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  1. about 5 hours ago on Luann

    This is reminding me of the multiple times Bernice changed her hairstyle in an attempt to rebrand herself, only for her to remain the exact same insufferable person she was before.

  2. about 8 hours ago on Gasoline Alley

    Joel likes Walt too, but is there any task whatsoever that you could trust him to accomplish?

  3. 1 day ago on Gasoline Alley

    Tarring and feathering is actually a pretty horrific thing to do to a person. It’s literal torture. Not that this guy isn’t unpleasant, but let’s not downplay the effects of pouring hot tar on someone.

  4. 1 day ago on Gasoline Alley

    New York is the changed name, but thanks for showing that you agree with the idea that changing city names can work out for the better.

  5. 1 day ago on Gasoline Alley

    Oh, and there’s no “perhaps” here. Walt is literally older than any human in recorded history. Even the Bible has God saying that humans were not allowed to live past 120. Walt is now at least 124; he is unnaturally old by definition.

  6. 1 day ago on Gasoline Alley

    Has Melba ever struck you as particularly competent?

  7. 2 days ago on Luann

    I’ll counter with “most certainly won’t happen.” Greg was pretty vocal about his dislike of writing Delta, and it’s been quite a few years now since any of those 3 showed up. Delat has never once visited home during the summer or winter breaks, after all. Did her parents move away right after high school ended?

    And I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Quill was and will remain Luann’s last boyfriend. Greg couldn’t break them up fast enough once he realized that since turning 18, sex had changed from some abstract concept in the cast’s lives to a potential reality. Modern young adults are physically intimate, but allowing Luann to engage in such activity would age her out of the “eternal 12-year-old” dynamic he’s settled her into. You could practically feel Greg’s panic as he kept looking for excuses to delay the NYC trip until they were safely broken up and Luann could go with Bernice instead. And after that, Luann’s libido dropped to near-zero. After all, if she kept being obsessed about sex readers might start to ask why she never actually engaged in it.

    So now the most we’ll get with Luann are the occasional bad first date played for laughs. She’ll never be alone with a guy again in that way, unless Greg changes his mind and allows her to mature into an adult (which seems less likely all the time considering her maturity level has actually dropped since high school.).

  8. 2 days ago on Gasoline Alley

    People growing old and eventually passing on is the strip’s central gimmick. A rule which the main character is exempt from makes the rule itself essentially meaningless. If Jim doesn’t want to follow the rules of the strip then why did he take the gig in the first place? It’s like working for Marvel Comics but deciding you don’t actually want to draw any superheroes, or doing Star Wars without any space adventures.

  9. 2 days ago on Gasoline Alley

    Even Walt admitted to making up most of that story (January-February 2014 for those wondering), so I’m not sure why you’d give it much credence. Though the aftermath does serve to back up my theory that there’s a lot of lead in the water of that town since everyone who lives there is an idiot.

  10. 2 days ago on Gasoline Alley

    Guess that answers those who were wondering if Walt had been retconned away from being a WW1 veteran. Nope, instead Jim is gonna embrace the fact that Walt is unnaturally old.