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StrixNebulosa posted:And here's the second half of "wally steps on a landmine". I hope you're ready to be mad.  Yeah, that's exactly what has stuck with me all those years. Khan has saved his life twice now, but better punch him out because U-S-A! U-S-A!
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Critically, this is also not how landmines work. They explode when stepped on; they don't wait patiently while someone tries to defuse them.
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The Far Side HibfFTTl.jpg “What have I told you about eating in bed?” G5iKLAyl.jpg “Carl, maybe you should just leave your flashlight off. We’re trying to scare these kids, not crack ’em up.” xJjYhR7l.jpg “Now that desk looks better. Everything’s squared away, yessir, squaaaaaared away.” oVTLF2jl.jpg Although an unexplained phenomenon, there is a place on the outskirts of Mayfield, Nebraska, where the sun does not shine. GZAdRkdl.jpg “Well, well, King … looks like the new neighbors have brought a friend for you, too.” Pickles  Zits 
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Safety Dance posted:Critically, this is also not how landmines work. They explode when stepped on; they don't wait patiently while someone tries to defuse them. it’s a product of German s-mines in ww2. the fuse had a 3 second delay after being triggered to allow the mine to be launched upwards and increase the spread of shrapnel. US literature on the mine during the war often mistook this for the mine not exploding until after you stepped off the trigger
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Haifisch posted:Bonus WTF Wizard of Id: "A political prisoner tries to gently caress a spider" ? Ghostlight posted:Weird name for a doctor. Dr. Caduceus is a snake, so it's kind of fitting. Why do I know this.
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Safety Dance posted:Critically, this is also not how landmines work. They explode when stepped on; they don't wait patiently while someone tries to defuse them. Maybe whoever set down that mine got it from Jigsaw's Surplus.
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Zereth posted:I would've sworn there's a male disabled vet character
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Weembles posted:There is, isn't there? The sad sack with the service dog. That's the same guy, Wally. He has a traumatic brain injury.
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Fingerpori "...Preparations are almost done..." "We need more decorative branches!" Koriste = Decoration Oksa = Branch Koristeoksa = Decorative branch Koris = (nickname for) Basketball Teos = Artwork Koristeos = Basketball art And the plural partitive case is identical (koristeoksia) for them both because Finnish language is a practical joke.
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Mämmilä So there's Mämmilä. Center of it, at least. Savikko house, if you can't tell, is the green building at the bottom. Ajan Asu is a clothing and fabric store in the big yellow building at the tip of the "triangle". Other points of interest, there's Crywood factory in the upper right and to the left of it Eino's house, uncolored. I think Syrjänen family's house is next to the road in the center, across from those two bigger, light-brown houses. Big building bottom left is the general store Oma Rove, next to it out of frame is a book store and next to that is Toivo Rönkä's property, he tried to get a well in his yard a while back and ended with a flag pole. Across the road from Rönkä is Hilkka's bar, favored haunt of Rikhard, Viljami and Sulo. Further to the south at the edge of town is the church and graveyard, and I think Ylä- and Ala-Mämmilä farms are even further to the south. Tarmo Koivisto based Mämmilä on his hometown of Orivesi, easy to see if you check it out in Google Maps. 
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Safety Dance posted:Critically, this is also not how landmines work. They explode when stepped on; they don't wait patiently while someone tries to defuse them.  This, at least, is covered in the text, you just have to turn your head sideways to get it. The landmine not going off immediately was a fluke.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä Having grown up in a medium-sized suburban town off a couple of major highways and regional roads, this kind of thing strikes a chord in me when I think about the construction that came before me.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä drat, I want a textless version of that main panel for a poster. I love good landscapes.
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Oct 2, 1951)  Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 24-25, 1987)   lmao Robbie and Bobby (Dec 15-16, 2015)  
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StrixNebulosa posted:oh god i provoked a thread title change - to anyone who doesn't like the funky winkerapocalypse, I promise that it'll be over soon. I just counted and we have about 8-10 weeks of cancer left. I tend to do 1-2 weeks per update, twice daily, so that's about 5-6 days left of funky, give or take the rest of wally stepping on a landmine. I know you want to
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It still doesn't make sense. It's a time fuse, it doesn't care if you lift your foot or not. If the fuse didn't activate yet then it's either dud or could fire any second, in either case the only thing you can do is run to cover and hope it was a dud. To actually hit it hard is the dumbest course of action though.
