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My Lovely Horse posted:remember, you have a right to decide when you're ready WHICH YOU'RE NOT DON'T DO IT, LUANN WOULDN'T  
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FrumpleOrz posted:Ella Cinders That is a fantastic final panel. AV material when things get sorted out. Edit: I am supremely not ok with this.
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Someone in another thread was mentioning the for better and for worse author, are there any posts that highlight what the heck is going on with that?
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That's only a slight exaggeration- it's basically all molars with herbivores.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Brewster Rockit Space Guy
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Rosa used to date TJ? Why would she ever dump TJ to date Gunther instead? Actually, wait, TJ is Brad's age, and Rosa is Luann's age so...technically that might have been statutory rape? No wonder they chose abstinence.
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And He Did. (June 18, 1917) Outbursts of Everett True (August 27, 1917)  Hitz and Mrs. (May 11, 1923)  Dark Laughter (March 7, 1936, click for big)  “Don’t be no fool, Bootsie. Dat island in ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ is a fake. Dat wuz only movie stuff!” The film, featuring Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and some very attractive women, was released in 1935. They'll Do It Every Time (February 21, 1941)  Patty-Jo ’n’ Ginger (October 13, 1945)  "Look ... While we're waitin' for Ginger to primp, why don't we entertain ourselves with some of these letters I found this morning . . . ?" Dinky Fellas (August 19, 1964)  I think this one is great, but I couldn't tell you why.
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"Let's watch the Lisa videotape together in the dark!" "But why are your pants off" "I SAID WATCH LISA!!!"
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BigDave posted:"Let's watch the Lisa videotape together in the dark!" 
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Thirteen years. Thirteen loving years of moping about dead cancer wife.
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Some Guy TT posted:Rosa used to date TJ? Why would she ever dump TJ to date Gunther instead? Actually, wait, TJ is Brad's age, and Rosa is Luann's age so...technically that might have been statutory rape? No wonder they chose abstinence. No, I'm sure it's two different characters named Rosa. Greg only knows one Latin American woman's name and he forgot he already used it.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä And it really is a work of generations, the soil in Finland is full of rocks, every goddamnwhere. There really where generations spent on just getting rid of rocks, breaking them up and piling them elsewhere in order to clear land for fields. And then more generations had to be spent to improve the soil quality by having animals live and graze on the fields, adding manure and generating better soil. The fields we got represent literally the work of hundreds, if not a thousand years.
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ikanreed posted:Thirteen years. Thirteen loving years of moping about dead cancer wife. For the character, 23 years! The thirteen real-time years also included a ten-year time skip.
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Slammy posted:Dark Laughter (March 7, 1936, click for big) This feels like it must contain incredible racism. Slammy posted:They'll Do It Every Time (February 21, 1941) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat_block
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Johnny Walker posted:I found some on the Wayback Machine. They're not terribly interesting, really. "what could put me at risk" - "well, Luann, having sex, or doing drugs, or even getting a tattoo or a piercing actually you know what, you've got nothing to worry about" Thanks for digging them up! e: extremely surprised the Garbage Pail Bar doesn't actually seem to be a thing My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Each one of these feels like a hook to a story that isn't getting written. Like the only way James can keep the reader interested is by promising that the protagonist is going to go on an adventure. If James is doing this intentionally it'd be an amazing example of being meta. It wouldn't be any less dull.
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RandomPauI posted:Each one of these feels like a hook to a story that isn't getting written. Like the only way James can keep the reader interested is by promising that the protagonist is going to go on an adventure. If James is doing this intentionally it'd be an amazing example of being meta. It wouldn't be any less dull. He’s bringing you to the edge of an adventure. Duh. 
