Li'l Genius #1

In "This Clock-Eyed World," Ollie’s morning routine spirals into a whirlwind of time-based mischief when his dad’s frustration over being woken by an alarm clock sets off a chain of increasingly absurd clock-powered pranks—shining shoes with a pendulum, rigging a punch clock to fight back, and making a grandfather clock announce the time every minute. The story captures the chaotic charm of a kid outsmarting adult logic with nothing but a toolbox and a clockwork imagination.

When Li'l Genius spots a bull being wasted standing around, he hatches a clever plan to put the animal's charging power to work—by using a red cloth to direct the bull's energy toward a stubborn tree that needs cutting down. The scheme works a little *too* well, with results that go well beyond what he bargained for.

Eddie Extra has one last newspaper to sell before he can make it to the matinee, and he's determined to move it—even if it means enduring a parade of reluctant customers with increasingly ridiculous objections. This six-page romp follows the resourceful young vendor as he pitches, cajoles, and improvises his way through a lineup of would-be buyers, each with their own reason to turn him down, in a lighthearted tale that captures the scrappy hustle of street-corner salesmanship in 1959.