horn and Dinny/Oola ride to the rescue scaring away all the Lemmians who will act like they’ve never seen a dinosaur before. Sheesh!Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-88846427192458507782010-02-04T11:38:00.000-08:002010-02-04T11:43:26.271-08:00Right foot..... No! Left!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDmGS_MV6vf31sA5HQjZtRjt1RzmeR5r9SKxz9ntB1CY5o0zy5khzPkatQ2BamrhQVQc4mijP6SOlQVsQy0HWrsaMaOc-PNpxxIvWwPVxPAg4m2vfL5jcbTW7pLvQSTBm9bWI_hg/s1600-h/308970.full.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 114px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDmGS_MV6vf31sA5HQjZtRjt1RzmeR5r9SKxz9ntB1CY5o0zy5khzPkatQ2BamrhQVQc4mijP6SOlQVsQy0HWrsaMaOc-PNpxxIvWwPVxPAg4m2vfL5jcbTW7pLvQSTBm9bWI_hg/s400/308970.full.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434475232912258386" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtmI6fccxDf7u3bV_oldvkUGR10Bx9fOg1lgbB9ilg2MhDgufXPYxM3WVNsI83uKQjBOcWcSc-QywZtVuFMnp2vfMD_LkHN_NDLbgBR0YVh_filuDsCXsg7QqWrOiJ7PqBCwjTig/s1600-h/308971.full.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 114px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtmI6fccxDf7u3bV_oldvkUGR10Bx9fOg1lgbB9ilg2MhDgufXPYxM3WVNsI83uKQjBOcWcSc-QywZtVuFMnp2vfMD_LkHN_NDLbgBR0YVh_filuDsCXsg7QqWrOiJ7PqBCwjTig/s400/308971.full.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434475371566270786" /></a><br /><br />Isn't that amazing? Alley Oop somehow managed to switch feet as he was being trapped by the Lemmians. You can clearly see in the first panel that Oop and Wooley both get their right feet caught in the trap. But in the next day's panel, Wooley is hanging by his right foot, but Oop is now hanging by his left foot!!!<br />Do you suppose this has something to do with the plot? Or were the Benders once again not paying attention to the details?<br />I'll let you decide.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-66315445375467045452010-01-25T14:54:00.000-08:002010-01-25T14:57:54.267-08:00Let's Call the Whole Thing Off<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGMIscfQOeelKMwx0rTgwnmnsM5a_LxU0L8IgLUp5Xp7FXdpU-Ac4tlxkw927gJBCpdp-Iyf2iyhehK2x2CHdoYaCuzzLZGY4Oag0amaStZ7f9_BhxAez6ro0witKtM1FS14vTQ/s1600-h/308228.full.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 114px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGMIscfQOeelKMwx0rTgwnmnsM5a_LxU0L8IgLUp5Xp7FXdpU-Ac4tlxkw927gJBCpdp-Iyf2iyhehK2x2CHdoYaCuzzLZGY4Oag0amaStZ7f9_BhxAez6ro0witKtM1FS14vTQ/s400/308228.full.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430814735821799970" /></a><br />Really sad that after years of building up to this point that the Benders would just pull the plug on the whole marriage thing.<br />I really don't have much more to say other than to note how ridiculous it is for Alley Oop to put on a necktie when he is not even wearing a shirt. But we needed a new thread so here it is.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-30272320612100507962009-10-02T23:31:00.000-07:002009-10-02T23:39:25.497-07:00Hitting rock bottom<a href="http://comics.com/alley_oop/2009-10-02/" title="Alley Oop"><img src="http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/90000/6000/200/296201/296201.full.gif" border="0" alt="Alley Oop" /></a><br />Can the Benders make Alley Oop sink any lower in character?<br />Oop has just poisoned an innocent and unsuspecting Wooley (and inadvertenly poisoned his would-be fiance) in a fit of jealous rage. And now, the same Wiz who instructed him on how to mix up his little potion is advising him to duck out and shun responsibility - like a kid who just hit his baseball through a neighbor's window and then runs for cover.<br />What a FINE example Alley is setting for all his young fans!<br />Perhaps now Doc will save the day by zapping Alley Oop back to the future for the start of a new "adventure". Maybe he can then send Oop back into his own recent past where he could slap some sense into himself before he ever concocts his poisonous plant scheme.