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I missed it by several pages but I hate the realization that this is the second time Holbrook has done a strip about kegels in K&K
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# ? Feb 14, 2025 16:07 |
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Kevin & Kegels
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curtadams posted:Although RE Howard wrote some Cthulhu mythos stories as well as the initial Conan stories, and there are certainly shared themes of "evil things outside the world trying to get back in" and "mysteries man was not meant to know", they aren't *technically* the same universe. I mean, I guess it depends on how you determine "technically"? Note that Howard's horror stories are on the list of works I'm not really familiar with, I just bought the collection along with the collection of histroical fiction so I could be more informed when the comic dips into the pastiches, so this is based entirely on his Conan, Kull, and Bran Mak Morn stories and notes in the Del Rey collections. That link notes that the Kull story The Shadow Kingdom is explicitly Mythos, the Bran Mak Morn story The Worms of the Earth is Mythos, and those two series are explicitly tied together by the crossover story Kings of the Night. The Hyborian Age, the setting history that Howard wrote for the background of the Conan stories, explicitly follows up from Kull: RE Howard, The Hyborian Age posted:Of that epoch known by the Nemedian chroniclers as the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, little is known except the latter part, and that is veiled in the mists of legendry. Known history begins with the waning of the Pre-Cataclysmic civilization, dominated by the kingdoms of Kamelia, Valusia, Verulia, Grondar, Thule, and Commoria. and that Howard considered this all to take place on Earth in the ancient past (the maps he drew are overlaid on a map of Europe, and after the cataclysms that ended the Hyborian Age things settled into the known geography of the modern day. He was a proponent of Catastrophism, notably discredited nowadays, but it was a large influence on his writing). Going back to The Phoenix on the Sword, the bit in the line "He shuddered to see the vast shadowy outlines of the Nameless Old Ones, and he knew somehow that mortal feet had not traversed the corridor for centuries" (emphasis mine) was originally "Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth, and the Nameless Old Ones." He cut the explicit reference to Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, but it seems to me like the reference is still supposed to be obvious. As noted in the essay Hyborian Genesis by Patrice Louinet (in three parts over the three Del Rey collections, though this is from the first volume, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian), the story The Haunter in the Dark, a Mythos story set in the modern day, mentions Thoth-Amon and his ring (from The Phoenix on the Sword and mentioned in The God in the Bowl) and Stygia. Then on the other side, we have Lovecraft making several references to various Howard works in The Whisperer in Darkness, including a reference to Bran Mak Morn and, and At the Mountains of Madness namedrops Valusia, of the Kull stories. All that taken together, I'd personally say that's enough to connect them into one universe, though I'll leave it to other people if that's link enough for them. They are very different stories though, with different aims. In Conan, it's a spice, not a whole meal.
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The Dinette Set knows there's no secrets between friends.![]() Working Daze is a reference I'm glad I don't get, I assume. ![]() Super-Fun-Pak Comix might want to stop and ask for directions. ![]() Cul De Sac springs into action! ![]()
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The Lockhorns![]() Brewster Rockit Space Guy ![]() On The Fastrack ![]() Safe Havens ![]() Kevin & Kell ![]() Mother Goose & Grimm ![]() Hagar The Horrible ![]() Sherman's Lagoon ![]() Ella Cinders ![]()
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curtadams posted:I'm impressed by the art - that sequence of aging Valiants is quite realistic and all recognizably him. And all that stuff in the background! Not something you see on the comics pages these days. Nowadays you get Stephen Pastis whining about drawing very simplified cars.
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catlord posted:That's not fair. It's only like, 3/4 of them! I've been reading the Sunday comics since the mid-60s. The color drift issue seemed to have started in the early to mid 70s, depending on the paper. I have also wondered what the problem was, because the color print run is fine everywhere else in the paper except the Sunday funnies. It started showing up in US comic books (outside of Marvel or DC) here & there in the late 70s. I am also surprised that some publisher hasn't put together cleaned-up reprints. I picked up such a publication of Windsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, printed in native format, which set the book dimensions so large I have to prop it up against a wall in its shipping box (I'm planning to build a rostrum for it).
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fondue posted:B Kliban I'm going to regret asking, but what's the K&K hellworld status on carnivorous plants?
