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After being sucked into hell and basically not-existing in everyone's memories for 5+ years, it's really nice to see Erin back and having a nice sibling moment with Shelley again. Linton could have just phoned it in, but no, he actually put a lot of heart and soul into his speech there, bless him. 
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Apr 17, 2020 22:21
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Angular Cyrus posted:Mark Trail '94 5/9–11 uuuugh. Jim Davis.
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Apr 18, 2020 00:01
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Vintage Valiant (Oct. 23, 1938) 
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Apr 18, 2020 00:07
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How Wonderful! posted: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. My old Dykes to Watch Out For posts may not have been consistent at all but it's entirely possible they have some comics that yours don't because they were incompletely sourced from now defunct websites that had, in theory, a complete archive. I was under the impression at the time that the reason for all the skipping you describe was because Bechdel had become less consistent in her publishing schedule during that time period. I don't remember exactly when I did them though- 2013 maybe? If you're willing to dig around my question marked posts in the archived threads I imagine the imgur links I used are still active. A lot of them were really small, though, and should probably be resized in order to be made readable. Cheer Up Boss Dharma     The weather has gotten really nice lately for whatever it's worth. Late March was brutally cold.
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Apr 18, 2020 00:31
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Apr 18, 2020 00:41
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Some Guy TT posted:My old Dykes to Watch Out For posts may not have been consistent at all but it's entirely possible they have some comics that yours don't because they were incompletely sourced from now defunct websites that had, in theory, a complete archive. I was under the impression at the time that the reason for all the skipping you describe was because Bechdel had become less consistent in her publishing schedule during that time period. I don't remember exactly when I did them though- 2013 maybe? If you're willing to dig around my question marked posts in the archived threads I imagine the imgur links I used are still active. A lot of them were really small, though, and should probably be resized in order to be made readable. Thanks, I'll take a look. I might also take this as an opportunity to try to track down used copies of the old Firebrand Books editions, which also have the bonus "novellas" in the back. I swear to god I'm going to tear my apartment apart trying to find The Indelible Dykes to Watch Out For which has a lot of neat commentary as well as strips from the old calendars and stuff.
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Apr 18, 2020 01:16
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1940s Mark Trail is kind of a revelation. Like it’s the first time I’m reading it where the characters interact with each other and the environment like actual human beings instead of stiff plastic robots.
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Apr 18, 2020 03:17
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I might be remembering a different strip, is Mark Trail the one where the original artist died or retired and the new guy just traces old strips any time he can get away with it?
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Apr 18, 2020 03:30
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"the one"
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Apr 18, 2020 03:34
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Bruceski posted:I might be remembering a different strip, is Mark Trail the one where the original artist died or retired and the new guy just traces old strips any time he can get away with it? That's basically every older strip now. Garfield's creator isn't dead but it sure is traced - no not even that, they just paste in stock garfields and speech bubbles. But yeah Mark Trail is really bad at the tracing, you can see the new art style is... interesting now that he's been called out on how bad his tracing is
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Apr 18, 2020 03:39
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The Lockhorns Brewster Rockit Space Guy  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you.  Kevin & Kell  Mother Goose & Grimm How topical.  Hagar The Horrible I love the animal drawings here, especially the mouse in the second panel.  Sherman's Lagoon 
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Apr 18, 2020 03:50
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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you. I had to google this one and I'm still confused
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Apr 18, 2020 03:57
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Mister Olympus posted:I had to google this one and I'm still confused https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/01/20/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-is-selling-jade-eggs-for-your-vagina/ Presumably she wants to sell moonrock eggs
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Apr 18, 2020 04:05
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack online check-ins three times a day sounds, ugh. Do they not trust their employees? I mean obviously not but just gently caress
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Apr 18, 2020 04:14
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack "Check-ins 3 times a day" isn't an "employee resource," it's management breathing down your neck. I've been working from home for the last 5 weeks, we have a standing department Zoom meeting once a week and otherwise my boss only emails when something needs immediate attention. They trust that I'm working, and I'm able to deliver actionable results when needed. It's a healthy working relationship. Holbrook continues to demonstrate that he's a shithead, he should be hated, gently caress him. quote:Safe Havens Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you. Exhibit B.
