Revelations

I haven't been actively "following" Andy Capp until recently, but I've been aware of it for at least 10 years, and been reading it on and off all that time. And until this morning, if you had asked me the first name of Mrs. Capp, I probably wouldn't have been able to tell you. Until this morning.



Sure, the niece uses "Auntie", but Mrs. Capp is nevertheless an Aunt Flo. Obviously, this will never be a source of humour in the strip itself, even on a subliminal level, but I have a feeling that if it was real life instead of a comic strip, Andy would take every opportunity to make wisecracks about this.

Also, I found out just two days ago that Red of Red & Rover is a boy.



The issue of his gender never really had any effect on plotlines, it was only the dog saying "he" that clued me in. There were other clues, specifically the fact that he is shirtless in the wading pool strips, but little Zoe was shirtless in Baby Blues recently, so even if I had noticed I probably would've shrugged it off.