Comments on: Nine

By: Soup Dragon

Soup Dragon — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:21:26 +0000

padraig; that’s not a German officer, it’s the Allied camp commander.

By: Grumpy Smurf

Grumpy Smurf — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:29:04 +0000

As both of them have the same issue date, 12-22, I suppose it was just an accidental use of the wrong strip that must differ only by one digit in their filing system.

Using a strip from the same issue date is too much coincidental to be deliberate. If they were motivated by censorship, I suppose they would have chosen a strip outside any story arch, like some “Hallmarks of Felinity”.

By: Kevin A

Kevin A — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:05:15 +0000

For those who don’t read the strip: At this point in Grandma’s story, she has been secretly enlisted by officers of the Allies to elicit information from the German prisoners by singing to them and offering them the comfort of memories of their home(land).

By: padraig

padraig — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:29:21 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out why the German officer is wearing a Glenn Beck outfit.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:12:59 +0000

the pregnancy one does look like a rerun to me. not 100% sure, but . . .

By: Dyfsunctional

Dyfsunctional — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:49:24 +0000

McEldowney has a blog at http://chickweedcafe.blogspot.com/ , but it’s not updated particularly often. From what I’ve read there, if the substitution is as nefarious as it seems, it’s the kind of thing I think he would write about eventually.

In the past, there were one or two instances where McEldowney missed a deadline or something and the syndicate dug up a week of non-arc strips as replacements. I’m willing to bet this is more of a practical matter, or a simple goof, than anything to do with censorship.

By: Rasheed

Rasheed — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:02:50 +0000

I’m thinking chron just lost their strip and threw in a repeat. I have no idea what wound up in print though.

By: WhitneyD

WhitneyD — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:09:45 +0000

It wasn’t replaced in the LA Times, so this sort of surprises me. Maybe it was just a mistake on the Chron’s part?

By: Rasheed

Rasheed — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:37:53 +0000

The strip wasn’t loading at all on chron.com yesterday, but this replacement strip is there now. I don’t think it was meant to be a censored strip so much as an actual occurence of a strip that got lost in publication. Does this guy have a blog?

By: Frank the curmudgeon

Frank the curmudgeon — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:07:55 +0000

Maybe it wasn’t offensive enough to merit inclusion.