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Other comic-relevant links: pastiches and parodies (via Tiggum) The Lovely Ladies of Apartment 3-G Son of Stuck Funky Reynard Noir Scott Meets Family Circus Luann DeGroot on Twitter The Garbage Ape on Twitter J Jonah Jameson on Twitter ChickenOfTomorrow fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Jan 4, 2014 |
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Getting in on the ground floor to nominate Nancy as worst strip of 2013.
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kidcoelacanth posted:Getting in on the ground floor to nominate Nancy as worst strip of 2013. I'll second that nomination. With the disclaimer that I'm referring specifically to the 'Guy Gilchrist' edition.
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Dec 31, 2013 19:17
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Between Wee Pals, The Amazing Spider-Man, One Big Happy, and Pickles, this thread is a goldmine of comics by and/or about mad old people.
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Dec 31, 2013 19:23
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I don't know, Luann's getting up there for me. The characters are so unlikable.
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Dec 31, 2013 19:27
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I feel like Nancy being as lovely as it is right now is especially bad because it used to be absolutely fantastic. I wish we could re-animate Bushmiller.
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Dec 31, 2013 19:35
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DoubleDonut posted:Between Wee Pals, The Amazing Spider-Man, One Big Happy, and Pickles, this thread is a goldmine of comics by and/or about mad old people. Everett True doesn't count?
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Thanks, Chicken of Tomorrow.  Hopefully everyone makes it over from the old thread, I'm jonesing for a Modesty Blaise fix.
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Parody comics by yours truly. My New Years Resolution is to make more I swear. Slylock Fox   Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Dustin  Norm Feuti's Nelson 
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Dec 31, 2013 19:55
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Posting R Ubbish edits without posting the Mighty Mark rap is almost a crime. Unfortunately, I can't find it saved on my laptop. I may have viewed it on my tablet instead in which case, crap. Please tell me someone has it.
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Aleph Null posted:Posting R Ubbish edits without posting the Mighty Mark rap is almost a crime. Unfortunately, I can't find it saved on my laptop. I may have viewed it on my tablet instead in which case, crap. No way, that's our cultural heritage. I know I have it saved in like three separate places, let me start digging. Edit: So it is. False alarm.
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It's.... it's right there in the OP. R Ubbish knows I have a deep and abiding leurve for him. If "him" is the correct term for a homunculus created out of Nat Lamp back issues and efficiently-compressed gifs. Today feels like a Sunday, so here's The Little King by Otto Soglow.  T. Little King was originally in The New Yorker, so it might work with the universal caption. ChickenOfTomorrow fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Dec 31, 2013 |
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Dec 31, 2013 20:05
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Gilchrist's Nancy is the worst. It may not actually be worse than Oh Baby or some other garbage strip in and of itself, but he is sullying a strip with obvious proven potential to actually be good.
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Dec 31, 2013 20:08
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I don't suppose there's a collection anywhere of every AxeManiac post with blurred genitalia?
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Guess I'll get to reposting for today. Do we need a new write up for strips this time or no? I don't think we need them. Tina's Groove  Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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F Minus Sex Hobbit posted:I don't know, Luann's getting up there for me. The characters are so unlikable. Luann is getting no better.  Pros and Cons 
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I'm surprised the Heaven's Love Thrift Shop SA callout didn't make the OP.
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davebo posted:I don't suppose there's a collection anywhere of every AxeManiac post with blurred genitalia? Here you go, a collection of 2012's boners, poops and sex jokes. http://imgur.com/a/YGxoy
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Geez, couldn't you wait until midnight or something? Whatevs, I'm reposting here. Thorn (July 15 and 19, 1983)   Yeah, this is pretty weird Nina's Adventures (November 5, 1993)  THE LAST Fluff (November 26-28, 1998)    Throughout the latter 2013, I've been posting "Fluff", and, well, it's over. These are final three strips. And how appropriate that it got posted on the last day of the year. "Nina's Adventures" did get revived in 1999, but it was short-lived. Paley ended it because it didn't attract many papers like it did before. She found solace in animation, doing numerous short films before getting famous with "Sita Sings the Blues", which gained notoriety over the use of Annette Hanshaw's music without permission (she thought they were public domain). As a result, she had to pay thousands in royalties. This incident resulted in Paley becoming an anti-copyright activist, which was how I was able to get all of her comics. Hopefully enough people enjoyed it. I know Paley's comics (and Nina Paley herself) are polarizing. Lucky Cow (January 29-31, 2004)   
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Mister Beeg posted:Geez, couldn't you wait until midnight or something? Like Dustin's dad, I'm working in a different time zone so I can go to bed early. Sally Forth 
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kidcoelacanth posted:Getting in on the ground floor to nominate Nancy as worst strip of 2013.
