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Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:
“I don’t like Tiff went partying instead of—“ what, hanging out with a horrible human being? Being judged by your dumbass? gently caress off, no way the Evanses are this much of dinguses

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How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

Gatto Grigio posted:

Every man in Zelda looks like a drag king.

Don't do this please.

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

No thanks to Lizzo..

Out of curiosity, what country does this originally come from?

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



Samovar posted:

I always felt it was more like Seinfeld.

Counterpoint: Seinfeld is funny.

Fingerpori:



Bonus avatars:





Nestorix
Aug 3, 2006

exotic particles

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Out of curiosity, what country does this originally come from?

Norway

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017


Aristo's face on the last panel is a good :byodood:.


Something I appreciate is that while there's a pregnancy going on, it's got a drat point to it. Modesty and Willie could have already seized the ship by now, but Jo about to have her baby becomes a source of tension as Modesty and Willie have to rethink their plans on the fly. It's really refreshing after the likes of Holbrook or Brooke.

Julet Esqu posted:



So the self-righteous look on Gunt's face yesterday was intentional. Good to know!

Gunther said the exact same thing yesterday. Julet Esqu, remember how you mentioned that he never once bothered speaking to Bets about his discomfort about her posting their pictures online or streaming them? That makes Gunther whining about this poo poo stand out even more.

sweeperbravo posted:

This would actually be extremely cute and fun to explore, not just because of giving a finger to homophobes and racists but because Bets and Tiff have enough things in common and enough things different that it would be interesting to follow the ups and downs of their relationship as they get to know each other and settle down. Which is why it will never happen

Out of all the strips in this thread, I can see Sally Forth doing a good job with that scenario. Sure, it'll be wordy but at least it'll be done properly.

The only(?) time Luann had a lesbian character, it was someone who never told Les that she's not into men, but was perfectly willing to accept Les' expensive gifts and playing off that it's a romantic gesture. And then she ends the farce by accepting Les' invitation for a dinner date, except she brings her bosses along and makes Les pay for everyone.

Green Intern posted:

2. The next step of the assassination of Bets unfolds

"How dare this FEMALE use the threat of withholding sex her love to make this Poor Nice Guy shut up about his Opinions on something?! Evil, I say! EVIL!" -Mordock999, probably.

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

Calaveron posted:

gently caress off, no way the Evanses are this much of dinguses

you know full well they are

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


Safe Havens


Kevin & Kell "I can't believe you didn't straight up murder that person!"


Mother Goose & Grimm He's just reusing art here. He used the exact same panels in that joke about "Coming out" a while ago.


Hagar The Horrible


Sherman's Lagoon

Good Listener
Sep 2, 2006

Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool
My brain got stuck on the idea of like..it's hosed up Kevin and Kel got married if only cuz like..she still is selling herbivores like him for profit right? And regularly eats them? I forget if somehow her meat factory company uses meat from like not just people walking around on the street or what.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

FrumpleOrz posted:

Kevin & Kell "I can't believe you didn't straight up murder that person!"


Vehicular manslaughter is legal among the herbivores :wtc:

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Squirrel has characteristic: becomes roadkill

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Good Listener posted:

My brain got stuck on the idea of like..it's hosed up Kevin and Kel got married if only cuz like..she still is selling herbivores like him for profit right? And regularly eats them? I forget if somehow her meat factory company uses meat from like not just people walking around on the street or what.

Isn't her company the good one because it only hunts animals* that choose to live in the wild instead of civilization?

I wonder if it's basically just the homeless




*people

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (May 29, 1938)

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017


This is insufferable.

Good Listener posted:

My brain got stuck on the idea of like..it's hosed up Kevin and Kel got married if only cuz like..she still is selling herbivores like him for profit right? And regularly eats them? I forget if somehow her meat factory company uses meat from like not just people walking around on the street or what.

IIRC, they met online and liked each other well enough to set up a date, all without knowing what each other looked like. The fact that she worked for a company that hunts lower classes herbivores never got brought up at all.

The Bloop posted:

Isn't her company the good one because it only hunts animals* that choose to live in the wild instead of civilization?

I wonder if it's basically just the homeless




*people

Even when Holbrook tries to solve the problem with his setting, he manages to find a new way to make it hosed up.

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.
Sally Forth





Skippy (October 27-28, 1932)





Peanuts (March 27-28, 1973)





The Immaculately Prolonged Suffering of Les Moore





Crankshaft





9 "Oh Jesus Christ, Please Don't Pop Your Stitches Again, You Silly Idiot" Lane





Rip Haywire





Thimble Theater, featuring the reunion of two freaks of nature. (October 23-24, 1936)





Out Our Way (April 12-14, 1934)







And because I've blown this end of our unspoken bargain again and again, here's an emergency shipment of Toonerville Folks. (September 29, October 1-5, 1916)











Ashsaber
Oct 24, 2010

Deploying Swordbreakers!
College Slice
So in Kevin and Kell its illegal to kill except in self defense, and not with anything but your animal traits, but the predators can just use guns? I remember a few months ago the plot about the 'one good one/credit to his race' gopher where a rabbit (or something) was just wasted with nothing else on panel, near Kell's company. Which makes things even more horrifying; Sure you could defend yourself with quills or stench, but the guy trying to kill you has a shotgun and nobody can do anything against them later, because that's just nature.

Jesus.

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



amigolupus posted:

IIRC, they met online and liked each other well enough to set up a date, all without knowing what each other looked like. The fact that she worked for a company that hunts lower classes herbivores never got brought up at all.
The comic started with them married and their first kid from that marriage was born within a month of strips.


