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riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



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Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty

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Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

kidcoelacanth posted:

Boy these 2000 election Boonducks sure are a loving bummer

I remember those days, thinking that W was just another Gerald Ford goofball who was in for one unremarkable term...

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Who called Tiffany in the spare room?

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

Parahexavoctal posted:

[url=https://starsandcelebs.com/2017/01/interview-9-chickweed-lanepibgorn-comics-creator-brooke-mceldowney/]
Jesus the inside of Brooke's head must look like that gag of Homer remembering the dinner party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Oa6P7D2NQ&t=26s

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (Feb. 05, 1939)

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

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


coming attractions : movie :: small quiet bark : insane barking frenzy

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

by Reene
Bloom County
August 21st & 22nd, 1981

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

*looks at 2020 election*

and nothing was learned. The end, no moral

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Feb. 05, 1939)



I know that a Tyrant is a Tyrant in Prince Valiant (and that we've already seen what it's like in Thule), but some part of me is imagining the world where it turns out that Sligon is actually a pretty fair and just ruler, and Val's dad was actually ousted in a popular move.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.

the expression on his dad in panel one.

Ashsaber
Oct 24, 2010

Deploying Swordbreakers!
College Slice
Whenever Chickweed tries to be 'sexy' it triggers a primal part of my brain in disgust. I've only felt such revulsion for other people's wankbait a few times before, like when a much younger and more naive me learned that people would jack it to in style Simpsons porn. I thought this was similar, asking myself why anyone would ever find something so crudely drawn sexy, why, in 2020, people would ever resort to something like Chickweed to get their jollies.

But no, it wasn't that type of revulsion at all. It was something more primal.

Chickweed reminds me of a game put out four years ago, Haydee, that had some previews put out at the time. That 'game' had the player control a female character who looked like an even more exaggerated fertility idol, at least 50% of the body mass being tits and rear end with a tiny, featureless head, and every animation was overly done to show off her 'sexy' movements. Just seeing that thing was a trip to the uncanny valley for me, but that was not what made it so bad. It was thinking about the people who would be getting off to it that sent me into horrified contemplation. The thought of what type of person would want to play a game about a faceless woman showing off her T&A, like a woman with a face is to much of a person to them and would spoil things, like they need to divorce sexual features from actual women if they are to get hard.

Just contemplating the existence of people like that was enough to make me want to curl up in a ball and shiver.

And so too with Chickweed. Part of it is the lumpy faces that have nearly nothing to do with human anatomy, with mouths that make me think of garbage disposals and eyes that in any other work would only appear on a serial killer at their most crazed. Part of it is the way they twist and wrap around each other in ways that no real human ever would. But mostly it is taking three seconds and realizing that there are people, probably many of them, who look at these mouths that look like a ring of needles, these bodies that look more fit for Picasso, all the things I find revolting an say "yeah, that's hot!".

It isn't so much the kink as what the person with the kink must be like.

Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

I think you said it perfectly. I would only add that the highbrow affectations associated with the strip and yes, its lust, is equally repellant; it's like Brooke can only sanction lust if it's appropriately cerebral (triggered by the right classical piece, for instance). I suspect that he would find the lust between say a cashier and a plumber to be disgusting.

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise



curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

How Wonderful! posted:

Dykes to Watch Out For #49 (1989)
I love the Emma and Lois storyline. I don't want to spoil it, but it's not a standard storyline, and I like seeing something different. The choices and challenges the various players seem more real and less forced than usual. It pretty much ran as a long-running B plot - it doesn't dominate the strip as much as the Clarice affair does, but comes and goes for a while. I did notice that the cuts in Essential take out a lot of strips where there are a few panels on the Emma and Lois storyline in the context of a different story, and I think that's a loss, because they were often nice bits, and they added to the "life going on" sense the strip was pretty good about conveying. I think the cuts also turn it into more of an A plotline just because several other plots are gone, like Milkweed and the Saturn Return, so for a long stretch in Essential it's mostly Emma and Lois, while in syndication E&L was getting interspersed with the other plots.

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

maltesh posted:

Huh. Face masks in the Pizza shop. I wonder if that was an editorial request?

I wonder how that'll go down with all the boomers who read Family Circus, because let's face(mask) it; apart from us, it's only boomers who cares about these goddamn kids.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

curtadams posted:

I love the Emma and Lois storyline. I don't want to spoil it, but it's not a standard storyline, and I like seeing something different. The choices and challenges the various players seem more real and less forced than usual. It pretty much ran as a long-running B plot - it doesn't dominate the strip as much as the Clarice affair does, but comes and goes for a while. I did notice that the cuts in Essential take out a lot of strips where there are a few panels on the Emma and Lois storyline in the context of a different story, and I think that's a loss, because they were often nice bits, and they added to the "life going on" sense the strip was pretty good about conveying. I think the cuts also turn it into more of an A plotline just because several other plots are gone, like Milkweed and the Saturn Return, so for a long stretch in Essential it's mostly Emma and Lois, while in syndication E&L was getting interspersed with the other plots.

