The Return of Stickman #1145

While the TV news reported in length on the little ducklings' rescue, it was the departing comment that elsewhere in Sammamish a coyote pup was also rescued from a drain. But it didn't get as much airtime because they didn't have anyone shooting video of it for them.

The Return of Stickman #1144

Sorry to disappoint you folks but I didn't have time to do a movie review this week. I was busy participating in Mouths & Mics: Poetry in the 253 honoring the new Poet Laureate of Tacoma. I also manned a table for the CLAW at Wayzgoose. I hope that you can be happy with Stickman until I get a new review drawn.

The Return of Stickman #1143

It's nice when folks are willing to give a helping hand in stopping a robbery.

The Return of Stickman #1142

I'm very glad that I was reminded that today was the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Like so many others, I've taken this day for granted.

The Return of Stickman #1141

KFC is really thinking outside the box by creating a sandwich that used chicken instead of bread. A real artery killer.

The Comic Critic reviews Psycho

I thought about doing a strip without words, using only iconic pictures from Psycho. Well, there would have been one word, “Mother.” Instead, I decided to concentrate on what made this film great at the time and that still makes it great today. Hardboiled crime fiction was the rage at not only the box office, but on the radio as well. It saturated the marketplace so completely that when Hitchcock stood the movie on its ear by abruptly killing one story line (the hardboiled genre) and switching to another story line (the horror genre), the shock had quite an effect. It changed our expectations. This heightened sense of unease would lock the scenes that followed into our memories forever, and cause a few people to keep their shotguns in the shower.

The Return of Stickman #1138

FYI: The cat weighed ten pounds going in and came out weighing only three. No name was given for the cat in the story. That is very odd. All I can think is that the cat didn't have a name or its name was something terrible, like Hitler.