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Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

manero posted:

Arlo ran out of TP on the can and he texted Janis

I'm also reading a joke about corona toilet paper hoarding.

The solution is to run your belt through two or more rolls so you ALWAYS have TP with you.

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Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks

manero posted:

There's a crossover/edit waiting here with that one Garfield strip..... You know the one.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



You know what's an even better death trap than sawing timbers so a house falls soon after it's set on fire? A bullet.

Gatto Grigio posted:

*for the Rope that Walks!
:lol:
:lol: again

F Minus



Just like prison.

Mark Trail



Mary Worth



"So, Dawn. We've been here a couple days now and barely so much as touched each other. Is there something on your mind?"

The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G



I always enjoy when Tommie makes faces.

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost



Boomers don't keep their extra toilet paper in the bathroom.

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

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









Modesty Blaise



How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Edit: Oops! #25 is two pages-- which explains why I thought it just ended without a punchline. I've attached the rest of it.

First of all, a huge thanks to curtisadams for hooking me up with one of the DtWOF strips not included in the Essential. Here's a bonus one:
Dykes to Watch Out For #25 (1988)


CISPES was founded in 1980 in response to the US' support of the right-wing government of El Salvadore, and supported in particular Salvadoran unions, womens' groups, etc., in contrast to the federal governments program of fostering privatization and capital.

As you might imagine, as it grew-- and more specifically as it developed ties with other leftist groups at home and abroad-- it came under attack from the Reagan administration, being investigated intensely by the FBI for basically what the strip says, as well as becoming a favorite punching bag for the John Birch Society. The FBI's investigation in particular was largely based on information from a deeply unreliable and not very credible informant.

"Gays and Lesbians for Jesse Jackson" was a real group. Jackson's 1988 bid for the presidency, his second, was seen as a real, viable thing by many progressives at the time, and was predicated on a lot of stuff that was topical then and is in some cases topical now-- reversing many of the policies of Reaganomics, denouncing Apartheid-era South Africa, and pushing for the formation of a Palestinian state. He also coined the phrase "rainbow coalition" in regards to his desire to build a base of ethnic minorities, working class families, farmers, white progressives, and queer voters, bringing in people like Ginger who might historically have been more cynical and resigned about presidential campaigns. He was briefly seen as a realistic frontrunner for the Democratic nomination after a strong win in Michigan and a healthy plurality of delegates on his side, but he was eventually passed over for Dukakis. Good thing the Democratic Party learned its lesson about that, huh???!!!!!

This is also an early example of a gag Bechdel will eventually grow fond of, where a newspaper or shirt or something will feature different slogans in each panel. Well, she's better at it than the Fort Knox guy but it's still not really my favorite thing. In this instance however we can maybe make a connection between the three pretty trivial front-page headlines on the "Daily Distress," the more serious political news being discussed at the table, and the FBI's fear-mongering narratives about CISPES. I dunno.

Also, the punchline about testosterone in tofu is extra funny in hindsight given the whole MRA belief about soy being full of estrogen or whatever.

and DtWOF #32 (also 1988)

Toni and Clarice are consistently fuel for some of Bechdel's soapier instincts and this is an important strip for a number of short- and long-term subplots.

How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Apr 21, 2020

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Seriously debating using this to replace my lost avatar.

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

Transmodiar posted:

Scary Go Round: The Great Unboxing



Poor Grendel, he just naturally attracts this kind of "attention."

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007






Both of these people are allegedly adults living in the year 2020.

igtenos55
Jun 14, 2001


FrumpleOrz posted:

Safe Havens It's always pregnancy


Wait.. so.. how did mermaid and acrobat-man have a kid then?

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
Mark Trail '47 1/13–15



I'm pretty sure every guy with that hair is a villain.

Mark Trail '94 5/19–21


ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

One of the most low key infurating things about Garfield is that one of the recurring non-jokes is that he's too lazy to chase mice. So they make him kill spiders instead.

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
Adam


BCN


Phebe


Wallace


Curtis

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

The Finer Arts > Batman's Shameful Secret > Comic Strip Thread 2020: I Just Saw Curtis's Dad's Giant rear end

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

Angular Cyrus posted:

Mark Trail '94 5/19–21




But... the other dude literally tried to attack Mark in the middle of the court. They even asked "would your dog attack someone to defend you" just before this happened. I dunno, I was under the impression that throwing down in court is a bad idea but apparently the law in the Lost Woods doesn't think so.

Also I'm pretty sure the word balloons in the first strip are messed up.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

Jesus christ. Thank you.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

thanks i hate it

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

SharkTales!
Woo-oo!



