It was versatile, you have to give it that – Silly Putty

Now that comics have gone away from newsprint and migrated to a higher grade of paper, one of the old uses for Silly Putty has gone by the wayside. I myself, back in olden times, would occassionally pull an image from a book and stretch it and manipulate it — this junk was the Photoshop of prehistoric times. It was durable as all hell — I’m sure mine is still sealed into its little egg-shaped container and tucked into a drawer somewhere in my parents’ house. I’m equally sure that it’ll still be around long after I’m worm food.

What am I trying to say here? Not much. Maybe this — comics don’t seem like comics if Silly Putty can’t pull the ink off of them.