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Ponsonby Britt posted:I feel like if the strip were set in New York City, Mo would be constantly complaining about specific events in municipal politics that nobody outside of New York would understand or care about. Also, given the time period, probably a lot of Trump references? That reminds me, this feels as timely now as it ever will be unless I really get around to posting 30 years worth of comics. In 2016 Bechdel broke her almost eight year long retirement from DtWOF to publish a short post-election strip in Seven Days, the Burlington alt weekly. Here it is! Spoilered again in case you want to be surprised at where various characters wind up. 
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 I suppose Batiuk thinks three weeks is way too long a time since someone has verbally fellated Les. Oh hey, we got a bit of tension here. The contamination facility would flag DNA Wizard as a shapeshifter, but she can't change back into a human because she chucked her potions lab into space. Can't wait for this to be resolved by tomorrow or something. I love that even though she's pissed off at her roommates, Ginger still takes the time to take her roses with her. Bechdel is really good at thinking of what her characters would do in certain situations.
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EasyEW posted:(Gluyas WIlliams with "The President--For A Night".) Gluyas appears to have done a series of really impressive cartoons of locations around Washington, DC. He also did a lot or very complex panoramic cartoon work in a clean style that reminds me of tintin. Turn off ur monitor
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How Wonderful! posted:That reminds me, this feels as timely now as it ever will be unless I really get around to posting 30 years worth of comics. In 2016 Bechdel broke her almost eight year long retirement from DtWOF to publish a short post-election strip in Seven Days, the Burlington alt weekly. Here it is! Spoilered again in case you want to be surprised at where various characters wind up. I know that it was specifically for a depressing moment but does the main story end at a point that feels so shabby and run down? I was thinking of getting the Essential book at Christmas and wonder if it would feel too sad for the state of things.
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Shiroc posted:I know that it was specifically for a depressing moment but does the main story end at a point that feels so shabby and run down? I was thinking of getting the Essential book at Christmas and wonder if it would feel too sad for the state of things. Mmm not really. Everybody is stressed and wrapped up in projects, like they have been all along, but many of them are also in happy relationships and looking back on progress on future goals. The last panel is kind of sweet. Everybody's kvetching but they're together and the future looks at least provisionally ok. I won't post it because it's mostly characters who have not shown up yet at this point but I think it's a pretty nice ending, even if I do get the sense that Bechdel just got tired of this project (and after 30 years who can blame her, especially as she was beginning to focus more on full-length memoir) and not a fully thought-out farewell. Edit: Oh, you know what, about a month after the last published strip she also did a final little one-panel gag comic as a holiday thing on her blog. It's also cute and has real warmth for the characters. I should note that as the strip went on people started aging more or less in real time (this really ramps up when people start having kids) if you're wondering about Mo's wrinkles.  How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Nov 3, 2020 |
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 Just thinking about how when Jock was first introduced he was super girl crazy and asked out every woman he saw. He even went out on some dates with Luann. But at some point Team Evans decided to make him a "good" character, so now everyone pretends that he and Luann never went out and he never flirts with anyone because straight-forwardly indicating your attraction to a person you are attracted to is what Bad people do.
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How Wonderful! posted:Mmm not really. Everybody is stressed and wrapped up in projects, like they have been all along, but many of them are also in happy relationships and looking back on progress on future goals. The last panel is kind of sweet. Everybody's kvetching but they're together and the future looks at least provisionally ok. I won't post it because it's mostly characters who have not shown up yet at this point but I think it's a pretty nice ending, even if I do get the sense that Bechdel just got tired of this project (and after 30 years who can blame her, especially as she was beginning to focus more on full-length memoir) and not a fully thought-out farewell. lol this one panel is so fuckin funny Luann can go to hell
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Julet Esqu posted:
nothing's more moral, wise, safe, sane, reasonable, and noble than absta...abstimer....absta...having a stroke while trying to pronounce abstinence. Except abstinence. Instead of being a WHORE.
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I’m old enough to remember when Piro was yanked out of existence the moment he kissed Bernice.
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I think that was just the universe correcting itself. Nobody should ever kiss Bernice.
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In this installment of The Timid Soul, my guess as to why Caspar is being offered two extra gallons: this strip was published on August 27, 1945, therefore WW2 is over and fuel rationing has stopped. But that's just an educated guess. Isn't that a well-drawn car, though? Look at what you can see through the spokes in the wheels! 
