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Manuel Calavera posted:Bizarro In 1978 Peter Valenti proposed the term film blanc to cover the very popular genre of film throughout the 1930s and 40s in which people had gently humorous, often uplifting or life-affirming encounters with angels, ghosts, or other benign agents of another world, such as Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Heaven Can Wait, or A Matter of Life and Death: "Peter Valenti" posted:We might use the term “film blanc” to suggest a scenario. with the following characteristics:
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Resident Idiot posted:For the few goons in this thread who don't read the Daily Cartoonist, I come to report that thread favourite Brother Rock has picked up a print deal: Wait, Gilchrist was just the artist? He wasn't writing it? Bad as Brother Rock was/is I wasn't attributing those issues to the artist.
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amigolupus posted:I'm not sure what annoys me more: Les with that ghoulish joke, Les' wife only showing interest with the possibility of an Oscar, or how the artist has drawn everyone smirking for so long that they can't draw someone smiling in a natural way anymore.
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amigolupus posted:It's interesting that from Willie's perspective, Prue attacked him because she got forced into doing it by the rear end in a top hat brothers. Unless the brothers tell him, he doesn't know that Prue really got into the thrill of killing others. Also interesting that from the brothers' perspective Prue was becoming a liability entirely because she was extending the murder scheme for sentimental reasons unrelated to the actual long term goal. Their dickish behavior may have been amped up by the fear that they were pushing their luck, coupled with a desire to prevent Prue from having too much fun and talking them into doing another murder just for the hell of it. Ironically they succeed so wildly in this task that Prue not only backed down from enjoying the murders she decided to turn full snitch even though there wasn't anyone for her to rat them out to yet.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery Oh I forgot Lottie owned one of these 
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riderchop posted:Heathcliff  Thinking about it, the clearly lower detail in general on the dream-deli kinda ruins my joke.
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Strontium posted:It has been many years since Sarah last showed up in Intelligent Life, so let's do a recap of the years she was part of the comic. Thanks for this, now I hate Intelligent Life even more.  Can't believe Mopsy did the "has two hands" meme before it was cool. Evil Mastermind posted:I imagine she's excited because she knows that she's stuck for the rest of her life in the shadow of Saint Lisa, so she might as well get secondhand fame out of it. I'm morbidly curious why she even married Les in the first place, what with Les being a insufferable opportunist who never got over Saint Lisa. What did she even see in the guy? The only "romance" I can think of that rivals it in being terrible is Pete and his girlfriend, mostly because of that completely terrible "proposal" he did in the fair.
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As a reminder, there was at one point two women after Les post-Lisa saintification.
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Haifisch posted:Dick Tracy  Corny, but it still beats the hell out of Working Daze since they actually worked the reference into what's happening instead of just presenting a reference all on its own and calling it done.
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RandomPauI posted:Why did Gilchrist and other guy split? Strontium posted:Daddy Daze Strontium posted:It has been many years since Sarah last showed up in Intelligent Life, so let's do a recap of the years she was part of the comic. F Minus  Mark Trail  Wholesome Food  The Phantom  That man needs serious medical attention now, Mr Whowalks. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Well, when I was a kid what I considered "old" is different from what is "old" now. I don't think that's weird. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  Tiggum posted:Sure, Tommie drank half a bottle of vodka in the time it took Sara to finish getting ready. Totally plausible.
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Has Batuik ever explained why Lisa's Story in particular is so engrossing? I mean, not to be insensitive but LOTS OF PEOPLE have had their spouses die from cancer. Is there anything particularly tragic or special about Lisa specifically? What would the story of this movie even be? How are they going to pitch "some guy's wife gets sick and dies: the end" to any Hollywood exec? RandomPauI posted:Why did Gilchrist and other guy split? Who knows, but it means the other guy has made at least one good decision in his life. Gilchrist has lost both his jobs in two years and now he's just left re-posting old Nancy strips on Facebook and pretending they're new. And eventually the syndicate will take that away. This is exactly how his story should end. gently caress Gilchrist. Vargo fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Am I the only one here that absolutely hates this stupid comic? I think i might be. For some reason it really gets on my nerves how the adults understand the kid and wacky hijinks ensue. A baby? Made a trapdoor? Why what will they think of next ha ha! DD tries to be both a grounded slice of life thing while also doing wacky cartoon humor and neither element really works. In fact the two tones undermine each other consistently. I’d be annoyed with it but DD is so aggressively mundane and unchallenging that I can’t even work up the energy to hate it. It’s just kind of... there.
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Johnny Walker posted:Wholesome Food "Sheesh, they should call that place, 'Wholesome Paycheck!' Wait..." quote:Rex Morgan MD "Looking weird, falling asleep in the middle of the day...As a doctor, I've diagnosed Tildy as 'Too Old.' Yep. She should've died already, and we're going to have to put her down."
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readingatwork posted:DD tries to be both a grounded slice of life thing while also doing wacky cartoon humor and neither element really works. In fact the two tones undermine each other consistently. I’d be annoyed with it but DD is so aggressively mundane and unchallenging that I can’t even work up the energy to hate it. It’s just kind of... there. It was a lot more charming when you could interpret it so the dad was just making up what the baby talk meant, and having humorous conversations with himself. Sort of like how my cat still owes me ten bucks for that bet "we" made when watching a political debate in 2012: "I bet nobody mentions [whatever it was] in their answers to this question." "Mrow?" "Okay, ten bucks it is, you're on."
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Haifisch posted:Footrot Flats Idgi. What's a Hobson?
