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I cant remember why Mo and Harriet don't work out, but I like Harriet.
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How Wonderful! posted:Sam's Strip (2/1/1962) 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.
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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.
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EasyEW posted:Les Moore Thinks He's The Only Adult In The Room
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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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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It has some surprising twists and turns like the cancer patient doesn't get better and dies.
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The Lockhorns![]() ![]() Brewster ROckit Space Guy ![]() ![]() On The Fastrack ![]() ![]() Safe Havens ![]() ![]() Kevin & Kell ![]() ![]() Mother Goose & Grimm ![]() ![]() Hagar The Horrible ![]() ![]() Sherman's Lagoon ![]() ![]()
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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? ![]() 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!
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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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They're going to want to make Lisa Chinese, aren't they?
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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.
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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.
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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 ![]() ![]() ![]()
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How Wonderful! posted:Thanks curtadams for the scans! 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 |
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Mark Tatulli is a class act.Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom 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 |
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King Aroo 12/9/53![]() They'll Do It Every Time 12/4/46 ![]() Mopsy 12/14/42 ![]()
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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 |
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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. ![]()
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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.
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack I legit enjoyed both of these strips. Huh. Alhazred posted:Zelda lmao "I don't run a hetero crisis center" ![]() Mikl fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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gleebster posted:Are giant mice immune to arrow damage? Eve. You gotta get out of there.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä Mämmilä please stop ending your comics with an animal getting killed due to the folly of Man.
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EasyEW posted:
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: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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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."
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B Kliban![]() That's gotta be bigger than ten feet ... ![]()
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fondue posted:
The statue is, the pole isn't.
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Maybe it's a statue of a man holding the pole!
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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:
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Dec. 25, 1938) Panel 4, Merlin is having none of this nonsense inside the house
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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?
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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.
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The Far Side mouBpXSl.jpg “Wendell … I’m not content.” VKCv6Oll.jpg While his parents beamed, little Tommy Lundquist, future developer, surveyed the view from his newly constructed treehouse. fTQafFol.jpg At the monthly meeting of Squidheads Anonymous asmWaiRl.jpg Tempers flare when Professors Carlson and Lazzell, working independently, ironically set their time machines to identical coordinates. gcXZsjvl.jpg “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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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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