Archive for April 18th, 2005


Candorville Can’t Subtract

This week’s Candorville series contains a typo.Corrections were sent out to newspapers, but who knows whether they got them in time. I know comics.com didn’t. OK, it’s not exactly a typo so much as it is bad math. Mr. Nixton, a loyal Republican character who’s been in a coma since the Carter administration, wakes up to find the country a very different place. Unfortunately, instead of writing he’d been in a coma for 26 years, I said he’d been under for 36. Sometimes I wonder how I made it all the way through AP Calculus…


Candorville Can’t Subtract

This week’s Candorville series contains a typo.Corrections were sent out to newspapers, but who knows whether they got them in time. I know comics.com didn’t. OK, it’s not exactly a typo so much as it is bad math. Mr. Nixton, a loyal Republican character who’s been in a coma since the Carter administration, wakes up to find the country a very different place. Unfortunately, instead of writing he’d been in a coma for 26 years, I said he’d been under for 36. Sometimes I wonder how I made it all the way through AP Calculus…