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Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Bobbins

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Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
BCN




Phoebe




Wallace




Curtis


Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy


Dustin

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Prince Valiant

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty



No new Rae the Doe on weekends!


Rae the Doe's web archives

Magic Crown


Ask Rae #5



tomorrow we start the longest Rae the Doe story yet, I'm probably going to break it out into its own posts, 4 strips at a time, bc its long as poo poo

It's halloween

Workaday Wizard
Oct 23, 2009

by Pragmatica

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (May 04, 1941)



The attention to detail is marvelous. The way he made a hammock out of his belt (other comics will ignore this entirely). The tentacle reaching out and tearing a piece of his cloth. Everything.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Parahexavoctal posted:

Apparently it was believed in the late 19th / early 20th century that drinking too much cold water on a hot day could kill you.

and the cure was opium.

I think there's also a superstition in China that you shouldn't drink cold water?
Might have a root in boiled water being safe(from bacteria, parasites, etc.), thus cold water is unsafe, which ended up embedding itself as a superstition after a while.

Moomin's Desert Island

SubNat fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Sep 20, 2020

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

The Dinette Set lucks out.


Working Daze breaks "character".


Super-Fun-Pak Comix statement jokingly leading in to the premise of this particular strip.


Cul De Sac is an easy mistake to make.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (February 2, 2009)



Arlo and Janis Classic (February 2, 1999)



Garfield Classic (February 2, 1989)

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!


oops, Curtis forgot to tell a joke!

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.
The Far Side


Pickles


Zits

Professor Wayne fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Jul 25, 2022

Drakyn
Dec 26, 2012

I know you've commented on the art getting more erratic in these later Corto Malteasers, but vaguely-popeye Corto here in the second-to-last panel is all worth it.

riderchop posted:

Rae the Doe's web archives

Magic Crown

:3:

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
Classic Kevin and Kell (October 15-19, 1996)





Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Retail




Dick

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange



Get Fuzzy 9/19/00



Brenda Starr 4/3/43



It's like The Producers, except not funny.

Smokey Stover 11/7/37



Edge of Things Blowing Up



Note the claw logo on the plane. After all the years this dumb strip has been running, are we finally gonna get to meet Dr. Clawburg and his underwater laboratory?

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

indisputable fact: BROMPH is a fart sound for when someone is farting farts

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Old School Peanuts (Feb 13, 1952)




Calvin and Hobbes (Mar 22-23, 1988)






Robbie and Bobby

(Aug 8, 2016)


(Sep 20, 2020)


(Sep 21, 2020)

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro


Foxtrot

Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

Scary Gary





LazyQ
Feb 22, 2011

Mämmilä

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

Holy mackerel, Dustin's bedroom has its own bathroom and what appears to be a kitchenette? No wonder he doesn't want to move out, that's wild. Also that mess looks like it would take about 10 minutes to take care of.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

How Wonderful! posted:

Holy mackerel, Dustin's bedroom has its own bathroom and what appears to be a kitchenette? No wonder he doesn't want to move out, that's wild. Also that mess looks like it would take about 10 minutes to take care of.

It's an apartment above the garage.



That his mom and sister just Kramer into whenever they want to badmouth him

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

why would it ever be Meg's job to tidy up Dustin's room

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Leevi really never is without his pills

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007










Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä



Leevi should probably cool it with the pills.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



F Minus



Mark Trail and the obsessive-compulsive mice.



Mary Worth



Santa Royale is very diverse. It has white people from the mountains and the beaches!

The Phantom



Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Flash Gordon



Foolish space-hillbillies.

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise



Johnny Aztec
Jan 29, 2005

by Hand Knit
"dat darn Furriner!" and they call a city wide hunt for the guy, for one con.
Sounds alot like how minority crimes are treated.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Something I like about Modesty and Willie. They trust each other to do the job they were assigned to do. No loving up the whole mission because one of them has the urge to go off-script to bail the other one out.

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

SubNat posted:

Moomin's Desert Island


That first panel in the last strip is, I think, my absolute favourite in all of Moomin.

