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I don't mean disrespect to anyone but Rae doesn't feel like it has anything going for it besides "Our cast is all LGBT!" There needs to be substance to representation.
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Holbrook is going all-out gross today I see. "work from home reinbursement" shouldn't be a joke, and I don't even want to touch murder hell world
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Thanks. I guess I'm not as up on my Peanuts lore as I thought. I always figured that Lucy and Charlie Brown were the same age. I believe Charlie Brown is currently four years old (just in case you thought Calvin acted too mature for his age). So in more current comics that would make him 12ish and Lucy 8, which more or less works. Linus is born when Lucy is around 3 though so that makes him 5 I guess?? Not going to even try to figure out how Rerun fits into all of this.
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Peanuts is weird but it makes sense once you realize that the town is a giant government lab and that the cast are all failed super soldier prototypes that stop aging in early childhood. Most people don’t realize that’s what Shultz was going for but the clues are there if you know where to look for them. *flips over chalkboard revealing a web of notes and photos connected with string* Now, let me explain how Lucy is in on the whole thing. It starts with her participation in the MK Ultra program in the mid 60s...
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD
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StrixNebulosa posted:
It's just nice to have queer characters accepted as a thing that doesn't need to be explained or overly commented on.
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Kavak posted:I don't mean disrespect to anyone but Rae doesn't feel like it has anything going for it besides "Our cast is all LGBT!" There needs to be substance to representation. Full disclosure, I'm not sold on it yet either, but I'm waiting for things to actually happen to pass judgement.
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Rae the Doe is chill and good. Maybe I'm just used to it popping up on my TL once in a while as a treat. MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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 If the Evanses were trying to draw Dustin's dad, they didn't do a very good job.
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Someone tell me, because I am not looking back at however many Funky strips to find out: is there any reason Mason’s girlfriend (wife?) is so incredibly jealous of all the women doing reads with him?
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Green Intern posted:Someone tell me, because I am not looking back at however many Funky strips to find out: is there any reason Mason’s girlfriend (wife?) is so incredibly jealous of all the women doing reads with him? women
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Green Intern posted:Someone tell me, because I am not looking back at however many Funky strips to find out: is there any reason Mason’s girlfriend (wife?) is so incredibly jealous of all the women doing reads with him? She was initially introduced (many years ago, in the strip's first incarnation) as "the most popular girl in high school", and despite several decades having passed is often lazily reduced back to the trappings of that, because Batiuk is a hack writer who sucks.
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StrixNebulosa posted:
Oh no, he's my favorite character, I just think the creators' reply was loving weird and phobic (somehow they didn't mention that maybe there was a glitch when Megatron was made, that's why he was so ruthless to loving raise the dead?). Even my nephew said it sounded bad (and Breakdown is his favorite character too).
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kidcoelacanth posted:women this, and there have been some strips dedicated to her insecurities about being older than him as well
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i do wish Rae the Doe were a smidge better but also i post Garfield so Rae's going to have to really gently caress up for me to not post it
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I think it's unlikely that Piscario is also intended as an antisemitic reference, for the simple reason that his cousin is depicted as good. I think we're just getting queer-panic-coded masculine antithetical counterpoint to the good cousin.FrumpleOrz posted:Ella Cinders Any guess at to who is going to win? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelling edit: I also just wanted to note the incredible quality of these val scans. Compare what beloved Medenmath gives us with something I found with google:  Once my ship comes in I'm definitely buying the full Val collection. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Alhazred posted:Zelda I'm really curious to see a least a couple of the comics about Tove getting married(?) and pregnant
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readingatwork posted:Peanuts is weird but it makes sense once you realize that the town is a giant government lab and that the cast are all failed super soldier prototypes that stop aging in early childhood. Most people don’t realize that’s what Shultz was going for but the clues are there if you know where to look for them.  And has a doghouse with the capacity of a tardis:  As well as truly remarkable earning capacity - he could afford a Van Gogh! As a dog! But unfortunately the genetic manipulation left him profoundly mentally disturbed: 
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MariusLecter posted:Rae the Doe is chill and good. 2017 Spiderman  1978 Comics      Dick Tracy    BIRD GANG   Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats 
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PetraCore posted:I gotta say, I know that's not what Foster meant, but in my heart Val is as bisexual as the day is long. No one is gayer than this brave and manly prince.
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I know the answer is probably "American masculinity" but I've never understood how dads in these kinds of dumb sitcom stories can grow to be in their 30s or 40s or whatever and not know a thing about basic cooking or cleaning.
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Bad Machinery Quick reminder: for those of you who want more Bobbinsverse adventures (and really, who wouldn't?) issue 2 of Wicked Things, the Lottie-centric miniseries, is out today!
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I am completely lost at this point about what's going on with Shaky. Was he flirting with the actress, or getting paid? Why is he instantly stalking her such that the police are there to arrest him? What?
