Comic Strips 2023: It's not a fetish or anything, I swear

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Professor Wayne: Aug 27, 2008; So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

Pickles

Hagar the Horrible

Zits

# ? Feb 3, 2023 14:37

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 20:55

Vargo: Dec 27, 2008; 'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Breaking Cat News

Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Wallace the Brave

Heart of the City

Curtis

Ahh, Billingsley's old arch nemesis... sentence structure.

# ? Feb 3, 2023 14:45

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Julet Esqu posted:

Luann

Pizza box in the first panel is the joke here. Either Bets is holding it real weird or it has a perspective problem.

# ? Feb 3, 2023 14:46

Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

Please do not mock Bets' tiny arm. She has family in the Mark Trail universe.

# ? Feb 3, 2023 15:28

F_Shit_Fitzgerald: Feb 2, 2017

Professor Wayne posted:

Zits

Just because ridiculously elaborate prom invitations are a trend doesn't mean that they beat the direct approach of just asking the woman.

# ? Feb 3, 2023 15:48

Dav: Nov 6, 2009

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Just because ridiculously elaborate prom invitations are a trend doesn't mean that they beat the direct approach of just asking the woman.

The prior comic considered that the �mature� approach, hence Jeremy�s concern.

Professor Wayne posted:

Zits

# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:00

everyone wear hats now: Jul 29, 2010

The Creeps

# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:00

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Bizarro

The Family Circus

Slylock Fox

# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:31

Transmodiar: Jul 9, 2005; You're a terrible person, Mildred.

Modesty Blaise: Willy the Djinn

# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:46

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Mutts

Sally Forth

Skippy (March 20, 1935)

Peanuts (February 6, 1976)

Miss Peach (July 21, 1989)

Dinkleshaft

Mutt and Jeff

Rip Haywire

Thimble Theater (September 5, 1939)

Out Our Way (December 26-28, 1940)

# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:57

Hempuli: Nov 16, 2011

B. Virtanen

Oh, looks like some of these are out of order; shouldn't matter too much but here're some strips from the earlier consultant story.

ANSU

Fingerpori

Edit:
�ber alles = German for "above all", part of the slogan "Germany above all" (or "Germans"?)
�ber = that awful not-taxi company
allesi (slang alles) = (have something) under you
�ber alles = (have) �ber under you
There's a Finnish idiomatic phrasing of having X under you, where X refers to whatever vehicle you're riding/driving.

I totally missed the "alles" part of the pun and assumed the strip was just a reference to �ber the company, but Shaman Tank Spec kindly notified me:

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

As an additional (untranslatable) joke, the term "�ber alles" can be read either as German or a mixture of German and Finnish. The Finnish word "allesi" means "underneath you" and can be used in a kind of "ota tuosta auto allesi", "take that car underneath you" -> "go drive in that car". And of course with the so called apokope in spoken casual Finnish an ending vowel is often dropped, for instance "pist� pipo p��h�si", "put a tuque on your head", can become "pist� pipo p��h�s".

And so "�ber alles" can be read as "take that �ber underneath you", "take that �ber".

Hempuli fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Feb 3, 2023

# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:02

Shaman Tank Spec: Dec 26, 2003; *blep*

Hempuli posted:

Fingerpori

As an additional (untranslatable) joke, the term "�ber alles" can be read either as German or a mixture of German and Finnish. The Finnish word "allesi" means "underneath you" and can be used in a kind of "ota tuosta auto allesi", "take that car underneath you" -> "go drive in that car". And of course with the so called apokope in spoken casual Finnish an ending vowel is often dropped, for instance "pist� pipo p��h�si", "put a tuque on your head", can become "pist� pipo p��h�s".

And so "�ber alles" can be read as "take that �ber underneath you", "take that �ber".

# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:23

Poil: Mar 17, 2007

Powered Descent posted:

Bizarro

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

As an additional (untranslatable) joke, the term "�ber alles" can be read either as German or a mixture of German and Finnish. The Finnish word "allesi" means "underneath you" and can be used in a kind of "ota tuosta auto allesi", "take that car underneath you" -> "go drive in that car". And of course with the so called apokope in spoken casual Finnish an ending vowel is often dropped, for instance "pist� pipo p��h�si", "put a tuque on your head", can become "pist� pipo p��h�s".

And so "�ber alles" can be read as "take that �ber underneath you", "take that �ber".

Thanks I didn't get it at all.

# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:33

SuperKlaus: Oct 20, 2005; Fun Shoe

the bus

# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:50

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

F Minus

I'm all for this.

Mark Trail

This better not be the end of the bassigator hunt story.

Mary Worth

The Phantom

Pooch Cafe

Rex Morgan MD

Andertoons

# ? Feb 3, 2023 20:04

Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

Murdstone posted:

Mark Trail

This better not be the end of the bassigator hunt story.

