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May 1, 2020 01:17
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The Dinette Set is finally becoming a crafty consumer! Working Daze is probably a real conspiracy theory.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is behind the times.  Cul De Sac lives dangerously. 
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May 1, 2020 01:31
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Haha. 0->60 today!
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May 1, 2020 02:01
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Haha. 0->60 today! Reminds me of my first car, drove like a boat. I still instinctively wait for about a half-mile gap in traffic before making a turn.
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May 1, 2020 02:09
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jan. 01, 1939)
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May 1, 2020 02:16
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howe_sam posted:Grousing about George Bush and the electoral college is weirdly prophetic, but not really applicable to the 88 election, because Dukakis got absolutely hammered by HW Bush and lost the popular vote by 6 million. Still, I get the depression because three consecutive terms of GOP presidents is tough to consider. I have no idea whether Bechdel actually knew this and was depicting Mo as ignorant of details of interstate partisan differences, or whether she didn't know it either. In any case, *most* people didn't know about these details, so the EC landslide was interpreted as a resounding defeat for Dukakis and liberal politics in general and drove the realignment of the Democrats to be more of a centrist party. In reality a slightly more surefooted Dukakis would probably have won in 1992 and even in 1988, really (he made several significant PR flubs) but for over two decades Democrats thought it politically necessary to disavow strong liberal policies, whatever their personal inclinations. Even Clinton 2016 buried aggressive policies like putting labor representatives on corporate boards in complex white papers which were resolutely ignored by, well, almost everybody. Mo was pretty prescient in being depressed.
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May 1, 2020 02:48
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Ghostlight posted:Majinaughey Nekonaughey is always hungry, and today he will eat the rich!
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May 1, 2020 02:49
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curtadams posted:Mo was pretty prescient in being depressed. It's interesting to trace how Bechdel treats big election years. Just a few strips prior to this one Mo calls Dukakis a morally bankrupt white boy rhetorically interchangeable with Bush, and while he wasn't a perfect candidate it's a big tonal shift from there to here. Compare it to the strip right after the 1992 election, where there's a sense of real excitement about having a president-elect like Clinton. That excitement tapers off hard of course over the next eight years but I think Bechdel does a good job of showing her characters responding not only to politics but to political popular narratives. Nobody's totally consistent, everybody's totally believable.
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May 1, 2020 03:35
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It's true. You never see the rear end in a top hat with your name on it. Sally Forth @ Home  Skippy (November 28, 1932)  Peanuts (May 3, 1973)  Les Moore Vs. The Chinese Market That His Maudlin Non-Blockbuster Will Never Crack  Crankshaft  readingatwork Has A Favorite 9 Chickweed Lane Character Now, So Be Sure To Say A Prayer For Them.  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater, in which Popeye begins the Pappy Reform Project. (November 30, 1936)  Out Our Way (May 28-30, 1934)    Life (With Skippy) catches up with the imaginary timeline that only I can see. (April 24, 1924)  Elsewhere In The Issue:   (Nate Collier (in case I haven't mentioned him before).)
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May 1, 2020 04:11
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curtadams posted:I can't really put my finger on why, because I'm not an artists, but Prince Valiant kind of smells of Art Nouveau. Which was perfect because Art Nouveau coincided with an interest in medieval art, and at the time the strip came out had become kind of an old-timey style, which fits a historical strip (even if the times are very far apart). This one is cute too with the personal interactions. Most strips would just ignore that wife extra stranded out in the woods but the writer didn't.
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May 1, 2020 04:28
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Johnny Walker posted:
Haifisch posted:And so, none of the cheaters have to feel remotely bad about their actions. A heartwarming advice strip. I knew it was coming, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating. It's weird. When I first asked folks in the thread what was Wilbur and Dawn's deal, they mentioned how the two were lovely people who constantly made terrible romantic decisions that also got comeuppance for it. But the last few stories have just been disappointing. I notice that Les hasn't said a single word yet. The leech who made his fortune off his wife's suffering and death is just silently judging everyone in the room for their greed in wanting the film to make lots of money.
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May 1, 2020 04:32
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (May 28-30, 1934) The mountains must have shook when the man who invented the shopping bag was born.
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May 1, 2020 04:46
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, Aloysius' extravagant lies blow up in his face immediately.
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May 1, 2020 04:47
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I stand by the creepy old man that can apparently teleport through time and space damnit!  Also why can he teleport through time and space? What the actual gently caress even is this comic right now?
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May 1, 2020 05:13
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readingatwork posted:I stand by the creepy old man that can apparently teleport through time and space damnit! He's an alien and maybe God (or God and maybe and alien? I seem to remember jokes about him coming from another planet and interacting with another alien disguised as an old man). You might think that sounds interesting, but McEldowney seeks to disappoint. It always leads back to loving.
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May 1, 2020 05:37
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catlord posted:He's an alien and maybe God (or God and maybe and alien? I seem to remember jokes about him coming from another planet and interacting with another alien disguised as an old man). You might think that sounds interesting, but McEldowney seeks to disappoint. It always leads back to loving.
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May 1, 2020 05:44
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Tryst of the Magi
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May 1, 2020 05:56
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catlord posted:He's an alien and maybe God (or God and maybe and alien? I seem to remember jokes about him coming from another planet and interacting with another alien disguised as an old man). You might think that sounds interesting, but McEldowney seeks to disappoint. It always leads back to loving. *raises hand* Okay I have a follow up question.
