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1. about 21 hours ago on JumpStart

   How vast are the oceans on a grain of sand?

   How high the mountains in the palm of your hand?

   How deep the valleys on the face of a jewel?

   Where are the thoughts of a brooding pool?

2. 1 day ago on JumpStart

   Is that Charlie Brown in the last panel?

3. 1 day ago on Lio

   It had to incubate for several billion years, but it’s finally hatched.

4. 1 day ago on Back in the Day

   In panel 4, I can’t quite tell if its little root ball is wound in a swaddling cloth… or if Ike has wrapped the base of the little trunk in one of those new-fangled watering bags. Either way, a sweet sign of paternal care.

   Just a few little ink lines that conjure up a warm fuzzy.

5. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I like this. It’s perhaps even better than the classic “poisoned popsilcle” answer.

6. 3 days ago on Off the Mark

   It originally came from the play “Three Penny Opera.” In the process of being translated into English, several different sets of lyrics appeared. This one is the one Darin recorded. I have a special fondness for the version that starts this way…

   Oh the shark has teeth like razors

   And he wears them in his face

   And Macheath has got a knife

   But not in such an obvious place

7. 3 days ago on Lio

   In the role of Danny DeVito today is Lio.

8. 3 days ago on Cul de Sac

   He got the idea from Ike in today’s “Back in the Day” comic strip. Funny thing is that the same inspiring moment for someone can have a completely different effect on someone else. Doris Lessing, for example.

9. 3 days ago on Back in the Day

   This is where Doris Lessing got the idea that became her first novel.

10. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    A dead body has been found on a sidewalk. Beside the body is a pair of sticks in a pool of red liquid. How was the victim killed?