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Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


The only time my mom ever hit me was when I was like 3 and about to cut my hand with scissors like a big moron and it was her instinct to stop me. It worked but she felt extremely bad about it for ever after.

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Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Just do like the old school royals and raise your children with a whipping boy, who takes the beating.

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

y'all are missing the real point here which is who the gently caress has ever said cheek meat

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
Mom never spanked me. The county school system did it a few times before the rules changed.

Sally Forth



Skippy (January 19, 1933)



It's Peanuts, and we're finally getting back to Mr. Sack. (July 2, 1973)



Funky Winkerbean, featuring the unsettling smile of Harry Dinkle.



Crankshaft



9 Chickweed Lane



If that line of overwritten sludge was inflicted on any other comic strip, the fourth panel would be "Okay, what the hell did you do this time?"

After reading it, I went looking for a Sally Forth Sunday strip where Ted, on a date night with Sally, marveled over the realization that he'd known her longer than he hadn't known her, and what that felt like. It was a sweet moment that felt like it was being lived, coming up from inside the characters and not indifferently ladled onto them, which is why I remember it years later.

I couldn't find that one, so you'll have to settle for this as a counterbalance. It's close enough until the real thing comes along.



Rip Haywire



Thimble Theater



Out Our Way (September 13-15, 1934)





Tendales
Mar 9, 2012

Johnny Walker posted:


Popeye's Cartoon Club



I really hope CK sticks with this guy he was born to do Popeye.


I think he needs a co-writer. Randy's got great jokes and an encyclopedic knowledge of POPEYE LORE, but the voices are just off. They talk like S*P characters, not Thimble Theater characters.

Thinking about it more, he's writing them with a lot more ironic awareness than TT characters generally show. Most of the Popeye cast should be mumbling their way through a confused daze.

e: case in point,

EasyEW posted:


Thimble Theater



There's a sincerity in how the TT characters just keep rolling with whatever insanity comes their way, where Randy's writing them as knowing and detached. It works great for a couple gag strips, but wouldn't stand on its own, I think.

Tendales fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jul 3, 2020

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

What's band candy?

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.

StrixNebulosa posted:

What's band candy?
They'd sell candy bars as a fundraiser to raise money for, uh, band stuff. And possibly also turkeys and mattresses at different times?

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

StrixNebulosa posted:

What's band candy?

Aspirin and birds' nests, lit up and smoked in a French horn. Ice-T talked about it on this one Law & Order SVU episode. :doink:

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender

StrixNebulosa posted:

What's band candy?
Because America is a hellnation that doesn't fund its schools well(unless they happen to be in a district with really good property values), and because the arts aren't valued(meaning they're on the chopping block before, say, sports if there's budgeting concerns), school bands/orchestras/etc often have to fund parts of their own existence by making the kids sell lovely overpriced candy/popcorn once or twice a year.

Haifisch fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jul 3, 2020

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

I have both sold and bought that stuff and TIL there's a name for it.

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



I was not expecting Buff Ted and Hot Sally but here we are.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Tendales posted:

I think he needs a co-writer. Randy's got great jokes and an encyclopedic knowledge of POPEYE LORE, but the voices are just off. They talk like S*P characters, not Thimble Theater characters.

Thinking about it more, he's writing them with a lot more ironic awareness than TT characters generally show. Most of the Popeye cast should be mumbling their way through a confused daze.

e: case in point,

There's a sincerity in how the TT characters just keep rolling with whatever insanity comes their way, where Randy's writing them as knowing and detached. It works great for a couple gag strips, but wouldn't stand on its own, I think.

Not having read Something Positive I can't really dispute this criticism. But I will note that given the several decades between old Popeye and current Popeye the detached aesthetic makes more sense in a modern context with our contemporary trends while still matching the same general character beats. It's an appropriate update in the same way that the Olivia James Nancy is an appropriate update of the Bushmiller concept, even if it can't really live up to the original.

That's a charitable reading, mind you. The current Dick Tracy team has done a similar modern style shift but in a way that makes the comic considerably less readable. I have no idea which quality direction Popeye's Cartoon Club would go if Randy got a long-term contract, although neither nu Nancy nor Dick Tracy are particularly strong when it comes to long-running storylines. But I do like it enough that I sent a message to Comics Kingdom expressing my appreciation. What with the current quality of the funny pages these days we could do a lot worse I think.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Haifisch posted:

Because America is a hellnation that doesn't fund its schools well(unless they happen to be in a district with really good property values), and because the arts aren't valued(meaning they're on the chopping block before, say, sports if there's budgeting concerns), school bands/orchestras/etc often have to fund parts of their own existence by making the kids sell lovely overpriced candy/popcorn once or twice a year.

Also, the corporations which create the fundraisers take the lion's share of the proceeds. Schools would do better if parents just cut a check for the amount of candy/popcorn that they buy directly to the school but :capitalism:

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma





I was just reading about Korean text in translation coming off as overly stiff, and how this has made written Korean work less accessible to foreign audiences compared to, say, music and dramas, where you can still detect the rhythm and cadence regardless of what the subtitles say. So I tried translating this one more open-endedly than usual to maintain a more engaging voice. Kind of curious as to whether anyone even noticed anything different though.

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

Endless Mike posted:

I was not expecting Buff Ted and Hot Sally but here we are.



This was a month ago, they're apparently always rocking secret X-Men physiques.

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 1/7/54


They'll Do It Every Time 1/7/47


Mopsy 1/18/43

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



JethroMcB posted:



This was a month ago, they're apparently always rocking secret X-Men physiques.
Ah right. I guess Ted having an X-Men physique is totally in character. Less so Sally, but sure.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.

