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Tiggum posted:I don't get it. Is it just a non sequiter or is there some significance to red bandannas? ![]()
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Haha, that's where my mind went as well. Docks ![]() ![]() Retail ![]() ![]() Dick ![]() ![]()
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Boondocks kinda sucks in these early years, it's basically "revolutionary politics?" "No, entertainment I dislike." over and over again. Which honestly makes it the most realistic portrayal of leftism imaginable.
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Vintage Valiant (Sep. 15, 1940)![]() ![]() Valentinian III was proclaimed Emperor as a young child, and for the first dozen or so years of his reign, his mother, Galla Placidia, ruled as a regent. His protrayal here as a flabby bald middle aged man is actually kind of absurd, since he was probably almost thirty years younger than Aetius. I didn't mention it yesterday, but Aetius may have deliberately allowed Attila the Hun to retreat from the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields with much of his army intact since, due to a whole bunch of political nonsense I'm not at all qualified to discuss, he may have wanted the threat of Hunnic invasion to stay on the table in order to keep his own position. As a result, whoops, the Huns invaded again the following year (452). Although the capitol was by this time at Ravenna, Valentinian had moved back to Rome, and he sent the Bishop of Rome, Leo (i.e. Pope Leo I), to negotiate with Attila. The details of this negotiation are lost to history, but Attila retreated, and died the following year. Roman history doesn't exactly suggest that powerful military leaders don't like to overthrow their Emperors, and with the retreat of the Huns, Valentinian felt the need to bump off Aetius. Valentinian lived for another year or so before being assassinated himself by Petronius Maximus, who became the new Emperor. Valentinian was Emperor for almost thirty years and Maximus only reigned for, like, two or three months, so I wouldnt say that worked out for him. Also: ![]() If anyone likes this, just a reminder that until the current situation is resolved you may want to hold off on buying a custom title.
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Phoni![]() Rhymes with Orange ![]() Get Fuzzy 8/11/00 ![]() Brenda Starr 7/5/42 ![]() Huh, Eric Keller seems bored and uninterested in the company of women, but he's immediately friendly with the "young man" he picked up on the road and suggests they take off their clothes to go swimming. I wonder what's going on here. ![]() Smokey Stover 2/7/37 ![]() Edge of Armaments ![]() Neither divers' compressed oxygen tanks nor the word "scuba" existed in 1937, but you already knew that, right?
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The most specific Beach Boys album
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Lio![]() (Is the Gocomics comment section a shitstorm? You know it is.)
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Medenmath posted:Also: How Wonderful! posted:If you'd like a new av you can post or PM me proof of a donation to RAINN or another reputable charity. And as a general PSA I believe there's a thread in QCS to make this kind of request too. Just an FYI if anyone has a hankerin' in this weird transitional era.
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Selachian posted:Lio ADTAB
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Selachian posted:Lio This is... this is weird. I don't know what Dick Tracy is supposed to represent here, given that he's shown rushing in with guns blazing, and is also known for murdering bad guys left and right. Are we supposed to take him as a "good cop" for not killing Lio?
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Hwurmp posted:Rabbit Sounds Rabbits can squeak or gnash their teeth when happy, grunt when they're annoyed, or scream when they're frightened or in pain. I think grunts are most appropriate here.
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Vargo posted:This is... this is weird. I don't know what Dick Tracy is supposed to represent here, given that he's shown rushing in with guns blazing, and is also known for murdering bad guys left and right. Are we supposed to take him as a "good cop" for not killing Lio? Sometimes things just aren't taking a political position; I don't think Tatulli thought about the strip's implications beyond the pseudo-pun of "Dick Tracy goes after a 'masked man looking for trouble', but it turns out to be a John Lewis obituary". But then I also thought for sure that Lio ended like five or ten years ago.
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F Minus![]() This isn't the best FM ever, but I love the look of those two guys there. Mark Trail ![]() Mary Worth ![]() JethroMcB posted:fuckin HERB, dude The Phantom ![]() I can't tell if she buys Phantom's story or if she's sarcastically mocking him. Pooch Cafe ![]() Rex Morgan MD ![]() Andertoons ![]() Apartment 3-G ![]() She's gonna call, Margo's gonna answer, she'll get the "wrong idea," blah blah blah.
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^^^I wish I had anything in my life that made me half as happy as that beaver is about chomping on that tree.![]() Yeah, guys. It was her normal routine to make pancakes and crepes every morning in her dorm room. Julet Esqu fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis This is good. Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side This is also very good. Somebody fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jul 26, 2022 |
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Alhazred posted:I think her facial expression makes it pretty clear which one it is. Yeah, she absolutely knows who the Phantom is now.
