slauderdale’s Reviews > Little Orphan Annie, Volume 1: Will Tomorrow Ever Come? 1924-1927 > Status Update

Hi Annie, just checking in. You're an awfully swell kid and I'm sorry I've been such a negligent reader.

I also feel like there needs to be a drinking game for all the panels that show her eavesdropping on people. At three strips to a printed side, a body'd get drunk in about five pages.

Not that this relates to the current plot (she's working in a circus and making pals with all the animals), but I get a kick out of how hard-boiled Annie is. She has the mentality and vocabulary of a tiny gangster - it's all, "Back where I'd come from I'd have a word with my gang and then I'd go out of town for a few days" kind of thing. You know, in addition to the brawling and decking and socking.

...weirdly compelling.