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1. Holy poo poo Tinkersons  2. Where did Amos even find swim trunks that he can hike up that high on his stupid torso 3. Big Ick 
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell Hooo boy. Leona Mangle the lioness was introduced in 2007 when she tried out for Rudy the half-wolf-half-fox's* high school hunting team. She's the daughter of Frank the lion, one of Kell's co-workers, and quickly started dating Edgar the lion (who, at the time, was "crossdressing" to be on the hunting team by shaving off his mane and pretending to be a lioness, he was embarassed because male lions traditionally don't hunt). They were together until 2016, when they were in college and Edgar cheated on Leona with Miranda the rabbit; that very summer she met Carl the rhino when they were both volunteering as counsellors for a summer camp -- Francis the human-actually-half-fennec-half-rabbit* almost fell into a river, Carl rescued him but fell into the river instead, almost drowned, and Leona saved him by giving him mouth-to-mouth. She then saved him again by giving him Heimlich (with a fire hose) when he was choking on his food, and AGAIN when he got captured by poachers who were interested in his horn (rhino horn's an aphrosidiac). After that, Leona and Carl started dating. In 2019 Carl proposed, and shortly afterwards they were married. The couple was recently involved in a storyline where poachers were (once again) trying to get their hands on Carl's horn, and Leona's head as a trophy as an extra. Leona is technically Kell's niece as well as Rudy, Coney, and Lindesfarne's cousin, because Kell's sister Sheila married Frank. (Frank was a widower at the beginning of the strip.) Also, her family is Jewish, and no I have no idea how that even works in this universe and I don't intend to find out. Carl the rhino (not to be confused with Carla the chameleon, adopted daughter to Corrie the sheep and Bruno the trans ram*, or with the other Carl, a bear cub and Coney's classmate in preschool who showed up for exactly three strips in 2012 and 2013, or the other other Carl, a jaguar and Kell's co-worker who was in two strips in 2007, or the other other other Carl, a snake, who was featured in one strip in 2006) first appeared in 2015, as Rudy's teammate on the college gardening team; after Leona saved him three times they started dating. Besides being a camp counsellor, he's also a rooming assistant at the local college Carl is really into sport gardening, so much that in 2019 he decided to leave college and start a career in pro gardening. This drove a rift between him and Leona and they briefly broke up, until Leona's father advised her to talk to Carl; Carl proposed, and in 2020 they got married. Also, Carl in the strip was originally a quadruped. Until he decided to start walking on two legs.  So he could hold his girlfriend's hand. That's cute  Also, while looking through strips to put this summary together I found out there's a restaurant in this universe called "Vore's, the restaurant serving all diets" and I loving WISH I WERE KIDDING. * A story for another time. (Also most of these characters have surnames of course, but I ain't gonna look them up so you don't get those unless I happen across them by chance.) Mikl fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jul 8, 2020 |
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  you're gonna dry that cat out!! Rae the Doe 
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Holy poo poo, Tinkersons. 2017 Spiderman  1978 Comics    Dick Tracy  Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats 
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell  quote:Ella Cinders
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Dykes to Watch Out For #80, Alison Bechdel (1990)  I need to apologize for a little bit of ambiguity here. This strip actually is in the Essential, I just didn't realize it until after I'd already scanned it and didn't want to make extra work. That means that this is one of the handful of strips about Mo's therapy to make it into that collection-- maybe because in this one the therapy stuff is more about setting up long-term developments in her relationship to Harriet. The more I think about it the less I envy whoever had to trim that book down into one more or less cohesive narrative. Mo is reading a variety of iterations of The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller, a pop psychology book from 1979 that was very popular and kicked off the still-ongoing trend of neurotic adults navel-gazing about what sensitive geniuses they were as kids. In the 80s this and similar books about the peculiar parenting challenges of "gifted kids" were very hot-- I certainly remember my parents having a few on their shelf, and me and my brother ate catfood on dares so draw your own conclusions. This strip also continues Bechdel's exploration of the trope of "lesbian bed death," the stereotype that as lesbians settled