Hope You’re All Watching “Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated!” right now

The new episode, airing 7 PM EST on Cartoon Network, is entitled “The Shrieking Madness.”  And it guest stars Harlan Ellison in the role he was born to play:  “Harlan Ellison.”  Who, as it turns out, is Velma’s favorite author.  Plus so far I’ve counted one “Galaxy Quest” in-joke.

If you are somehow missing it, it’s repeated at 9:30 PM tonight and at 10:30 AM tomorrow.

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Current Events

digresssmlOriginally published February 4, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1055

I have absolutely no idea where this is a nationwide problem or not.

I suddenly noticed that my kids don’t have “Current Events” homework anymore. That, indeed, Current Events seems to have vanished from the local curriculum.

You remember Current Events. Once a week–sometimes every day, if you had a particularly aggressive and socially conscious teacher–you were supposed to flip through the newspaper and clip out an article about what was going on in the world.