Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

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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

you broke my grill posted:

did people before smart phones spend all their time having conversations with randos at fast food restaurants

there's more than one everett true strip about him drowning some knucklehead's life story in their soup.

Nekonaughey

Bogor 1975

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# ? Feb 12, 2025 08:18

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Wallace is so consistently good

Both the comic and the character

# ? Mar 28, 2020 00:53

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

Selachian posted:

Rhymes with Orange

Get Fuzzy 3/26/00

This is one of my favorite Get Fuzzys and I have no idea why.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 01:43

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

Mother Goose & Grimm

Hagar The Horrible

Sherman's Lagoon

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Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

Kennel posted:

Yay, the Bridge Scene up next(?)

You know what? I feel like posting a double feature today.

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 12, 1938)

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 19, 1938)

Marry me Hal Foster :allears:

# ? Mar 28, 2020 02:14

MariusLecter: Sep 5, 2009; NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Who honeymoons at a closed Summer camp?

# ? Mar 28, 2020 02:25

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

Prince Valiant loving rules

# ? Mar 28, 2020 02:43

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009

I had forgotten that Val just loving cuts a guy's head off on the comics page but I am so happy to remember.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 02:55

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Manuel Calavera posted:

Foob

For gently caress's sake. Delivery people face the same lovely driving conditions as anyone else; don't force some poor sod making next to nothing drive out with a pizza for your spoiled asses.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 04:40

Resident Idiot: May 11, 2007; Maxine13; Grimey Drawer

Medenmath posted:

You know what? I feel like posting a double feature today.

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 12, 1938)

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 19, 1938)

Marry me Hal Foster

This is just whitewashing the Battle of Stamford Bridge!

# ? Mar 28, 2020 04:41

Gatto Grigio: Feb 9, 2020

Comic Strip Thread 2020: My Beautiful Sword is Thirsty

# ? Mar 28, 2020 05:08

Angular Cyrus: May 29, 2007; everything is so much harder than it looks

King Aroo 11/6/53

They'll Do It Every Time 10/26/46

Mopsy 11/5/42

# ? Mar 28, 2020 05:09

amigolupus: Aug 25, 2017

Johnny Walker posted:

"I was just so in love with you that the only way I could express it was to kiss you out of the blue, whether you wanted it or not!" says the Nice Guy.

Calaveron posted:

Reminder that this third baby coming up for Lynn is a complete fabrication of her autobiographical comic and was created to try to pressure her husband into having a third child
And of course Johnston couldn�t help herself into turning into a martyr over it

I've read the speculation that Lynn pressured her first husband to have a child to keep their marriage going, so this doesn't sound too surprising. Between pressuring the partner in a loveless marriage to have a child, and having a huge thing for someone despite being married, does this make Anthony Lynn's self-insert? Is that why Lynn was so adamant to have him marry Liz in the comic's ending?

Drimble Wedge posted:

For gently caress's sake. Delivery people face the same lovely driving conditions as anyone else; don't force some poor sod making next to nothing drive out with a pizza for your spoiled asses.

Lynn Johnston parachute account spotted. :v:

# ? Mar 28, 2020 05:11

Just Dan Again: Dec 16, 2012; Adventure!

Medenmath posted:

You know what? I feel like posting a double feature today.

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 12, 1938)

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 19, 1938)

Marry me Hal Foster

This is amazing. It's a crying shame that I'm only just now seeing these comics.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 05:27

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Val killed fiddy men

# ? Mar 28, 2020 05:41

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.

In today's Corto Maltese: We finally find out who our mysterious friend actually is, or Nothing is true, everything is permitted, or I've used this link before to played after the last panel of the last page and by God, I'm using it again

# ? Mar 28, 2020 05:50

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

amigolupus posted:

"I was just so in love with you that the only way I could express it was to kiss you out of the blue, whether you wanted it or not!" says the Nice Guy.

