B. Virtanen![]() The jogging Virtanen's wife is doing in the last strip is sauvakävely, literally "staff walking" or "pole walking"; basically just going for brisk walks while using metal poles to get extra strength in your step(?) I'd imagine that this technic comes from how ski poles are used to support your speed & balance while skiing, but I don't know if this is a thing anywhere else or what the exact logic behind the poles is. ANSU ![]() ![]() StrixNebulosa posted:I'm happy to see Ansu back ![]()
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Hempuli posted:The jogging Virtanen's wife is doing in the last strip is sauvakävely, literally "staff walking" or "pole walking"; basically just going for brisk walks while using metal poles to get extra strength in your step(?) I'd imagine that this technic comes from how ski poles are used to support your speed & balance while skiing, but I don't know if this is a thing anywhere else or what the exact logic behind the poles is.
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lmao
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Sally Forth![]() Pearls Before Swine ![]() Skippy (March 30, 1933) ![]() Peanuts (September 27, 1973) ![]() Funky Winkerbean ![]() Crankshaft ![]() 9 "Just In Case You Haven't Thrown Up In Your Mouth Yet Today" Lane ![]() Rip Haywire ![]() Thimble Theater (April 26, 1937) ![]() Out Our Way (April 18-20, 1935) ![]() ![]() ![]() Dok's "Why Are You Even Listening To Jerry At This Point, Dude?" Duck (April 21, 1913) ![]()
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean "I feel free here and want to make it my home". This poor, misguided schmuck.
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (April 18-20, 1935) holy good god drat
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That man should be dead.
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EBB posted:Was Foster into symbolism, or was he just illustrating the famous sites? It's neat that Val visits the passion sites backwards, starting at the crucifixion site and ending up passing where Judas did the betrayal. I'm not sure what the symbolism of following the passion in reverse would be, so I suspect the latter, although Val shortly will be making a sacrifice for another and later forgiving someone, so interpret as you prefer.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:holy good god drat The Lighter Side of: Horrific Industrial Accidents! seriously people, loving RESPECT anything rotating.
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Rae the Doe's web archives Fawn of the Dead ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Rhymes with Orange![]() Get Fuzzy 9/23/00 ![]() Brenda Starr 5/1/43 ![]() Hey, watch that fourth wall, Abretha! Smokey Stover 12/5/37 ![]() Edge of With Cat-Like Tread ![]() "I can't use guns!" he exclaims, drawing his guns.
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Johnny Walker posted:Andertoons Also mood.
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I MUST BE VERY QUIET!!!!!!
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Hempuli posted:The jogging Virtanen's wife is doing in the last strip is sauvakävely, literally "staff walking" or "pole walking"; basically just going for brisk walks while using metal poles to get extra strength in your step(?) I'd imagine that this technic comes from how ski poles are used to support your speed & balance while skiing, but I don't know if this is a thing anywhere else or what the exact logic behind the poles is. It’s supposed to get you to move your arms a lot more vigorously because you have to raise them quite a bit with proper sized poles, and in general you’re supposed to be moving at almost a jogging pace. But of course like every fitness fad, it’s become a cargo cult: pole walking is good exercise, so if I walk with poles, I am getting good exercise. And then you get a bunch of turbo-olds just dragging a pair of poles along at a snail’s pace, or moving them so little they would probably get more movement walking naturally. But I mean, it’s better than sitting on the sofa. (Also the poles are usually carbon, like ski poles but not the same length)
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Selachian posted:Edge of With Cat-Like Tread I like this new rootin' tootin' Sam. Give him a 10 gallon hat, Allen, you coward.
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SubNat posted:
I love the mental image that the Moomins are going to spend the rest of the story incredibly drunk. ![]() Johnny Walker posted:I think the consensus is that Holbrook has zero constancy in what changing species or carnivore/herbivore status or whatever really means. In fact, it probably isn't actually intended to represent anything at all but what it represents in the story. Holbrook using something as a metaphor whenever he feels like it and forgetting all about it afterward is just the worst. It's off-putting how this dingus is the one to break the news when this is supposed to be Adeela's big moment. Also ![]() Selachian posted:
With how much Sam freaked out that the pirate he beat up before was a woman, I'm guessing that's part of his reason for hesitating to use guns here.
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I mean he explicitly
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Because there are bound to be GAURDS!
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In this installment of The Timid Soul, I can just barely make out "1939" for the publication date, by which point the hyper-dense nature of white dwarfs had been well established for several years.![]()
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amigolupus posted:I love the mental image that the Moomins are going to spend the rest of the story incredibly drunk. I just love the dreamlike storytelling in Moomin. Of course pirates only drink rum, and now that their ancestors have floated up into the sky the dolphins will take them home, because the helicopter was fed up with them. It's such an amazing strip. amigolupus posted:Holbrook using something as a metaphor whenever he feels like it and forgetting all about it afterward is just the worst. It would be less of a problem switching metaphors constantly if he didn't use these metaphors to make statements about important, sensitive, current cultural issues.
