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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.
Continuing now with Sally Forth's Greatest Nightmare.





Skippy (November 7-8, 1932)





Peanuts presents the happiest day in Charlie Brown's young life. (April 9-10, 1973)





Funky Winkerbean





Crankshaft





9 "Well, We Saw The Babies For One Whole Panel. BACK TO NONSTOP loving." Lane





Rip Haywire





Thimble Theater, featuring some good old-fashioned father-son bonding. (November 5-6, 1936)





Out Our Way (April 30-May 2, 1934)





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Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Safety Dance posted:

Does SA still have a rule about hotlinking images?

e. god, the the 14-year-old forum rules are really showing their age.
If there is, my apologies, but I didn't have a textual way to exactly explain what the reaction I had to that stupid loving strip was.

e: god drat it is Bull's widow gonna start dating the other guy with CTE but he's not an rear end in a top hat so it's the Right kind of "devoting yourself to someone", are they gonna bond over cleaning up the remains of Bull's life and then build a new love on that foundation or am I misreading the smug looks they're giving each other.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005


The Lighter Side of Children Dying In A Freak Accident

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

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



Taco Defender

FrumpleOrz posted:

I've really disliked it too. It's so condescending without having any sort of substance. Are these strips recent or are they from the height of Dawkins and the like?
I remember seeing most of these ~10 years ago, so definitely not recent.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Buni



Rhymes with Orange







Get Fuzzy 4/4-6/00





rannum
Nov 3, 2012

JethroMcB posted:

I have to say it every now and then: I legitimately love The Lockhorns. Despite the fact that the thrust of the strip is two people constantly sniping at each other, it never comes across as mean-spirited; It's two cranks who got together and appreciate what they have.

Yeah I found myself really digging the lockhorns. I think the art helps, but the sniping is way more comical than I dunno, similar actions you might see in other comics.


I also find it charming how the Sunday stripes are literally just a full week of new strips. The author just belts these bad boys out endlessly, a fountain of sniping

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?
It's weird how The Lockhorns, a comic that is blatantly the inspiration for a Super Fun Pack Comix recurring gag, is actually a pretty decent strip.

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 has no right being as consistently good as it is. It's a one-joke comic but somehow it's managed to not get stale.

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: Raspa takes a turn for the worse, or Wait, no, he's all better now, or Seems Enver Bey's men learned a few things from the British occupation of India



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

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017


So these morons just gave the people of Earth a mermaid fetish, and they think they sent a message of unity and inclusiveness. :wtc: I wonder if Holbrook is so outdated that he thinks dating apps are used purely for dating, and not for hooking up.

I also hate the implication that as soon as they heard that you can gently caress mermaids, some humans on Earth quickly invented phones that can work deep underwater. Or that enough mermaids have bought those phones for there to be an audience for Flounder.


Okay, this is just depressing. Poor kid just wants to do what he loves. :smith:

Hostile V posted:

If there is, my apologies, but I didn't have a textual way to exactly explain what the reaction I had to that stupid loving strip was.

e: god drat it is Bull's widow gonna start dating the other guy with CTE but he's not an rear end in a top hat so it's the Right kind of "devoting yourself to someone", are they gonna bond over cleaning up the remains of Bull's life and then build a new love on that foundation or am I misreading the smug looks they're giving each other.

I somehow doubt they'd get together. Everyone smirks all the goddamn time in this comic that it lost all meaning. And remember, the person Linda confided her secret that Bull killed himself and she's covering it up to get the insurance was loving Les, not this guy who's spent all his screentime being there for Linda and Bull, not like their so-called friends.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

FrumpleOrz posted:

The Lockhorns has no right being as consistently good as it is. It's a one-joke comic but somehow it's managed to not get stale.

A lot more effort and thought put into it I'm sure than most people would think at first glance.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Haifisch posted:

Also, even the woman who invented them has gone on record as saying they're pretty loving dumb.

Nevermind that they've killed at least two people already.

Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 11/17/53


They'll Do It Every Time 11/8/46


Mopsy 11/18/42

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

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

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

FrumpleOrz posted:

On The Fastrack



I know he has no editor, but that middle panel reads terribly.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Dykes to Watch Out For (1987)

The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival was an outdoor music festival that began in 1976 and became notorious in the early 90s for its "womyn-born-womyn" only policy, that is to say, its exclusion of trans women. I'm not sure if Bechdel had that policy on her mind or was even aware of it in 1987-- the strip's track record with trans issues is hit or miss, as we'll see in awhile.

While the g spot has presumably existed for centuries, it's presence in the cultural lexicon only predated this strip by a few years, being coined in either 1981 or 1982 and named after the German physician Ernst Grafenberg, also the inventor of the IUD. Alice Kahn Ladas, Beverly Whipple, and John D. Perry's The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality was a NYT best-seller in 1982 and was at the center of a lot of conversations about womens' sexuality throughout the decade. I think part of the little gag here is not just that Lois is being sexually frank in a way that freaks Mo out, it's also that she's using a hip buzzword-- that's my theory on the bold lettering at least, which feels conspicuous for what it is.

The AIDS crisis in 1987 was still often treated as a problem for gay men (Randy Shilts' And the Band Played On, which exposes a lot of the homophobia surrounding the federal government's response to the epidemic, came out in 1987 as well). Lois' assumption here would have been by no means uncommon and I as we'll see more strongly tomorrow Bechdel is doing a little bit of a PSA on top of expanding Lois' and Mo's characters here. In 1987 the AIDS epidemic was still in the midst of a steady rise, with 13,329 deaths that year. To continue with the healthy loathing of Reagan that Dykes to Watch Out For invites us all to indulge in, '87 was also a watermark year in AIDS exploding into mainstream national conversations-- aside from a very very brief mention in a 1985 news conference, it was the first year that the Reagan administration took it seriously to any substantial degree (see Larry Speakes' appalling and jokey dismissal of the subject in 1984).

