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A Strange Aeon posted:This might be a dumb question but is Peanuts worth reading? Like I know it's very popular or was, but would it be rewarding to read the entire run of it? Newspaper strips I find tricky because of the format--like if you judged Calvin and Hobbes on a dozen mediocre weekly strips instead of as an entire body of work, you'd walk away with an entirely different perception of it. But I don't have the ambition to read every published Garfield strip because I don't think that'd be rewarding. Early peanuts is really good.  If you have a library near you they probably have that complete collection in chronological order that came out a while ago, grab the first book and see how you like it from there.
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A Strange Aeon posted:This might be a dumb question but is Peanuts worth reading? Like I know it's very popular or was, but would it be rewarding to read the entire run of it? Newspaper strips I find tricky because of the format--like if you judged Calvin and Hobbes on a dozen mediocre weekly strips instead of as an entire body of work, you'd walk away with an entirely different perception of it. But I don't have the ambition to read every published Garfield strip because I don't think that'd be rewarding. No. It's long past the time it should have been shot in the head and buried outside of town.
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Jun 11, 2021 21:01
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A Strange Aeon posted:This might be a dumb question but is Peanuts worth reading? Like I know it's very popular or was, but would it be rewarding to read the entire run of it? Newspaper strips I find tricky because of the format--like if you judged Calvin and Hobbes on a dozen mediocre weekly strips instead of as an entire body of work, you'd walk away with an entirely different perception of it. But I don't have the ambition to read every published Garfield strip because I don't think that'd be rewarding. Holy gently caress yes. I think it starts slumping in the 70s, which would be after twenty years, but it's one of the definitive newspaper strips and cultural touchstone for a reason. Feel free to start at the beginning or any of the first decade. Newspaper strips don't have a lot to pick up on.
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Jun 11, 2021 21:48
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Duh, yeah read the classic stuff. Anything published in our lifetimes is garbage though.
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A Strange Aeon posted:This might be a dumb question but is Peanuts worth reading? Like I know it's very popular or was, but would it be rewarding to read the entire run of it? Newspaper strips I find tricky because of the format--like if you judged Calvin and Hobbes on a dozen mediocre weekly strips instead of as an entire body of work, you'd walk away with an entirely different perception of it. But I don't have the ambition to read every published Garfield strip because I don't think that'd be rewarding. Most of the early years are good. Nothing from the 90s onwards is. 80s is a mystery to me.
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I don’t remember exact years, but I think the sweet spot for Peanuts is like ten years from the mid-Fifties to the mid-Sixties. The beginning is fun but the strip doesn’t reach its height of existentialism until a few years in. Things begin to slide down when Peppermint Patty is introduced and Woodstock gets a name, and after the early Seventies it’s no longer a solid read day after day.
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https://twitter.com/zachrabiroff/status/1403431245506301954?s=20
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I know who Fish is!
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Kinda wild their full address is right there. Though I guess that's how early comics Fandom spread, cold mailing randos from the comments section.
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Jun 12, 2021 00:29
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Uthor posted:Kinda wild their full address is right there. Oh yeah, if you read any old letters pages from comics it's pretty common to have the full address.
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Jun 12, 2021 00:36
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A Strange Aeon posted:This might be a dumb question but is Peanuts worth reading? Like I know it's very popular or was, but would it be rewarding to read the entire run of it? Newspaper strips I find tricky because of the format--like if you judged Calvin and Hobbes on a dozen mediocre weekly strips instead of as an entire body of work, you'd walk away with an entirely different perception of it. But I don't have the ambition to read every published Garfield strip because I don't think that'd be rewarding. Peanuts absolutely rules. I have a collection of all the 70s strips and I just randomly dip in and out and they’re great.
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https://twitter.com/riteshwriter/status/1403418266006016001?s=19
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Jun 12, 2021 01:39
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Final Crisis is still bad.
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Even long-running Peanuts could be surprisingly charming in ways other long-running strips never were. I'd say start at the beginning and read until it's not fun.
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There has not been a new Peanuts in over 21 years so even "new Peanuts" is, at this point, pretty old Peanuts. And imo it's fine-- the strip is at its worst inoffensive. Read the old stuff, it's very good, stop when you find yourself getting tired of it, that's the trick for getting through any long-running daily comic strip.
