What Color Means to You.

This is what you are missing if your newspaper does not run B&C in color. The July 7 strip's last panel, in B&W and in color.

It cannot be that bad.

It's only Channel 5 News. Nice touch that only Lucretia shows any color in the entire strip, which is otherwise black and white and shades of gray. Lucretia is just a little ray of sunshine.

GoComics Update.

UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! B&C can still be found on GoComics.com. The strip has not properly updated since Sunday July 4, 2010 due to an internal error at Uclick. This error is being addressed, and the strip is expected to be current Real Soon Now.

It's back as of 1:00 P.M..

The Man with the Twisted Hare.

Clyde once again demonstrates that a gentle swindle is as good as a gun as he works his begging scam on another susceptible citizen. Clyde is revealing himself to be more and more like Barney in his entrepreneurial skill. Like Barney, Clyde is selling an illusion. And once again, Clyde shows the intuitive grasp of finding the "real" name. Next thing you know, Sherlock Holmes will find that Clyde's real name is Neville.

In a related scam, it appears that B&C has moved permanently from GoComics to Comics.com. The interface at GoComics was much cleaner, but the advertising potential for merchandise appears to be much greater at Comics.com. The credit line is better, anyway. Looks like Clyde marketing savvy is rubbing off on the B&C team.

Intermittently interesting.

Not every strip is a winner. After the multi-layered Sunday July 4, 2010 strip, the July 5 edition heads back into the zero-dimensional universe. On Sunday, we find that Barney is, in a manner of speaking, surrounded by his family -- transmuted into parrots who remind him of his shortcomings, a problem that might be relieved by one of his own remedies, which, inexplicably, he apparently does not use. On Monday, however, we are back into the flatter-land territory of non-dimensionality: INTERESTING is the last thing it might be called. Really, because Clyde flatters Barney by thinking about him as a hackneyed joke, Clyde is interesting to Barney? Yeah, we already got the point that Barney is starved for human contact, and Clyde has become the one person in his life who has shown any interest in him. We get it. Another anvil falls. More like the Sunday strip, please, sirs.

Which City Is It?

There's a rather distinctive clue to the location in which Barney & Clyde is set supplied in the July 3, 2010 strip. You would have to be a moron to miss it. Peruse the strip in toto.

St. Petersburg Times, FL trial run.

Here's what the strip looks like in the St. Petersburg Times. Yes, B&C is B&W. Note that David Clark does not get his due in the credit line. But heed the invitation to fire off an e-mail to features@sptimes.com with "Comics" in the subject line to register your support for Barney & Clyde.