Wasted Potential
First
Prev
- Making It Official
- Its the Thought That Counts
- A Cartoon by Norm Burns
- Neither A Borrower...
- Guilty Pleasures
- Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
- Continued On Back
- Fiddling While Ken Burns
- It's A Bird...It's A Plane...
- Something You Don't See Every Day
- Status Quo
- The Answer
- Options
- issues
- Growth
- Happy Man
- Collected Works
- That Time of Year Again
- Show and Yell
- Busman's Holiday
- Real Life
- The Meaning of Norm
- The Norm Effect
- Tomczak Amuck
- Drop Those Stones, Fan-Boy!
- Okay, Maybe It's a Little Funny...
- You Know Who You Are
- Just the Facts, Norm
- Void Where Prohibited
- Tutorial 2
- Tutorial
- Fool Me Once...
- Faux Pas
- The Adventures of Floyd and Whitey
- Shameless
- Debacle
- Gimme A Ticket For An Airplane
- Place Holder
- Duck...What Duck?
- Punchline
- Weird or...?
- What New Insanity
- Prologue
- Rationalizations
- Epilogue 2
- Epilogue 1
- To Monkey or Not To Monkey
- I See A Monkey
- Free Classifieds; Cheap Joke
- Exploration
- Staying In
- Tradition
- Capitalism Run Wild
- Verisimilitude
- Mind Games
- The Secret of Getting Along With Family
- Adultitudiness
- Concentration
- Bunny Blues
- Beam Me Up, Normie!
- Party Guests
- Party Favors
- Inspiration
- Reminder
- Effort
- Wrong Again
- Honesty
- Coping Strategies
- And Now A Word From Bill...
- Hard Truths
- Sheila's Always Right
- Life's Little Mysteries
- Want Ads
- Deflation
- Justification
- Dead Weight
- One Man's Trash...
- Dream Sequence 4
- Uh--What I Meant Was...
- Not The Response I'd Hoped For
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- WP Responds...
- Witness
- Dream Sequence 3
- In Celebration of ... Something
- Nutritious and Sacrilegious
- Take It, Tamara
- What's the "O" Stand For?
- Just The Usual Insanity
- Moving Day
- Concerns
- Dream Sequence 2
- Sparks Pt. 2
- "Sparks"
- Ain't Too Proud To Beg
- Peak Performance
- Dream Sequence 1
- Try And See It My Way
- In The Shadow of Howie Mandel
- Age Of Uncertainty
- When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It
- "For Those Who Came In Late..."
- Yep.
- DD Bonus Strip #6: "...And To All A Good Night!"
- Political Humor
- Companianship
- Recognition (WP #100)
- Superstition
- Editorial Fiat
- Realism
- Constructive Criticism
- DD Bonus Strip #5: Welcome Back, My Friends...
- Aftermath
- Trick or Treat
- Awkwardness
- DD Bonus Strip #4: Career Moves
- Presentation
- Arrival
- Evasion
- DD Bonus Strip #3: Blackout Blackout
- Anxiety
- Grim Tidings
- inquiry
- Variation
- The Noble Beagle
- DD Bonus Strip #2: Vox Populi
- Sisterly Somethin' or Other
- Random Pop Culture References
- Weird Ideas
- "Blog" Is A Funny Word
- New Silliness
- No Title Can Do It Justice
- Penultimate
- Monkeys Again?
- Here we go with the monkeys!
- Not So Deep Thoughts
- Separated at Birth
- Menace and Validation
- Amy's Big Night
- "Your Sister's Gone Now, She's On A Date..."
- Spark's Big Moment
- Let Me Eat Cake!
- Perks
- Crash Kitty
- Aftermath
- HELP!
- DD Bonus Strip #1: What More, Indeed?
- Round and Round
- Adventures In Babysitting
- Unimpressive
- Fine
- No Strip For You!
- Happy Little Norm
- The Joy Lucky Charms Club
- No Anchovies, Please
- Norm's Top 5
- Deja Joke
- Strike 3
- Legacy?
- ...In With The New
- Out With The Old...
- The 1st Annual X-Mas Strip
- Yet Another Gratuitous Peanuts Reference
- Word Play
- With Friends Like These...
- Good Night and Good Luck
- The 1st Annual Thanksgiving Strip
- Nothing To Sneeze At
- Political Discussions
- The 1st Annual Halloween Strip
- Prime Time
- A Date With Missy
- ...and the rest...
- Is It That Late?
- In A Dream
- Bill's Return
- Along Came A Duck...
- In The Beginning...
- Life Is What Happens...
- Home Again
- Sort Of...
- Now I Remember...
- Sorry I Asked....
- Finally...The Blasted Reunion
- Tough Crowd
- Coffee Talk
- Oh, THAT Son...
- Better You Than Me
- Misty Water Colored Memories....
- The Next Not So Big Thing
- Most Likely To...
- Bad News
- How To Draw Norm
- Marathon Men
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Is This Me?
- Philosophical Discussions
- Don't You Love Me
- Not So Funny
- Norm's Got Mail!
- GRADUATE?!?
- Rhetorical Questions
- The Next Level?
- A Life Wasted
- TMI
- Baby Steps
- Published
- Shadows & Norm
- Emperor Norm
- Does Anybody Really Know...?
- The Saga Begins
Next
Last
First
Prev
- Making It Official
- Its the Thought That Counts
- A Cartoon by Norm Burns
- Neither A Borrower...
- Guilty Pleasures
- Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
- Continued On Back
- Fiddling While Ken Burns
- It's A Bird...It's A Plane...
