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Johnny Walker posted:
Okay, first off, gently caress off with this "Dodd Award" and second, I know we've seen this exact same strip, with this exact same dude doing exposition before.
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Jun 22, 2020 16:51
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Nov. 12, 1939) Also wouldn't the duke know about these holes, since they're not something you can easily add after construction?
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Jun 22, 2020 17:10
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell I'm beginning to think that Kevin & Kell inspired The Purge
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Jun 22, 2020 17:12
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This is so wholesome.  Ghostlight posted:
Is this the first time we find out that Les has changed things that actually happened in his book? That just makes Les a massive hypocrite for getting mad at the people making the movie for "not telling the story right". LazyQ posted:
This is great. Mämmilä always brings a smile to my face
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Jun 22, 2020 17:22
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i'm not sure what's funnier - that les altered the record of events so that nobody would know he slept with his wife while his daughter was in the house, or how the juxtaposition of "who could resist that siren's song" with "nope" suggests he was sitting through the auditions expecting to pop a boner.
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Vargo posted:Okay, first off, gently caress off with this "Dodd Award" and second, I know we've seen this exact same strip, with this exact same dude doing exposition before.  Try to figure out the perspective in that first panel. 
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Jun 22, 2020 17:27
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FrumpleOrz posted:
Of all the things happening in this nightmare of a strip, the thing that angers me the most is how Holbrook thinks hedgehog quills work exactly like porcupine quills.
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Jun 22, 2020 17:31
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Zereth posted:Val is awful at this After a fews turns in Dungeonville, I think the Duke is (at least temporarily) a few shovelfuls short of a full load.
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Jun 22, 2020 17:50
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The Dinette Set has a strict schedule. Working Daze might want to find a new job.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix goes the distance.  Cul De Sac has had enough fun for one day. 
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Jun 22, 2020 18:52
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail Beginning the Mark Trail - Funky Winkerbean crossover that no one wanted.
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Jun 22, 2020 19:07
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B Kliban Professors Zero Redeemable Qualities adventure continues ...  
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Jun 22, 2020 19:14
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Manuel Calavera posted:The Boondocks cartoon was great, I'm gonna Nth that. Much like the Dilbert cartoon. The Dilbert cartoon was better than it had any right to be (likely because Adams had very little to do with it), as was Garfield & Friends for that matter. Never watched the more recent CGI Garfield cartoon though, was that any good?
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Jun 22, 2020 19:16
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It's been awhile but luckily each volume of Dykes to Watch Out For opens with a refresher on the characters and their status quos:    Now that we're all caught back up and have processed Harriet's Cathy comic let's move on to DtWOF #78 (1990)   Harriet refers to the continuing crisis in El Salvador, which I went over previously, while Mo is hung up on various signs of the Cold War's thaw and the erosion of Apartheid at the beginning of the 90s-- symptoms of what Francis Fukuyama perhaps naively called in 1992 "the end of history" (whether or not Fukuyama's book was itself naive, its utopian adoption into pop polisci definitely DEFINITELY was) as a supposedly stable blanket of liberal democracy settled over the world. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was a 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin, about an optimistic and indefatigable young girl who inspires her cranky aunts to be more chipper and can-do. I don't know what's up with the Nancy picture on Mo's cartoon of Homo Milk. In 1990 the strip was still in the midst of Jerry Scott's long tenure-- the Gilchrists were still five years off. In her TCJ interview Bechdel bemoans her inconsistency in various characters' living spaces-- pointing specifically to Mo's mutating bed-side lamp situation-- but I love how cozy and lived in the apartment in this strip feels. The photo on the fridge is a really endearing touch.
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Jun 22, 2020 20:01
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Took me a while to realize he wasn't making the bed while the dog was still lying in it.
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Jun 22, 2020 20:25
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Crowetron posted:I kinda wish this whole storyline was just Conan walking around a fancy party and telling people to gently caress off. "What do you think of the party?" "gently caress off." Yeah, I'd dig that. Can Les Moore be there? I want to see someone tell that prick to gently caress off. Conan the Barbarian Jul. 2nd- Jul. 8th, 1979        This week feels a little choppy, but hopefully we get some of these assholes offed by a leopard soon enough.
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (November 9, 2008)  Arlo and Janis Classic (November 9, 1998)  Garfield Classic (November 9, 1988) 
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relevant: http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress2019/2020/06/17/algonuts/
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The Dinette Set chooses to take that literally. Working Daze god I don't even know anymore.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is glad we had this talk.  Cul De Sac had its heart in the right place. 
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Jun 22, 2020 21:51
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The real horror of Working Daze is that they are all back in an office already
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Jun 22, 2020 21:55
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Buni Meanwhile, Pluto lurks bitterly outside the ring of tents. Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 6/21/00  Brenda Starr 7/13/41  Born Fifty Years Too Soon  Smokey Stover 2/16/36 
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Jun 22, 2020 22:00
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manero posted:The real horror of Working Daze is that they are all back in an office already idk it'd be nice if they all died
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Jun 22, 2020 22:22
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Now I see where the Frazz guy learned how to depict human bodies in motion! Also, assuming Batiuk hasn't just completely forgotten this part (which, to be fair, is a dangerous assumption), Les is explicitly not writing the script for the new version of the Lisa's Story movie:  This is one of the few things about the largely-botched depiction of this whole process that has made even a little bit of sense, given that Les's complete incompetence as a screenwriter and unwillingness to make any changes for film bore most of the responsibility for derailing the first attempt at making the movie.
