Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

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BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

Haifisch posted:

This all sounds really familiar for some reason, almost as if people don't learn from these things long-term.

We really don't. If it's any consolation the ones who got the most screwed directly were Wall Street junkmen like Ivan Boskey and jagoffs like Charles Keating and Jim Baaker. Back then at least we still sent financial criminals to prison, so they all got some time (but Keating had his sentence vacated on appeal, so he only did a few weeks in LA County lockup).

Fun fact: John McCain wasn't able to run for president with any support until 2008 because he was probably the most directly involved with Keating.

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How Wonderful!: Jul 18, 2006; I only have excellent ideas

Thanks for explaining the whole thing so lucidly, I never even knew that McCain factoid.

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Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

The Dinette Set looks good on you, though.

Working Daze is a terrible person.

Super-Fun-Pak Comix is always bloody quantum.

Cul De Sac prepares the ultimate crossover event.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 01:47

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

BigDave posted:

We really don't. If it's any consolation the ones who got the most screwed directly were Wall Street junkmen like Ivan Boskey and jagoffs like Charles Keating and Jim Baaker. Back then at least we still sent financial criminals to prison, so they all got some time (but Keating had his sentence vacated on appeal, so he only did a few weeks in LA County lockup).

Fun fact: John McCain wasn't able to run for president with any support until 2008 because he was probably the most directly involved with Keating.

And, of course, https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/18/investing/michael-milken-pardon/index.html

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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, in which Ted doesn't necessarily have the worst idea in the world for a change.

Pearls Before Swine

Skippy (February 15, 1933)

Peanuts (August 7, 1973)

Mopey Pete's Day Trip To The Hellmouth

Crankshaft

9 "Smooth Talkin' Interdimensional Predator" Lane

"Wait a minute, did you take this from the nature center greenhouse?"

"Lalala, can't hear you anymore."

Rip Haywire

Thimble Theater (March 5, 1937)

Out Our Way (December 10-12, 1934)

# ? Aug 5, 2020 02:11

Parahexavoctal: Oct 10, 2004; I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

Safety Dance posted:

Remind me, all this fuss is because one Arab businessman said he wanted to buy a million juniper beads?

I predict that his request was misunderstood or will fall through for some reason, and that all this will have been for nothing.

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Safety Dance: Sep 10, 2007; Five degrees to starboard!

I agree with you about thinking the deal is a misunderstanding.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 02:19

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Safety Dance posted:

Remind me, all this fuss is because one Arab businessman said he wanted to buy a million juniper beads?

Correct. That and the mayor and local business coordinator guy's insatiable greed and desire to "modernize" the town, which was already in progress.

They don't even have a written contract/as far as we know.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 02:23

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

How Wonderful! posted:

Thanks for explaining the whole thing so lucidly, I never even knew that McCain factoid.

It really reminds me of a line by Charles Simic, "Everything is teetering on the edge of everything". It wasn't JUST the loan guarantees, it wasn't JUST the real estate boom and bust, it wasn't JUST the oil market collapsing, and it wasn't JUST rapid inflation brought on by spending deficits, that were in turn created by Johnson Administration policies trying to have a war and peace economy at the same time, it was everything at once.

Really, it's a kind of micro-ism into Mo and why she constantly anxious about current events. It's not just one single thing, it's everything, because it's all connected and caused by itself.

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Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Brilliant work, Colorist. I can tell that coloring Luann is a labor of love for you.

(Also while I can sympathize with the feeling that everything you do is a bajillion times louder when you're trying not to wake anybody up, I cannot sympathize with jeans. What's up, Bern, you don't got any pajama pants?)

# ? Aug 5, 2020 02:35

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Julet Esqu posted:

Brilliant work, Colorist. I can tell that coloring Luann is a labor of love for you.

(Also while I can sympathize with the feeling that everything you do is a bajillion times louder when you're trying not to wake anybody up, I cannot sympathize with jeans. What's up, Bern, you don't got any pajama pants?)

Or just a nightshirt long enough to cover your rear end?

# ? Aug 5, 2020 02:37

How Wonderful!: Jul 18, 2006; I only have excellent ideas

BigDave posted:

It really reminds me of a line by Charles Simic, "Everything is teetering on the edge of everything".

"Blood Orange" is a brilliant poem, I love that I can tab over to this thread and run into a little Simic.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 02:45

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

How Wonderful! posted:

"Blood Orange" is a brilliant poem, I love that I can tab over to this thread and run into a little Simic.

I like to think that the Comic Strip Megathread caters to a more sophisticated class of goon. :wotwot:

Here's the whole thing if anyone's interested:

Charles Simic posted:

It looks so dark the end of the world
may be near.
I believe it's going to rain.
The birds in the park are silent.
Nothing is what it seems to be,
Nor are we.

There's a tree on our street so big
We can all hide in its leaves.
We won't need any clothes either.
I feel as old as a cockroach, you said.
In my head, I'm a passenger on a ghost ship.

Not even a sight outdoors now.
If a child was left on our doorstep,
It must be asleep.
Everything is teetering on the edge of everything
With a polite smile.

It's because there are things in this world
That just can't be helped, you said.
Right then, I heard the blood orange
Roll off the table and with a thud
Lie cracked open on the floor.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 03:07

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Green Intern posted:

Correct. That and the mayor and local business coordinator guy's insatiable greed and desire to "modernize" the town, which was already in progress.

