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King Aroo 12/17/53![]() They'll Do It Every Time 12/13/46 ![]() Mopsy 12/23/42 ![]()
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# ? Feb 17, 2025 11:58 |
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His Divine Shadow posted:OK so I was right. I was starting to think I was wrong There is no grandfather. Erkki is the father, I referred to him as old man. Next up strippers, JFK and Stalin.
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LazyQ posted:What others posted is correct. Old man is Erkki Syrjänen, the father, and the woman is his wife, Laina Syrjänen. Pekka and Atte are their sons. Pekka is secretly seeing Eeva Lehtonen, daughter of Eino and Lempi Lehtonen. It was in a recent strip at the dances we saw them get together, with help from little Rauno Santanen who is the son of the bank manager Ensio Santanen. Ah, I see. Thanks for clearing that up for me. ![]() LazyQ posted:Next up strippers, JFK and Stalin. Okay, that's a hell of a combination. Mämmilä knows how to get your attention, huh.
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LazyQ posted:There is no grandfather. Erkki is the father, I referred to him as old man. Next up strippers, JFK and Stalin. It's the art style. He looks hella old to me. I interpreted the art as two grandparents to the left.
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LazyQ posted:There is no grandfather. Erkki is the father, I referred to him as old man. Next up strippers, JFK and Stalin. So who's the fifth person in that strip? Harry Lime? Anyway, in Juliet Jones, J Jonah Jackson is at least a competent pilot. ![]()
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (September 29, 2008) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (September 29, 1998) ![]() Garfield Classic (September 29, 1988) ![]()
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Evil Mastermind posted:Super-Fun-Pak Comix is...uh...what? No pizza rules. ![]()
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pizza is a sandwich
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The Far Side 3wru8xYl.jpg “Hot oil! We need hot oil! … Forget the water balloons!” uQVLdBBl.jpg Someone for everyone YtVLGuEl.jpg For the most part, the meeting was quite successful. Only a slight tension filled the air, stemming from the unforeseen faux pas of everyone showing up in the same dress. Nr9QCaDl.jpg “GET A ZORB!” 1n4EEvnl.jpg Houdini’s final undoing Pickles ![]() Zits ![]() Somebody fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Old School Peanuts (Sept 25, 1951)![]() Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 12-13, 1987) ![]() ![]() Robbie and Bobby (Nov 27-30, 2015) ![]() ![]()
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Mämmilä![]() Jalmari Lepola and his wife Siiri are people we are going to see from time to time. Jalmari has lived through some interesting times. If this upcoming batch of strips seems familiar, that's because Nenonen posted them way back in 2012. I did my own translating on these though, for consistency's sake.
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![]() Thank you, this comic is what's needed now. And thank you to everyone else who takes the time to post.
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Surgeon's Tales Book 2, Part 3, Chapter 7 - Reduction: ![]() At the beginning of this chapter Bertelsköld recaps the earlier events: how his father had a ring, that allegedly had magic powers, and then lost it. How his great grandfather hated nobility so much that he cursed his family line and made his friend Larsson's son his heir and asked him and his children to keep on fighting against aristocracy (one of the Larssons is now a bourgeois faction leader, while another is a peasant faction leader). I've linked this couple of times already, but at this point the book gives a detailed explanation of Great Reduction. I'm not a historian, so my understanding of this topic is based on this book and some googling, so there might be some errors. Even the narrator points out that count Bertelsköld's explanation is biased and gives us some objective remarks. The earlier Swedish rulers were quite charitable with their wealth and gave or sold a large part of the crown lands to noblemen. This made the nobility very powerful political faction and they even tried to turn Sweden into a full oligarchy where a handful of people owned all of the lands while the peasants would be basically slaves. There was however internal conflicts inside nobility (mainly between the old families and upstarts) and the bourgeoisie and the peasants weren't entirely powerless either. When Karl XI reached the adulthood, he realized that the crown was lacking funds and started Reduction with the help of the factions that wanted to restrain the strongest noble houses. Many of the granted lands were returned to the crown by the principle that the former rulers had no right to give them away forever and whoever owned it had already profited enough of them. The byrocracy behind the system appears to be quite arbitrary and corrupt and the people who were in charge of the process were able to cause great losses to their rivals. Before long the crown started hogging lands even from those who had supported the Reduction. Bertelsköld himself gets quite worked up when he describes how the lower classes are just making everyone slaves for the king. It's basically what you'd expect to hear if the modern billionaires had to give almost all of their wealth to the government. The narrator remarks that in the end the Reduction was probably a good thing even if some individuals had to face unfair decisions. Nancy ![]() ![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() Man in Black ![]() ![]() ![]() This will probably confuse someone, so here's my interpretation: In comics things get usually abstracted, so "a coat hanger" and "a coat hanger with clothes" have different physical properties. ![]() Kennel fucked around with this message at 15:37 on May 8, 2020 |
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Kennel posted:
I took it as "he's got no shoulders to speak of, so he also uses a coat hanger that fits his body shape".