This is absolutely true. I remember not really liking the Emma stuff very much when I read the Essential but being a lot more absorbed in it reading through the entire stack of Firebrands. I think Bechdel really excels at communicating a sense of dailiness and time passing that's kind of diluted in the Essential-- I was thinking about Love & Rockets today and I think, unexpurgated, DtWOF has a similar knack for sketching out a believable sense of a world outside of the strip's immediate lens.

Tambaloneus
Feb 5, 2007

I must say I'm shocked at the finding BM has kids. (do they exist though? has anyone seen them?) It means he should know better, or was he just that absent as a father. My sister had a baby recently and even the tiny tiny baby she had took all her time and energy and focus and that's just one tiny little baby who slept the whole time. TWO normal size babies!? It's like ... is there going to be a big reveal they're already dead? Or aren't real? Because they aren't getting any attention from their apparently always horny parents.

Watching this guy's comics is like staring at someone's obsession going waaay too far. Has he been diagnosed with a sex disorder? I mean if someone went to this guys house and it was also wall to wall real-dolls i would not be remotely surprised. His characters are like real dolls, they exist for sex and literally nothing else.

On a lighter note I've been really enjoying Footrot Flats. I had a bunch of the books as a kid & loved them. We even had our own "Dog" (ie, a black & white mutt) but my parents refused to let us call him "Dog" officially but I don't remember the name they gave him. He was always just Dog to us. We had a Horse too (ie, a loving HUGE bastard of a cat that was part panther or close enough) but he was called Whiskers. I very much related to that comic as a kid growing up in the country.

Evrart Claire
Jan 11, 2008

Drimble Wedge posted:

I think you said it perfectly. I would only add that the highbrow affectations associated with the strip and yes, its lust, is equally repellant; it's like Brooke can only sanction lust if it's appropriately cerebral (triggered by the right classical piece, for instance). I suspect that he would find the lust between say a cashier and a plumber to be disgusting.

They have no qualms about loving in a restaurant in front of the waiter because the characters(and Brooke) don't see service staff as actually people.

Safety Dance
Sep 10, 2007

Five degrees to starboard!

BigglesSWE posted:

I wonder how that'll go down with all the boomers who read Family Circus, because let's face(mask) it; apart from us, it's only boomers who cares about these goddamn kids.

A couple people on ComicsKingdom commented on the masks in a "oh, I guess he's drawing that now" kind of way.

but

what

the

gently caress

is this

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
You reported that, right?

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Oh, Internet, you never fail to disappoint me.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Safety Dance posted:

A couple people on ComicsKingdom commented on the masks in a "oh, I guess he's drawing that now" kind of way.

but

what

the

gently caress

is this



Sounds like a mediocre entry from back in the Dysfunctional Family Circus days.

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.

Drimble Wedge posted:

I think you said it perfectly. I would only add that the highbrow affectations associated with the strip and yes, its lust, is equally repellant; it's like Brooke can only sanction lust if it's appropriately cerebral (triggered by the right classical piece, for instance). I suspect that he would find the lust between say a cashier and a plumber to be disgusting.

We established a long time ago that Brooke's concept of "intellectual" has deep roots in the type of cartoon character who paid honest money for that thesaurus and goddammit, he's using every one of those multi-syllable words, no matter how ridiculous they sound.

Sally Forth, Shelter-In-Place Edition



Skippy (December 2, 1932)



Peanuts (May 9, 1973)



Funky Winkerbean



Crankshaft, Man Out Of His Time



9 "Triggers A Primal Part Of My Brain In Disgust" Lane



Rip Haywire



Thimble Theater (December 5, 1936)



Out Our Way (June 7-9, 1934)





Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!


"Do you want to watch football on Saturday?"

"Well ok... if the car plays(/works/isn't broken)"

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

The Dinette Set needs to get a clue.


Working Daze covers CURRENT EVENTS.


Super-Fun-Pak Comix is an isekai.


Cul De Sac doesn't want to brag or anything.

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

Evil Mastermind posted:

Cul De Sac doesn't want to brag or anything.


One of my proudest and most aggravating moments in high school was when I made a plate in ceramics class and it got stolen out of the showcase. Simultaneously validating and crushing.

curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

Kennel posted:



"Do you want to watch football on Saturday?"

"Well ok... if the car plays(/works/isn't broken)"

You could make that work in English with "Well ok... if the car is up for it."

Sailor Cat
Aug 28, 2019

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

curtadams posted:

You could make that work in English with "Well ok... if the car is up for it."

The peculiar delight of Finnish ambiguity is that pretty much every single word is a homonym, 50% of the time with more than two meanings, and 90% of the time they refer to genitals

TeerZombie
Aug 5, 2003

Crush all hu-mans!

