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That'd be Ka-Zar, Marvel's Tarzan equivalent.

"Summer Love" is great, particularly in the way it takes advantage of the full half-hour to give just about everyone something funny to do. Although the timeline is a little confused—if Arnold and Summer are hanging out for several days, how long is Grandpa stuck on that peninsula? Was Big Bob just lying on the bed

Well, I'm already getting a Hey Arnold follow-up movie, because I've been such a good little boy this year, but I'd give my eyeteeth for Craig Bartlett to finally get the green light from Nickelodeon to make The Patakis, his rejected spinoff series about Helga as a teenager.

AAAGH MY EYES

Decorating the walls with pictures of typeset Greek letters is usually a pretty solid red flag that the homeowner is going insane and/or building some sort of Riddler puzzle room.

Summer had to end sometime.

Your history teacher thought Robin Hood was a real person?

Mono—D'oh!

Blendin Blandin? Is that you?

Shame about your getting executed by the Bolsheviks right after, though.

Best case scenario: more hilarity from Dan Povenmire & Swampy Marsh, with some great voice actors and snappy songs.

Where do you come down on frogurt?

Yeah, what, did they think only animation nerds like me would know the names of the show creators and that the more famous lead actor would be of greater interest to their readers?

I actually have a couple of "Spin & Marty" comic books, as part of a big box of old comics my dad bought from a neighbor when I was a kid (my dad is cool). I remember them being pretty fun, sort of a "baby's first cowboy story" setting. One was an origin story!

Not quite impossible. Disney's been putting out new Mickey Mouse animated shorts for their TV channels, and they've been well received. But for real Micky Mouse stories, you've got to go back to Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comics from decades ago. He's to Mickey what Carl Barks was to Donald and the other duck

Yeah, I'd be shocked if he didn't come back. Oh, and while I think of it, here's a video of Lang himself demonstrating how to play the "Parents Day" theme on the piano.

Oh, I love intellectual-property-law jokes.

Eh, not great. I got another pair of job-rejections-by-way-of-silence last week, which made me depressed. And I'd wanted to get to work on my next comic script, but writing is almost impossible when I'm in a bad mood, so I got nothing done. Which made me feel worse!

Oh, I miss when cartoon children could call things "crappy." It sounds better coming from Helga than Harold, but it's funny either way. One thing I particularly like about "Suspended" is the running gag of just how much Harold's worldview is shaped by cartoons. Unfortunately for him, he lives in a (relatively)

Colbert's sheer unadulterated glee at introducing that stupid, stupid story was a thing of beauty.