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amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

Alhazred posted:

The monkey paw curls:





(She does a lot of these kinda strips and I think it's really lazy)

Okay, I take the Esther comparison back. This level of twee makes her more like Dethany instead.


Fatshaming and richshaming in one go, huh? I'm surprised Detorie didn't manage to sneak in a dig at poor people while he's at it.

Johnny Walker posted:



Looks like Jared read some signs wrong there.

I want to hope that Mary Worth handles a story of getting unwanted advances like this in a graceful manner, but I can't help but wonder if it'll get swept under the rug again. I still remember how nothing came out of the story with Dawn and Hugo where Hugo spent much of the time negging Dawn, or how Wilbur's disastrous date was blamed on him having a drinking problem rather than Wilbur being Wilbur.

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sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

amigolupus posted:

Okay, I take the Esther comparison back. This level of twee makes her more like Dethany instead.


Fatshaming and richshaming in one go, huh? I'm surprised Detorie didn't manage to sneak in a dig at poor people while he's at it.


I want to hope that Mary Worth handles a story of getting unwanted advances like this in a graceful manner, but I can't help but wonder if it'll get swept under the rug again. I still remember how nothing came out of the story with Dawn and Hugo where Hugo spent much of the time negging Dawn, or how Wilbur's disastrous date was blamed on him having a drinking problem rather than Wilbur being Wilbur.

I predict that Dawn's next move tomorrow will be taking a moment to react as he continues to kiss her before closing her eyes and participating as she "lets go" and "gives in" to her heart etc

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

:effort: or not, i fukkin lold

NRVNQSR
Mar 1, 2009

amigolupus posted:

Okay, I take the Esther comparison back. This level of twee makes her more like Dethany instead.

Nemi has changed a lot over time, probably to some extent mirroring the life of her author. She hardly ever sets things on fire any more.

And I'm sure to some extent international syndication makes it harder to be edgy. The later strips I've seen have way less sex and nudity - though again that might be partly because Nemi's in a steady relationship these days.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Little Johnny's dad must have been sprayed with agent orange to get those kinds of birth defects.

thesonofmothman
Feb 12, 2016

Pelican, a Bag Man
Sorry about the lateness but time is an illusionary prison we've all locked ourselves in

Jucika





Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

I may now know art, but I know what I like.


The Dinette Set lives large.


Working Daze must be a GameStop.


Super-Fun-Pak Comix something something Lynn Johnson.


Cul De Sac knows that art is suffering.

FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.
The Lockhorns


Brewster Rockit Space Guy


On THe Fastrack


No Safe Havens on Sundays!

Stone Soup Unfortunate timing here.


Kevin & Kell


Mother Goose & Grimm


Hagar THe Horrible


Sherman's Lagoon

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
I tried to explain Kevin & Kell to my wife today and eventually just gave up and said it was Beastars for perverts and 90 year olds.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

How Wonderful! posted:

I tried to explain Kevin & Kell to my wife today and eventually just gave up and said it was Beastars for perverts and 90 year olds.

That is so rude to Beastars

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I haven't watched it but I really assumed beastars was, in fact, for perverts

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

How Wonderful! posted:

I tried to explain Kevin & Kell to my wife today and eventually just gave up and said it was Beastars for perverts and 90 year olds.

I'll give it a go.

Holbrook decided to make a comic with a milquetoast, Aaron Sorken, truth is in the middle sensibility. Except half the characters are predators and half is pray and murder is legal but self defense is not.

Holbrook inadvertently created a comic that critiques his world view but he either didn't realize that or he didn't care so long as people kept paying him to draw boobs on animals.

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

How Wonderful! posted:

I tried to explain Kevin & Kell to my wife today and eventually just gave up and said it was Beastars for perverts and 90 year olds.

I'd describe it as something trying to be cuter Zootopia, except it says classism and corporations are Cool and Good, actually. Also the author keeps slipping in their fetishes despite the art looking like a kid's comic book.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
Holbrook keeps writing himself into a corner, attempting to explain things and create a consistent universe, and in so doing writing himself into a corner *even more*.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

The Bloop posted:

I haven't watched it but I really assumed beastars was, in fact, for perverts

It's about deviancy from societal norms and intersectionality.

Also,

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Beastars is pretty good and I'd normally say pretty wild and unusual but there's nothing in it that prolonged Holbrook exposure hasn't prepared any of you for. It definitely does on purpose a lot of exploration that Holbrook does by mistake, which often turns out to be very interesting.

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



RandomPauI posted:

I'll give it a go.