- Something You Don't See Every Day
- Status Quo
- The Answer
- Options
- issues
- Growth
- Happy Man
- Collected Works
- That Time of Year Again
- Show and Yell
- Busman's Holiday
- Real Life
- The Meaning of Norm
- The Norm Effect
- Tomczak Amuck
- Drop Those Stones, Fan-Boy!
- Okay, Maybe It's a Little Funny...
- You Know Who You Are
- Just the Facts, Norm
- Void Where Prohibited
- Tutorial 2
- Tutorial
- Fool Me Once...
- Faux Pas
- The Adventures of Floyd and Whitey
- Shameless
- Debacle
- Gimme A Ticket For An Airplane
- Place Holder
- Duck...What Duck?
- Punchline
- Weird or...?
- What New Insanity
- Prologue
- Rationalizations
- Epilogue 2
- Epilogue 1
- To Monkey or Not To Monkey
- I See A Monkey
- Free Classifieds; Cheap Joke
- Exploration
- Staying In
- Tradition
- Capitalism Run Wild
- Verisimilitude
- Mind Games
- The Secret of Getting Along With Family
- Adultitudiness
- Concentration
- Bunny Blues
- Beam Me Up, Normie!
- Party Guests
- Party Favors
- Inspiration
- Reminder
- Effort
- Wrong Again
- Honesty
- Coping Strategies
- And Now A Word From Bill...
- Hard Truths
- Sheila's Always Right
- Life's Little Mysteries
- Want Ads
- Deflation
- Justification
- Dead Weight
- One Man's Trash...
- Dream Sequence 4
- Uh--What I Meant Was...
- Not The Response I'd Hoped For
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- WP Responds...
- Witness
- Dream Sequence 3
- In Celebration of ... Something
- Nutritious and Sacrilegious
- Take It, Tamara
- What's the "O" Stand For?
- Just The Usual Insanity
- Moving Day
- Concerns
- Dream Sequence 2
- Sparks Pt. 2
- "Sparks"
- Ain't Too Proud To Beg
- Peak Performance
- Dream Sequence 1
- Try And See It My Way
- In The Shadow of Howie Mandel
- Age Of Uncertainty
- When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It
- "For Those Who Came In Late..."
- Yep.
- DD Bonus Strip #6: "...And To All A Good Night!"
- Political Humor
- Companianship
- Recognition (WP #100)
- Superstition
- Editorial Fiat
- Realism
- Constructive Criticism
- DD Bonus Strip #5: Welcome Back, My Friends...
- Aftermath
- Trick or Treat
- Awkwardness
- DD Bonus Strip #4: Career Moves
- Presentation
- Arrival
- Evasion
- DD Bonus Strip #3: Blackout Blackout
- Anxiety
- Grim Tidings
- inquiry
- Variation
- The Noble Beagle
- DD Bonus Strip #2: Vox Populi
- Sisterly Somethin' or Other
- Random Pop Culture References
- Weird Ideas
- "Blog" Is A Funny Word
- New Silliness
- No Title Can Do It Justice
- Penultimate
- Monkeys Again?
- Here we go with the monkeys!
- Not So Deep Thoughts
- Separated at Birth
- Menace and Validation
- Amy's Big Night
- "Your Sister's Gone Now, She's On A Date..."
- Spark's Big Moment
- Let Me Eat Cake!
- Perks
- Crash Kitty
- Aftermath
- HELP!
- DD Bonus Strip #1: What More, Indeed?
- Round and Round
- Adventures In Babysitting
- Unimpressive
- Fine
- No Strip For You!
- Happy Little Norm
- The Joy Lucky Charms Club
- No Anchovies, Please
- Norm's Top 5
- Deja Joke
- Strike 3
- Legacy?
- ...In With The New
- Out With The Old...
- The 1st Annual X-Mas Strip
- Yet Another Gratuitous Peanuts Reference
- Word Play
- With Friends Like These...
- Good Night and Good Luck
- The 1st Annual Thanksgiving Strip
- Nothing To Sneeze At
- Political Discussions
- The 1st Annual Halloween Strip
- Prime Time
- A Date With Missy
- ...and the rest...
- Is It That Late?
- In A Dream
- Bill's Return
- Along Came A Duck...
- In The Beginning...
- Life Is What Happens...
- Home Again
- Sort Of...
- Now I Remember...
- Sorry I Asked....
- Finally...The Blasted Reunion
- Tough Crowd
- Coffee Talk
- Oh, THAT Son...
- Better You Than Me
- Misty Water Colored Memories....
- The Next Not So Big Thing
- Most Likely To...
- Bad News
- How To Draw Norm
- Marathon Men
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Is This Me?
- Philosophical Discussions
- Don't You Love Me
- Not So Funny
- Norm's Got Mail!
- GRADUATE?!?
- Rhetorical Questions
- The Next Level?
- A Life Wasted
- TMI
- Baby Steps
- Published
- Shadows & Norm
- Emperor Norm
- Does Anybody Really Know...?
- The Saga Begins
Next
Last
Author notes
I normally do not comment on or explain my strips, preferring to let the work speak for itself, and I am not going to tell you why this week's strip is titled "No Anchovies, Please". Fellow cartoonist Tim Kelly once advised me never to explain my obscure pop culture references, and I shall keep his wise council herein. However, I do feel compelled to point out that in the 20+ years since I first created the character of Bill Warner, this is the first time I've ever drawn him clean shaven. This is truly a piece of comics history.
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