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Kennel posted:Nancy I never knew that Sluggo was a Sandgroper, especially with that accent... https://www.kaydofishingworld.com/land-based-game-gas-ballooning-tactics/
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riderchop posted:Monty You should have read the wiki!
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RandomPauI posted:What do you figure the birdwoman/mouse man Holbrook kid will be like? He already has a plant baby. The most Holbrook thing I can think of is that they can't have kids due to their residual animal DNA being incompatible, so one of them has to transition into a bird/mouse first. That somehow causes their kid to have animal characteristics because Holbrook loves "Has X as a character trait". SubNat posted:Mummitrollet I'm really enjoying Moomin and Sniff's Dumbass Adventures. Isn't this gaslighting?
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I've finally finished my traditional new year ritual of catching up on the six months of thread that I missed! How long will I be able to keep up this year? Six months. It's always six months. My comic strip megashelf grew over the holiday season, and one of my acquisitions was the new Nancy collection.  Yeah, that tracks. It also includes the Vulture interview, which still makes me laugh because I'm petty. Vulture posted:What was the note you wrote down for the famed “Sluggo is lit” Labor Day strip? Did you just write down “Sluggo is lit?” Here are some lovely cellphone pics of the pages I think are most relevant to this thread's interests.    I love that little Cul de Sac Nancy.
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amigolupus posted:The guy on Apartment 3-G's second panel is looking to the side like he can't believe this farce. Compare that to Mark Trail's second panel which is supposed to convey...what exactly? It bugs me how Mark Trail almost always has an extreme close-up of someone's face. It'd be fine if it was drawn in different angles to convey certain moods, but James is so creatively bankrupt that he always draws them facing the front like this. I strongly suspect that all the heads are drawn by somebody else, either before as a big collection of assets for Jam to choose from or as something drawn into the panel before or after by an assistant. The drawing style of the heads and drat near everything else is different, and things don't fit together too well -- the head positions don't make sense, necks too long or too short, etc. I'm thinking of the Cherry bikini lounging pose from way way back. We see the real Jam style when the characters are far away (probably because he doesn't have assets that small, or they look terrible when he reduces them), and also in Edge of Adventure, where a given character's face looks different every time he draws it.
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Manuel Calavera posted:
How about this passive agressive bullshit that doesn't belong in a healthy relationship you just go "Hey, I want to go see such and such movie. Do you want to go with me?" It just solidifies my feeling that under the surface of this saccharine strip is a bunch of lovely marriages and horrible people.
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KentuckyFriedBonBon posted:I've finally finished my traditional new year ritual of catching up on the six months of thread that I missed! How long will I be able to keep up this year? Six months. It's always six months. I love Nancy Psycho 100 and Cul De Sac Nancy.  MyronMulch posted:I strongly suspect that all the heads are drawn by somebody else, either before as a big collection of assets for Jam to choose from or as something drawn into the panel before or after by an assistant. The drawing style of the heads and drat near everything else is different, and things don't fit together too well -- the head positions don't make sense, necks too long or too short, etc. I'm thinking of the Cherry bikini lounging pose from way way back. We see the real Jam style when the characters are far away (probably because he doesn't have assets that small, or they look terrible when he reduces them), and also in Edge of Adventure, where a given character's face looks different every time he draws it. Now I'm imagining he has a clipart folder with eyes, noses and mouths that he recycles when making these huge close-ups.
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F Minus Mark Trail  MyronMulch posted:I strongly suspect that all the heads are drawn by somebody else, either before as a big collection of assets for Jam to choose from or as something drawn into the panel before or after by an assistant. The drawing style of the heads and drat near everything else is different, and things don't fit together too well -- the head positions don't make sense, necks too long or too short, etc. I'm thinking of the Cherry bikini lounging pose from way way back. We see the real Jam style when the characters are far away (probably because he doesn't have assets that small, or they look terrible when he reduces them), and also in Edge of Adventure, where a given character's face looks different every time he draws it. But he does probably draw the character bodies himself, which is why they often don't seem to fit together right, and when he is free-drawing a character that is brand new and he has no source material to draw from for the face, like not-Vargo, it clearly sticks out as different. I doubt he has an assistant at all. He started out as that but times have changed and I don't think there's that much money coming from the syndicate to him for drawing MT for him to pay for one. Mary Worth  The Phantom messes with his daughter for another week.  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Popeye's Cartoon Club  Flash Gordon 
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Wow, this might really be the end of Retail. Breaking news: It actually is! https://twitter.com/normfeuti/status/1218956531502325760?s=19
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The Dinette Set is a flight risk. Working Daze lacks focus.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is back!  Cul De Sac should have sent a poet. 