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä This is so heartwarming!
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I don't like the path Nekonaughey is taking, I'm worried :< Family Circus ![]() Rose is Rose ![]() One Big Happy ![]() Foob ![]() Compu-TOon ![]() Bizarro ![]()
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PetraCore posted:LMAO there are definitely two people tangoing here. This was the period where it was becoming possible to live a life as a semi-open homosexual without losing your career and friends. As a result, a fair number of lesbians and gays in long term married relationships were coming out, leaving their spouses, and looking for same-sex relationships. Of course it still happens today, but it's less common, because same-sex relationships have been a much more available option for, well, decades. At the time it was almost a trope - someone of Emma's implied age (early 40's or so) - would have met and married her husband before same-sex relationships were an option outside of a very limited subculture, and so even people with overwhelming preferences for same-sex relationships usually ended up married in a heterosexual (hetero-asexual?) couple. So although Lois' thought processes (beyond "Emma is ![]()
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![]() TJ, she is co-owner of this establishment. That is how she got this job for which she is entirely unqualified. She might be kind of sort of working under you as a bartender (bartenders wait tables now?) in your restaraunt, but she also has a lot of power to decide if your restaraunt is even a thing that is operating in her building. So maybe back up a sec. Also you're an rear end in a top hat.
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TJ is the worst. Also Luann's mom is going to come to the conclusion that if she lets Tiffany rent the room at their place, she can pay less rent than at her dorm and have to pick up less shifts.
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Strontium posted:
I understand he's not making any money on this so there's a limit to how much time he can dedicate, but if it's not something he's doing as a labor of love and he's just making GBS threads out 3 strips a week just to do it then he's better off moving on to something else. Sundae posted:Google says only sixty papers run it, which is a relief though still sixty too many. The comic has been an idiotic horn-fest for as long as I can remember. F Minus ![]() Mark Trail ![]() Mary Worth ![]() There's a doofus on the wing of the plane! The Phantom ![]() Pooch Cafe ![]() I found these better when he did them in March. Rex Morgan MD ![]() Andertoons ![]() Apartment 3-G ![]()
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Johnny Walker posted:Apartment 3-G Eagerly awaiting this guy righteously punching someone in the face for trying to swindle him. Also, I'm astonished that the Evanses have really just forgotten that Mrs. Degroot owns that restaurant. What a terrible loving comic.
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Bloom County August 25th & 26th, 1981 ![]() ![]() Last Tango in Paris, for reference
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Mark Trail '47 2/6–8![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Trail '94 6/13 ![]()
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Dykes to Watch Out For #52 (1989)![]() In general I think this strip serves to address some of the questions brought up already about this plot and how it contrasts with the Clarice/Ginger thing. Jerome gets built up quite a bit in these early stages, which is funny because I don't think he ever actually appears. Later on DtWOF will have a small but pretty rich roster of men in the supporting cast but right now Bechdel is still very interested, I think, in keeping the spotlight deliberately and intently focused on women interacting with women. I may be incorrect but on a quick skim through I believe the only men with lines in the serial strip so far have been a guy in one panel of the accessibility panel strip, and Mo's dad in a strip cut from the Essential. An interesting decision and my hunch based on recollection is that Bechdel begins to loosen up on this when she begins to address bisexuality and gender mutability more seriously later on. "yenta" is a general term for a busy-body lady that originated in Yiddish comic theater. The Jewish-American writer Jacob Adler, who had a healthy amount of crossover appeal with gentile audiences, introduced a character named Yente Telebende in the 20s, leading to the adoption of the term in popular American vernacular. Here's a little snippet of Adler's Yente: quote:Recently one of my next-door neighbors ran into my drugstore. Her name is Yente. The same Yente that gets written about in the papers, whose husband‘s name is Mendel Telebende and who has a son — Pinye. The match-maker in the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, named Yenta, was just such a stock busy-body, leading to the slightly inaccurate transmission of the term as generally referring to match-makers and other romantic meddlers. I can't make out the writing in panel eight but it looks like it's something and not just scribbles. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 20:08 on May 8, 2020 |
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Johnny Walker posted:
![]() Adam ![]() BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Wallace ![]() Heart ![]() Curtis ![]() ....What? The problem with microwave leftover pizza isn't that it dries out, it's exactly the opposite, it gets mushy. Honestly, Billingsley's been making less sense than Charles Boyce lately.