I've read the speculation that Lynn pressured her first husband to have a child to keep their marriage going, so this doesn't sound too surprising. Between pressuring the partner in a loveless marriage to have a child, and having a huge thing for someone despite being married, does this make Anthony Lynn's self-insert? Is that why Lynn was so adamant to have him marry Liz in the comic's ending?

Lynn Johnston parachute account spotted.

I actually met her once or twice when I was a teenager; I grew up in North Bay, and she lived in Corbeil, a small town just on the outskirts. (if it sounds familiar, I've posted about it before)

https://www.fborfw.com/news/video_lynn_and_the_pattersons_in_3d/

For Better or For Worse � Now on Main Street!
North Bay locals may have noticed a new addition to the Main Street area of the North Bay Regional Health Centre.
Statues of the Patterson family, from the For Better or For Worse, are now on display.

I vaguely remember a similar sculpture of the Pattersons making a brief appearance downtown, I want to say in the eighties? Didn't last long and I assume it got whisked into storage somewhere. I remember there being bananas. I came across the video above while googling for evidence.

Also, apologies if anyone's already found this, but here are the first and last Foobs:

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/09/09/first-and-last-for-better-or-for-worse/

quote:

The first For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston was September 9, 1979.

quote:

That strip was a Sunday, the dailies started the following day on September 10, 1979.

So....the poo poo on the radio sank in after all? :psyduck:

quote:

The strip ran for 29 years, with dailies ending on August 30, 2008�

quote:

and the final strip, like the first one, being a Sunday. This dated August 31, 2008.

That page also notes that in the 20s, there was a strip called For Better or Worse:

And now, a more realistic look at the suburbs:

Scary Gary

Drimble Wedge fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Mar 28, 2020

# ? Mar 28, 2020 05:55

Bell_: Sep 3, 2006; Tiny Baltimore
A billion light years away
A goon's posting the same thing
But he's already turned to dust
And the shitpost we read
Is a billion light-years old
A ghost just like the rest of us

NRVNQSR posted:

~~Yeah, it's called Zelda now.~~

For whatever reason the author has declared that the end of Severed Alliance is the official end of the strip and these, the final three stories, didn't happen. No-one's really sure why.

My personal theory is that Grendel and Sengupta are so likable and well-adjusted they make the rest of the universe's cast look bad by comparison so he had to erase them from history.

The other characters really grew on me, too.

When Bad Machinery started, I was afraid I wouldn't like the new cast as much as the old, but it didn't take long for me to get on board and overall I liked it more than Scary-go-Round.

With the new characters, I just have faith in him telling stories with new characters in a familiar setting.

On that note, thanks to the thread for introducing me to Steeples. It's a treat.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 06:07

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

# ? Mar 28, 2020 07:07

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Family Circus

Rose is Rose

One Big Happy

Foob

Compu-Toon

Bizarro

# ? Mar 28, 2020 07:38

amigolupus: Aug 25, 2017

Drimble Wedge posted:

There's something rather tragic about Lynn's sentiment here about your commitment lasting a lifetime, considering her own failed marriages.

Strontium posted:

God, I hate Daddy Daze so much. This stupid baby acting however it wants is the loving worst.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 08:14

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Nemi

Intet Nytt Fra Hjemmefronten

Zelda
]

# ? Mar 28, 2020 08:50

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

Fingerpori

# ? Mar 28, 2020 08:51

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

Drimble Wedge posted:

Yikes. This one just sounds like a passive-aggressive threat now that I know what was going on with her personal life at the time.

Cheer Up Boss Dharma

The long line in the second panel is going to date weirdly for future readers. But I didn't want to actually explicitly say coronavirus since it wasn't in the original. The word used is actually literally historical event, which naturally doesn't flow at all in spoken English.

The very technical nature of the word used leads me to believe that Dharma's reaction in the second panel is intended to be read as ironic sarcasm.

Lackey is probably not the best word here. I also considered junior, but lackey felt better for natural spoken English. My dissatisfaction mainly stems from the fact that I think Dharma is referring to a subordinate in the management track rather than one of his regular employees but the word used doesn't actually make that explicitly clear.