Parthenogenesis is a mode of asexual reproduction in which an embryo develops without any hassle or intercession from sperm. The gemstone thing and Lois' partner Amethyst are, I guess, references to the New Agey crystal healing fads that were still a going concern throughout the 80s and 90s and depending on where you live into the aughts and up through today. If there's anything to this reference beyond Lois going to a hokey sounding pseudoscience workshop I'm not sure what it is. I think it's just a joke about Lois' bad taste in women but I could be wrong. But who knows, maybe Cartoon Network owes Bechdel some money.

How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Apr 8, 2020

Turpitude II
Nov 10, 2014

Angular Cyrus posted:

They'll Do It Every Time 11/8/46


i like the kid's pose in the last panel. just, can you believe this poo poo? V:confused:V

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



Zelda continues being the worst.

Fingerpori:


"Let's not make a big number out of something" is a Finnish colloquialism for "let's not make a big deal out of this". But I guess it works both ways.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




M


Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (September 5, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (September 5, 1998)



Garfield Classic (September 5, 1988)

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

MariusLecter posted:

Like who would say no to a waffle AND a shot of whisky?

thank you for sorting out tomorrow's quarantine breakfast menu

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




BigglesSWE posted:

Norweigan comics tend to be quite up their backsides. See also: Pondus, Nemi, and Zelda.

I think Norway as a society tends to be a bit obnoxious when it comes to christianity. A lot of our fairy tales for example portrays priests as dumb and corrupt.

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä

LazyQ fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Apr 8, 2020

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

EasyEW posted:


9 "Well, We Saw The Babies For One Whole Panel. BACK TO NONSTOP loving." Lane





This sure brings back memories of when my wife delivered our first child by c-section and I thought "wow, she certainly has the exact same body now as she did before she conceived!" and then she repeatedly jumped on me for sexual relations because she was so well rested and free of distraction!

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
I think the secret of Bunny Hoest's No Exit, as Josh Fruhlinger pointed out, is that Leroy and Loretta both get off on all the bickering.That's why they keep inviting people to dinner and such. They need an audience.

Anyway, in Juliet Jones, Don is making sure Chip knows where matters lie now, but I think he better not press his luck.

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Crabgrass


Support Tauhid's Patreon here.


Old School Peanuts (Aug 24, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (May 19-20, 1987)






Robbie and Bobby (Sept 8-9, 2015)



Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.


Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Jul 25, 2022

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Have... have you ever seen a cat, Sanna?

Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake


Redneck

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Scary Go Round: Parents







Modesty Blaise



Shai-Hulud
Jul 10, 2008

But it feels so right!
Lipstick Apathy

Nonono. This is all wrong. She just had a baby! She should be doing ballet and gently caress like rabbits!

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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




interesting timing on those.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jul 25, 2022

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Lots of classic comics about sticking your pinky out today.

Some Guy TT posted:

Cheer Up Boss Dharma





It's a joke, yes, but it's also true. It's amazing how many people think gloves are a magic shield that no germs can cling to. I had a co-worker I had to nag about it all the time. "If you touch something dirty with your glove, your glove is now dirty! If you touch a clean thing with your dirty glove, that clean thing is now dirty! You are contaminating this whole office!" He would just argue with me about it even when our mutual boss would interject that I was right. He got fired finally, thank god.


Angular Cyrus posted:

They'll Do It Every Time 11/8/46


:eng101: ADD has a genetic component!



Say what you will about Foob (you'll probably be right), but there is one thing I'll give it. At least you can tell it was written by someone who has had a baby, or has met a person who has had a baby, or is at least familiar with the concept of a person having a baby. This is clearly not true for all comic strips portraying people who have recently had babies. Now, I know the McEldowney bar is a really low one to clear, but I have been trapped in my house for weeks and I find my standards are incredibly variable right now.




This still sucks, though.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Really enjoying the Modesty Blaise graphic novel. The larger and varied panel size is doing it a lot of favors.

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




M





Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

Live, laugh, kupo!

Julet Esqu posted:

It's a joke, yes, but it's also true. It's amazing how many people think gloves are a magic shield that no germs can cling to. I had a co-worker I had to nag about it all the time. "If you touch something dirty with your glove, your glove is now dirty! If you touch a clean thing with your dirty glove, that clean thing is now dirty! You are contaminating this whole office!" He would just argue with me about it even when our mutual boss would interject that I was right. He got fired finally, thank god.

I've had some flashbacks to my radioactive material training. It helps snap me into awareness; I'm usually a heavy fidgeter but when I remember that stuff I can stay aware of where my hands are and keep things under control. Then after I get home and cleaned up I shake for a few minutes to get all that pent-up fidgeting out of my system.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
I was wrong, the WEN-TACK arc is really solid and good.

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Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



How Wonderful! posted:

(see Larry Speakes' appalling and jokey dismissal of the subject in 1984).
I never saw this before but the press was disgusting too.

Julet Esqu posted:

Say what you will about Foob (you'll probably be right), but there is one thing I'll give it. At least you can tell it was written by someone who has had a baby, or has met a person who has had a baby, or is at least familiar with the concept of a person having a baby. This is clearly not true for all comic strips portraying people who have recently had babies. Now, I know the McEldowney bar is a really low one to clear, but I have been trapped in my house for weeks and I find my standards are incredibly variable right now.
He does have a daughter.

F Minus



Mark Trail



They seem less surprised by Rusty running off than Kevin, but that's because Rusty definitely has a history of running off and doing stupid poo poo.

Mary Worth



It's impossible to enjoy sandwiches together on video chat.

The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G

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