into long-term relationships their sex-lives fizzled out. This was a very very prevalent idea throughout the late 80s, owing to a 1983 study on American sexual habits that found a steeper decline in sex between committed lesbians than in any other sort of arrangement. As you might imagine there was plenty of backlash to how this study was conducted and framed but at the time it was a stereotype that found a decent amount of traction in lesbian language itself (like the concept of the U-Haul lesbian). As we move into the 90s I feel like Bechdel seems to get kind of fed up with this and decides to give her characters more lively sex lives. Again, in this case it definitely feeds into ongoing and developing stuff with Harriet and Mo. I also want to apologize for the long hiatus. I spent the last week of June totally sidetracked by bigger goon fires and then had a burst of headway on dissertation revisions, then I lost track of where my Bechdel books went in the midst of books for work being carted around from room to room in a frenzy. I also had a minor crisis of conscience about posting such a frequently depressing comic in here during frequently depressing times but I do think it's a funny strip and a really well done one-- I still hold that Bechdel is one of the all-time geniuses of the medium-- so who knows I think it's worth the trade-off. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jul 8, 2020 |
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  "That is not an excuse for leaving your clothes on my floor!" The Phantom  I think they dosed Phantom. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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And just to keep things rolling I guess: DtWOF #81, Alison Bechdel (1990)  The She-Ra reference threw me off at first because I'm mostly familiar with the character as a modern cartoon lesbian, but of course she's originally from the 80s Masters of the Universe franchise, debuting in her own show in 1985 as a girl-friendly counterpart to He-Man. Much like He-Man, she was a waifish girl who could say some magic words and turn into a huge ripped Frazetta-style hunk.  Both series had tremendous camp appeal so the explicitly queer reboot of more recent years isn't really surprising. The lesbian rugby player is also an evergreen cliche. We'll see a bit of Lois' youth later on but there's a note of tension here between the stereotype of the butch college rugby athlete and the contrast between Lois' adult self-fashioning as butch versus her more strait-laced adolescence. Lois' discomfort here overall is nicely portrayed and nuanced. She comes across as awkward without acting out in dramatic but unrealistic ways. There's the obvious element of her feeling like a sixth wheel, but also a note of discomfort in not being able to feel like the transgressive, confrontational element in the room. I think she liked the fantasy of showing an older straight woman the proverbial ropes, and suddenly finds herself in a setting where her persona is defanged or, worse, reduced to dress-up-- as in the son borrowing her cool leather jacket to pretend to be a Hell's Angel. She's not in a position to stick it to the squares and I think that that puts her on the back foot. Oh also, as curtadams mentioned ages ago, here's the rare appearance of Emma's silent husband. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jul 8, 2020 |
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I think Rae the Doe sucks and I'm sorry to think that. Adam  BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis 
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That's a pretty major spoiler image there for the series finale of a 5 season show that just recently concluded
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The Bloop posted:That's a pretty major spoiler image there for the series finale of a 5 season show that just recently concluded Edited it out, sorry!
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No new New Far Side today The Far Side Pickles  Zits 
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Gonna go outta my mind if this one mention of her grandmother is all it takes for these two to begin to bond. Couldn't have happened when they first met, oh, no; only the saintly presence of Mary Worth could get these two to finally realize that they are, in fact, related and have a shared grief. quote:Rex Morgan MD "Well, thanks for taking a look at it, Benton. How's Jonny, by the way?" JethroMcB fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jul 8, 2020 |
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Jul 8, 2020 19:17
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Hello, new wallpaper.
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No but seriously how long has it been since Luann has been seen in her own comic?
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EBB posted:No but seriously how long has it been since Luann has been seen in her own comic? 
