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Drakyn
Dec 26, 2012

Vargo posted:

This is the only cool thing Lynn has ever done.

Mind you, if I recall correctly the IRL inspiration for Farley was put down* shortly after Lynn had her first kid because tiny infants and sheepdogs aren't necessarily the best fit, so if you're deeply uncharitable you could read it as another rewriting of her life to make it more picturesque and also make her kids more directly responsible for something unfortunate happening.

*correction two posts down.

Drakyn fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jul 21, 2020

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Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Drakyn posted:

Mind you, if I recall correctly the IRL inspiration for Farley was put down shortly after Lynn had her first kid because tiny infants and sheepdogs aren't necessarily the best fit, so if you're deeply uncharitable you could read it as another rewriting of her life to make it more picturesque and also make her kids more directly responsible for something unfortunate happening.

I.... I did not know this. Point retracted.

Drakyn
Dec 26, 2012

Vargo posted:

I.... I did not know this. Point retracted.
Good news, I hunted around and it's at least half-bullshit due to my shoddy memory.

quote:

Unfortunately, when Aaron arrived, Farley didn't really take to the new family member (in this picture, you see him barrelling past Aaron in his jumper). Eventually, Lynn was forced to find Farley a new home; he moved to a farm and lived out his days there.

Lynn says "I always say that I flipped a coin and the dog lost. It sure was hard to see him in the back of their station wagon, staring at me as they drove away".

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (May 05, 1940)

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Hempuli posted:

Hi! I've been lurking the thread for several years now. Recently I ran into two Finnish comic/cartoon albums and thought it could be interesting to post them here. So here we go:
New comics, yay! I look forward to more. Especially the Ansu cartoons. That looks like my kind of stuff.

F Minus



Mark Trail



Lunch, because dinner would just be too forward.

Mary Worth


amigolupus posted:

I have to agree with Madi. It looks to me like Saul doesn't understand that Madi losing her grandmother is messing her up a lot, dismissed that as her acting up, and is now dumping her on Mary so he wouldn't have to deal with her.

And Mary continues to sound condescending. "You seem angry", jfc.
I agree Mary is condescending because--well, she's Mary Worth, but the real cause of all this is Madi's father. He pawned off his daughter to an old man she (and he, probably, at this point) barely knows who is wholly unprepared to take care of her. Neither Saul nor Madi are being particularly 'good' here, but I cannot blame either of them. He is an old man who apparently has been single all his life and only ever cared for his dog, and she's a child who recently lost a loved one. Her father is a piece of poo poo.

The Phantom



I like that Phantom has an address like Santa or McGruff the Crime Dog.

Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G



Happy 1975! Enjoy the end of the Vietnam War!

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

SharkTales!
Woo-oo!



Is Rex being haunted by the spirit of some spinster who died in the hospital?

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
It's Aunt May.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Rex Morgan, M.D. to the Mole Kingdom

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Mercury Hat posted:

Is Rex being haunted by the spirit of some spinster who died in the hospital?

I'm thinking it's the elderly June, time-traveling back to make sure things unfold as they should.

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
The Far Side

Pickles


Zits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Jul 25, 2022

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

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



:allears: god that's a perfect comic strip

also that zits it's like they KNOW we're ready with the incest edits

Somebody fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Jul 25, 2022

nishi koichi
Feb 16, 2007

everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.
i think far side is finally growing on me.

curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

Johnny Walker posted:


Rex Morgan MD


This is a serious retcon of Rex and June's relationship. Originally they worked together and played will-they-won't-they for 47 years before finally getting married in 1995, according to Wiki. They've apparently decided to jettison the old continuity, based on the snarky comments a while back of "look, here's some news about a mid-century doctor with the same name as me!" I'll grant a boss-subordinate relationship is kinda questionable and I was OK with the new version until this annoying biddie-ex-machina showed up. Telling strangers they need to get married? There's some serious boundary issues there. The only thing that would salvage it is if some guys in white coats show up and say "Miss Gale! How did you get out of the locked ward?"

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Always liked this version:

Somebody fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jul 25, 2022

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.
Sally Forth's Imagination Sadcation



Skippy (February 3, 1933)



Peanuts (July 24, 1973)



Cancerwife: The Movie



Not like they're not doing that to you already, buddy.

Crankshaft



9 "Puke Brown Is The Color Of Love" Lane



Rip Haywire



Thimble Theater (February 19, 1937)



Out Our Way (November 5-7, 1934)







And yeah, I'm going back to a regular duck schedule, but give me a minute...

Hempuli
Nov 15, 2011



B. Virtanen

The office manager is called Mr. Nilkén. The name is a wordplay of the word "nilkki", which means something like "slimeball", "petty thief" or "scumbag". The surnameifized form is styled after Swedish surnames, and the reason for that is a jokey reference to stereotypes of Finnish-Swedish people. Finland used to belong to Sweden before becoming a part of Russia in 1809, and when Finland became independent, it opted to have two official languages, namely Finnish and Swedish. Due to historical reasons, Swedish families in Finland tended to be some of the wealthiest ones, and last I knew most of the richest families here still have very obviously Swedish surnames and so on. This, combined with the general perceived rivalry between Finland & Sweden, has led to a lot of stereotypes and such regarding Finnish-Swedish people, marking them as being "old money" or especially snobby, and coining phrases such as "svenskatalande bättre folk" ("Swedish-speaking better people".) I probably got my history here completely and embarrassingly wrong, but that's something of a summary as to why this specific slimy character is named as he is.

