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Highlord Laan
 Post subject: Isn't This One of the Signs of the End Times? PostPosted: 2012-11-01 02:56am
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Yes, this is real. Holy shit.

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 Post subject: Re: Isn't This One of the Signs of the End Times? PostPosted: 2012-11-01 12:05pm
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Wait, that's fucking real? I thought it was a shop.


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Highlord Laan
 Post subject: Re: Isn't This One of the Signs of the End Times? PostPosted: 2012-11-01 12:35pm
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Nope. Showed up in the newspaper and online everywhere.


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 Post subject: Re: Isn't This One of the Signs of the End Times? PostPosted: 2012-11-02 08:35pm
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I saw it in the local paper and had a WTF moment. If it had been a Foxtrot strip, I wouldn't have given it a second thought, but Family Circus?


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 Post subject: Re: Isn't This One of the Signs of the End Times? PostPosted: 2012-11-02 10:45pm
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Huh...

Too bad Billy Keane isn't around to see this. He was a swell guy, by all (meaning the handful I read) accounts.


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 Post subject: Re: Isn't This One of the Signs of the End Times? PostPosted: 2012-11-02 10:50pm
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Wait...what? THEY DID THAT?!?!?!?


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 Post subject: Re: Isn't This One of the Signs of the End Times? PostPosted: 2012-11-03 01:46am
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Real and inspired by the (current) cartoonist's son, who posted an amusing "hey, that's me" comment on one of the 40k forums.
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 Post subject: Re: Isn't This One of the Signs of the End Times? PostPosted: 2012-11-03 06:10am
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Wait, that's fucking real?

Fuck yes it is.


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 Post subject: Re: Isn't This One of the Signs of the End Times? PostPosted: 2012-11-07 01:01am
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The current cartoonist is last I checked the original Billy....


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The grandson of the original cartoonist is a big 40k fan and posts on Dakka Dakka.

Just don't tell him you think Family Circus isn't funny.


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