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Safety Dance
Sep 10, 2007

Five degrees to starboard!


I actually don't mind this one. They're acknowledging that domestic perfection isn't all that important. At least Ed is capable of not nitpicking *something* to death.

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Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä

That was a quick jump from marriage to baby.

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

amigolupus posted:

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.

Counterpoint, Zelda strips are sometimes funny. The Lesbian strip is the most edgy but boring crap ever. Those women are nothing to look out for.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Selachian posted:

Brenda Starr 3/23/41





"I saw a rabbit do this in a cartoon once!"

I *think* that's supposed to be Flurry in the seventh panel?

Also, this escape makes no sense at all. Does the mind control gas that blocks the exit somehow stop working if the Professor is distracted by a crossdressing sidekick?

I'd say it's a tag-out/lock-out system and the professor has to physically be holding a switch to keep the gas flowing, but I doubt he's big on OSHA.

Kennel posted:

That was a quick jump from marriage to baby.

In the previous strip, when they were in the church, Eeva was looking a bit more pregnant than usual.

Green Intern fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Jun 6, 2020

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

Yes, to be clear: I like Zelda as a strip in general. I just feel it’s very preachy for overtly obvious stuff.

Nemi has the same problem, minus the fun.

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Samovar posted:

Is it different throughout Italy? Are some places more accepting than others? Uh, you don't need to answer this, since you've already pointed out the exhaustive-ness of it all; it is just curiosity on my part.

Nah, I don't mind people asking honest questions. As long as they're not Just Asking Questions, that is.

It differs from area to area. Generally speaking, the North is more tolerant than the South, and big cities are more tolerant than small towns.

This is probably because folks in the South tend to a. be more religious than those in the North, and b. give more importance to the concept of "family respectability". Most of the problems with queer folks from their family is "what will the neighbours think."

This of course is just a rule of thumb, not a hard-and-fast axiom.

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
The Far Side

Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jul 25, 2022

computer angel
Sep 8, 2008

Make it a double.

Master of expressions.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jul 25, 2022

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Retail




Zip


Dick


Duck

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe

Selachian posted:

Stephen Collins



lmao


Old School Peanuts (Oct 25, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (Sept 2-3, 1987)






Robbie and Bobby (Feb 19-22, 2016)



Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Professor Wayne posted:

The Far Side
“Sorry, Virgil—that’s all you get. … I don’t know how you got hold of a dribble glass in the first place, but it’s just your bad luck.”


I don't think I've ever seen this one. I guess it's one of the untranslatable ones because I have no idea what a dribble glass is.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jul 25, 2022

manero
Jan 30, 2006

Lodin posted:

I don't think I've ever seen this one. I guess it's one of the untranslatable ones because I have no idea what a dribble glass is.

A dribble glass is a joke glass that is made in a way that will purposely leak water onto the person using it.

Edit: The dribble glass was apparently invented by S.S. Adams, who also invented the joy buzzer

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

No thanks to Lizzo..

manero posted:

A dribble glass is a joke glass that is made in a way that will purposely leak water onto the person using it.

Edit: The dribble glass was apparently invented by S.S. Adams, who also invented the joy buzzer

Excellent av / post agreement.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I love the deeper level of absurdity that is them all having their own personal glass to begin with, presumably having carried them across miles upon miles of desert.

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


That Dustin is actually possibly the best Dustin I've seen. If you get past the "wine moms" thing, it has a bit of a joke and it doesn't come at anyone's expense via toxic boomer bullshit. The same gag would work for any type of glass and beverage.

Mind you it's still mediocre execution. It would work better with no dialogue after the first frame.

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
I just realized that Jason Poland has been making new Robbie and Bobbys for about a month now. At least I THINK they're new? His archives are massive and he reposts stuff all the time. Either way, going forward my posts will have both one of the new ones and one from the archives.

Free bonus modern R&B:

Robbie and Bobby (May 19, 2020)

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?
Conan the Barbarian Mar. 12th- Mar. 18th, 1979







curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

That sounds way more fun than a party with "normal" gingerbreads. Especially the spaceship!
Howard the Duck was just unbelievably bad at this point. Offensive and neither exciting nor funny. Was this being written badly deliberately to get out of contractual obligations?

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Conan looks so tired of this poo poo:

"*sigh* another young queen who wants to gently caress me:rolleyes:"

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Alhazred posted:

Nemi


As someone who cleans their home apartment before home deliveries I can really relate to this one.
:lol: That's a good one.

F Minus



Mark Trail



Mary Worth



Saul has a good point. I find it hard to believe an old man who hasn't seen the child in a dozen years is the only option available.

The Phantom



YOU HAVE RUINED OUR BRAND

Pooch Cafe



Popeye's Cartoon Club is hard to read



Rex Morgan MD: The Story Begins!



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G



Ugh. gently caress this guy.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Johnny Walker posted:

The Story Begins!
I wouldn't be so sure of myself, just sayin.

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise



Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

No thanks to Lizzo..

Johnny Walker posted:

:lol: That's a good one.

F Minus



Mark Trail



Mary Worth



Saul has a good point. I find it hard to believe an old man who hasn't seen the child in a dozen years is the only option available.

The Phantom



YOU HAVE RUINED OUR BRAND



"Who are you? Why are you here? Why do you make me look 50 pounds heavier? I don't exercise for nothing, you know."

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (October 24, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (October 24, 1998)



Garfield Classic (October 24, 1988)

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.

Johnny Walker posted:

Popeye's Cartoon Club is hard to read



(gets out magnifying glass)

Looks like someone remembers Bluto lore.

