The Return of Stickman #898

Just why else would anyone else demand an eggbeater? I mean, in an emergency a fork will do.

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The Return of Stickman #897

This is my annual Christmas Cartoon. I hope you all enjoy.


Now you all know why I love my Cracklin' Oat Bran.

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The Comic Critic Reviews Silent Night Deadly Night and The Return of Stickman #896

Everyone has been aking me to do a Holdiay Movie. So I thought I would do a public service announcement about one holiday movie you might be tempted (out of sheer blissful ignorance) to give or watch this find holiday season. Let me by very clear: Do not watch this movie! Of all the blood dripping slasher films that were produced in the 80s this one disturbs and shocks more deeply than any other. Lunatic Santas running loose were not a new thing when this film came out. 1972's Tales of the Crypt had an axe-wielding Santa, and in 1980 another killer Santa was released in Christmas Evil (originally released as You Better Watch Out). But, there is something in SNDL that gave folks the jitters, started protests, and cause the distributor to withdraw it. What was that little something? Sheer exploitation of brutal violence. Some of those scenes remain unpleasantly seared into my mind. Maybe age has made this film campy, but it wasn't campy back in the day, and I'm not willing to watch it again to find out. So, why am I giving it an eight? Because it gave me, a veteran of many a gut splasher, the royal heebie-jeebies.


The idea for this strip kept running around my head.

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The Return of Stickman #985

Yup, you guessed it, another story straight from the news. But, in all honesty, when I was doing ride-alongs with the police I constantly was amazed at just how much low hanging fruit there was on the human tree of the gene-pool. Hmm, there are almost enough mixed metaphors there for another strip.

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The Return of Stickman #894

Aren't there two sides to every story? And yes, I do love my pie.

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The Return of Stickman #893

Here is a news story that caught my eye. Oh yeah, a lot of the stuff in this strip is from real life.

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The Return of Stickman #982

My first vacation to Hawaii was in 1990. I've been back several times since then. But, can you guess which island I have yet to visit?

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