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Goon goes to doctor. Says she's depressed by bad ugly comic about atrocious looking people doing incoherent things. Says strip seems harsh and cruel. Says she feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead for the Moon Maid and friends is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great comic Dick Tracy's Minit Mysteries is in the papers tonight. Go and read it. That should pick you up." Goon bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...that was Dick Tracy's Minit Mysteries.”
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Sometimes you wonder why we even bother having a social contract if a nationally syndicated comic strip is just gonna let a woman in a sexy red dress flash her tits to entice her husband, who is holding her two infant daughters. Now, come on, it's not as if there have ever been any negative consequences to sexualizing and eroticizing the act of breastfeeding an infant.
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Julet Esqu posted:Now, come on, it's not as if there have ever been any negative consequences to sexualizing and eroticizing the act of breastfeeding an infant. It can cause the child to become an artist who doesn't actually do any art.
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Julet Esqu posted:Now, come on, it's not as if there have ever been any negative consequences to sexualizing and eroticizing the act of breastfeeding an infant. Thinking about the anime where everyone's magic powers are fueled by drinking from a girl's tit. They have all kinds of deadly serious magic politics fights plus breastfeeding. I watched a few eps in a fit of deranged curiosity but the writing wasn't very good.
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Was there an art shift in Dick Tracy recently?
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How Wonderful! posted:Here's the rest of Bechdel's intro from the Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (spoiler for nudity): After an intro like that Bechdel really should not have dropped so many strips. I'd be OK with dropping the half-dozen or so meta-strips, in which the characters are supposed to be actors playing their roles in the strip, but generally, if the idea is that the reader is to evaluate the message of her work, she shouldn't be omitting large sections of it. I'm sorry to hear the therapist strips got the boot. As a rule they weren't particularly funny (I don't think that was the goal) but I do think they give insight into Mo, and it would be interesting to look at Bechdel's take on therapy, which is pretty important to her (it's the focus of Are You My Mother?). I don't think the last few years of strips were ever published by Firebrand, and that's probably why they're all included. Bechdel may have wanted to produce a curated, "improved" (to her mind) collection but I guess not to the point that she'd consign strips to oblivion. It's my impression that Camille Paglia has gotten a lot more awful over the years. I thought she was interesting in the 90's but lately she's a monster. Is it her, or is it my own political opinions improving over time? Sullivan is a weird case - generally pretty awful, but he did have a significant role in getting equal marriage started. Since this is a comics thread, here's an Existentialist Comics with a parody version of Judith Butler.
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curtadams posted:It's my impression that Camille Paglia has gotten a lot more awful over the years. I thought she was interesting in the 90's but lately she's a monster. Is it her, or is it my own political opinions improving over time? I think it's more her addressing cultural issues more directly than she did in the 90s and even aughts-- when I was in college Sexual Personae was on a lot of shelves, largely I think because it had a reputation for being provocative, even though even then the critical needle was beginning to swerve away from it, and looking it up now a lot of its reception even back in 1990 was pretty brutal.
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Although the feminist history lesson is quite interesting, this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses may have been published before women in the US had the vote. I have no idea what they mean by "taking the bone out of his nose", but "taking the bone out of his head" is "make him not be a bonehead" - i.e., less stupid. Am I the only one who finds that flavor of abusiveness to be just a tiny bit Ed Kudlicky? (inflation calculator says $25 then is $322 now)
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EBB posted:Was there an art shift in Dick Tracy recently? Bogor 1976 ![]() ![]() The Secret Life of Plants was a new age book that promoted plant perception, a pseudo-scientific field that proposes plants exhibit sentience or can be 'controlled' through various means such as ESP. Things that belong to this field that you might recognise is the idea of talking or playing music to plants to promote their growth and that one study you've probably heard mentioned but never a lot of details about which revealed that plants feel pain because the details about it are that it was done with a lie detector and the measured stress responses were to things like a shrimp dying in a separate room. Weirdly enough very few people could replicate the results of this study and the author would later go on to prove that he could measure telepathic perception in all living things, including yoghurt and sperm. Fun fact, Scientology's alien ghost detecting equipment was derived from Hubbard's interest in this telepathic plant distress study. Anyway, botanists almost uniformly trashed the Secret Life of Plants as nonsense. Of its two authors, one would go on to write a book about the very real science of dowsing, and the other would branch off to concern himself with things like why the Pyramid of Giza is a perfect scale model of the northern hemisphere and other such scientific enquiries about brown people's inabilities to stack rocks that today we would commonly relegate to the ancient aliens framework. Which is all to say that I enjoy Bogor intentionally torturing this plant.