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Classic Kevin and Kell (August 18-22, 1997)    
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 11/2/00  Brenda Starr 2/6/44  Ah yes, every woman's dream: having to put up with a ship full of horny sailors. Well, to be fair, that might be some women's dream. No judgment. And Messick draws a pretty good aircraft carrier. Smokey Stover 9/11/38  Edge of Geuhh  Old Lumpy there isn't any easier to look at blown up and flopped. I really wonder what "reference material" Jam used for that face and why.... Richard's BRWANG Poor Almanac 
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Pretty good encapsulation of Holbrookian thoughtlessness here--all those dead bodies are people!
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Awww, Bernice finally hit puberty and started noticing boys!
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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When exactly did Tinkersons get compelling and interesting, frick. Family Circus  Rose is ROse  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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Awww geeze! Dontcha just hate when your homicidal fugitive ex-coworker shows up and trys to bum money off ya?!
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Julet Esqu posted:
In a better comic, Jock growing out of his high school mindset of asking out every woman he sees into becoming someone who now wants a serious relationship in college would be a pretty good character arc. It's really weird how the comic basically told Rudy he was wrong to have an online emotional affair a few weeks back (though Corey doing it was okay because she was just roleplaying???), but Kevin and Kell do it both and it never gets commented on.
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Look all I'm saying is Tim Buckley didn't keep making pregnancy and childcare strips.
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amigolupus posted:In a better comic, Jock growing out of his high school mindset of asking out every woman he sees into becoming someone who now wants a serious relationship in college would be a pretty good character arc.
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Surgeon's Tales  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake  That's hilariously hacky.
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Kennel posted:Dustin I know this isn't the politoon thread, but I'll hope y'all will forgive me if I channel the posters over there for a bit. "This one dude wants to strip minorities of all their rights, and his cronies aid and abet him. This other dude who doesn't want to strip minorities of their rights, and his supporters are working to advance civil rights, fix the environment, and improve society somewhat. They are the same." Your privilege is showing, Skelley. gently caress right off.
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Kennel posted:Dustin Precinct 45? Real subtle, Skelley.
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Kid Fenris posted:Just to make sure I'm up to speed on Mämmilä: Heimo and Anja have a kid now, but the big guy who likes cats (Sulo?) and his wife lost theirs? Or did they have a child as well? That is correct. Sulo is married to Anni and she had a miscarriage.
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Arlo and Janis Wow. Tina's Groove Classic (March 15, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (March 15, 1999)  Garfield Classic (March 15, 1989) 
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Mikl posted:I know this isn't the politoon thread, but I'll hope y'all will forgive me if I channel the posters over there for a bit. I'm sure his actual political cartoons this election season have been even worse. gently caress Skelley.
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Resident Idiot posted:Precinct 45? Glad it wasn't just me that jumped out at. VOTE precinct 45
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I don't get it. Could someone please give a very short explanation?  Interesting how they have no queue at all and they can just walk in.
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Sorry I'm late, I moved all weekend, but who cares, it's time for Vargo Comics BCN     Phoebe     Wallace     Curtis    
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Poil posted:I don't get it. Could someone please give a very short explanation?  45th president
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Vargo posted:Wallace Have I said how much I love Wallace lately? Because I really loving love Wallace 
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Poil posted:Interesting how they have no queue at all and they can just walk in.
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DUSTIN BURN IN HELLVargo posted:BCN I ordered french fries with my haunted Puck Burger
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Kennel posted:Mandrake There are multiple eyewitnesses! 
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How Wonderful! posted:My Shameful Secret is that I actually kind of like Kevin & Kell, it's nicely drawn and is just sheer madness in a totally unique way. Even if accidentally, I think it has a lot in comic with two much more polished and sophisticated strips that are personal favorites of mine, unsurprisingly: Dykes to Watch Out For and Moomin. All three strips are about characters inhabiting a world which is arbitrarily and capriciously cruel, governed by rules seemingly dictated by nonsense and whim. All three comics are about characters who are shown as fundamentally decent people occupying a small footprint of the setting, who love and care for each other under incomprehensible circumstances. And crucially, all three show that these characters are not totally at odds with their often hostile settings but are products of their respective worlds, who are informed equally by empathy and solidarity as by their sense of being of their settings. I'm late because I've been busy but this is a good post. I really enjoy Kevin and Kell, almost as much as I enjoy hating on it. I don't have anything to add except that you're a good poster and post good comics, thank you.
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