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Conan the Barbarian Jan. 15th, 1979- Jan 21st, 1979![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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# ? Feb 16, 2025 02:28 |
Johnny Walker posted:I don't know what's going on with PCC. We haven't had a new one since February 9, and now there's two in a row, not on Sundays and without any drop panels but sized about the same as the Sunday ones, and they appear to be the same artist, but the two strips seem otherwise unconnected. It's strange. Randy Millholand was tapped to draw a few more, new Popeye comics. He was also the only one to tell jokes in his comics, so that might have a thing to do with it. Edit: https://twitter.com/choochoobear/status/1242596814882312198?s=19 Edit 2: Dude loves him some Popeye https://twitter.com/choochoobear/status/1217019659419078656?s=19 Fake edit 3: https://twitter.com/choochoobear/status/1167471175649366017?s=19 RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 20:36 on May 29, 2020 |
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Johnny Walker posted:
He seems extremely calm for a man talking to an apparition of his yougner self
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RandomPauI posted:Randy Millholand was tapped to draw a few more, new Popeye comics. He was also the only one to tell jokes in his comics, so that might have a thing to do with it. I thought I recognized his hand, he does a great job with it. He is a very nice guy!
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Can that guy just do Popeye from now on?
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This inspired me to flip through a few recent B.C. strips to see how it's doing, and I was surprised to discover they've actually given the cavewomen names! The former Cute Chick is now Grace, while the Fat Broad is called Jane. And it only took 61 years (or, if you will, 12 years since Hart kicked off and the Mastroiannis took over). Don't let anyone tell you that there's no such thing as progress on the comics page.
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Randy is a newspaper comic nerd, so a legacy strip should be his bag. I like him better being uber-ascerbic though.
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That “you wish you could feel loved like that” joke feels pretty something positive-ish. Agreed they should give it to him though.
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CommaToes posted:Can that guy just do Popeye from now on?
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Vintage Valiant (Jun. 25, 1939)![]() ![]() "Val wearies of the ceaseless slaughter?" Val, are you feeling okay? ![]() ![]() The third one is a little problematic by accident, but the other two instrument names here are good, very good.
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I'm pronouncing it doodlesack and I don't care if I'm wrong
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I don't think Prince Val is tired of the slaughter, he's tired of not being able to slaughter and actually kill a whole bunch of people to the point he's wading through bodies. also, probably rubs him the wrong way that they're feasting every night like they are! I do like Randy's take on Popeye though, is he still doing something positive? I stopped reading after he introduces the Vanessa character because honestly at that point it was just kind of boring, and she was super dull, but maybe I should pick it up again?
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I read a little farther on that tweet and holy moly. ![]() Copyright 2006 Also I didn't feel like editing F Minus out.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I do like Randy's take on Popeye though, is he still doing something positive? I stopped reading after he introduces the Vanessa character because honestly at that point it was just kind of boring, and she was super dull, but maybe I should pick it up again? the real question is "is he still doing that thing where the villain characters are all bizarre strawmen, but sometimes they turn good and then immediately adopt the same long-winded ultra-dry sarcasm as everyone else" he's dead right about BC being a pile of poo poo though
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The current storyline has Davan trying to dig up info on his namesake, a guy who was murdered as a part of his job drawing Tijuana Bibles. I'm looking forward to how this one works out.
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Wasn't Doc Holiday a dentist by trade?
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jun. 25, 1939) Also, man the detail in those drawings! Every goblet decorated, those complicated horn holders, and, well, the roses. So good. Cowslips Warren posted:I do like Randy's take on Popeye though, is he still doing something positive? I stopped reading after he introduces the Vanessa character because honestly at that point it was just kind of boring, and she was super dull, but maybe I should pick it up again? SP updates have gotten even more irregular since he and his wife had a kid, but they're still continuing. Still no book, but it's his bank account. curtadams fucked around with this message at 01:00 on May 30, 2020 |
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Professor Wayne posted:I read a little farther on that tweet and holy moly. Wow, I had that F Minus cut out and taped on my bedroom wall in hs. (dont remember the kid having suspenders but w/e). That's, uh. Recent
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Dykes to Watch Out For #65 (1989)![]() Bechdel continues to treat the subject of queer monogamy and non-monogamy with an amount of nuance that would still be pretty impressive if it had been published in 2020. The Dance of Anger is a 1985 book by Harriet Lerner, and was a pretty big self-help hit, and is largely about instructing women, many of them conditioned to smother or ignore their own frustrations, in how to constructively listen to and use anger. Like many of the self-help books alluded to in DtWOF, while it was written for women and ostensibly sought to empower them in their relationships, it also proceeds from a staunchly heteronormative set of assumptions (to be fair, from what I remember from my slog of a semester studying 70s-90s self-help books, it is far from the worst of its moment in that regard). When Bad Things Happen to Good People was a very popular 1981 self-help book by Harold Kushner and is primarily a religious apologia for the problem of evil (Kushner was a Conservative rabbi and the book was written in the wake of his young son's death). Bechdel's inversion here, When Good Things Happen to Bad People, is a little more cynical.
