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Unring

A courtroom. The defendant, a mad scientist, sits grinning in the witness box. The outraged D.A. is on his feet. The members of the jury all sit stiffly, with hypnotic spirals for eyes. The Judge says: “Objection is sustained. Dr. Hypno’s testimony ‘Members of the Jury, look into my eyes… Deeper, Deeper… You are under my spell…’ shall be stricken from the record.”

This one is basically impossible to draw (successfully) but I wanted to write it out.

Sorry I skipped yesterday.

Kids used to care about the brand of tires they had on their bikes, and various manufacturers would advertise in comic books. U.S. Royal’s advertising gimmick was a mascot — also named U.S. Royal — who used his superior bike tires in one-page adventures to foil crooks.

There’s so much that’s odd about that now. Can you imagine kids today even knowing what brand of tire they have on their bikes? Do kids still have bikes? Are bikes still “important?”

Anyway, it gets odder, in today’s U.S. Royal adventure, as he battles a homicidal lunatic who’s escaped from a mental asylum:

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Can you imagine someone telling this story to kids today? It’s like an artifact from a distant universe.

Draw.