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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() Fort Knox ![]()
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Big ol' catchup reactions post, sorry.CommaToes posted:Comic Strip Thread 2020: I hope Lisa comes out of this ok. To be serious I appreciate these looks back and thoughtful commentary. They are a good demonstration of the value of reading even the worst of comics. Yes, even that one. Haifisch posted:Dick Tracy According to the Tracy wiki (which is astoundingly up to date), there are multiple hints in the comic that Bates is the brother of Oswald Cobblepot. Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon ...what? How Wonderful! posted:Different Daughters is the title of two different books, one about the very important early lesbian organization, the Daughters of Bilitis, but that wasn't published in 1989. Bechdel might be referencing Different Daughters: A Book By Mothers of Lesbians, which would certainly be more thematically appropriate. It's the latter; the illustration in the comic matches the old cover: https://www.abebooks.com/9780939416134/Different-Daughters-Book-Mothers-Lesbians-0939416131/plp Vargo posted:I think I'm going to give Heart one more week to pick up before I drop it. I didn't like Heart Classix and I'm not loving nu-Heart. I'm sure it will be very important for some tween eventually, but I am not a tween and there's not much here for me. Aww, but we're all tweens at heart FrumpleOrz posted:Ella Cinders I just...really like this comic and character.
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EasyEW posted:9 "My Indifference Is Profound" Lane Don't know why for sure, maybe because I just also read that tweet, but this one's made me angrier after reading that most of the recent 9CLs.
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Discendo Vox posted:It's the latter; the illustration in the comic matches the old cover: quote:I just...really like this comic and character. Me too, I remember reading a little bit of Ella Cinders that I stumbled across a bunch of years ago and finding it really really charming.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Mother Goose & Grimm this might be my least favorite non 9cw strip ive seen in this thread in some time, wow
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Surgeon's Tales![]() ![]() I love that bear. Nancy ![]() ![]() ![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() Man in Black ![]() ![]() ![]()
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I've seen folks on SonofStuckFunky mention how Lisa ends up becoming sanctimonious towards her friends. I can kind of see hints of it, so I wonder how much worse it's going to get.FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack Whenever I see Dethany both on Fastrack and Safe Havens, I get a little pissed because that's way more of Dethany that I could stomach seeing.
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:Bloom County Thanks for posting these. I had forgotten how great early Bloom County could be.
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Today in Juliet Jones, J Jonah Jackson gets shot down![]()
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (October 2, 2008) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (October 2, 1998) ![]() Garfield Classic (October 2, 1988) ![]()
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FrumpleOrz posted:Mother Goose & Grimm ![]() Also god I love Arlo and Janis. I really like the current approach to current events.
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amigolupus posted:Compare that to the complete shitshow that was Bull's CTE story, where the person in question never got a single strip exploring what he must be going through, or what pushed him to kill himself.
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Part five. So. Back in the April comics I skipped multiple weeks of what I thought were irrelevant comics about a pair of teenagers. She found his picture album and discovered he was adopted, she pressured him into trying to find his birth parents despite him saying he loves his adopted parents. Ugh looking through them now it's frustrating because he's all "i'll think about it" and she finds the forms for him and gives them to him at school and pressures him into doing it. Then he checks his mailbox literally every day until - ![]() So we drop it and do unrelated things for a while. Until.... Funky Winkerbean - July 17-18, 22-26, 28-29. Skipping a few because the author dragged out the dramatic pacing as much as possible and no thanks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() dun dun DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
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We've been talking so much about Saint Lisa, but isn't there a moment in the future where Les gets a phone call from his dead wife telling him not to get on a plane, which then crashes, or something like that? I swear I'm not making this up. I think.
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"Oh wow, my PO Box exclusively dedicated to receiving information about my biological parents sure did get full after I stopped checking it obsessively! I'm sure it's nothing, into the trash with it all."
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Vargo posted:We've been talking so much about Saint Lisa, but isn't there a moment in the future where Les gets a phone call from his dead wife telling him not to get on a plane, which then crashes, or something like that? I swear I'm not making this up. I think. No, that was indeed a thing that happened.
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Vargo posted:We've been talking so much about Saint Lisa, but isn't there a moment in the future where Les gets a phone call from his dead wife telling him not to get on a plane, which then crashes, or something like that? I swear I'm not making this up. I think. Yeah it happened and it's also never brought up again I think in favor of a much more boring plot of "les consistently failing to reach the final stage of grief"
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Okay, folks. From here (July) until October, there are only two week-long breaks from cancerwife. I will be skipping both, as they don't seem interesting. Strap yourselves in for unlimited cancer until the very end. I'm planning to stop posting Funky Winkerbean after that, as this was specifically to check out the cancer story, and while the art in this comic is genuinely amazing, the everything else in it just isn't worth it.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Part five. I'd like to point out the implausible part of the adoption subplot. Lisa gave birth and gave the child up to be adopted anonymously. Her husband, creepy Les Moore, works at the local high school. Both the principal of the school, Fred Fairgood, and his wife Anne also work there. Fred and Anne adopted a son. Lisa and Les know this, and they also know when young Darrin Fairgood's birthday is. This is all explicitly stated elsewhere in the strip. And they never even suspect the truth.
