http://www.popeater.com/television/article/the-trusted-pen-behind-peanuts-dies/160481

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

Now if we can only convince the syndication company to finally put the strip to rest.

WHHHHAAAAAATTTTT! it's bad enough we lost George Carlin, Bernie Mac, Steve Fosse(t?) and Snoopy's voice this year but you want to end the strip as well?

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Absolutely, it's hard enough for new talent to get column inches when they have to fight against the reruns of Peanuts. Time to clear the deadwood . . . and Dagwoods from the best part of most metropolitan newspapers.

My list of strips that have "jumped the shark" includes any where the original artist is deceased or where "substitute" artists, including kin, are drawing the strip. It also includes any where the characters are caught in a perpetual time warp and never grow up.

pffffftttt!

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

What about Gasoline Alley? It's on it's 3rd or 4th artist by now, and everyone's aging in real time. Walt's got to be 110 by now.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.