My favorite part of the newspaper is the comics page. Love ‘em. I sometimes spend hours at my computer catching up on strips that used to appear in the Journal Star, but don’t anymore. And it’s because I read the comics that I also started reading the front page. So, in a way, we can [...]

So, I didn’t get any real nibbles from anyone wanting to buy my entire comic collection at $300. So, I will instead take the best offer I receive for the whole batch by 4 p.m. Friday.
That’s ten full comic book boxes of 1980s, 90s and recent stuff, as well as several milk cartons full of [...]

Yes, the rumors
are true. I’m selling off my comic book collection.
Why? I’m not getting the enjoyment out of them I used to. Getting old I guess. And I’m getting sick of lugging them around every time I move from one place to another.
I’ve been sorting through them over the weekend to pull out the alternatives [...]

… out the door and into the trash bin.
Ugh. I completely share Mahkno’s viewthat the Journal Star needs to dump the Charlie Brown strip for something else. My fellow Peoria blogger suggests Opus, and I don’t disagree. Although I think there are probably some edgier strips out there. Boondocks comes to mind.
But it won’t [...]

Am I the only one who found this paragraph in today’s article about Peorian Richard Pryor’s illness a bit disturbing:
Still, Jennifer Lee Pryor says her husband’s crippling multiple sclerosis is a blessing, stripping away his taste for the drugs and alcohol she was convinced would have left him dead instead of just months shy of [...]