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side Somebody fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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The Dinette Set knows what that means.![]() Working Daze oh gently caress you. ![]() Super-Fun-Pak Comix is drowning, there is no sign of land. ![]() Cul De Sac has made a slight mistake. ![]()
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I'm still trying to figure out what the joke is on the sweater here from Dinette Set a couple days ago:![]()
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The Lockhorns![]() Brewster Rockit Space Guy ![]() On The Fastrack ![]() Safe Havens ![]() Kevin & Kell ![]() Mother Goose & Grimm ![]() Hagar The Horrible ![]() Sherman's Lagoon ![]() Ella Cinders ![]() Zorro ![]()
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Evil Mastermind posted:
god i want to pet big shirley
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manero posted:I'm still trying to figure out what the joke is on the sweater here from Dinette Set a couple days ago:
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One set of my grandparents had a big Bouvier dog named Misha. An incredibly patient, stern, and affectionately attentive creature that was more akin to a small bear than a canine. I loved just kinda laying about on the floor and petting this dog every time we visited. I want to pet Big Shirley so bad.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze oh gently caress you. Vaguely aping Life in Hell's style to repeat the same old Working Daze talking points is the same as telling a joke, right?
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Haifisch posted:I think it's "You Say 'Potato' on ice". (X) On Ice shirts are a running gag in Dinette Set. Ahhhh, ok. Sure enough, there it is on the Dinette Set Wikipedia page!
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Every pastiche he does looks so much better than the strip's normal style, so the horrifying conclusion is that he chooses to make Working Daze the way it does on purpose. A little while ago they did a pastiche of that clean lined 1950s style and it actually looked really pleasant! I don't understand at all!
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Everything about Working Daze feels purposely designed to frustrate.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze oh gently caress you. Work is Hell ![]() In conclusion, to the creators of Working Daze, "G'Night everybody! Have a good one! See you Tomorrow!" And He Did. (July 20, 1917) ![]() Outbursts of Everett True (September 27, 1917) ![]() Hitz and Mrs. (June 8, 1923) ![]() Gay and Her Gang (October 3, 1928) ![]() Dark Laughter (September 19, 1936, click for big) ![]() “Look, Doc - That’s Why Bootsie’s Been Havin’ Dem Faintin’ Spells!” They'll Do It Every Time (March 19, 1941) ![]() Patty-Jo ’n’ Ginger (December 14, 1946) ![]() “Imagine kids their age fighting over a woman! … ME, of course!” Dinky Fellas (October 15, 1964) ![]()
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Green Intern posted:One set of my grandparents had a big Bouvier dog named Misha. An incredibly patient, stern, and affectionately attentive creature that was more akin to a small bear than a canine. I loved just kinda laying about on the floor and petting this dog every time we visited. I want to pet Big Shirley so bad. One of my friends had a large dog named Risha. She'd just wander up and lean on you for attention, even when she was twice your size. Part of the reason for my fear of dogs.
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How Wonderful! posted:Every pastiche he does looks so much better than the strip's normal style, so the horrifying conclusion is that he chooses to make Working Daze the way it does on purpose. A little while ago they did a pastiche of that clean lined 1950s style and it actually looked really pleasant! I don't understand at all! Scott Roberts is actually quite a good artist (he's done work for Bongo Comics, so aping Groening's style must come easily to him) and, based on his Gocomics comments at least, seems like a nice guy. That makes Working Daze even more disappointing -- he's not a talentless rear end in a top hat like James Allen, he just doesn't care enough to put in an effort.
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How Wonderful! posted:It is unbelievable how popular and widespread eugenic thinking was in nineteenth and early twentieth century America. Even worse, once you recognize the language and what's more, the ideas behind it, you begin to realize that in a lot of ways it never really went away. There was a long stretch of my pre-dissertation research where I would go to bed completely broken down every night just from being immersed in that poo poo for eight hours a day. Preview: ![]() manero posted:I'm still trying to figure out what the joke is on the sweater here from Dinette Set a couple days ago: You say "potato" on ice Best guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shall_We_Dance_(1937_film) Tied to these lyrics, referring to the concept of talking about something two different ways and marital dischord.
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Discendo Vox posted:I'm doing a long-form posting project (extremely long-form, my first post was almost a year ago) on a very very important, little-reported case of modern scientific eugenics and how it was promoted/spread in the academy here. Holy moley, everyone should check this out. Thank you for the link and for the excellent work.
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Quit prancing around like that! I just imagine having gone through something dramatic and painful with one of my parents and then my best friend is all WELL HA-HA AT LEAST VAMPIRES ARE TOTALLY NOT REAL LOL I would sleep beneath a layer of crosses and garlic that night.
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Professor Wayne posted:Because there are bound to be GAURDS! First he was worried that there'd be GAURDS!, but then he realized that they were actually just guards. A sensible comic.
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