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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
I cant remember why Mo and Harriet don't work out, but I like Harriet.

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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 crown thee empress of doom

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.

How Wonderful! posted:

Sam's Strip (2/1/1962)


1962 felt a little late for this kind of joke since Chubby Checker's cover of "The Twist" came out in 1960. However it turns out it also charted at number one for two weeks in January 1962, for reasons unknown to me. I also found out that there were a poo poo ton of knock-off twist songs that same year, including "Twist, Twist, Senora," "Twistin' Postman," and "Bristol Twistin' Annie," the more famous Isley Brothers version of "Twist and Shout" and the admirably to-the-point "Hey, Let's Twist." Shows what I know.

The double #1 is pretty easy to explain: Boomer kids bailed on the Twist when stuff like the Mashed Potato came along, but post-teenagers gave it a second wind when a society columnist spotted Prince Serge Obolensky Twisting the night away.

Sally Forth @ Home





Skippy (November 25-26, 1932)





Peanuts (May 1-2, 1973)





Les Moore Thinks He's The Only Adult In The Room





Crankshaft





9 "Do I Even Have To Hang A Lampshade On It At This Point?" Lane





Rip Haywire





Thimble Theater (November 27-28, 1936)





Out Our Way (May 24-26, 1934)







Continuing the Life (With Skippy) catch-up sprint. (April 17, 1924)



Elsewhere In The Issue: Crosby got a cover this week!





Fred G. Cooper



I've missed Don Herold ever since Kleboe got rid of his clinker. Also, I'm pretty sure these are all ad taglines, which means you know what you have to do now.

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

Hi I am mad about everything in this comic strip

"Twists and turns" apparently means "Does not get better from cancer"

And why in the absolute poo poo is the Chinese market a concern here? This is not even the kind of Western movie that plays in China; the government has a set limit of the number of Western films that can receive theatrical release and they are almost exclusively the big action SFX spectacles that cost 9 figures to make and earn 9 figure returns. The Asian film market is perfectly capable of producing their own maudlin terminal illness romances, thank you.

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

EasyEW posted:

Les Moore Thinks He's The Only Adult In The Room

gently caress you.

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



EasyEW posted:

I've missed Don Herold ever since Kleboe got rid of his clinker. Also, I'm pretty sure these are all ad taglines, which means you know what you have to do now.
these are the ones i recognised.

Doomykins
Jun 28, 2008

Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?
It has some surprising twists and turns like the cancer patient doesn't get better and dies.

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




Safe Havens




Kevin & Kell




Mother Goose & Grimm




Hagar The Horrible




Sherman's Lagoon


amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017


Batiuk's explanation is either going to sound pretty racist, or sound pretty greedy ("Oh, but won't someone think of the money we'll lose if China doesn't love Lust For Lisa?!")


I made the mistake of looking at the details closely, and this Uncle Ethel is IMing Edda using time travel and a typewriter, which is stupid but straightforward. But then he mentions how she's his ancestor and she's the old-fashioned one here, so what the gently caress is even going on?

Better question, why does Brooke think a new mother would ask a strange old creep on what would turn her husband on better? :psyduck:


Okay, this went from 0 to 11 in an instant. Aside from Dick Tracy shooting criminals like the Cop he is, I can't remember the last time someone got shot in a newspaper comic. Maybe the Phantom, but I got bored trying to follow it.


Goddammit, Holbrook can't even be assed to be consistent for one day. Is this dodo supposed to be knowledgeable about human culture, or is he supposed to be ignorant? He can't have it both ways!

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, I assume Momand was in a hurry to meet deadline, and/or didn't think anyone would care about plot holes. Why would Clarice take the money and the wallet?

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Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



They're going to want to make Lisa Chinese, aren't they?

Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

Scary Gary







Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

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

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


JethroMcB posted:

And why in the absolute poo poo is the Chinese market a concern here?

Because Batiuk thinks he knows everything but he actually doesn't know loving anything. Literally any time he tries to show how something works, he is flat out wrong. He loves to throw around jargon and supposed insider information, but all he ever shows off is his own arrogance and ignorance.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

How Wonderful! posted:

Styrofoam was a tentpole issue for environmentalists in the 80s, largely I think because it was visible. The hole in the ozone could be difficult to explain to laypeople, just like the effects of global warming and difficult to convey the urgency of to skeptics today, but litter and waste is immediate and eye-catching. Berkeley banned styrofoam food containers in 1987 and Suffolk Count, NY followed suit in 1988. Since then it's been a bit of a push and pull with some states and counties passing more or less strong laws but I'm in Philly and I'm pretty sure the Mexican takeout I had for dinner last night was in styrofoam containers. It's something I remember being very acutely concerned with when I was in elementary school but that time and ennui kind of made me blase about.

CFC was used in polystyrene but it has been replaced with butane, production of freons was banned in 1994.

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.


The Bloop posted:

PREENING HIMBO made me lol

I really dislike the word 'himbo'.

Because bimbo should be used for men only in the first place, the '-o' suffix indicates that it is masculine and people continuing to mis-use it are simply trashing all forms of Tuscan linguistic traditions! (Yes, yes, I know, this is a Wendy's drive-thru)

Anyway, with that rant out of the way, in today's Corto Maltese: 'Pardon me boys, is that the Buenos Aires choo-ch-, oh wait. I'm not actually here to get on a train. Nevermind', or Corto's little trip to Nod takes a disquieting detour to Yarnham, or We find out who killed Louise, surprise-surprise it's our favourite, extremely paranoid, Inspector



curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

How Wonderful! posted:

Thanks curtadams for the scans!