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Darthemed posted:Docks 2017 Spiderman ![]() 1978 comics will be later because I'm lazy Dick Tracy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Locher Tracy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Origins of the Sunday Comics ![]() Footrot Flats ![]()
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Johnny Walker posted:They still have a regular Popeye strip, but that is in reruns Monday-Saturday and has been apparently since they fired the last guy for trying to do an abortion story so it wouldn't be hard to get him started. "An abortion story" severely mischaracterizes it, but for whatever reason, that seems to be how it's described in other places too. The concept of abortion comes up sort of obliquely, but that's it. I feel like the minor blasphemy could have had something to do with it too, personally
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Haifisch posted:Toxic Masculinity: The Arc can end any time now. That's 40% of Boondocks, isn't it? Even when it's one of the kids skiving off chores it's wrapped up in that language.
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Old School Peanuts (Oct 17, 1951)![]() Calvin and Hobbes (Aug 19-20, 1987) ![]() ![]() Robbie and Bobby (Feb 1-2, 2016) ![]() ![]() I feel this one in my soul.
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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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Professor Wayne posted:I read a little farther on that tweet and holy moly. Johnny definitely took Christ's message of love and forgiveness to "Hart" Johnny Walker posted:They still have a regular Popeye strip, but that is in reruns Monday-Saturday and has been apparently since they fired the last guy for trying to do an abortion story so it wouldn't be hard to get him started. This feels like somebody trying to get fired. It's all juuuuuuust on the borderline until the last week of strips - referencing the concept of abortion and making a crack about the institution of religion in a one-two punch! The "Letters to the Editor" page would've been overrun for weeks! JethroMcB fucked around with this message at 06:36 on May 30, 2020 |
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In today's Corto Maltese, we're gonna back... to the future! Well, actually no. The other thing. To the past! It's late May, 1905. After starting their journey in October 1904, the Russian Baltic fleet - their only military encounters so far having being blowing up British fishing vessels and some of their OWN ships in a panic - have encountered Admiral Heihachiro's fleet at Tsushima. Out of a fleet of eleven battleships, eight cruisers, nine destroyers and associated auxiliaries, only three Russian vessels manage to escape. All others are destroyed, captured or disarmed. The Japanese lost three torpedo boats. I don't need to provide further context for you to underline just how much this was an absolute rout for Russia. Many things resulted from this; the first seeds of anti-colonial movements started to seriously push up against the topsoil of white supremacy (having first being watered by the Battle of Adwa), Japan started to become frightening to the rest of the 'civilised' world and more; but that's not why we are here. It is late May, 1905. And the Russian government, faced with instability at home and abroad is forced to sue for peace, but... 'You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win, but somebody wouldn't LET us win!' - The real 'hero' of this series, or The Russian military gets a taste of what's going to be happening in, oh gosh, about twelve years or so, or Vasily gets over his fear quickly ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Zelda![]() ![]() Intet Nytt Fra Hjemmefronten ![]() Nemi ![]() ![]()
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"fine, i'll call it a bagpipe"
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Cowslips Warren posted:I don't think Prince Val is tired of the slaughter, he's tired of not being able to slaughter and actually kill a whole bunch of people to the point he's wading through bodies. also, probably rubs him the wrong way that they're feasting every night like they are!
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Surgeon's Tales![]() ![]() Nancy ![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() Man in Black ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Daddy Daze![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() Fort Knox ![]()
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Strontium posted:Fort Knox
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EBB posted:I'm pronouncing it doodlesack and I don't care if I'm wrong Tuxedo Ted posted:Wasn't Doc Holiday a dentist by trade?
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dustin hitting the word peloton in every drat strip for two weeks like it's trying to hit seo triggers ffs
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I mean, Ryan Renolds made a followup commercial about Peloton wife getting a divorce. Maybe Ryan will follow that commercial up with a comic where Ed get thins, thinks he can do better, gets divorced, and spirals into alcoholism because nobody can stand to be around him!
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Kennel posted:
Well golly, if Mandrake can whip up an "illusion" of tangible snakes, a little gas should be no big deal, right?
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# ? Feb 16, 2025 02:28 |
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curtadams posted:No food, but copious roses on the table. It's all in your priorities, I guess. My personal favorite detail is the running tally between Camoran, Val, and another guy (Theo?) in the first panel.
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