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Daduzi posted:We haven't seen that story with the bear, right? Is it from a previous comic series or novel or is it just an aside? It was from a prior adventure, The Black Pearl. I don't know if it was posted on this site or not. What makes the story really work is the fact that Modesty and Willie don't realize that they have to get a bear out of Tibet until about two-thirds of the way into the story, they are only told that they have to retrieve the Black Pearl without being told what it is. Edit: I just checked, the story was posted in these forums, you can read it here The_Other fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Feb 1, 2021 |
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The Bloop posted:
I made the joke in many threads past but I always see this. 
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Mikl posted:"You will literally die if you don't get your diet under control." Overeating can be an addiction. Unlike hard drugs, you can't just not eat again. You gotta take a little every day. But even though your brain is wired to want more, you have to know the arbitrary stopping point! EasyEW posted:
She has the right number of bottom teeth. That's gotta be worth something.
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Johnny Walker posted:
Buck is gonna land in the hospital with an 800 blood glucose, survive, and at the end is gonna be like “Gee willikers, I guess I shoulda listened to ya, Doc” and he’ll be fine without any other consequences. Or it’ll turn into the baby scene from Trainspotting. Either way, 
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I'm torn about Rex Morgan because it's a really bad idea but I've been there (for different reasons), I've thought that, and I've made those mistakes. Whether you call it habit or addiction, the routine's there tempting. Your last milkshake has to be your last one, not your next one.
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Safety Dance posted:She has the right number of bottom teeth. That's gotta be worth something. She never got those wisdoms out, I see. Of course, it's not like her dentist could claim she doesn't have room for them.
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EasyEW posted:
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The Dinette Set is unsafe at any speed. Working Daze is a repeat.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix got a little off-topic here.  Cul De Sac flies too close to the sun. 
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Howard Beale posted:I was curious why Milt Gross would use the common "applesauce" for the bullshit panel instead of his own "Banana Oil!" catchphrase, so I looked it up and it turns out this strip was a month away from Banana Oil's debut. So here he's playing with the concept before he realizes he needs a change of fruit. It's true - soon the "Applesauce" gag at the end of the strip becomes "Banana Oil." Then the whole comic becomes Banana Oil. An interesting comic strip evolution, and one that gave Gross more flexibility with subjects and characters. And He Did! (February 4, 1918)  Outbursts of Everett True (March 1918)  Hitz and Mrs. (November 1923)  Gay and Her Gang (March 4, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (August 3, 1935)  Dark Laughter (July 12, 1941)  Mopsy Sunday (April 6, 1947)  Those Were the Days (April 26, 1951)  Wee Pals (April 24, 1965) 
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Johnny Walker posted:
So, yeah, chugging down 1000 calories of sugar, exacerbated by french fries, which have lots of starch, really could kill him. (The burger, actually, is not an immediate danger, because it's mostly fat and protein.) And this hazard is partly Rex's fault since he has not made it clear to Buck that with Buck's current status a big sugar bomb could possibly kill him. Rex Morgan being what it is, Buck's going to have some kind of medical issue from this but will recover. curtadams fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Feb 1, 2021 |
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Mikl posted:It's actually a little bit different from that. Ralph and Corrie's mum had moved in together were planning to keep Corrie and raise her as their own, but then the mum died in childbirth and Ralph, realising he couldn't raise Corrie on his own (he was sixteen at the time) gave her up for adoption. Okay, that's a bit different from what I remember. I still like the implication that the guilt from his girlfriend dying and having to give up his daughter for adoption is what made Ralph develop empathy. EasyEW posted:Still trying to remember how old Funky is supposed to be that he's getting an operation for glaucoma. I want to say Funky, his wife and their classmates are supposed to be mid-40s to early-50s? Lisa died twenty years ago, and Les looked like in his early 20s with baby Summer back then. It's really weird how Les and Cindy look all right for their age while Batiuk depicts Funky and the rest as the elderly with failing health.
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Old School Peanuts (Jun 15-16, 1952)  Calvin and Hobbes (Nov 23-26, 1988)     Robbie and Bobby (Aug 20, 2018)  (Aug 22, 2018)   (Aug 24, 2018)  (Aug 27, 2018)  Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here.
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (April 26, 1951) Huh, Fredric Wertham showing through here. Today was a weird day where I just couldn't bring myself to do my comics (I spent most of it playing around with hex map generation), so that's why my comics are late. Sorry about that. The Shadow and Flyin' Jenny Aug. 17th, 1940   Axa   My God, who could have seen this coming? Like, everyone except Axa thinks there's something suspicious going on.
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The_Other posted:Circus Windows Mildred's gonna spew! Everything John Allison does is pretty great - but in panel 2 he perfectly captured the - "oh no i just realized that i drank way too much and things are about to get...decidedly ungood" look - it made me feel a bit of sympathy nausea myself...