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Binary Badger posted:
One thing I’ve always thought was funny was that Star Wars stuff always goes on about how the Empire treats all their personnel as if they were expendable and doesn’t make any effort to keep individuals alive, but the TIE fighters and stormtroopers both wear enclosed spacesuits that presumably can survive the vacuum of space, while the Rebels all have open-faced helmets and would be completely hosed if they survive their ship’s destruction. Kind of a shame about Retail, it was very hit-or-miss for me, but when it did hit it was great. I like that he’s actually wrapping up with a finale storyline, I’m interested to see how everything pans out for all the characters. Also curious what Feuti does next, if he’s retiring from comics period or if he’s got a new strip up his sleeve.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:One thing I’ve always thought was funny was that Star Wars stuff always goes on about how the Empire treats all their personnel as if they were expendable and doesn’t make any effort to keep individuals alive, but the TIE fighters and stormtroopers both wear enclosed spacesuits that presumably can survive the vacuum of space, while the Rebels all have open-faced helmets and would be completely hosed if they survive their ship’s destruction. The TIE pilots have the full suits because the fighters don't have life support systems.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Kind of a shame about Retail, it was very hit-or-miss for me, but when it did hit it was great. I like that he’s actually wrapping up with a finale storyline, I’m interested to see how everything pans out for all the characters. Also curious what Feuti does next, if he’s retiring from comics period or if he’s got a new strip up his sleeve. Blog post says he's going to focus on his career as a children's book writer/illustrator, so this looks like it's it for him in the funny pages. I was expecting a swerve into Grumbles being purchased by an Amazon-style online retail behemoth so he could explore "new" storylines (with the same ol' "Customers are poo poo, management is stupid" punchlines.)
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JethroMcB posted:I was expecting a swerve into Grumbles being purchased by an Amazon-style online retail behemoth so he could explore "new" storylines (with the same ol' "Customers are poo poo, management is stupid" punchlines.) The Drew Carey Show tried that. It didn't go well.
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amigolupus posted:Now I'm imagining he has a clipart folder with eyes, noses and mouths that he recycles when making these huge close-ups. I'm pretty sure the previous artist on Mary Worth used to do exactly that. And not always very carefully. A couple of examples from 2012:   
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Binary Badger posted:
The size of the pilot seems right for the size of the TIE fighter. e; Stultus Maximus posted:The TIE pilots have the full suits because the fighters don't have life support systems. Also helps keep the TIE fighters impersonal and faceless so you don't feel so bad when they get blown away. Unlike the Xwing fighters who you can see the faces and expressions and get attached and root for them. MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Jan 19, 2020 |
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Tiggum posted:When is science ever realistic in any of his comics? Just often enough to stand out. There's no reason he should note signal delays in a comic where you can drink a DNA potion and turn into a macaroon, or not just have time travel work like in Terminator instead of this dimension-hopping thing he's got going on (thinking about it, it's a bit Michael Crichton's Timeline, and about as poorly thought out). I mostly liked Retail, I'll be sad to see it go. If looking for a replacement, I wouldn't mind seeing Gil again, though it sounds like it's not running any more either.
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Hostile V posted:1: BCN no please don't jump on the meme bandwagon. sorry but they already had a strip months ago where the one cat said "This kibble is heckin' fire. It slaps."
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Hostile V posted:1: BCN no please don't jump on the meme bandwagon. I'm willing to give BCN a pass on this one because of how autobiographical it is, how Georgia Dunn is exactly the sort of person who would fall for Baby Yoda, and how consistently willing she is to give herself poo poo for this. And jesus christ, agreed on that Zits.
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Hwurmp posted:sorry but they already had a strip months ago where the one cat said "This kibble is heckin' fire. It slaps." Also that's a fair enough point because even The Man is like "wow, uh, not my thing but alright honey" as opposed to everyone liking it. e: also that Locher Tracy is just the platonic ideal of what the comic should be and I want Dick Tracy to just be weird incoherent poo poo like that forever, just go bananas, get stupid, draw whatever. Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Jan 19, 2020 |
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Haifisch posted:1978 Comics This bitch just constantly slut shaming everybody all the time
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Binary Badger posted:
Also, this post made me remember the Macross alien soldier pods with 50 foot tall (?) guys in them.  And how it wouldn't be too out of place in Star Wars canon.
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Haifisch posted:Locher Tracy The "How did you hurt your hand?" / "Fighting terrorism" panel would be a decent avatar. Rhymes with Orange  Doomed Retail  Get Fuzzy 1/18/00 
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EasyEW posted:Alias: Buster Brown (March 22, 1908) Okay, Buster Brown buying bootleg merch of himself with a subtle "accept no imitations" note at the top is amazing.
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