Doug writes:

“As for HITCH #37, while it held my attention start to finish as usual, the shift to a ’straighter’ tone (especially in the movie reviews) was hyper-noticeable. Was the decision to dump the funny, right or wrong, a conscious one?”

Thanks for your letter, Doug, and you may be correct in finding the current issue not as funny as usual. We blame our recent vasectomy; we suspect the doc may have cut the wrong cord, disrupting the flow of humor from our brain to our fingertips.