EBB posted:

Brooke would make a good low-level Guild villain. The kind sent to arch Venture, but Monarch kills him in the cold open for a joke like Dugong. Completely disposable.

I would love to see what his henchmen ended up being. He would definitely be caught monologuing

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 12/16/53


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


Mopsy 12/22/42

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Dykes to Watch Out For #50 (1989)

I don't think this is a real poem, rather a pastiche of the very luridly gynocentric imagery of a certain kind of 80s, early 90s poetry (think Marge Piercy, Marilyn Hacker, Adrienne Rich, etc.). It sounds a bit corny in Bechdel's satirical hands here and it's definitely not something that has aged super well-- that style of metaphysical feminism in general is sort of a fossil-- but I'll stand by a lot of it for sentimental reasons and I think it was an understandable reaction to both the austere machismo of the mainstream poetry it emerged from, as well as the highly oblique and non-referential content of contemporaneous experimental and vanguard verse. For sure in mainstream lit in general at that point notwithstanding a few notable modernists like H.D. or O'Keefe decades earlier the humble vagina had gotten a pretty bum rap throughout the 20th century and was probably due for its fair share of sentimental poems, and for all that I'd prefer somebody like Bernadette Mayer who knew she could say "loving" when she meant "loving" I guess I'd take "the lingering scent of seaweed" over Barrett Watten turning his dick into a typewriter and brandishing it at 30 years of undergraduates.

Here and there-- and especially I think in autobiographical stuff-- Bechdel shows that she had a very solid grasp of the lesbian poetic landscape of the 80s (see the notes to the Essential's intro) and knew a lot about broader trends in publishing and the increasing visibility of queer lit. Rich is also absolutely a fundamental figure in her thinking and of the early stages of her coming to terms with her queerness, and is probably the second-most name-dropped writer in the whole comic after maybe Audre Lorde. So she knows her poo poo and honestly this is a really good pastiche of what one might have heard at a small-town academic poetry reading in 1989.

How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 06:26 on May 7, 2020

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.


How Wonderful, your commentary is fantastic, absolutely brilliant. Puts my own to shame.

...And on that subject, in today's Corto Maltese: Hey! Steiner made it safely back from the Caribbean!, or Corto is quite the bibliophile, or Where are the winding forest roads? Only in Switzerland. Come to Switzerland we've got winding forest roads!



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

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Parahexavoctal posted:

coming attractions : movie :: small quiet bark : insane barking frenzy

It's still a dumb gag. If anything movie trailers are considerably more bombastic than the actual movie.

Transmodiar posted:

Modesty Blaise





That dude must have an amazing tailor. He goes from looking like a huge lard-rear end to just being kind of big-boned when he puts on that suit.

EasyEW posted:

Thimble Theater (December 5, 1936)



I love how Pappy sitting in the chair reading the newspaper implies that Popeye managed to turn around and start badmouthing him to Olive the split second they entered the room.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Some Guy TT posted:

It's still a dumb gag. If anything movie trailers are considerably more bombastic than the actual movie.
The dog would have to bark in the rhythm of We Will Rock You or something for a proper trailer joke.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales
As I mentioned yesterday, the comic makes huge cuts here, so I will spend the next three days by giving summaries about those.

Book 2, Part 3, Chapter 6 - Uninvited guest (2nd half):

Count Bernhard Bertelsköld steps in his wife's bedchamber. She thinks that he is a handmaiden and starts describing her plans for his welcoming party. The count interrupts her like in the comic I posted yesterday.

The count says that her actions might have caused their downfall. He's upset that she didn't follow the orders he gave in a letter, but is pretty forgiving and admits that he should have informed her better.

It turns out that loans that the house-master Nils Janssen gave to the countess are actually pretty small compared to their wealth, but interestingly from a modern point of view, they are still the thing that seems to make the count most angry. By being a debtor of her servant, the countess has made herself a target of major gossiping and disgraced herself and her family. They agree that Janssen must go.

The count admits that the acts of the house-master are a consequence of the actions of the Bertelskölds and reminds us that his father stole Janssen as a child from his Danish mother decades ago and he wasn't given the best upbringing.

Bertelsköld adds that Janssen might even destroy him entirely. The countess asks how that is possible and he starts describing.

Continues tomorrow...


Kidnapping was somewhat common theme in Topelius' writings. His great grandfather was stolen by Russians in the early 18th century and he spent years in slavery before escaping and returning to Finland.

Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake


Man in Black


Achernar
Sep 2, 2011

Transmodiar posted:

Modesty Blaise


Sad to see Paul Bearer turn to a life of crime.

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
In Juliet Jones, J Jonah Jackson takes off, leaving Eve to Kiwi's evil clutches.

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Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Oh, this hit a bit too close to home :smith:

(In the past on several occasions I was basically the two ladies on the left, making someone feel bad about themselves. I know better now, but it doesn't change the fact that I was a poo poo to some good people.)

Mikl fucked around with this message at 12:08 on May 7, 2020

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