Scathach80 wrote:
I find your construing the word "recent" to refer to "comic strips" instead of "film adaptations" and decades curious....
Not sure how ya get that. Blondie is neither a recent comic nor a recent series of movies. So it actually applies to both, not to merely one or the other.
  

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