"Tank McNamara" is the quintessential sports comic strip. Indeed, over 20 years ago in a zine I was putting out, I called it the finest comic strip being produced at the time. Hyperbole, to be sure, but this excellent strip about a former football pro turned fumblemouthed sportscaster is wickedly funny, aims at the right targets in sports, and occasionally comes through with an incredible mix of humor, compassion and anger at injustice, whether on the field or off. It's just a great strip, and Tank, hulking, shy, inarticulate and secretly romantic, is one of the more sympathetic characters in the comic strips. And the strip at the bottom of pg. 138 has to be one of the most drop-dead funny I've ever seen. ( )