Rikdad's Comic Thoughts

Don Draper dresses better, talks better, works better, and plays better than anyone you'll ever know. Paired with that blessing is hi...

"Tomorrowland" puts Don into meaningful one-on-one scenes with so many beautiful women that their names take a couple of minutes t...

A line or a circle? Businesses, comic strips, and all human lives have to decide if they see life as a progression or a cycle -- one thing a...

"Were you lying when you said your career came before everything?" That's a line from 1927's The Jazz Singer , the first ...

"Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell?" Those are the lyrics of the Beatles ballad playing over the closing cr...

It's there for the retina -- if not the mind -- to see. As the first shot of "The Beautiful Girls" comes up, an image near eno...

"I was blind. And now I see." Miss Blankenship is referring to her cataract surgery. Don has found some Amazing Grace of his own, ...

As has been the case all season, the episode has a single theme driving the beat, and this time it was toughness. The client case, Samsonite...

Peggy recalls the announcement of Don's nomination for a Clio. Don let everybody pat him on the back even though, Peggy reveals, she cam...

The Chrysanthemum and The Sword , Ruth Benedict's 1946 study on the culture of Japan, rests on the central premise that Japanese culture...

Youth will be served, but not right away. As the decade moves closer to its appointment with revolution and upheaval, the generation that br...

Vacation is by definition the leaving behind of one's normal routine. For Don Draper, this goes a bit further. When in California, he ca...

"Nobody wants to think they're a type." Market research specialist Dr. Faye Miller is talking about Don, trying to wound him ...