Jules is clearly bored of the absurdly lame story she decided to tell so it likely is unless we get a really bad Simpsons style plot extension.

quote:

The Phantom

LMAO just make this strip about Phantom and Sarvana kicking fascist rear end everywhere tia.

# ? Feb 3, 2023 20:19

Yvonmukluk: Oct 10, 2012; Everything is Sinister

Bad Machinery

# ? Feb 3, 2023 20:39

Huxley: Oct 10, 2012; Grimey Drawer

A+J

# ? Feb 3, 2023 20:48

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

EBB posted:

Pizza box in the first panel is the joke here. Either Bets is holding it real weird or it has a perspective problem.

I legitimately thought it was supposed to be a textbook until I saw her opening it in the next panel.

# ? Feb 3, 2023 21:25

Hempuli: Nov 16, 2011

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

As an additional (untranslatable) joke, the term "�ber alles" can be read either as German or a mixture of German and Finnish. The Finnish word "allesi" means "underneath you" and can be used in a kind of "ota tuosta auto allesi", "take that car underneath you" -> "go drive in that car". And of course with the so called apokope in spoken casual Finnish an ending vowel is often dropped, for instance "pist� pipo p��h�si", "put a tuque on your head", can become "pist� pipo p��h�s".

And so "�ber alles" can be read as "take that �ber underneath you", "take that �ber".

Oooh, of course! I totally missed that, thanks. I'll add this under the comic.

# ? Feb 3, 2023 21:42

Hempuli: Nov 16, 2011

Quote is not edit, my first time doing this!

# ? Feb 3, 2023 21:46

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Professor Wayne posted:

Zits

I mean...they've been together for a while now; wouldn't it have come up naturally in conversation at some point, or at least taken for granted that if they were interested in the dance, they'd go together?

# ? Feb 3, 2023 22:20

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Into Ilves

Nancy

Dustin

Mandrake

# ? Feb 3, 2023 22:34

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

The Demons of Baseball

# ? Feb 3, 2023 23:15

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Luann

The parents presumably know she's not paying rent. She's definitely rich enough to pay rent if they asked, but apparently they haven't.

She is partying right now, but not there; she's going to a dorm party. So they're planning to lie. Cool. Great friend behavior.

Gil THorp

Home Free

Julet Esqu fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Feb 3, 2023

# ? Feb 3, 2023 23:52

Giant Ethicist: Jun 9, 2013; Looks like she got on a loaf of bread instead of a bus again...

Uramachi Sakaba

Cthulhu and Girl

# ? Feb 4, 2023 00:07

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Murder them for us Winnie

# ? Feb 4, 2023 00:10

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Pogo 1/26-28/50

The dog is quoting a variation of an old nursery rhyme.

Archie 6/3-5/46

"T.L." was a phrase George Burns and Gracie Allen often used on their radio show -- but none of the sources I can find agree on what it stood for. One source suggests "tough luck," which fits how Archie is using it here.

# ? Feb 4, 2023 00:41

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Fun and Games and Cultural Murder

# ? Feb 4, 2023 01:00

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

Selachian posted:

Pogo 1/26-28/50

The dog is quoting a variation of an old nursery rhyme.

Archie 6/3-5/46

"T.L." was a phrase George Burns and Gracie Allen often used on their radio show -- but none of the sources I can find agree on what it stood for. One source suggests "tough luck," which fits how Archie is using it here.

Never understood why Veronica and Betty hang out if Archie is always trying to go after Veronica.
Also does Betty have awful foot odor or halitosis? Or just a case of you only want what you can�t have?

# ? Feb 4, 2023 01:49

Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

Docks

Retail

Popcom

# ? Feb 4, 2023 02:12

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Julet Esqu posted:

Gil THorp

This guy is rapidly approaching Count Dante levels of facial hair (and potentially violent rivalry)

# ? Feb 4, 2023 03:36

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

Crab Dad posted:

Never understood why Veronica and Betty hang out if Archie is always trying to go after Veronica.
Also does Betty have awful foot odor or halitosis? Or just a case of you only want what you can�t have?

Archie is too silly to recognize how good he has it with Betty. That raven haired seductress clouds his head.

# ? Feb 4, 2023 04:28

Hippocrass: Aug 18, 2015; That third panel of the first comic just makes it. It's still funny if you remove it, but that panel included just makes it top tier.

LOL at all of you refusing to accept that Archie and Miss Grundy are soulmates.
Sad really.

# ? Feb 4, 2023 04:35

Caphi: Jan 6, 2012; INCREDIBLE

We really didn't give Riverdale enough credit...

# ? Feb 4, 2023 05:50

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻

In today's Blueberry: GOD, Gir's art is SO GOOD, or timg'd and spoilered for male nudity, or The cavalry has arrived! So, uh... are you guys... gonna do anything, or...?