And, while it’s not in a story, this 1978 cover features a Pong variant:

www.comics.org/issue/105850...

D’oh! Sorry, Ashley; I’ve not been on BlueSky for months.

I searched comics.org for “video game” and found Dave Berg’s “Games People Slay” from 1979…

www.comics.org/issue/875318...

With you 100% on that one

I saw The Beat’s protest comics coverage used this as their cover photo!

I can’t believe they’ve estimated turnout at 50K. That’s just insulting.

I’m a librarian and I will fight AI tooth and nail, letter-opener and rubber stamp, to my dying breath. It sickens me. Librarians should be working toward improving writing and research, not destroying it.

Oh, Matthew, I’m so so sorry. What can we do to help??

So lovely and atmospheric

We have serious problems to solve & we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things
& two things only: making you afraid of it & telling you who's to blame for it.

I’m reminded of this line from the climactic speech in THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (for “Bob Rumson,” substitute
“Republicans”). (1/2)

Silence means consent.

I await more news with bated breath!

Oh now I wish I were at all musical…
And yes it was a simply lovely afternoon. I wish it could have lasted longer!

That’s what you get when you fire/dismiss all those trained women and people of color. All-white just ain’t right.

And now, at 7:20, the Columbia Spec posts a story that NYPD has been called in to clear out the protestors, who’ve been confined to one room.

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...