They don't even have a written contract/as far as we know.

I'm trying to be super patient for Suominen's revenge because he is also being very patient. I'm also afraid that the comic will just mirror real life, and M-Club will prevail.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 03:14

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

BigDave posted:

We really don't. If it's any consolation the ones who got the most screwed directly were Wall Street junkmen like Ivan Boskey and jagoffs like Charles Keating and Jim Baaker. Back then at least we still sent financial criminals to prison, so they all got some time (but Keating had his sentence vacated on appeal, so he only did a few weeks in LA County lockup).

Fun fact: John McCain wasn't able to run for president with any support until 2008 because he was probably the most directly involved with Keating.

The use of the royal "we" here strikes me as rather misleading. "We" know full well that lending credit based on assets we don't actually have is outrageously unethical and we would be prosecuted were we to try and engage in such activities in our own personal financial interest. Our political system is what chooses not to learn this rather obvious fact in regards to the finance industry, mostly because they're getting paychecks not to.

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nishi koichi: Feb 16, 2007; everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.

Transmodiar posted:

Destroy History

lol this owns

# ? Aug 5, 2020 04:05

Tiggum: Oct 23, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Julet Esqu posted:

(Also while I can sympathize with the feeling that everything you do is a bajillion times louder when you're trying not to wake anybody up, I cannot sympathize with jeans. What's up, Bern, you don't got any pajama pants?)

If she'd just kept on that nightshirt she was wearing in panel one, instead of the much shorter one she's wearing in panel three, she wouldn't have needed pants at all.

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Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

Cheer Up Boss Dharma

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ukonvasara: Aug 16, 2012; a mixture of gravity and waggery

Tiggum posted:

If she'd just kept on that nightshirt she was wearing in panel one, instead of the much shorter one she's wearing in panel three, she wouldn't have needed pants at all.

It's tough being a college student--can't even afford clothes that stay on-model!

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Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Zelda

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Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ? Aug 5, 2020 05:38

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Family Circus

Rose is Rose

One Big Happy

Foob

Compu-Toon

Bizarro

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Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it.

EasyEW posted:

(G.B. DeWood (not a clue who that is) on American deforestation, which was actually beginning to reverse itself in the 1920s. Don't worry, asphalt fans, because we've been reversing that trend in the past half-century.)

The artist is G. B. Inwood, who seems to have done other cartoons for life.

This site references him:
https://www.archelaus-cards.com/store/archives/20090201a.php

Manuel Calavera posted:

Bizarro

context

Haifisch posted:

Locher Tracy

"Do you seriously think we keep track of people in that much detail? Oh wait we're the FBI, of course we do."

That's a not-terrrible likeness of the Hoover building, which is even now still the FBI HQ and infamous as the federal building most desperately in need of total replacement.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 07:40

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

Alhazred posted:

Zelda

Sorry past-Zelda, Portia was double-plus right in leaving Ellen.

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Poil: Mar 17, 2007

Julet Esqu posted:

Brilliant work, Colorist. I can tell that coloring Luann is a labor of love for you.

(Also while I can sympathize with the feeling that everything you do is a bajillion times louder when you're trying not to wake anybody up, I cannot sympathize with jeans. What's up, Bern, you don't got any pajama pants?)

She's locked the bedroom door? I mean, I get it at that place but... that's not a healthy sign.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 08:23

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Poil posted:

She's locked the bedroom door? I mean, I get it at that place but... that's not a healthy sign.

shes just turning the doorknob

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fondue: Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban

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Yvonmukluk: Oct 10, 2012; Everything is Sinister

Bad Machinery

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Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Manuel Calavera posted:

Family Circus

Jeez, I remember this one coming up in the Dysfunctional Family Circus rotation.

Buni

Rhymes with Orange

Get Fuzzy 8/4/00

Wig-Snatchin', Skirt-Rippin' Action! 5/17/42

Smokey Stover 12/20/36

Edge of Pointing

Lucinde's kind of childish, isn't she? One of those Manic Pixie Jungle Girls.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 11:32

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis

Tina's Groove Classic (December 21, 2008)

Arlo and Janis Classic (December 21, 1998)

Garfield Classic (December 21, 1988)

# ? Aug 5, 2020 11:47

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Selachian posted:

Edge of Pointing

Lucinde's kind of childish, isn't she? One of those Manic Pixie Jungle Girls.

The insistence on putting scare quotes around "Mother" is pretty yikes when you consider the situation it's referring to.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 12:27

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Surgeon's Tales

Nancy

Dustin

Mandrake

Man in Black

I don't know who that is. Presumably a cameo of some other cartoonist.

# ? Aug 5, 2020 12:38

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

Zorro

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readingatwork: Jan 8, 2009; Hello Fatty!; Fun Shoe

Crabgrass

Support Tauhid's Patreon here.

Old School Peanuts (Jan 2, 1952)

Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 29-30, 1987)

Robbie and Bobby

(May 23, 2016)

(Aug 5, 2020)

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kidcoelacanth: Sep 23, 2009

Mr. Boop

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amigolupus: Aug 25, 2017

FrumpleOrz posted:

Neither the boss nor the guy's own wife can understand that the guy's productivity suffers because of Fastrack's extremely toxic work environment. Worse, the boss would rather drag him back into the office and tank his productivity because she's a massive control freak, and the guy's wife sees nothing wrong with that because she's a complete asskisser.

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