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Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



I had thought that yesterday's strip was setting up a story arc, but now, I have no idea.

Tina's Groove Classic (August 2, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (August 2, 1998)



Garfield Classic (August 2, 1988)



Ah, I should have known: the depression storyline began in yesterday's A&J would be continued in the Garfield from almost 32 years ago.

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Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Holbrook’s a big Turbo Teen fan I see


Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


amigolupus posted:

I'm baffled as to why Team Evans has been trying to character assassinate Bets for so long. Is it because of racism?

Not just racism. Also misogyny! :eng101:

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
The way some of you people talk about certain strips is a but worryng. Character assassination because Team Evans had something against Bets for being a Strong Woman.... You know she's a fake shallow character that they literally invented from nothing fairly recently, right? She's literally whatever they want her to be. There's no one there to defend. It's not even like she's an established beloved character like Picard


I mean say Luann sucks, sure, but I don't get the form the criticism is taking. This is in no way a defense of Luann.

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
You don't get rid of a character you want to spit on. Why, that'd be like Batiuk killing off Wally Winkerbean.

Anyway, here's some Juliet Jones, in which the nasty threat of embezzlement rears its head.


And, as a curiosity, Beetle Bailey for August 16, 1963. How close is Camp Swampy to Dallas?

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

amigolupus posted:

It's nitpicky, but it bugs me how Batiuk used the word gamers rather than players, or how he spelled out Dungeons and Dragons rather than sticking to abbreviations like D&D and MtG. It's like Batiuk wants people to think he's a huge fan of nerd hobbies and comic book shops, but the little details he missed makes his effort ring rather hollow.

Hey now, we RPG geeks were calling ourselves "gamers" long before video game fandom swiped the word.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

The Bloop posted:

The way some of you people talk about certain strips is a but worryng. Character assassination because Team Evans had something against Bets for being a Strong Woman.... You know she's a fake shallow character that they literally invented from nothing fairly recently, right? She's literally whatever they want her to be. There's no one there to defend. It's not even like she's an established beloved character like Picard
I agree but I also feel given the Evans' general writing track record whether they wanted a "shallow social media" character and therefore introduced Bets or wanted a "shallow social media" character and decided to hang it off Bets after she was already established is anyone's guess.

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

amigolupus posted:

It's nitpicky, but it bugs me how Batiuk used the word gamers rather than players, or how he spelled out Dungeons and Dragons rather than sticking to abbreviations like D&D and MtG. It's like Batiuk wants people to think he's a huge fan of nerd hobbies and comic book shops, but the little details he missed makes his effort ring rather hollow.

I feel like he really ramped up the comic book stuff after Harvey Pekar died. Now Tom can be the king of slice of life comics about the Greater Cleveland area!

Countblanc
Apr 20, 2005

Help a hero out!

FrumpleOrz posted:

Sherman's Lagoon


oh hey those are real things. what a cutie patootie

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

The Bloop posted:

The way some of you people talk about certain strips is a but worryng. Character assassination because Team Evans had something against Bets for being a Strong Woman.... You know she's a fake shallow character that they literally invented from nothing fairly recently, right? She's literally whatever they want her to be. There's no one there to defend. It's not even like she's an established beloved character like Picard


I mean say Luann sucks, sure, but I don't get the form the criticism is taking. This is in no way a defense of Luann.

She was introduced as a perfectly nice, creative, “normal” woman who shared Gunther’s interests. She put up with Gunther repeatedly interrupting dates with texts/calls from Luann.

Then suddenly she is being painted as greedy (wanted to take a cut of Tiffany’s clothing sales, even though Gunther wanted to also) and self absorbed (we have never seen her be obsessed with social media before, even though it’s apparently her entire lifestyle now).

The Evanses really don’t know how to write coherent characters.

Also god help me, I’m writing Luann analysis posts.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Weird, you didn't know all of someone's character traits upon first meeting them?

Some people reveal their weird quirks over time to new folks. This honestly seems perfectly normal to me. Maybe one of the most normal things in Luann in a long time.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Moomin on the Riviera

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Crabgrass


Support Tauhid's Patreon here.


Old School Peanuts (Jul 16, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (Mar 12-13, 1987)






Robbie and Bobby (Jun 2-3, 2015)



Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Wait is that egg selling thing real? drat.

Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Pastry of the Year posted:

Arlo and Janis Classic (August 2, 1998)



Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Retail




Zip


Rip


Dick


Duck

coronatae
Oct 14, 2012

Manuel Calavera posted:

Wait is that egg selling thing real? drat.

Egg donation is very real and donors might receive 10 times that depending on things like education level, etc.

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
The Far Side
PGDtcsV.jpg
Know your barbarians.

Tw8F5l7.jpg
“Remember me, Mr. Schneider? Kenya. 1947. If you’re going to shoot at an elephant, Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.”

4tS7bml.jpg
In a tunnel under the Chicago River, a descendant of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow follows her calling.

Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Apr 27, 2022

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Bad Machinery

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

https://twitter.com/luanndegroot/status/1234875271926439938?s=21

Serious Cephalopod
Jul 1, 2007

This is a Serious post for a Serious thread.

Bloop Bloop Bloop
Pillbug

Stultus Maximus posted:

I... I don't think you can reject anesthesia for a caesarean.

You can reject being put under, but not an epidural, pain blockers, etc.

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield




Heathcliff




Overboard




Monty




thought i posted yesterday :shobon:

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Franklin would totally bribe a cop.

F Minus



Mark Trail



Mary Worth unfiltered



Let's just pretend I photoshopped Wilbur and Estelle into that one corn porn thing and move on.

The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Is everybody in The Phantom just not noticing that The Commander and The Phantom have the same voice? I recall a storyline where he was the Commander for a long time with :siren:JUNGLE PATROL:siren:

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

"The guy who takes kids camping" is not a good reputation to cultivate

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics




Dick Tracy


Major Crime Squad


Locher Tracy


Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.

These two get married. Michael marries the first person he ever had a crush on. Elizabeth does the same. It's even hinted that April, who wasn't even born when this strip first ran, will hook up with Gerald, a kid she met when she was a baby.

Lynn has a raging hard-on for the childhood sweetheart, and it's worth sharing this takedown of love in FOOB again to show just how ridiculous things get:

https://shaenon.livejournal.com/29475.html

And now, as a palette cleanser, Modesty Blaise:



Evrart Claire
Jan 11, 2008
Every time Newspaper Spiderman has characters with a "?" speech balloon, there really needs to be another tail to it that just extends out to the reader.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

EBB posted:

Is everybody in The Phantom just not noticing that The Commander and The Phantom have the same voice? I recall a storyline where he was the Commander for a long time with :siren:JUNGLE PATROL:siren:

This is just Batman / Superman all over again!

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

EBB posted:

Is everybody in The Phantom just not noticing that The Commander and The Phantom have the same voice? I recall a storyline where he was the Commander for a long time with :siren:JUNGLE PATROL:siren:

Whenever the Phantom goes out in plain clothes, he always makes sure to speak in falsetto.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales


Bunch of name-droppings there, but none of them seem to be particularly important.

Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake

Thursday:


Saturday:


Monday:


And now...

...

THE PAY-OFF!

...




:geno:

The one person you were looking for!

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Haha. gently caress you.

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

Haifisch posted:

2017 Spiderman


Do you suppose God cries when he makes something this beautiful?

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
Mark Trail '46 11/11–13




Mark Trail '94 3/17–19


Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



I forgot to mention you double posted 1978 Spider-Man and missed Mary Worth yesterday.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Dustin is really showing that my experience with state employment offices is not at all dissimilar from this private temp agency.

Also,

ikanreed posted:

Haha. gently caress you.

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

coronatae posted:

Egg donation is very real and donors might receive 10 times that depending on things like education level, etc.

drat, testosterone is a ripoff to me then. Thanks biology :v:.

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

by Reene

amigolupus posted:

He's only 45? With the way the characters are drawn, I thought the grown-ups are in their 60s.

Limekiller's 45, but I think most of the residents of the boarding house are in their 60s.

Bloom County
April 14th & 15th, 1981

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



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Crowetron
Apr 29, 2009

No one's mentioned it in awhile, but man, Zippy sucks, huh?

Hwurmp posted:

Whenever the Phantom goes out in plain clothes, he always makes sure to speak in falsetto.

Why don't superheroes do accent work in their secret identities? Maybe The Commander is from Boston.

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