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gleebster posted:I'd like to point out the implausible part of the adoption subplot. Lisa gave birth and gave the child up to be adopted anonymously. Her husband, creepy Les Moore, works at the local high school. Both the principal of the school, Fred Fairgood, and his wife Anne also work there. Fred and Anne adopted a son. Lisa and Les know this, and they also know when young Darrin Fairgood's birthday is. This is all explicitly stated elsewhere in the strip. And they never even suspect the truth. Well I mean come on, do the kids really matter, even ones that came from Saint Lisa?
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Cowslips Warren posted:Well I mean come on, do the kids really matter, even ones that came from Saint Lisa?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Strap yourselves in for unlimited cancer one for the "offer I cannot possibly refuse" file
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The Far Side MstZNA0l.jpg “We should write that spot down.” 4RAUMYIl.jpg “I’ve seen this sort of thing before, Baxter … and it’s not a pretty sight.” FxeOQLcl.jpg ZPswnjIl.jpg “Honey, the Merrimonts are here. … They’d like to come down and see your ape-man project.” BM4NFyWl.jpg Pickles ![]() Zits ![]() Somebody fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Mämmilä![]() Here we meet Heimo Suominen, the county building official responsible of Mämmilä's public works. He is a major character in the series. Last time we touched upon the Finnish civil war, today we talk about one of its legacies. Muilutus was an act of kidnapping communists or leftists in general, transporting them out of town, often near or even over the Russian border, and leaving them there. These "haulings" took place in the early thirties and were mostly connected to Lapua Movement, a right-wing radical, anti-communist movement. The kidnappings were usually accompanied with beatings, and three people were killed during them. We also get a dating, the vote is for the presidential election of 1978, held January 15-16. The winner was, as expected, Urho Kekkonen, who won his fourth and last term.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Hell, Funky barely matters and the comic's named after him! He's supposed to be the main character! The only important Batyuk-yuk character was John Darling, and you can tell because he was let go easy. ![]()
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Crabgrass![]() Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Sept 29, 1951) ![]() Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 20-21, 1987) ![]() ![]() Robbie and Bobby (Dec 9-10, 2015) ![]() ![]()
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gleebster posted:I'd like to point out the implausible part of the adoption subplot. Lisa gave birth and gave the child up to be adopted anonymously. Her husband, creepy Les Moore, works at the local high school. Both the principal of the school, Fred Fairgood, and his wife Anne also work there. Fred and Anne adopted a son. Lisa and Les know this, and they also know when young Darrin Fairgood's birthday is. This is all explicitly stated elsewhere in the strip. And they never even suspect the truth. That's understandable, since any reasonable person looking at the situation would realize that Darin and his girlfriend are twins so his birth father must be her father, John Darling.
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Hostile V posted:You can't gently caress a ghost. I learned that lesson from MacGruber. Dan Aykroyd would say otherwise.
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Heart![]() Adam ![]() BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Wallace ![]() Curtis ![]()
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Vargo posted:Curtis EDIT: It was like, what, seventy years ago?
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The internet still loves bacon. Family Circus ![]() Rose is Rose ![]() One Big "shut the gently caress up Ruthie" ![]() Foob ![]() Compu-Toon ![]() Bizarro ![]()
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![]() Oh yes. The Weenieworld she managed while Brad was working there. She harassed Brad (sexually and just in general) to the point that TJ started working there as well to get "revenge." But please, Evanses, keep reminding us of all the ways that everybody here knows exactly what Anne Eiffel's deal is so we can continue to wonder why she's allowed to enter this establishment in the first place.
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Julet Esqu posted:
You know, you have the right to refuse service. If a customer is throwing you this much abuse you are allowed to kick them out. And what's the punchline? "Ann Eiffel, professional antagonist, is poo poo talking the owner of a restaurant", what's funny about that?
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BigDave posted:You know, you have the right to refuse service. If a customer is throwing you this much abuse you are allowed to kick them out. The ONLY reason Anne Eiffel, who is known to have expensive taste, comes to this teen hangout is so she can abuse Tiffany directly. Everybody who works there knows this. Really tells you how much the management of The Fuse care about their employees.
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gleebster posted:I'd like to point out the implausible part of the adoption subplot. Lisa gave birth and gave the child up to be adopted anonymously. Her husband, creepy Les Moore, works at the local high school. Both the principal of the school, Fred Fairgood, and his wife Anne also work there. Fred and Anne adopted a son. Lisa and Les know this, and they also know when young Darrin Fairgood's birthday is. This is all explicitly stated elsewhere in the strip. And they never even suspect the truth. NRVNQSR posted:That's understandable, since any reasonable person looking at the situation would realize that Darin and his girlfriend are twins so his birth father must be her father, John Darling. A Webcomic, By Any Reasonable Person ![]() (okay, fine, it's Shortpacked by David Willis) Sally Forth Binge Watch ![]() Once again, Skippy gets too real. (December 6, 1932) ![]() Peanuts (May 15, 1973) ![]() The Old Les Moore Charm ![]() Crankshaft NoRonavirus AU ![]() 9 "More Of That World-Famous Postpartum Randiness" Lane ![]() Rip Haywire ![]() Thimble Theater, in which Popeye cracks a book for the first time in forty years. (December 11, 1936) ![]() Out Our Way (June 21-23, 1934) ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Julet Esqu posted:Oh yes. The Weenieworld she managed while Brad was working there. She harassed Brad (sexually and just in general) to the point that TJ started working there as well to get "revenge." But please, Evanses, keep reminding us of all the ways that everybody here knows exactly what Anne Eiffel's deal is so we can continue to wonder why she's allowed to enter this establishment in the first place. ![]()
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