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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail I think the colorist messed up, and Cheryl is supposed to be pointing in the third panel (there's a wood-colored finger shape in the wall). That combined with Rusty's pose makes me see this:
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Transmodiar posted: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. The way the blog mentions Michael saving his childhood sweetheart from a car crash and covering it in a newspaper without sounding mad makes me curious as to when exactly did people found out that Lynn straight-washed her son in the comic and how the car crash was actually a real event. "The better people have more sense than to mess with Modesty Blaise" is such a good line. ![]()
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'cause my sleep's getting disrupted by the coming-off-Sertraline jitters, an early edition of Corto Maltese! Today, we start The Golden House of Samarkand, where: Corto suffers from a spontaneous change in art styles, or Corto is a dab hand at astronomy, or No! Covered with... scorpions!!!![]() ![]() ![]()
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Transmodiar posted:
quote:I hate Anthony. I hate him more than I’ve ever hated a cartoon character, and, yes, I’m including both Scrappy-Doo and Ted Rall. ![]()
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Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon Um, what?
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Mister Kingdom posted:Um, what? it's a fig leaf, like Adam and Eve are commonly depicted wearing 'pon their nards
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Hwurmp posted:it's a fig leaf, like Adam and Eve are commonly depicted wearing 'pon their nards Ah. I overthought it. drat you, Boyce!
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Crowetron posted:No one's mentioned it in awhile, but man, Zippy sucks, huh? I've always kind of like Zippy mainly for its connection to underground comics. I know it's not a favorite and it is pretentious at times, but I didn't expect some crotchety and well-trodden gag about people nowadays and their phones! Zippy should probably limit the non-sequitors to snack cakes and less about sanctimonious jabs at the normies with all the polluting and cellphone gazing they do.
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What fools. What idiots. What utter morons. Don't they realise that one of them is male and the other female? How could they possibly want to be friends? Ludicrous.
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Tiggum posted:What fools. What idiots. What utter morons. Don't they realise that one of them is male and the other female? How could they possibly want to be friends? Ludicrous.
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amigolupus posted:Jesus loving christ, Holbrook! I think Holbrook is less concerned about building dramatic tension with his plots and more about, "Wow! That would be cool!" He has way different ideas about what is cool than most people do, but I really do think it's all about wish fulfillment. I talk poo poo about Luann mostly because it is a bad comic and I don't like it. But with regards to Bets, I'll say this. She was portrayed as being a little too into her social media accounts since she started helping Gunther sell Tiff's stuff. But her big fault most of this time was posting pics and videos without telling Gunther first (and it's worth noting that the words "Please ask me before you post pics of me or stream our conversations or makeout sessions or whatever. I want to know ahead of time" have never exited the boy's mouth. He has never told her that poo poo bugs him). It's a huge leap to go from that to referring to friends as "fans," especially since she has always thusfar been shown to grasp the concept of human friendship. She's gung-ho about social media, not a psychopath. Next thing you know she's going to be SO INTO social media fame that she's going to die in a blizzard while chasing a yeti. ![]() Oh no! Two consenting monogamous adults are sharing a couch while smiling at one another! Do they not know that Bernice is presenting a lecture on studying balls and that happiness and affection and feet on the furniture are not allowed in her presence?
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Sally Forth![]() Skippy (October 10, 1932) ![]() Peanuts (March 6, 1973) ![]() Funky Winkerbean ![]() Crankshaft ![]() 9 "Heartstopping Paperwork Action!" Lane ![]() Rip Haywire ![]() Thimble Theater gives us THE BIG REVEAL. (October 2, 1936) ![]() Out Our Way (March 12-14, 1934) ![]() ![]() ![]() Toonerville Folks (September 1-3, 1916) ![]() ![]() ![]() Tonight's story is Dok's Fire Escape Duck, because in the early morning hours of February 13, 1913, the upper floors of the Seattle Times building were heavily damaged by fire, and the others were flooded by the water used to bring the fire under control. That didn't stop the paper, but a lot of equipment was damaged, and they'd be publishing on other papers' presses until March. ![]() (February 13, 1913) ![]() (February 14, 1913)
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Hwurmp posted:Whenever the Phantom goes out in plain clothes, he always makes sure to speak in falsetto. Nekonaughey ![]() ![]() Bogor 1975 ![]()
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It's the dieting craze sweeping the nation: joining a temple
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The Dinette Set was brown, should have flushed it down.![]() Working Daze hovers. ![]() Super-Fun-Pak Comix, do not steal. ![]() Cul De Sac pulls an early-morning twist! ![]()
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Nostalgamus posted:I think the colorist messed up, and Cheryl is supposed to be pointing in the third panel (there's a wood-colored finger shape in the wall). It's much better your way. The Lockhorns ![]() Brewster Rockit Space Guy ![]() On The Fastrack ![]() Safe Havens Is this a making GBS threads thing? Is it another fetish for this comic? ![]() Kevin & Kell ![]() Mother Goose & Grimm ![]() Hagar The Horrible ![]() Sherman's Lagoon ![]()
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FrumpleOrz posted:
If it's an unguided thrown rock, there are basically three things that can happen. If you're ridiculously unlucky (or if it was deliberately aimed, and your spacecraft doesn't get out of the way), it could hit your spacecraft on the way up. If it was launched at less than Martian escape velocity, it comes back down to Mars after less than one orbit and smacks back into the planet. If you're insanely unlucky and your crew is incompetent, it could hit your spacecraft on the way back down. If it was launched at greater than Martian escape velocity, and it misses on the way up, you essentially don't have to worry about it again. If your spacecraft can avoid it in either case, you don't need to leave Martian Orbit (and waste fuel on a suboptimal departure window) to do so.