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New thread already? Time to get started on getting caught up with posting comics. Probably spread 'em out across the day, though. Been a bit of a while. First up: Jim's Journal originally ran mostly in assorted college newspapers from 1988 until it eventually stopped at some point in the early '90s; archival strips are currently being posted on GoComics  Tony is one of Jim's roommates. We'll meet him in person later. The implied homoeroticism in this particular strip is highly unusual, though, so don't get your hopes up.  Steve is Jim's other roommate. He's kind of a whiner. Jim worked at a McDonald's for a bit while attending college, then (we're never explicitly told, but presumably) dropped out and took a job at a book store, from which he was recently laid off.  Ruth is Jim's friend from McDonald's, where she still works. She is very large and very friendly and wants to be a dental assistant. Mr. Peterson was brought back as a kitten by Steve from a trip back home. It took several months and a neutering appointment at the vet before anyone realized she was female.  Hal is the manager at the copy shop. This is his first appearance.  That's Jim.  Flash Gordon was a science-fiction adventure comic strip that started in 1934, and adapted into three serial films between 1936 and 1940.  Mr. Peterson is a cat. Cats like sleeping in warm places such as those created by the sun shining through a house window onto indoor carpeting.  The one with the sunglasses and the striped shirt is Tony, mentioned earlier. To call a spade a spade, Tony is a douchebag.  Jim's parents divorced when he was young, and his mother was given custody. She never remarried. His father has appeared only once and I do not think appears a second time.   Jim is perhaps the single most passive being in existence.  I do not recall Dean appearing during the college strips and do not particularly feel like checking them all to be sure, but it wouldn't surprise me to find him if I did. I would be very surprised if we ever see him again, though.
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The Bus lives on forever in our hearts.
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What? New thread? Jumping the gun!! Anyway, I post both Cul-de-sac and The Creeps Both are fine exemplars of the craft of cartooning. Cul de sac by Richard Thompson is the story of the Otterloop family, and generally focuses on Alice and her friends. It is funny, and weird and consistently good. It is no longer being produced and is in re-runs due to the author's battle with Parkinsons. The true tragedy is it was replaced by Mike Du Jour, which is execrable beyond excretion. Some of the best:     The Creeps is a story of horrible people doing horrible things to each other. They are nameless, generally referred to as Fat Creep and Skinny Creep. They appear to be siblings, and the Fat Creep wears a sweater with gloves attached. That isn't a pompadour, that's a tumor.     And, here's some edits that I've saved from last year:  (dude with the smitty avatar.)  Both by JackMcAskill, who is greatly missed.    All by Borden  This one was by me.  Axe Maniac
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Does anyone have that amazing "Mary Worth and the Counter Meddler" edit? It is my probably my favorite thing to come from any version of this thread
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bonestructure posted:No way, that's our cultural heritage. I know I have it saved in like three separate places, let me start digging. Sorry. I re-minimized it before it started the animation. My bad.
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Oh brave new thread with such people in it. Don't really have any new edits or comics for you, just wishing you a happy new thread.  
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Mister Beeg posted:Geez, couldn't you wait until midnight or something? Unlike you, scrub, I plan to be doing better things at midnight tonight. 
