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The strip's subject matter in the early months varied from the pattern it later settled into.

Some could be seen today as politically incorrect, such as strips involving Jon's pipe smoking or his subscription to a bachelor magazine.

Another point which has distanced these strips was the U. S ./ Canada-centric humor, with a few jokes being totally untranslatable to some languages, however by 1980, the strip became the universal family fare product that it's known for.