Conan the Barbarian Mar. 23rd- 29th, 1981







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.
Sally Forth



Pearls Before Swine



Peanuts (September 23, 1973)



Totally Worth Wasting A Sunday For This Payoffbean



Crankshaft



9 "Let's Do That 'Meta' Thing The Kids Are Talking About" Lane



Life (With Skippy) (August 21 and 28, 1924)





These Google scans are getting worse as we go through this volume, so it's just a quick glance at the rest of the issue.









(Don Herold)



(Coles Phillips)

Just Dan Again
Dec 16, 2012

Adventure!

Meg's room looks fine. The only personal living space a young person has should be comfortable to them.

I know I shouldn't still be mad about Dustin after all these years but hearing from one kid that they have a new, positive goal and turning that around to poo poo on each of your kids just set me off today.

Workaday Wizard
Oct 23, 2009

by Pragmatica

Just Dan Again posted:

Meg's room looks fine. The only personal living space a young person has should be comfortable to them.

I know I shouldn't still be mad about Dustin after all these years but hearing from one kid that they have a new, positive goal and turning that around to poo poo on each of your kids just set me off today.

It's because peace corps is Hippie Bullshit™️ according to the author.

fondue
Jul 14, 2002

amigolupus posted:



Team Evans is aware of what they're trying to write, it's just that they're so out of touch with reality that they think people should hate Shannon or Tiffany and cheer on the "heroes" for being assholes toward them.
Holy. poo poo. I always knew they were pretty oblivious but reading that was pretty eye-opening.


B Kliban





By the middle of the 70s New York was a shithole and a prime example of a bad place you didn't want to visit. Times Square was full of strip clubs, hookers, drug dealers, and garbage. Unemployment was over 8% and there was an ongoing oil embargo making gasoline expensive and rare. Look for a few slice of life movies from the time set in the city to get a good idea how filthy it really was. Mean Streets is a great example.

fondue fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Sep 20, 2020

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Kennel fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Sep 20, 2020

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



Selachian posted:

Edge of Things Blowing Up



Note the claw logo on the plane. After all the years this dumb strip has been running, are we finally gonna get to meet Dr. Clawburg and his underwater laboratory?
Maybe Dr. Clawburg is also a lady.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

fondue posted:

By the middle of the 70s New York was a shithole and a prime example of a bad place you didn't want to visit. Times Square was full of strip clubs, hookers, drug dealers, and garbage. Unemployment was over 8% and there was an ongoing oil embargo making gasoline expensive and rare. Look for a few slice of life movies from the time set in the city to get a good idea how filthy it really was. Mean Streets is a great example.

One of my favorite essays of all time is Samuel R. Delany's Times Square Red/Times Square Blue which is in part a counterargument to this sentiment.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


amigolupus posted:



Team Evans is aware of what they're trying to write, it's just that they're so out of touch with reality that they think people should hate Shannon or Tiffany and cheer on the "heroes" for being assholes toward them.

lmfao

*drawing a child having fun, encouraged (except in things that hurt her) by authority figures* what an evil and unlikeable person this is

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ukonvasara
Aug 16, 2012

a mixture of gravity and waggery

EasyEW posted:

Crankshaft



So this is interesting: normally this extremely tired joke format is a drawn-out setup to Crankshaft babbling out some malapropism as Jeff and Pam look on in disgust/goggle-eyed horror/despair, so you'd think maybe the idea here is that Crankshaft has misinterpreted a "roughing the passer" call as the linebacker's name. But! This is Tom Batiuk, who loves giving minor characters incredibly stupid punny names like "Hershey Barr" or "Bubu Zayla" (or, more obviously, "Les Moore"). So maybe the joke here is that the linebacker's name is actually Ruffin Depasser! But if that's the case, why the standard malapropism setup, and who could possibly think that name alone could be a punchline for an entire strip, let alone a Sunday strip? There are many possibilities here, but at the end all we really need to conclude is that Batiuk is a loving hack.


In this issue of Life: Flapper Yardstick Seppuku!

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