Heels Over Head

We still have those perspiration droplets that fly off in all directions to denote 'worry'. And when people use nasty language, we see a string of punctuation symbols in the dialog bubble. But a lot of time honored comic strip cliches have gone the way of the Gumps and Happy Hooligan. Nobody saws logs when they sleep anymore, and these days you hardly ever see cartoon characters' eyes turn into little "x" marks when they're knocked out. One of my favorites was the way old style comic strip types would register shock by immediately flipping over backwards. Not that this was an especially effective way to illustrate surprise, but it was pretty cool and I miss it.