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Parahexavoctal posted:I have no idea what they mean by "taking the bone out of his nose", but "taking the bone out of his head" is "make him not be a bonehead" - i.e., less stupid. Am I the only one who finds that flavor of abusiveness to be just a tiny bit Ed Kudlicky?
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I'm glad that Bechdel stuff is being posted and thanks for the commentary and context notes. The Lockhorns ![]() Brewster Rockit Space GUy A yahoo email address in 2020. Wow. ![]() On The Fastrack ![]() No Safe Havens on Sundays! Stone Soup ![]() Kevin & Kell ![]() Mother Goose & Grimm ![]() Hagar The Horrible ![]() Sherman's Lagoon ![]()
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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() Fort Knox ![]()
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Discendo Vox posted:But now I want to see Jane's World for contrast. Sure thing! Jane's World ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Took 6 strips to get the titular character! Hopefully we learn some other names soon. Jucika ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Classic Luan ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading these old strips really astounds me. You can really see him become a better writer when you compare them to today's strip. But somehow they're just as awful!
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Suddenly I'm thinking Bernice can't possibly do much worse.
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There's something about Jane's World that makes me think of Cathy. The social anxiety in Bechdel's comic feels really...real. Jan'e World felt a little more like Jane getting into predicaments and going Ack! the last time we went through it. Maybe I'll see something different this time.
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I find it funny that Jane's the one who I'm being told is a narcissistic self-insert, given that it's her alleged friend who's being really callous about losing Jane's dog. That poor dog. By far the most sympathetic character to date.
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Haifisch posted:Footrot Flats I really like this strip, regardless of it being more often that not gag-a-day, the art is good and the characters don't make me want to tear my hair out Strontium posted:Dark Side of the Horse Ah, Horace has been reading Invincible Anyway, in today's Corto Maltese: Jesus, CALM DOWN Estevez, you're going to give yourself a coronary!, or You know, after playing Disco Elysium and now reading about how this case is tied up with land ownership and how the owners of this land try to hide the information behind this ownership makes me say: 'Come back, Robespierre, all is forgiven', or O'Maley and Estevez try their hands at playing the game ![]() ![]() ![]()
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King Aroo 12/6/53![]() They'll Do It Every Time 11/30/46 ![]() Mopsy 12/10/42 ![]()
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Nooooo, no no nooooooooo Family Circus ![]() Rose is Rose ![]() One Big Happy ![]() Foob ![]() Compu-Toon is yesterdays Bizarro ![]()
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Magic boob milk hero show was a porno right?
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Kennel posted:Nancy I was under the impression that Gilchrist made up Sluggo's uncles who are always on the road and are also Vietnam vets. This strip suggests either that Jaimes is integrating Gilchrist's worldbuilding, which seems unlikely, or that Sluggo has always had uncles who are working on the road offscreen instead of taking care of Sluggo. Does anybody remember any Bushmiller strip making reference to Sluggo's uncles?
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Some Guy TT posted:I was under the impression that Gilchrist made up Sluggo's uncles who are always on the road and are also Vietnam vets. This strip suggests either that Jaimes is integrating Gilchrist's worldbuilding, which seems unlikely, or that Sluggo has always had uncles who are working on the road offscreen instead of taking care of Sluggo. Does anybody remember any Bushmiller strip making reference to Sluggo's uncles? I thought about making the same comment. Bushmiller had several strips with a singular uncle (sometimes looking completely different), but I think the trucker uncles are Gilchrist's creation. I guess it's fine to use them as an excuse for Sluggo living alone (even though it still does not make sense in modern day setting).
