Looking at yesterdays, I don't think it matters who Caulfield was. He was just one of the guys who goes MIA, so that way he could get out of going to school.
THREE thoughts for the price of one (sorry): Maybe Frazz WAS actually looking at Caulfield yesterday in the last panel. A SCHOOL party would be on Friday.... second, I have an antenna and the jokes seem to survive transmission. In fact I myself was created long before cable, and some people say "there's something funny about her.".....and last (you're welcome)@ Varnes -- I bet you DO look scary in curlers and a robe.
Re: Caulfield and the Catch-22 story arc. A number of comic strips will have a stand-alone gag on Saturdays. Not as common as it once was, but not unknown, either. The story I heard was that it was due to people buying a paper on their way into work Mon-Fri, but not on Saturday. That _may_ be what's going on here. OTOH, with today being Halloween, I was kind of expecting the pay-off today. Mallett might be planning on doing the pay-off tomorrow, with the extra space in a Sunday strip. We'll just have to wait, I guess...
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Frazz and the principal just SPECULATED that Caulfield would be the dead man in the tent but they hadn't yet seen him as of yesterday's strip. I hope there's some actually confirmation of what Caulfield DID do in the next few days or that entire week's arc would be a bit frustrating- even though I'll grant that it spurred a great deal of literary thinking on the readers' parts!
However; I'll say that principal had the most impressive t-shirt I've EVER seen of the Jack O'Latern that mimicked the expressions of the wearer! Reminded me of that floater that the water-phobic duck wore in 'US Acres'!
But it's still Halloween! No crazy costumes walking down the street?
No candy jokes? Nothing scary, like a teacher in curlers and a robe?
No Halloween parties? Sigh....