FrumpleOrz posted:

Safe Havens



Granted I mostly skim this strip, but has this wife character had any spoken lines since she first appeared?

curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

How Wonderful! posted:

Edit: Oops! #25 is two pages-- which explains why I thought it just ended without a punchline. I've attached the rest of it.

First of all, a huge thanks to curtisadams for hooking me up with one of the DtWOF strips not included in the Essential. Here's a bonus one:
Dykes to Watch Out For #25 (1988)


It's interesting to look at the "Dykes to NOT Watch Out For" strips Bechdel chose to drop from the collection. If I were the artist, I'd have included them all on general principles but I guess she wanted a stronger/more coherent summary book. So, granting her choice to edit a significant fraction out (after all she has a MacArthur Genius Grant, and I ---- don't), I want to talk about whether I agree with her decisions. Some of them are "I can see why she dropped it", and some of them make me go "What was she thinking?"

This one is one where I can see why she dropped it. A lot of it is that it's a "filler" strip, not important to the ongoing plots, and it's similar to another "filler" How Wonderful already posted:


In the original run they were published two months apart (biweekly) and the similarity wasn't jarring. But in a collection they'd be just one or two pages apart and a reader might feel like Bechdel was just rehashing. Of the two, I think the published one is much stronger. Sparrow's arguments are stronger in the published one, and the art is more varied, with Sparrow's mug-slamming delivery on her conclusion and more changes in perspective and focus. The published strip also has a nice personal grace note with Ginger's humorous need for a quick dog walk (shown throw the window too). The argument in the published is pretty timeless, while the one in the dropped strip is pretty dated and needs How Wonderful's (excellent) explainer for most people to understand the details, although I'll grant the principles of action vs. politics vs. religion are universal.

So, "I can see why she dropped it" on this one.

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 - spoilered for 1920s Casually Racist Caricatures - am I the only one who thinks this punchline is isomorphic to "that was no lady, that was my wife" ?

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

igtenos55 posted:

Wait.. so.. how did mermaid and acrobat-man have a kid then?

mermaid dna, i assume

remember: DNA is magic

Mercury Hat posted:

Granted I mostly skim this strip, but has this wife character had any spoken lines since she first appeared?

I don't think any of the mars mermaids have had any dialog, it's all been replayed by the dodo

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

The Dinette Set doesn't want the DVD rewinder to gather dust.


Working Daze oh ffs.


Super-Fun-Pak Comix is just suggesting it.


Cul De Sac paints a picture.

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (Nov. 13, 1938)

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



Bogor 1976


EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
Sally Forth







Skippy (November 18-19, 1932)





Peanuts (April 15, 23-24, 1973)







Funky Winkerbean now returns to "The Immaculate Suffering of Les Moore, The Only Widower Who Matters"







Time-Displaced Crankshaft, featuring Schroedinger's Punchline, which is simultaneously eerily prescient and so vague as to be completely meaningless.







9 Postpartum Fetish Lane







Rip Haywire Jr.





Thimble Theater, in which Poopdeck Pappy can't let go of the old neighborhood. (November 19-20, 1936)





Out Our Way (May 10-12, 1934)





SaintFu
Aug 27, 2006

Where's your god now?
The first panel makes it sound like they did a couple of lines together and then hosed in an airport restroom.

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

EasyEW posted:

Skippy (November 18-19, 1932)


I think this is a reference to the Orange Order, and thus how comedically stupid it would be to sell oranges at the St Patrick's Day parade.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

I swear to god you guys

coronatae
Oct 14, 2012

9CL isn't an edit :stare:

csammis
Aug 26, 2003

Mental Institution

Parahexavoctal posted:

am I the only one who thinks this punchline is isomorphic to "that was no lady, that was my wife" ?

Of course you aren’t because it’s exactly the same joke, but any excuse to say “isomorphic” is an excuse one should always take

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!

Pastry of the Year posted:

I swear to god you guys

i mean if you wanna ban it, go ahead

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


igtenos55 posted:

Wait.. so.. how did mermaid and acrobat-man have a kid then?

Let's not ask questions we don't really want to know the answers to, especially after today's strip.

Safe Havens


Kevin & Kell


Mother Goose & Grimm Wouldn't that be an Act of God?


Hagar The Horrible


Sherman's Lagoon

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

I think whoever colors Rip Haywire forgot Sopapilla is very not white

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

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

"before I got polly and lolly to the trough"

jesus loving christ

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




FrumpleOrz posted:

On The Fastrack


Boss Lady is Neck Lady's mom?

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: We meet Fosforito's inside man, or Corto gets some very bad news, or Corto gets a lead



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Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

Scary Gary features a severed head kept alive in a jar against its will and it's still less gross than 9CL



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