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My Lovely Horse posted:narrowing down Zelda's buffer time, but the toilet paper feels strangely poignant It's a kitchen roll.
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Has hate for Holbrook overtaken McEldowney? A shocking turn of events, also why can I type McEldowney without even looking at the screen. Dammit.  Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  'Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!' 
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How Wonderful! posted:Did... did the bears eat Else...? No, they just broke up.
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B Kliban The 70s were chock full of disaster movies but it wasn't until 1980 they made a Titanic movie ... about raising it from the depths of the ocean. It was terrible.  
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My Lovely Horse posted:narrowing down Zelda's buffer time, but the toilet paper feels strangely poignant These are not current Zeldas. I'm not even sure what decade they're from.
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JethroMcB posted:can this storyline end tomorrow with Dawn going "Oh yeah! Now I remember that you are insufferable" and leaving him with the bill I'm going to be so loving pissed if this is what convinces Dawn to break up with Hugo. Instead of being a PSA about the dangers of negging, this is just going to lead to Dawn telling herself that she did absolutely nothing wrong when she cheated on Hugo. 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. Wasn't there a Dethany video talking about how to deal with your bosses being assholes and it came across as Dethany trying to defend staying in an abusive relationship instead? I think the worst part about this is that Holbrook's artstyle is cartoon-y and something you might see in children's comics. I remember reading some Kevin and Kell back when I was still a kid and thinking that it was just this cute comic about funny animals. Every hosed up thing about Hellworld and all the obsession with pregnancy went over my head. amigolupus fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Apr 17, 2020 |
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You know, I really don't think Holbrook is obsessed with pregnancy. He's just writing three soap-opera comics and pregnancy is a staple of soap opera. Bizarre visual metaphors? Yep, that's a Holbrook thing. Stockholm-like capitalist apologia? For sure. Horrifying implications stemming from an inability to understand context or subtext? Definitely. Pregnancy fetish? I just don't see it.
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Missed a day to not feeling well, so today's a double batch! Bloom County July 12th-15th, 1981     And John Davidson and Merv Griffin for reference (clickable for more info)  
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Tiggum posted:You know, I really don't think Holbrook is obsessed with pregnancy. He's just writing three soap-opera comics and pregnancy is a staple of soap opera. Bizarre visual metaphors? Yep, that's a Holbrook thing. Stockholm-like capitalist apologia? For sure. Horrifying implications stemming from an inability to understand context or subtext? Definitely. Pregnancy fetish? I just don't see it. I think it's a demographic thing. Goons, not to be too harsh about it, are more likely to be from sections of society that don't encounter pregnancy very often and consider it to be something weird and unusual. It doesn't take much hard math to realize that in real life pregnancy is much more common than most fiction represents.
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Tiggum posted:You know, I really don't think Holbrook is obsessed with pregnancy. He's just writing three soap-opera comics and pregnancy is a staple of soap opera. Bizarre visual metaphors? Yep, that's a Holbrook thing. Stockholm-like capitalist apologia? For sure. Horrifying implications stemming from an inability to understand context or subtext? Definitely. Pregnancy fetish? I just don't see it.  From the book blurb posted:Samantha finds herself caught in the middle as Jenny and Ming, two of her best friends, become pregnant simultaneously. Bambi’s summer concert schedule was intended to be the dominant occurrence of 2011, but the tour bus soon becomes a rolling delivery vehicle to parenthood.
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I continue to read neither Holbrook nor McEldowner. Anyway, in Juliet Jones, Kiwi is not entirely sure if the murdering starts before or after they dine. 
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma   
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Mämmilä "Rivutti" (Crywood), "tesikne" (design). When characters speak English, it is often written as pronounced. Markka was the old finnish currency before euro. I almost used mark (as in Deutsche Mark) but english wikipedia uses markka so there you go. Five million markka in 1976 is around 3.7 million euro or 4 million USD today. LazyQ fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Apr 17, 2020 |
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I like the detail of this presumably being such a small town that a bunch of the kids' parents are employed there so the factory really isn't as remarkable to them as the guy's making it sound.
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Hey look it's Daddy Daze but charming instead of obnoxious. Old School Peanuts (Sept 1, 1951)  Calvin and Hobbes (Jun 2-3, 1987)   Adding this to my list of lies to tell small children. Robbie and Bobby (Sept 28-29, 2015)  
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The pregnancy fetish stuff is a little tired, and has been mentioned, pregnancy/having a baby is absolutely a staple plot of serialized soaps. So far most of the comics which have had prominent pregnancy plots in this thread have been pretty lovely but tbh DtWOF is eventually very much about people who spent their 20s opposing the nuclear family suddenly really wanting kids, and in fact it starts up very very soon. Holbrook and 9 Chickweed Lane are both awful comics but let's talk about them without getting weird about an extremely normal process of life. (In general I don't think attributing dumb or weird stuff in a piece of art to paraphilia is a very productive or interesting way to approach it, for example I roll my eyes when this comes up re: Rose is Rose as well. Thank god Dennis Cooper or Kathy Acker never took over Garfield, we'd be here all night.) Anyway, Dykes to Watch Out For #26 (1988) NSFW for some nudity.  At this point the Essential is still for the most part just skipping over one strip at a time, although as we'll see it begins to get more frequent (tomorrow is #28, Sunday will be #30). I would love to have a more consistent source for these, especially in the later 90s and aughts when the book begins to skip around like crazy. -"lesbian bed death" was a jokey term for the idea that lesbians in long-term relationships gradually had less and less of an active sex life. The concept emerged from the 1983 study American Couples: Money, Work, and Sex by sociologists Pepper Schwartz and psychologist Philip Blumstein, while the phrase itself was probably coined in 1987 at a National Gay & Lesbian Task Force rally. While it provided a stark counterpoint to misogynist portrayals of lesbians as sex-craved nymphomaniacs, it also was not received warmly by many in the lesbian community, fostering an image of lesbians as non-threatening and almost matronly. Lois stocking it in this strip might be a nod to Mo's new-found sex positivity as well as to upcoming stuff with Toni and Clarice. -Clarice is studying So Sue Me, Night Court (which was currently airing) and Imposing Legal Tome Vol. XXI, none of which I suppose are real.
