The Doper Roper Lives Up to His Name

 June 24, 2026

   As promised, here's an action sequence from the Doper Roper in the last issue of the Razz (1976).

   The set up is that our cranky cowboy, Granthum P. Hooker and his ol' lady, Ida Mae, get a little frisky after a jackpot roping and, afterwards spot a WWII airplane landing on a dry lake (obviously Red Lake north of Kingman) where a group of hippie drug smugglers are unloading a shipment of drugs from Mexico. D-R deftly uses bailing wire to strap on foot holds on the hood of his ancient pickup so he can lean out and do his job. And with Ida Mae driving, we pick up the action from there.

   A very ambitious action sequence, but I am proud to say it still tracks. Which begs the question: Why didn't I pursue visual storyboarding as a career?

"Sometimes you are blessed by the things you didn't get."

—Old Vaquero Saying