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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.

Bill Watterson

There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
BILL WATTERSON

Different Gatekeepers Gone Prospects Voice
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Faces People Possums
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Common Ignore Plenty Sense
Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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Craft Different Editorial Joke Taste Technique
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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Class League Superhero
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Dark Imagine Thinking
Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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Pigs Riding Three
But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Demand Kind Sacrifice
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Hate Point Stories Thinking
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Snow Winning
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Differences Inability Praying Strength
I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
BILL WATTERSON

Comic Existentialism Laughing Strips
Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Disappointment Friendship Harder Swearing
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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Bird Bugs Taste
I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Detours Ideas Recognizing Success Trying

From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.

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