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Edit: poo poo, I didn't expect to be at the top of the page. Amazing. Conan the Barbarian Aug. 20th- Aug. 26th, 1979   "Thanks, Ysabela."      I mentioned the... ambivalence towards civilization in Howard's Conan stories before. In Beyond the Black River, one of Howard's final Conan stories, he finally explicitly states the common theme running through the series: "RE Howard, Beyond the Black River" posted:"Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. "Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph."
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Edit: ^^ readingatwork posted:Father Goose scares the poo poo out of me. 
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Roller Derby Popeye is something I didn't know I wanted but now I need it.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Super-Fun-Pak Comix takes a look at season 12.
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holy poo poo man, life before air conditioners sure was a trip.
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EBB posted:
WHO DISTURBS MY SLUMBER???  (So, where were we? Oh, right...) Alias: Buster Brown (April 26, 1908) 
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goatface posted:The heads take up too much real estate. It really does make me think of children's books. Olive has done a few jokes about Rae's one big eye, actually. But that's a future thing.
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catlord posted:I mentioned the... ambivalence towards civilization in Howard's Conan stories before. In Beyond the Black River, one of Howard's final Conan stories, he finally explicitly states the common theme running through the series: In one of the Conan comic collections (I think it was the adaption by Dark Horse) they mentioned how Howard and Lovecraft would have these arguments in the letter section of Weird Tales regarding the merits of civilization vs barbarism (with Lovecraft taking the side of civilization).
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Nemo A detail shot of that magnificent elephant while I set up some more pages... 
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Zooks, there's one spiffing pachyderm
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Dustin is actually pretty insightful when it comes to the dynamics between Millennials/Zoomers and Boomers, which I think is the funniest thing about it. Kelly and/or Parker tell on themselves so much.
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Johnny Walker posted:Edit: ^^ "How Father Goose Got His Red Wings"
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EasyEW posted:9 "The Knot In The Dialogue Balloon Is Symbolic" Lane I think this strip in particular kind highlights why I hate 9CL the most out of all the bad comics that get posted here. Brooke just thinks he's so loving deep. Like, Rose is Rose is saccharine boomer catnip and Intelligent Life is "nerd humor" at its most tedious - they're both terrible comics, but at least the creators don't seem to think they're making some profound masterpiece. On the other hand, you just know Brooke thinks his uncomfortably horny, terribly drawn comic is the height of wit and sensuality, and that level of delusion is just infuriating. And also I hate looking at it and reading the words.
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Holy poo poo The Dinette Set is just a feeling it gets.  Working Daze get bent.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix goes too far.  Cul De Sac doesn't like change. 
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sweetguts posted:holy poo poo My grandpa definitely told me he'd sleep on the roof in Florida when the summer nights were too hot. It was a flat roof, mind you.
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Mercury Hat posted:My grandpa definitely told me he'd sleep on the roof in Florida when the summer nights were too hot. Sleeping on the fire escape was a summertime thing in New York (and presumably other cities) back in the pre-AC days.
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Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 8/31/41 
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The Dinette Set has no filter. Working Daze actually makes an actual office job joke!  Super-Fun-Pak Comix knows the more things change, the more the stay the same.  Cul De Sac thinks big. 
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 Gunther: canonically worse than Anne Eiffel Tiff's probably going to end up living in Luann's house.
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The Far Side Pickles  Zits 
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Do you think even his mother would notice or care if Gunther just "disappeared?"
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Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze actually makes an actual office job joke!  Julet Esqu posted:
Yeah, I thought the Anne Eiffel abuse was being played sincerely and thought all the chat about Luann normalizing that kind of behavior was a bit of a stretch. But uh, Tiff making such frivolous light of it here is suggesting to me that this was in fact the correct interpretation. Cheer Up Boss Dharma     This was actually one of the harder ones to translate. I couldn't quite grasp the intent of maybe half the lines at first but I'm not sure anyone would know which ones those were if I didn't tell you. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Jun 30, 2020 |
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I mean.....it ain't gotta be pretty but...yeah fold the towels if they go in the drawer. Just cramming them in there, isn't gonna work. Though Gunther is still a prick for screeching it like that, in such a condescending manner. Jesus, it's like the Pat/Nice Pete dynamic, if you smoothed all the edges off. brb gonna shove Gunther in a locker for being Gunther
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Johnny Aztec posted:Jesus, it's like the Pat/Nice Pete dynamic, if you smoothed all the edges off. Les holding up a fist in defiance of Gunther's nagging
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Evil Mastermind posted:The Dinette Set is just a feeling it gets. This brings back memories. During monsoon season growing up I used to go out back and watch the stormwall roll up the canyon. Life was pretty boring back before internet, but it was still cool.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Jesus, it's like the Pat/Nice Pete dynamic, if you smoothed all the edges off. 
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JethroMcB posted:Les holding up a fist in defiance of Gunther's nagging YOU CAN'T JUST TALK! TODAY IS RAISING YOUR HAND DAY! THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS!
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Could be; I had never thought of that. I've always theorized that Dustin's clinically depressed because his family is so unsupportive. If memory's not failing me there was a strip a few months back that addressed this theory: The sister asked Dustin if maybe he had depression, and she almost seemed genuinely concerned... and then when Dustin said that he didn't feel depressed, she dug in with "well you SHOULD" So, to reiterate, Kelley and Parker can eat an entire bucket of poo poo
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Bunisland Rhymes with Orange  Donald Trump School of Decorating 6/29/00  Yo Cousin So Fat 9/7/41   Brenda takes a wrong turn and ends up in a Gil Elvgren pinup scenario. Or one of Brooke McEldowney's wank fantasies.  The Stylish Stout. Smokey Stover 4/12/36 
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Zelda is not in the wrong there, but I am surprised this particular friend of hers would take that stance. Like, that’s the same lady who got constantly harassed at the gym for being a woman, while very obviously aware of that fact. It seems weird for her to not see Zelda’s point immediately.
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Modesty Blaise 
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BigglesSWE posted:Zelda is not in the wrong there, but I am surprised this particular friend of hers would take that stance. It's very human and realistic, is it not? Real people work like that, our internal logic is absolutely inconsistent and full of holes we don't even know about ourselves. In this case this was a friend of hers I assume, so it overrode her usual judgement.
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Remember Crystal? The Evanses don't.
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King Aroo 1/4/54 They'll Do It Every Time 1/3/47  Mopsy 1/14/43 
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Selachian posted:
Art Frahm. So very very Art Frahm.
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