Newspaper comics are so ****ing weird - like even beyond the surface level stuff (cow tools, garbage apes, the lineage of official Garfield horror, the non-existance of Calvin and Hobbes merchandise, Sluggo is Lit), you've got self-insert American exceptionalist propaganda in Little Orphan Annie, BC's completely counter-intuitive poignant Christian themes, Dennis the Menace having an evil Scottish twin, a suspiciously large amount of coincidentally-poorly-timed gags related to days of tragedy and rememberance across multiple comics, whatever the hell the Shmoo is supposed to be, Beetle Bailey strips designed specifically to be banned, and evil sarcastic Winnie the Pooh.