Pop Candy Twitter Comics


'Pop Candy', the USA Today column done by Whitney Matheson, readers created a Pop Candy Twitter Comic book based on her Tweets. It's cool, it's Flash. I used to hate Flash but I think that was because connection speeds were too slow or the program wasn't as advanced as it is today. Now I have no problem with it and I just love the way this page looks and sounds, even more than I like the individual comics.

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