[Professionals also have taken cracks at the topic. ] Cartoonists hit the mother lode with this one, ... Giant bugs blend with images of doomsday cultists and visions of the apocalypse.

These are not good times for political cartoonists. And I think this controversy makes it worse, because editors are timid and they see their cartoonists as bomb-throwers who need to be reined in.

You'll see that Saturday just about every strip will be about 'Peanuts' in one way or another,

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They're doing different things. Some are little gags, some are moving, some are -- what can I say? Everybody does it their own way.

It looks like there were several cracks in the cylinder that were welded.