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Cul de Sac is the most charming thing on earth, I love every single character in it. Even the sound effects, the dad brushing his teeth in that last one is so pitch perfect. Barnaby (July 22-July 23, 1942) ![]() Sam's Strip (January 25-January 27, 1962) ![]() Dykes to Watch Out For ![]() Mo is an extremely important character to me because she demonstrates that I'm not the first queer lady to leverage a series of nonstop sociopolitical nervous breakdowns into being an unbearable killjoy. --ma semblable,-- ma soeur! How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Mar 4, 2020 |
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There is no reason to think that the asteroid will hit the moon and cause it to develop life. But it's Holbrook so that has even odds.
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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() Fort Knox ![]()
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Crowetron posted:No one's mentioned it in awhile, but man, Zippy sucks, huh? ![]()
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King Aroo 10/13/53![]() They'll Do It Every Time 9/28/46 ![]() Mopsy 10/8/42 ![]()
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Angular Cyrus posted:
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This whole thing is just so loving stupid. Holbrook's trying to go for a "[X] character deals with bigotry" thing, when said "character" is just one feature of a word processor/text messaging. Trying to make people's annoyance with the auto-correct feature into some bigotry story just doesn't work. FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens Is this a making GBS threads thing? Is it another fetish for this comic? I thought this was going to be a pregnancy thing, but now I'm not so sure. Because if this were a pregnancy arc, then Holbrook would drag it out for months and give it lots of focus. Also please let the rock hit these idiots' ship. The Bloop posted:It looks to me like Mopsy has one too Isn't that the character Mopsy calls Mammy? Is that her name, or is that actually Mopsy's mother?
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (August 3, 2008) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (August 3, 1998) ![]() Garfield Classic (August 3, 1988) ![]()
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Griffy's had this everything-contemporary-stinks streak developing for quite some time. It's called becoming an old crank. Anyway, Juliet Jones, where Pop has been working there so long, his wall calendar is full of cabalistic wingdings, possibly based on balancing his bodily humors. ![]()
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amigolupus posted:
Honestly there are like 4 character models Mopsy Sexy woman who is not Mopsy Older heavier woman Man I just think of it as sketch comedy and the same couple people play all the parts for different jokes
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How Wonderful! posted:Cul de Sac is the most charming thing on earth, I love every single character in it. Even the sound effects, the dad brushing his teeth in that last one is so pitch perfect. ![]()
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Old School Peanuts (Jul 17, 1951)![]() Calvin and Hobbes (Mar 14-15, 1987) ![]() ![]() Robbie and Bobby (Jun 4-5, 2015) ![]() ![]()
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readingatwork posted:
This is one of the few times I don't empathize with Calvin's parents at all. Their son clearly loves his stuffed tiger, and enjoyed taking pictures of him.
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ikanreed posted:This is one of the few times I don't empathize with Calvin's parents at all. Their son clearly loves his stuffed tiger, and enjoyed taking pictures of him. I believe the conceit is that, without Calvin's imagination, the pictures are all identical or close to identical. It isn't so much that they think Calvin is dumb or wasteful. He just genuinely doesn't understand. But it seems like a sarcastic remark would be more in character.
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Garfield![]() Heathcliff ![]() Overboard ![]() Monty ![]()
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![]() She's so disproportionately uncomfortable with their mild PDA that I was wondering whether she's never seen an affectionate couple before and then I remembered that this is Luann and of course she hasn't.
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Aleph Null posted:I believe the conceit is that, without Calvin's imagination, the pictures are all identical or close to identical. It isn't so much that they think Calvin is dumb or wasteful. He just genuinely doesn't understand. But it seems like a sarcastic remark would be more in character. I know. I get the joke. But imagine your own kid doing that and what your response would be.
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Julet Esqu posted:
it's amazing how old fashioned Luann comes off even compared to the early 20th century comics that get posted.
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