|
Pastry of the Year posted:Garfield Classic (October 23, 1988) Life imitates art.
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 12:35
|
|
|
|
| # ? Feb 18, 2025 09:20 |
|
|
Alhazred posted:Zelda You know, it’s really easy to win an argument against a strawman, Zelda.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 12:37
|
|
|
Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 6/4/00  Brenda Starr 3/16/41   Smokey Stover 10/6/35 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 12:39
|
|
|
 
Tiggum fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Jun 5, 2020 |
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 12:46
|
|
|
Surgeon's Tales  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake  Man in Black    The logo belongs to the national liquor store monopoly.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 12:50
|
|
|
Mr. Boop 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 13:08
|
|
|
He is lucky to be married to Betty Boop and loves her quite a lot.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 13:23
|
|
|
This guy loves his wife! The Far Side Pickles  Zits 
Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Jul 25, 2022 |
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 13:25
|
|
|
Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side Holbrook's entire life defeated by a single image Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Jul 25, 2022 |
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 13:28
|
|
|
Hwurmp posted:Holbrook's entire life defeated by a single image It really is, "what if I devoted my entire career to doing worse versions of a perfect joke."
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 13:29
|
|
|
Mämmilä Further waning of church's relevance, this time by maternity counselling, a service that counties are mandated to provide, free of charge, by law. It is roughly analogous to Planned Parenthood.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 13:34
|
|
|
Man, retreading these Far Sides it’s pretty nuts how good they still are and how many people have failed to imitate Larson
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 13:41
|
|
|
Selachian posted:
I've been admiring the chief's false teeth recently, they rock.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 13:50
|
|
|
Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 14:28
|
|
|
dismas posted:Man, retreading these Far Sides it’s pretty nuts how good they still are and how many people have failed to imitate Larson So very few of them manage that "doodled something and then gave it a caption" energy that really makes The Far Side special to me. The fact that a lot of ripoffs even go as far as ripping off Larson's art style really doesn't help though.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 15:04
|
|
|
Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Oct 24, 1951)  Calvin and Hobbes (Aug 31-Sept 1, 1987)   Robbie and Bobby (Feb 17-18, 2016)  
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 15:10
|
|
|
Docks  Retail   Zip  Dick  Duck 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 15:39
|
|
|
Family Circus Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 15:39
|
|
|
Tiggum posted:This guy is the worst. Guest writer, all of Dustin's bile comes from its writer, Steve Kelly. The artist is Jeff Parker, and by all accounts, he is not a piece of poo poo
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 15:40
|
|
|
Modesty Blaise 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 16:16
|
|
|
Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 16:32
|
|
|
Shugojin posted:So very few of them manage that "doodled something and then gave it a caption" energy that really makes The Far Side special to me. The only one I feel is just as good is Ballard Street, but that’s a whole other level of crazy.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 16:35
|
|
|
BigglesSWE posted:The only one I feel is just as good is Ballard Street, but that’s a whole other level of crazy. Yeah, Ballard Street just went off and did its own separate but similarly weird thing, which is great. So, it's time for a big ol' catchup post! Adam @ Home     BCN     Phoebe     Quarantine is getting to Will Henry     Curtis     Unsurprisingly, the Comics Kingdom commenters are really disappointed that this week's strips didn't end in child abuse.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 17:24
|
|
|
The Great Swamp is a real place in RI I used to canoe and camp there.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 17:29
|
|
|
Shugojin posted:So very few of them manage that "doodled something and then gave it a caption" energy that really makes The Far Side special to me. Which Far Side knock-off was it that had aggressively bad art and every character had a boggle-eyed  look on their face? It ran for years and it always looked like the guy drew it with his feet.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 17:35
|
|
|
close to home
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 17:36
|
|
|
root posted:Which Far Side knock-off was it that had aggressively bad art and every character had a boggle-eyed p much all of them
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 17:36
|
|
|
Raskolnikov38 posted:close to home Thaaaaaaaaaat's the one. Ugh... SOME GIZMO 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 17:42
|
|
|