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-28012541877221836602009-10-01T14:48:00.000-07:002009-10-01T14:59:38.100-07:00More mis-perspectives<a href="http://comics.com/alley_oop/2009-10-01/" title="Alley Oop"><img src="http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/90000/6000/200/296200/296200.full.gif" border="0" alt="Alley Oop" /></a><br /><br />This is sooooooo awful!!! I can't believe that the Benders are such idiots! They just CAN'T be this stooopid! It has to be that they are simply thumbing their noses at the readers in pure disdain.<br />In the strip above, we have Ooola hiding behind a rock that magically materialized behind the poor, unsuspecting musician who we assume is about to suffer the wrath of the insanely jealous Alley Oop.<br />The first frame gives us the perspective from behind Ooola as she peers around the RIGHT side of the rock and watches the musician direct the singers with his RIGHT hand. Then in the very next frame, we get the same scene from Alley Oop's perspective, but now Ooola is peering out from the LEFT side of the rock (from her perspective) and the musician is now directing the singers with his LEFT hand.<br />There is no consistency whatsoever. Simple details are carelessly overlooked or ignored. It is enough to drive anyone mad. Perhaps that is what has already happened to the Benders.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-39980146304034508652009-08-04T10:18:00.000-07:002009-08-04T10:26:57.293-07:00Jumping to conclusions...again<a href="http://comics.com/alley_oop/2009-08-04/" title="Alley Oop"><img src="http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/90000/0000/700/290711/290711.full.gif" border="0" alt="Alley Oop" /></a><br />I think we have all seen this story line before from the Benders. Alley Oop comes home from another long bout of time travel to discover his long-neglected flame Ooola (Gasp!) TALKING to another man!!!<br />So naturally our overly jealous and presumptive hero Alley Oop throws a big hissy fit and then walks away in a huff. No effort to fight for and reclaim the love of his life, just complete indifference and self pity.<br />Remind me again why we are supposed to be rooting for such a despicable character as the Bender's version of Alley Oop? If their point is to disgust old fans and drive them away from the comic strip, then they are certainly succeeding.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-58721837168174979642009-07-16T08:05:00.000-07:002009-07-16T08:07:04.956-07:00Consistently inconsistent<a href="http://comics.com/alley_oop/2009-07-15/" title="Alley Oop"><img src="http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/80000/8000/900/288940/288940.full.gif" border=”0” alt=”Alley Oop” /></a><br /><br />I have to hand it to the Benders. They are stubbornly consistent in their inconsistency. Throughout the entire kidnappying ordeal of Dr. Bronson, they couldn’t make up their mind how they wanted him to be tied up. Sometimes we would seem him sitting with the ropes going just around his chest and his arms tied behind the chair. Other times we would see the rope going all the way around both arms, pinning them to his side in a way that his hands could not be tied behind his back. <br />Now here in the last strip of the series we see both examples once again back to back. In the first frame, the rope is around Bronson’s chest, but not around his arms or the chair. How this binds him to the chair or restricts his movement in anyway is unclear. In the second frame, the ropes are clearly around his arms again.<br />I just don’t see how they can miss this. Are they doing it on purpose? Don’t they have any respect for their readers, much less for their own work?<br />It is just baffling.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-58425833670471009122009-04-06T08:58:00.000-07:002009-04-06T09:00:53.998-07:00Time (Machine) Shifting<a href="http://comics.com/alley_oop/2009-04-06/" title="Alley Oop"><img src="http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/70000/8000/800/278806/278806.full.gif" border=”0” alt=”Alley Oop” /></a><br /><br />With Alley Oop these days the sloooow pacing and the dull storylines are just part of the problem. What really drives me crazy is the lack of consistency in perspective. Today’s strip is a perfect example. In the first frame we see the mysterious man peeking around the time machine at Oop and the lady in the red dress. The time machine, you will note, is on his left side and Oop and the lady are about to walk out a door on a side wall to their left.