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riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty

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Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007






So for those of you who don't grab comics from Go Comics, the site doesn't just let you go straight to today's comic.* Instead, it shows you a cropped thumbnail of the middle of whatever the comic is and you click through to today's. I knew as soon as I saw that middle panel in the thumbnail without reading the text that Luann was about to say something lovely and Bernice-y. (And I was completely unsurprised that Pru took it as a compliment. I'm well aware, BTW, that this sort of statement absolutely CAN be a compliment; I've done it myself. But the difference is you have to say it with a laugh and a smile, not a look of heavy-lidded disapproval.)



*Or maybe it does and I haven't found the magic url. Whatever.

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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


... again, is he grinning about being punched in the face?

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

by Reene
Bloom County
June 16th & 17th, 1981

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Looks like he got stabbed :ohdear:

(Thanks for finding it.)

Technowolf
Nov 4, 2009




riderchop posted:

Overboard



Monty



Strange new artstyle for Monty.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Technowolf posted:

Strange new artstyle for Monty.

It's at least third time this has happened within the last couple of weeks, so I'm starting to believe that's just how Monty looks now. :haw:

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK







Modesty Blaise



riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!

Kennel posted:

It's at least third time this has happened within the last couple of weeks, so I'm starting to believe that's just how Monty looks now. :haw:

monty makes my brain mush most when it's about this little rich kid, sorry

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Transmodiar posted:

Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK



Anybody want a cut-out from panel 4? Those are some pretty good expressions. Not-Lottie is has a terrible poker face.

Jvie
Aug 10, 2012

rannum posted:

Or like let's look at his most "grounded" comic, On the Fast Track. People here have routinely brought up how Deathany rolls over for her boss and yadda yadda yadda and that stems to me as something Holbrook didn't intend but just happens because he didn't think about hwo any of the behavior comes across. He routinely points out how the boss is lovely, overly demanding, steps into all their lives constantly (multiple strips have had the joke of Deathany enjoying coming home only to be pulled in by her boss and the gag is usually a bad pun as she puts on a : ( face) but also no one really leaves (except the security guard?) and Deathany is also shown as doing her job with a smile & trying to reign Trells in and loving it as much as she hates it because it just depends on what Holbrook decides the "gag" should be without thinking how any of it could actually be read as.

Everyone in Safe Havens rolls their eyes & sighs at how Fastrack is still around and funding this mission and putting in various capitalist tendencies all the way through but also everyone still goes with it and and she continues to be doing these things because Holbrook just wants bad boss jokes with a dash yof greedy corporation jokes.

It's a unique flavor of bad to me, amplified by the fact Holbrook has been doing 3 strips every day (except sundays with Safe Havens) for like 40 years

Speaking of an unique flavor. Sometimes the punchline of a comic elicts a response, sometimes it falls flat. Generally the number of flats goes up as a strip ages and zombifies, but somehow, Holbrook just keeps trucking, 40 years and counting. I can't call his comics good in the usual sense, but I appreciate them. Reading this thread they are a daily bucket of cold water to my face. A pain that reminds me that I'm alive. The man has engineered the polar opposite of a punchline. Terrible instead of delightful, but just as potent.
Even now, without fail, reading the final panel of a Holbrook strip makes me groan and regret that I did that. Every single one of them That's amazing consistency for a daily strip.

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

EBB posted:

Anybody want a cut-out from panel 4? Those are some pretty good expressions. Not-Lottie is has a terrible poker face.
I never thought of the new batch as analogues for the Bad Machinery cast, but I'm curious: what makes makes Charlotte most like Georgia?

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange



Get Fuzzy 4/2/00

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

The Dinette Set knows it all.


Working Daze needs to learn how perspective works.


Super-Fun-Pak Comix is inevitable.


Cul De Sac rethinks things.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

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

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Holbrook seems forced. I find most of his punchlines tedious, obvious or just plain absent. Not something that would generate a meaningful response, an "Ugh" at most. It's like an algorithm writing comic strips, but a competent one rather than the entertainingly-under-trained markov chain of a Boyce comic. Nothing but a few thousand awful webcomics feeding into a bland "science-fantasy melodrama but boring because it's somehow less dramatic than family circle" mess.

Safety Dance
Sep 10, 2007

Five degrees to starboard!

Some Guy TT posted:

Cheer Up Boss Dharma


I'm curious, what does he mean "The gas is tidied up"?

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Safety Dance posted:

I'm curious, what does he mean "The gas is tidied up"?

Switched off so it's not wasted heating an empty apartment, I assume.