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May 1, 2020 06:32
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Intelligent Life scores a hat trick of laziness this week! Every strip is art recycled from within the month of April! Bonus gif 1  Bonus gif 2  Bonus gif 3 Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse  Fort Knox 
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May 1, 2020 06:38
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No, God is a whole separate guy from Thorax's Pappy (the tiny old man he is sometimes seen with). God is a balding mustachiod man in a suit who we saw when the old nun had some weird metaphysical experience while one of her former nuns was giving birth.
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May 1, 2020 06:42
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In today's Corto Maltese: Corto demonstrates something that I feel should be re-iterated in today's world - capital will always seek to defend itself, and is not a friend of justice, ethics, morals or democracy, or Corto gets in a sticky situation or Corto meets a man who's free, nothings worrying him <trumpets!>  
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May 1, 2020 06:52
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coronatae posted:No, God is a whole separate guy from Thorax's Pappy (the tiny old man he is sometimes seen with). God is a balding mustachiod man in a suit who we saw when the old nun had some weird metaphysical experience while one of her former nuns was giving birth. The former nun was having a difficult birth which "God" was going to turn into a cockroach in the womb, because he's a fundamentally awful rear end in a top hat...a different type of awful than every other character in the strip. To demonstrate the next-level logic of 9CL storytelling, it was the pregnant's burden, fear and labor pains, so of course the delivery room vision was had by the old lady standing off to one side. I want to use what's left of my shelter-in-place time to learn a skill that pushes this horseshit out of my easy-access memory.
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May 1, 2020 07:13
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Johnny Walker posted:-Snip- coronatae posted:-Snip- EasyEW posted:-Snip- One of the fascinating things about 9 Chickweed Lane is how no matter how bad your memories of it are, there's always bits that you forgot that just make it worse. Holbrook's pretty similar.
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May 1, 2020 07:58
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Zelda  
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May 1, 2020 08:37
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Family Circus Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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May 1, 2020 08:42
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma   
Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 10:12 on May 1, 2020 |
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May 1, 2020 10:09
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King Aroo 12/10/53 They'll Do It Every Time 12/5/46  Mopsy 12/15/42 
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May 1, 2020 10:15
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EasyEW posted:
McEldowney's view of women is really gross. Edda has just given birth to twins. A capable writer could have probably gotten something out of a storyline of "new mother of twins feels strange in her new role/body and needs to adjust" but McEldowney just... no. Edda could have just as well not been pregnant, it hasn't changed anything. And everyone in this comic is permanently horny, I don't understand why Edda feels the need to sex herself up. She could be a sentient sack of potatoes in a dark room and Amos would probably try to get it on.
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May 1, 2020 10:43
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Doll House Ghost posted:And everyone in this comic is permanently horny, I don't understand why Edda feels the need to sex herself up. She could be a sentient sack of potatoes in a dark room and Amos would probably try to get it on. McEldowney hasn't been laid since the Iran Hostage Crisis.
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May 1, 2020 11:09
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I'm really enjoying Zelda. (The strip, the character is still a poo poo but she's gradually getting better now that she's dumped the dead weight that was Cesar.) Nova in particular I find to be a really good character: she's successful because she puts in a whole lot of work, but people think she gets ahead just on being pretty. And she's a fundamentally insecure person who just wants her friends to acknowledge her. Thank you for posting it.
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May 1, 2020 11:23
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honest critique abt zelda: i greatly dislike it. i am unsure how contemporary it is (how old are the strips we're reading now?) bc if these strips are older and are ur-examples of these kind of concepts+ideas being put to paper i guess thats revolutionary but if not then these ideas have been said, done and explored better by literally a billion other better comics by a thousand other women. e: lol cheer up boss dharma owns
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May 1, 2020 11:46
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Forget all that, Corto. What's Barney Google up to? Anyway, in Juliet Jones, Eve, whose business experience is working at the linen counter, is asked for her opinion. 
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May 1, 2020 12:13
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Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom punching out a Don Jr. expy is the best thing The Phantom has done since the Swedish team had him gently caress up a Neo Nazi at a pride rally a couple of years ago truly the hero of the people
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May 1, 2020 12:49
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Homora Gaykemi posted:punching out a Don Jr. expy is the best thing The Phantom has done since the Swedish team had him gently caress up a Neo Nazi at a pride rally a couple of years ago 
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May 1, 2020 13:34
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Mämmilä The song in the penultimate panel. This is iskelmä, Finnish version of German schlager-music.
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May 1, 2020 14:26
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The Far Side V0T4Cvhl.jpg “And so I ask the jury—is that the face of a mass murderer?” gp3qhykl.jpg MHLul82l.jpg “Twelve sacrifices already this week. … Thank Goran it’s Friday!” qIiU4j4l.jpg “The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you’ve been having a subliminal effect on everyone in the factory. We’re proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there’s no company in the world that builds a finer skwoo dwivuh. … Dang! Now you got me doing it!” Pickles  Zits 
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May 1, 2020 14:39
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Surgeon's Tales  Nancy   Dustin  Mandrake  Man in Black    Our beers are graded I-IV, with IV being the strongest regular option, while I is low alcohol. If you don't care about the brand you can usually order whatever is the bar/restaurant's most popular III or IV beer by saying the number (in real life there is enough nuance that mistaking it for quantity would not happen)
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May 1, 2020 14:48
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Kennel posted:Surgeon's Tales That's a pretty good "Oh, it's on now, bitch" face there.
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May 1, 2020 14:53
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side Jesus Christ. I mean, that's an amazing joke, but holy poo poo. 
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May 1, 2020 14:55
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I like Zelda. Please keep posting it!
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