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FrumpleOrz posted:Zorro I'm mostly familiar with the tv shows which would definitely tone poo poo down, but I gotta ask. Is Zorro the kind of guy who goes around actually severing throats? I always thought that with him the threat was always, "Ha ha. You have a Z on your butt. Now don't you feel like an rear end in a top hat in front of all your men and maybe your girlfriend?" I know that's still his first action in all incarnations, but in a tricky situation, will Zorro actively kill a guy?
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Haifisch posted:And returning guest Rex Morgan because I noticed they're covering the beginnings of America's opiate epidemic: Fun story - my grandfather was a doctor and just prescribed this poo poo to my grandmother for her recurring migraines back in the 70s! And then at some point he was actually caught for overprescribing, had his license threatened, and well that's how my grandmother quit a full on morphine addiction cold turkey 
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Discendo Vox posted:Is the joke that it's big/not cute? Because all I can think is drat, that's one skilled/dedicated father. CzarChasm posted:That was my take on it. Dad built a robot dog overnight, after a day of work, and it has that typical, homemade, dad-crafted functional bulkiness to it. PetraCore posted:I interpreted the joke as it's a better robot dog than the expensive version, because it's more doglike, but from the kids pov, that makes it a worse robot dog, because he wanted one just like the expensive version.
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^^^^^ Edit: curses, too slow!CzarChasm posted:That was my take on it. Dad built a robot dog overnight, after a day of work, and it has that typical, homemade, dad-crafted functional bulkiness to it. I'm pretty sure the punchline is that he just slapped some plastic robot bits onto a real dog.
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Haifisch posted:Origins of the Sunday Comics I feel the urge to sneeze, love the art in this one
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Haifisch posted:2017 Spiderman This arc remains one of the stupidest that Newspaper Spidey ever had.
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It shouldn't be as surprising to me as it is, but I gotta say I'm disappointed that Old Mary Worth seems to be going with the "look at this bitch who clearly only cares about money and status" angle rather than the "this woman is sick and tired of being married to a man who never opens his mouth for any reason other than to belittle and demean her and his open and gleeful making GBS threads on her for wanting to buy her dream home now that they can afford it is the last straw." Old Mary Worth (and Old A3G) tends to have the same problem that Luann and Dustin do, that the reader sympathizes and roots for characters that the writer did not intend and hates characters that the writer wants us to like. Modern readers, anyway.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Hagar The Horrible  I'm topical! Kennel posted:Nancy Bobulus posted:Tactical goose poop was not something I expected when I opened the thread this morning. Gross. F Minus  Selling catnip. Mark Trail  Mary Worth  Oh great! So we don't get the secret ingredient!  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Vermont Horror Story Apartment 3-G  Free week of dinner!
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Johnny Walker posted:
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Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom I apparently forgot Kitty Forman was a character in the Phantom
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  Rae the Doe  Rae the Doe's web archives Bubble Gum  Baby Shoes 
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Julet Esqu posted:I'm mostly familiar with the tv shows which would definitely tone poo poo down, but I gotta ask. Is Zorro the kind of guy who goes around actually severing throats? I always thought that with him the threat was always, "Ha ha. You have a Z on your butt. Now don't you feel like an rear end in a top hat in front of all your men and maybe your girlfriend?" I know that's still his first action in all incarnations, but in a tricky situation, will Zorro actively kill a guy? I believe he followed a similar trajectory as Batman did, where the earliest stories had him kill if he needed but over time he gained a code that forbade it. I think there is an intertitle in the 1920 film that states he had killed but I forget if that is confirmed or just a rumor spread by the villains. At the very least, Zorro does threaten people with guns in the film.
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Johnny Walker posted:
"Also my face is paralyzed, do you smell burning hair?'
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery Did I miss a day? Last I saw they were stuck in some space with no way out and no way to communicate and coatless. B Kliban  
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fondue posted:Did I miss a day? Last I saw they were stuck in some space with no way out and no way to communicate and coatless. Wait for tomorrow.
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Mämmilä A big problem with translating these is the characters' habit of addressing others and themselves with their official titles. Here, maisteri refers to teacher Manninen's Master's degree and specifically to that, so in Finnish it does not have the extra connotations of the word 'master'.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth fondue posted:Did I miss a day? Last I saw they were stuck in some space with no way out and no way to communicate and coatless.
