Welcome back, Phil

! Now we just need to get Phil O. back to be restored to our normal complement of contributors.
It's funny I didn't remember seeing that
Candy panel, but I checked it out and of course
Police Comics #83 was the one in which Candy's young cousin
Glenna gets turned over her uncle's knee (she's too young for it to be presented in CSR, but she certainly deserved it).
I'm still pretty much behind on everything as there's simply no "slack time" in my day that allows me to pick up the pace. Two updates last week plus the work on
A Tribute to Bending Over have left me with no time to get caught up on this board or the mailbox or with the Golden Age Search. I do have a different "after the spanking" panel with Candy we'll get to eventually, but I haven't posted it yet since it wasn't an example of strip work.
This month marks
CSR's 15th Anniversary. (The exact date in April 2004 went unrecorded so it will no doubt be a subject of debate in future centuries). While I don't have anything to offer as monumental as the multi-part exploration of spanking psychology I did five years ago, I couldn't let this month go by without writing up something like this week's
Tribute to Bending Over. (As a matter of fact, I expanded it into two parts so we'll have Part 2 as soon as I'm finished with it.) It doesn't have the intellectual depth the earlier
magnum opus did, but I think it's a lot of fun and I hope everyone feels likewise.
The third special I hope to do this year (the first was
Novelty Paddles) is the one revealing the identity of the ACES Artist, as I've always called him, but I haven't gotten beyond gathering the necessary reference materials yet.
We do have another offering this week, from an unlikely source:
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith! This one is M/F, with an earlier F/M panel being censored. And just as Phil S. discovered an earlier M/M scene in Beetle Bailey, so I have discovered a M/M scene in
Barney Google. I'm getting too tired to give the details here, but soon I will do a batch of DB updates and issue a summary.
Next Week: We begin a mini-series on the British strip
The Gambols. It's been in the files for years, and maybe it should have waited on something else during the Anniversary Month, but I simply didn't have time to weigh all the possibilities. The scenes are pretty good ones and I don't believe have been widely seen in this country.
