"Has Scrooge McDuck appeared this month? I haven't read this one. Perhaps the rest of the pack is on the other side of the hill."

"Right. This is supposed to be a fun thread, and I vote that a prominent question mark is a prominent question mark, personally. Perhaps we should consult the oracles."

"I covered Scooby's long history earlier-- and he has more than twenty years of DC titles, at this point, never mind his prior owners. I'm not certain Scamp can beat those runs. We've had a hit of unseasonably warm weather, so…"

"Japanese original, or the one with the Burr stuck in it? (I mean, they're both good, but one is better, and far more horrifying)"

"Although they certainly met in the Golden Age-- including a cameo with the Justice Society-- the early World's Finest team-ups were limited to the cover. Regular in-story team-ups did not begin in World's Finest until #71 (1954)."

"Someone's been helping themselves to the gingold, apparently. Here's a hound of a different colour:"

"Beagles naturally sleep in a pile, even if their bedtime stories disturb them: For those who aren't certain the Boys qualify as real dawgs, here they've discovered Pluto's stash. He's definitely a dog:"

"And then there's the matter of the late-Soviet-era adaptation of <i>The Fellowship of the Rings</i> that resurfaced last week. They're taking the hobbits to Leningrad!"

"Ha! In the early 2000s in a nearby small town, a drama teacher I know directed a production of Tommy as the school show that was, as such things go, quite engaging. He explained that the cast asked about the 70s movie, and if they could see it. He…"

"Magnus teams up with a talking neo-dog. I rather like the touch that the dog had been engineered/bred with the necessary intelligence, but his vocal instruments precluded talking like a human. He used an artificial voice box bashed together from an…"

"I haven't read Murakami. I'm told this is (in Japan) one of his most popular, but also his least typical, as it's more or less a realistic work."

"We just saw Norwegian Wood, the 2010 Japanese movie based on the 1987 novel that takes its title from the 1965 song. We found it moving, though fans of the novel-- it's in the queue to read-- often say it's missing a lot of what makes the…"

"The Phantom and Devil the dog in Bangalia:"

"Of the topics suggested, I like "Big Question/Question Mark" "Time Travel," "Dinosaurs," and "Self-Loading Film Projectors" generally. Obviously, "Time Travel" and "Dinos"…"

"Mystery, Inc disappear from the printed comics until 1992, when Harvey picks them up: Archie had a brief run with them in the mid-1990s: Great covers aside, Warner bought the rights to the Hanna-Barbera characters, and DC has published variations of…"