Howdy Doody was a knotty boy? As well as being strung out?

I remember when Kangaroo, Midnight and Video all graduated from OCS together as Second Loo-tenants, but I thought we were dealing with officers such as Major Hoople and his boarding house tenants waiting for the loo....

The same boarding house where they' were both drawn and quartered.


And the funny looking drawings referred to a bit earlier of the George Wunder drawn Terry & The Pirates came after original artist Milton Caniff left the strip and started on Steve Canyon, whose rendering of the Dragon Lady was by far the better one.

Of course Steve Canyon got wierd when they focused on Poteet and Onion Ringg and their studies at Maumee University. That began to lose me.

And of course, coming into the game late, I had to get my dad to explain why so many of the strips were named for people they were no longer about. Steve Roper never did much in his strip once Mike Nomad came along, and the strip originally started out as Chief Wahoo. Buzz Sawyer was all about Roscoe Sweeney, Barney Google was still co-billed with Snuffy Smith though he only rode through the holler on Spark Plug once a year. And, of course Sam Driver took over Judge Parker at a later date in the same fashion. There were probably a few others, too, but it used to bother me that I was reading strips named after charactors no longer figuring in the stories.