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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse  Fort Knox  I'm gonna stop posting Fort Knox for now. It's sucked the whole time, but not in an interesting way, and now that gocomics removed it we have to settle for crappy ArcaMax size. I've got some other garbage to post in its place for a little while. Strontium fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Aug 16, 2020 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth What is the "charterstone", anyway?
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Strontium posted:
did anyone ever find out why it got removed?
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Discendo Vox posted:What is the "charterstone", anyway?
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Alhazred posted:Zelda You’re right, Zelda. The impending climate disaster is reason enough to cancel any and all leisure we silly humans dare to reward ourselves with. We can start with holidays across the Atlantic, seems a good way to lead by example.
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Goodbye Fort Knox, no one will miss you. Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Foxtrot 
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Manuel Calavera posted:One Big Happy I was going to make a joke about how Fort Knox is no great loss, but instead I'll ask: do we have  but with it also giving the finger? Because it feels like that'd be appropriate.
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readingatwork posted:I went and made the pullapitko bread: You can always turn it into french toast or bread pudding if you don't want to eat it all just like that!
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BigglesSWE posted:You’re right, Zelda. The impending climate disaster is reason enough to cancel any and all leisure we silly humans dare to reward ourselves with. We can start with holidays across the Atlantic, seems a good way to lead by example. To be fair, Zelda was shown to have a guilty conscience about flying across the Atlantic.
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Alhazred posted:To be fair, Zelda was shown to have a guilty conscience about flying across the Atlantic. But not guilty enough to not do it, I suppose. I just think it’s sort of asinine the way Nordenstam sometimes brings up important issues. By framing sunbathers as unconcerned with global warming, she’s essentially guilt tripping people for having a good time, without considering what said people might do at other times. Especially glaring since the voice of reason in this context (Zelda) actively decides to go on a foreign holiday, despite knowing (and caring) about the ethical ramifications. I feel like Zelda often has good morals, but in a sort of token “good because you’re supposed to” sort of way. Sometimes her points fall apart at the slightest consideration (such as her “humanity should go back to hunter/gatherer societies! We came from such a background, clearly we can return no problem?! thing a few weeks back). Even in these comics, a lot of the times her dissenting friend is shown in a bad light, with Zelda knowingly looks at the reader in a bemused expression. I like Zelda but more often then not it’s not nearly as clever as it thinks it is.
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Slammy posted:The LA Times puts up a PDF here. But after a certain number of page views they ask you to login with a subscription. Many papers have this option, so if anyone has a subscription to one it'd be relatively easy to pull the comics. I just learned to my great shock and annoyance that Boss Dharma comics are also available on the Sports Dongah website in this exact same format. It just never occurred that I could find them there because I didn't know such options existed. This was why I could never figure out the pattern for those PDF files- I wasn't supposed to be inputting an address myself, their system generates it whenever I want to look at a pdf version of a specific newsprint page. Cheer Up Boss Dharma  The good news is it's much easier to scroll past my posts now. The bad news is that no one will ever be able to figure out the panel order anymore.
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Discendo Vox posted:What is the "charterstone", anyway? whoever pulls the sword from it is rightwise president of the HOA
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Classic Kevin and Kell (February 12-16, 1996)   Pause strips! I just want to note something that bothers me. Fiona's moving away because her dad is "being transferred back to his natural habitat in mideast." Fiona's dad is a Fennec. This is the natural habitat of the Fennec:  Which part of that is "the mideast"? Especially considering that in later strips we'll see "the mideast" and it has Arabian Nights style architecture. It just bugs me. Ok, got that off my chest. Resume strips!  
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I guess the Sinai is part of the Middle East if you're being very generous.
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There are a few dozen heavily armed raiders coming up the cliff. We are two elderly knights, a young man who prefers the scholarly pursuits, and a woman who - while more than capable in combat - is completely unequipped for battle. Let's pick a fight. It should be a walkover.
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goatface posted:There are a few dozen heavily armed raiders coming up the cliff. We are two elderly knights, a young man who prefers the scholarly pursuits, and a woman who - while more than capable in combat - is completely unequipped for battle. Normally I'd agree with you, but this is Val. It's like saying there's an old man who runs a curio shop, totally alone, and 10 bad dudes swarm the place. We already know who the winner is.