(I'll try to give a little introduction to the main characters but they'll generally be much shorter than this because I really don't know much about this strip and don't really want to find out more.)

ANSU



Johnny Walker posted:

New comics, yay! I look forward to more. Especially the Ansu cartoons. That looks like my kind of stuff.
Glad to hear that! Thanks :)

Hempuli fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Jul 21, 2020

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
gently caress you, Les. Everyone in your lovely town already loves Saint Lisa.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
If he's the waiter where they're eating he will probably be playing one of the staff at the pizza joint.

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty



Rae the Doe



:rip: Rae

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise in Maori Contract





Destroy History

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä

kazz
Feb 27, 2007

Black Bean has a tendency to stare and likes to hide.
What does this mean? That if the coin had landed the other way, it would be Aaron she sent to the farm?

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy


Dustin


Mandrake


Man in Black


fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban




Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Retail




Dick


Duck


ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

EasyEW posted:

Cancerwife: The Movie



Not like they're not doing that to you already, buddy

No. I assure you, no one had laughed at any character in funky winkerbean in literal decades

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Transmodiar posted:

Modesty Blaise in Maori Contract




The carving looks pretty accurate, but :lmao: her outfit. She's essentially dressed as one of those hula girls you put on a car dashboard.

FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.
The Lockhorns


Brewster Rockit Space Guy


On The Fastrack


Safe Havens


Kevin & Kell


Mother Goose & Grimm


Hagar The Horrible


Sherman's Lagoon


Ella Cinders

curtadams
Mar 24, 2019

riderchop posted:

Rae the Doe



:rip: Rae
Another one that's funnier in the context of the running gag on the webstrip




Not to worry, Roe will be fine - well, back to her usual level of not fine - tomorrow.

curtadams fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jul 21, 2020

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
ive been thinking of posting the webcomic here in light of mr boop being posted but.....it feels weird idk

Mister Olympus
Oct 31, 2011

Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies
The patter in ella cinders has really grown on me more than a narcoleptic farmer's grapevines at the back of the field.

Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained


Well, at least she's consistent when caring for something small, young, nonverbal, vulnerable:

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?
Conan the Barbarian Jan. 21st- 27th, 1980







Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




SOMETHING HAPPENED AGAIN


Now the question is, will we now be subjected to a week of wishy-washy "I didn't mean it" poo poo even though they're both obviously into each other? Or, since they're both "bad" characters, will they be allowed to make out?

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Julet Esqu posted:

SOMETHING HAPPENED AGAIN


Now the question is, will we now be subjected to a week of wishy-washy "I didn't mean it" poo poo even though they're both obviously into each other? Or, since they're both "bad" characters, will they be allowed to make out?

The way she’s drawn in panel 2, it looks pretty clear that she’s intending to go in for a kiss. I don’t know why panel 3 shows them being surprised (I guess it was -supposed- to be on the cheek but we can’t escape bad will-they-won’t-they plots)

Also: Comic Strips 2020: ...Via Hologram!

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma



FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.
God drat, just look at how rad that skeleton is drawn in Conan.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

riderchop posted:

ive been thinking of posting the webcomic here in light of mr boop being posted but.....it feels weird idk

Everyone's doin it.

https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1284534694814547973?s=20

https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1285244850095501312?s=20

Larryb
Oct 5, 2010

riderchop posted:

ive been thinking of posting the webcomic here in light of mr boop being posted but.....it feels weird idk

I say go for it, from what I've seen it's a lot better than the newspaper version so far.

Speaking of Mr Boop, I'm not saying to stop posting it or anything but out of curiosity why exactly is it in this thread? Is it actually being published anywhere (which seems unlikely given the fact that most of the cast consists of copyrighted characters), does the author have another strip that does get published, what?

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How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

Larryb posted:

I say go for it, from what I've seen it's a lot better than the newspaper version so far.

Speaking of Mr Boop, I'm not saying to stop posting it or anything but out of curiosity why exactly is it in this thread? Is it actually being published anywhere (which seems unlikely given the fact that most of the cast consists of copyrighted characters), does the author have another strip that does get published, what?

I'm actually not sure why either aside from a gut feeling that it's a better fit here than in the webcomic thread, and because there's precedent in the wolf comic being grandfathered in. I don't really need to see like, Questionable Content in two threads at once so I don't want people to see a webcomic they like and think "oh neat, off I go to the comic strip thread to share," but I think Mr. Boop is an ok fit for this thread and the webcomic Rae the Doe strips would also be a useful counterpoint to the syndicated strips.

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