Sally Forth





Skippy (December 28, 1932)



Peanuts (June 8-9, 1973)





The second one is from the archives because it's that time of year again...



THE SURPRISE ENDING! (But really, what the gently caress...)





Crankshaft





9 Chickweed Lane





Rip Haywire





Thimble Theater (January 5-6, 1937)





Out Our Way (July 30-August 1, 1934)





How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Dykes to Watch Out For #70 (1989)
This is the beginning of another long chunk that isn't collected in the Essential.



Oliver North did eventually (unsuccessfully) run for Senate in 1994. As for the Galileo probe it entered Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995 and stopped functioning about an hour later as a sea of superfluid liquid hydrogen dissolved it (as was expected).

It might merit pausing one last time on Mo's worries about going to therapy and overall the slightly dated attitude towards therapy in the strip so far. As has been mentioned, while therapy wasn't exactly a fringe thing in the late 80s, it didn't have the cultural penetration nor the sense of normalization that it has today. As a rough index, in 1988 a little over half of American insurance policies (57%) covered mental healthcare, compared to 61% in 2013, a number which I imagine has both continued to rise and which indicated a gradual mainstreaming of mental health as an integral part of healthcare. A 2018 found that 42% of polled American adults reported having gone to therapy or counseling at least once, and about a quarter reported being engaged in therapy as an ongoing process.

Meanwhile, as of 1989 the pathologization of homosexuality still lingered in the DSM, although by 1987's DSM-III-R this was on its way out the door. The DSM I, in 1952, listed homosexuality as a "sociopathic personality disturbance" although 1968's DSM II was kind enough to downgrade it to mere "sexual deviation." Under immense pressure from activists this classification began to be challenged throughout the 70s and 80s, as in 1973 it was replaced by the broad but still homophobic category of "sexual orientation disturbance." The DSM III replaced SOD with "ego dystonic homosexuality" which was a kind of worry and fretting over one's sexual orientation--- an anxiety that seems logical and even inevitable for people living in a homophobic society! However it was apparent by the mid-80s that both ego dystonic homosexuality and SOD were less accurate and useful diagnostics and more political compromises with holdovers of a different era, and in 1987's DSM IV-R EDH was dropped as well.

The point being, Mo and friends exist in a world where a desire for mental healthcare is at odds with the fact that within very recent memory their lesbianism could have been wielded against them by a homophobic psychotherapist or counselor, or singled out as The Problem to be solved by therapy. Mo's worry that any therapist she chooses might be homophobic is a salient one and undoubtedly a factor that kept many queer people from seeking psychological help for anxiety, depression, etc..

Of course this doesn't take into account that as it appears in the strip, therapy's problem so far hasn't been its overmedicalization or its stigmatization of queer women-- it's been, via Sparrow, that it's hippy-dippy, self-absorbed, and not rooted in material praxis. So the anxiety that Mo faces is coming from two directions at once-- on the one hand, a heteronormative and often patriarchal monolith of psychotherapy, and on the other a wishy-washy and vague perception of therapy as an outgrowth of hippy and New Age practices detached from the real world.

The next handful of strips show her navigating these difficulties but since a lot of it is read as implicit I thought it would be useful to give a little context.

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


Thimble Theatre is so loving good

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

Mr. Boop



riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!

Lodin posted:

Counterpoint, Zelda strips are sometimes funny. The Lesbian strip is the most edgy but boring crap ever. Those women are nothing to look out for.






Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty

riderchop fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Jun 6, 2020

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban




EBB
Feb 15, 2005

FIBER SAGA 3

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

How Wonderful! posted:

Dykes to Watch Out For #70 (1989)
This is the beginning of another long chunk that isn't collected in the Essential.



As for the Galileo probe it entered Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995 and stopped functioning about an hour later as a sea of superfluid liquid hydrogen dissolved it (as was expected).

The entire uproar over the Galileo probe's plutonium was alarmist bullshit. If the Shuttle had exploded Challenger-style while carrying Galileo up to orbit, the plutonium cask would have easily survived that, and sunk to the bottom of the ocean still in one piece, ready for safe recovery. In the one-in-a-million shot of the probe accidentally striking Earth during a gravity assist flyby later in the mission, then yes, at least some of the plutonium would indeed have dispersed in Earth's atmosphere. But the total radiological release would have been a tiny fraction of that released by a run-of-the-mill nuclear bomb test... of which there were over forty in the year before this comic was published. It was absolutely not "enough to kill everyone on the planet."

In any case, the plutonium ceased to be even a theoretical threat to anything here in the inner solar system in 1995, when it entered Jovian orbit and didn't have enough energy to ever escape again. The main probe, with the RTG, entered Jupiter's atmosphere and burned up in 2003.

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

No thanks to Lizzo..
Mr. Boop is the new "Oh Baby" or "Girls 'n' Sports" of this thread. Weaponized comic strips.

Johnny Aztec
Jan 29, 2005

by Hand Knit

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Mr. Boop is the new "Oh Baby" or "Girls 'n' Sports" of this thread. Weaponized comic strips.

It reminds me of that....Andy? guy. Where he is drawing a map of Princess Peaches eyes.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Mr. Boop is the new "Oh Baby" or "Girls 'n' Sports" of this thread. Weaponized comic strips.

Except that it's so dumb it loops back around to brilliant, intentionally. Anti-humor.

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
Brevity

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Mr. Boop is legitimately the best new comic of 2020.

Megg, Mogg and Owl's corona storyline is even better though.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

Kennel posted:

Mr. Boop is legitimately the best new comic of 2020.

Megg, Mogg and Owl's corona storyline is even better though.

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RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/PopeyeTweetsk/status/1269372205370167301?s=19

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