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curtadams posted:Oh, but the lynchpin of the whole thing is Snoopy, for whom it was partially successful. Amongst other things he can fly: They clearly used human DNA to create him because over time he evolves to the point where he walks upright and becomes literate. Had the strip progressed for another 50 years I'm 98% certain that Snoopy would have become just another kid (albeit one that's still sleeps outside and isn't allowed in school for some reason). Many of the kids were semi-successful actually. We've already seen that Schroeder is a professional level pianist despite being a literal infant. However did you know that Linus possesses a genius level intellect?:  I'm also pretty sure he has telekinesis:  Unfortunately he's also prone to violent outbursts (a side effect of living with Lucy most likely) which probably made him unworkable as an asset. Also all the Jesus stuff probably made his handlers super uncomfortable.  (there are like 20 comics of him doing this to people, particularly Lucy) They clearly made a second attempt with Rerun. I mean just look at this kid. It's Goku/Goten levels of family resemblance here:  Also he's named freakin' RERUN, do I have to draw a map for you people!? Not sure how successful it was though since I haven't read a lot from that era. Now that I think about it Charlie Brown himself must also have some terrible gift even he isn't aware of (something to do with talking to plants I think). I mean, why else would Lucy be working so hard to break his spirit? But alas, that's a post for another day. readingatwork fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Haifisch posted:Yeah from my mashing of the 'random comic button', I get the impression it's geared towards people sharing it on twitter/etc as everyone goes 'heh' or 'yup I sure agree with this take' for 5 seconds before moving on.
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gently caress off, Dethany, Fi is just doing her job properly. Reading between the lines, it's less that Fi's making everyone jump through hoops, and more that she's just making sure everyone has filled out the correct paperwork to get paid. Oh, NOW you're asking if she has family left. This is some prime Holbrook morality bullshit. He's trying to paint skinning other people as something completely terrible, but it only makes you question why murdering and cannibalizing another person isn't considered the same. Hell, just a few strips ago, this weasel was considering the gopher as food and the hedgehog was offering her refrigerated corpses of insects as a substitute. Imagine being one of the actresses in this set. Your agent told you this might be a good role and lets you co-star with this hot action star. You get on the set on time, like the true pro you are. You then do your best performance with the lovely script you’re saddled with while a creepy man on the back keeps looking at you like a piece of meat and muttering about your looks. And then in comes the actress that the executive producer co-starred with, and he goes on and on about how she was his pick for the role from the start. And just as a reminder, this whole thing is a farce to trick Les into accepting this actress for the role of St. Lisa: I don't even loving understand why everyone is putting so much effort into appeasing Les, especially when he's done nothing but act like an unhelpful whiny manchild.
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Discendo Vox posted:I am completely lost at this point about what's going on with Shaky. Was he flirting with the actress, or getting paid? Why is he instantly stalking her such that the police are there to arrest him? What?
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is anyone interested in a newspaper comics discord server or anything? seems like the forums' continued existence just got a little bit more tenuous (and even if lowtax doesn't shut down the forums themselves, i think it's fair to not want to support him by sticking around here)
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ATTACK AND DETHRONE LOWTAX. Free the forums, literally the only good part of SA. Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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Turpitude II posted:is anyone interested in a newspaper comics discord server or anything? seems like the forums' continued existence just got a little bit more tenuous (and even if lowtax doesn't shut down the forums themselves, i think it's fair to not want to support him by sticking around here) There's a BSS discord server now with a newspaper comics channel that hopefully could be pretty robust, but I'd also be interested in potentially joining a strip specific server too? How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma   
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Ghostlight posted:She was using him as a resource for her role with the promise of a cameo in the movie. She was a bit flirty and he obviously decided the attention meant she wanted to bone him. I don't know why he's instantly stalking her - he very quickly went from her turning down their usual dinner because she had to work, doing a burglary for money he desperately needed despite never mentioning before, then to here where he's apologising to her for something we didn't see him do that that was apparently criminal harassment but our only clue is that her mascara was messed up at the end of their last meeting. To me it seemed obvious that the dinners had turned into a physical relationship and that Shaky's response to her brushing him off was to punch her in the face, but the comic didn't feel that sort of thing was appropriate for a family newspaper audience so it was implied rather than outright shown.
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How Wonderful! posted:There's a BSS discord server now with a newspaper comics channel that hopefully could be pretty robust, but I'd also be interested in potentially joining a strip specific server too? Is it named FOOB Appreciation Station? 😝
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NRVNQSR posted:To me it seemed obvious that the dinners had turned into a physical relationship and that Shaky's response to her brushing him off was to punch her in the face, but the comic didn't feel that sort of thing was appropriate for a family newspaper audience so it was implied rather than outright shown.
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