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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons   Apartment 3-G  In today's money that's about $235, which I would think is pretty cheap for a decent hotel room in Manhattan. Googling tells me you can get real cheap rooms right now, but I assume that's because of COVID.
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howe_sam posted:What the drat rear end hell kind of stew is she making? She's making beef curry, which is arguably a stew in the sense that a taco is arguably a sandwich.
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someone awful. posted:a "a fermented milk drink" 
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Nenonen posted:Pitex is a fictional brand for what looks to me like asbestos/fibre cement tiles which were in fashion for facades in 1970s. The warning sign is because of construction work, the home extension has turned the whole lot into a warzone and trees have been felled, compare to the old photograph. The Pitex sign is not a warning, it's advertisement! Who wouldn't want a fire-safe, durable, economical asbestos cladding for their home? Or in Eino's case, interior ceilings too. Ok, but how did he pay for it Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD Jury's still out whether this is specifically a COVID-19 storyline, or just obliquely a COVID-19 storyline.
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Johnny Walker posted:F Minus This owl kicks rear end.
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Apr 28, 2020 19:38
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Bloom County August 5th & 6th, 1981   And I thought that looked like a bad edit, so I checked and yup:  At this point, I may just double-check all future strips
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Apr 28, 2020 19:50
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:And I thought that looked like a bad edit, so I checked and yup: But why? 
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Selachian posted:I've read ahead in the first couple months of T&TP, and unfortunately that guy in the last panel isn't a one-off. He ends up tagging along with Terry and Pat as a bumbling, cowardly, English-butchering comedy relief sidekick. And there's only so far you can stretch "Well, it was a different time..." What gets me is that there's this whole street of normal-if-stylisticly-uniform people like you'd find if a comic strip visited anywhere else, and then That Guy shows up. In a different time/context that would be the punchline.
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Green Intern posted:Ok, but how did he pay for it It's never explicitly said, Eino Lehtonen is the local bus driver but judging from his apparent level of income and his social position he might actually own the local bus company. Also, the traffic sign ("general warning") and bit of blacktop, with stuff we are about to read, might hint to some deals he has made. Dude Groverhousing his nice old wooden house is a major bit of foreshadowing.
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Johnny Walker posted:
And then a blonde bearded man with a leg made entirely of ice stepped out of the shadows, and growled, "You're not going ANYWHERE. Seize them, my Yetis!"
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Kennel posted:But why? Because a married couple sleeping together in comic strip land is sinful. Also, I would guess that it's kind of like the Sitcom rule of writing. The editor is not going to let you ever do joke A, but that's tame compared to joke B. So you pitch joke B and settle for joke A. Bloom County probably got plenty of negative feedback due to it's political leaning, and this was one of those editorial mandates that said "No, this married couple can't even joke about sharing a bed". Maybe the edit is Breathed defiantly taking all the air out of it, completely neutering the joke.
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Apr 28, 2020 20:12
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Julet Esqu posted:For anybody who was getting into the weeds about how much Team Evans (or just the Luann cast, if you want to be generous) know about various food ingredients, this one's for you! With a new bonus mystery substance: "seasoning" Because you famously use the entire bottle of spices in every dish. It's not, like, an initial investment that works out to pennies per meal in the long run. (Anyhow, if Luann wasn't so drastically White she'd know to hit up a local Asian or Indian market for spices for a fraction of what McCormick's runs. Heck, if the store has kefir they've probably got a dedicated Hispanic food aisle, go grab some Badia.)
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I wish there was a good comic strip about cooking, like let's say Luann suddenly becomes good overnight and is just about a young adult having to cook for the first time in her life and learning about how to buy the right kind of meat, how to get the most out of spices, etc.. There are tons and tons of manga about food and cooking, I feel like this has some legs. Maybe there's a webcomic along these lines? Who knows. Edit: today I learned that the plural form of "manga" is "manga"
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Apr 28, 2020 20:21
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Manuel Calavera posted:Bizarro
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How Wonderful! posted:I wish there was a good comic strip about cooking, like let's say Luann suddenly becomes good overnight and is just about a young adult having to cook for the first time in her life and learning about how to buy the right kind of meat, how to get the most out of spices, etc.. There are tons and tons of manga about food and cooking, I feel like this has some legs. Maybe there's a webcomic along these lines? Who knows. 
