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PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

Are we sure Welch and Rick aren't an item?

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Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

PetraCore posted:

Are we sure Welch and Rick aren't an item?

I'm drawing a blank on who Welch and Rick are.

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 12/4/53


They'll Do It Every Time 11/28/46


Mopsy 12/8/42

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

Parahexavoctal posted:

I'm drawing a blank on who Welch and Rick are.
The two apartment 3g dudes now. 'let's retire to my farm in ohio together' seems very, uh, homoerotic.

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



i for one support their love

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.


Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Jul 25, 2022

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, Aloysius faces judicial corruption. Inflation calculators tell us that a $10 fine in 1920 would be about $130 today, but that doesn't say anything about what 40mph in 1920 would feel like today.

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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

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: Escudero is going to be reminded of the old adage re. a fool and one's money, or Rasputin has gone up in the world, or Corto meets an old friend



Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarrro

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake


Man in Black


Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister



This was on the wall of my Religious Studies classroom at secondry school. I think this was my introduction to The Far Side.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Jul 25, 2022

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


I'm with Zelda on this one.

I don't get it. Why is everyone happy? Why isn't Dustin handing out résumés right now? Why are these wise adults allowing their lazy children to use their gizmos in the park? Don't they have a football or a frisbee? :argh:

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

Tiggum posted:

I don't get it. Why is everyone happy? Why isn't Dustin handing out résumés right now? Why are these wise adults allowing their lazy children to use their gizmos in the park? Don't they have a football or a frisbee? :argh:

Dunking on the corona "scare" is more important? :shrug:

It's probably confirmation bias, but I noticed a bit more 'Dustin family goes to public/crowded places' since the pandemic started.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Vargo posted:

Adam


Feels like she's already read most of the thing, Adam, the damage is done, just cut your losses and try to buy her novels that don't contain vagina retightening subplots.

The other part of this storyline that really bugs me is that she's reading a book at all. Kids don't like reading books, and the Godfather specifically is a book that's not very easy to find. It's famous mainly for being a movie. Which any halfway clever kid could find on the Internet pretty easily just because it's old.

Contrast this with that Boondocks from awhile back where we find out that Riley has a Scarface videotape he religiously watches. Same basic premise, except that it's something a kid would actually do and Mcgruder had enough sense to only make one extremely solid joke out of it instead of stretching the premise out for a full week. But most glaringly, the Boondocks strip is from twenty years ago. So it's incredibly weird that it's aged perfectly well save for the VHS reference whereas this Adam storyline feels like it was written back in the seventies.

Serious Cephalopod
Jul 1, 2007

This is a Serious post for a Serious thread.

Bloop Bloop Bloop
Pillbug
Kids don't... Like reading??? I spent my LIFE reading as a child, from 10 to 22. Before then, I read a book a day from 3 (I learned early because my mom hates reading and I was determined to do it).

Some kids adore reading! Especially strange little girls.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (September 16, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (September 16, 1998)



Garfield Classic (September 16, 1988)

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

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

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä

Oh no this is the most relatable one yet - I had problems sleeping last night because my brain wouldn't shut up about the dark twists in the podcast series I was listening to. And I'm definitely not a kid!

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.


StrixNebulosa posted:

Oh no this is the most relatable one yet - I had problems sleeping last night because my brain wouldn't shut up about the dark twists in the podcast series I was listening to. And I'm definitely not a kid!

Ooh, what was the podcast?

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä



Ah, back when there was two tv channels (and the second one didn't have national coverage).

fun hater
May 24, 2009

its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Some Guy TT posted:

The other part of this storyline that really bugs me is that she's reading a book at all. Kids don't like reading books, and the Godfather specifically is a book that's not very easy to find. It's famous mainly for being a movie. Which any halfway clever kid could find on the Internet pretty easily just because it's old.


you can get it at any local library. i read it when i was in middle school bc i heard it was a good movie and wanted to be cultured.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

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

Samovar posted:

Ooh, what was the podcast?

Rycon Roleplays - Z-Land. Youtube channel instead of a podcast but you don't need the visuals at all, I would listen to it while playing solitaire or cook serve delicious 3. It's a grimdark as hell zombie survival thing that was really scratching the itch I was having, but then in chapter five the group gets captured and I cannot handle dealing with that lost of agency. I'd like to skip ahead, but there are no plot recaps anywhere (beyond the short one for season one) and aaghhh.

I was really invested in this group too, so I might have to drop it and whine whine whiiiine. Lots of tossing and turning in bed last night agonizing over this.

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug

Serious Cephalopod posted:

Kids don't... Like reading??? I spent my LIFE reading as a child, from 10 to 22. Before then, I read a book a day from 3 (I learned early because my mom hates reading and I was determined to do it).

