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Johnny Walker posted:
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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus
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Pickles  Zits 
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Aug 20, 2020 17:52
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Docks  Retail   Dick 
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Aug 20, 2020 17:56
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Eh, it's probably the actual doctor, waylaid and forced to trade coats again. https://vimeo.com/7093133
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Garfield Heathcliff  a nicely drawn seal  Monty  Rae the Doe  Rae the Doe's web archives Forgot One Last Thing  Zombie Movies 
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Hey, that's selling it short There was also a pool!
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B Kliban One of my favorites 
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The Bloop posted:Kadia's face seems.... off model She looks like she's eating, but there's nothing on the table  riderchop posted:Rae the Doe's web archives Don't forget about the occasional anxious dream for the rest of your life!
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B. Virtanen For reasons I don't remember atm, a lot of Finnish buildings have had mold problems, especially larger buildings like schools. Over the years there's been a lot of publicity for cases where a school is evacuated once it has turned out that it has moldy structures that cause various problems for teachers and students alike. I went with "rotten" here because it felt like it'd convey the second part of the strip better. ANSU  
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Hempuli posted:For reasons I don't remember atm, a lot of Finnish buildings have had mold problems, especially larger buildings like schools. Over the years there's been a lot of publicity for cases where a school is evacuated once it has turned out that it has moldy structures that cause various problems for teachers and students alike. I went with "rotten" here because it felt like it'd convey the second part of the strip better. And for some reason the emerging media narrative has lately (or at least 1-2 years ago) been that the symptoms are partly/largely psychosomatic because all Europeans live and work in moldy houses and the Finns are the only ones who get sick. I have no idea if there's any truth about it. Kennel fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Aug 20, 2020 |
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Hempuli posted:For reasons I don't remember atm, a lot of Finnish buildings have had mold problems, especially larger buildings like schools. Over the years there's been a lot of publicity for cases where a school is evacuated once it has turned out that it has moldy structures that cause various problems for teachers and students alike. I went with "rotten" here because it felt like it'd convey the second part of the strip better. Back in the day I served my mandatory military service in the Artillery Brigade (II/03 represent) and back in those days the batteries lived in the beautiful "lamella barracks", designed by some hotshot designer back in the 1930s. On our first day as we were arriving in our bunk room, one of the privates commented that the air sure was dusty, and indeed the place looked like someone had blown a large bag of dust into the air. A passing sergeant remarked "that ain't dust, private". A few years later the lamella barracks were declared unfit even for military living because they were lousy with mold and were condemned for a few years for a complete stripdown. I have no idea if that stripdown and refit was ever completed.  Beautiful building though.
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Hempuli posted:ANSU Why is this one so good. ANSU's been nice, but this one just really gets me. Conan the Barbarian Aug. 18th- 24th, 1980       
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The Dinette Set is from loving 2009. Working Daze who could possibly care.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is still just like newlyweds!  Cul De Sac is a true friend. 
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Fingerpori -Next up: Covid-19 announcement. -The stores must sterilize all the surfaces on daily basis Pena's Bicycles -Eek! The plural form for both surface (pinta) and spoke (pinna) is the same (pinnat).
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I can't prove it I suspect juniper balls might be supposed to be a largely useless intermediate wood product. Buttons. Dice.