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Schwarzwald posted:She's making beef curry, which is arguably a stew in the sense that a taco is arguably a sandwich. Tacos are stew sandwiches
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I've actually wanted to try kefir, but I've never been able to find where to get it.How Wonderful! posted:I am baffled by the logic of which spices go in quotation marks and which ones don't. "Oh, good old turmeric, toss it in the basket. And keep an eye out for.... "cu....min"....?" Also this idea that the Luann household had zero spices sitting around. Including pepper. There is so much in this one strip that is so baffling. I dread what the comments are like, I can only imagine dozens of "skip the pepper, it's too spicy" posts. Edit: vv gently caress's sake, of course it is catlord fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Apr 28, 2020 |
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catlord posted:There is so much in this one strip that is so baffling. I dread what the comments are like, I can only imagine dozens of "skip the pepper, it's too spicy" posts.
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Johnny Walker posted:
*affectionate shoulder pince*
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I gotta say, I really love the shirts in The Dinette Set. I would wear both of these in a heartbeat.
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Johnny Walker posted:F Minus Oh my god, someone please avatarize this owl for me holy poo poo. Johnny Walker posted:Someone was posting Cheap Thrills Cuisine a while back but it doesn't have like a storyline to it. It was mostly notable because the final product usually looks like either vomit or crap. I would be really happy if Cheap Thrills Cuisine started making regular appearances in the thread again. The recipes were normally decent and the absolute garbage final panels always made me laugh. Adam has the Ted Forth virus  BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis  And the all-new Heart of the City 
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Vargo posted:Oh my god, someone please avatarize this owl for me holy poo poo. Bonus points if it's your current avatar, but the owl replaces the seagull. Or better yet, the owl replaces the dad.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Bizarro I've heard about this performer, but I thought he played the piano. Vargo posted:Oh my god, someone please avatarize this owl for me holy poo poo.   Vargo posted:And the all-new Heart of the City I like the new art  Vintage Valiant (Dec. 18, 1938)  
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Medenmath posted:I like the new art I really don't  To be fair, I haven't read HotC since I was in high school and read it as part of my daily routine in the family paper, but I really like Tatulli's drawing style and found it really well suited for newspapercomixz; this style feels like the artist is probalby used to having more freedom in terms of panel size/page composition and something just isn't working for me while it's in this format. Maybe it'll grow on me, lord knows of all things Tinkersons did
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To be fair it does have a very webcomicy look to it, although I like that. What will really be interesting isn't how it looks now, but how it looks a year from now after the new artist has the chance to settle into their new job.
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Nekonaughey Bogor 1976  
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #44 (1988) "Do you think they put sugar in the bran muffins?" That's another joke that really stuck with me. Perhaps because I'm a little like Sparrow that way. Edit: 38 and 40 are about Toni finding out what happened, 39 is a standalone with Mo and Harriet, and 41-43 are a sequence on coming out. Don't see any particular reason to drop these. curtadams fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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The Dinette Set is all alone. Working Daze should be working from home.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix raises a very good question.  Cul De Sac got to her, too! 
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Strange that she says "John's" instead of "your dad's" unless that's some short bespectacled adult friend of hers. Also Gene from Arlo & Janis should post recipes.
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:Bloom County I love how both Bobbi and her mother do the same forehead-covering gesture of shock and exasperation.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Cul De Sac got to her, too! I like this subtle confirmation that these incredibly situationally specific children's songs that Miss Bliss keeps singing are songs that already exist and are well known in this universe. She is not making them up as she goes along.
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The Cul de Sac parents are probably the best parents on the comics pages, period. They're loving without being cloying, and whimsical without being stupid.
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JethroMcB posted:
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curtadams posted:Wait, Essential jumps straight from 37 to 44? Do I have a lot of scanning to do? I'd like to at least see the ones about Toni and Clarice, I need closure! Re: "Jane's World," if I remember right, its greatest flaw was that it was boring
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There was also The Last Starfighter self-insert plotline...
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curtadams posted:Wait, Essential jumps straight from 37 to 44? Do I have a lot of scanning to do? Oops, I somehow skipped over 40. Here we go:  The 1988 presidential election was between Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush, a markedly grody campaign among centuries of grody campaigns. Mo's consolation methods are still a top pick everywhere.
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Sailor Cat posted:Re: "Jane's World," if I remember right, its greatest flaw was that it was boring Which is pretty cool for a gay strip but probably not what was intended.
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It's weirdly comforting to know that people in 1988 were just as fed up with the world as we are now, in 2020.
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sweetguts posted:It's weirdly comforting to know that people in 1988 were just as fed up with the world as we are now, in 2020. Yeah Mo is legitimately kind of comforting in her total pessimism lately, it makes me feel like there's a sense of continuity to cling to. I was a baby in 1988 and my vague memories of it are that it ruled and I got to ride on my dad's shoulders. It's kind of nice to think that while I'm spiraling into depression these days with everybody else, some toddler out there is discovering the joys of throwing applesauce across the room and is just blissful about it.
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