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Cicadalek posted:Does anyone have that amazing "Mary Worth and the Counter Meddler" edit? It is my probably my favorite thing to come from any version of this thread You can only be referring to Forktoss' magnum opus, THE FINAL MEDDLE:       
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Leave the house for a few hours and everything moves down the street... Skippy was created for the first version of Life Magazine by Percy Crosby and migrated to the newspaper in 1925. Jerry Robinson: "Nothing like Skippy had ever been seen before in the comic strips. It was not just Skippy’s expert draftsmanship or remarkable flair, although that artistry earned its creator a reputation as ‘the cartoonist’s cartoonist’… The brilliance of Skippy was that here was fantasy with a realistic base, the first kid cartoon with a definable and complex personality grounded in daily life." And then the peanut butter people showed up and it all went straight to Hell. (July 19-21, 1926)    Out Our Way by J.R. Williams, was a long-running bit of 1920s small town observational whimsy which really caught on during the last thread. I blame crossing guards and BOYZENDORGS. But even the things we love aren't untouchable...  (Ulfhednar) Peanuts: Charles Schulz. A group of kids. A dog with an overactive fantasy life. After years of hit and run posting, the eternal rerun machine came around to 1966 this year (World War I flying ace! Peppermint Patty!), which seemed like a great place to jump in for the long run.  (Hamiltonian Bicycle) According to the publicity material, Tom Batiuk's Funky Winkerbean is "a reality-based comic strip that depicts contemporary issues affecting young adults in a thought-provoking and sensitive manner." According to the experience of reading it, Funky Winkerbean is a place where joy is a temporary illusion of the young, and eventually you'll age into the dead-eyed walking wounded just like your parents. It fell off our radar for awhile, but we are all sinners born to suffer, so here it is again.  (me, just for the variety of it) Popeye: The contractually-mandated continuing story of Elzie Segar's musclebound, spinach eating corporate trademark and his aggressively needy army of friends and family. The dailies are repeats from Bud Sagendorf, while for Sundays we've moved on to the much less exploited tenure of Bela Zaboly (art) and Tom Sims (script).  (Depressing Box) Walt Kelly's Pogo is the tale of various swamp critters and a thick swamp talk that makes some people's eyes just slide down the screen.  Rip Haywire is the tale of a two-fisted man of action! The American newspaper market being what it is these days, that means it's a comedy! Not everybody was feeling this one at the start of the year, but then Rip ran into a giddy red-headed chopper pilot (Breezy  ) and suddenly we were in love all over again. Two months ago, we found out that Cow & Boy (Or "Li'l Xavier and The Floating Death Head", if you like) was coming to a close at the end of 2013. That happened today, so you won't have to worry about it anymore, but you can't say this strip didn't die as it lived. 
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean 
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We're ringing in the New Year right!
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Oh, right. I got distracted by the meddling and forgot why I actually came back here: more comics. Ham Shears is named for an infectiously optimistic pig who moves from the farm to the big city and takes a job in a butcher's shop. I'm told the artist has a day job doing storyboards for The Regular Show, but I don't hold that against the strip. Released on a M-W-F schedule.  That's Ham in the middle, there, and I'll get to the others in due time. For now, know that the strip is just coming down from a storyline that took up 80-90% of the past year, wherein Viola, a femme fatale flame from Ham's pastoral past, showed up and framed him for a diamond heist. He was eventually found innocent, of course.  That's Ingrid in the glasses, and Jill with the anime haircut; Ham lives in their apartment. Ingrid tends to be pessimistic and easily aggravated, while Jill's character is more of a comedic straight-woman. (She's implied to be in unrequited lesbians with Ingrid, but that's not quite 100% definite yet.)  Boss is Ham's boss at the butcher's, and that's all we really know about him. Monica was introduced in the previous arc as Boss' inamorata; she was also Viola's partner, but whether Boss is actually so dense he can't read the writing on the wall or has just decided not to care about her criminal past is anybody's guess.  Side note: Boss refers to Ingrid as "Other Jill" for some reason. Despite apparently not knowing her name, he once treated her to a very romantic date, although afterwards he seemed to have had her confused with someone else at the time. That's Boss all over: just one big, muscular, phlegmatic question mark.  "Biography", on  &E! That's up-to-date! And I'm left praying, praying that the next strip just skips straight to boarding. I couldn't take a month of TSA "humor". 
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The comic strip thread was the reason I got a sub here! Happy 2014 people and thanks for my daily entertainment!
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All these posts, and not one of you has posted the strip that defined the comic strip megathread series. 
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Darthemed posted:All these posts, and not one of you has posted the strip that defined the comic strip megathread series. I have no idea what this comic is. Did the husband make it out ok? 
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Thanks to an eventful 2013, I lost track of of comics. On the bright side, it was nice forgetting that some of these things exist, but I missed you guys! On to a comic filled 2014!
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scarycave posted:I have no idea what this comic is. Saint Michael didn't so much as get his eyebrows singed. 
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