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 Rick Norwood posted a sample strip on Facebook from the first "Alley Oop" book to be released in January. The sample is strip #14 from the Bonnet-Brown Syndicate first run of the strip before it folded and NEA picked up the strip and it restarted. The quality of the sample looks really good. The books can be purchased at:  www.aruffo.com/alleyoop .

 

 

So what would a time-cube look like if Doc had to build one in ancient Moo with whatever is at hand? Apparently an ugly, green shoebox held together with string with a rock on top. Sure, that thing is going to transport you across countless centuries. Doc says he only had limited resource but, come on, he had no resources. Yet somehow we are supposed to believe that he built a fully functional time-machine not only with no resources but no tools either. The suspension of disbelief can only go so far. Can't somebody (hint: Jonny Lemon) tell Joey that the time-cube is just an extension of the still functioning time-machine? Any time their assistant, Ava, can simply pull them back in. That's the way it has been since 1939 and still was until the Lemsay team took over. Do that and this silly story could be over and we could be on to our next wacky adventure.  The story that never was continues onward: https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2021/10/22

 

 

 

 

I think the dumbometer completely blew up with today's strip. It has been overloaded from the start of this story - heck, really from Joey's first day - but today just seems so incredibly stupid. The basic premise for the entire story has been a false one, that the three time-travelers have no way to return to the 21st Century when Ava should be able to bring them back any time with the time-machine. The past few weeks have focused on a really hard-to-understand sequence that involved meteors containing minerals they need to build new time-cubes luckily falling where our heroes could find them. None of it made any sense but that didn't stop Joey from continuing on with the nonsensical yarn. But, today, rather than building time-cubes, Doc builds an air-conditioner! If you could somehow accept the idea that anybody could single-handedly build an air-conditioner, how about the rest of it? Wonmug has no electronic components, such as an an evaporator, condenser, expansion valv...