The one hundred and second comic: #290 Doraemon

There's something comfortingly familiar about Doraemon. They're stories of a couple of pages each with a familiar basic set up - Nobita, the human protagonist, encounters something in his life he needs to deal with, Doraemon, his robotic protector from the future, has a gadget that helps resolve it in some way, and the consequences follow. It's a gentle, kid-focused sense of humour and it makes for a comfortable read. The gadgets provide quite a lot of different stories that we're not constantly seeing the same beats. Instead it's a nice creative way to see what they can come up with for these issues, what comeuppance they get for using it and how it all reverses. Nothing that, these days, feels really innovative - and I'd argue others were doing this around the same time as well - but it's just fun.