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1
Oh, I can't wait for the Guy Ritchie adaptation of Little Orphan Annie.
2
@1 Michael Bay.

The golden age of comic strips began to end when Watterson and Larson left the building.
3
iron man never bored anyone to tears.
4
I'm already penning the new strip "L'il Zombie Annie".
5
The only certainty is that there will never be a Little Fannie Annie app for the iPad.
6
Maybe the vortex will finally pull Rex Morgan M.D. and Mary Worth down with it. A more distant hope is that the backwash will resurrect Al Capp and Walt Kelly.
7
I was gonna use this to make a lame "too bad it's not around, they would have based a movie on this strip" comment, then I remembered... things have always sucked in this regard. Guess I'll have to hold out for that Mike Nichols reimagining of Apartment 3-G that I just made up, or maybe Michael Chiklis as Ziggy. Anyone?

(I can't stop: Rachel Dratch could put on some weight for the role of Cathy, or maybe a live-action Marmaduke... wait, I'm not sure which one of those I just made up now, or whether it's funny to cast Aaron Eckhart in a Blondie film, but then wikipedia tells me they made about a million Blondie films from 1938-1950 already... mean, CHA-CHING, it's happening.)

Sorry if anyone read the second paragraph. Or the first.
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@5 - don't be so sure, I'm working on that now - just set your Torrents to Warp Speed.
9
Good riddance. The two shmoes who took over the strip couldn't write, couldn't draw, and kept trotting out every paranoid and racist meme I thought disappeared with the '50s.

Little Orphan Annie has been dead for years. At last, she'll get a decent burial.
10
Little Orphan Annie is one of many comics that needs to kick the bucket. The Comics Curmudgeon website makes me feel better temporarily, then I am sad because I remember that those horrible comics are still there.

Also, Little Orphan Annie was crap to begin with. The creator wanted to make sweet love to robber-barons.
11
Little Orphan Annie would cry her eyes out at this news, if only she had pupils.
12
@2: Watterson/Larson was the golden age? Really? Ever looked at a sunday section from the '30s? The '80s was more like the last gasp.
13
12 has it right. The golden age of newspaper strips was dead long before Watterson and Larson picked up a pencil. Those guys were just beacons of quality in a sea of dross.

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