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you broke my grill
Jul 11, 2019

As I understand the joke is that standing on the edge of the tub of lye is dangerous and you will die if you slip. I don't think there's anything deeper to it

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coronatae
Oct 14, 2012

My understanding is that one might expect that phrasing for a particularly difficult or dangerous machine, but here it's just...an actual tub of lye.

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017


What's really insulting is how Team Evans didn't even put in any effort to draw Pru getting proposed to. Reading between the lines, it seems like Pru's girlfriend didn't even bother meeting her in person and just sent her proposal in a loving letter. At least Holbrook actually draws his characters getting proposed to and looking pretty happy about it. This is just a really obvious ploy from Team Evans to get rid of their only LGBTQ+ character.


Mildred winning the kids over with her outlaw tales is very cute. :3:


For a second there, I thought he was throwing bottles into the portal that leads to Hellworld and we were about to be subjected to a Kevin and Kell crossover.


This was several pages ago, but I remember someone was wondering how poachers even work in Hellworld. Well looks like Holbrook's about to answer your question.

Johnny Joestar
Oct 21, 2010

Don't shoot him?

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somehow pru got passive aggressively fridged in a way i didn't know was possible and i can only assume it's because she's gay, and since the usual go-to in media for that is 'dies in the second or third act' i figure they had to come up with something else since it's a daily newspaper comic where death would be very jarring

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

amigolupus posted:

What's really insulting is how Team Evans didn't even put in any effort to draw Pru getting proposed to. Reading between the lines, it seems like Pru's girlfriend didn't even bother meeting her in person and just sent her proposal in a loving letter. At least Holbrook actually draws his characters getting proposed to and looking pretty happy about it. This is just a really obvious ploy from Team Evans to get rid of their only LGBTQ+ character.
She's going to catch the rona and die in NYC off-screen.

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

Rahonavis posted:

This is it. This is the one Far Side comic I never got and nobody I know could explain to me. Now unless it’s as simple as a pun on “Her heart is full of lies”, I still don’t get it.

I always figured it was something you'd say metaphorically about a person with a caustic personality, only in this case the old codger is being literal since, y'know, the vat of lye.

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

OneMoreTime posted:

Can't wait for Mary Worth to handwave Dawn cheating on Hugo like they did with Wilbur.

After Jared leaves her, Dawn gets jealous of Hugo's new girlfriend and embarrasses herself during a drunk Skype call...

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

M

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



Nekonaughey



Bogor 1975



so ends the greatest of friendships

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean
What the gently caress is a ray blaster?

You know what they always say about meteorologists: they loving hate the weather. :argh:

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

Tiggum posted:

What the gently caress is a ray blaster?

Remember, he was in Flash Gordon, Star Wars, Dan Dare, whatever the gently caress sci-fi movie he was in. And now he's trying to show he can do dramatic (and let's face it, Oscar-worthy) and... is he directing this himself? That's a lot of red flags, will we get to see what happens when Lisa's Story: The Movie bombs?

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

sweetguts
Apr 29, 2013

I know what I'm about.
Didn't Luann used to have a black friend who went off to a different college and hasn't been mentioned in like 5 years? Honestly I'm not surprised that Pru will also be Disappeared soon.

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics






Dick Tracy's Adventures In The Chicago Burbs




Locher Tracy




Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

catlord posted:

Remember, he was in Flash Gordon, Star Wars, Dan Dare, whatever the gently caress sci-fi movie he was in. And now he's trying to show he can do dramatic (and let's face it, Oscar-worthy) and... is he directing this himself? That's a lot of red flags, will we get to see what happens when Lisa's Story: The Movie bombs?

Please, call it by it's actual title: Lust for Lisa.

God, I can't believe Batiuk thought that was a good name for the Cancerwife movie.

sweetguts posted:

Didn't Luann used to have a black friend who went off to a different college and hasn't been mentioned in like 5 years? Honestly I'm not surprised that Pru will also be Disappeared soon.

Going by how hard Team Evans has been trying to make Bets unlikeable to their regular incel audience, it seems like Bets will be out of the way sooner or later too.


Out of all the ways for this to end, Spidey and Rocket trying to cram an unconscious Ronan into Rocket's ship never crossed my mind. Why is this strip so good? :allears:

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


catlord posted:

Remember, he was in Flash Gordon, Star Wars, Dan Dare, whatever the gently caress sci-fi movie he was in. And now he's trying to show he can do dramatic (and let's face it, Oscar-worthy) and... is he directing this himself? That's a lot of red flags, will we get to see what happens when Lisa's Story: The Movie bombs?
Oh, so a "ray blaster" is just meant to be a generic sci-fi gun? Okay. :geno:

sweetguts posted:

Didn't Luann used to have a black friend who went off to a different college and hasn't been mentioned in like 5 years?
Delta. Her thing was that she was smart and cared about school, so she went to a good university instead of the terrible one the rest of the cast went to. Of course, that doesn't explain why she's never been seen, heard from, or mentioned ever since.

