This isn’t a comment about any specific column, so there’s no link.
What ever happened to the “Cecil Slapping Some Loser” sketch? It used to be on the homepage, and then when you went to this week’s column there was a sketch for the column. How come now the home page has the column sketch, and we don’t even have a sketch of Cecil anymore?
further shyness on his part? he doesn’t really wear boxers and a mortarboard?
Perhaps - and I’m guessing here - the concept of a “loser” is now politically incorrect, and the site management has decided to sail with the prevailing winds…
If so, allow me to make some suggestions:
rename it Cecil Correcting An Anonymous, Success-Challenged But Otherwise Self-Esteeming In-duh-vidual.
rename it Cecil Interacts With The Public.
rename it So Why Do We Drive On A Ouch.
the board should get a life and put the original back up.
Of course, it’s always possible that someone merely thought that we’d been staring at Slug’s Cecil long enough and were bored with it. If so, then that someone obviously hasn’t been to a cathedral anytime recently. S/he should take a point from the RCC and make the buying public stare at the product-icon until it’s burned into our very dreams.