Ashsaber posted:

So in Kevin and Kell its illegal to kill except in self defense, and not with anything but your animal traits, but the predators can just use guns? I remember a few months ago the plot about the 'one good one/credit to his race' gopher where a rabbit (or something) was just wasted with nothing else on panel, near Kell's company. Which makes things even more horrifying; Sure you could defend yourself with quills or stench, but the guy trying to kill you has a shotgun and nobody can do anything against them later, because that's just nature.

Jesus.
No I think that's illegal too. In fact the only guns I recall ever being shown are wacky carrot-shooting guns (I think they were wood carrots) that the rabbit terrorist group whose demands were "we want to stop being killed and eaten" used.

Ashsaber
Oct 24, 2010

Deploying Swordbreakers!
College Slice

Zereth posted:

The comic started with them married and their first kid from that marriage was born within a month of strips.

No I think that's illegal too. In fact the only guns I recall ever being shown are wacky carrot-shooting guns (I think they were wood carrots) that the rabbit terrorist group whose demands were "we want to stop being killed and eaten" used.

Huh, looked back and I guess it was just kinda lovely drawing that made me think that? Nothing about it said 'pounced on by a predator' to me, that looks more like a shot. Hell, it looked like it was just outside a compound, which is what I remembered. Reference:

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



Pretty sure those are supposed to be speedlines. It's not very well done, though, yeah.

Also I think that's inside the compound. And evidently the people running the predator training camp don't find anything odd about somebody doing stealth gardenign in it, because it's not like the guy is hiding the crops.

Zereth fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Mar 26, 2020

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

e: forget it, if i read too deeply into holbrook i go mad

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

Zereth posted:

The comic started with them married and their first kid from that marriage was born within a month of strips.

You're right. I think the explanation for how they got together came a few months after.

Zereth posted:

No I think that's illegal too. In fact the only guns I recall ever being shown are wacky carrot-shooting guns (I think they were wood carrots) that the rabbit terrorist group whose demands were "we want to stop being killed and eaten" used.

We're supposed to think those rabbits were evil for the sheer crime of not wanting to be killed and eaten, and the only way Holbrook could think of to make them the bad guys was that part of the initiation involved killing predators from Kell's company with their carrot-guns.

Ashsaber posted:

Huh, looked back and I guess it was just kinda lovely drawing that made me think that? Nothing about it said 'pounced on by a predator' to me, that looks more like a shot. Hell, it looked like it was just outside a compound, which is what I remembered. Reference:


There's still other things about that gopher that's pretty messed up. Note how he says his family kept eating his produce. That doesn't mean they just eat a lot, it's that the gophers' [X] racial trait is how they always steal food from others.

Zereth posted:

Also I think that's inside the compound. And evidently the people running the predator training camp don't find anything odd about somebody doing stealth gardenign in it, because it's not like the guy is hiding the crops.

You'd think predator training would involve learning how to use scent to track down where the idiot who made a garden inside the training grounds is hiding, but Holbrook is just so inconsistent about this poo poo.

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (May 29, 1938)



This owns so goddamn much. They got in a fight with another dude so they could keep fighting each other.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Wormi



Rhymes with Orange





Get Fuzzy 3/23-24/00



Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Out of curiosity, what country does this originally come from?

Sweden.

Tendales
Mar 9, 2012


Cleaned up, disembodied fist removed

big mood

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




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.


Hagar is a good boss.

In today's Croto Maltese: The first joke that popped into my head was something along the lines of 'I didn't realise that strange fruit trees could grow in a climate this far East', and now I hate myself even more than I thought possible, or Corto listens to the headlining song from Straight Outta Compton on repeat, or Jamie Madrox? Where did you come from? (I am so glad I had to actually look that up to get the guy's name



Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

The Bloop posted:

Isn't her company the good one because it only hunts animals* that choose to live in the wild instead of civilization?

I wonder if it's basically just the homeless




*people

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

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 11/4/53


They'll Do It Every Time 10/24/46


Mopsy 11/3/42

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake


Moomintroll and the End of the World



PLÖTSLIGT is my favorite Swedish word.



Strontium posted:

Dark Side of the Horse


This was nice gag.

Kennel fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Mar 26, 2020

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
I'm the activated charcoal hot dog wieners in Dustin.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Intet nytt fra hjemmefronten

(I work with kids and learned the hard way that wearing white clothes are a bad idea and that having a spare change is absolutely necessary)

Zelda

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

howe_sam posted:

This owns so goddamn much. They got in a fight with another dude so they could keep fighting each other.

They flipped a coin for who got to do it. That's an incredible burn on the worth of that other knight.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (August 24, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (August 24, 1998)



Garfield Classic (August 24, 1988)

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



jfc Zelda is awful

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Did... did she just make her school-age children pay for their own dinner? :stare:

The Bloop posted:

Isn't her company the good one because it only hunts animals* that choose to live in the wild instead of civilization?

I wonder if it's basically just the homeless
While any person with even a basic understanding of subtext would most likely come to that conclusion, we're dealing with Bill Holbrook here. He. does. not. understand. subtext. They are animals who live in the wild. Nothing more, nothing less. Unless it's explicitly on the page, it's never occurred to him. You simply cannot analyse any Bill Holbrook comic the same way you'd analyse other media and expect any degree of coherence, because he just doesn't write it that way. Not even subconsciously.

I still like Nemi, but I'm not sold on Other Nemi.

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.
I think Nemi is loving poo poo. I quite like Zelda otoh.

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Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Tiggum posted:

Did... did she just make her school-age children pay for their own dinner? :stare:

I didn't read it that way, although I see how it could be interpreted as such.

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