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My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

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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Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Haha, that's where my mind went as well.

Docks




Retail




Dick


Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
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.

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
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.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

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?

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Pondus


ACE

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
BCN


Phoebe


Wallace


Curtis

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Rabbit Sounds

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

The most specific Beach Boys album

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Lio



(Is the Gocomics comment section a shitstorm? You know it is.)

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Medenmath posted:

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.

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.

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!

Selachian posted:

Lio



(Is the Gocomics comment section a shitstorm? You know it is.)

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Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Selachian posted:

Lio



(Is the Gocomics comment section a shitstorm? You know it is.)

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?

Kid Fenris
Jan 22, 2004

If someone is reading this...
I must have failed.

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.

NRVNQSR
Mar 1, 2009

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.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



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 :350:
Yeah, ok, probably.

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.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




^^^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

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Johnny Walker posted:

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The Phantom



I can't tell if she buys Phantom's story or if she's sarcastically mocking him.

I think her facial expression makes it pretty clear which one it is.

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.



This is good.


This is also very good.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jul 26, 2022

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

Alhazred posted:

I think her facial expression makes it pretty clear which one it is.

Yeah, she absolutely knows who the Phantom is now.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

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

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

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Mikl posted:

Yeah, she absolutely knows who the Phantom is now.

Called it, one year ago today in fact:

Powered Descent posted:

That was a real nice secret identity he used to have.

LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise





Destroy History

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä



Yikes

Also loving the Father Ted joke in Destroy History

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

Transmodiar posted:

Destroy History



The Perfect Ringo

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

B Kliban


Hostility, as exhibited in the following two figures


Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

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



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman



1978 Comics




Dick Tracy



Locher Tracy



Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats

Catellite
Apr 29, 2008


If <waves arm expansively> was legalized.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
This is great.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Hempuli
Nov 15, 2011



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.

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

Live, laugh, kupo!

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.

Be aware that the cinematography was done by two frightened truckers, so it's not the best. About four and a half minutes in is where you see the best example of how quickly a fire like this can go from no fire to oh, there's some fire over there, to OH HOLY loving poo poo WE MIGHT DIE. And I think the video as a whole shows the fear and the hopelessness that comes with being stuck on a road needing to evacuate RIGHT NOW and not being able to because everybody else is trying to get out, too. And this fire isn't even in a big city, it occurred out in the middle of the woods on a relatively quiet stretch of I-5.

All of this is to say that the notion of driving into a fire like this to go rescue somebody is asinine. Don't loving do it. DON'T. Because look at the mess those roads are. Stay the gently caress out of there. People are trying to get OUT so they don't DIE. Stay out of their way. Firefighters and other trained emergency services are trying to get in so they can help rescue people or fight the fire. Don't barge in and get under their feet or make yourself another victim that they then have to spend more time rescuing.

Wildfires are terrifying. And they are fast. So so fast. gently caress you, Batiuk, for just seeing it as a flashy way to build up some drama for your lovely strip. Real people die in these things. And you're acting like it's heroic to run in and become a liability. Just get hosed. And I hope you never experience the fear of a wilfire threatening you or your loved ones or your home town, or the grief that comes when the fire wins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNrs262SUGQ

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.

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

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



Taco Defender

Hempuli posted:

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.
Nothing breaks tables here anymore, because images automatically resize to fit whatever width the viewer's using. :eng101:

Hempuli
Nov 15, 2011



Haifisch posted:

Nothing breaks tables here anymore, because images automatically resize to fit whatever width the viewer's using. :eng101:

:monocle: The future is truly here! Thanks for telling me that!

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

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:



Yeah, guys. It was her normal routine to make pancakes and crepes every morning in her dorm room.

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 :lol: at how Curtis and Stanton can't figure out a way to write Dethany into the investigation parts so she's just awkwardly standing there in silence. You could replace her with a shiny rock and nothing would change at all.

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.
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.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Selachian posted:

Edge of Armaments



Neither divers' compressed oxygen tanks nor the word "scuba" existed in 1937, but you already knew that, right?

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.

Grogquock
May 2, 2009

EasyEW posted:


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.


Goddamn it. I know this comic had nauseating faces on the regular but.. she looks like a dying sturgeon.

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Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

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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