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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

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nishi koichi
Feb 16, 2007

everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.


boom

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä



gently caress yessssss, fully automated luxury gay socialism achieved. Seize the means of production, folks :getin:

Nostalgamus
Sep 28, 2010

Is that Cherry, colored as Mark?

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Medenmath posted:

Wallace the Brave


Sterling is one of my favorite little gremlins in comics.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mama_Thornton

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Ah, today is very satisfying all of the sudden.

coronatae
Oct 14, 2012

Batiuk could never write a love story as beautiful and compelling as Aunt May and the Moleman

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.

Can someone explain this one to me?

Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jul 26, 2022

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



FrumpleOrz posted:

Can someone explain this one to me?
Oh, you know how kangaroos are.

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

I assume it’s the idea that the kangaroo will keep on jumping and his head will bop up and down to watch it doing so.

What’s less clear about that tho is why he’d have to look at it like that. So if anyone has any other idea, go for it.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

FrumpleOrz posted:

Can someone explain this one to me?

he sprained his neck whilst walking his kangaroo, as one does

Doomykins
Jun 28, 2008

Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?
He sprained his neck while walking his dog. Unable to look down he somehow accepted a leash belonging to a kangaroo. What a mix up!

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

This got expanded in the animated special "Tales From the Far Side":

https://youtu.be/yCOCiUEzeDQ?t=1268

Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jul 26, 2022

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

he sprained his kangaroo whilst necking his walk

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

Slammy posted:

Feiffer (1976)

Is that Kissinger?


B Kliban

Kliban constructs a good sentence.


Hempuli
Nov 15, 2011



B. Virtanen


ANSU


I never got this one.

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

walt duncan is a top tier dad and dude

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Hempuli posted:

I never got this one.
pirate, innit

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.
How To Read 9 Chickweed Lane



4. Variations on a theme.

1. Subtext.

Petey Otterloop's finely curated collection of personality quirks. Charlie Brown reminding us that "goat' isn't necessarily an acronym for "Greatest Of All Time". The infinite possibilities of Calvinball. Boyzendorgz. Nancy eating food.

There's nothing inherently wrong with variations on a theme, and in serialized storytelling--especially on a sitcom level--familiarity breeds content. As a Juliard-trained musician, the creator of 9 Chickweed Lane would be intimately familiar with the concept, and as a writer of comic strips, he has--or, at some point in the rapidly retreating past, had--a repertoire of themes. Maybe the theme pool was shallower than some creators, but at times the variations had the potential to go wide. At least that's the past I've built up in my imagination.

But that was then, and this is now.

2. Text.

The current theme is new love, the variation being of the May-December variety, and because McEldowney's current methodology with his themes is to pull up a stool and milk it incessantly, it's difficult to remember if the strip was ever about anything else.

In total isolation, today's installment might seem cute, almost adorable. But here we go again, with our object permanence and whatnot (my emphasis here):

That drat interview again posted:

TCC: How are each of your romantic relationships different?

BM: They are intimate, deeply emotional, and character-driven. And they always end in the sexual expression of love. For all of them (except Isabel, who really doesn't know love), sex is an ultimate expression of love. It is never recreational. This is the case with Juliette and Elliott, Edda and Amos, Fleurrie and Sven, Edie and Kiesl, Bill and Martine – I'm leaving some people out. But you get my point. Except for the characters and the incidentals of plot, they are no different.

Which goes a long way towards explaining why all the couples who make up the cast feel so interchangeable. Their motivations, like their vocabularies, are synchronized, and they really should be different. People are complicated and weird, and every love story shouldn't be an effortless slide into a tangled hand ballet that would make Burr Tillstrom gnash his teeth. But once Edda figured out a new way to cure Amos's hiccups, the die was cast, and by the time Edie Ernst entered into the excruciatingly long summer of her German soldier, the future was etched in stone.

Whether any of this fits comfortably into a general audience newspaper is up for debate...and sometimes inspiration for direct action.

Moral: If you're milking your cash cow by hand, make sure to alternate your udders. Any other approach will lead to chafing.

(And now, the other bits that you actually wanted to read.)

Sally Forth



Pearls Before Swine



Skippy (February 28, 1933)



Peanuts (August 22, 1973)



Funky Winkerbean



And all she had to do to be accepted was almost die. Wait, didn't we do that story already?

