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fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban





In 1976, about when this comic came out, De Laurentis put out a King Kong movie starring a mid-20s Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange.

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Rand Brittain
Mar 24, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."

The_Other posted:

9) ?Cockroach?

Shelley's most dangerous foe, the EARWIG.

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
'40s Mark Trail 12/30/46–1/1/47




Mark Trail '94 5/5–7


Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Doctor Camel?!!

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



gleebster posted:

A Juliet Jones analogy: as Charlie Ng was to Leonard Lake, so is Kiwi to J Jonah Jackson.
If that's true things are gonna get real dark real fast here.

F Minus



Mark Trail



Is that supposed to be Mark in the middle panel?

Mary Worth



Didn't take long for Hugo to start talking about how much better thing are in France.

The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Why did that loving idiot fly from France to New York and then go out for French food

Just to be a poo poo, I guess

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

Ok, so I stand by what I previously said: The Phantom's doing a better Mark Trail story than Mark Trail has in a long time.

Also:


I've enjoyed this stupid storyline.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (Oct. 16, 1938)

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



catlord posted:

Ok, so I stand by what I previously said: The Phantom's doing a better Mark Trail story than Mark Trail has in a long time.

Also:


I've enjoyed this stupid storyline.
I agree on both counts!

Sailor Cat
Aug 28, 2019

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Wow, nobody posted last Sunday's Blondie nightmare fuel? (Including me, I saw in GBS.)

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth



Didn't take long for Hugo to start talking about how much better thing are in France.

can this storyline end tomorrow with Dawn going "Oh yeah! Now I remember that you are insufferable" and leaving him with the bill

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Tiggum posted:

I don't get it either. But also, you're a grown adult, Dustin. You can eat popcorn any time you like.

One of the hardest realizations of my early adult life was that I can now buy and eat massive amounts of candy, but I no longer want to buy and eat massive amounts of candy.

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
The Mouse Catching Corner

Garfield



Heathcliff



The Winged Creatures Yell and Swear Corner? :shrug:

Overboard



Monty

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

No thanks to Lizzo..

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Oct. 16, 1938)



I never realized before that PV has little "save this stamp" collector stamps in the upper corners. Collect all 12,802 of them!
ed: Huh, never knew there was a site that would have a comment about them:
"Comment: Cutout "stamps" picturing the main characters were an added feature on the corner of the strip logo starting with page 83 and ending with #329.:

From https://www.princevaliant.org/index.html

Pigsfeet on Rye fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Apr 17, 2020

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

Sailor Cat posted:

Wow, nobody posted last Sunday's Blondie nightmare fuel? (Including me, I saw in GBS.)



He really missed a gag by not having the third talking food item be chopped liver.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Oct. 16, 1938)


Panel 3: an older Val on another adventure involving time travel

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

The Dinette Set gets in a pretty good zinger.


Working Daze SOCIAL DISTANCING DO YOU GET IT?


Super-Fun-Pak Comix is heavy.


Cul De Sac doesn't look safe to me.

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 11/26/53


They'll Do It Every Time 11/19/46


Mopsy 11/28/42

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 JUST LEAVE. LET HER DIE.


Safe Havens


Kevin & Kell


Mother Goose & Grimm


Hagar THe Horrible


Sherman's Lagoon

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

FrumpleOrz posted:

On The Fastrack JUST LEAVE. LET HER DIE.

WHAT

WHY

WHAT

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

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

I loving hate Holbrook. Every single Fastrack strip he's putting out in this societal landscape just makes me angrier and angrier. The sheer lust for authoritarianism and corporate boot-licking is loving disgusting and that's coming from a collection of works that are increasingly becoming the Forgotten Realms of newspaper comics. I think the thing that ultimately makes it worse is the jovial and playful way he's made a reliable part of his entire design ethos, this winking and happy "I really like visual metaphors!" style that gilds the poison oak.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

WHY ARE THEY WORKING FROM THEIR BOSS'S HOUSE?

Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

His characters don't have natural conversations either; everything they say is them explaining the scene to onlookers/the reader.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Does the Fastrack comic even have anything besides 'visual metaphor, character A explains metaphor to character B'? Maybe he can't figure out a way to do that setup long-distance.

Mister Olympus
Oct 31, 2011

Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Zanzibar Ham posted:

Does the Fastrack comic even have anything besides 'visual metaphor, character A explains metaphor to character B'? Maybe he can't figure out a way to do that setup long-distance.

