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Fans of humorless, muddy scrawling were dismayed to find the following message in today's Tribune: "Today's Prickly City strip does not meet the Chicago Tribune's standards of fairness."

Here is the strip that was deemed "Too Hot for the Trib":

My primary concern isn't the dusty attack on Teddy Kennedy, but that the drawings are so crude that I didn't realize that there were three characters in the strip until I had looked at it several times.

It seems that the punch line was delivered by a lizard and not by a dog wearing an elaborate headdress.