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Pick posted:Someone in another thread was mentioning the for better and for worse author, are there any posts that highlight what the heck is going on with that? The basic gist is that a lot of people see a lot of evidence of bad or antiquated parenting in the strip. Some of this is just because it's a strip about parenting that's over 40 years old, part of it is because it's a bit of a roman a clef in some ways and some of Lynn Johnston's idiosyncracies pop up in bizarre or worrisome ways. There are a few things in particularly that come up frequently in this thread-- largely stuff that came up in interviews over the years, in particular weird intersections between her own life and the semi-autobiographical lives of her characters. Primarily, IIRC, there's a plot-line adapting an incident in which her real-life son goes to photograph a fatal car crash (for the school paper?) and only realizes later that he knew the victim, whereas in the comic the victim is his crush and he rescues her. Her son is also gay in real life, while in the comic he goes on to marry the girl he rescued from the crash. I can't find the interview at the moment, but I remember it coming up in an older iteration of this, where she talks about her anger issues and relates tossing one of her kids out into the snow and locking the door at some point, before getting ahold of herself and letting them back in. She's also talked pretty frankly in interviews about her own childhood in an abusive home and sort of her issues shaking bad habits from that environment, so idk, I don't think any of it is actually particularly funny and ranges from standard goon hyperbole to legitimately sad and shocking things. I think this all has taken on a life of it's own in relation to For Better or For Worse in particular because it's pretty goofy and has had a bunch of memorably dumb bits over the years-- I remember like, over a decade ago reading some GBS thread about it and seeing this specific strip:  Which is pretty characteristic of her efforts to stay hip and happening. During that period of the late aughts when the strip was in its twilight years (pre-BSS maybe?) there were a ton of memes about the ongoing melodramatic plots which I think have lingered around. Hopefully somebody more invested in FBofW can correct me on anything I flubbed and fill in some of the gaps-- it's really bugging me that I can't find the quote about throwing her child into the snow. Anyway, here's a 2008 blog post in which Alison Bechdel loses her patience at the whole affair.
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Ghostlight posted:https://www.hoganmag.com/blog/the-lynn-johnston-interview Oh, thank you. I think that whether you like FBofW or not it's a pretty interesting interview and worth perusing.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell Lindesfarne was 17 at the beginning of the strip (which was exactly twenty-five years ago today, on September 3rd, 1995!), so she aged at about one in-comic year per three normal years. Only the strip had the normal number of Thanksgivings, Christmases, and so on, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (This is normal for comic strips, by the way, I'm just pointing it out.) Classic Kevin and Kell (June 17-21, 1996)     
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I must admit, I do enjoy how incredibly dumb Luann is in these.Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 12/6/42
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Ghostlight posted:https://www.hoganmag.com/blog/the-lynn-johnston-interview But it's also that the kind of family life depicted in the strip is presented as the regular ups and downs of daily family life with all its squabbles, something to chuckle knowingly at, but actually portrays chillingly unhealthy interpersonal dynamics if viewed with the slightest bit of distance; we're viewing it from 40 years away, and it kind of shows up in other family comics of the time too - Calvin's parents are very shouty even if you do account for Calvin being very stressful - but never quite that consistently and thoroughly.
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Yeah, like she never seems to draw herself being miffed with her kids, or other low-intensity dissatisfaction levels. She's always smoulderingly furious.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell Sluggy Freelance and User Friendly both started in late 1997, which means they're turning 23 this year. They both should have been shot 15 years ago.
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EasyEW posted:Back To The Les Moore Wankfest 
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His Divine Shadow posted:And it really is a work of generations, the soil in Finland is full of rocks, every goddamnwhere. There really where generations spent on just getting rid of rocks, breaking them up and piling them elsewhere in order to clear land for fields. And then more generations had to be spent to improve the soil quality by having animals live and graze on the fields, adding manure and generating better soil. The fields we got represent literally the work of hundreds, if not a thousand years. Just a small portion of them, though. Our population has been so small and agriculture so basic until very lately that field area in Finland quadrupled in 1850-1910 when government started paying farmers for drying up swamps and other improvements were introduced. After that farmed area has roughly doubled (even though some of the best farmland was lost in WW2).
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Another thing about For Better or For Worse is that a lot of the time, Lynn loses he poo poo toward her kids for some really minor poo poo. The way she just yells at the kids at the top of her lungs and blames them for acting up or inconveniencing her paints the whole thing as pretty abusive. I think there was even a strip where Lynn yelled at her newborn baby for crying that was posted in this thread a month ago.Mikl posted:Lindesfarne was 17 at the beginning of the strip (which was exactly twenty-five years ago today, on September 3rd, 1995!), so she aged at about one in-comic year per three normal years. How old was Rudy at the start of the strip, 12 or 13? It's extremely loving lazy of Holbrook that Rudy's supposed to be 20 but he hasn't grown a single inch, much less changed his outfit.
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