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Parahexavoctal posted:I'll admit to being surprised that Larson expected his readers to be aware of the 1979 essay collection Broca's Brain, by Carl Sagan, which includes Sagan reminiscing about the time he found Paul Broca's preserved brain in a jar. It's my favorite out of his series. Sagan's humility shows in describing what it felt like to hold this particular organ. The rest of the text is really a very approachable primer on the evolutionary development and function of the brain.
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I don't know if anyone here is interested but there's a photoshop thread in GBS for Quarantine Comics. I'm trying to come up with some stuff, but thought it might be up some of your respective alleys.
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Darthemed posted:Docks Does Cesar stay in Boondocks for a while, because I don't remember him and he loving sucks. I'm actually shocked-but-not-really at how poorly Boondocks has aged for me. The good stuff is still good but it misses a lot more than it hits. Adam ![]() BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Wallace ![]() Curtis ![]()
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Bloom County June 26th & 27th, 1981 Y'ALL READY FOR SOME OPUS?! ![]() ![]() Also, unbanning my account means new avatar! ![]() Though I miss my tag... would it be possible to get it back?
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Oh god, Opus learns how to speak from Mr. Rogers? That's pretty dope actually.
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In this installment of Keeping Up with the Joneses, Clarice wants to look as fancy as one of "the 400". From what I can tell, the whole notion of the 400 being important and influential may have been decades on the wane by the time this strip was originally published, in which case it would have been a second joke: not only is Clarice's outfit so expensive-looking that Aloysius fears his boss will suspect him of embezzling, but Clarice wants to look like part of a group that nobody cares about any more.
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i'm glad opus is being introduced in bloom county. now we just need bill the cat and it'll be (mostly) on par with the later runs. oliver's been shown a time or two earlier on already. bill will be a funny addition given the thread since he's about as literal of a garfield parody as you can get.
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Ghostlight posted:Classic Cat 17-8-4 oh my tiny heart ![]()
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quote:Does Cesar stay in Boondocks for a while, because I don't remember him and he loving sucks. I know that in the show he’s completely gone except for a cameo episode where we learn that he and Huey had a falling out and it ends with Huey getting headbutted. The writers knew Cesar was a poor fit for the more brash tone of the cartoon.
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Gatto Grigio posted:I know that in the show he’s completely gone except for a cameo episode where we learn that he and Huey had a falling out and it ends with Huey getting headbutted. are you sure that was caesar? i feel pretty confident that was someone else, if you're talking about the episode where huey visits his old home after a friend died. but yeah, even beyond that, caesar is more optimistic in general which can kind of clash a bit given some of the subjects. definitely wouldn't have really fit in with the show, and only manages to 'work' in the comic due to relatively gag-a-day comics usually trying to be at least somewhat. uh. positive, usually?
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Aug. 28, 1938) Thank you so much for posting old Valiant. I had no idea how much Hal Foster had influenced media I've been consuming my entire life. ![]()
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Darthemed posted:Retail My lack of retail experience is showing since it's not really clear to me why Coop would prefer to use the customer parking lot rather than the employee parking lot. quote:Dick Unsubtle as the pro-cop propaganda may be here I gotta appreciate how classic Dick Tracy goes all out when it comes to making antagonists a credible threat. Whereas in the modern one the latest anatagonist is foiled because he...uh...decided to help his sister out with her low level con when he was supposed to be laying low and she specifically asked him not to? quote:Duck In general I've liked Howard the Duck but wow. This storyline featuring an art critic of all people as the villain did not even age slightly well. Cheer Up Boss Dharma ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I frequently have to change the titles of these once I finally see the word used in context. Originally I was going to call this one "The Method", for example.
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Some Guy TT posted:My lack of retail experience is showing since it's not really clear to me why Coop would prefer to use the customer parking lot rather than the employee parking lot. In a big shopping mall, the employee parking lot is guaranteed to be the farthest possible parking area away from the mall's entrance. Back when I worked at Fry's electronics, the employee parking was around the side of the building, and our Loss Prevention person said it had the most cameras watching it so our cars were safer. It was still a little bit of a hike in the summer heat, but nowhere near as bad as a huge mall parking lot.
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Some Guy TT posted:My lack of retail experience is showing since it's not really clear to me why Coop would prefer to use the customer parking lot rather than the employee parking lot. a lot of the time, the place where employees have to park is more of a pain in the rear end to have to walk from to get into the store, and depending on what shopping center/whatever it's in, the space designated for employees of a certain business might be in a really pain in the rear end place or all the way across a gigantic parking lot on the opposite end so that customers get all the ones right up front, even if it's mostly empty at the time. this all can also be an issue if someone is coming/going really late at night or early in the morning, because the threat of getting mugged or something is most likely a bit higher in some of these employee parking spots because the chances of them being as well-lit or covered by security cameras is usually a fair bit lower than the customer parking areas being 'safe' not that the second thing is part of the joke here, but, still
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Retail has done at least one joke where Cooper drives to work, parks, and pulls out a bike so he can actually get to the mall.
