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catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?
Conan the Barbarian Jan. 15th, 1979- Jan 21st, 1979







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RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

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

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Johnny Walker posted:


Rex Morgan MD




He seems extremely calm for a man talking to an apparition of his yougner self

TampaTango
Apr 12, 2007

COMICS CRIMINAL

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.

Edit:

https://twitter.com/choochoobear/status/1242596814882312198?s=19

Edit 2: Dude loves him some Popeye

https://twitter.com/choochoobear/status/1217019659419078656?s=19

I thought I recognized his hand, he does a great job with it. He is a very nice guy!

CommaToes
Dec 15, 2006

Ecce Buffo
Can that guy just do Popeye from now on?

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012


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.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

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

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Randy is a newspaper comic nerd, so a legacy strip should be his bag. I like him better being uber-ascerbic though.

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

That “you wish you could feel loved like that” joke feels pretty something positive-ish.

Agreed they should give it to him though.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



CommaToes posted:

Can that guy just do Popeye from now on?
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.

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
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.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

I'm pronouncing it doodlesack and I don't care if I'm wrong

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
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?

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

I read a little farther on that tweet and holy moly.



Copyright 2006

Also I didn't feel like editing F Minus out.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

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

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
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.

Tuxedo Ted
Apr 23, 2007


Wasn't Doc Holiday a dentist by trade?

curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 25, 1939)
No food, but copious roses on the table. It's all in your priorities, I guess.

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?
Vanessa, who teaches classes in a Godzilla costume, with hints she's an Godzilla analogue to a furry (would that be a scaly?) Yeah, def the kind of person you run into every day.

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

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Professor Wayne posted:

I read a little farther on that tweet and holy moly.



Copyright 2006

Also I didn't feel like editing F Minus out.

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

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
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.

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
Toxic Masculinity: The Arc can end any time now.

2017 Spiderman


1978 comics will be later because I'm lazy

Dick Tracy





Locher Tracy





Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Toastline
Dec 7, 2005
Chain Chomp

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

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

Live, laugh, kupo!

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.

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
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.

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

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

Professor Wayne posted:

I read a little farther on that tweet and holy moly.



Copyright 2006

Also I didn't feel like editing F Minus out.

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

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, 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



Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda



Intet Nytt Fra Hjemmefronten


Nemi

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Medenmath posted:



The third one is a little problematic by accident, but the other two instrument names here are good, very good.
"William, we three have been playing gay music on this castle together for years, but either you're renaming that thing or we're a duo from now on."

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



"fine, i'll call it a bagpipe"

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



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!
Maybe it's the "killing but also not actually accomplishing anything". Normally he's getting stuff done, here he's just spinning his murder-wheels.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy


Dustin


Mandrake


Man in Black


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

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.
Cool that the definitely not offensively-drawn asian character got to show up for the final panel so she could have extra lines by her eyes to help indicate that this panel is, somehow, a punchline.

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

EBB posted:

I'm pronouncing it doodlesack and I don't care if I'm wrong
It's not far off, in German at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzmh0Bn44XM


Tuxedo Ted posted:

Wasn't Doc Holiday a dentist by trade?
I seem to remember a Zits story where Jeremy went to a concert with a rockband he was a massive fan of and while his dad was waiting outside before picking them up he ended up meeting the band and helping them load their truck. Turned out both the band members used to be dentists. The author has probably long since forgotten it but you never know.

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Bobbins

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

dustin hitting the word peloton in every drat strip for two weeks like it's trying to hit seo triggers ffs

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
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!

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä

Pancho Jueves
Aug 20, 2007

BEST FRIENDS!!

Kennel posted:


Mandrake




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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Meaty Ore
Dec 17, 2011

My God, it's full of cat pictures!

curtadams posted:

No food, but copious roses on the table. It's all in your priorities, I guess.

Also, man the detail in those drawings! Every goblet decorated, those complicated horn holders, and, well, the roses. So good.


My personal favorite detail is the running tally between Camoran, Val, and another guy (Theo?) in the first panel.

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