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Aardmania posted:
Is there a legal reason that many of these old characters are renamed as soon as they are introduced? Some kind of royalties evasion? edit: 
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Nah, they probably have the complete rights. There's a wider playing card theme going on.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Retail Why aren't you keeping up to date with the marketing material? This is how you end up in meetings with divisional HR reps.
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Magna Kaser posted:Ugh I hate this stupid comic and it's not even right. The movie doesn't come out here for almost a week,still! All we have is nasty toxic air. B-b-but nerds like Star Wars! He wants to see the Chinese premiere because
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I know it's a dumb old joke but man, that "Ralph's not here, man" cracked me up.
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Lowen SoDium posted:Is there a legal reason that many of these old characters are renamed as soon as they are introduced? Some kind of royalties evasion? Damned lies.   (the herp megathread has further testimony against Ripley and his LIES)
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Mark Trail Pearls Before Swine  This explains quite a bit about Rat.
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Pluggers  Look at that expression, the kangaroo wife just realized how unhappy she is being married to such a manchild. 
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Indolent Bastard posted:Scary Gary It may or may not help to know that that final panel is a reference to another comic, Overboard. It's about a bunch of people and animals who live on a ship. The ship is mostly irrelevant.      Oh, and that first strip I posted? It's not part of a storyline or anything, that's all the context you get.
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Sharay posted:I usually don't share the artist's fears, but then I get to thinking about them and suddenly I do share them. This one, for example, seemed stupid at first but now I think it's terrifying. Excellent. Tiggum posted:Overboard
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Darthemed posted:Just to be sure, this strip's never really good, right? Or did it just lose the funniness over time? I couldn't tell you. It's never been good since I've been aware of it, but I wasn't reading it in the '90s.
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Tiggum posted:I couldn't tell you. It's never been good since I've been aware of it, but I wasn't reading it in the '90s. From my memories as a childe I can guarantee you that Overboard has not ever been a good comic.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Intelligent Life You damned goon, the activity known as "going out after work" is a bonding ritual humans partake in when attempting to initiate the relationship state known as "friendship." So order a soda and nachos and either ignore or feign interest in the sports and maybe you'll surprise yourself and have a good time. Geez, I can't believe Sporting Man is the one we're supposed to find irritating. Also, I assume that tapping is just the sound of Skip shaking the pee off his dingus because there's no way that shadow he's bellied up to is meant to be a computer rather than a urinal. Speaking of comics writers who have no idea how their characters come off to readers... Luann  I guess this is going on all week. The Amazing Spider-Man  Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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Aardmania posted:9 Chickweed Lane Ha ha! It's funny because some unlucky person is going to have to sit on that seat cushion on the next flight!
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann 
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Ha ha! It's funny because some unlucky person is going to have to sit on that seat cushion on the next flight!
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Darthemed posted:Just to be sure, this strip's never really good, right? Or did it just lose the funniness over time?
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That's a lot of good effort used up on Intelligent life. but honestly I have grown to love Barry out of spite, so it's cool with me.
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I try not to read Intelligent Life, but from what I've seen of it Barry is the Tiffany of it, the character the author wants you to hate but, because of their own transparent loathing and ineptness, they wind up being the best character and the only sympathetic one of the bunch. It's for about the same reasons too; all the other characters aggressive poo poo on them, and yet display no redeeming qualities of their own and present no reasons to sympathize with their plights beyond the author telling you to care about them. They've favored by the very universe they inhabit. Meanwhile, the "antagonists" are nearly never actually antagonistic, and are in fact the underdogs of the worlds they exist within, where everyone and everything up to the almighty creator of their universe is against them, and thus you want them to succeed. This is a surprisingly common phenomenon, though it's easy to see why; bad writers don't have the capacity for nuance or making their characters truly sympathetic, so they declare their protagonists right by fiat. However, their being bad at writing also means that they cannot hide this and their intentions are clear as day, so we see their blatant favoritism and the stacked deck and instinctively side against it. Still, it's interesting; is this an established thing with a name, by any chance? It's sort of an inverse Mary Sue thing, where the one/few characters who aren't designated as Good and Right by the author are the ones we actually like. Roland Jones fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Jan 6, 2016 |
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Julet Esqu posted:
Go gently caress yourself, Luann. At least Bernice has an actual problem, however milquetoast and white-girly it might be. You're just upset because other people's lives don't revolve around you.
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Bloom County 2015, in which Binkley needs to work on his situational awareness. Skippy (November 7, 1928)  Peanuts (January 4, 1969)  Mopey Pete's Bullpen Bubble  Crankshaft  Don't forget to add plenty of gasoline, Ed. Don't sweat it if you get some on the rug. It'll all burn off eventually. THE FUMES MEAN IT'S READY! Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (July 18-19, 1928)   Thimble Theater (July 25, 1929) 
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