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Jun 12, 2021 14:45
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Or just read heathcliff, foxtrot, far side, and 90s dilbert.
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This is the only Heathcliff I've ever read and I don't think I need to read any more (because I have experienced perfection). https://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff/2017/01/11
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Uthor posted:This is the only Heathcliff I've ever read and I don't think I need to read any more (because I have experienced perfection). New heathcliff is loving wild. https://twitter.com/RealHeathcliffs/status/1351558582479761408 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x8Ad3VS6cQ
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At some point the guy doing Heathcliff just decided to shrug his shoulders and go full surrealism. Hearken well also to the Garbage Ape.
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https://twitter.com/TomTaylorMade/status/1403781054280785933?s=20 gently caress yes.
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Hell I'll read that Superman
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Mr Hootington posted:Final Crisis is still bad. Skwirl posted:New heathcliff is loving wild. Wait, "Real Heathcliff" isn't photoshoped???
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Vincent posted:Counterpoint: Final Crisis is good. The Mary Marvel part is icky, tho. No. It says it right there. It's real Heathcliff.
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Vincent posted:Wait, "Real Heathcliff" isn't photoshoped??? No it is good. Unlike final crisis.
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Vincent posted:Counterpoint: Final Crisis is good. The Mary Marvel part is icky, tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKfupO4ZzPs
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Mr Hootington posted:No it is good. Final Crisis has good bits and some great ideas, but it's structurally flawed since nothing ties together cleanly or flows well. Just like 90% of Morrison's writing.
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Jun 14, 2021 19:31
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Is Morrison's DC thing complete? I read and really liked Batman Incorporated back in the day, the one issue about the internet notwithstanding, but never got into the rest of the larger saga.
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Gripweed posted:Is Morrison's DC thing complete? I read and really liked Batman Incorporated back in the day, the one issue about the internet notwithstanding, but never got into the rest of the larger saga. It got knee capped by the mandated company wide event that introduced the New 52, whatever the hell that is.
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ruddiger posted:It got knee capped by the mandated company wide event that introduced the New 52, whatever the hell that is. Wasn't it kind of the other way around? iirc the New 52 was supposed to be a clean break but Morrison and Johns were in the middle of massive years-long narratives on Batman and Green Lantern respectively, so everything from those two families of titles got grandfathered into what was supposed to be this whole new continuity so the stories could continue.
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Gripweed posted:Wasn't it kind of the other way around? iirc the New 52 was supposed to be a clean break but Morrison and Johns were in the middle of massive years-long narratives on Batman and Green Lantern respectively, so everything from those two families of titles got grandfathered into what was supposed to be this whole new continuity so the stories could continue. It meant Dick Grayson had to abruptly stop being Batman, which I think hosed with Morrison's plans quite a bit. And the other Bat titles couldn't really acknowledge what was happening in Batman Inc.
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Random Stranger posted:Final Crisis has good bits and some great ideas, but it's structurally flawed since nothing ties together cleanly or flows well. I really loved what he did on Superman Beyond 3D, but the way it was integrated into Final Crisis was just awful.
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Lencho posted:I really loved what he did on Superman Beyond 3D, but the way it was integrated into Final Crisis was just awful. It was originally fully part of FC. FC was set to be a 12 issue series like the original but Didio thinks 7 is the magic number so the series got cut up and shortened.
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This is just like my fanfics! Except they don't get kicked out, of course.
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Wait, why can't Batman go down on Catwoman? It sounds like the set up to a joke, but I'm guessing the punchline is something lame like "DC editorial".
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A Strange Aeon posted:Wait, why can't Batman go down on Catwoman? It sounds like the set up to a joke, but I'm guessing the punchline is something lame like "DC editorial". They are probably squeamish about having Batman being depicted doing an explicit sex act.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Wait, why can't Batman go down on Catwoman? It sounds like the set up to a joke, but I'm guessing the punchline is something lame like "DC editorial". WB executives, but yeah.
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thetoughestbean posted:They are probably squeamish about having Batman being depicted doing an explicit sex act. My guess is they don't want the reactionary headlines from places like Fox News looking to stoke some culture war bullshit.
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