Some kids adore reading! Especially strange little girls.

I'm wid the squid (apologies if you're an octopus, but that doesn't rhyme as well). I read when I was 3, and have never stopped.

Anyway, in Juliet Jones, Devon must be a really small town, or else Julie's personal guard would be beating this guy with iron rods.

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

SharkTales!
Woo-oo!



fun hater posted:

you can get it at any local library. i read it when i was in middle school bc i heard it was a good movie and wanted to be cultured.

This was almost my exact experience as well, except I got my copy at a used bookstore when my mom wasn't paying attention to what I was buying.

Then I wrote a few entries about it in our reading journal for English class and my teacher tried to politely suggest a 12 year old shouldn't be reading that kind of book, lol.

Point being, if you're a weird little kid who wants to look "grown-up" like I did, it's usually way easier to get and read a book than watch a movie.

Mercury Hat fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Apr 25, 2020

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer

Serious Cephalopod posted:

Kids don't... Like reading??? I spent my LIFE reading as a child, from 10 to 22. Before then, I read a book a day from 3 (I learned early because my mom hates reading and I was determined to do it).

Some kids adore reading! Especially strange little girls.

Same here, to the point when I got grounded, rare as it was, it was to not read books for so many weeks. Most kids lost the TV. Of course I got around that by just not taking recess and reading in the school library. And when it was my own stuff, mostly Stephen King and poo poo.

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (Dec. 04, 1938)


Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
The Far Side

Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Jul 25, 2022

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Dec. 04, 1938)


Finally: Asterix vs Valiant

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

StrixNebulosa posted:

Oh no this is the most relatable one yet - I had problems sleeping last night because my brain wouldn't shut up about the dark twists in the podcast series I was listening to. And I'm definitely not a kid!

I did the entirety of the Dollop and now I'm making my way through Behind the Bastards. I sleep fine knowing the world is run by monsters. :v:

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Dec. 04, 1938)





BUT OTHERS ARE EXPLORING THE FENS, TOO!

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

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









Modesty Blaise



Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




[b]Zelda[/b
]

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

by Reene
Bloom County
July 30th & 31st, 1981
So the Royal Wedding saga comes to an end, but it won't be the last we see of the 'happy' couple

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
I think the Godfather plot-line is pretty believable. I don't know exactly how old the kid is supposed to be but when I was roughly around that little kid age I got in trouble because I knew my mom really loved reading Interview With a Vampire and I snuck it off the shelf to read myself. I tried the same shenanigans a little bit later with The Exorcist because my parents owned two copies and I thought that meant it had to be good, but it was too scary and I put it down pretty quick.

Anyway how about some Saturday morning Dykes to Watch Out For: #36 (1988)


I think the strip curtadams provided yesterday adds a little texture and nuance to this one. I guess that in a sense it's just Mo running around town talking to different people about somebody else's problems but sheesh if DtWOF isn't about gossip and how people in a community tell stories I don't know what it is about. I also like how both this one and the one with Lois have Mo getting provoked into a berserker frenzy or something, which lets Bechdel draw her in some pretty funnily exaggerated poses. I think the last three panels are really great, Bechdel's a super good artist and it's nice to see her getting better and better knowing stuff like Fun Home is on the distant horizon.

Anyway the hole in the ozone was discovered over the Antarctic in 1985 and was very quickly recognized by some people as a huge problem and very permanently recognized by other people with more money as not a problem at all. Environmentalism predates popular consciousness of the hole in the ozone but it was a pretty big flashpoint for just general collective consensus.

Harriet has The Nation on her bedside table. The Nation was founded in in 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's previous paper, The Liberator, which had shut down because it had been all about agitating for abolition and abolition happened. The Nation was intended as a similar strident mouthpiece but for a broader political and social program. It was in the 80s and remains today a respectable outlet for mostly mainstream progressivism, foreshadowing a little bit the trajectory Mo and Harriet are on.

How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Apr 25, 2020

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
Adam


BCN


Phoebe


BC puts a new spin on an old favorite


Wallace


Curtis

Safety Dance
Sep 10, 2007

Five degrees to starboard!


I have some friends who had a similar complaint recently -- they thought Midtown Manhattan would be a great place to isolate themselves because of the many different delivery services and 24 hour restaurants, but now that the restaurants are closing and the delivery services are all booked up they're lamenting their hubris.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Very unusual new style for One Big Happy.

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Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



F Minus



Mark Trail



Walking directly into the flames?

Mary Worth



"Hugo, I hate Jerry Lewis."

The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



"So I guess you better GET OVER HERE!"

Andertoons



Apartment 3-G

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