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coronatae
Oct 14, 2012

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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Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Kevin & Kegels

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

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.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

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!

FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.
The Lockhorns


Brewster Rockit Space Guy


On The Fastrack


Safe Havens


Kevin & Kell


Mother Goose & Grimm


Hagar The Horrible


Sherman's Lagoon


Ella Cinders

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



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.
I'm always impressed by Foster's incorporation of visual details into his storytelling - like the way Val's hair whitens in the same pattern as his father, and the skeleton of his horse having passed away during the struggle.

PainterofCrap
Oct 17, 2002

hey bebe



catlord posted:

That's not fair. It's only like, 3/4 of them!

But yeah, it is really bad. Looking ahead, through to the end of 1978, they are a bit better (well, not next week's, that one's real bad too), you can see some but it's not as blindingly obvious as these past few, and beyond that it seems, barring a few exceptions here and there, it's generally decent. Like I said, I've not read these before, I'm basically discovering them alongside everyone else.. I'm not really familiar with how they'd have handled colouring back in 1978, but considering how poorly it sometimes gets handled now, I'm not too surprised it gets so sloppy.

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).

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban



Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

fondue posted:

B Kliban



I'm going to regret asking, but what's the K&K hellworld status on carnivorous plants?

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.
I was right.

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
A PSA from from your favorite :words: writer:
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)





Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




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.

Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

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.

coronatae
Oct 14, 2012

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

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Daddy Daze


Take It From the Tinkersons


Dark Side of the Horse


Fort Knox

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


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.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.


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!



Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I know blond guy isn't gay hulk. So who is he?

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
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.

Esplanade
Jan 6, 2005

Kennel posted:

Surgeon's Tales


Is this the part where the king is bitten by the radioactive spider?

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy


Dustin


Mandrake


Man in Black


gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
Today in Juliet Jones, a storm! Maybe J Jonah will crash and we can move on to another interesting story.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (October 10, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (October 10, 1998)



Garfield Classic (October 10, 1988)

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
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?

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


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.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

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?

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

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.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Calling this long shot, Funky is being offed soon but without a press release for it this time.

El Spamo
Aug 21, 2003

Fuss and misery
Place your bets, place your bets.

Stroke
Brain tumor (classic!)
Aneurysm
Cardiac thing

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
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)



BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

El Spamo posted:

Place your bets, place your bets.

Stroke
Brain tumor (classic!)
Aneurysm
Cardiac thing

I'm voting for cardiac thing because these people eat nothing but carbs dipped in fat and black coffee.

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

El Spamo posted:

Place your bets, place your bets.

Stroke
Brain tumor (classic!)
Aneurysm
Cardiac thing

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

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

A stroke-induced cardiac suicide.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

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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BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

BigDave posted:

Funky Winkerbean, as written by Garth Ennis.

Gotta include some hamfisted criticism of religion for that to fly.

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