Medenmath posted:

Quick effort:



Thank you. The font structure matches the NYT, but the coverage is of Malverne, NY; the Helm Independent Review is the only thing I can find from that period, and it appears that the author went to further painstaking work- it appears to be a genuine section of print , but I'm having trouble telling if the cartoonist went even further and matched it to a July 1 edition; the Helm Independent Review was a weekly and not published July 1 1970.


edit: I have found a copy of the Helm Independent Review referring to an upcoming piano recital also referenced in the text; it is from May 2, 1968. The text refers to the recital in the past tense, and also announces a blood drive. The same blood drive is announced in the May 9, 1968 edition, but using slightly different language; a different newspaper was used, then, and I can't tell which, possibly the NYT.

https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn95071208/1968-05-02/ed-1/seq-12/


I have two requests: first, does anyone with NYT archives access have the ability to check into my theory, and second, could someone with a gocomics account please issue a request for correction in the comments of the offending comic.

PS "Raymond Harvey" is mentioned as a valedictorian student with great musical talent in the subsequent article in the Dark side of the Horse comic, who wants to become a conductor; he's referred to in a later issue of the newspaper as an "Amazing Negro" who is in contention to win a national talent contest.

I don't know if he won the contest, but he's done well regardless.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Jul 3, 2020

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




I came up in the 80's and my folks only spanked me once; when they told me not to touch some potentially dangerous thing and I looked them square in the eye and touched it. Whenever my dad would talk about the incident later he would say, "and my hand still hurts." My cousins, who were younger than me and whose parents were younger than mine, were hell on wheels and got spanked all the time, often with implements. It didn't improve their behavior, as far as I can tell.

I'm certain other adults in my life spanked me, though I don't remember which adults and I don't know if my parents knew.



But anyway, work really took it out of me this week so I got behind on the thread. Let's catch up with a rock block of Luann:





Signs of Anne's pregnancy being a grift increasing. Though she has to produce a baby at some point, so what's the endgame? Faking a miscarriage as well? Harder to do the farther along this baby supposedly is. And she's already got the engagement ring, so why fake a baby?

I will also say right now that if it does turn out that Team Evans meant for Tiff's "grow up" plan to be a bad idea the whole time, I will be happy to eat my words. (But Luann will still be a bad strip. Forever and always.)



I still think it's cute that Les is so into having a sibling. It'll suck when he finds out it's all fake and is let down. (And Luann is still a bad strip. Forever and always.)

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

JethroMcB posted:



This was a month ago, they're apparently always rocking secret X-Men physiques.

The one a little later that was him saying they're the best looking couple on the block was not an exaggeration

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.
FOUND IT!



http://malvernetheatre.org/about/malverne-community-theatre-newspaper-reviews-14-page-0/

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.
Now that I have finished converting the traumatic reliving of childhood trauma into compulsively searching newspaper records, I am going to take a break from the thread.

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Intelligent Life
(no update monday)






Daddy Daze


Take It From the Tinkersons


Dark Side of the Horse


Fort Knox

null_user01013
Nov 13, 2000

Drink up comrades

EasyEW posted:

9 Chickweed Lane

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Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

Live, laugh, kupo!

Tendales posted:

I think he needs a co-writer. Randy's got great jokes and an encyclopedic knowledge of POPEYE LORE, but the voices are just off. They talk like S*P characters, not Thimble Theater characters.

Thinking about it more, he's writing them with a lot more ironic awareness than TT characters generally show. Most of the Popeye cast should be mumbling their way through a confused daze.

e: case in point,

There's a sincerity in how the TT characters just keep rolling with whatever insanity comes their way, where Randy's writing them as knowing and detached. It works great for a couple gag strips, but wouldn't stand on its own, I think.

Randy's stuff doesn't feel like a Popeye strip to me, it feels like a loving parody done by a fan. Which is how it started, so yeah. Enjoying it though.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Randy can do storylines, but a month of one-offs doesn't lend itself to much more than a gag a day

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Zelda

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005

quote:


Who'da guessed that Edda and Lowtax have the same spinal condition?

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban




Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
lol

I don't remember if my sister or I were ever spanked, we were born in the late 80s. I'd assume we were not.

MERICA Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Bad Machinery

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017


"My abuser was terrible to me for years, but they did something nice for me one time..." is something you hear from a lot of the abused, and it takes time to come to terms with the fact that it doesn't excuse what the abuser did to you, or that it's a tactic abusers do to make you feel guilty for thinking bad about them. The way poor Les sounds wistful here makes it seem like he doesn't realize that yet, and Team Evans is awful for using this as a set-up for a joke.


I hate this. Everyone was all too eager to get rid of Fiona but couldn't say anything because it wasn't something "nice people" did. Then the dad came up with the passive-aggressive plan of renting an apartment for Fiona, which was doomed to fail because she still had trouble finding a job. Now that Fiona says she's doing better, these assholes decide to check up on her. And it's not out of concern, but to gawk at her life, maybe thinking she's miserable.

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.
Hell yeah Nongshim ramen owns

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Elysiume posted:

Hell yeah Nongshim ramen owns




e; Black bean sauce ramen.

The best.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
That's a treason!

Surgeon's Tales



Nancy


Dustin


Mandrake


Man in Black



I don't get it.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Kennel posted:

I don't get it.
His footprints look like his chattering teeth. I'm very impressed how far that comic manages to stretch its premise.

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Oooooof :smith:

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä



Despite Finland's general secularity, we of course have our own homegrown fundies. Most notable of these is Lestadiolaisuus, though Suuronen and his gang seem to be some kind of unspecified tent revival types.

The penultimate panel has one of the most deep cut jokes I have ever seen. Apparently hymn 483, a pretty standard church hymn today, has an original version that's long as gently caress.

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty



Rae the Doe

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kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009

Mr. Boop



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