Saturday, October 29, 2016

WODDAWEDOO?

Well, this particular strip is chock full of excitement, pathos and humor! Yummity Smackeroo! And the continuity booms along!

July 6, 1952

7 comments:

  1. not only excitement, pathos, humor, but also a BIG BOOM...
    As somebody not long ago said (but then said, he never said, or did he?): What use is a prfectly good bomb if you do not intend to use it?

    Carry on, Thom! Keep your fingers crossed

    Hun

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    1. Hun, I know what you mean. We shall see what we shall see...

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  2. "A lurgic" -- nice word there -- maybe Albert is even two or three lurgics.

    In fact he must be at least three lurgics, when you count Nephew Barberry and the new mouse. What's happened to them, I wanna know? Can't see 'em from out here.

    Has this duck appeared in any other strips? He's obviously not the same as Mailman Duck, nor as Mallard de Mer, the seasick duck who rides a kiddie car. (If I could just remember where MdM is in the S&S books. Too bad there's no index.)

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    1. Larry, an index, what a fine idea. SOMEbody must have done one before now, just waiting to be discovered?

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    2. Credit for that fine idea goes to Kelly's friend Bill Vaughan, whose pretend hostile review of Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo contained these paragraphs:

      "The lack of an index is equally disheartening. For easy reference, there should be such listings as 'Alligator, Albert, swallows frog child, p. 11; dons impenatrabobble disguise as ol' Sizzle Grinder, p. 19; heads Pogo delegation to 1952 convention, p.52; pretends to be silent scream star, Lulu Arfin' Nanny, p. 234.'

      "Without such assistance the reader (to say nothing of the reviewer) must go through the entire 288 pages. No maps, no index, and no bibliography."

      -- "Reviewer Gets Tough," Kansas City Star, Nov. 1959, reprinted on back cover of paperback editions of Ten E-L B-E Years and Pogo Extra.

      Googling for "Walt Kelly Pogo index" finds a link to this Russian site, which is not really an index, just a combined table of contents for the books, but that's better than nothing.

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  3. Index to S&S books:
    a good place to start (of all places - note: ".ru/" ...!)
    https://skunkworks.ru/2009/12/22/pogo-indexes/

    Hun

    unfortunately: no entry for Mallard de Mer

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  4. Larry and Hun! You both came up with the same website, independently! It's a lot of information (that isn't all that helpful), but HEY — 'E' for effort! That Calvin and Hobbes video is a hoot! Thanks, guys!

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