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Wow, I'm actually surprised at how quickly the junipers are making their return. I wonder how the ol' grandpa is feeling about this? B. Virtanen  Summer theatre is a relatively big thing in Finland; I think the tradition originates from Sweden (not sure though.) Usually "summer theatre" refers to outdoors amateur theatre heavily focused on musicals. I've been part of a group, it's a lot of fun! Also, Panel 1: Not X! Panel 2: Actually, X ANSU  
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This was an old post from when Dethany first revealed she intentionally set Fi up for failure, but it's the appropriate response to today's awfulness: Der Shovel posted:The gently caress they do. As someone who has been in therapy trying to overcome the insanely high expectations I set myself (which are impossible to meet most of the time) and the insane anxiety and guilt spirals I get for not living up to them, the last thing someone like me needs is a project like that. Also, Fi asked Dethany for advice and asked her to keep it secret. Dethany talking about it with her boyfriend during the video call is a massive dick move towards Fi. Dethany is a terrible, abusive friend who smiles as she finds new ways to gently caress Fi over. gently caress Holbrook for not thinking at all when writing her. This is a stupid-rear end retcon and just contradicts every single time they transformed something with DNA Magic.
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Sally Forth Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (February 24, 1933)  Peanuts (August 17, 1973)  WELL FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU  Crankshaft  9 "From The Art Frahm School Of Fine Arts" Lane  To be fair, this should happen more often when your artist doesn't know how to draw an rear end. Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (May 16, 1937)  Out Our Way (January 3-5, 1935)    Dok's Ominous Foreboding Duck (March 29, 1913) 
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Bringing back an old standby Brooke Delende Est.
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EasyEW posted:WELL FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Manuel Calavera posted:Bringing back an old standby
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EasyEW posted:9 "From The Art Frahm School Of Fine Arts" Lane I mean, Frahm's horny but not Brooke McEldowney horny. And he did literal fetish art! curtadams posted:No kidding. It's like he's trying to see how offensive he needs to be to get canceled. Ludicrous post-natal rutting and age-inappropriate relationships weren't enough, so now he's trying an age-inappropriate personality-inappropriate harrassment-initiated unrealistically-hastened one to see if that's enough. I'm afraid to look at Go Comics comments. Didn't Brooke turn those off the moment GoComics let him? I thought he had his own forums where he could ban people for any criticism of the comic. Conan the Barbarian, in English for the moment Jul. 7th- 13th, 1980        This does explain why the gently caress this is going down in the Vilayet Sea, I was wondering about that. I have to admit though, I was kinda expecting him to have been magicked halfway across the world. Here's a map Marvel did at some point.  We have Izanagi and Hachiman as obvious references, but looking up Shammu brings up an Indian actress who was born 12 years after this story ran so I'm not sure what that's supposed to reference (I don't know nearly enough about Japanese history, unfortunately). Yamato, of course, is kinda like naming your British character "Briton."
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catlord posted:Didn't Brooke turn those off the moment GoComics let him? I thought he had his own forums where he could ban people for any criticism of the comic. Yep. Brooke is, as far as I know, the only artist on Gocomics who doesn't allow comments on his strips -- even shitheads like Mike Lester or, yes, James Allen let the comments come in as they may.
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EasyEW posted:WELL FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I'm glad it's so easy to escape from an out-of-control fire in a densely populated location.  I wonder why more people don't succeed in doing it.
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Selachian posted:Yep. Brooke is, as far as I know, the only artist on Gocomics who doesn't allow comments on his strips -- even shitheads like Mike Lester or, yes, James Allen let the comments come in as they may. I'd be shocked if James Allen both knew there were comments and that they can be turned off.
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There is not a gently caress YOU in the multiverse big enough for that Chickweed strip.
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EasyEW posted:WELL FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Someone from SonofStuckFunky pointed out that Les didn't save Lisa from the fire. It was Wally who risked his life to save them both, and then Les ran back in to save his floppy disk containing his draft for a book about John Darling. This makes these flashbacks so much worse than it is. curtadams posted:No kidding. It's like he's trying to see how offensive he needs to be to get canceled. Ludicrous post-natal rutting and age-inappropriate relationships weren't enough, so now he's trying an age-inappropriate personality-inappropriate harrassment-initiated unrealistically-hastened one to see if that's enough. I'm afraid to look at Go Comics comments. I'm still waiting for 9CL to get so gross that people in this thread finally have enough and just ban it from being posted. It's not even hate-read material anymore, just a gross man's pretentious sexual fantasies hanging out for everyone to see.