Dykes to Watch Out For #38 & #39 (1988)



Unless I've really missed something this is the first I've heard about Mo and Clarice being a former item.




Mo and Clarice being exes is mentioned in #4 and #10. It's also in the cast descriptions at the start of the third book, but of course that's not in Essential. And, yes, I had to look them up - I'm not THAT much of a DTWOF fanatic (although I did guess the number of mentions right).

I can see why these wouldn't be top priority strips in the collection but I can't see any particular reason to drop them unless Bechdel needed to squeeze in under some particular page count for some printer reason. The Mo and Lois one explains why Mo nags Clarice into telling Toni but you don't need to see it to understand why Mo does. The styrofoam hat strip is standalone. Both have OK jokes but no killer laughs. Nothing really dated. So if she *had* to drop something, OK, but otherwise, why?

One thing I find really odd is that the pacing and feel of the strips seems very different posted vertically, as they are here, that it does in the book, where they are printed side-by-side on 2 pages forming a really long strip. Every newspaper I saw carried them side-by-side although I'm sure there were others with vertical placement. The extended horizontal strip makes them feel longer, and grabs my attention more - it's harder to just skip over panels, and in particular the conclusion isn't close to the eye while reading the start.

curtadams fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Apr 30, 2020

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.
Mark Tatulli is a class act.

Johnny Walker posted:

The Phantom



Does anyone else think this guy maybe supposed to represent Trump Jr?

Dear god you're absolutely right.

EasyEW posted:

I've missed Don Herold ever since Kleboe got rid of his clinker. Also, I'm pretty sure these are all ad taglines, which means you know what you have to do now.

One of them is an absolute classic

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Apr 30, 2020

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 12/9/53


They'll Do It Every Time 12/4/46


Mopsy 12/14/42

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake


Man in Black

It's the owl logo of MTV (Mainos-TV, not Music television), the only major commercial tv company at the time. Their shows were/are generally more lowbrow entertainment than the national broadcasting company's.


Kennel fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Apr 30, 2020

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
Are giant mice immune to arrow damage?

Anyway, in Juliet Jones, it appears that the abduction is going to be passed over in favor of what a really bad liar and businessman J Jonah Jackson is.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

EasyEW posted:

I've missed Don Herold ever since Kleboe got rid of his clinker. Also, I'm pretty sure these are all ad taglines, which means you know what you have to do now.

I know "Ask the man who owns one" was the tagline for Packard cars.

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

FrumpleOrz posted:

On The Fastrack


Kevin & Kell


I legit enjoyed both of these strips. Huh.


lmao "I don't run a hetero crisis center" :allears:

Mikl fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Apr 30, 2020

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

gleebster posted:

Are giant mice immune to arrow damage?

Anyway, in Juliet Jones, it appears that the abduction is going to be passed over in favor of what a really bad liar and businessman J Jonah Jackson is.


Eve. You gotta get out of there.

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä



Mämmilä please stop ending your comics with an animal getting killed due to the folly of Man.

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

EasyEW posted:


Les Moore Thinks He's The Only Adult In The Room






Oh my loving God. It's been mentioned already, but unless Lisa's Story is part of the MCU all of a sudden, there's no way in hell this movie would run in China - they tend not to make a big deal of English-language dramas because those movies, you know, require you to be versed in Western culture and fluent in English.

There's zero chance this would be an issue, which Batiuk would know if he didn't have a steadfast refusal to research anything he wrote about.

Adam


BCN


Phoebe


Wallace


Heart


Some GoComics commenter had a smart idea and has gotten through to the colored strips, so here's those, including the next couple of days:





Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


Vargo posted:

There's zero chance this would be an issue, which Batiuk would know if he didn't have a steadfast refusal to research anything he wrote about.

He doesn't care, The Passion of the Les is more important.

"Forgive them cancer, they know not what they do."

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban


That's gotta be bigger than ten feet ...

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


fondue posted:


That's gotta be bigger than ten feet ...

The statue is, the pole isn't.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Maybe it's a statue of a man holding the pole!

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Vargo posted:

Some GoComics commenter had a smart idea and has gotten through to the colored strips, so here's those, including the next couple of days:





Well, it's about a million times better, but it's still not good. And maybe it's just starting slow, but for the entire first week there's, like, no jokes and no story?

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Dec. 25, 1938)



Panel 4, Merlin is having none of this nonsense inside the house

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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

Tiggum posted:

Well, it's about a million times better, but it's still not good. And maybe it's just starting slow, but for the entire first week there's, like, no jokes and no story?

You don't see the joke in strip 3 about Fashion Tastes being dictated by online announcements which everyone immediately obeys?

Tiggum
Oct 23, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Parahexavoctal posted:

You don't see the joke in strip 3 about Fashion Tastes being dictated by online announcements which everyone immediately obeys?

Not really? It's absurd, but not particularly humorous. Like, the way you described it is actually funnier than the way it was presented in the strip.

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


eww

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
The Far Side
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“Wendell … I’m not content.”

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While his parents beamed, little Tommy Lundquist, future developer, surveyed the view from his newly constructed treehouse.

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At the monthly meeting of Squidheads Anonymous

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Tempers flare when Professors Carlson and Lazzell, working independently, ironically set their time machines to identical coordinates.

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“That does it! … I’m going to go up there and give those people hell!”

Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jul 25, 2022

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Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:

Tiggum posted:

Not really? It's absurd, but not particularly humorous. Like, the way you described it is actually funnier than the way it was presented in the strip.

Also the art is way too busy for tiny newspaper funnies space

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