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Dykes to Watch Out For #96 (1990) -Alison Bechdel  Full disclosure I think the "queer black Bart shirt" panel is the funniest panel of all time and I've been waiting to post this one since I started. The "tip of the nib to Emma Goldman" refers to a famous misattributed quote commonly ascribed to the Anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman, "If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution." While Goldman never seems to have put it quite so pithily, the general sentiment appears in her 1931 memoir, Living My Life: Emma Goldman posted:At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha [Alexander Berkman], a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause. The motto-ized version seems to date to 1973 when the anarchist mainstay guy Jack Frager printed up a bunch of t-shirts to distribute for a street festival celebrating the end of the Vietnam War. He was offered the above passage by Alix Kates Shulman and wound up with the condensed, more famous version, which certainly seemed to move t-shirts. It's an interesting inclusion here because once again Mo's repression and anxiety about enjoying life in the midst of crisis are kind of positioned as the butt of the joke. I don't think it ever feels mean in the strip though-- we get the impression that Mo's friends really do want her to open up and relax a bit, to dance at the revolution as it were. I don't know if they're all supposed to be at a specific anti-Gulf War march but such events were pretty common in the autumn of 1990 and continued through the winter of 1991 until the war's end in February. As for Black Bart, bootleg Simpsons merch with a black Bart SImpson were really popular in the very early 90s  They usually repurposed lyrics from current hits or blended him with other famous stuff like the classic "Air Bart" shirts, but as seen here he also turned up on more cheekily subversive shirts pretty often.
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EasyEW posted:Funky Oh-Please-Don't-Go-There-Againbean Will someone, for the love of God, sit Batiuk down and explain to him how insanely creepy Les is? Because he honestly doesn't seem to realize how loving terrible his new main character is.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Jesus, even for Les this is beyond the loving pale. She's gonna end up like Natalie Wood isn't she
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EasyEW posted:
Fool! Wimpy toots as he pleases!
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Tristram died on the way back to his home planet.
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yes, this is... very bad. i already had a problem with the tapes, but bringing some random actress into your whole thing, and not even asking your daughter (who these tapes are meant to be for), is so gross that i’m having trouble wording exactly how gross it is. and i can’t imagine how les’ current wife (man, the fact that i can’t remember her name speaks volumes) would feel about les teetering towards an emotional affair (again, with the actress playing his dead wife!) god, has batiuk always been this big of a farthuffing, exploitative jagoff?
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BigDave posted:https://youtu.be/6wzULnlHr8w I think my heart's explodin'! THESE KNIVES!
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:and i can't imagine how les' current wife (man, the fact that i can't remember her name speaks volumes) would feel about les teetering towards an emotional affair (again, with the actress playing his dead wife!) Probably how she feels whenever he asks her to wear the mask.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:yes, this is... very bad. i already had a problem with the tapes, but bringing some random actress into your whole thing, and not even asking your daughter (who these tapes are meant to be for), is so gross that i’m having trouble wording exactly how gross it is. Remember, these are the tapes where Lisa talked about Les screaming the wrong name during sex. Exactly the sort of thing you want to share with a total stranger!
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Selachian posted:Remember, these are the tapes where Lisa talked about Les screaming the wrong name during sex. Exactly the sort of thing you want to share with a total stranger! god drat. i thought they were just creepy tapes for the kid that assumed her milestones. like, imagine you’re a kid whose dead mother congratulates you on getting into college, on a tv screen, after you whiffed your exams and failed
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:god drat. i thought they were just creepy tapes for the kid that assumed her milestones. like, imagine you’re a kid whose dead mother congratulates you on getting into college, on a tv screen, after you whiffed your exams and failed there are those but there is also one specifically made for les' next wife in the event that he gets married again there's just an ASTOUNDING level of creepiness to it, the whole relationship is deeply unhealthy and batiuk presents it like it's a beautiful story. i mean hell the daughter has been basically written out of the strip now. it's just les and lisa forever
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I remember when the tapes first came up people were linking articles about how those "I am leaving messages for my daughter" things mess up the daughter, because when their lives don't line up with what the mother thought would happen, the daughter starts feeling like they're letting their dead parent down.
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Evil Mastermind posted:I remember when the tapes first came up people were linking articles about how those "I am leaving messages for my daughter" things mess up the daughter, because when their lives don't line up with what the mother thought would happen, the daughter starts feeling like they're letting their dead parent down. Yeah there was a This American Life episode where they talked with a daughter who had to read a new letter from their dead mom every year and it setup these false expectations because if you don't major in art history and marry at 23 you're disappointing her memory
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EasyEW posted:Funky Oh-Please-Don't-Go-There-Againbean I am getting extreme Daytime TV Serial Killer vibes from that last panel.
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Selachian posted:Remember, these are the tapes where Lisa talked about Les screaming the wrong name during sex. Exactly the sort of thing you want to share with a total stranger! Double posting but dont you see?! SHE IS LISA NOW. LISA WAS ALWAYS THERE
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BigDave posted:Double posting but dont you see?! SHE IS LISA NOW. "There must always be a Lisa," Les chants quietly as he pushes the syringe full of cancer into the actress's arm. She struggles against her bonds, trying to scream for help against the gag in her mouth, but there are none to hear...except for Les's Wife, who can only stare blankly at the wall.
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It's not a great joke but if you have the shirt there the whole time and aren't revealing the shirt at the end as the gag it doesn't loving work. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Oooh, that's quite well done. Your regular cartoonist would slap on a pixelate filter and call it done and it'd look nothing like pixel art, this is from scratch.
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Transmodiar posted:Destroy History Please tell me it's just gonna indulge in a re-enactment of Hard Day's Night for a few strips.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Oooh, that's quite well done. Your regular cartoonist would slap on a pixelate filter and call it done and it'd look nothing like pixel art, this is from scratch. I would give extra points for CGA/EGA palette, but I guess NES would be able to handle that.
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EasyEW posted:
ok i know i'm kind of missing hte forest for the trees with THE MAJOR CREEP FACTOR INHERENT TO THIS NARRATIVE but like just off-panel arent' there thousands of people losing their homes and possibly their lives
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I could forgive a lot more about the goofiness of St Lisa if it wasn't so irredeemably boring. I can just imagine the actress there thinking "oh my god who cares" about everything said on the boat. "Wow, you finally think I'm worthy to portray an ordinary woman turned cancer patient in a middle of the road at best "based on a true story" tragedy movie? Gee, thanks rear end in a top hat!"
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Doomykins posted:I could forgive a lot more about the goofiness of St Lisa if it wasn't so irredeemably boring. I can just imagine the actress there thinking "oh my god who cares" about everything said on the boat. "Wow, you finally think I'm worthy to portray an ordinary woman turned cancer patient in a middle of the road at best "based on a true story" tragedy movie? Gee, thanks rear end in a top hat!" Right? The biggest ask of the whole St Lisa saga is to forget that tons of people are being diagnosed with cancer, fighting cancer, dying of cancer, and sometimes beating cancer Right loving now
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There would be numerous cancer sufferers watching their homes and all their possessions and memories burning down in the fire. The fire that they're riding out on a film star's yacht in a private marina.
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You know what? I hope Les fucks her. And I hope his new wife leaves him because of it. And I hope he cries.
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Lowen SoDium posted:You know what? I hope Les fucks her. And I hope his new wife leaves him because of it. And I hope he cries. I hope he calls her Lisa. And makes her wear the bald cap.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Ella Cinders Fierce-Narrow? e. ah, Pierce-Arrow joke. Kennel fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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