Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

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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

baby jesus has a more american work ethic than adult jesus who takes days off.

Bogor 195

And that's the first year of Bogor. IMO, the collection should've ended with Bogor being busted by the fuzz but this is the truth of the matter.

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Angular Cyrus: May 29, 2007; everything is so much harder than it looks

King Aroo 11/24/53

They'll Do It Every Time 11/16/46

Mopsy 11/26/42

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Tuxedo Ted: Apr 23, 2007

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Oct. 02, 1938)

Aw yeah, the ol' Anonymous Tourney Entrant gambit! I love these!

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Lodin: Jul 31, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Yeah, real big mystery who the mysterious white knight with no bloody pants could be.

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Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma

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MariusLecter: Sep 5, 2009; NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Another thing, BEASTARS will show you animals killing each other. Not have it off panel and sanitized with euphemism.

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There's also the theme of systemic violence and not just gags for the wacky world the animal people live in.

MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Apr 15, 2020

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Evrart Claire: Jan 11, 2008

MariusLecter posted:

Another thing, BEASTARS will show you animals killing each other. Not have it off panel and sanitized with euphemism.

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There's also the theme of systemic violence and not just gags for the wacky world the animal people live in.

How much I love Beastars just makes Kevin and Kell all the more unbearable.

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PetraCore: Jul 20, 2017; 👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

Zerilan posted:

How much I love Beastars just makes Kevin and Kell all the more unbearable.

Beastars sounds like Feast For A King crossed with Kevin and Kell.

# ? Apr 15, 2020 02:13

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.

The original tag was "Ted Forth Goes Off His Meds," but in some neighborhoods it's hard to tell who is and isn't these days.

But seriously, the real world finally caught up with Sally Forth.

Skippy (November 12 and 14, 1932)

Peanuts (April 16-17, 1973)

Nothing catches up with the two-year lead time of the Funkyverse, which means TomBat can dedicate a week of Funky Winkerbean to the godlike creators of newspaper comics...

...while Crankshaft wistfully calls back to a world before social distancing.

9 "The Pin-up Curves Of A Woman Who Just Had Twins" Lane

Rip Haywire

Out Our Way (May 3-5, 1934)

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Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

There's a Queer Eye for the Straight Guy joke in there somewhere but I just can't see it.

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Chef Bourgeoisie: Oct 8, 2016; by Reene

Howard Beale posted:

Mr. Martin originally pulled a gun on Ash Dashley in the second panel, didn't he? It's so strange to see the retrospective alterations (Steve's license plate changing from "HORNY" to "HEY BABY", etc.)

I think so, but these strips are missing from the physical collection.

Bloom County
July 8th & 9th, 1981

# ? Apr 15, 2020 02:42

curtadams: Mar 24, 2019

How Wonderful! posted:

I also, for the sake of safety first, went back through the Essential DtWOF and read the whole thing, partially for fun but partially to see how bad the transphobic stuff was. I'm happy to report that it never gets very bad, and is only ever really uncritically indulged in here and there with Mo expressing resentment over being mistaken for a trans man. Bechdel does frequently later show us characters being naive, ignorant, or condescending about trans people, but rarely without a more informed character there to correct them and educate them.

I have been a big fan of Bechdel all the way back to the first storyline strip (the first I saw; I didn't see the early standalones until I bought the first collection). At the time, I thought Bechdel was deliberately tackling issues that were controversial in the community without taking strong sides on then, including bisexuality and trans, which were much more controversial within the community then than they are now. Presenting both sides and vacillating on which one is correct is an essential part of Bechdel's "observer" style, as exemplified by Fun Home, where she never resolves the crux of the book (did her father commit suicide, or was it an accident?) even though she dwells on it extensively.

I think part of the reason she made Mo annoying and harder to identify with was that as the protagonist and obvious author insert, Mo's proclamations would naturally tend to carry authentic authorial authority* and I think Bechdel wanted to weaken that. (It's also a lot easier to write jokes about seriously flawed characters.) Mo is *supposed* to be wrong sometimes and I don't think it's appropriate to hold it against the strip when she is.

