Capp Gap - the time it takes the artist of a comic strip to draw a strip, send it to the syndicate, who then distributes it to newspapers. Thus, this is the amount of time by which event the most up-to-date comic strips tend to trail the latest pop-cultural developments. This seems to be about a month.
This weekend the Mother Goose and Grimm comic makes a reference to the Justice League of America. That's right, the weekend that The Avengers opens. I hate to pick on Mother Goo - screw it - MGAG, since it is one of the funnier long-term strips, but it's hard to imagine a better illustration of the comics page's chronic unhipness than doing a joke about a superhero collective and somehow picking the wrong one.
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