Compu-Toon two-fer

I want you to have a look at this first example from Charles Boyce's Compu-Toon single-frame daily

August 2012

 .... and then click on this link to the one I posted last April (it actually ran September of 2007). Notice everything similar?:

September 2007

I don't mean to criticize this technique of cartoonists' liberal use of the copy-paste function in their art... heck, Dinosaur Comics is actually built around using the exact same artwork every single week for almost 10 years now and that webcomic is fairly successful.  I'm merely pointing it out here.  Some of the longer-running newspaper comics re-use art, text, punchlines, or even entire strips frequently enough, though at times the material comes off as quite dated.  There can even be a rather fine line between recycling art and establishing a running gag in a strip.  Billy's "pun-island" Sunday strips from Family Circus come to mind.

I will say, however, for a comic titled "Compu-toon", an awful lot of the equipment depicted in the strip is quite significantly out of date. Most of the cell phones shown in the strips are in the old clam shell style with the traditional keypad buttons. Many even sport antennas. And unless it's a joke specifically about oversized flat-screen TVs, pretty much all the monitors are the old, bulky CRT models. I should think that at the very least the newer flat monitors would be easier to draw.  He's even got jokes about texting where the characters are using laptops.  And why so very many "desert island"-themed comics which almost never have anything to do with computers?

It's not like this particular store setting is part of some running gag, though.  He's drawn other retail-establishment settings for other gags:

Maybe he's got one scene for phone stores and another for GPS counters n electronics outlets?