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A PSA from from your favorite ![]() https://twitter.com/fmarciuliano/status/1263113825039069184 Sally Forth ![]() ![]() Skippy (December 13-14, 1932) ![]() ![]() Peanuts (May 22-23, 1973) ![]() ![]() Funky Winkerbean IN Funky Winkerbean? That's Preposterous! ![]() ![]() Crankshaft ![]() ![]() 9 "How Many Years Have I Been Reading This Pretentious Garbage And It Never Came Up That Thorax Was The Father Of Another Character?" Lane ![]() ![]() Rip Haywire ![]() ![]() Thimble Theater (December 18-19, 1936) ![]() ![]() Out Our Way (July 9-11, 1934) ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Have all kinds of kids; why the hell not? Amos and Edda showed us that having children does not change your life in any meaningful way whatsoever.
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I love how the kids in Skippy are like little old, slightly skeevy men. I feel like they'd know how run a craps game or something.
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EasyEW posted:9 "How Many Years Have I Been Reading This Pretentious Garbage And It Never Came Up That Thorax Was The Father Of Another Character?" Lane hWHAT
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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() Fort Knox ![]()
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Bad Machinery![]() Drimble Wedge posted:I love how the kids in Skippy are like little old, slightly skeevy men. I feel like they'd know how run a craps game or something. If there's one thing I've learnt from the Dollop is that kids grew up fast in olden times.
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In today's Corto Maltese: This is the piece of music that Corto and the skeletons refer to, or OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ, or Fool! Corto Maltese toots as he pleases!![]() ![]() ![]()
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I know blond guy isn't gay hulk. So who is he?
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Fleurrie is a veterinarian, and Sven (because of course that's what Brooke named a barrel chested blonde dude) is her assistant/husband. I'm pretty sure she delivered a calf in an evening gown once, because aren't we just erudite zanies here.
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Kennel posted:Surgeon's Tales Is this the part where the king is bitten by the radioactive spider?
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Family Circus![]() Rose is Rose ![]() One Big Happy ![]() Foob ![]() Compu-Toon ![]() Bizarro ![]()
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Surgeon's Tales![]() ![]() Nancy ![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() Man in Black ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Today in Juliet Jones, a storm! Maybe J Jonah will crash and we can move on to another interesting story.![]()
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Arlo and Janis![]() Tina's Groove Classic (October 10, 2008) ![]() Arlo and Janis Classic (October 10, 1998) ![]() Garfield Classic (October 10, 1988) ![]()
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Is Funky having hallucinations as he lies dying on the running track? Is this finally the removal of the title character so the strip can gain proper old comic status and focus entirely on Les?
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Yvonmukluk posted:If there's one thing I've learnt from the Dollop is that kids grew up fast in olden times. Well, that or not at all.
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goatface posted:Is Funky having hallucinations as he lies dying on the running track? Is this finally the removal of the title character so the strip can gain proper old comic status and focus entirely on Les? Nah, hallucinations come and go with Funky, it shows he's always juuuust on the verge of death, but will never quite cross over to the abyss. Remember a few years ago when he almost took a drink, then got into a car crash and somehow teleported back to 1973?
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean IN Funky Winkerbean? That's Preposterous! The way that Funky's cheeks are shaded makes it look like he's experiencing severe oxygen deprivation.
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Calling this long shot, Funky is being offed soon but without a press release for it this time.
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Place your bets, place your bets. Stroke Brain tumor (classic!) Aneurysm Cardiac thing
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Crabgrass![]() Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Oct 9, 1951) ![]() Calvin and Hobbes (Aug 5-6, 1987) ![]() ![]() Robbie and Bobby (Dec 31 2015 & Jan 12, 2016) ![]() ![]()
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El Spamo posted:Place your bets, place your bets. I'm voting for cardiac thing because these people eat nothing but carbs dipped in fat and black coffee.
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El Spamo posted:Place your bets, place your bets. He just found out he has cancer, and he's being strangled to death by Les Moore to prevent him from stealing any of Saint Lisa's spotlight
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A stroke-induced cardiac suicide.
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JethroMcB posted:He just found out he has cancer, and he's being strangled to death by Les Moore to prevent him from stealing any of Saint Lisa's spotlight Funky Winkerbean, as written by Garth Ennis.
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BigDave posted:Funky Winkerbean, as written by Garth Ennis. Gotta include some hamfisted criticism of religion for that to fly.
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