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BigDave posted:Don't forget the CIA helping the Contras smuggling cocaine into the US and laundering a quarter of a billion dollars. Yeah, it's an endless and appalling rabbit-hole. I'd be curious to see how other comics with some degree of topicality (like Bloom County or Doonesbury) treated it at the time, since in DtWoF it mostly lingers in the background.
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How Wonderful! posted:Yeah, it's an endless and appalling rabbit-hole. I'd be curious to see how other comics with some degree of topicality (like Bloom County or Doonesbury) treated it at the time, since in DtWoF it mostly lingers in the background. * As in, the problem is never that she's 'too angry' at things, but that she doesn't know how to turn it off.
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Nekonaughey![]() I just want to take an aside to complain about the paucity of English onomatopoeia. The "yum"s in this one are stand-ins for ホクホク, which describes the thing being eaten as soft, flaky, crumbly and fresh but also doubles to describe someone as being pleased with themselves in a happy manner. Bogor 1975 ![]() ![]()
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The Dinette Set uses space efficiently.![]() Working Daze is probably an actual conspiracy theory. ![]() Super-Fun-Pak Comix is a bad mix. ![]() Cul De Sac isn't going to lose a lot of sleep over this. ![]()
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How Wonderful! posted:Yeah, it's an endless and appalling rabbit-hole. I'd be curious to see how other comics with some degree of topicality (like Bloom County or Doonesbury) treated it at the time, since in DtWoF it mostly lingers in the background. As far as pop culture goes it's a pretty appalling dearth which fits with the equally horrifying laggardness the news media covered it with at the time. It gets my blood boiling when anyone talks about Bush I being an honorable respectable president when he literally abused pardon powers to cover up crimes he was involved in, something that Trump has only ever discussed doing hypothetically. Ghostlight posted:Bogor 1975 This does not strike me as the most succulent way to consume a snail. Cheer Up Boss Dharma ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's no equivalent to the revolting pun in the original. I just couldn't think of any other word that really worked. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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Percival, you idiot!
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Pastry of the Year posted:Angular Cyrus is a Comic Strip Thread All-Star: not only do they find and post sharp and super-clean comics from decades ago, but they also are really good at nailing the style of just about any artist they care to cover, e.g. this all-time favorite of mine: This is great, by the way. ![]()
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How Wonderful! posted:Have some mid-afternoon Dykes to Watch Out For since I finished student conferences early: "Me too, please rant at me again!"
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side Why am I finding this so funny? Why?! In today's Corto Maltese: Ras gets the lowdown from Corto, or Rasputin follows the philosophy of Diogenes on mankind's condition, or Aux armes! Aux armes! ![]() ![]() ![]() Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Surgeon's Tales![]() ![]() Well then... Nancy ![]() ![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() Redneck ![]()
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great now i'm going to be thinking about dutch dwarf dick all night
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Evil Mastermind posted:The Dinette Set uses space efficiently.
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Oh man, I almost forgot to post Classic Luan! Can you imagine what a travesty that would have been? Classic Luan ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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I remember ages ago someone making the comment that what messed Luann up is that even though the characters have gotten older over time their characterization hasn't actually changed. The result being that jokes which seem perfectly fine in the context of middle school girls come off as egregiously immature when placed in the mouths of college students and young adults. Classic Luann is doing a really good job of driving that point home I think.
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Classic Luann seems like it's trying to ape Peppermint Patty and Marcie, except really badly. Luann has been pretty whiny so far. And knowing how she acts in the current strips, Bernice's complete indifference except to ask Luann excitedly if she can have her skates and stereo paints their interactions here in a completely different light. Some Guy TT posted:I remember ages ago someone making the comment that what messed Luann up is that even though the characters have gotten older over time their characterization hasn't actually changed. The result being that jokes which seem perfectly fine in the context of middle school girls come off as egregiously immature when placed in the mouths of college students and young adults. Classic Luann is doing a really good job of driving that point home I think. It says a lot that you can copy/paste what they're saying here into the current strips and it wouldn't feel out of place at all.
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (September 4, 2008) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (September 4, 1998) ![]() Garfield Classic (September 4, 1988) ![]()
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The last couple of Zelda strips have really highlighted something to me, which I think explains yet another reason why I dislike the Zelda/Cesar relationship so much. It’s probably because Nova and her brother have been present. Cesar and Zelda look like they’re siblings.
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Kennel posted:Surgeon's Tales The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Batman's Shameful Secret > Comic Strip Thread 2020: A Dutch Dwarf Called Dick Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis And A&J is always about loving. Mikl fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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Ghostlight posted:great now i'm going to be thinking about dutch dwarf dick all night Quite the name for a WWE wrestler, eh? The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Batman's Shameful Secret > Comic Strip Thread 2020: A Dutch Dwarf Called Dick Seconded Pigsfeet on Rye fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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In Juliet Jones, Don is kidding himself if he thinks Eve understands that.![]()
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Mämmilä![]() "Speedvau-bar". Again, literal translation, no idea. Maybe "speedway", when characters speak english it's usually written in a way that emphasizes pronunciation, I decided to leave it as is. Minibike, or mopo in finnish, was motorized transportation du jour for a finnish teen back in the day (since you won't get driver's license until 18). Common still back in the 90s, kids these days seem to opt for scooters or proper light motorcycles. Think Suzuki PV or Honda Monkey. LazyQ fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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1. Reagan was a monster 2. That's the worst looking Reagan ever 3. Reagan was was...a monster
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons
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Okay so let’s deduct those 77 from the list of deaths he caused. Which is hardly a blip on the heap of HIV-related deaths during his administration, I imagine.
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Poil posted:She is on the wrong side to see the right side of his head, idiot cartoonist. On the one hand, yes On the other hand, of all the not-amazing artists in this thread, Bettwy is most likely to knuckle down and actually keep dad's hair like this for a bit and show it growing out bit by bit, week by week Idk why, he's super lazy about a lot of details, but this strikes me as the kind of thing he'd randomly want to depict realistically
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I mentioned this last time Ripley brought it up, but "77 people were ever in danger of drowning" is a really lovely loving record for a lifeguard. Adam ![]() ![]() ![]() BCN ![]() ![]() ![]() I appreciate that Georgia Dunn timed this storyline to take place during actual Wrestlemania, which was last weekend. Phoebe ![]() ![]() ![]() Wallace ![]() ![]() ![]() Curtis ![]() ![]() ![]() Those two things are not the same, Billingsley!
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä I think that this is growing on me, please keep posting it. It kind of reminds me of the subtle small-town humor in Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon Days.
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*Gasp* Hisssssssssssss (gently caress gender reveals. There are very few situations where they're actually good.)
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Gender reveal parties are one of the times I think people who talk about "The Straights" have a point.
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gender reveal parties were the inevitable next step after Nevaeh gaining traction as a given name
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The Far Side Pickles ![]() Zits ![]() Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Vargo posted:
What a monumental waste of Sunday funnies space
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