<br />In the second frame, we get the same scene from the perspective of the mystery man, but now the time machine is on his right side and Oop and the lady are walking out a door that is straight in front of them. Also, Oops ax is in his left hand in the first frame, but is missing (presumably in his right hand) in the second frame. <br />There is no explanation for this other than that the Benders are being careless, sloppy and lazy.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-48425229347079643382009-02-17T07:01:00.000-08:002009-02-17T07:27:18.473-08:00In case you missed it...<a href="http://comics.com/alley_oop/2009-02-16/" title="Alley Oop"><img src="http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/70000/4000/200/274287/274287.full.gif" border="0" alt="Alley Oop" /></a><br /> <br />Just in case you were dozing off during the past month's worth of Alley Oop strips, the authors haved decided to recap all the action for us this week. <br />This latest turn of events has earned the Benders the title of "THE laziest creators of any currently running comics strips" at <a href="http://www.dailycomicsreview.com/2009/02/return-of-big-boss.html">The Daily Comics Review. </a>Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-44117615517489983142009-01-23T15:02:00.000-08:002009-01-23T15:07:23.117-08:00Oscar Boom returns<a href="http://comics.com/alley_oop/2009-01-21/" title="Alley Oop"><img src="http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/70000/1000/900/271923/271923.full.gif" border="0" alt="Alley Oop" /></a><br />I really don't know what to say about this. I thought they were unfair to Oscar when they turned him into a bad guy all of a sudden. Are they going to flip him again and let him return to being a good guy, or are they just setting him up for his next diabolical scheme?Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-12341048578851078162008-11-14T07:28:00.000-08:002008-11-14T07:29:37.871-08:00Ooops! That must be Alley’s cue...<a href="http://comics.com/alley_oop/2008-11-14/" title="Alley Oop"><img src="http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/50000/8000/700/258733/258733.full.gif" border="0" alt="Alley Oop" /></a><br /><br />Like helpless 2-year-olds, the womenfolk have gone and gotten themselves into a big mess again. Poor Alley, can’t turn his back for a second without one of them wandering off and getting eaten by a sabertooth tiger (or is that a sabertooth sloth cosidering how slow it is?) or stupidly rapelling halfway down a cliff and getting stuck because she didn’t use a long enough rope.<br />Now Ooola has tripped and will no doubt end up dangling on the end of the rope with Dee where they will have to wait for Alley to come to their rescue.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-73879138667407922232008-10-14T10:11:00.000-07:002008-10-14T10:15:56.617-07:00Graverobber<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb43pVWQJvht6h5LKZpngRnlqG4kW5GNtT21ONII5X65X8nL8j_S9fA9UJQYZ5zgJZC2DaBesim76osA13ZotqmFAwTn8cf8tJ5VKCMpwIn4U3_e5qzBbxMT6SyIe3oIyh1wwZbQ/s1600-h/alleyoop2008101222811.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb43pVWQJvht6h5LKZpngRnlqG4kW5GNtT21ONII5X65X8nL8j_S9fA9UJQYZ5zgJZC2DaBesim76osA13ZotqmFAwTn8cf8tJ5VKCMpwIn4U3_e5qzBbxMT6SyIe3oIyh1wwZbQ/s400/alleyoop2008101222811.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257059491409175250" /></a><br />My Lord, this is getting downright creepy! What the hell is wrong with these people? The look in Dee’s eyes is just sick as she practically drools over this recently dead neanderthal’s remains. Doesn’t she realize that what she is doing is in essence graverobbing?<br />She is not at some archeological site thousands of years in the future. She got in a frickin’ time machine and traveled thousands of years into the past, just shy of when the neanderthals were living, and is now digging up gravesites under no more than a few inches of top soil (considering that she uncovered it with a little hand trowel in less than a minute).