Gloomy Rube
Mar 4, 2008



Johnny Walker posted:


I'm usually OK with Dustin's sister giving him crap. Siblings can be like that. It's that his father—the physical manifestation of old white male privilege—does nothing but pile on that I have a problem. Also when he is inexplicably cruelly shot down by every single woman he approaches in what appears to be a completely polite and healthy manner.

We haven't seen anyone -succeed- at meeting women in this comic, which leads me to believe that the author is someone who buys wholesale into PUA nonsense but realizes it's abhorrent enough to never show it in his comic. He's just too -meek- to be attractive, you see. :rolleyes:

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (Jul. 31, 1938)

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Selachian posted:

Get Fuzzy 4/2/00



root
Jun 17, 2000

Booska mask replica...
Mmmmmm... That's good bass! :coolfish:

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Jul. 31, 1938)



Thagnar really just kinda snoozing here jeez.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Kennel posted:

It's at least third time this has happened within the last couple of weeks, so I'm starting to believe that's just how Monty looks now. :haw:

For real, though, use imgbb if you want to avoid this stuff. Getting all your links at the same time basically makes it impossible to accidentally post duplicates.

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 (November 4-5, 1932)





Peanuts (April 5-6, 1973)





Funky WInkerbean





Crankshaft





9 "OKAY. EVERYTHING MAKES YOU HORNY. WE GET IT." Lane





Rip Haywire





Thimble Theater (November 2-3, 1936)





Out Our Way (April 26-28, 1934)





Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
Yeah... yeah, we're definitely back to Brooke McEldowney sucks and must be destroyed.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Jul. 31, 1938)

Ilene in the bottom left panel looking out at us like, "Can you believe this poo poo?"

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Hwurmp posted:

Switched off so it's not wasted heating an empty apartment, I assume.

Yes, that's it. Literally all the lines in the last panel read "locked" and since there was no way to replicate that in English I ended up losing track of what verbs I could use that would just make logical intuitive sense for the situation.

Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Apr 4, 2020

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Bell_ posted:

I never thought of the new batch as analogues for the Bad Machinery cast, but I'm curious: what makes makes Charlotte most like Georgia?

In the new batch of Mystery Kids I see attributes of the old batch but jumbled up, from characterizations to how they look. Georgia strikes me as mischievous in the way that Lottie was. A force for good that is not above some mild blackmail.

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


CzarChasm posted:

Funky has basically been winning the life lottery ever since Lisa died (which is a really twisted thing when you think about it). And even then, it was life being unfair to Funky. Back in the classic days he had a bully, but that was one guy.
You're thinking of Les Moore. Funky Winkerbean is a different person.

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

Tiggum posted:

You're thinking of Les Moore. Funky Winkerbean is a different person.

To be fair, we focus so much more on Les it's absurd it's still called 'Funky Winkerbean'. At least when Nancy took over Fritzi Ritz they changed the name.

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.
Les Moore is a good newspaper strip pun title too. It's a legitimately better name for a strip than Funky Winkerbean.

The Lockhorns


Brewster Rockit Space Guy


On The Fastrack


Safe Havens


Kevin & Kell


Mother Goose & Grimm


Hagar The Horrible


Sherman's Lagoon This never ends.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

FrumpleOrz posted:

Kevin & Kell


Lion? Thought they were poaching a tiger?

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 11/13/53


They'll Do It Every Time 11/4/46


Mopsy 11/13/42

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

Another one of the recurring themes of Keeping Up with the Joneses is that the McGinises were gullible rubes who would accept anything if they were told it was fancy and expensive.

I'm not sure if the spelling "mut" was a contemporary alternate of the modern "mutt", or if Momand was just sloppy.

The name "Ethelbert McGinis" was recycled by the 1942 movie "Mr. Wise Guy".

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Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

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



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Locher Tracy





Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



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.



Goodness, that's a good 'un.

In today's Corto Maltese: Rasputin - still a better drill sergeant then Hartman, or 'With friends like these, who needs enemies?' - Enver Pasha, or Rasputin - still a better musician than Lennon or McCartney



Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Jul 25, 2022

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda



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My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Sally there's having trouble finding a job and there's walking into the one place that gave you an interview recently all like OH GODDAMN IT IT'S YOU MOTHERFUCKERS AGAIN

e: on the other hand you don't want to take that job and I guess you might as well not take it in style

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goatface
Dec 5, 2007

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

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
It's not the strongest opening gambit for someone consulting on hr, but she does need to be able to point out the toxic relationships.

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