Dustin debuted in 2010, eighty years after Blondie. Checking today’s comics, I see the much older comic strip presents a modern take on vending machines, and vice versa for the newer strip.
The Never Vending Food Gags
Author: DOuG pRATt
Six-Pack Economy
Wall Street has become numb to all of the on-and-off tariff churning, while the jobs and inflation data continue to look good. The immediate loss of immigrant labor could change that in a hurry, but for now the American economy isn’t a mess. That’s assuming Trump’s people aren’t skewing the data.
Austan Goolsbee, of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, is a reliably informative and engaging economist. How will Goolsby react when Trump starts putting loyalists on the Fed board?
Brian
The final time I saw Brian was with Denro at the Beacon Theatre in NYC, on September 26, 2019.
“Summer has been officially canceled this year.” – Denro
L.A. Lawless?
Trump is doing absolutely nothing to put pressure on Putin about Ukraine, but he didn’t hesitate to send Marines against residents of Los Angeles.
Here is a dispassionate discussion and analysis of the situation in Los Angeles. It’s a good example of why Trump wants to cripple PBS.
Liverpool by Way of Asbury Park
Across the pond, a few nights ago.
Marvelous Joltin’ Joe
June 25 will mark five years since the passing of Joe Sinnott. I was fourteen when I first read an interview with Joe. It was conducted by Mark Evanier and Tony Isabella (now preferring to be called Jenny Blake), and published in Marvelmania No. 4.
Here’s the original published format, suitable for widescreen viewing.
An brief bio is in the same issue, with Joe sharing space with bad boy Sci-Fi writer Harlan Ellison.
