Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/characters


"Janine & Kurt Beecham
Janine and Kurt Beecham: It’s fair to say that Kevin’s parents have a different parenting style than their neighbors Gene and Donna. Some would call it a more... “hands off” approach. Miserably outnumbered, they simply try to ensure that each of their four children are fed, clothed and that their insides stay inside of them. Janine works as a nurse and part-time as a waitress, while Kurt collects unemployment and restores and sells unexploded WWII land mines. "

EBB posted:

Nope nope nope not good this is no good at all

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä

Darthemed posted:

readingatwork posted:

Stuart is the most contemptible villain in the thread. Prove me wrong.

readingatwork posted:

Crabgrass

Selachian posted:

Smokey Stover 12/12-14/38

riderchop posted:

Rae the Doe's web archives, Rae's Vacation

Evil Mastermind posted:

Cul De Sac makes me miss buffets.

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/characters


"Janine & Kurt Beecham
Janine and Kurt Beecham: It’s fair to say that Kevin’s parents have a different parenting style than their neighbors Gene and Donna. Some would call it a more... “hands off” approach. Miserably outnumbered, they simply try to ensure that each of their four children are fed, clothed and that their insides stay inside of them. Janine works as a nurse and part-time as a waitress, while Kurt collects unemployment and restores and sells unexploded WWII land mines. "

SubNat posted:

Pretty sure it's empty.
After all, you call a glass without anything in it empty, even though it's full of air.
If the inside of it is exactly the same as the surrounding environment, and it isn't temporary and intentional (like say, dunking a glass into water to pick some up.) it's empty.

Pick up that empty glass of water and lift it out of the pool and it's suddenly a full glass of water, until you empty it and it's an empty glass full of air.

Alternatively if you want to be boring and define fullness explicitly based on how much of it's volume is filled with things that aren't air, then sure, it's full.

howe_sam posted:

Petey is apparently Mike Schur
https://twitter.com/KenTremendous/status/1331393388537470977

howe_sam posted:

Petey is apparently Mike Schur
https://twitter.com/KenTremendous/status/1331393388537470977

Stultus Maximus posted:

Cranberries are delicious, my family traditionally has at least five different kinds of pie which alone makes the whole thing special, and I'm filing this under bullshit clickbait Slate pitches.

Slammy posted:

Outbursts of War Bread (December 12, 1917)

How Wonderful! posted:

TGIDTWOF

Dykes to Watch Out For #121 (1991)



Thea is a pretty good character who remains kind of on the margins of the plot. I guess it makes sense and in a way I really appreciate it-- the core cast is and remains this tight circle of friends and room-mates and romantic partners and later long-term additions tend to either be new partners or relatives or kids. Thea's a co-worker, and you know, usually even if you really like and get along with a coworker they will be out of your life when one of you moves on to a different job. It always really bugs me on workplace sitcoms like The Office or Superstore or whatever when two characters get married and 80% of the guests at the wedding are just people they work with. I think Bechdel keeps Thea at a realistic distance.

Anyway that's that! This is a somewhat unusual Madwimmin-centric strip in that there are no book cover puns or anything like that.

Edit: Oh, here's a question. Starting with this volume the Firebrand Books editions round out each book with a bonus, extra-long story. Most of these are in-continuity and either flesh out background stuff like Mo's college years or how everybody met, or serve as expanded versions of stuff that happened in the main story. I'll definitely post those. This volume's, however, is a little different-- it's a little autobiographical meditation by Bechdel. Would people be interested in reading this or should I skip ahead onto the next book when I get to that point?

riderchop posted:

Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon

curtadams posted:

Bechdel is very realistic in that new relationships normally form from outside the group - much as in real life. The way that Lead Boy and Lead Girl basically *have* to have a relationship -even if they are totally unsuited - really grates on me.

There's a story about forcing relationships I find entertaining. When Modest Mussorgsky first wrote the opera Boris Godunov the opera house refused to perform it because it didn't have a love affair, and they insisted all operas *must* have love affairs. Mussorgsky wrote in an affair between a gold-digger and the villain, which I've always thought sounded like mockery of that absurd requirement. But, the opera company apparently had a weak sense of irony, because they accepted the altered version and performed it.

I *love* Serial Monogamy! Even if you don't post the other backing stories, you *have* to post that one. Very funny and insightful.

Potsticker posted:

1) Ed Kudlick exists

curtadams posted:

There's a story about forcing relationships I find entertaining. When Modest Mussorgsky first wrote the opera Boris Godunov the opera house refused to perform it because it didn't have a love affair, and they insisted all operas *must* have love affairs. Mussorgsky wrote in an affair between a gold-digger and the villain, which I've always thought sounded like mockery of that absurd requirement. But, the opera company apparently had a weak sense of irony, because they accepted the altered version and performed it.

I *love* Serial Monogamy! Even if you don't post the other backing stories, you *have* to post that one. Very funny and insightful.

readingatwork posted:

Ed is a worse person but as a lawyer his ability to make people miserable is limited to psychological damage to his wife, kids and whatever intern is around the office this week. Stuart on the other hand inflicts himself on an entire staff of retail employees and does serious material harm in the process (see: cutting Cooper's hours to the point where he might not make rent that month). Also he makes people wear ties which is unforgivable.

Kavak posted:

rear end in a top hat managers/American retail in general is also much more relatable as a villain than a fictional Boomer who half the thread seems to project their own issues onto.