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Wallace Sellars
Posted: 22 August 2021 at 8:52am | IP Logged | 1
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Wouldn’t have mattered much. Stan and Jack wanted an FDR figure to counterbalance Magneto’s Hitler.*
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I defer to your point, though I might counter with a plethora of images of Civil War victims similarly amputated.
Were FDR's legs amputated?
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ron bailey
Posted: 22 August 2021 at 8:56am | IP Logged | 2
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Different story for a public figure/world leader: Up until the well after his death, most people didn't even know FDR was in a wheelchair at all! < id="protanopia">
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John Byrne
Posted: 22 August 2021 at 9:00am | IP Logged | 3
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FDR had polio, and amputation was not seen as a choice. (When I was five, I had osteomyelitis, a cousin to polio that attacks the bones, rather than the muscles. According to the attending physicians, I came within mere weeks, perhaps days, of losing my right leg below the knee.)
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ron bailey
Posted: 22 August 2021 at 9:09am | IP Logged | 4
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Glad you made through, Jay B ...Any residual symptoms? < id="protanopia">
Another point on Stan: Isn't it a testament to the power of those characters that they could have credible references such as Hitler/FDR and a generation later King/X? You'd think that would be the more relevant credit.
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John Byrne
Posted: 22 August 2021 at 10:08am | IP Logged | 5
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Any residual symptoms?•••
When I was about 12, a friend of my mother’s, a nurse, noted that she had never known anyone who’d had osteomyelitis in one leg and not ended up with a limp. Which I did not have.
Or so I thought.
Cut to eight years later, my first day at Art College. Walking on the granite floors in my hard-soled shoes I heard the sound of my own footsteps, tick tick-tick tick tick-tick
Sunnuvagun, I thought. I DO have a limp!
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Wallace Sellars
Posted: 22 August 2021 at 11:11am | IP Logged | 6
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Missed it by thaaat much.
JB, did you extend the crushed bones to include the Chief's upper body in order to create more of a distinction between him and Professor X?
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John Byrne
Posted: 22 August 2021 at 11:21am | IP Logged | 7
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Didn’t really think about it!
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Andrew Bitner
Posted: 23 August 2021 at 6:37am | IP Logged | 8
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Nice page today-- good to revisit where Jean's been in all this and get a moment to reflect.
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John Byrne
Posted: 23 August 2021 at 6:52am | IP Logged | 9
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Brace for a few exploding heads.
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Bill Guerra
Posted: 23 August 2021 at 7:09am | IP Logged | 10
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I really love Jean's body language on today's page! Reminds me of a former young lady in my life who would remove her scarf like that. And the way Jean looks so weary really sells her mood.
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Jeffrey Rice
Posted: 23 August 2021 at 8:08am | IP Logged | 11
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The mid-century furniture looks great in that apartment JB!
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Joe Smith
Posted: 23 August 2021 at 9:39am | IP Logged | 12
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Little things like Jean not wearing gobs of mascara, looking weary, and
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