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Sluggos parents were killed by a mugger after leaving the theater, happened right in front of his eyes.
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That it's uncles plural, not a singular uncle or his aunt and uncle, is the main thing that makes it stick out. I'm choosing to interpret this in my headcanon as meaning that Sluggo's uncles are gay. The ultimate gently caress you to Gilchrist's weird as hell attempts at continuity.
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Some Guy TT posted:I was under the impression that Gilchrist made up Sluggo's uncles who are always on the road and are also Vietnam vets. This strip suggests either that Jaimes is integrating Gilchrist's worldbuilding, which seems unlikely, or that Sluggo has always had uncles who are working on the road offscreen instead of taking care of Sluggo. Does anybody remember any Bushmiller strip making reference to Sluggo's uncles?
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if you want to know how sluggo supports himself as an orphan without a caregiver then according to 'how to read nancy' bushmiller has actually answered this exact questionErnie Bushmiller posted:I assume he delivers groceries on Saturday or something like that.
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gay travelling barista hipsters whose VIET NAM VET caps are in ironic reference to cà phê đá beards remain exactly the same
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Thanks for posting DtWOF, How Wonderful. Aside from how cool it is to learn more about queer culture, it's kind of interesting comparing it to Zelda. The characters in DtWOF come across as a bunch of good people with their own quirks and flaws, and when Mo starts to ramble to her friends, the others provide some reasonable viewpoints to counter her so it feels like an actual discussion. Meanwhile, Zelda and Cesar's toxic relationship just makes me go, "ugh, straight people". Ed, you piece of poo poo. You constantly cheat at your diet and even flaunt it in front of your wife. And you get mad at the idea that she'd share her concerns about your health with your doctor? gently caress you! Some Guy TT posted:That it's uncles plural, not a singular uncle or his aunt and uncle, is the main thing that makes it stick out. I'm choosing to interpret this in my headcanon as meaning that Sluggo's uncles are gay. The ultimate gently caress you to Gilchrist's weird as hell attempts at continuity. This honestly feels like the best solution for that. Olivia Jaimes wouldn't bring up "uncles" without good reason, so maybe she's got something planned out. Holy poo poo. ![]()
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Haifisch posted:Dick Tracy
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RandomPauI posted:Magic boob milk hero show was a porno right? Surprisingly, it was not. It would fit right in with other teen shounen shows except for the breastfeeding.
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I know that you are telling the truth about it not being a porno or a satire. After all, 9CL is somehow a thing that is in newspapers. But I want you to be lying.
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Tiggum posted:Wait, what? Mysta bought what? Who is that in the last panel?
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Mämmilä![]() Hurriganes was a Finnish rock band, considered to be a pioneer in Finnish rock scene and the first to really get attention abroad. Their music is pretty straightforward rock 'n roll, often with nonsense lyrics, and generally non-threatening which contributed to their mainstream acceptance.
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Andrew Sullivan ad Camille Paglia have always been awful people. And since they have made money by being awful, it is unlikely that they will ever stop. Anyway, in Juliet Jones, Kiwi has an eye for the protagonist. ![]()
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Some Guy TT posted:I find it funny that Jane's the one who I'm being told is a narcissistic self-insert, given that it's her alleged friend who's being really callous about losing Jane's dog. That poor dog. By far the most sympathetic character to date. Jane's not narcissistic, but she is a self-insert who looks just like the author (and happens to get a lot of girls who want to date her). The goon who called it a Cathy strip is pretty spot on, though I don't remember anything about Cathy other than her going on diets and going ACK to various things. It's not a horrible comic like Holbrook crap, but it is nothing but stupid fluff that reads like a fanfic/fanart. And I....have no idea what was happening in Dick Tracy but I almost think it's worse than Intelligent Life.
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