I still have to scour the dog to earn my allowance, and I usually blow it on comic books and bubble gum. My favorite comic right now is Legendary Dennis McNichols and the Indefatigable Invaders -- I couldn't believe the cliffhanger at the end of the last issue!

That big bully Davey Adams took my lunch money and tore up my copy of Sergeant Carl Black and the Screaming Cats today. I hate him so much! Mr. Villarreal says if you ignore a bully, he'll lose interest. My dad says that's a crock of bullcrap (except he didn't say bullcrap, he said a bad word) and that the only way to deal with a bully is to smash his head in. He's really big though! Maybe I should take some rond-fu lessons.