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 24-25, 1987) We took our 2nd kid out of preschool this month for good since we're all home now and she starts Kindergarten in the fall (we hope). To celebrate we split a bottle of wine then did "the math" on our total childcare costs on two healthy kids between 3 months old and school starting. lol
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This one's named after that one. Kind of like Paris, Texas.
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Doll House Ghost posted:drat, they look really blasé about that girl's family being killed right next to them. Well you see it turns out that dead Afghani means win for Americans! Is all good! Also, punching the guy after he saved your life? And claiming that he somehow had a hand in the death of your friends? What the actual loving gently caress is wrong with you you loving Fucky Fuckerbean. I joined SA originally so I could read the old CAD mock threads so I'm all about hate-reading comics. Please continue! BigglesSWE fucked around with this message at 15:12 on May 14, 2020 |
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All these cancer comics are depressing. Lets see if we can make them more cheerful Shake 'em baby!
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curtadams posted:C'mon, go for the gold! FW has been going for almost 50 years (yes, really, started March 1972) so that's over 15,000 strips. You could post a Monday-to-Sunday Funkstravaganza every day into 2027! I actually like this thread and look forward to seeing new comics in here daily, so no, I do not want to do that.
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Kennel posted:Man in Black I really like the use of space in this one. For a single-panel comic there's still pacing for the punchline.
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curtadams posted:C'mon, go for the gold! FW has been going for almost 50 years (yes, really, started March 1972) 
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Evil Mastermind posted:loving hell I'm a month older than this comic strip Ok boomer
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Calaveron posted:Ok boomer I'll have you know I'm GenX.
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Nenonen posted:It still doesn't make sense. It's a time fuse, it doesn't care if you lift your foot or not. If the fuse didn't activate yet then it's either dud or could fire any second, in either case the only thing you can do is run to cover and hope it was a dud. What makes the entire thing so nonsensical is that Batiuk tries going for a sense of realism by explaining how he thinks mines work and showing Wally's fear of getting blown up, but then he resolves it in a cartoonish way by having Kahn bat it away. It's complete tonal dissonance. It's like that time Batiuk did a story about a guy who Hollywood falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, except it turns out the real murderer was the guy's pet talking chimp who drinks and smokes. Parahexavoctal posted:Dr. Caduceus is a snake, so it's kind of fitting. You probably remember that time Kell got a check-up from her snake doctor, who was busy digesting someone still alive.
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I think Funky Winkerbean is actually far from the worst comic in this thread and I actually kind of like a fair amount of the old ones Strix has been posting. I like the idea of the timeskips and frankly I like the weird, clumsy tension between Batiuk's desire to write a soapy drama and his felt obligation to end each strip with a winking punchline. The end is weird, and it might not be the most accurate thing on earth, but I think the landmine stuff is actually a pretty tense and well-paced sequence as comic strip action sequences go. If anything it makes me want to check out John Darling. Anyway, apropos of nothing, when the landmine strips were coming out I was a freshman in college and I'd just broken up with someone named Becky, and I was really maudlin about it. During that time I'd occasionally drive home for part of the weekend, since my dad had just been in a car-accident and lost the use of his legs and he and my mom both wound up needing an extra set of hands around the house while they adjusted. I happened to pick up the paper on the day of the weeping "Tell Becky my last thought was of her..." panel and was like "gently caress this," and just moped around the rest of the day.
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To be clear, I'm having a lot of fun posting Funky Winkerbean and Lisa's Story. But I just don't feel like a week at a time wall of comics would be right for this thread outside of this, y'know? And I refuse to do it a strip at a time, because his pacing is excruciating, as the one-liner/smirks have time to ferment into something even worse. If someone else wants to do it, sure. Or if you want me to find a specific storyline, sure. But this isn't my cross - my cross is cancerwife, and I will be free soon.
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Safety Dance posted:That's the same guy, Wally. He has a traumatic brain injury. The injury gave him Prosopagnosia, a condition where you can't recognize people's faces. Except Becky. Because of his extreme love for Becky he remembers her face, and it is the only one he can recognize or accurately process. He was a POW for so long that he was presumed dead and so Becky moved on and remarried while he was away! It's possible Batiuk has forgotten that Wally has this condition since it never seems to come up anymore, but it happened.  You ran a counterfeit merchandise scam out of this very building. Pru booked it (and waived the usual event fee!); Luann was taken in by it. If Mrs. DeGroot doesn't know it happened, then what the hell, Pru and Luann? 
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