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #52 (1989) I think I saw Jerome in one strip, one with a family dinner of Emma's. Can't find it in my Firebrands, so it's probably in DTWOF: The Sequel, which I am missing. Hopefully he's actually there (as opposed to just referred to) and not just a false memory of my faltering mind. He doesn't say much IIRC. Edit: And I just found my copy of DTWOF: The Sequel (yay!), and Jerome is in there, but he doesn't have any lines. I guess that strip was dropped from Essential. I can sort of see why Bechdel wanted it because it looks like it's building up to a big plot event or joke and then...bupkis. (Although I'm still on team "Collections should collect, so put it in"). curtadams fucked around with this message at 20:44 on May 8, 2020 |
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Rhymes with Orange![]() Get Fuzzy 5/7/00 ![]() The problems of syndicated comics: this Sunday strip interrupts the "Rob goes bald" storyline. Brenda Starr 4/18/40 ![]() The problems of running only on Sundays: Pesky has to spend half the installment recapping the plot for dumb ol' Tom Taylor. ![]() Smokey Stover 3/24/35 ![]() A cautionary tale for all of us who wanted a fireman's pole in our house when we were kids.
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curtadams posted:Edit: And I just found my copy of DTWOF: The Sequel (yay!), and Jerome is in there, but he doesn't have any lines. I guess that strip was dropped from Essential. I can sort of see why Bechdel wanted it because it looks like it's building up to a big plot event or joke and then...bupkis. (Although I'm still on team "Collections should collect, so put it in"). Yeah, I don't mind the idea of an accessible, portable one-volume abridgement but I think Bechdel is an artist of enough historical and cultural significance that over 25% of her longest and (imo) most complex work being functionally OOP is bewildering. The first big chunk of my dissertation research was trawling through hundreds of newspapers from the 1860s and 1870s looking for the kinds of anonymous poems that were just shoehorned into unclaimed or oddly-sized column space so I'm super sympathetic to the plight of every scholar who needs a text to be accessible and available when it just isn't.
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How Wonderful! posted:Yeah, I don't mind the idea of an accessible, portable one-volume abridgement but I think Bechdel is an artist of enough historical and cultural significance that over 25% of her longest and (imo) most complex work being functionally OOP is bewildering. The first big chunk of my dissertation research was trawling through hundreds of newspapers from the 1860s and 1870s looking for the kinds of anonymous poems that were just shoehorned into unclaimed or oddly-sized column space so I'm super sympathetic to the plight of every scholar who needs a text to be accessible and available when it just isn't. If they had been available, wouldn't they have been used already by lesser scholars?
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gleebster posted:If they had been available, wouldn't they have been used already by lesser scholars? I am about as lesser a scholar as they come, but in general I think the more stuff is available and well-edited, the more breadth and interconnectivity there's going to be in scholarship, which is to everybody's benefit.
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Vintage Valiant (Feb. 19, 1939)![]() ![]()
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Called it! As said by many others, conquering is fun. Ruling is boring and hard.
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King Aroo 12/18/53![]() They'll Do It Every Time 12/14/46 ![]() Mopsy 12/24/42 ![]()
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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# ? Feb 17, 2025 11:58 |
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Where is R Ubbish in these trying times? Docks ![]() ![]() Retail ![]() ![]() Zip ![]() Rip ![]() Dick ![]() Duck ![]() These are really getting unbearable.
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