Haifisch posted:

Dick Tracy's Adventures In The Chicago Burbs

"I'm 10-76 to your 10-20. 10-12." "Sirens!" :what:

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: Corto...? get's upset at Rasputin, or Rasputin has twenty seconds to comply, or Sorry everyone, this scan is so atrocious, I can even make a half-witted comment about it



Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake


Redneck

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005


so Zelda and Boy Zelda's terribleness is absolutely intentional

well played Zelda writer, you had me going for a minute

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (August 28, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (August 28, 1998)



Garfield Classic (August 28, 1988)

Cicadalek
May 8, 2006

Trite, contrived, mediocre, milquetoast, amateurish, infantile, cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism, eye-fucked me, affront to humanity, war crime, should *literally* be tried for war crimes, talentless fuckfest, pedantic, listless, savagely boring, just one repulsive laugh after another

this is amazing, and if I had the patience to learn how I would edit it to give the women flat asses

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Hwurmp posted:

Boy Zelda

His name is Link!

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

Pastry of the Year posted:

Arlo and Janis Classic (August 28, 1998)



The infield fly rule isn't nearly as arcane and obscure as its reputation would have you believe.

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
Dick doesn't really care about the racketeers, but he's dying for some good chopped chicken liver.

Anyway, in Juliet Jones. I hope Pops is careful crossing streets in the future.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Jul. 03, 1938)



I support Val putting a viking in the Sharpshooter.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Green Intern posted:

I support Val putting a viking in the Sharpshooter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJczWE1UHcg

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.



I was thinking that sharpshooter was wrong, but I didn't know what to actually call it. It's definitely the first part of the surfboard, but I don't know if there's a name for just that bit it on its own. :iiam:

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable


Dustin's shows off his skills as a negotiator. A good comic.


I accept this correction.

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

howe_sam posted:

The infield fly rule isn't nearly as arcane and obscure as its reputation would have you believe.

I just looked it up, and it seems pretty straight-forward. It's essentially to prevent runner traffic-jams, right?

Scenario: Bases are loaded, a flyball to the infield is hit. Without the infield-fly rule, the basement could intentionally choose to not catch the ball, immediately scoop it up, and then they could get multiple runners out, because the runners on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd are forced to move by the newly-running batter. Right?

Huxley
Oct 10, 2012



Grimey Drawer

Bobulus posted:

I just looked it up, and it seems pretty straight-forward. It's essentially to prevent runner traffic-jams, right?

Scenario: Bases are loaded, a flyball to the infield is hit. Without the infield-fly rule, the basement could intentionally choose to not catch the ball, immediately scoop it up, and then they could get multiple runners out, because the runners on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd are forced to move by the newly-running batter. Right?

Yeah, it's to protect the runners from an unwinnable position.

It's a good rule that makes perfect sense, it just doesn't come up that often and at some point became the thing writers mention when they talk about baseball being hard to understand.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Retail




Zip


Rip




Dick


Duck

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Huxley posted:

Yeah, it's to protect the runners from an unwinnable position.

It's a good rule that makes perfect sense, it just doesn't come up that often and at some point became the thing writers mention when they talk about baseball being hard to understand.

Well it is very unintuitive before you understand why it exists.

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe

Nice!

Old School Peanuts (Aug 17, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (May 7-8, 1987)






Robbie and Bobby (Aug 21-24, 2015)



Huxley
Oct 10, 2012



Grimey Drawer

Kennel posted:

Well it is very unintuitive before you understand why it exists.

Yeah, I should have said, "makes perfect sense after you have it explained." It's definitely the kind of thing that came up organically and everyone went, "wait no hang on that can't be how it works."

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
The Far Side

Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jul 25, 2022

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

gleebster posted:

Anyway, in Juliet Jones. I hope Pops is careful crossing streets in the future.


gleebster posted:


Anyway, in Juliet Jones. I hope Pops is careful crossing streets in the future.


I love how expressive they are. That "oh gently caress" misery on Chip's face.

You know who didn't like the expressiveness?

"A 1994 article about Stan Drake" posted:


One day, [Alex] Raymond paid Drake a visit as he was working on a Juliet Jones strip. “Back in those days, I was doing The Heart of Juliet Jones, and I was using Polaroid references of models. I gave them all kinds of expressions—fear, anguish, happiness—and Alex never did. And he came to me and said, ‘What is this thing with expressions you’re doing? It looks great.’ He complimented me on doing these real people in Juliet Jones. I couldn’t believe that the greatest artist in the world was asking me about expressions!”

Drake, as it turns out, was paying a price for introducing human expressions into his work: Sylvan Byck, then comics editor at King Features, was admonishing the 35-year-old Drake to drop the use of emotional expression in his characters’ faces. “Byck asked me, ‘What are you doing with these expressions? We don’t usually do that.’ He tried to put me down, believe it or not,” Drake said. “He said, ‘Just draw people.’ And I said, ‘I’m going to draw people the way they are. If you want to buy Juliet Jones, that’s what you’re going to get.”

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I like to give strips credit where it's due and this is a really dumb funny joke that was set up well.

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Johnny Joestar
Oct 21, 2010

Don't shoot him?

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thanks

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