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Isn't that Mandrake's evil brother, too? Family Circus ![]() Rose is Rose ![]() One Big Happy ![]() Foob ![]() Compu-Toon ![]() Bizarro ![]()
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Manuel Calavera posted:
Caught up with the quarantines I see.
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Hwurmp posted:why does Interpol have bows and arrows I haven't been reading Mandrake, but I don't think they're with Interpol, just commenting that she's got a codename there (which is a longer version of the name she's been going by?)
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Oct. 02, 1938) Forgive me, I don't know all the backstory so I have a silly question: If Val is a prince, why is he working as a lowly squire, and hoping for a knighthood? Doesn't his royal blood mean he already outranks all that?
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Powered Descent posted:Forgive me, I don't know all the backstory so I have a silly question: If Val is a prince, why is he working as a lowly squire, and hoping for a knighthood? Doesn't his royal blood mean he already outranks all that? He's a son of an exiled viking king, so not a proper royal, I guess.
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Powered Descent posted:Forgive me, I don't know all the backstory so I have a silly question: If Val is a prince, why is he working as a lowly squire, and hoping for a knighthood? Doesn't his royal blood mean he already outranks all that?
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This bothers me. ![]() If she thinks getting a restaurant job is hard now, just wait until she gets a load of this new coronavirus thing all the Millennials are squawking about. Also and again, she is the co-owner of a local business. She does all their ordering and paperwork (which I assume includes their accounting since she does the bills for the household as well). This is a job. This can go on a resume.
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Dykes to Watch Out For #23 (1988)![]() We're into 1988 now! I have nothing else to say about this one.
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Julet Esqu posted:This bothers me. Same. The kid just wants to put some boundaries between her and her brother, but the way Michael constantly prods and threatens to rip it away is just really disturbing to me. Julet Esqu posted:
We've already had this exact storyline in Sally Forth, and it was more compelling there. Anything Team Evans does is going to be incredibly stupid in comparison.
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Kennel posted:And the taxes were used to fund the libraries. F Minus ![]() Mark Trail ![]() "Mom? Dad? Where are you going? I'm your son!" "We have no son." Mary Worth ![]() I don't think they even kissed after she got off the plane. The Phantom ![]() Pooch Cafe ![]() Well if they're filling up the cafe themselves, they must have gotten rid of the horses somehow, so mission accomplished. Now you need something to get rid of old ladies. Perhaps a flea infestation would do it. Rex Morgan MD ![]() Andertoons ![]() Apartment 3-G ![]()
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We get it, the old man is sick and miserably poor. Move on.
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My Lovely Horse posted: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. There really isn't. Children like babies and relate to them; Jesus's birth is a major part of Christian theology; Christmas is Jesus's birthday; Christmas is children's favorite holiday; children receive presents on the day we celebrate Jesus being born; there are shitloads of Christmas cards and Nativity scenes portraying Jesus as an infant; people often refer to him as Infant Jesus or Baby Jesus when they explain the Nativity/Christmas to children; children pick up on that naming convention and interpret it how they will; old people find it wholesome and charming. Christmas Jesus is much more child-friendly than Easter Jesus. Try explaining death to a six-year old, let alone resurrection and the redemption of Mankind's sins, and that they are personally responsible in part for Jesus's horrible death. It's a lot easier to start with Baby Jesus and Christmas. And remember that this is a comic strip about a six year-old praying; there's not as much to read into it as you may think. I used to think that the box that held communion wafers had the literal Body of Christ in it, specifically one of Jesus's hands. (Why, yes, I am Catholic, how could you tell?)
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Stultus Maximus posted:How is a 16 year old supposed to owe taxes at the end of a year? While it's probably more those other things people mentioned isn't he like 18. He's perpetually in his senior year or something, with colleg applications being a recurring gag some years. Not that I imagine he earns enough off their band and job (??) to earn taxes but it's...possibly....maybe...not out of the realm of possibility of beign something he'd have to do. readingatwork posted:Crabgrass Crabgrass is very good overall but I really love the ones that have the parents in them. It's a different vibe from most of the other strips. Just the right amount of exhaustion.