<br />Ooola was right to react disgusted by what Dee is doing. This IS disgusting!<br />Maybe Dee will next fixate on Ooola’s pristine cavewoman skull. Imagine how much she could learn from that!<br />“Hey Dee! What are you doing with that axe in your hand? Whoa! Watch where you’re swinging that thing. You could take someone’s head off!”Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-60521829957126154922008-09-26T14:27:00.001-07:002008-09-26T14:28:12.138-07:00Time traveling archeologist?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtuOv9ZWrYm9vZtKGYBS8ti2HWXFfickb_Iq5v93dHvUY2Jcts6MYjksb-QKw9KDw36IPrJixd7yhf_t-5PC4QusSRosNjK4bjXK-8O3lQnCRFABV5c7cPxj_i7aHrgY_PMLRlQ/s1600-h/alleyoop2008016303926.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNtuOv9ZWrYm9vZtKGYBS8ti2HWXFfickb_Iq5v93dHvUY2Jcts6MYjksb-QKw9KDw36IPrJixd7yhf_t-5PC4QusSRosNjK4bjXK-8O3lQnCRFABV5c7cPxj_i7aHrgY_PMLRlQ/s400/alleyoop2008016303926.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250444964458994402" /></a><br />Let’s see if I can get my mind around this. I don’t know what era Moo is supposed to be in, but just for grins let’s say it is 10,000 BC.<br /> So, Dee wants to know what was going on in 15,000 B.C. and she has access to a time machine. So what does she do?<br />She goes back to 10,000 B.C. and then starts an archeological excavation!?!?<br />Does anybody else see something wrong with this picture? Did it ever occur to her to simply get back in the time machine and go back another 5,000 years or so?<br />Maybe if we are lucky she will get eaten by a sabre-toothed tiger before she does too much digging.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-44688270179704348172008-08-20T12:02:00.000-07:002008-08-20T12:12:13.494-07:00Dig this!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNQddSqsTPRFgywZaM1Lnk19O58wqD0mq0qRRijXOWj3KOspdBBK6OqujRdK1PniNqfwzdKjXnAqUGhRlhlNKnLX7zO3A53_ZMGG08Hshc4YqxGc1X_v7CVAHN-dhSPon1G5k70w/s1600-h/alleyoop2003056880820.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNQddSqsTPRFgywZaM1Lnk19O58wqD0mq0qRRijXOWj3KOspdBBK6OqujRdK1PniNqfwzdKjXnAqUGhRlhlNKnLX7zO3A53_ZMGG08Hshc4YqxGc1X_v7CVAHN-dhSPon1G5k70w/s400/alleyoop2003056880820.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236679788262362226" /></a><br />I assume we are going to get up close and personal with each one of Alley Oop's myriad party guests which should drag this out for several weeks at least. That's OK, I suppose. It could be worse. <br />First up was Will Rogers who became a setup for a lariat gag with Ooola. Next was Doc Wonmug's former assistant who has now promised to stick around and upgrade the time lab with new software (and new bugs, no doubt).<br />Now we get Doc's daughter Dee who tells Oop today that she is leaving her job as a museum curator to do archeaology.<br />"I can't wait to do some digging around Moo," she says.<br />Ummm. Why? Can someone please explain why someone with ready access to a time machine would spend time on archeaological digs?Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-54472266252868290672008-08-06T07:31:00.000-07:002008-08-06T07:40:18.152-07:00The Surprise Party<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncL53SuOsEHwAZPtBZrd2sj6PDhvE-nEtp3juZkkjNj6vy_XM_BJz68h5nb19iHsz48QVHz2k43Lfs5FmpMjs84TCFPqbCQ86nChjf1OgJkxwi-FUQq4Fq4VMOE9yId3K9fIVMA/s1600-h/alleyoop2003056780806.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhncL53SuOsEHwAZPtBZrd2sj6PDhvE-nEtp3juZkkjNj6vy_XM_BJz68h5nb19iHsz48QVHz2k43Lfs5FmpMjs84TCFPqbCQ86nChjf1OgJkxwi-FUQq4Fq4VMOE9yId3K9fIVMA/s400/alleyoop2003056780806.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231414523231153010" /></a><br />I’ll bet nobody saw this coming! A gathering of all the characters from the recent storylines to wish Alley Oop a happy 75th birthday. I can see Fill, the barbecue guy; the bongo-playing physicist Richard Feynman; dance instructor Rudolph Valentino; Will Rogers; Dave Wowee; and the usual cast of characters including a few surprises like King Tunk and Oscar Boom. Awful nice of them to let Boom out of that bottle to celebrate Oop’s birthday.