Zelda feels way worse because there's DtWOF to compare it to. They both do similar things, but Zelda can get pretty obnoxious at times. Zelda moralizes to strawmen so her opinions are automatically right, Mo has her opinions but she's not treated as being in the right all the time. Zelda and her friends arguing over issues feels empty because it's always a setup to the joke of everyone being hypocrites, Mo and her friends have firm beliefs and their arguments just serves to explore and give nuance to all of it. A lot of the things Zelda brings up like gender parties or food you want to eat makes it incredibly dated, DtWOF's brings up issues that feel more timeless such as disillusionment against a government that doesn't care about you, relationship issues or feeling depressed and tired in this hell world.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 17:46
|
|
|
Kennel posted:Man in Black F Minus  Mark Trail  And that's when she realized...Mark Trail...was the imposter! Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Popeye's Cartoon Club  Sutra Oyle is a character from the 80s. Hey, let's get ready to tell this story! (JethroMcB)  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  Tiggum posted:This guy is the worst.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 18:13
|
|
|
root posted:Thaaaaaaaaaat's the one. Ugh... this rules actually
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 18:16
|
|
|
Johnny Walker posted:Gonna need a little help on this one. He sells apples and is a snake (forked tongue). I guess that barely passes as a joke, but it's something.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 18:23
|
|
|
You know what bugs me most about the Anne Eiffel poo poo? It's not that we're supposed to cheer on Tiff's downfall, because despite the reactions of some of the GC commentariat, I don't believe we are. I really do think that Team Evans wants us to see Anne as the evil one and disapprove of Tiff's treatment at her hands (even if they do, in general, seem to enjoy punishing her for her past). But Luann is a gag-a-day strip and the Evanses do NOT break out of that format. Even when doing storylines with more serious themes,the characters have to be getting sick burns on each other. Thus we have this whole week where Anne is openly abusing Tiffany, emotionally, financially, verbally, and we at home are supposed to be getting a big chuckle out of it. 
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 18:23
|
|
|
Fingerpori  This is impossible to translate, so I'll just explain the pun: Panel 1 "How has your restaurant faired during the (COVID) limitations?" (All restaurants were take-away only until June 1st) "It's been okay..." Panel 2 "We have been selling out of window." luukusta = out of window luu-kusta = bone piss But hey, there's more! In the first panel there is an 'easter egg' pun: ravintolanne = your restaurant ravinto-lanne = nutritional hip  In Finnish, deadlift literally means 'pulling out of ground'.  In Finnish the instruction can be read as "whip while you are at fridge temperature".
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 18:54
|
|
|
Kennel posted:He sells apples and is a snake (forked tongue). I guess that barely passes as a joke, but it's something.  v
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 18:54
|
|
|
Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth There's a joke to be made here about those military contractor bozos who tried to do a coup in Venezuela and failed miserably.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 19:21
|
|
|
Nenonen posted:ravintolanne = your restaurant holy poo poo
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 19:28
|
|
|
riderchop posted:holy poo poo Finnish is a made up language solely to confuse outsiders and I firmly believe they speak something else when no one's looking Also ACAB is KPOP in finnish lol
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 19:44
|
|
|
Kennel posted:Man in Black Kennel posted:He sells apples and is a snake (forked tongue). I guess that barely passes as a joke, but it's something. Ohhh, it's a tongue. I took that for his other shoulder.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 19:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? Feb 18, 2025 09:20 |
|
|
Dykes to Watch Out For #69 (1989) This is still a tricky issue today-- I was out to friends and at work well before I was out to my family, and our landlord didn't know until he showed up during the protests this weekend and saw me and my wife holding hands. Obviously the situation is quite different in 2020 than it was in 1989 (and for trans folks the issue of "passing" is a whole different wrinkle) but this is one of those strips where the topical stakes still feel relevant and urgent. As late as 2005-2009, when I was in college, I knew plenty of queer people, but far fewer out queer people, and surveys back up that while the amount of people who report some degree of same-sex attraction or sexual experience has remained pretty high all around, many more people today identify as queer than in the 80s. Aside from that, the Emma subplot continues, and Lois' pose and expression in the second to last panel are adorable, as Bechdel continues to deepen her character by putting her in the unfamiliar position of being the one pursued by a more aggressive lover. Her bolo tie also rules-- insofar as Bechdel is always pretty good at believable and consistent fashion for each of her characters, Lois' butch looks in particular largely remain timeless fits.
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2020 19:59
|
|
