If you’ve been having trouble getting to the comics.com Web site, where the new daily strips appear, don’t feel alone. I have, too, and, no, I don’t know what the problem is. It seemed to be working fairly well after the Web site was technically upgraded a few months ago, but now its performance is wretched. Maybe they’ll work it out. If I do learn anything, I’ll let you know.

We’re leaping all the way ahead to 2007, with today’s old cartoon.