<br />I can’t make out everyone in the strip today. It is kind of small on the computer screen and blowing it up just makes everything fuzzy. Plus, I’m just not up on all my Oop history. So I’m requesting some of my readers to help me out and pick out who some of these other folks are.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-88514227428794061552008-07-31T07:03:00.001-07:002008-07-31T07:05:10.133-07:00Blame the syndicate<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ebyPl6CXUsFgGkzKSD4e3BQMdbWGC7A117N6_Gw7_PLQzvxZvryl8cf78Q4ty8gABxvWYBWbJP4ZQAPruxuE2nKfr5-jwSfQQ9M-kCYkPsCmw-ih7RpXACgAmfLUPh1tRzW-tw/s1600-h/alleyoop2008262000731.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ebyPl6CXUsFgGkzKSD4e3BQMdbWGC7A117N6_Gw7_PLQzvxZvryl8cf78Q4ty8gABxvWYBWbJP4ZQAPruxuE2nKfr5-jwSfQQ9M-kCYkPsCmw-ih7RpXACgAmfLUPh1tRzW-tw/s400/alleyoop2008262000731.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229178770513186050" /></a><br />Alley Oop bursts into the Bender’s studio swinging his ax and what does Jack do? He cowers in a corner and points his finger at Carole. <br />“All I can do is draw whatever Carole writes,” he whimpers.<br />Sheesh! It reminds me of the <a href="http://alleyoopwatch.blogspot.com/2006/03/nevermind.html"> episode a while back </a> when Guz cowered in his cave while King Tunk took control of Moo.<br />And then what does Carole do? She blames the Syndicate! Brilliant! A nameless, corporate bureaucracy is ultimately to blame for all of Oop’s problems.<br />In fact, I think she nailed it. I too blame the syndicate - for hiring the Benders to do the Alley Oop strip in the first place!<br />So what is Oop going to do now? Bust down the doors at United Media? Or give up and go home in defeat just in time for his big surprise party?<br />It’s a shame the Benders didn’t take their cue for this storyline from Stephan Pastis who draws the “Pearls Before Swine” comic strip. He recently had a segment in which he introduced a caricature of himself which had a twist that most Alley Oop readers could appreciate...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD4FfmklwjNjFT9xWEOxjsR0i3fItVem7SCVVT9MjPTvOp2jVCpTJmK7xwgWK_ncc2GOjlJ71YETrKZHCOcRPZUJOyCUf62DJ29I6Xna8jo44Hr0-xVtyJtNmHIeZplVYtkk8oRA/s1600-h/pearls2003493380709.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD4FfmklwjNjFT9xWEOxjsR0i3fItVem7SCVVT9MjPTvOp2jVCpTJmK7xwgWK_ncc2GOjlJ71YETrKZHCOcRPZUJOyCUf62DJ29I6Xna8jo44Hr0-xVtyJtNmHIeZplVYtkk8oRA/s400/pearls2003493380709.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229178877464543106" /></a>Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-7695768899178378032008-07-30T12:36:00.000-07:002008-07-30T12:37:23.875-07:00Alley Oop meets YouTubeOn a whim I did a quick search of YouTube for anything about Alley Oop. Wading through the bazillion references to the popular basketball dunking manuever, I came across these curious clips harkening back to a 1978 cartoon show I was completely unaware of.<br />The first clip is the intro to the cartoon series <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288950/"> called Fabulous Funnies </a> featuring what I believe to be is Foozy. The short-lived show featured animated versions of comic strips such as Broom Hilda, Nancy and Sluggo, Katzenjammer Kids and Alley Oop.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nNmhEDY6ClM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nNmhEDY6ClM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />The second clip is of a video review show that pans one of the Alley Oop episodes found on an old VCR tape. It is the only other clip I could find that had any pictures of the Alley Oop characters. Even the video versions of the old Alley Oop song by the Hollywood Argyles doesn’t show any of the Alley Oop characters.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KVgMx5NDc-A&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KVgMx5NDc-A&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Y’all can provide your own withering reviews of the Fabulous Funnies version of Alley Oop in the comments below.