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 8/15/00  Brenda Starr 8/2/42  Wow, who would have imagined the guy who won Brenda's love by beating her up would prove to be a controlling rear end in a top hat? Also, it looks as if the question of why Eric posed as the Cupid in the first place can join "Where did the bomb come from?" on the pile of questions that Messick isn't going to answer.  Smokey Stover 3/7/37  Edge of Nunya Bizniz 
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Doll House Ghost posted:You can always turn it into french toast or bread pudding if you don't want to eat it all just like that! That is a brilliant idea, thank you! Alhazred posted:Pondus I unironically love how hedious that dog is. Old School Peanuts (Jan 12, 1952)  Calvin and Hobbes (Jan 18-19, 1988)   More evidence for the Uncle Max is gay theory. Robbie and Bobby (Jun 7, 2016)  (Aug 16, 2020) 
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Some Guy TT posted:I just learned to my great shock and annoyance that Boss Dharma comics are also available on the Sports Dongah website in this exact same format. It just never occurred that I could find them there because I didn't know such options existed. This was why I could never figure out the pattern for those PDF files- I wasn't supposed to be inputting an address myself, their system generates it whenever I want to look at a pdf version of a specific newsprint page. I cannot believe I've been doxxed by a Boss Dharma, you leave me and my double chins alone
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Alhazred posted:Did we ever learn about what happened to Huey and Riley's parents? Is it a Hewey, Dewey and Louie situation? I believe they died in a car accident
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Alhazred posted:Did we ever learn about what happened to Huey and Riley's parents? Is it a Hewey, Dewey and Louie situation? You mean their mom got lost on the moon for over a decade?
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (December 31, 2008)  Arlo and Janis Classic (December 31, 1998)  Garfield Classic (December 31, 1988) 
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Selachian posted:Rhymes with Orange too loud.
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B. Virtanen ANSU  (Warning: humour about implied sexual assault)  Bummer about that. 
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riderchop posted:Overboard We were discussing Lio earlier. I bought this print and had it framed for my Mom, when it came out in 2009: 
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riderchop posted:Rae the Doe's web archives  Rae the Doe is definitely my kind of humor. F Minus  Mark Trail  I'm pretty sure this is the last James Allen. Mary Worth  Awwww The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  As worthless as Newspaper Spider-Man's spidey sense. Rex Morgan MD  So begins the story "The Death of Rex Morgan." Andertoons  Flash Gordon  Why would he set charges to blow out the zoo wall?
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BigglesSWE posted:But not guilty enough to not do it, I suppose. She's using Morrissey lyrics for those strips, so smug and self-righteous kind of comes naturally...
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And now, the new feature nobody asked for, How To Read 9 Chickweed Lane. 2. The Gag. (Yeah, let's pretend to talk about that today.) A. Context Before the cartoonist puts pen to paper (or stylus to tablet), before the cartoonist flood-fills the perfect gradient, before the cartoonist does anything fruitful, the cartoonist first must think. The ability to generate awful concepts is at the core of the creative practice. In a 2017 interview, the most extensive one that you can stumble across by accident, McEldowney is predictably loquacious on all the facets of his creations except for the creative spark itself. "I don't know how I come up with stories. Things happen as I write, little thoughts lead to big ones, incidentals become central events. They just happen. They are very fluid." It seems that 9CL pulled from a broader variety of premises to make those things happen in past years, or maybe it's just my imagination. I would be required to read the entire output to confirm this, which is a path to madness. So yes, expect that to happen in the not-too-distant future. B. Text Of the themes that haven't fallen by the wayside, the pet strips tend to be the least revolting of the recent years' output. The humans, more often than not, are insufferable pedants, hothouse flowers distant from the hopes and concerns of the standard people in your neighborhood, and their actions and obsessions reflect that. Brooke's cats and dogs, on the other hand, are recognizably cats and dogs...even if, in this case, you can't place the breed to save your life.  (May 9, 2017) Today's installment is spawned from the "happiness is a warm puppy" template. The inspiring spark is the ubiquitous auto-correct feature, the presence of the smartphone one of the rare indicators that we're anchored to a 21st-century reality. The extra real estate of the Sunday page allows Edda to cycle through a wider variety of reactions than you'd get with the four-panel format. Amos's expression, as usual, reads as "dull surprise". It probably says something that this set of human characters can only be their best selves when other people aren't involved. It would be tempting to also view that as a reflection of the author, just like it would be tempting to ask how often Edda--a first time mother of newborns, if you've already forgotten--entered "adopt" into her phone to the point that her keyboard just assumed that's what she was talking about again. But that type of conjecture would take us off the page. In short, I know what I hate, and I don't hate this. Moral: Your brain-babies demand to be born. Whether they should be taken out in public or not is another debate altogether. ... ( *sigh* That was kind of a reach, and I suspect that's going to be a pattern in these. But anyway...) Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Peanuts (August 19, 1973)  You Totally Knew This Was The Other Shoe About To Drop-bean  Crankshaft  Life (With Skippy) (August 7, 1924)  Also In This Issue:  "They can say what they like--God certainly does bat out some elegant scenery."    (Another Fred Cooper masterpiece.)
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