Plural nouns in Korean are typically implied rather than used explicitly. So while "cigarettes" would be the most naturalistic way to phrase this in English, it would create a noun disagreement relative to the previous question. Which I'm pretty sure we do all the time in spoken English but it looks weird as hell in print in my opinion. So that's why the punchline is singular.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 09:21

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Surgeon's Tales

Nancy

Dustin

Mandrake

Moomintroll and the End of the World

Do the whales in the Moomin universe regularly find chewing gums of that size?

# ? Mar 28, 2020 09:25

How Wonderful!: Jul 18, 2006; I only have excellent ideas

Alhazred posted:

Zelda
]

That guy's wine is going to tip over and then we'll all be at sea.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 10:29

dordreff: Jul 16, 2013

Alhazred posted:

Nemi

# ? Mar 28, 2020 11:12

Mikl: Nov 8, 2009; Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Manuel Calavera posted:

Foob

_{I am so very sorry.}

# ? Mar 28, 2020 11:23

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

Angular Cyrus posted:

King Aroo 11/6/53

That's cute

Reminded me of this:

# ? Mar 28, 2020 11:26

Parahexavoctal: Oct 10, 2004; I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

Angular Cyrus posted:

King Aroo 11/6/53

The stuff she says to summon the ghost isn't gibberish, it's Tagalog.

Per Newsweek in 1952, as quoted in Allan Holtz'z "Stripper's Guide" blog:

quote:

To the editors of The Philippine-American Advocate, a new monthly tabloid in San Francisco, however. Wanda�s incantation conjured up something quite meaningful. Last week, in its first issue, The Advocate explained that the chant, �halika, multo, madali, madly,� is purest Tagalog for �come here, ghost, quickly, quickly.� It was not the first time nor the last time that King Aroo characters would chatter in the native language. Jack Kent, the Texan who draws the strip, had studied the language while overseas in the Philippines with the Army. Moreover, for the witch talk, he had even checked the Tagalog with authorities at the National Language Institute of the Philippines.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 14:03

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.

Parahexavoctal posted:

The stuff she says to summon the ghost isn't gibberish, it's Tagalog.

Per Newsweek in 1952, as quoted in Allan Holtz'z "Stripper's Guide" blog:

Neat!

# ? Mar 28, 2020 14:06

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

Docks

Retail

Zip

Rip

Dick

Duck

# ? Mar 28, 2020 14:42

readingatwork: Jan 8, 2009; Hello Fatty!; Fun Shoe

Old School Peanuts (Aug 14, 1951)

Calvin and Hobbes (May 1-2, 1987)

Robbie and Bobby (Aug 13-14, 1951)

# ? Mar 28, 2020 15:34

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

amigolupus posted:

There's something rather tragic about Lynn's sentiment here about your commitment lasting a lifetime, considering her own failed marriages.

Hell, one of the people that old lady is talking to is a divorcee.

"Aww, poo poo! Made her sound too reasonable! Better remind everybody that she is active on social media!" -Team Evans, probably

# ? Mar 28, 2020 15:37

gleebster: Dec 16, 2006; Only a howler; Pillbug

In Julet Jones, Pops wonders why he has to do everything himself.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 15:42

Rand Brittain: Mar 24, 2013; "Go on until you're stopped."

Got a letter back from John Allison! He was pleased that people are enjoying the reruns and said the following about Wen-Tack:

John Allison posted:

In answer to your question, I started the Wen-Tack story when I was writing two comics books a month for Boom, and working on developing a third for another company, which gestated for a long time but never came out. It was a huge amount of work in terms of coming up with ideas. I wanted to keep drawing comics (I had not taken a real break for 20 years) but had no material to draw myself, so I wrote those strips. In isolation, taken singly, some are good work, some bad, some indifferent, but the curve of the writing was steeply downwards - I burned myself out completely. That’s why I took them down, I shouldn’t have made them in the first place.

# ? Mar 28, 2020 15:57