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-42060597516426963072008-07-28T13:58:00.001-07:002008-07-28T13:59:07.229-07:00Who Can It Be Now?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSQy9kxiq3Hm3tk93cZ7OFjrvJEw-zIW5JPxljP2Ax1cwvli1CbgF-xZgMZgcuzpcwtTch7kF-7aWebHzHtwzO0GyKvYI2-Jys7ihFnt4wbTnUgteLUBpImtWe93DMIn6y5nRgkQ/s1600-h/alleyoop2008072149717.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSQy9kxiq3Hm3tk93cZ7OFjrvJEw-zIW5JPxljP2Ax1cwvli1CbgF-xZgMZgcuzpcwtTch7kF-7aWebHzHtwzO0GyKvYI2-Jys7ihFnt4wbTnUgteLUBpImtWe93DMIn6y5nRgkQ/s400/alleyoop2008072149717.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228172367701924946" /></a><br />I was on vacation for awhile and it looks like things have really been cookin’ at Alley Oop Watch while I’ve been out. Things have gotten really bizarre in Alley Oop’s world lately with a sulking, thoroughly self-obsessed Alley Oop about to go postal on the current day authors of the comic strip.<br />`Not that the Benders don’t deserve to have Oop go postal on them, but it shouldn’t be over something as pathetic as his insistent whining about people forgetting his birthday. What he should really pound them about is turning his heroic character into such a whining wuss. Not to mention making him such a vengeful, arrogant, conceited doofus to boot. How dare those Moovians consider the anniversary of their country to be somewhat more important than Oop’s birthday! Such an outrage!!! I guess Oop is like a kid who was born on the 4th of July and thinks all the fireworks every year are for him.<br />Meanwhile, during the course of this bizarre, time-skipping, multi-dimensional, reality-bending scenario we have learned that Hamlin and Graue aren’t the slightest bit perturbed when Oop comes banging on their door, but the Benders are obviously terrified. What’s that supposed to mean?<br />Oh, and Dave Wowee is apparently an homage to Dave Graue.<br />Well, I have to say that the premise of the latest episode, while outlandish, is at least somewhat original and, dare I say, interesting. So good news all around for the poor, forsaken fans of Alley Oop who have had to suffer these many months through one awful series of strips after another.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-76861033975448427832008-05-13T12:16:00.001-07:002008-05-13T12:18:28.099-07:00You just said that<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPt5Otaza7veEeSL7vY4xiKSkctLlJVsEUobTbNomOxwZg4-GcpjOn_rsQyoytgnPg0FCnGZ0LL7kpNoK0SIJct-mZdEa4kr_9oD8UTGR1hCp-EwN_Wh0cpuFrvGjOSo7B_rfm5Q/s1600-h/alleyoop21467080080512.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPt5Otaza7veEeSL7vY4xiKSkctLlJVsEUobTbNomOxwZg4-GcpjOn_rsQyoytgnPg0FCnGZ0LL7kpNoK0SIJct-mZdEa4kr_9oD8UTGR1hCp-EwN_Wh0cpuFrvGjOSo7B_rfm5Q/s400/alleyoop21467080080512.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199943662987859554" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhror8L5mL0tOjlMsVrBqCAcX5fH01kELd4rmNaCKYPjjLt_l6xFCzcbK18hN1yDxBEJAHefkxVne32f-R0SmPkCfrD2R8ZUQI2Ckh7Mgt-S__CeMLqB7YAOXKavzIJS5zAQknCjQ/s1600-h/alleyoop2073354080513.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhror8L5mL0tOjlMsVrBqCAcX5fH01kELd4rmNaCKYPjjLt_l6xFCzcbK18hN1yDxBEJAHefkxVne32f-R0SmPkCfrD2R8ZUQI2Ckh7Mgt-S__CeMLqB7YAOXKavzIJS5zAQknCjQ/s400/alleyoop2073354080513.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199943826196616818" /></a><br /><br />Well I’d have to say that today’s Alley Oop strip advances the storyline not one iota from yesterday’s nearly identical strip.<br />What’s up with this?? Did the authors draw two versions of the same strip and then decide to use both of them just to be lazy? Did they forget that they said the same thing the day before? Do they not know where they are going with the story next and are thus attempting to stall and delay the storyline?<br />I’d say the answer is “All of the Above” based on what we have seen from the authors these past few years.<br />And what is with this “Boppo” character? Have we seen him before or is he a new invention? Is he supposed to be a long-lost Marx Brother or something?Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-57988557447713404432008-04-28T09:58:00.000-07:002008-04-28T09:59:38.272-07:00And we’re off again...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-kLvLeQO12nf36ZkdK6zoF81EWXMhE_b5UyHcqzuq5VZXd3AThPtoWe8kxEgLmznoO-gvLaFvZDE5yA5hlrl7ghCa7C0fX5UmyrdLwhf_v_-uceeZm2lQgcO5_G_ET9p7WChlFw/s1600-h/alleyoop21833810080428.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-kLvLeQO12nf36ZkdK6zoF81EWXMhE_b5UyHcqzuq5VZXd3AThPtoWe8kxEgLmznoO-gvLaFvZDE5yA5hlrl7ghCa7C0fX5UmyrdLwhf_v_-uceeZm2lQgcO5_G_ET9p7WChlFw/s400/alleyoop21833810080428.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194341907408630914" /></a><br />Finally time for a new adventure and already the first panel has lots of problems. Look closely at the two panels side by side, both from the same perspective with Guz’ cave entrance in the upper right corner. In the first frame we have Oop in the center of the panel rushing up to talk to a guy holding a spear. Oola is on the left side of the frame facing towards us and addressing another woman.<br />In the second panel, the only person still in the correct position is the spear guy, although he has swapped the hand holding the spear and the strap that runs across his chest in panel one is now gone.<br />Meanwhile, Oop has run all the way to the front of the panel and turned his back to us, while Oola has completely flipped sides, turned her back and replaced one of the men who had been standing behind the spear guy.<br />“Anybody know what’s up here?” Oop asks.<br />“Not a clue!” spear guy says.<br />And apparently neither do the cartoonists. They don’t know what’s up, down, left, right or sideways.<br />Sheesh!Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-21012735817942317942008-01-31T15:33:00.001-08:002008-01-31T15:34:03.283-08:00Catching up...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMvY9OMZxQYjxV6TyuousLOFlh-4nWM6BpiIKJoQU1NKGIaZBbQCUzTVN4TVPE25WZWpUo-sAiv3UJ2q2JLUKVIZhjXsiIoWGUacneGToN_6xbxskbagbJRZeca_DDgANi31rL7w/s1600-h/alleyoop20080121047750.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMvY9OMZxQYjxV6TyuousLOFlh-4nWM6BpiIKJoQU1NKGIaZBbQCUzTVN4TVPE25WZWpUo-sAiv3UJ2q2JLUKVIZhjXsiIoWGUacneGToN_6xbxskbagbJRZeca_DDgANi31rL7w/s400/alleyoop20080121047750.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161788007444422722" /></a><br />OK, I know I’m behind, but it’s not like the story is zipping along at such a pace that I can’t catch up.<br />I’m torn now as to what is most annoying. Is it the really, really big dumb things in the strip, like introducing an Alley Oop look-a-like out of the blue with no explanation? Or is it all the little dumb things that add up over time, like in today’s strip where Queen Umpa tells Oola to “send word” if she needs help when we’ve already established that she is going alone? What is she going to do? Whip out her cell phone?<br />This Early Oop character’s sudden insertion into the strip reminds me of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where they suddenly revealed that Buffy had a sister named Dawn. And the most shocking thing about it was that Buffy, who we had understood was an only child up until then, reacted as if nothing was out of the ordinary and as if she had always had a sister. Of course, it was quickly explained in the series that Dawn wasn’t really Buffy’s sister, but an ethereal being known as “the key” who had the power to destroy the world if she were to fall into the wrong hands. Therefore, a group of magical creatures seeking to protect the key had transformed her into Buffy’s sister and then altered everyone’s memories so that Buffy would protect her. Or something like that. At least, they made the effort to explain the situation, unlike our Alley Oop writers who apparently don’t have enough respect for their readers to give them that much.<br />Finally, I want to second the comments in the previous thread about the inexcusable behavior of the Early Oop character with the implications that he is an abusive serial stalker and a menace to society. How the hell did that escape everyone in Moo’s notice up until now?Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-78057168314790458592008-01-02T13:46:00.000-08:002008-01-02T13:47:44.334-08:00Burning biscuits<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikYjOGdlK0HXEqTMISrnbOwpv8gFgYWwS1CwwCQadBOV4sqk9UNy-vPV8m5vSOxNvwj-wNZxPpcDc9X-h1EWTt2sqAfMcP4sBRdrhvfi2bMNdSkEPfHZwviixm8dzmGyyiVtpZiA/s1600-h/alleyoop20024446980102.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikYjOGdlK0HXEqTMISrnbOwpv8gFgYWwS1CwwCQadBOV4sqk9UNy-vPV8m5vSOxNvwj-wNZxPpcDc9X-h1EWTt2sqAfMcP4sBRdrhvfi2bMNdSkEPfHZwviixm8dzmGyyiVtpZiA/s400/alleyoop20024446980102.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150999015780397458" /></a><br />Foozy knows the good Oop, so that would seem to be a strike against the notion that Alley accidently wound up in Early Oop’s parallel universe. So does this mean that Early Oop is intruding in Alley’s universe, or are we just supposed to accept that Early is just another character in this universe, who just happens to look like Alley, and has the same last name as Alley, and knows all about Alley (and Oola), and apparently has it out for Alley, and.... yet we the faithful readers are completely in the dark as to who this new character is.<br />A long-lost brother? Does anyone know if Alley ever had a family? Parents, siblings, cousins?<br /><br />Meanwhile, when would a caveman ever use the phrase “burn his biscuits”? Are the Benders still hung up on the last storyline? Because that sounds like something Will Rogers would have said, not Early Oop.Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-28367620862529476052007-12-31T09:00:00.000-08:002007-12-31T09:06:02.941-08:00Happy New Year<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqL8VxLBSmdwO0p1x_RxynXjiJgfRcZ_x6MgitaALkn5li-cBnN5vlbmJJ-hy9BfkWcNzd8pa-sn9c4TClTpRO-cCKn0AsAGvBMmbl7UmyLCXetMLMK2GEvTpqO6PsmKmfG4WXPg/s1600-h/alleyoop200712387310.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqL8VxLBSmdwO0p1x_RxynXjiJgfRcZ_x6MgitaALkn5li-cBnN5vlbmJJ-hy9BfkWcNzd8pa-sn9c4TClTpRO-cCKn0AsAGvBMmbl7UmyLCXetMLMK2GEvTpqO6PsmKmfG4WXPg/s400/alleyoop200712387310.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150183092253241730" /></a><br />So has Alley Oop stumbled into this alternative universe before? This Earlie Oop character's immediate recognition of our hero would seem to indicate so. If so, how did he get out of it last time? What will the alternate universe Oola be like?<br />Or could it be that Alley is actually in his proper universe and Earlie is the interloper trespassing in their dimension?<br />Such riveting question that I'm sure will be explained as this new story unfolds for the next five or six weeks. Hold on to your hats everyone!Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380653.post-13369502649530669822007-10-06T11:15:00.000-07:002007-10-06T11:18:59.923-07:00Could they be related?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7wknlwR7A890T4h0dZEaJ63IQEJg2zNuQcDstNsqGQek1VXkp1hp4u2Yjm71EHJKFWX5fL2eSfY19MzIncNRX-laYKHi4F2J4CZwEYWVcx13FxYGp5GYX9tGyM-txXbaIjGPd-Q/s1600-h/alleyoop2007183321004%5B1%5D.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7wknlwR7A890T4h0dZEaJ63IQEJg2zNuQcDstNsqGQek1VXkp1hp4u2Yjm71EHJKFWX5fL2eSfY19MzIncNRX-laYKHi4F2J4CZwEYWVcx13FxYGp5GYX9tGyM-txXbaIjGPd-Q/s320/alleyoop2007183321004%5B1%5D.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118289145204254866" /></a><br /><br />Check out the new bad guy in this strip. Doesn't he look familiar? Hmmmm?<br />The dark eyes, the black hair, the hooked nose. Why I'd say he looks almost like this guy. Maybe it's one of his descendants. Heh!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha55IFiDNrjZF6yFTwOL9TefYZyGyHaFbomRu6R_5lUfcN0c3ivhWYBnCk2RkxfZAl4ktJKpIIN-3F1kghSMeJsmulNEzcH9UJHZR9HAgDZE1sn1pERLNq7gwY8sHXWRQNlrZ8YQ/s1600-h/alleyoop2006018322818%5B1%5D.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha55IFiDNrjZF6yFTwOL9TefYZyGyHaFbomRu6R_5lUfcN0c3ivhWYBnCk2RkxfZAl4ktJKpIIN-3F1kghSMeJsmulNEzcH9UJHZR9HAgDZE1sn1pERLNq7gwY8sHXWRQNlrZ8YQ/s320/alleyoop2006018322818%5B1%5D.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118289802334251170" /></a>Mike Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16123944484404946254noreply@blogger.com0