At the time I remember it being rather contentious whether "Lesbian and Gay" should be extended to "Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual" and in the 80's and 90's how trans people should fit into the community produced some heated debate. I think it's just the style of the strip that some more benighted attitudes would get at least a semi-sympathetic presentation and that genuine opinions from within the community rarely get a strong comeuppance even if they "deserve" it. Real people think and even do bad things sometimes, and I think Bechdel wants to show that, and it made the strip feel much more "real" to me than any other comic from the LGBTQ community.

* yes that's a joking nod to her penchant for alliteration.

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Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.

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Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

random Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

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Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Zelda

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Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

I wonder how far in advance Fort Knox strips are stockpiled. If quarantine is affecting the creator's work-flow to any degree. If he just spends the exact same amount of time and effort on it while isolating. It's such a foodless puke of a comic.

# ? Apr 15, 2020 05:22

amigolupus: Aug 25, 2017

FrumpleOrz posted:

Safe Havens SHUT UP THAT PLANET IS LEGALLY YOUR CHILD

This and the way that DNA Wizard and her husband treat Mars like a complete non-entity are the two things that piss me off the most about this stupid comic.

FrumpleOrz posted:

See? She could have easily slipped under that loving noose and spared us this stupid storyline.

EasyEW posted:

"Batton Thomas"? Real loving subtle there, Tom Batiuk.

And once again, Cayla exists nothing more than to be a prop for Les and his bullshit.

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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 midnight stroll, or Raspa fails his charisma check, or "Save it for Queen Dopple-popolis!" - Rasputin

# ? Apr 15, 2020 05:53

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

Sailor Cat posted:

There isn't one, some people just like Baby Jesus, he's less preachy than Grown-Up Jesus. Also, this is a child praying, it's a Kids Say the Darnedest Things comic

(I have an effort post in me somewhere about the elevation of Christmas in American Christian culture, the gist of which is that a lot of the blame lies in Protestant influence and capitalism; this brought about heightened popularity to iconography of the Nativity and infant Jesus, and that image has thus influenced the early religious education of countless children, so it's natural that Ruthie would both latch on to Baby Jesus and confuse him for a separate being.)

I feel like there's another level to it. Ruthie is custom-tailored to appeal to a very specific focus group (insufferable old people), so this Jesus/Baby Jesus thing must be something that reaffirms and conforms to their world view and doesn't register as odd.

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Parahexavoctal: Oct 10, 2004; I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

Keeping Up With the Joneses - is this assuming it's normal and commonplace for people to raise chickens at home, or is that part of the joke?

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fondue: Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban

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My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

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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

it's more likely than i thought

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gleebster: Dec 16, 2006; Only a howler; Pillbug

In Juliet Jones, crusty old Mr Snell just may end up saving a life.

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LazyQ: Feb 22, 2011

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CEO Teuvo Isopaljo (hint: his name is literally Bigmuch), one of the principal characters in the series, vying for a seat in the 1976 county elections (October 17.-18.). The depression he talks about was largely the result of the oil crisis, a bit late and fairly light thanks to Finland's ties to Soviet Union. Rising unemployment peaks at the end of the decade.

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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 01:08 on Jul 25, 2022

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Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Professor Wayne posted:

Zits

How is a 16 year old supposed to owe taxes at the end of a year?

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Tiggum: Oct 23, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Stultus Maximus posted:

How is a 16 year old supposed to owe taxes at the end of a year?

Because no one who writes comics understands how income tax works.

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you broke my grill: Jul 11, 2019

Jeremy probably got a pay raise that put him into a higher tax bracket

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Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

Professor Wayne posted:

I very vaguely remember seeing the first and third ones before but the second and fourth ones are so disturbingly and unfamiliarly macabre they almost seem off brand.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Jul 25, 2022

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