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ukonvasara posted:Now I see where the Frazz guy learned how to depict human bodies in motion! If he's not writing it, why is he there at all? He came for the pitches, sure, but he apparently has no official input beyond that.
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Green Intern posted:If he's not writing it, why is he there at all? He came for the pitches, sure, but he apparently has no official input beyond that. Good loving question! Here's the in-universe answer:  Note Les pulling an obnoxious pouty face at the very first opportunity. For some reason this attitude (which hasn't abated!) has not caused Mason to react in basically any way--not halting the project, not telling Les to gently caress off because he signed away his rights and all of these opportunities for input are only being extended as a courtesy, not even changing anything in light of Les's complaints. The non-Les characters aren't really to blame here, even--Batiuk seems to have no idea how any element of the Hollywood process actually works or any idea what story he's actually trying to tell. (Les clearly and thoroughly sucks poo poo and always has, which for Batiuk is an unusually consistent, if perhaps unintended, display of characterization.)
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Les has been wined and dined and treated with kid gloves for a story that is the equivalent of a Hallmark channel movie. It sucks that your wife died of cancer; I know that's traumatic. But people die of cancer all the time. What's any more special about
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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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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Les has been wined and dined and treated with kid gloves for a story that is the equivalent of a Hallmark channel movie. It sucks that your wife died of cancer; I know that's traumatic. But people die of cancer all the time. What's any more special about No, see, it's really important, because his wife died. Of cancer.
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Jun 23, 2020 00:22
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The only time someone who wasn't Lisa was diagnosed with cancer it turned out the hospital accidentally switched their test results with Lisa's.
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SaintFu posted:Getting a strong Disaster Artist vibe off Funky Winkerbean. Ohmygod. The main difference being I truly believe in my heart that Tommy Wiseau is a true spiritual Artist and has generated hours more amusement and emotional pull than Batiuk How Wonderful! posted:I don't know what's up with the Nancy picture on Mo's cartoon of Homo Milk. In 1990 the strip was still in the midst of Jerry Scott's long tenure-- the Gilchrists were still five years off. I don't htink it's anything more than a milk carton kid joke- they used to post pictures of missing children there, (It sounds a little grim trying to explain it this way as being part of a joke)
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ukonvasara posted:Good loving question! Here's the in-universe answer: Do you think Les is getting paid for this? Does he have a credit as a Character Consultant or something? Like I realize that he could easily just be classified as a Producer and just be a completely extraneous name attached to the credits, but it's just so weird that his official role is apparently "Les Moore."
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The Dinette Set is from 2009. Working Daze longs for death.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is a common mistake.  Cul De Sac can frolic inside with the A/C on. 
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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens If you're recording videos why would there be a signal delay. If you're trying to host a livestream q&a from space, why the gently caress would you do that, because of the signal delay. Please for the love of god Holbrook think for one second before you slap this poo poo down or I will have an aneurysm Green Intern posted:Do you think Les is getting paid for this? Does he have a credit as a Character Consultant or something? Like I realize that he could easily just be classified as a Producer and just be a completely extraneous name attached to the credits, but it's just so weird that his official role is apparently "Les Moore." Can't wait till we see him hold out for Executive Guy Whose Wife Died. (The characters are ultimately to be slightly excused for their obsessive focus on the utterly unremarkable death twenty years ago of an utterly unremarkable woman, since the endless recurrence of this story is all transparently Batiuk channeling his inability to match the high of 2007 by making anyone continue to care about the spectacle of a comic strip character dying of cancer.)
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Evil Mastermind posted:Cul De Sac had its heart in the right place.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens Holbrok has gotten his strips mixed up and things sentient creatures eat each other here. Or it's a sex joke.
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How Wonderful! posted:In her TCJ interview Bechdel bemoans her inconsistency in various characters' living spaces-- pointing specifically to Mo's mutating bed-side lamp situation-- but I love how cozy and lived in the apartment in this strip feels. The photo on the fridge is a really endearing touch. I frigging love the Cathy toon. Pastry of the Year posted:Tina's Groove Classic (November 9, 2008) Little has changed.
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I had the same thought. https://www.stokke.com/USA/en-us/strollers/stokke-trailz/5676.html
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I'm still not sure why Phantom's skeleton dad is so mad at him.
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Nice of them to basically kidnap the weasel lady and do major things to her life without asking her input at all.
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How Wonderful! posted:Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was a 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin, about an optimistic and indefatigable young girl who inspires her cranky aunts to be more chipper and can-do. I like the character intros at the start of the books too. The "missing Nancy" reference might be to the fact that Nancy, once one of the most widely syndicated comics, was getting a little hard to find by then. Syndication of Nancy tailed off quite a bit after Bushmiller died in 1982, and the general opinion was that the successor artists hadn't successfully copied Bushmiller's techniques. I vaguely remember something about "what happened to Nancy?" *before* the Gilchrist era, but I can't remember any specifics. FrumpleOrz posted:
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