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honestly it's the worst timeline because imagine living with peter griffith and having to see his chin-balls every time you leave your room
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why would a gutenberg bible be a tip-off e: okay it's a big book but also the gently caress why would you fall for that in the first place
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FrumpleOrz posted:Hagar The Horrible That's pretty good.
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Her boss is doing the same thing, isn't she? That's why she told her to bring her books that'll make her look good.
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 I guess this is supposed to be further signs of Les's inherent degeneracy? Because nah. He's supposed to be like 19 or 20, right? One of my aforementioned cousins who was a terror in his youth and got his cheek meat smacked all the time had a room very much like this at this age after his dad kicked him out and he went to live with my grandma, only his room had more bongs in it. Now he is in his 30's and, while I wouldn't call him respectable (and I don't believe he would want me to), he has a nice wife and a couple of kids he loves and steady work and seems pretty happy and still barely talks to his dad. A heartwarming ending all around!
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This was always one of my favorites. Pro tip: It's a good cheap stupid Halloween party costume.
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It doesn't matter. She owns the books, that is as good as having read and appreciated them. He has commited the heinous crime of pretending to be less poor than he is and is therefore unsuitable. Many a library in a country pile has been assembled along these lines. You just hire a specialist to acquire X feet of appropriate looking books.
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Julet Esqu posted:
I mean, and this is a very charitable interpretation, but since Les and Tiff have pretty consistently been coded as attracted to one another, it might just be that he's embarassed that the girl he likes has seen his room as a pig-sty. God knows at that age I would have come up with an excuse to
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goatface posted:It doesn't matter. She owns the books, that is as good as having read and appreciated them. He has commited the heinous crime of pretending to be less poor than he is and is therefore unsuitable. IIRC she specifically told Dethany to bring her books from her own house.
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Nov 26, 1951)  Calvin and Hobbes (Oct 26-27, 1987)   Robbie and Bobby (Posting 2 of the new ones until we catch up) (Mar 30, 2016)  (June 16-17, 2020)   
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Alright if you guys aren't going to post My Dad Is Dracula then I will. Here are the recent ones he posted on Facebook. No idea if they're reruns or not.      I'll post more as they come in unless anybody else is itching to do it.
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 7/2/00  Brenda Starr 9/28/41  "Or, you know, you could just tell him to gently caress off, because he's not exactly Cary Grant himself."   A Surprisingly Relevant Smokey Stover 5/3/36  Check out the design of the Chief's chair in panel three.
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Kennel posted:Dustin He should clearly become a rich and successful comic strip artist like his father. Sometimes I wonder if Kelly failed out of law school or didn't get in.
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readingatwork posted:Alright if you guys aren't going to post My Dad Is Dracula then I will. Here are the recent ones he posted on Facebook. No idea if they're reruns or not. Yeah, those are old (or at least some of them). (IMO there's no need for another rerun, since we've gone through them twice already, but whatevs)
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Discendo Vox posted: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. Haifisch posted:1978 Comics F Minus  I don't think it looks this weird when he draws children with adults. It must be that when its just kids he feels the need to draw the head bigger to make it obvious since there aren't adults around to compare sizes too. Kids then are basically mini-adults. Anyways this is unnerving. Mark Trail  Mary Worth  Buckle in, folks. Here we go. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Popeye's Cartoon Club  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. I do worry that he will get too into the lore and fan service. Right now I'm enjoying the references and learning more about Popeye's history, but I won't be that interested a few months from now. I certainly don't want exactly what I've been seeing these last few weeks indefinitely, but I think based on what I've seen he'd be a good person to take Popeye into a new stage. Anyways, none of this matters if they don't hire him, so we'll just wait and see. It would be nice to have a real strip with a storyline, as Popeye (the strip) has been in repeats forever. Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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To express my Jean! I--I don't know how gratitude,
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riderchop posted:Rae the Doe I don't think Rae the Doe is BAD, per se, but this constant fourth wall breaking is getting really tiresome. Maybe the best way to introduce these characters would be, I don't know, having them do things that show their personalities? Alhazred posted:Zelda Zelda doesn't usually do it for me, but this one's actually really good.
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^Yeah that Zelda felt a little too relatable  Julet Esqu posted:
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Am I hallucinating this memory or didn't Les find out he and Pru were siblings back when he was SO FOOLISHLY, CAN YOU BELIEVE THE GALL, trying to court her? I mean I know it's not the same as having a sibling you grew up with but wasn't that a thing?
