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Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Thank u Tiggum

Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Johnny Aztec posted:

To anyone is confused about this: There was a guy that was going to take the Mythos of the Phantom and start merchandising it and whatnot.
The Phantom dosed this guy with LSD and started screaming at him.

I don't think the Phantom was actually screaming it's just everything sounds like screaming on LSD.

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003

Ghostlight posted:

キューライス


I'm late in responding, but this is great.


As is this! :3:


I had that Mother Goose book as a kid and suddenly I cant live without finding a copy again. I have the same edition of The Hobbit, too, although mine is in even worse condition.

StrixNebulosa posted:

It's posted in here a lot so you get kind of used to it but god drat the art in Prince Val is outstanding

Absolutely, I adore Foster's artwork. I like this kind of fantasy anyway, but even if I didn't I'd post it just for the art.

Vintage Valiant (Aug. 18, 1940)

Schwarzwald
Jul 27, 2004

Don't Blink

Some Guy TT posted:

This is a hell of a take coming from a woman who complains about not being able to hold on to a boyfriend because she works so much.

BigglesSWE posted:

While also often dropping truthbombs that her shallow friends can’t seem to comprehend.

It’s a very mixed bag of a comic.

TBH I'm a little baffled by these complaints.

Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Aug 7, 2020

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Crabgrass


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Old School Peanuts (Jan 4, 1952)




Calvin and Hobbes (Jan 2-3, 1988)






Robbie and Bobby

(May 25, 2016)


(Aug 7, 2020)

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

Schwarzwald posted:

TBH I'm a little baffled by these complaints.
Yeah like... Nova is terrible on class issues despite having good intentions because she grew up super rich. Zelda was using work as an excuse to not date guys because she prefers women and her past boyfriends have been abusive, even if she's still attracted to men. The characters are internally consistent and I see strips like these where they're arguing as more about looking at where each character is coming from than setting up a strawman, which happens when it's just a rando being a jerk.

EDIT: Also, 'society should not require absurd workloads' is not at odds with 'and yet I work too hard because it does'. That's just not what Zelda's actual problem with dating is.

PetraCore fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Aug 7, 2020

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä



Spoiler alert: this will not go down the way Mr. Boop does.

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty



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Is That Really Needed?

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

One of the amazing things about The Timid Soul isn't the humor, but the quality of the art.

Look at the shadows in this one. Caspar, Mr. (sigh) Grouchmore, and the caddy are all wearing differently-shaped hats, and their hats' shadows accurately represent that.

And if you look closely, you can see that the shadows on the ground also include both men's putters, and the flagpole, and the caddy's outstretched arm, and Mr. Grouchmore's cigar, and the thumb on Caspar's extended right hand. You can see the shadow of the handle of Mr. Grouchmore's putter is visible on his left leg. You can see the shadows of both golf balls.

Parahexavoctal fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Aug 7, 2020

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer

Hostile V posted:

Wait that's a real movie and not just Tombat doing his "best" to make a knockoff Star Wars like how all of his insufferable comic nerd characters make their own pastiche titles based on real poo poo? Holy crap. That just makes it even weirder that the Black-Haired Comic Guy was seriously considering ditching his wife to go see shooting grounds for a 50s Western serial series.

...also are those people gonna get stuck in a cave due to the California wildfires.

I will say, the Bronson Canyon is actually an interesting place to go because it wasn't just used as the location for one old serial, it was used for *everything*. It was the exterior of the Batcave in the 60s Batman series, it was in the Flash Gordon serial, it was in Lost Horizon, lots of 50s sci-fi, and countless westerns- like the whole ravine is clearly something you'd expect to see a bunch of bandits riding down to make a big dramatic entrance.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer

Okay I'm almost starting to sympathize with Bernice in that she clearly has major anxiety issues and needs to start therapy of some kind, and possibly medication.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Pondus


ACE

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Medenmath posted:

I had that Mother Goose book as a kid and suddenly I cant live without finding a copy again. I have the same edition of The Hobbit, too, although mine is in even worse condition.
I had that Mother Goose book too! Not sure about the Hobbit--I think I'd have to see the cover--but I'm 90% sure I had that CS Lewis box set too.

F Minus



Mark Trail



Mary Worth



The Phantom


Alhazred posted:

Is there a reason why the Phantom is being such a dick about this?
Now don't you feel foolish. :colbert:

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Apartment 3-G

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Johnny Walker posted:



The Phantom



Now don't you feel foolish. :colbert:

No? He's still being a dick about it and mrs. Sahara is clearly pissed of about it.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

Maxwell Lord posted:

I will say, the Bronson Canyon is actually an interesting place to go because it wasn't just used as the location for one old serial, it was used for *everything*. It was the exterior of the Batcave in the 60s Batman series, it was in the Flash Gordon serial, it was in Lost Horizon, lots of 50s sci-fi, and countless westerns- like the whole ravine is clearly something you'd expect to see a bunch of bandits riding down to make a big dramatic entrance.

I never knew! That's actually pretty cool.

Dykes to Watch Out For #92 (1990)
-Alison Bechdel


The First Gulf War, or Operation: Desert Shield/Storm formally kicked off on August 2nd, 1990 and lasted for about six months. Nominally in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Mo's sentiment that it was fundamentally an oil war-- a hypothesis that history has borne out pretty well.

