Good news/bad news- I have to split up today, as there were 30+ images at the halfway point. My tolerance is either way down or the genius is way up or maybe both. So Arnold Drake Week will continue on to at least Friday, it seems. My only regret is that I didn't do this while the man was alive-- I'd thought about it but never found the time. Selah.

Today's lessons:

1. I Question the Value of Having the Ability to Change Into Animals (If Those Animals Have Green Heads That are Vaguely Human No Matter What)
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2. The Robot Needs Your Hanky
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3. GOTTA DO IT! GOTTA!
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4. Gar Hates Bony Robots
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5. "Tibor" is "Robit" Spelled Backwards, and That's How My Grandma Says "Robot"
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6. HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY FUCKING SHIT
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7. Cliff's Dreams are Way Dark
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8. Suddenly... Ka-Woom Ba-Room
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9. I'll Just Watch
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10. I Bet the Challengers Failed Because They Were Nicknamed "The Challs"
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11. I Too am a Psychic Dynamo and Pot-Headed Nut
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12. PUT HIM DOWN CLIFF
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13. I--Don't--Know--But--I'm--Really--Really--Sorry
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14. Pot-Head Used to Mean Something Different
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15. It Really IS a Gateway Drug
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16. When Wearing a Jet Pack, Also Wear a Suit and Carnation
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17. A Brain Trapped in a Robot's Body... A Brain of a 15 Year Old Girl
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18. Doom Patrol Leitmotif: Shape is Always Mutable, Shifting, Changing... This is Probably a Metaphor
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19. Big Ear? Cosmic Ray Analysis? I Love You, Arnold Drake/Why Does the Switch Go All the Way Up to Danger?(tie)
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20. The Bandage Man With the See-Through Head is Shooting a Laser with His Face
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21. NO MEANS NO
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22. Maybe Exposure to All the Rays Made Them Gay?
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23. The Gorilla, While Holding On to the Dangling Legs of the Malleable Woman, who Herself Hangs from Inside of a Rocket Ship, Taunts the Doom Patrol.
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24. Larry Has Never Actually Been Inside of a Hilton
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25. Mister 103 Totally Made Me Poop My Pants
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26. Again, Malleability; Impermanence; Body Trauma; Bandage Man
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27. REEE
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28. Sometimes, Words Fail
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29. The Robot Uses His Severed Leg to Save His Own Life
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30. SERIOUSLY CLIFF WHAT THE FUCK
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31. The Punchline (click to enlarge)
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