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tinkersons was leaning good for a while, but now it’s legitimately good, holy gently caress
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EBB posted:No but seriously how long has it been since Luann has been seen in her own comic? You fool, you mustn't speak her name! 
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https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1280268801163120640?s=20
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EBB posted:No but seriously how long has it been since Luann has been seen in her own comic? Sunday, June 21, for Father's Day a couple of weeks ago! I don't post Sundays, though, because I don't want to. Her last appearance in a weekly "plot" strip was Saturday, May 2, about two months ago. Having accidentally ruined the meal she was preparing by putting pepper in it, she ordered pizza instead! Riveting!
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Vintage Valiant (Feb. 18, 1940) 
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Julet Esqu posted:Sunday, June 21, for Father's Day a couple of weeks ago! I don't post Sundays, though, because I don't want to. Her last appearance in a weekly "plot" strip was Saturday, May 2, about two months ago. Having accidentally ruined the meal she was preparing by putting pepper in it, she ordered pizza instead! Riveting! Doh ho ho what will those awkward teens do next
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Nobody reported her for the scam because...?
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For as much as Tinkerson's has really grown on me (and my God, I think I really like it now. This week's been good), I will never get over the boss's hat. Conan the Barbarian Oct. 22nd- 28th, 1979        It is getting close, the Red Sonja-Amphora story ended Dec. 24th, 1978.
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readingatwork posted:rear end in a top hat Charlie Brown beats sad sack Charlie Brown every time. Yes! One of the many reasons I appreciate this thread is because it's where I was exposed to early Peanuts--the first five years are so are brilliant, so much better than the next 45. Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons I still don't like the art or most of the dialogue, but I can certainly respect insane poo poo like this. FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens Didn't this (mer-)idiot just get a professorship at an Earth university or something?
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Green Intern posted:Nobody reported her for the scam because...? I wanna say that someone tried and Ann spun a sob story about being duped by a sham company. Re: DtWOF, that moment of Lois realizing she's not the transgressive element in the room is hilarious and reminds me of many of my college friends. It was a shock for them to move from small towns into a major city and realize nobody gave a poo poo.
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The Dinette Set flows like a river. Working Daze references a thing. I know you're shocked.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix takes the edge off.  Cul De Sac socializes. 
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I'm incensed on Petey's behalf that no one said anything rude about Andre's or Loris' introductions, but both of them felt free to comment on him. 
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coronatae posted:I wanna say that someone tried and Ann spun a sob story about being duped by a sham company. That was Tiff trying to warn her dad that he is dating a scam artist. As far as I remember, nobody reported her to the authorities. Tiff knows the legit CEO of Souffle Lingerie and told her about the scam and you'd think she'd want to sue to protect her brand, but no. Ann Eiffel ran the scam out of the Fuse and you'd think Luann's parents would have an interest in shutting her down and making a show of protecting their customers, but no. Maybe Luann's parents just never knew Ann was there running a scam? They certainly didn't see any reason to bar her from returning to the Fuse as a customer, or from abusing their staff, until she was rude to Luann's mom personally. But even if that is the case, I have to say, "what the poo poo, Luann," since Luann was one of the people who got scammed into buying counterfeit undies. You'd think she'd be like, "Hey, Mom and Dad, this creep is running a scam out of your business and scamming your customers." But no.
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I'm starting to think the Evanses aren't thinking very hard about how their world works.
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Thank you so much for posting DTWOF! I remember reading them ages ago. Always have loved Mo, but gently caress you, Sydney who isn't in the comic yet. And Raf's uncle's Gay Shirt strip is literally the best comic strip ever.
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I know Garfield likes lasagna but does he also like ravioli?
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Lyman made ravioli once. You know what happened to Lyman?
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SalTheBard posted:I know Garfield likes lasagna but does he also like ravioli? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDkgd5iiJbU Yes.
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Selachian posted:Smokey Stover 6/7/36 I got a provisional patent as a kid based on similar principles.
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