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Manuel Calavera posted:I've got a treat for you today then! Finally, an actually good One Big Happy!
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F Minus![]() Mark Trail ![]() Mary Worth ![]() "Oh, Mary! Does that mean we can finally..." "No." The Phantom ![]() Phantom continues his bad-assery. Pooch Cafe ![]() Rex Morgan MD ![]() What do you think they'll call it? GoKickMe? FundStarter? Andertoons Powered Descent posted:A surprising amount of the time, Andertoons somehow manages to be low-key excellent. ![]() One-panel gag strips are probably my favorite kind, now that I think about it. Julet Esqu posted:Junk Drawer Thread be warned: There are bad ones too. I know of some and I can get them at any time. Flash Gordon ![]()
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Haifisch posted:
Jesus Christ, things really don't ever change, do they?
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I first saw Repo Man back in High School when it came out on HBO. My friends and I loved it so much we were always quoting lines from it, one of my friends memorized the whole "everyone should have 100 chest x-rays a year!" soliloquy and would go off on that rant at parties at perplexingly fitting times. One of my favorite bits of the movie was all of the generic food - for decades I thought it was just another gag but an article came out about five years ago explaining why that and the little hanging car tree fresheners were everywhere; they were one of the only financial sponsors! So all of the stores in the movie and all product placement were Ralphs foods and every car had one or more tree air fresheners in it. B Kliban ![]() ![]() Here's J Frank Parnell explaining why radiation is totally safe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VKzqAefBVY
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Conan the Barbarian Oct. 23rd, 1978- Oct. 29th, 1978, featuring a special guest star!![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ah, Red Sonja! She-Devil with a Sword! Possibly the originator of the chainmail bikini? Red Sonja has become a staple of the Hyborian Age, but she is not a Howard original. Kinda. See, RE Howard wrote a lot of historical fiction (which I'm not really familiar with, something I should remedy), it was one of his favourite genres though he found it difficult to make money with them; the amount of research he spent on them meant he couldn't just churn one out for money like he could with Conan. In the Conan boom of the '60s and '70s, a lot of non-Conan stories got rewritten into Conan pastiches by other authors, a trend that Marvel continued when they started their comic. Red Sonja is based on a character named "Red Sonya," from the story The Shadow of the Vulture, set in 16th century while the Ottoman Empire is attacking into Europe. When Marvel adapted that story into the Conan comics in "Conan the Barbarian #23", they redesigned and slightly changed the name of the historical fiction character and accidentally created a sensation. There was a Red Sonja movie in 1985 with Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger, oddly enough not playing Conan (supposedly he was intended to, but there were some weird rights issues involved), and there have been attempts to make a new one for years now. She also appeared in an episode of Conan the Adventurer, the live-action TV show that I remember being enjoyable but also from the era of Hercules and Xena, so if you can't stand that style of fantasy TV I'd probably skip it. Apparently in 2006 there was a lawsuit between two companies, because one claimed to have the rights to Red Sonja as designed by Roy Thomas for the Marvel comics, and the other to Red Sonya as seen in The Shadow of the Vulture. It was apparently settled with each company paying $1 to the other to license the other version. It feels like it should be a joke in a '70s Mad Magazine.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFx-5PGLgb4 Nice one.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis This took me a second, but man, A+J knows how to portray a healthy romantic/sexual relationship.
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The Far Side fIsfdq2l.jpg “Eat my apple, will you? LEAVE MY GARDEN! BEGONE! … And take all the mole traps with you!” SmXTYOAl.jpg “Well, we’ve tried every device and you still won’t talk—every device, that is, except this little baby we simply call ‘Mr. Thingy.’” Pickles ![]() Zits ![]() Somebody fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Bloom County September 12th & 13th, 1981 ![]() ![]()
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Rhymes with Orange![]() Get Fuzzy 5/16/00 ![]() Brenda Starr 10/20/40 ![]() I love the narration here. "God, Brenda, what a total fuckup you were." ![]() Smokey Stover 5/26/35 ![]() It's a small thing, but I really like the panels of Smokey running up the ladder -- there's a great cartoony dynamism there. Bonus ad! How badly do you think Robert Arthur, 10, of Brooklyn got the poo poo beaten out of him on the playground after this ran? ![]() Tastyeast was apparently a mix of yeast and chocolate, which sounds horrible.
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Julet Esqu posted:Jesus Christ, things really don't ever change, do they? Nope, they don't.
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catlord posted:There was a Red Sonja movie in 1985 with Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger, oddly enough not playing Conan (supposedly he was intended to, but there were some weird rights issues involved), and there have been attempts to make a new one for years now. She also appeared in an episode of Conan the Adventurer, the live-action TV show that I remember being enjoyable but also from the era of Hercules and Xena, so if you can't stand that style of fantasy TV I'd probably skip it. Now, if you've seen the movie you might be like "why are you saying 'cameo', he's one of the main characters" - reportedly he arrived on location for like a one week filming and the producers essentially kidnapped him through structuring rewrites and reshoots into requiring him being there for a month and playing a much larger role than was initially pitched to him. Q-rais https://twitter.com/Qrais_Usagi/status/1261270119210049537 Bogor 1976 ![]() ![]()
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Samovar posted:GOOD GRIEF Hah, that's clever. Mirrored ceiling?