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Apr 18, 2020 04:19
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coronatae posted:https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/01/20/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-is-selling-jade-eggs-for-your-vagina/ yeah but holbrook why
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Apr 18, 2020 04:45
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How Wonderful! posted:Thanks, I'll take a look. I might also take this as an opportunity to try to track down used copies of the old Firebrand Books editions, which also have the bonus "novellas" in the back. I swear to god I'm going to tear my apartment apart trying to find The Indelible Dykes to Watch Out For which has a lot of neat commentary as well as strips from the old calendars and stuff. I've got most of the Firebrand Books. I didn't get Dykes and Sundry Carbon-Based Lifeforms to Look Out For and I can't find my copy of Dykes to Watch Out For: The Sequel The rest are scattered around my room as your posts have inspired me to re-read them. I could scan some - what would be a good format? The cover of this particular Firebrand has a throwaway joke I really liked: Mo is washing her clothes with a biodegradable soap called "Dinge!" Which is another joke that probably isn't funny anymore, because laundry detergents have enzymes now and the biodegradable ones can be quite good. But at the time they were awful. I had a roommate once who insisted on a biodegradable dish soap, which apparently was a growth medium for fungi, because after just a few days a new dish sponge would just reek.
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Apr 18, 2020 04:46
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse  Fort Knox 
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Apr 18, 2020 05:29
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Bruceski posted:I might be remembering a different strip, is Mark Trail the one where the original artist died or retired and the new guy just traces old strips any time he can get away with it? I'm not going to say Jam is a bad artist because honestly if it were my job to spend years practising and mimicking the idiosyncrasies of an artist who at that point was both definitely on a physical decline because he was 90 years old but also had spent two-thirds of his entire life drawing this one comic strip then I don't know how well I would do either. That said, his attempts not to mimic - whether through practise or art reuse - appear incredibly amateurish, and it seems implausible for an artist to not have developed their own style before ever being tasked with assuming another's. If it were just, as he says, just an unfamiliarity with a new tool you'd still have the fundamentals there - he was on this strip for five plus years before people's features just start sliding around their face with inconsistent scale. I just want him to produce a quality product. If it's him finally buying another pen so he's not stuck for months on end on this digital tablet he doesn't know how to use properly, then fine, buy the pen. If it's going back to directly mimicking Jack's style by hand despite people calling it clip art for how well he does it, swallow your loving pride Jam and accept the compliment. If it's going back to reusing art as people claim, gently caress, do it. I don't care because that's honestly been the house-style of the strip for over a decade now and some comics have that reuse as their entire artistic conceit and are great.
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Apr 18, 2020 05:49
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StrixNebulosa posted:That's basically every older strip now. Garfield's creator isn't dead but it sure is traced - no not even that, they just paste in stock garfields and speech bubbles. Yeah, Garfield's style can support copy/paste.
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Apr 18, 2020 05:54
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King Aroo 11/27/53 They'll Do It Every Time 11/20/46  Mopsy 11/30/42  
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Apr 18, 2020 06:00
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I actually remember reading a book by Bill Bryson where he talked about old phones - maybe not quite as old as these - at his grandparent's place that, because you went through to the operator you could have group chats with your neighbors all at the same time. I wonder why that option was removed? Actually, thinking on it, I be phone companies weren't profiting enough from it. Anyway, onto today's Corto Maltese: Perhaps the real treasure was the doppelgangers we killed on the way, or You know, a lot of this could have been all avoided if Trelawny remembered that there was a back door to the place..., or Raspa gets the last laugh    And so ends the story of The Golden House of Samarkand! Our hero's journey will take him back to the Hemisphere where we first met him in... Tango all at Half Light!
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Apr 18, 2020 06:02
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Zelda 
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Apr 18, 2020 06:28
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Samovar posted:I actually remember reading a book by Bill Bryson where he talked about old phones - maybe not quite as old as these - at his grandparent's place that, because you went through to the operator you could have group chats with your neighbors all at the same time. I wonder why that option was removed? They're called party lines, and there are still a few out there even today.