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Julet Esqu posted:Not enjoying the last few weeks of the Phantom just sitting and watching approvingly while a cop beats the hell out of two unarmed suspects. Yes, we who read this thing obsessively know that what these guys did to the cop was horrific. But that was months ago and lots of people probably just dip in and out.
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PainterofCrap posted:Drawn and Quartered - 1942 Exquisite.
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 1/31/01  Rob, unsurprisingly, is a NPR listener. Brenda Starr 10/22-24/45    Smokey Stover 5/21/39  Richard's Poor Almanac 
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons 
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Mikl posted:Comic Strips 2021: Beware the Vengeance of the Forgotten Bones! 
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readingatwork posted:(Aug 24, 2018) That's not GWAR at all! Where's Blothar? I appreciate that Sunday Monty. And, I'm the girl that posted Dilbert, and we had that long discussion. And still posts OBH. So, OBH isn't *USUALLY* lovely. But I'll try my best to keep tabs on it from now on. And skip or just link the ones that seem lovely (be it about the poor, transphobic, whatever.) But if OBH somehow pulls off a lovely joke this week? Then I'll probably drop it because gently caress that. Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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There are about 4 unique panels between those 3 Garfields including a Sunday. Also, it really was another cat burglar Heathcliff.
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You're honestly gonna be linking OBH more often than not. For what it's worth: that particular strip struck me as an innocent "kids oversimplify their arguments" dialogue, but I very deliberately say "that particular strip" because Detorie sure enough uses his kid characters as mouthpieces to call out THE WORLD'S MORAL CORRUPTION a whole drat lot of the time (the other half it's his probable self-insert grandpa). Mostly what strikes me is that he's at once coy and incompetent about it. He uses strawman characters but they build on stereotypes that are about 20 years old and three steps removed from anything remotely realistic. I find it hard to take seriously even as an attempt at hating The Other. I'm not sure he'd know what a trans person is if you asked him, except "someone evil from the city". His best idea would probably be Dame Edna. I think it's by far the most actively hateful comic in the thread at the moment and not even very good at it, but it's also not like it's got any redeeming features like outstanding art, an original setting, or even just the commercial success Dilbert has/had. It's Grandpas Facebook Posts: The Comic. About all I personally get out of it is witnessing the creator clearly decline but it doesn't go fast enough. My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Feb 1, 2021 |
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Bruceski posted:I'm torn about Rex Morgan because it's a really bad idea but I've been there (for different reasons), I've thought that, and I've made those mistakes. Whether you call it habit or addiction, the routine's there tempting. You can still have milkshakes with diabetes, if you prepare for the meal with fast acting insulin. Or hell just get everyone closed loop insulin pumps.
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riderchop posted:
Mwhahah, I have both! Now if only there was a safe way to have three other people over to play it with.
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Slammy posted:
And in 3 years, the Comics Code goes into effect (thanks in part to overreaction to crime and horror comics), bowdlerizing comics for the next half-century. Although plenty of sex and violence slipped in, if I remember the 90s. Cobalt-60 fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Feb 1, 2021 |
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Arlo and Janis  Classic service returns tomorrow.
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Slammy posted:And He Did! (February 4, 1918) She would get the same reaction today. The same gown would cost $2,570.97.
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Mikl posted:It's actually a little bit different from that. Ralph and Corrie's mum had moved in together were planning to keep Corrie and raise her as their own, but then the mum died in childbirth and Ralph, realising he couldn't raise Corrie on his own (he was sixteen at the time) gave her up for adoption. So basically he's the one person in the world to have some shred of empathy and he's treated as an incompetent loser for it. Why does every detail learned about Holbrook's comics always make both the art and artist look worse?
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For the record, I've been going back through old threads, and in March of 2019, I said something like "Wow, I used to kind of like One Big Happy but it's been getting more and more lovely and conservative lately." So the decline has been steady, and the "Didn't we used to like this?" conversation has been repeated several times.
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Zerilan posted:So basically he's the one person in the world to have some shred of empathy and he's treated as an incompetent loser for it. Why does every detail learned about Holbrook's comics always make both the art and artist look worse? I like how he's trying to spare his sister the pain of losing her husband by trying to constantly kill him. Anyone else here watch horrible Lifetime movies with their mom? There was one, ages ago, called the Promise Keeper's Daughter, about a doctor who told his wife that one of their twins had been stillborn, but the other was fine. Well turns out the baby wasn't stillborn, she had Down's Syndrome, and since his own sister had had it, and other health complications in infancy, she had died, and he wanted to spare his wife that pain. It being a Lifetime movie, he gave the baby to his nurse, but she kept and raised the girl. Now it also being a Lifetime movie, he refused to have sex with his wife ever again for fear of making another baby like that, and had little to do with his son, but when he got letters from the nurse showing how happy and good the kid was, he begged to get her returned. How he planned to explain it to his estranged wife and son who hated him, no idea. Because he died before he could tell her, and his wife and son only found out the girl was alive when she was in her thirties. So there was little closure and the dude got away with ruining several lives.
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