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So GoComics seemingly has set up someone to make sure that the Sunday strips now have the black plate included after weeks of that being a problem on a few strips every Sunday. This week only Rose is Rose got through, but they fixed it very quickly so only Arcamax was caught blackless:

Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer for April 20, 2025 – no black plate

But there is something missing from the GoComics Rose is Rose today.

Rose is Rose April 20, 2025

Do you see it? Or not see it in this case.

Compare it to the March 30, 2025 Rose is Rose and notice the difference:

Rose is Rose March 30, 2025

That’s right, GoComics dropped the top tier, running the strip in a third page format rather than half-page.

And they didn’t just do it today, they went back and changed the past two April Sunday strips to that format. Now if it was just Rose is Rose I would have thought, “Okay I didn’t notice the change of Sunday setup this month.” But the change also applies to Alley Oop, Arlo and Janis, and Dark Side of the Horse also. There is no way I would not notice all of them being reformatted until the third week, especially when all but Arlo and Janis have new content in the top tier that I take note of every Sunday. And every one of them have had all their April Sunday strips readjusted to the new third-page, two tier makeup.

More:

The Born Loser by Chip Sansom April 20, 2025
Marmaduke by Paul Anderson April 20, 2025

The Born Loser and Marmaduke have also been reformatted today to a third page size, and back through the April Sunday strips, from what was their regular configuration as seen in the March 30, 2025 Sundays below.

The question is why go to the trouble of rearranging the already posted earlier April Sunday strips?

The change went through all their online portals, and while they controlled what Arcamax was delivered today they have no control over the Arcamax site’s past postings. Last Sunday’s Rose is Rose as seen at Arcamax:

Rose is Rose for April 13, 2025 via Arcamax
Jungle Jim by Alex Raymond December 30, 1934 via Comics Kingdom

Who knows what went wrong with the Jungle Jim comic strip Comics Kingdom presented to us today, but…

Jungle Jim by Alex Raymond with Don Moore script via The San Francisco Examiner for December 30, 1934

feature image: Dark Side of the Horse by Samson

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