Holbrook decided to make a comic with a milquetoast, Aaron Sorken, truth is in the middle sensibility. Except half the characters are predators and half is pray and murder is legal but self defense is not.

Holbrook inadvertently created a comic that critiques his world view but he either didn't realize that or he didn't care so long as people kept paying him to draw boobs on animals.
Technically self-defense is okay, but only if you use your Species Has Characteristic to do it.

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 11/1/53


They'll Do It Every Time 10/21/46


Mopsy 10/30/42

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.

StrixNebulosa posted:

I'm torturing myself while in quarantine by reading some old foobs and holy poo poo, the child abuse is...



- she told a kid to do something, but didn't give him instructions
- so he does it like a kid would
- and holy poo poo

StrixNebulosa posted:

More absolutely amazing parenting, no abuse going on here, nosiree:





e: also I'll stop here, I'm just... why was this comic allowed to run? why is it still running?

aaaaaah, this is incredibly familiar. I definitely needed traumatic flashbacks right before bed.


idgi


Interesting, you can see an artifact of whatever they're using to handle it on the last one in the lower right.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
5<9

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme





"On Cloud Nine" is an old expression for being extremely happy. There is a popular media trope that Heaven is a bunch of fluffy clouds, and people turn into angels with wings and a halo when they go there.

Thus, a combination of these tropes with the (probably unrelated) phrase is fairly natural. This is where this particular comic is mining for humor - the recently deceased didn't get to the good cloud (cloud 9), only reaching the "OK" cloud (Cloud 5). So he turns into an "OK" angel with cardboard wings and a pipe-cleaner halo instead of a "good" angel with real wings and a real shiny halo.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.
I knew about the cloud nine expression but couldn't get from there to the lower numbers being an arts and crafts show.

In conclusion,

Johnny Aztec
Jan 29, 2005

by Hand Knit
That's more like Cloud 2. Cloud 5 would be better.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

Angular Cyrus posted:

They'll Do It Every Time 10/21/46


I'm remembering the Ask/Tell thread about 'references in older media lost on modern audiences'. People would bring bottles of ink with them on vacation? The notion that "modern newspaper cartoons" weren't necessarily contemporaneous with pre-filled pens is... wow.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme




Parahexavoctal posted:

I'm remembering the Ask/Tell thread about 'references in older media lost on modern audiences'. People would bring bottles of ink with them on vacation? The notion that "modern newspaper cartoons" weren't necessarily contemporaneous with pre-filled pens is... wow.

The leak-proof fountain pen wasn't even invented until 1908, and ballpoints (first marketed in 1938) didn't displace dip and fountain pens until the 1960s when the price of ballpoints dropped.

Truly amazing how recently something as simple as a pen has reached the modern incarnation.

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Daddy Daze


Take It From the Tinkersons


Dark Side of the Horse


Fort Knox

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.


Jucika is good. Junk drawer is good. Know what else is good? Corto Maltese! Where today: Don't click this link until the very last line of the first page, or Somebody's been eating their oats, or Corto takes a little side-trip to the land of Nod



Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



i hate that on more than one occasion i've thought to myself how nice it is that tinkersons is so inclusive in its cast briefly before remembering it's just the way he draws hair.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

That's the exact thing I thought when headband lady showed up for the first time and every time since. Actually back then it was more like I genuinely couldn't tell which it was supposed to be.

Though if any nuclear family strip would include a muslim side character without drawing attention to it I honestly think it would be Tinkersons. Imagine what a shitshow Fort Knox or One Big Happy would make of that idea. Actually Family Circus might, too.

My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Mar 23, 2020

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake


Moomintroll and the End of the World

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Ed is paying for the women to do this, right?

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

Poil posted:

Ed is paying for the women to do this, right?

As if Ed would ever pay someone to do this. If he gave them money, then those worthless, lazy Millennials would never try to find real jobs.

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

by Reene
Bloom County
May 25th & 26th, 1981

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

Poil posted:

Ed is paying for the women to do this, right?

Every strip where Dustin gets shot down by a woman is just a dream Ed is having.

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
"I don't know that puppet!"

In Juliet Jones, Don seems awfully insistent on putting a gun in Wallace's hands. What's his game?

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (August 21, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (August 21, 1998)



Garfield Classic (August 21, 1988)

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Oh, wow, today's 9cl. It'll be hard to top that one today for awkward horniness.

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readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Old School Peanuts (Aug 8, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (Apr 21-22, 1987)






Robbie and Bobby (Jul 30-31, 2015)



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