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Ghostlight posted:Oh I can fill this one out. Arnold was head-hunted by the producers for Conan The Barbarian and had signed a contract with them rather than with the production studio for six Conan movies. As Conan the Destroyer rolled out Arnold saw that the 'swords & sandals' genre was quickly burning out in America and wanted to get out before his career died alongside the budgets - similarly, the production studio also saw the writing on the wall and didn't want to bankroll a third Conan movie, and incidentally they were also the ones who owned the rights to Conan in the first place. So the producers want four more Conan movies but no longer have the rights, and Arnold doesn't want to do even one more Conan movie, but they manage to scrap together the rights to Red Sonja and convinced Arnold to cameo in it on the cheap as a way to amicably end his contract with them. Ah, thanks! That does explain a lot and man, Hollywood fuckery is often just bizarre. I've actually managed to miss the Red Sonja movie, considering he's on the poster and everything I guess they really got their money's worth from those extra three weeks.
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On the off-chance that anybody is both enjoying DtWOF and following along in the Love & Rockets thread, I got The Art of Jaime Hernandez today and was surprised to find that Alison Bechdel wrote the intro. I've been thinking about the similarities between DtWOF and L+R, especially Jaime's Locas stories, a lot this week, as two enduring, long-form narratives circling around lesbian desire and adjacent to 80s counterculture, in which characters age in more-or-less real time. It's a pretty interesting little essay so I thought I'd throw it in here.![]()
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How Wonderful! posted:This is a really, really crummy scan, I'm trying to figure out a phone-scanning thing that I don't need to pay for. I've had good luck with OneDrive's document scan feature, but idk if you need to have an Office 365 subscription to use it.
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The Lockhorns![]() Brewster Rockit Space Guy ![]() On The Fastrack ![]() No Safe Havens on Sundays! Stone SOup ![]() Kevin & Kell ![]() Mother GOose & Grimm ![]() Hagar The Horrible ![]() Sherman's Lagoon ![]() Ella Cinders ![]()
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Sometimes the Lockhorns just kinda comes directly at you, huh?
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FrumpleOrz posted:The Lockhorns Now come on, a Long Islander rooting for the Knicks? (In the NYC area, you either root for the Yankees/Knicks/Rangers/Giants, or the Mets/Nets/Islanders/Jets. Although that may have changed since the Nets moved to Brooklyn?)
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FrumpleOrz posted:Mother GOose & Grimm
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Zelda is dating itself here because this is definitely the sort of thing that would go to kickstarter nowadays before trusting any game company with the idea
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis So was this written after Trump's inject yourself with UV speech? It has to be right?
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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() Fort Knox ![]()
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howe_sam posted:So was this written after Trump's inject yourself with UV speech? It has to be right? I would guess before. Sunlight has long been known to be a natural disinfectant. Although it would seem pretty close to the lead time.
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EBB posted:Hah, that's clever. Mirrored ceiling? That's certainly how I read it. Anyway, from those two nymphos to today's less horny, self-castrating Corto Maltese!: Why is this gorilla crying?!, or Corto Maltese and Klingsor in: Tales of Redundancy!, or I have no idea who or what Fantolin Cagao is, but I sincerely hope that Fantolin Cagao comes from a story much less racist than Tarzan (not the most racist novel I've read, but then again, I've read some James Bond novels, Gone with the Wind and some Sax Rohmer stuff (of Fu Manchu infamy) ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (October 7, 2008) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (October 7, 1998) ![]() Garfield Classic (October 7, 1988) ![]()
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Mister Olympus posted:Zelda is dating itself here because this is definitely the sort of thing that would go to kickstarter nowadays before trusting any game company with the idea It's not something that ever happened; games aren't made like movies, having random people come in and pitch a game the company should develop just isn't a thing and never has been. Of course if someone doesn't work in the industry and doesn't know anyone who does then it'd be hard for them to know that, so I'm willing to give Zelda's author more of a break on it than Batiuk gets on movies.
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Surgeon's Tales![]() ![]() Nancy ![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() Man in Black ![]() Those are personal ads and I had forgotten that they had those in non-tabloids. I checked that weekend's (May 1989) paper and it had about 50 of them. Mostly awkward lonely middle-aged people, few that are probably prostitutes, also a group of witches looking for recruits. ![]() ![]()
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I just want to say, Man in Black is currently my favorite comic being posted here. It's just so clever and good.
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gonna need a Punainen ja Mönkijä on this one ![]()
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Pastry of the Year posted:
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NRVNQSR posted:It's not something that ever happened; games aren't made like movies, having random people come in and pitch a game the company should develop just isn't a thing and never has been. Of course if someone doesn't work in the industry and doesn't know anyone who does then it'd be hard for them to know that, so I'm willing to give Zelda's author more of a break on it than Batiuk gets on movies. What makes Batuik's ignorance so magical is that he gets such elementary details wrong it's hard to guess where his misinformation even comes from. Imagine knowing what a wide receiver is but not knowing that football teams typically have more than one. Or knowing what robot battles are but having no concept of weight restrictions. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 11:58 on May 18, 2020 |
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Today in Juliet Jones, Kiwi just isn't a dancer, I guess.![]()
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Hwurmp posted:gonna need a Punainen ja Mönkijä on this one I think it's "big headphones look a bit like mushroom caps" e. he did another mushroom gag before ![]() Kennel fucked around with this message at 11:40 on May 18, 2020 |
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Heart of the City![]() Adam ![]() BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Wallace ![]() Curtis ![]() ![]()
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