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Powered Descent posted:Forgive me, I don't know all the backstory so I have a silly question: If Val is a prince, why is he working as a lowly squire, and hoping for a knighthood? Doesn't his royal blood mean he already outranks all that? Kennel posted:He's a son of an exiled viking king, so not a proper royal, I guess. Alhazred posted:What Val's royal blood ensure is that he one day gets to be knight, commoners could not be knights, not that he gets to skip the training. I am no scholar of late ancient/early medieval social customs, and I have no reason to assume the low fantasy world of Prince Valiant would adhere to them perfectly anyway, but the way I see it is that a knight and a royal or noble are two different things. "Knight" is a job, and Val is eligible to become one because of his notable family, but he still has to earn it. Also I'm not sure being a prince means much other than what you inherit in an age of small kingdoms like the comic depicts. Even if Val's father were to reclaim Thule which he will of course, that doesn't immediately give Val anything. There was an event in the modern strips, which was like a decade ago in real time now, where Arthur stripped Val of his lands in England for causing some ruckus, leaving Val broke again. Luckily his wife is also a queen in her own right. Vintage Valiant (Oct. 09, 1938) ![]() ![]() Medenmath fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Apr 15, 2020 |
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Since this conversation came up all I can think of is this https://youtu.be/dao908l9k0M?t=65
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The notion of the husband wanting to escape from his wife has been a mainstay of comic strips for a long time, as seen by this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses. Momand's own marriage didn't do so well, so maybe he was projecting.
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The Lockhorns![]() Brewster Rockit Space Guy ![]() On The Fastrack Look how close the boss is standing to her employees while bitching about having people work from home. What garbage. ![]() Safe Havens ![]() Kevin & Kell ![]() Mother Goose & Grimm ![]() Hagar The Horrible ![]() Sherman's Lagoon ![]()
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack Look how close the boss is standing to her employees while bitching about having people work from home. What garbage.
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So between the holiday, stress, and losing power for two days I have once again fallen behind. So once again, I'm just going to do a catchup for Cul De Sac to spare everyone the pain of large clumps of bad comics.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I feel like those first three panels would look great animated. Just saying. fake edit: okay, I do have to show this one Working Daze because ![]() ![]()
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Hostile V posted:I look at this and every single emotion and thought this elicits is at least 90% uncut disgust and revulsion baked in there. This is just weird, creepy and obsessive behavior. And the alopecia skeleton just sits there and takes it with adoration
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FrumpleOrz posted:Mother Goose & Grimm is happening here?
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I didn't think I could hate Working Daze more than I already did, and yet here I am.
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Darthemed posted:What Star Wars.
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Darthemed posted:What The dog froze the mailman in uh... yellow carbonite.
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Transmodiar posted:Scary Go Round: The Great Unboxing First of all, I love that Scary-Go-Round retrospective in panel two there. Secondly, the punchline in that last strip make me laugh a lot.
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I know Howard the Duck is intended to be really weird and kinda unpleasant to look at, but I still think it sucks a lot.
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Green Intern posted:I know Howard the Duck is intended to be really weird and kinda unpleasant to look at, but I still think it sucks a lot. It seems a little grainy to me, and it feels a little difficult to read because of it. Which is a shame, I really like how it looks. Although, in general I haven't been hugely enthralled by it beyond that.
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Johnny Walker posted:
I don't think Phantom is being very reasonable here. Dude got pushed into a campfire and from the lighting it's still burning.
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https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1250438197789655047?s=20
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In today's Corto Maltese: Raspa channels his inner King Leonidas, or Tell that to Craino, Corto, I'm sure he'd appreciate it. OH WAIT, or <dry ice whoosh> THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO...![]() ![]() ![]()
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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() Fort Knox ![]()
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