Shocking News About “Brenda Starr”

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Apparently it was still being published.

Now it’s been announced that it’s canceled. So much for that.

Am I the only one who would love to see a new strip where she teams up with (Little Orphan) Annie and (ackk!!!) Cathy to solve crimes? What would you title that strip, I wonder?

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25 comments on “Shocking News About “Brenda Starr””

    1. I once read somewhere that Schultz wanted to name the strip after either Snoopy or Charlie Brown (I forget which) but that an editor changed the name to “Peanuts.”
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      The reason given was because this editor had a child who watched a show on which there was a side audience comprised of just children. And, when the camera panned to them, words on the screen identified them as the “Peanut Gallery.”
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      Not knowing what the term “Peanut Gallery” meant, the editor reasoned that “Peanut” was a new hip young slang term for child. And, since the strip was about children, it would appeal to the youngsters to use that new hip young slang and name it “Peanuts.”
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      I don’t know if that story is true or not. But, from what I know of editors, it sounds believable.
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      Theno
      (Editor of the Fellowship of the White Star RPG.)

  4. How about an origin story where Daddy Warbucks beocmes a recluse after the (fill in the blank to make it modern) war and he decides to set up a foundation that targets evil corporations that fund terrorism by enlisting female agents to seduce them while sabotaging their power base and we call them “Warbuck’s Valkyries!”

  7. So I’m the only one who still reads the strip?

    I hope they actually finish the story they are currently involved in.

    1. I think they will. The cancellation seems to be a combination of low circulation but with a triggering event of the current artist (yes, original Power Pack artist June Brigman) deciding to leave which caused the current writer (Mary Simich (sp?), the writer of the “Sunscreen” graduation speech that was incorrectly attributed to Kurt Vonnegut back in the 90s) to also leave. So I’d assume they’ll wrap up most things before the end.

  8. Something like A League of Extraordinary Gentle-women approach to comic strip characters? I’m in!

    (And maybe we can add Modesty Blaise to a storyline or two…)

  11. Daddy’s Angels?

    Strip Teases?

    Reminds me, I’d love to see you, Peter David, write a comic book series about Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Thomas Haywood teaming up to solve crimes in Renaissance England–Bards of Prey.

  13. I don’t know what I’d call it, but the final strip would end with them investigating Camp Crystal Lake. (Annie would be the last survivor, being the only virgin in the trio.)

    shk-shk-shk-kill-kill-kill-tss-tss-tss
    “AAAAAack!”

  14. I haven’t seen Brenda Starr since the early 1990s (if not the late 1980s), so I can’t speak to what’s happened in the strip since then. But at the time, I wasn’t sure whether it was a really bad soap opera strip or a brilliant parody of a really bad soap opera strip. Some of the stuff in there was so over the top I couldn’t help but wonder if that was deliberate.
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    Rick

  15. If Irving got an eyepatch, I think I’d actually consider buying a collection of this.
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    “Case File: Where Are My Pupils?”

  16. Reminds me of my favorite joke from Conan O’Brian years ago. It goes “They just announced that they have canceled the Sally Jesse Raphael show. This was announced exactly five minutes after they discovered it was still on the air.” 😀

  18. Isn’t it obvious? They REALLY don’t want it to get canceled… so call it “Birds of Pray.”

  19. Does this mean that “Ðìçk Tracy” is now the last story strip from the Tribune syndicate? (Does the syndicate itself even still have that name?) Can anyone think of any others?

  20. I can’t believe no one’s suggested “The Girls In Apartment 3-G” yet. Or perhaps they team up with Margo, Lu Ann, and Tommie in a new, 6 bedroom apartment across the hall in Apartment 6-G.

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