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Apr 18, 2020 07:06
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Why is Zelda's boyfriend dying his hair and pretending he's her boss?
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Apr 18, 2020 07:43
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Jam Essallen is a climate change denier. That's what made me give up reading his work. Anyway, in Juliet Jones it seems Kiwi is as much a prisoner as Eve. 
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Apr 18, 2020 08:16
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Ghostlight posted:Now, I'm not one to defend old Jam Esallen but reportedly he was working on the strip for several years as an understudy before taking over, and one of the primary things he would have been doing is learning how to mimic Jack el Rod's style. At the time of handover Jam had already been the strip's artist for quite a while. Ghostlight posted:I just want him to produce a quality product.
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Apr 18, 2020 08:18
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Crowetron posted:Why is Zelda's boyfriend dying his hair and pretending he's her boss? All beautiful people are alike.
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Apr 18, 2020 08:20
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Kennel posted:All beautiful people are alike. What does that have to do with the characters in Zelda?
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Apr 18, 2020 08:24
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Tiggum posted:You would think that. That working as Jackelrod's assistant with the plan of eventually taking over would involve learning to mimic his style. But although he may quibble over the definition of "clip art", he hasn't denied that he traces old pictures and photos rather than drawing anything - or did until this recent change in art style (and possibly artist). And you can tell, because he doesn't bother to pay too much attention to stuff like scale or perspective, and often combines two pictures that don't really go together, so you get a child's head on what is obviously a scaled-down adult body, or limbs that don't seem to attach correctly, etc.
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Apr 18, 2020 09:46
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Surgeon's Tales  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleming_of_Louhisaari Nancy   Dustin  Mandrake  Redneck 
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Apr 18, 2020 10:03
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Mämmilä
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Apr 18, 2020 13:12
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Even if the art for Mark Trail got any better, it still doesn't change the fact that Jams can't write a coherent story even if his life depended on it. Look at what the story's like so far and how the forest fire felt like it came out of the left field. If we just rearrange things a bit we could have had something like this: Mark and the others get woken up by the thunderstorm -> They see lightning strike in the distance and that a fire started -> Mark and the others find Rusty and the orphaned kid in the forest -> Orphaned kid cries that he left because no one wanted him, and the husband and wife admit that they want to adopt him -> A heavy rain comes in to extinguish the forest fire Instead we wasted days as the people in the campsite talked about how they needed to find orphan boy because he had no one else who loves him in the world, instead of, oh I don't know, he's one of their charges in this trip and it's their job to make sure he's safe. This rules.
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Apr 18, 2020 14:12
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Bloom County July 16th & 17th, 1981  
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Apr 18, 2020 14:16
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Angular Cyrus posted:Mark Trail '47 1/2–4 I honestly feel a kinship with Mark Trail now and I love these 40s strips, is there a source where I can get more? Hell, I would buy a giant coffee table book, but it seems like there are no collections anywhere. amigolupus posted:Even if the art for Mark Trail got any better, it still doesn't change the fact that Jams can't write a coherent story even if his life depended on it. Look at what the story's like so far and how the forest fire felt like it came out of the left field. If we just rearrange things a bit we could have had something like this: I have a conspiracy theory that James isn't drawing or writing the strip anymore. It's hard to put my finger on it, but I don't feel like this type of bad storytelling is James' type of bad storytelling. Adam  BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  holy poo poo this storyline is getting so good. Curtis 
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Apr 18, 2020 14:42
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Vargo posted:Curtis All dogs go to Valhalla. 
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Apr 18, 2020 14:50
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä The is most sweet, wholesome thing I have seen in a while
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Apr 18, 2020 15:09
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Old School Peanuts (Sept 2, 1951) Calvin and Hobbes (Jun 4-5, 1987)   Robbie and Bobby (Sept 30-Oct 1, 2015)  
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, the punchline is "alcohol", and possibly "silly walks". I'm honestly not sure if this is supposed to be the same fancy event as in the previous strip. [next strip will be spoilered for Old-Timey Racist Caricatures]
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