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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Jun 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Garrett Bucks

    The ghost dads are less upsetting than what seems like an endless line of ghost children.https://twitter.com/garrettbucks/status/1406616642440859652 …

    Jeet Heer added,

    Oh jeez how do I describe this. It's a Family Circus cartoon. The mom is taking a picture on her phone and saying "this will be a portrait of all the men in our family." The dad, Billy, Jeffy and the baby are smiling for that portrait. To the father's right is a line of five deeply waspy looking ghosts, likely depicting the dad's own father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc. By the end the last ghost looks straight up like a slave boat captain. Even more bizarrely, there is a line of ghost children to the living character's left. I am not sure why they are there. Did this family lose that many children? Is it the future men that the three boys in the family will one day spawn? Oh, and Dolly is there too. She's watching as her mom takes her picture. You know this is a new and not an old Family Circus bc the mom has an angular haircut and a smartphone.
    Garrett Bucks @garrettbucks
    Happy Father's Day to the Family Circus' robber baron ghost dads. pic.twitter.com/zN8YGxEVeS
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Jun 2021

        Jeet Heer Retweeted Garrett Bucks

        Best suggestion here as that the ghost children are not victims of infant mortality but the sons yet to be born to the Family Circus clan in future generations. Which is also weird.https://twitter.com/garrettbucks/status/1406616642440859652 …

        Jeet Heer added,

        Oh jeez how do I describe this. It's a Family Circus cartoon. The mom is taking a picture on her phone and saying "this will be a portrait of all the men in our family." The dad, Billy, Jeffy and the baby are smiling for that portrait. To the father's right is a line of five deeply waspy looking ghosts, likely depicting the dad's own father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc. By the end the last ghost looks straight up like a slave boat captain. Even more bizarrely, there is a line of ghost children to the living character's left. I am not sure why they are there. Did this family lose that many children? Is it the future men that the three boys in the family will one day spawn? Oh, and Dolly is there too. She's watching as her mom takes her picture. You know this is a new and not an old Family Circus bc the mom has an angular haircut and a smartphone.
        Garrett Bucks @garrettbucks
        Happy Father's Day to the Family Circus' robber baron ghost dads. pic.twitter.com/zN8YGxEVeS
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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Jun 2021

        The Family Circus comic strip is very weird. It's probably best not to inquire into its metaphysics too closely.

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      2. Flother‏ @Flother2 20 Jun 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I mean, a lot of people used to die as children. What's weird are the missing ghost teenagers.

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      3. Timothy‏ @TimEnglishTeach 21 Jun 2021
        Replying to @Flother2 @HeerJeet

        People who made it past five or six usually made it to fifty or sixty. The exceptions were mainly men who died due to violence or women in childbirth.

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      1. Day 711 Cornelious‏ @cornylious 20 Jun 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Not even the most upsetting Ghost Dad..pic.twitter.com/rkwQDNhBek

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      2. Nancy Mathisen‏ @MathisenNancy 20 Jun 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Maybe they were abolitionists and free thinkers. It’s hard to tell from the cartoon.

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      3. stupid little pavlov creature‏ @spoonstealer 20 Jun 2021
        Replying to @MathisenNancy @HeerJeet

        You have so much faith in the capacity of cartoon babies

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      1. Gore Vidal Sassoon‏ @JimmyJazz1968 20 Jun 2021
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        pic.twitter.com/1EXI0xzGj2

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      1. Dr. Dennis Eckmeier‏ @DennisEckmeier 20 Jun 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet @ProfBootyPhD

        Are they in the picture twice? once as dads and once as sons, or... ?

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      1. eataTREE‏ @TheREALeataTREE 20 Jun 2021
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        I mean aren't the ghost dads and the ghost kids logically the same people (since the ghostly "kids" of one generation are the "dads" of the next)? Can a ghost manifest as a child and as an adult simultaneously? (That's pretty cool if so.)

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