Crankshaft



Rip Haywire



Thimble Theater (March 20, 1937)



Out Our Way (January 17-19, 1935)







Dok's "Flirting With Starvation" Duck (April 1, 1913)

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009




From a few days ago. At what point did Mark grow titties?

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1296188712901120001?s=20

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

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



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coronatae posted:

Batiuk could never write a love story as beautiful and compelling as Aunt May and the Moleman
And the tragedy of their separation overshadows any cancerwife he could conceive of.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Rabbit tools

ukonvasara
Aug 16, 2012

a mixture of gravity and waggery

EasyEW posted:

How To Read 9 Chickweed Lane

I'm really enjoying these posts!

Hempuli
Nov 15, 2011




Those are contraceptive tools (internet tells me their English name is "intrauterine device (IUD)"?) and rabbits are famous for proliferating quickly. So basically rabbit safe sex education.

Hempuli fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Aug 19, 2020

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
the rabbits are discussing the best leash type to use when walking your kangaroo, so as to not gently caress up your back

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

Magna Kaser posted:

seitan is sorta like tofu where it's super loving bland on it's own. maybe like a poached chicken breast or something?

it's good tho, and been used in asia to make mock-meat dishes for centuries. i like the texture and how it cooks up a lot. just make sure you actually use some seasoning or something lol

How Wonderful! posted:

It's not that appetizing right when you're making it or if you buy it premade. It's kind of like if raw chicken was grey and came in a big round clump. However much like tofu it picks up flavor amazingly well, with the difference that it doesn't absorb quite so much moisture so it's much less of a headache to marinate it.

The other thing is to definitely cook a bit longer than you think you need to or else the middle will still be kind of gluten-y. When it gets nice and crispy all over though it's some of the best vegetarian protein I can think of. Philly used to have a legendary vegan dim-sum place back when I was in college and it was one of the favorite places to eat even for omnivores because their seitan "chicken" was just that good.

Thanks for the tips! Yeah, I'm not really fond of tofu, but with enough extra on there it's fine (my dad makes a fantastic sweet and sour tofu) so I figured going for wings or something with a sauce like that would be a good first outing with it. We just went shopping, but it's on the list for next time.


As someone who graduated a long time ago and is still completely hosed, woof.

Conan the Barbarian Aug. 11th- 17th, 1980







Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Hempuli posted:

Those are contraceptive tools (internet tells me their English name is "intrauterine device (IUD)"?) and rabbits are famous for proliferating quickly. So basically rabbit safe sex education.

And here I was thinking it was an oblique reference to Vib Ribbon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAM55fp8Lnw

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

Keep calm and Harry on.

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Oct. 27, 1940)

"They think we killed the emperor. Let's stop here and kill them all."

Oh, Tristram. :allears:

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

[tired sighs] is dethany going to find the missing fortune in the broken toilet in the warehouse. is that where this is going.

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

SharkTales!
Woo-oo!



Haifisch posted:


Dick Tracy


Outstanding coloring job on that last panel.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

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

Mercury Hat posted:

Outstanding coloring job on that last panel.

next mystery: dick tracy and the blackula

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007






Why, yes, this is essentially the same joke as Monday.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Nekonaughey

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
noooooo!!!!

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

Hostile V posted:

[tired sighs] is dethany going to find the missing fortune in the broken toilet in the warehouse. is that where this is going.
And she's going to give it to her boss, of course.


The Dinette Set is paying you in complements.


Working Daze is oh god this is where they're going with this?


Super-Fun-Pak Comix would say that, sure.


Cul De Sac will be back after this.

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä



This rules. There's a real sense of sifting through what's been left behind and finding a way to save everyone. It's realistic and optimistic.


I love these two dorks. Thanks for posting this.

Hostile V posted:

[tired sighs] is dethany going to find the missing fortune in the broken toilet in the warehouse. is that where this is going.

You gotta love how she immediately abandons her still-tied up fiancee in favor of finding treasure that'd make her abusive boss even richer.

Come to think of it, if her boss was a Dick Tracy villain then Dethany would make the perfect goon. Blindly loyal, does the dirty work without any consideration for her well-being, and will never double-cross you out of the loot.

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


Ghostlight posted:

Nekonaughey


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sweetguts
Apr 29, 2013

I know what I'm about.
It's okay, Nekonaughey! You can just push it out of the bag and eat it like one of those plastic sleeve freezer pops instead!!!

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