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i forgot entirely about the mall security guard character in Retail
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Hostile V posted:Oh god, Opus learns how to speak from Mr. Rogers? That's pretty dope actually. It's the best ![]() Johnny Joestar posted:i'm glad opus is being introduced in bloom county. now we just need bill the cat and it'll be (mostly) on par with the later runs. oliver's been shown a time or two earlier on already. On one hand, it'll be funny, but Bill also leads into the Trump stuff eventually I'm most excited for Cutter John joining in
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King Aroo 11/18/53![]() They'll Do It Every Time 11/9/46 ![]() Mopsy 11/19/42 ![]()
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:On one hand, it'll be funny, but Bill also leads into the Trump stuff eventually Yeah, that Trump stuff at the end of Bloom County can't have aged well. I think that was my introduction to both Trump and Bill The Cat as a child, for better or worse. 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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Johnny Walker posted:
So what I'm getting here is that Dawn is so oblivious that she chats with Hugo all the time but somehow still manages to fall for Jared. Goddamn, Arn, that's some wicked ![]() Christ, this is so loving stupid. There's so much stupid poo poo in here that I don't even know where to begin. ![]() DNA Wizard and her crew just told Earth about one of their discoveries, and it's already loving everyone up so bad.
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amigolupus posted:So what I'm getting here is that Dawn is so oblivious that she chats with Hugo all the time but somehow still manages to fall for Jared. Yeah, she's doing a lot of those mental gymnastics that cheaters do to convince herself and everyone else that she is not at fault, the affair just happened without any encouragement from her, she was just living her blameless life in a virtuous way and then the sun got in her eyes and just tripped onto that dude's dick, but actually she's just an ordinary everyday cheater and this is your typical run-of-the-mill affair. Acting like she needs to meet Hugo in person to decide which of her two cocurrent boyfriends is her destiny is just further attempting to remove blame from herself. And when Hugo arrives and announces that he, too, has been cheating the moral justification will be complete and she will not only have fully absolved herself of all guilt, but will be able to tell herself that her affair was a good thing that
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amigolupus posted:So what I'm getting here is that Dawn is so oblivious that she chats with Hugo all the time but somehow still manages to fall for Jared. It's like a story told by an alien.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä as a native minnesotan, who can't escape his background no matter what, "His fate was set, to slip into the icy waves with his moped on an ice fishing trip" is pretty much what i fear will be my eulogy
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Angular Cyrus posted:Mopsy 11/19/42 I'm choosing not to read the text on this one
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Some Guy TT posted:Cheer Up Boss Dharma I like the joke of the doctor licking his finger to turn the page. Oh wait, I despair of this joke because of how often it's happened in real life!!! Anyway, onto today's Corto Maltese: Corto to the resc-! Oh. Nevermind, or Venexiana to the resc-! Oh. Nevermind again, or Deus ex Marianne ![]() ![]() ![]()
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yeah sure Val wields Excalibur or whatever and kills five men before as well as for breakfast but can he OK Boomer a tyrant king into immediate submission? YEAH DIDN'T THINK SO
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Are we finally getting the weed growing hedgehogs you promised us?
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She's studying art, right? I'm sure that high-paying job is just around the corner.Darthemed posted:Docks FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens Also, can a state governor even grant residency? Wouldn't that have to be a federal thing?
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Julet Esqu posted:Yeah, she's doing a lot of those mental gymnastics that cheaters do to convince herself and everyone else that she is not at fault, the affair just happened without any encouragement from her, she was just living her blameless life in a virtuous way and then the sun got in her eyes and just tripped onto that dude's dick, but actually she's just an ordinary everyday cheater and this is your typical run-of-the-mill affair. Acting like she needs to meet Hugo in person to decide which of her two cocurrent boyfriends is her destiny is just further attempting to remove blame from herself. And when Hugo arrives and announces that he, too, has been cheating the moral justification will be complete and she will not only have fully absolved herself of all guilt, but will be able to tell herself that her affair was a good thing that If this is what's going to happen, I'm going to be so pissed. I've seen a link in Comics Curmudgeon that there's this Mary Worth storyline where Dawn almost got into an affair with a married man, so you'd think she'd know full well what she's doing. Tiggum posted:If they don't have any income or property, what taxes would they even have to pay? Holbrook putting "you'll be entitled to our benefits" and "as long as you pay your taxes" in the same sentence makes it sound like a ploy to get the merfolks' treasures. And even if this governor could somehow grant residency, they only serve for four years. Wouldn't it be possible for a racist governor to get elected down the line and overturn this decision?
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (September 6, 2008) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (September 6, 1998) ![]() Garfield Classic (September 6, 1988) ![]()
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Hel posted:Are we finally getting the weed growing hedgehogs you promised us?
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Surgeon's Tales Oh boy!![]() ![]() I hope using the term "Moor" is acceptable here. The book uses "Morian" [Swedish] / "Murjaani" [Finnish]. AFAIK, The Moors were North African/Iberian Muslims, but the term was/is also often used to refer dark skinned Africans. Please let me know, if it's horribly racist or something. Nancy ![]() ![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() Redneck ![]() Kennel fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() Fort Knox ![]()
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Kennel posted:I hope using the term "Moor" is acceptable here. The book uses "Morian" [Swedish] / "Murjaani" [Finnish]. AFAIK, The Moors were North African/Iberian Muslims, but the term was/is also often used to refer dark skinned Africans. It's fine.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Hagar The Horrible How old is Count Weirdly, anyway? Well, in Juliet Jones, a new story starts with the introduction of brush-cut flyer Ace Jackson and his necktie scorning pal, Kiwi. ![]()
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gleebster posted:How old is Count Weirdly, anyway? Well he has a time machine.
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