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Mikl posted:Yeah, she absolutely knows who the Phantom is now. if she doesn't kadia will fill her in when she shows up at the apartment
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Mikl posted:Yeah, she absolutely knows who the Phantom is now. Called it, one year ago today in fact: Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom Powered Descent posted:That was a real nice secret identity he used to have.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä Yikes Also loving the Father Ted joke in Destroy History
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Transmodiar posted:Destroy History The Perfect Ringo
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B Kliban Hostility, as exhibited in the following two figures ![]() ![]()
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2017 Spiderman![]() ![]() 1978 Comics ![]() ![]() ![]() Dick Tracy ![]() ![]() Locher Tracy ![]() ![]() Origins of the Sunday Comics ![]() Footrot Flats ![]() ![]()
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Alhazred posted:ACE
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B. Virtanen![]() Behold! This is what I think to be the first set of strips where Virtanen is happy (without the joke being "I'm happy because I hate my job and marriage"). Afaik, people generally tend to spend about ~2 weeks worth of holidays during Summer for obvious reasons. Schoolkids also have a 2½ month summer holiday in all cases, so e.g. teachers have plenty of time off work during the Summer. (I hope these random tidbits aren't annoying.) ANSU ![]() I hope this doesn't break tables too much; I generally try to cut wide pictures into sections to display vertically, but imo this one works really nicely this way and I'd prefer to retain that. ![]() Ansu's cartoons have a lot of wholesomely-smiling old people.
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Julet Esqu posted:Unfortunately I couldn't find the video I really wanted to post, but this will have to do. It was taken during the Delta Fire in northern California a couple of years back. It occurred on a stretch of I-5 that I have to drive through on my commute to work and I can tell you that the area still looks like poo poo even now, two years later. It's not the northern California fire that was the closest or the scariest to me personally, nor was it the one that hurt or killed the most people, but it's the one whose destruction I still look at multiple days a week, so I'm going with it. Back in 2000 my hometown burned from a "controlled" burn when the wind shifted (we're one of the reasons they're called prescribed burns now). My part of the county wasn't actually hit by the fire so we had homes to come back to but we were part of the evacuation and of course all the rebuilding/recovery. The evacuation is interesting because in the moment it felt very calm; two roads out of town, one was on fire, and when the other side of the county had evacuated half of them had come to us as a chance to regroup (we thought it'd be another day or so before it was called for our side) so we had a lot of people to get out through one road and everyone knew that. So it was very calm and caring and feels like it shouldn't be that big a deal, but 20 years later I'm still finding scars I didn't know were there and I wasn't even one of the folks who lost their house. It is an incredible amount of stress.
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Hempuli posted:ANSU ![]()
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Haifisch posted:Nothing breaks tables here anymore, because images automatically resize to fit whatever width the viewer's using. ![]()
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Vargo posted:This is... this is weird. I don't know what Dick Tracy is supposed to represent here, given that he's shown rushing in with guns blazing, and is also known for murdering bad guys left and right. Are we supposed to take him as a "good cop" for not killing Lio? It looks like Dick Tracy's running off to kill another criminal but gets stopped in his tracks by the kid planting that sign in front of him. It's totally saying that Dick Tracy is a murderous pig. Julet Esqu posted:
Oh boy, it sure is great how Luann's parents approve Bernice based on what she can do for them, and instantly try to think of ways to take advantage of it. What a lovable family, amirite? loving ![]()
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Ted Forth's Brave New World![]() ![]() Pearls Before Swine ![]() ![]() Skippy (February 21-22, 1933) ![]() ![]() Peanuts (August 14-15, 1973) ![]() ![]() FINALLY. HELLSCAPE WINKERFLAME! ![]() ![]() Crankshaft ![]() ![]() 9 ICK-weed Lane ![]() ![]() Not too sure which bugs me more, the "passion" face that looks like a fish gasping for air or the ranger using her mountaineering training to scale a doughy elderly man in overalls. Rip Haywire ![]() ![]() Thimble Theater (March 12-13, 1937) ![]() ![]() Everything else coming soon...I saw a whiff of smoke in Funky and had to do a rush job.
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Selachian posted:Edge of Armaments Something that's been bothering me: how long ago did this plane crash? Everything looks to be in remarkably good condition. No dirt, even. I was under the impression that Lucinde had been living here for at least a year or few.
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EasyEW posted:
Goddamn it. I know this comic had nauseating faces on the regular but.. she looks like a dying sturgeon.
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EasyEW posted:FINALLY. HELLSCAPE WINKERFLAME! If this fire was as big as Batiuk claims it to be, everything around this place would be unsuitable for human life to exist. Also gently caress Mason for doing what would realistically add two more bodies to the heap.
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