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How Wonderful! posted:The pregnancy fetish stuff is a little tired, and has been mentioned, pregnancy/having a baby is absolutely a staple plot of serialized soaps. So far most of the comics which have had prominent pregnancy plots in this thread have been pretty lovely but tbh DtWOF is eventually very much about people who spent their 20s opposing the nuclear family suddenly really wanting kids, and in fact it starts up very very soon. Holbrook and 9 Chickweed Lane are both awful comics but let's talk about them without getting weird about an extremely normal process of life. Brooke has absolutely gotten weird about an extremely normal process of life.
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Wondering what the lead time is on Family Circus, today's strikes me as...in very poor taste
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Stultus Maximus posted:Brooke has absolutely gotten weird about an extremely normal process of life. Yeah but he's gotten weird about every normal process of life.
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 All the incredibly good reasons that exist for why you wouldn't want somebody with zero experience or training in bartending or event booking to be your club's bartender and event booker and that's the one you come up with, Captain Caveman?
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coronatae posted:Wondering what the lead time is on Family Circus, today's strikes me as...in very poor taste According to Comics Curmudgeon all the current Family Circuses are selected repeats from the archives. That still implies that someone selected this one, but they could easily have chosen it three or more months ago and no-one looked at it in the meantime.
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, Aloysius's extravagant lies aren't going to come back to bite him, because the notion of daily continuity in comic strips was still quite new in those days. Additional joke: "Lord Helpus" = "Lord, help us". What an amazingly hilarious play on words.
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Jesus CHRIST. It's absolutely true: women's work is never done. What do you wanna bet hubby comes home from his day and still expects a clean house and dinner on the table?! Die, boomers, die.
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Julet Esqu posted:
F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  JethroMcB posted:can this storyline end tomorrow with Dawn going "Oh yeah! Now I remember that you are insufferable" and leaving him with the bill The Phantom  "Have you been drinking today, sir? What brings you to this neighborhood? Is there anything in your pockets I need to worry about?" Pooch Cafe  Wah-Wah-Waaaaahhhhhh Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Don't worry Luann Dad, three acts later Baron Tuzenbach will be killed in a duel and she'll resign herself to work as a schoolteacher with a newly broken heart
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Mister Olympus posted:Don't worry Luann Dad, three acts later Baron Tuzenbach will be killed in a duel and she'll resign herself to work as a schoolteacher with a newly broken heart lmao
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Julet Esqu posted:
What the gently caress. What the gently caress. She OWNS the loving bar. She manages it. She just gave herself a demotion out of loving boredom, and she doesn't know how to do these things and will probably make everything worse.... and you're upset because THE CLEANING won't get done?!?!?! loving CHRIST. Adam    BCN    Phoebe    Wallace    Curtis   
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huge fan of Burt lifting Tommy one-handed, and that frog at the window
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...What is this sudden-rear end development? Did we miss a strip where they established it was raining or that there was a thunderstorm? I really love this. Wallace's mom is a little grumpy about being woken up in the dead of night, but she still went with her kid anyway. Now that's a loving parent for you. 
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All this top tier Linton and Mildred is also non-canon, I'm furious. Is it just me or is the stupidest part of the current Luann that they're actively making their problems worse? They need to replace the income from Pru's rent and hire somebody to cover her duties. Luann's mom will be paid from the same income the Fuse was making(which doesn't change) so the rent isn't covered, which is why she was originally looking for work from you know, a place that would pay her a new, independent source of revenue. Hell, seems like a formula for overwork, leading to botching of Pru's duties and the business accounting. 
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Luann breaks new ground in being terrible, every day. It's kind of magical.amigolupus posted:...What is this sudden-rear end development? Did we miss a strip where they established it was raining or that there was a thunderstorm? I literally laughed out loud and shouted "Waitaminute, WAIT A MINUTE" when I read today's Mark Trail, because this seemed VERY sudden, the way a child would structure a story. Looking back, it was set up in last Saturday's strip, but there has been no mention of the storm or the fire since then. Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth I feel like we're still a week away from that level of action, Sunday we'll have to recap all of Hugo's behavior from this week while Dawn looks conflicted.
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