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Samovar posted:Idgi. What's a Hobson? Hobson is a character, not sure why he doesn't like him but this pooch is very particular about his friends e: aha Darlene "Cheeky" Hobson Wal's girlfriend. She is the proprietor of La Parisienne Hairdressing Salon in Raupo. Cheeky is despised by the Dog, who is always looking for ways to come between her and Wal. She has two younger sisters, Belinda (Book 10) and Avril (Books 14 and 24), also both disliked by the Dog. Near the end of the strip's run, Cheeky and Wal become engaged, much to the dismay of the Dog and Aunt Dolly, but at the last minute Cheeky dumps Wal to move to Los Angeles with a male stripper. She is first mentioned in Wal's mini-biography at the start of Book 1 (September 1978), but does not appear until Book 3 (July 1980).
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gleebster posted:Today's (well, October 23, 1962's) Juliet Jones, in which Eve enters and immediately starts prying. I love Eve. She's the best. And it is completely appropriate that she enters the strip with a dramatic flourish toward a reading audience that she can't possibly see, but somehow instinctively knows is there. Johnny Walker posted:Am I the only one here that absolutely hates this stupid comic? I think i might be. For some reason it really gets on my nerves how the adults understand the kid and wacky hijinks ensue. A baby? Made a trapdoor? Why what will they think of next ha ha! Nah, I'm right there with you. I thought it was vaguely cute in a blah sort of way at first when I thought the premise was that the baby was babbling and the dad was making up improbable words to put in his mouth. Once it became clear that no, the baby is really and truly intending to say these improbable words and the dad can understand him somehow it became infinitely less interesting. Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail That is not the look of a man who intends to stop giving anyone a hard time.  Okay, okay, I confess. That pamphlet got a genuine laugh out of me.
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise amigolupus posted:
I hadn't thought about this until you posted it, and I'm really glad this adventure ended this way, even though I'm not a fan of the "I'm not going to kill you, but I don't have to save you" sophistry. I think Modesty is my favourite adventure strip.
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Vargo posted:Has Batuik ever explained why Lisa's Story in particular is so engrossing? I mean, not to be insensitive but LOTS OF PEOPLE have had their spouses die from cancer. Is there anything particularly tragic or special about Lisa specifically? What would the story of this movie even be? Sure, it's kind of a mundane premise, but not when it's brought to life by the magical storytelling skills of Rhymes with Orange  Retail  Get Fuzzy 1/16/00 
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Vargo posted:Has Batuik ever explained why Lisa's Story in particular is so engrossing? I mean, not to be insensitive but LOTS OF PEOPLE have had their spouses die from cancer. Is there anything particularly tragic or special about Lisa specifically? What would the story of this movie even be? Even if Lisa was the only one in the Funkyverse to die of Cancer, I can't imagine what could be interesting about it. Les always sounds like a whiny jackass, so why would you even read an entire book about his thought process and such. Transmodiar posted:
Maybe it's just me, but I'm kind of weirded out that Willie pretty much killed the two here. I'm so used to Modesty and Willie always knocking out enemies that this one threw me for a loop. That, and Willie didn't really have a good reason to do this like avenging Prue or being mad at the Grim Jokers like Modesty was at the start. Julet Esqu posted:Nah, I'm right there with you. I thought it was vaguely cute in a blah sort of way at first when I thought the premise was that the baby was babbling and the dad was making up improbable words to put in his mouth. Once it became clear that no, the baby is really and truly intending to say these improbable words and the dad can understand him somehow it became infinitely less interesting. That's what I feel about DD too. I forgot who it was, but someone in the last thread said that DD sucked because it was like a comic with Snoopy in it all the time.
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amigolupus posted:Maybe it's just me, but I'm kind of weirded out that Willie pretty much killed the two here. I'm so used to Modesty and Willie always knocking out enemies that this one threw me for a loop. That, and Willie didn't really have a good reason to do this like avenging Prue or being mad at the Grim Jokers like Modesty was at the start. This whole Grim Jokers arc has just felt icky and a cut below what Modesty is capable of.
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I think part of it is because Modesty usually gets into adventures by helping out friends and strangers who happen to be in need of help. Here, Modesty and Willie don't really have that strong of a reason to go after the Grim Joker. There only being three Grim Jokers also doesn't lend much threat to the story, so we get OOC stuff like Willie and Modesty letting Prue get to the island without suspecting her, or Willie getting knocked out with little trouble. The weirdest part is probably the two brothers sharing Prue between them. It does make me appreciate how tight the pacing is in Modesty Blaise. A worse comic would have draggeed this story out for another month.
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Holy poo poo shut the gently caress up about your manager you loathe and go back to making “jokes” about 4th of July decorations already being up and how you’re so much superior and intelligent than the rear end in a top hat customer you smug retail dope
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Calaveron posted:Holy poo poo shut the gently caress up about your manager you loathe and go back to making “jokes” about 4th of July decorations already being up and how you’re so much superior and intelligent than the rear end in a top hat customer you smug retail dope Sir, this is a Grumbel's.
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Vintage Valiant (Apr. 24, 1937)  We're at the point where Foster starts to give up on just using regular-sized panels, so there may be some duplication between images like today as I don't want to spend a ton of time trying to edit the images together cleanly. I'll try make sure each panel is represented whole in at least one of the images, and will include any panels that I can't avoid cutting in half in an extra image when I can.
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Retail I need you to have Martha investigate where Stuart is and find him dead in his office or something, or maybe Grumbels actually closes down, DO something with the plot please and make it interesting
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Gloomy Rube posted:Vargo accidentally posted their comic update in the wrong thread so I'll quote it here Hahaha whoops my bad.
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