Ginger is reading Susie Sexpert's Guide to Excruciatingly Incorrect Behavior. This is a spoof on Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, an etiquette guide by Judith Martin first published in 1982. From 1978 onwards Martin wrote a popular syndicated advice column with kind of a snarky edge to it.

As has been covered previously the notion of the G-spot was known by women throughout history and kind of known to male scientific institutional bodies off and on since the 17th century, but only entered the popular imagination in the 80s by way of Ladas, Whipple and Perry's The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality. It was a pretty hot topic and one that had important bearing on feminist and lesbian discourses, as it connotated a kind of sexual pleasure that, in many cases, was not well-served by conventional straight sex.

Lois here is a bit behind the times-- her suggestion that drilling in wildlife refuges is next on the menu is kind of framed as a sarcastic provocation but in fact discussions about drilling for oil in Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge in particular (ANWR) had been on the table since 1977. Oil companies began to press aggressively for opening up the ANWR for drilling in the mid-80s, including a shady test bore by Chevron in 1985, and a bill permitting drilling in 1989 was only derailed by the popular backlash to the disastrous Exxon Valdez spill. In December, 2017 portions of the ANWR were after decades of contentious struggle opened up for oil and gas drilling, and as recently as late 2019 the Trump administration has signaled support for opening the entire coastal plain opened up for energy exploitation.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä



Spoiler alert: this will not go down the way Mr. Boop does.

Heimo doesn't deserve this.

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.




:gonk:

Hempuli
Nov 15, 2011



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ANSU

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

...pray they don't change any further.

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

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



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'No more than twice his annual income on a home', what a simpler time.



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Origins of the Sunday Comics


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Johnny Aztec
Jan 29, 2005

by Hand Knit
"Plans have changed, Madi"
She says, mid-transformation into her snake form.

"The moon is full, and I hunger"

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Mary requires a gun for baking. It's Comic Strip Megathread canon.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Haifisch posted:

Dick Tracy


to whoever asked for the next strip being the cowboy doofus asking for his phone back awkwardly, it turns out he was even dumber than that

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


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On The Fastrack


Safe Havens


Kevin & Kell


Mother Goose & Grimm


Hagar The Horrible


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Zorro

Hempuli
Nov 15, 2011



Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

Thread class photo

kidcoelacanth
Sep 23, 2009


:hai:

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

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





Destroy History

howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

Transmodiar posted:

Destroy History



An evil leaper, what a twist!

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

FrumpleOrz posted:

Safe Havens
As we all know, mice are immune to the vacuum of space.

B Kliban




catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?
Conan the Barbarian May 19th-25th, 1980







Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Raskolnikov38 posted:

to whoever asked for the next strip being the cowboy doofus asking for his phone back awkwardly, it turns out he was even dumber than that

It is possible that they were calling from guy’s phone to dethany’s. This would still be possibly traceable.

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



Pearls Before Swine



Skippy (February 18, 1933)



Peanuts (August 10, 1973)



If you've seen Ken Burns's baseball documentary, you'll remember that Hank Aaron's hate mail was nastier.

We Better Have A Raging Inferno By This Time Next Week, OR SO HELP ME GOD...



Crankshaft



9 "'The Sound Of Music' Was 70 Years Ago, rear end in a top hat" Lane



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Thimble Theater (March 9, 1937)



Out Our Way (December 20-22, 1934)







Toonerville Folks (October 18-20, 1916)







Dok's "The Ultimate Cheat To Win" Duck (March 22, 1913)

EasyEW fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Aug 7, 2020

you broke my grill
Jul 11, 2019

Snoopy getting that letter seems kind of tone deaf seeing as Hank Aaron got so many racist slur-filled letters when he broke the record. I'm not sure what the intent is but I guess the nicest interpretation was supposed to be Snoopy showing solidarity with him?

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
The Far Side

Pickles


Zits

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Lowen SoDium
Jun 5, 2003

Highen Fiber
Clapping Larry

Lowen SoDium fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Aug 8, 2020

coronatae
Oct 14, 2012

For how often things are described as the best invention since sliced bread, it's fun to see a comic actually acknowledge when that shift started

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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Schwarzwald posted:

TBH I'm a little baffled by these complaints.

I kind of underexplained this, given that you're not the only one who misunderstood me. I was actually referring to Nova, not Zelda. A previous strip (which would be years ago since we skipped a bunch) has Nova talking about how she can't hold on to a boyfriend because men are intimidated by her success, which shocks Zelda who thinks Nova must be super desirable. The newer strip goes farther than this previous characterization, suggesting that Nova loves work so much she doesn't even complain about being stuck with more of it on her vacation. So Nova saying women should suck it up and just deal with an alternate work/life balance suggests a very different, less politically charged explanation for Nova's unsatisfactory love life. Namely than men are put off by her less for being successful but rather for being so into her job that she's probably not a very satisfying emotional partner, complaints which Nova willfully interprets in the former category, ironically enough, to avoid taking responsibility for her life choices. Even when, as Zelda argues in this particular comic, there's a completely different more broadly accurate cultural complaint she could instead be making that would be just as feminist, if not moreso.

riderchop posted:

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And as long as I'm being spicy this take is dumb for the exact opposite reason. Guys who are popular with women are not guaranteed this popularity because women always make sensible decisions when it comes to selecting partners with good feminist values, as countless E/N posters can attest.

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