I enjoy the Sunday comics. But there are some problems with the new format. You expanded three strips - one where the creator is dead, one where the creator takes frequent breaks - and then you added a game to Slylock. You shrunk others.

On page 7 there is a vertical strip (Non Sequitur) and three other strips to its right. This is fine, except the strip on the left margin makes the other strips visually hard to read. When I finish a line, my eyes automatically go to the left margin - which is a different strip.

This can be fixed by shifting Non Sequitur to the right margin instead of the left.

You put in Rose is Rose? The strip that thinks funny and cuteness are synonyms? Come on.

I noticed that some of the new strips are losers from the daily comics contest. Doesn't that mean that people don't like them as much as others? Just saying.

But, on a positive note, thank you, thank you, thank you for putting in Pearls Before Swine. It is my favorite. I could hardly bear it when Hagar was voted out of the weeklies, but not the Sundays, while Pearls still didn't get a Sunday position.

DAVID THOMAS

Northfield