The hardreading staff is a longtime fan of Bill Hinds’s Tank McNamara comic strip, which has run in the Boston Globe for a . . . well, for a long time.
Until last Friday. When the Globe apparently dropped the strip.
In its stead, this appeared:
Ditto Saturday and Sunday.
So Globe readers missed this, in particular:
Rest assured, the headscratching staff is contacting Bill Hinds and Globe sports editor Joe Sullivan.
We’ll keep you posted.
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[…] the hardreading staff noted the other day, the Boston Globe Sports section no longer features the Tank McNamara comic […]
I had rad Tank McNamara every day since its inception! Please being him back.
I’m with you, Frances – but Tank’s not coming back. Sorry.
Dammit