Movie clapboard? I don’t remember that. Reagan was usually just off-panel, like most of the celebrities Trudeau depicted before then. Bush Sr, however, started out as invisible when he was Reagan’s VP, which I think started the “icons.”
However, there was also Ron Headrest, a computer generated image of Reagan in the style of Max Headroom.
It wasn’t that long before the series ended, which makes me think that Watterson decided that he wanted some closure in the relationship between Calvin and Rosalyn.
The expression is in fact “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too”, which makes more sense. It was in fact the thing that got the unabomber caught, since he wrote it that way in his manifesto, and his brother recognised his writing style.
I kind of think that that’s how I’d have written it, too, since I’m a stickler for correctness. Like, it’s “I couldn’t care less” and not “I could care less.”
’60s tech, since the first Soyuz launched in 1966, which was also the year when its designer, Sergei Korolev, died. A testament, I think, both to his forward thinking when he lived, and the lack of Russian innovation after he died.
Well, I don’t suppose the story is finished yet. If Boris was responsible for their disappearance and probable death, this explains (in the most loose definition of “explains”) why all knowledge of their whereabouts was lost. But there’s still the issue that the Grays disappeared about the same time that Annie was born, Warbucks and Tracy knew them both, and that Winifred was pregnant, and still, nobody connected the dots?
Which is frightfully ironic considering the question in the last panel of today’s strip.