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amigolupus posted:Someone from SonofStuckFunky pointed out that Les didn't save Lisa from the fire. It was Wally who risked his life to save them both, and then Les ran back in to save his floppy disk containing his draft for a book about John Darling. This makes these flashbacks so much worse than it is. The computer never talked, the hall monitor's machine gun wasn't real, Les was actually the protagonist the entire time- what gets retconned next?
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curtadams posted:No kidding. It's like he's trying to see how offensive he needs to be to get canceled.  And He Did. (May, 1917)  Outbursts of Everett True (July, 1917)  Hitz and Mrs. (April, 1923)  Fritzi Ritz (April 4, 1924) I came across this today and giggled, so you get to see it, too.  They'll Do It Every Time (January, 1941)  Mopsy (June, 1945)  Feiffer (1976)  Wee Pals (June, 1972)  She's going to eat those children.
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The little captions in the first panel actually do say Izanagi (L) and Hachiman (R). But in katakana, which is the system used mostly to either write foreign words, onomatopoeia, or technical/scientific terms.
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It turns out that redesigning a syllabus for online teaching isn't as easy as I thought it would be, especially in the middle of also having to get certified for online teaching and recording a full month's worth of video lectures and things in case I get sick and am unable to explain Macbeth to asleep-style undergrads on my own anymore and working on dissertation revisions even more. So, anyway, back on the DtWOF wagon for now at least although commentary might be scant since I'm the least exhausted I've been in awhile tonight and I'm still fucken exhausted. Dykes to Watch Out For #93 (1990) -Alison Bechdel  This one feels really evergreen to me, not only because Mo flipping her poo poo over being called a liberal feels very timeless but because I think there's something almost universally legible to this sense of two people who should really have split up already just not willing to get to that point with themselves or each other. This feels like the build-up to a very final breakdown but believe it or not Mo and Harriet stay together for a good chunk of the comic after this-- but the sense we've already seen of their friends feeling shaky with the longevity of the relationship continues to build from here on out. Edit: Full disclosure this one also always stings to me because I spent much of my young adult relationships and friendships being the Mo in this scenario and in hindsight I was abominable. I thought that being sure I was ideologically correct meant I could segue the urgency I felt about woeful current events into rudeness to people who didn't agree with me. Now I find it pretty easy to see Harriet's side of things-- she loves her girlfriend and you know, definitely does care about environmental and social justice, but she's being made out as the bad guy here for having less ethical rigor than Mo. It's a tense strip because honestly Bechdel has done such a good job of making both characters lovable and getting us as readers invested in their happiness. Seeing both of their personalities contribute to the fraying of that happiness is painful to see, which I think is the intent, mitigated a little by the vaudeville-esque narration. Bechdel is the best. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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Technowolf posted:The little captions in the first panel actually do say Izanagi (L) and Hachiman (R). I don't know how I completely missed that (probably because it's been so long that now all the katakana and hiragana are mixed up in my head and I'm probably missing half of them). They swung, they hit, but it was a foul ball. I thought maybe "Emperor Shammu" might be a reference to Jimmu, and I'm still not sure but the dude Yamato killed might be (and given the other names probably is) named after this dude. Slammy posted:Trees died so it could show up right above "Blondie". In color. Good lord. And good lord to that Jump Start. That said though, I'm glad to see Fritzi Ritz show up again, even if it's a one-off.
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Technowolf posted:The little captions in the first panel actually do say Izanagi (L) and Hachiman (R). Yamato's breastplate also has his name written on it, which I love because it's making me think of being a little kid and having your name written on everything. "Try not to lose your armor at the battle again, sweetie!" Yikes
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What the gently caress is that Chickweed? BCN   Phoebe   Wallace   By the way, I'm going to be out without internet for the next week or so. I'll gladly do a catchup post when I'm back, but if someone wants to post my comics for me and save me from having to do that, I won't stop you. Vargo fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Aug 15, 2020 |
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