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sweeperbravo posted:Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Am I hallucinating this memory or didn't Les find out he and Pru were siblings back when he was SO FOOLISHLY, CAN YOU BELIEVE THE GALL, trying to court her? I mean I know it's not the same as having a sibling you grew up with but wasn't that a thing? IIRC, Les didn't know that Pru wasn't into guys ... and she let him buy her presents, an expensive meal, etc., without telling him.
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Johnny Walker posted:F Minus this strip would work just as well with adults, if not moreso, imo.
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Selachian posted:IIRC, Les didn't know that Pru wasn't into guys ... and she let him buy her presents, an expensive meal, etc., without telling him. I remember that part, but I also thought I remembered Les describing growing up in foster care and somehow he and Pru were related in addition to her being a lesbian. Maybe I just read people speculating that and my brain misfiled it as canon
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sweeperbravo posted:I remember that part, but I also thought I remembered Les describing growing up in foster care and somehow he and Pru were related in addition to her being a lesbian. Maybe I just read people speculating that and my brain misfiled it as canon I do not think there was even speculation! You might be confusing it with funky Winkerbean- there was heavy speculation that THAT foster kid was schtupping his sister before it turned out his mom was saint Lisa
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Johnny Walker posted:
Mary looks so happy finding out she can Serious Cephalopod posted:I do not think there was even speculation! What are the odds Batiuk became aware of that possible angle and just did a hasty retcon that he's now Cancerwife and Les' kid?
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Turpitude II posted:this strip would work just as well with adults, if not moreso, imo.
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holy poo poo it's Harry and Kim
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Serious Cephalopod posted:I do not think there was even speculation! It may have been from the hit-or-miss comment section of the Comics Curmudgeon. I hope it was, or else my brain came up with this on its own, and what a pathetic false memory to craft
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Conan the Barbarian Sept. 17th- Sept. 23rd, 1979       I should probably save this, it came out during this comic's run so I could post it to coincide with the strips it did in reality, but I think it's neat so here goes anyways. In 'The Dragon' issue 36 (April 1980), Gary Gygax published stats for Conan in AD&D terms, and I've got the pages right here:   Interestingly, this was essentially the basis for the barbarian class in 1985's Unearthed Arcana, with the exception of the latent psionics. I'll also note that in the first paragraph Gygax is talking about the series that ran in 'Dragon' called Giants in the Earth where they gave D&D stats to characters from fiction and myth. It was a neat series, but also one that couldn't last. It took a little bit, but eventually TSR realised that they were an actual company and not just a bunch of hobbyists anymore, and so should probably cut back a bit on the blatant copyright infringement. They reused the title for a similar series near the end of 2e and beginning of 3e for officially licensed and historical figures (there are stats for the Nodwick characters and figures from the Greco-Persian War), and they had a few others that featured NPCs, like Rogues Gallery which adapted characters from TSR/WotC's D&D tie-ins, mostly books but also comics and games, and Lords & Legends, a somewhat short-lived series where people sent in characters that could be used as NPCs.
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StrixNebulosa posted:why would a gutenberg bible be a tip-off A Gutenberg Bible is not a specific translation of the Bible, but one actually printed by Gutenberg in the mid-1400s. As only 49 copies are known to exist, this makes it an incredibly rare artifact, akin to having a Stradivarius violin or original Donatello painting just sitting there. Not that this excuses the "joke", because it is a really crappy punchline to a really stupid storyline, but that would be suspicious.
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Gnoman posted:A Gutenberg Bible is not a specific translation of the Bible, but one actually printed by Gutenberg in the mid-1400s. As only 49 copies are known to exist, this makes it an incredibly rare artifact, akin to having a Stradivarius violin or original Donatello painting just sitting there.
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Discendo Vox posted: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. Now I feel super good about taking those five minutes to make the text readable. Well done on finding this! Vintage Valiant (Jan. 21, 1940)  
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Nikaer Drekin posted:I don't think Rae the Doe is BAD, per se, but this constant fourth wall breaking is getting really tiresome. Maybe the best way to introduce these characters would be, I don't know, having them do things that show their personalities? I ignore riderchop (no offense), but every time someone quotes this strip it is bad. So I'm going to provide the hot take that Rae the Doe is, in fact, bad. And now, Modesty Blaise in Ripper Jax!  
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