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Discendo Vox posted:What happened to Howard the Duck? After a couple "episodes" that mostly revolved around sardonic social commentary, the art quality took a nosedive and it became nothing but puns. Looks like a writer change -- the first strips were written by Steve Gerber, Howard's creator and comic book writer. I'm pretty sure some of the stories, like the Winky-Man arc, were taken directly from the comic. The more recent strips are credited (if that's the word) to Marv Wolfman.
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For background, Howard the Duck was written by Marvel in-house creator of Howard the Duck, Steve Gerber, up until this arc. A dispute arose between Marvel and Gerber where Marvel wanted to take him off the strip because syndication had dropped to around a fifth of its initial level which they blamed on his inability to meet syndicate deadlines which he blamed on their refusal to pay his contract artists (reportedly they only got a percentage of the quarterly syndication revenue). This rift would eventually result in Gerber suing Marvel to try and assert his rights as a creator to the property. Marv Wolfman's better credits are co-creating The Tomb of Dracula and its break-out star Blade, as well as the New Teen Titans introducing Raven, Starfire, and Cyborg. The art in this arc is Alan Kupperberg who's a decent journeyman artist so I can only assume the sloppiness of the art is representative of those deadline requirements as he was drawing the dailies on the previous arc as well. Wolfman and Kupperberg will remain the writer and artist until the strip is cancelled in half a year. Majinaughey  Bogor 1976  
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Angular Cyrus posted:Mopsy 12/18/42 Every person doing video conferencing in front of their book shelf.
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Transmodiar posted:Scary Go Round: The Great Unboxing It really feels like this was the moment when John Allison was suddenly told by an editor "BTW, your comic is ending in a week. Figure it out." Except that's obviously not what happened because he was self-published at the time.
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NRVNQSR posted:It really feels like this was the moment when John Allison was suddenly told by an editor "BTW, your comic is ending in a week. Figure it out." Except that's obviously not what happened because he was self-published at the time.
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PetraCore posted:Yeah I'm starting to remember why I forgot the end of the Great Unboxing. I see why he took it out of canon. I still don't get it
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PetraCore posted:Yeah I'm starting to remember why I forgot the end of the Great Unboxing. I see why he took it out of canon. Yeah, the end was really disappointing. That sucks, because you never see more of Georgia and her dad, Grendel and Fit Mum, Zebus, Sunita, and the rest.
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Mister Olympus posted:I still don't get it It's a real shame, because I love the Mystery Tweens. The characters are solid, but it seems like this wasn't the story he wanted to tell with them. Maybe someday he'll find the right story for them! I hope so!
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The Bloop posted:It was funny at first, but since it turns out that sarcastic racism is actually just more easily deniable racism, it did far far more harm than good It's fun being Jewish when everyone thinks "repeating what Cartman said" is the same as "telling a joke."
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The Dinette Set knows there's no substitute for real home cooking. Working Daze yes I get it we're all wearing masks.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix explores the duality of Man.  Cul De Sac is a moment in time. 
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Sept 19, 1951)  Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 2-3, 1987)   Robbie and Bobby (Nov 12-13, 2015)  
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readingatwork posted:Crabgrass
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Mister Olympus posted:I still don't get it The Mystery Teens aren't going to attend their school after this year, because the tunnel's opening has changed, among other things, the two school districts and which students will go where. Thus the school won't have enough students in the higher grades to justify having those classes. The kids are going to be split up thanks to Mildred's meddling. You know what, she's still my favorite.
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Discendo Vox posted:What happened to Howard the Duck? After a couple "episodes" that mostly revolved around sardonic social commentary, the art quality took a nosedive and it became nothing but puns. They kicked off Gerber and Semeiks. Look at the credits - it's now Wolfman and Kupperberg.
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Darthemed posted:I thought this was set in the '80s. He should've used baseball cards
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StrixNebulosa posted:He should've used baseball cards Maybe Garbage Pail Kids to keep it in that non-sports category. The Lockhorns  Brewster Rockit Space GUy  On The Fastrack  No Safe Havens on Sundays! Stone Soup  Kevin & Kell  Mother GOose & Grimm  Hagar THe Horrible  Sherman's Lagoon 
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Darthemed posted:I thought this was set in the '80s. Clearly they are talking about the collectible trading cards based on the 1987 NES classic Pokémon Wenge/Xanadu which was known for its revolutionary trading system that let you use 37 digit codes to move captured Pokémon to another game. The cards featured a photo of the creature on one side and various stats and graphs on the back along with that Pokémon’s catch phrase. You probably don’t remember them because both the game and cards were banned in several states when a fourth grader set his school on fire after losing a holographic Tauros in a bet. (This is now canon and you can’t convince me otherwise)
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StrixNebulosa posted:He should've used baseball cards
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Darthemed posted:Docks In other presciently depressing comics, I appreciate how grandpa is being portrayed here as exactly the kind of disaffected voter who won't vote for an uninspiring candidate in the general just because the alternative is worse. This, even as he's exactly the kind of person who would have gone out of his way to vote for Gore in the primary if he'd been running against someone making crazy unelectable promises about reparations, never at any point seeing the irony of these two conflicting beliefs.
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Is On the Fastrack getting MORE abusive lately, or is it just me?
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Savidudeosoo posted:Is On the Fastrack getting MORE abusive lately, or is it just me? It feels like it, it's pretty hosed up. Speaking of hosed up, Alhazred posted:Zelda What's wrong with your hands? I never noticed they only had four fingers until this comic.
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Alhazred posted:Zelda
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Sailor Cat posted:The Mystery Teens aren't going to attend their school after this year, because the tunnel's opening has changed, among other things, the two school districts and which students will go where. Thus the school won't have enough students in the higher grades to justify having those classes. The kids are going to be split up thanks to Mildred's meddling. I understand this reasoning in the abstract but in practice I can't quite figure out why opening the tunnel would change any of this when presumably there are the exact same number of students living in the same place they were before the tunnel was opened. Like, do British schools have some kind of weird formula that takes travel routing into account when assigning children to districts?
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Darthemed posted:I thought this was set in the '80s.
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Surgeon's Tales  The book keeps it secret for a bit longer, but comic doesn't bother to hide that it's Count Bernhard Bertelsköld himself (well, he's older, so it's 50:50 if the reader recognizes him, but that doesn't really matter) Nancy   Dustin  Mandrake  Man in Black   
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Kennel posted:Man in Black The one and only time when using fahrenheit would actually have been an advantage.
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catlord posted:It feels like it, it's pretty hosed up. Speaking of hosed up,
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Some Guy TT posted:I understand this reasoning in the abstract but in practice I can't quite figure out why opening the tunnel would change any of this when presumably there are the exact same number of students living in the same place they were before the tunnel was opened. Like, do British schools have some kind of weird formula that takes travel routing into account when assigning children to districts? Yes, that's what those British words they are saying mean.
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Murder will out, also illicit berry-picking. Anyway, in Juliet Jones, J Jonah Jackson lands a job, and produces Eve from under his client's floorboards or something. 
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readingatwork posted:
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