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Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Isn't that Mandrake's evil brother, too?

Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

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Alterian
Jan 28, 2003


Caught up with the quarantines I see.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

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?)

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

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?

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

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.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




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?
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.

Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

Scary Gary





Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Retail




Zip


Rip


Dick




Duck

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007





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.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Dykes to Watch Out For #23 (1988)


We're into 1988 now! I have nothing else to say about this one.

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

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:



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.

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.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Kennel posted:

And the taxes were used to fund the libraries.
Everything has a cost.

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

Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:
We get it, the old man is sick and miserably poor. Move on.

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
Mark Trail '46 12/26–28




Mark Trail '94 5/2–4


Sailor Cat
Aug 28, 2019

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

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?)

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

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


Support Tauhid's Patreon here.

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.

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003

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

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
Since this conversation came up all I can think of is this

https://youtu.be/dao908l9k0M?t=65

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

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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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


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

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

by Reene
Bloom County
July 10th & 11th, 1981

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

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

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.

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.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

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 :wtc: is this art.

Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:

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

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Scary Go Round: The Great Unboxing









Modesty Blaise



Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice

FrumpleOrz posted:

Mother Goose & Grimm

What
is happening here?

Bingo Bango
Jan 7, 2020

I didn't think I could hate Working Daze more than I already did, and yet here I am.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Darthemed posted:

What
is happening here?

Star Wars.

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



Darthemed posted:

What
is happening here?

The dog froze the mailman in uh... yellow carbonite.

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

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.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

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.

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

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.

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

I don't think Phantom is being very reasonable here. Dude got pushed into a campfire and from the lighting it's still burning.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005


:stonk:

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



Nekonaughey




Bogor 1976



MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1250438197789655047?s=20

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 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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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

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