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Welcome back to HOW TO READ 9 CHICKWEED LANE. 5. Comedy Without Conflict? “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” ― Mel Brooks A: Context. I've done something drastic to feed into this silly gimmick. It's been obvious for a long time that my brain runs on a different track than most of the people around me, and it's one of those things I agonize about a lot. It feeds into a self-questioning streak, which I view as process troubleshooting and everybody else mistakes for me getting pissed off. For the purposes of (points to post title), that poses a recurring question: Was this ever worth the bother? So I did something I might regret: I went back to the beginning. Not the beginning beginning, but the beginning of that 20 year unbroken chain that leads us to now. Just picking a day and binge reading the whole run from there. And no, we're not remembering it wrong. Even several years into the run, there's arguably the remains of a well-executed strip at the root of all this.  The hallmarks of the current troubles pop up from time to time. A smattering of over-educated, overly wordy characters. A panel which could pass as fetish material if you squint hard enough. Those compositionally awkward Dutch angle panels. That loving gradient fill instead of a full background. But in general, six months of 2001 9CL beats six months of 2020 9CL easily. The older version does what's described in the syndicate's sales pitch. So how did we get from this...  ...to this?  The easiest thing to notice when you revisit 2001 9CL today is that, besides the different settings, it also has a different set of character dynamics. Just from the early survey, there's two layers of mother-daughter combat, Edda vs. her Catholic high school, Juliette taking a dip in the dating pool after a divorce, and Amos getting decked over and over again by a hulking thug. Considering the way the strip runs now, that last one is very, very pleasing.  All of these themes pull their humor from conflict. Conflict with self, conflict with others, and sometimes conflict with the audience's expectations. If you're trying to be a humor strip, it's one of the most basic things in your tool box. I was going to compare today's installment with the one-sided romance of Lucy and Schroeder (there's a whole fanfic you could write about why he even lets her in the house, considering how things usually turn out), but considering the round hole we're trying to hammer today's square peg into, a better fit is this week's visit with Hillary Forth and her boyfriend Duncan. There are a few things working against them at the moment, at least one of them being rooted firmly in the way we're forced to live now and one of the other ones being a consequence of Hil inheriting her dad's imagination. But it gives you a rooting interest by reminding you that love (especially young love) doesn't conquer all, which casts a nice shade of anxiety over the whole week and makes their dilemma actually interesting. That we also get a good punchline for the final panel is the cherry on top. B. Text Yeah, that ain't happening here. Using "everything's gonna work out" as your launching pad doesn't exactly make for a compelling narrative. Maybe that has to do with actually skipping a few gears on the stick shift of courtship, shifting from the initial parry to "drat, she's thirsty" without a clutch. As far as the execution, Bill Watterson said that when he knew he had a weak idea, he'd make up for it with the art. Thorax gets scorched overalls, and the moon is nicely rendered, but why add the caption, buddy? Can there be something inherently funny about contentment in the moment without an incident to frame it up? If this is an example, I'm having a little trouble seeing it. Moral: If you want to light a flame, you gotta feed it some oxygen. Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (March 1, 1933)  Peanuts (August 23, 1973...and the fanfic in question would be titled "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Musician", by the way.)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (March 22, 1937)  Out Our Way (January 21-23, 1935)    Dok's "Passion and Pie (Not In That Order)" Duck (April 3, 1913) 
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Nekonaughey
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i do not like nekonaughey getting Real
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Wear a mask nekonaughey
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It took Coney and his gang, multiple people, entire weeks to not discover the fortune hidden in the place a child would think to check within an hour.
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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. Haifisch posted:Dick Tracy 
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:I can't prove it I suspect juniper balls might be supposed to be a largely useless intermediate wood product. I think they are literally just decorative balls of wood that smell nice. The kind of thing your grandma might have a few of sitting in a little dish on a side table next to the root beer barrels. Completely perfect objects for a shell company to churn out to prove it’s a real business.
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The snow angel thing Les is talking about...was that when St Lisa decided to enter hospice care?
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coronatae posted:The snow angel thing Les is talking about...was that when St Lisa decided to enter hospice care? NO IT WAS ABOUT SURVIVING CANCER WILDFIRES PAY ATTENTION
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Haifisch posted:Locher Tracy  And He Did. (May 21, 1917)  Outbursts of Everett True (August 9, 1917)  Hitz and Mrs. (April 26, 1923)  They'll Do It Every Time (February 6, 1941)  Feiffer (1976)  Wee Pals (June, 1972) 
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EasyEW posted:Was this ever worth the bother? I can't possibly tell you if it's worth it, but I can tell you I've been reading these things. 
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Seconded. I'm just can't get over the order of events, 1) find your kidnapped BF tied to a chair 2) embrace them and then say "Oh." when you notice the bathroom 3) go wash your hands??? 4) Notice the olde timey toilet and pull the loving flush cord for shits and giggles 5) loving falls apart revealing bundles of cash.
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Those old 9 Chickweed Lane comics were... actually.......good??? I like the freezing ice/rain thing one. I'm down for seeing more, but I also know I'm opening pandora's box.
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Slammy posted:Outbursts of Everett True (August 9, 1917) Apparently $5 was about $100 at the time so I'm on the side of the cashier here.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Those old 9 Chickweed Lane comics were... actually.......good??? I like the freezing ice/rain thing one. I'm down for seeing more, but I also know I'm opening pandora's box.
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MariusLecter posted:Seconded. Couldn’t put it better myself. It’s so hilariously poorly thought out. The villain was totally useless as well. Obsessed with ice cream because...he looks like ice cream? And ice cream does not come into his plans in any way shape or form? He even had a prolonged introduction where he was getting ice cream at a new shop! What was the point of that? Hahah this comic loving sucks in all the best ways.
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Jeez ted give the man the buffalo wings already
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Jeez ted give the man the buffalo wings already Ted knows his rights: The U.S. Constitution posted:No cop shall, in time of peace be entitled to any buffalo wing, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
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