He has the whole virtual-space avatars thing to do that, but much like a particularly oblivious dog, he cannot recall anything he's written down unless it's put directly in front of his face

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

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

Like, okay, I know the forums rules of "don't be creepy" but this whole turn in On The Fastrack weirds me the gently caress out because it keeps reading as a weird authoritarianism fetish to me. She's having employees work from her house.

This comic, in particular, just sits in my stomach like a lead weight.



None of this is okay. Not a single part of this is okay. I understand that this character's defining characteristic is She's Boss Lady Who Controls All. But the language of the strip, the body posture, it just has strong overtones of [heavy breathing] enjoyment. This isn't "out-of-touch boss being out-of-touch" or any sort of Pointy Haired Manager shenanigans you get with, like, Dana from Working Daze. I get more than "control freak" vibes in the same way that one knows what obscenity is when one sees it and it's just making me incredibly uncomfortable for Bill loving Holbrook to put this poo poo in the newspapers with all of the confidence of a mediocre white male writer he throws around on a daily basis. And I would feel like these gut feelings would be reading too much into this if this wasn't Bill Holbrook who never saw a metaphor he couldn't take at face value and a pregnancy he couldn't shoehorn in.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

Mister Olympus posted:

He has the whole virtual-space avatars thing to do that, but much like a particularly oblivious dog, he cannot recall anything he's written down unless it's put directly in front of his face

Maybe he's afraid if he does it all with avatars in the virtu-verse then once the situation's over he'll have forgotten what everyone used to look like in the Before Times.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
So you're saying there will be a ghost pregnancy storyline?

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

FrumpleOrz posted:

Kevin & Kell


Reminder: Fiona recently killed and cannibalized another person.

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



Hostile V posted:

Like, okay, I know the forums rules of "don't be creepy" but this whole turn in On The Fastrack weirds me the gently caress out because it keeps reading as a weird authoritarianism fetish to me. She's having employees work from her house.

This comic, in particular, just sits in my stomach like a lead weight.



None of this is okay. Not a single part of this is okay. I understand that this character's defining characteristic is She's Boss Lady Who Controls All. But the language of the strip, the body posture, it just has strong overtones of [heavy breathing] enjoyment. This isn't "out-of-touch boss being out-of-touch" or any sort of Pointy Haired Manager shenanigans you get with, like, Dana from Working Daze. I get more than "control freak" vibes in the same way that one knows what obscenity is when one sees it and it's just making me incredibly uncomfortable for Bill loving Holbrook to put this poo poo in the newspapers with all of the confidence of a mediocre white male writer he throws around on a daily basis. And I would feel like these gut feelings would be reading too much into this if this wasn't Bill Holbrook who never saw a metaphor he couldn't take at face value and a pregnancy he couldn't shoehorn in.
also the entire thing is about social distancing and working from home and she's in like both her employees' personal spaces let alone six feet.


Bogor 1976


StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

And we've been shown that Deathany goes home to her boyfriend/fiancee/whatever the gently caress he is despite working at her boss' home so it's safe to assume her coworker is also going home, and that these people are not social distancing at all, and therefore they're complicit in murder.

Good Listener
Sep 2, 2006

Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool
Man that Bogor hedgehog loves getting baked huh? Hey whatever he wants to do.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

in this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, I don't know if using "not at liberty" to mean "not available" was actually common, or if Momand contrived it for the sake of the joke.

(Just in case: Aloysius is deliberately misparsing 'not at liberty' to mean 'in prison'; 'pinched' = 'arrested'.)

Note the extra joke: Mr. Bonehed has a Funny Name, tee hee.

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Parahexavoctal fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Apr 17, 2020

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Intelligent Life







Daddy Daze


Take It From the Tinkersons


Dark Side of the Horse


Fort Knox

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Parahexavoctal posted:

I don't know if using "not at liberty" to mean "not available" was actually common, or if Momand contrived it for the sake of the joke.
It's definitely a phrase I've heard before (in that context).

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

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: Corto gets Rasputin breakfast treasure in bed, or Rasputin has a hard time thinking ahead, or Fiat Lux!



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Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



She probably deserves whatever is going to happen.

Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake


Redneck


It's a pun.

Kieli = String OR tongue

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