Very cool insight into military life as experienced first hand.  Pollard brings an authenticity to the humor that the enlisted would more be attuned to.   

Yep... I also think the title was a reference to It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World hit theaters in late 1963  

The talking points of today's propaganda machine go this far back?  I guess it's comfort food for the elderly to get the same messages over and over again.

Like submarines doing battle in space!  The textures are a great feature to sell these as cylindrical shapes.

But you know, Bogart, Stallone, Cruise aren't the biggest types .

Great name for a pro wrestling gimmic!  Freas drawing a hard boiled detective samurai is something that shows his range. 

Person liberties had it rough 48 years ago.  Good thing we can relax now.

I think if you never did this survey, breakthroughs like viagra may not have ever happened.

Surf's up!  As a veteran of comic conventions, the quarterbins at the bottom you don't search may have the deals you'd regret not seeing. 

I think I like the one liner the most.  Up Periscope!

But you gotta figure that they already got and hid away their nut.

Caught with their pants down!  Solid donkey print skivvies!

Caught with their pants down!  Solid donkey print skivvies!

Everything about this era was politically charged from domestic to foreign policies.  He's also peddaling while looking backwards showing how he's not interested.  

Everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Story of a rock getting its rocks off ;-)

Without rules and regulations, you might violate the rules of conduct and be brought up for war crimes.

Lucky this and Mac survived!  A lot of artists that served would go on to draw from that experience and excel in war comics. That then led them to other genres later on. 

I'm going to guess Spielberg saw gags like this to inspire him to make 1941.

It is still one of the biggest purchases/committments one makes during their lifetime and the wage gap has widened even more since then.  A modern example is Homer Simpson in the 90's could afford a two story house on a single salary as a lowly power plant worker drone.  That Frank Grimes episode is all of us incredulous of Homer's good fortune.

This describes the shuttle diplomacy Carter had to use in between as Sadat and Begin did not meet face to face.  Either that or Sadat wanted the Johnny Carson job and ace out David Letterman. 

Fluorocarbons are going to make a bigly comeback as climate change science won't be a thing anymore.

Classic western trope with an overlook view of the plains and the horizon in the back.

For these three, the war never really began nor ever ended.

I just figured that bandwagon has forgotten and left behind the traditional Tom Cat voters (whatever group that could represent). 

The Sting came out around that time too, so the public sure wanted the to break the game and take down the house.

The Sting came out around that time too, so the public sure wanted the to break the game and take down the house.

I like that bank robber that was shot down.  You can feel the life draining out of him on the ground.

That was a quick trunaround with being able to process what happened and in 9/12, the whole world was different.

I wonder how many remember or understand that's it's a constant fight, even today.  I think most do this protest indivdually by quitting or just refusing to work hard when a living wage is not on the table.  

In many ways, the holidays are more busy than work days.  Good thing there is a weekend after July 4th this year to recover.  

Breaker, breaker, we got ourselves a convoy of problems!

The nerve of these radicals!  Erickson may have experienced this firsthand if his wife read this strip!

Seems right with public finger pointing still a popular sport!

Don't worry, I've been assured that these issues are a thing of the past.

You can trust a bear as much as you can trust a leopard (who will eat your face).  

The war on drugs was just beginning.  But the best weapon was th "Just Say No" campaign.  But then again, all those celebrities looked high as hell and kept their weight down with their miracle diets.

Well, they'd find the three seashells and will be puzzled.

Fun slice of life piece!  I never daydream in the stall.  Maybe comment on some art, but otherwise, I'm all business.  

We need Ted Koppel to bring this history lesson on tonight's Nightline.  

I like that the face is almost bird like.  Very nice with the sign that bends as the message itself was weighing on every tax payer's mind. 

No one has the answers anymore.

A history lesson we often forget seeing how those times led to more innovation in energy conservation, more efficient cars, and lessened dependence on foreign oil and oil itself.

I like the caricture style.  A little bit of another Southern gentelman artist in Jack Davis with the lanky figures and long feet.

And thus began the plan and the path to have Presidential Executive powers to supersede the US Constitution.

Because feeding children is socialism!  The kids can eat when they go back to work at our sweatshops to make money.  Why should adults pay for children to eat?  Can't they pull themselves up by the bootstraps?  When I was their age, I held down three 8 hour shifts and walked uphill to each job.  Why don't young people want to work anymore?

Even though it's not Christmas, it's well timed with the new budget being proposed! 

Nice representation for the first 1970's OPEC oil crisis embargo.  It's reminds us of how interconnected we are to the rest of the world.  Sure, we can drill for our own oil, but oil companies will just pump enough to keep the prices just as high, knowing you now can't get it elsewhere.  

I'm sure it also happens every day within the fraternity of brothers where favoritism happens.  There's a reason why there are families where every generation had once served as a cop.  Besides, these days you just have to host the right kind of TV show to qualify for heading up government agencies.      

Ford was the incumbent in 76, but Ronnie was a star and was making a name for himself which would pay off in '80.