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This is like "Totally normal conversation that never advances a plot" the strip, isn't it? I only occasionally stop and read it, but literally every time I do it's literally just people talking about nothing.
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Mämmilä To recap: CEO of Crywood Teuvo Isopaljo got, by chance, a contract to make juniper balls for 1.5 million. For this purpose he arranged the creation of a new company, Juniper. He then let Juniper fall and pocketed the money himself. On the ruins of Juniper Anja Koskinen created the worker-owned company Nappila; however, the workers have slowly been selling their share, Pekka Syrjänen among the first so he could buy a house. Anja has also slowly expanded Nappila, eventually buying the rights to Arvi Grönberg's ecobio-toilets. Meanwhile Crywood had gotten into financial trouble and to survive Isopaljo had to become a subcontractor for Nappila and essentially a subordinate to Anja. Feeling that Nappila was becoming too big for her to handle, she let outside investors in who have now become the de facto owners and, with Anja agreeing, installed Ulf Ekman as the new CEO of Nappila.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä Man poor Anja. Years and years of stress just to wind up like all this.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Mother Goose & Grimm Mother Goose & Grimdark
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A very handsy man.
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Hey, weird question: if I change my username to something I didn't come up with in middle school, can the OP be changed to have my new username? Not that I'm especially proud of the unspeakably lovely font I made as a teen, but, you know.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä Unless I'm forgetting something there was never actually a contract. Some visiting stereotype of an Arab oil baron just said those little wooden balls were neat and Teuvo went nuts with it.
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from memory, there was a contract but it was with crywood or even isopaljo himself, so what he did was launder the money through a po box company until it was time for the final payment then just didn't, transferred the remainder to himself and let juniper go under having not been paid in full for the sole contract they were created for.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Cathy - Feb 11+12 1977 huh  Bet you could make much better bogroll bouquets in the 70s when you could still get that coloured toilet paper.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery Giant Days is a completely different comic George.
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B Kliban No, this isn't a repeat  
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  Rae the Doe's web archives Depressive Episode  We're entering a couple longer stories here so I'm gonna post two strips from Rae the Doe's Week Off right now, and then the rest in the set later.   As I understand it, the cast of characters shown in these strips are from Olive's various previous attempts at starting a webcomic.
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Kennel posted:Dustin Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth LazyQ posted:Mämmilä KentuckyFriedBonBon posted:Hey, weird question: if I change my username to something I didn't come up with in middle school, can the OP be changed to have my new username? Not that I'm especially proud of the unspeakably lovely font I made as a teen, but, you know.
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The Far Side Pickles  Zits 
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So, I've been looking for something new to post since finishing Conan. The collections I found it in have a whole bunch of other comics, but finding one that interested me enough and had a reasonably complete run was a pain (Dark Shadows only had the Sundays, Hopalong Cassidy and Blue Beetle were missing weeks at a time, The Lone Ranger has Tonto and his broken English...). But then I found a strange little curiosity: in 1940-41, they attempted to make a Green Hornet comic strip, sending out a pressbook to newspapers with four weeks of strips (no Sundays) to attract interest. However, the strip didn't get picked up, and the next time the Green Hornet showed up in newspapers, it was his guest appearance in Dick Tracy. So, here's the first of 24 Green Hornet strips from 1941: I'm not super familiar with the Green Hornet, so don't expect effort posts like with Conan, but I hope it's enjoyable even in its brevity. I was considering Axa, a sword and rad-waste comic drawn by Romero, but reading the descriptions made me raise an eyebrow, and I decided to look ahead and realised that I'd probably have to spoiler tag basically every single comic. As it turns out, The Sun had no problems with Romero having Axa lose her clothes one way or the other, not to mention seemingly every male character I saw deciding she's perfect breeding material in the post-apocalypse, I figured maybe not. Still though, looking at the first four made me laugh in how Romero decided to get right to the nudity, so I decided I will post those, under the spoiler tags.   Axa_(comics) posted:Opening on a post-apocalyptic Earth in the year 2080, Axa is a woman who, having grown sick of the regimented and stifling society inside a domed city, flees into the untamed wilderness. The strip mixed elements of science fiction and sword-swinging barbarian tales. However, it is arguable that the strip's main draw were the frequent depictions of the full-figured Axa's tendency to wind up topless or fully nude, as rendered by good-girl artist Romero. You don't say.
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I would like to see Axa become a thread regular TBH.
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I’m vaguely interest in seeing how contrived the “get the main character out of her clothes” situation gets, and I’m assuming that given the abundance of hand-drawn porn on the internet we can have Axa posted without wolf noises, so I vote Axa. im only horny for Caspar Milquetoast anyways
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Sally Forth Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (May 24, 1933)  Peanuts (December 3, 1973)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Live Nude Chickweed  "Hi, I'm naked." "So am I." (They spend the next week quibbling over semantics.) JOCULARITY! Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (July 1, 1937)  Out Our Way (September 5-7, 1935)    Dok's "Contribute To The Fresh Air Fund" Duck (May 15, 1913) 
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EasyEW posted:Live Nude Chickweed On one hand, as someone with glasses, that's not an... awful joke. That said, I really don't want to see these fleshy lumps nude. Also, talking of nudity, I guess I'll keep posting Axa. I'm kinda curious how many will end up unspoilered, 'cause I have a feeling there won't be many. ... Do I want to ask what happened to Amos's nipples.
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catlord posted:... Do I want to ask what happened to Amos's nipples. Put your glasses on (It actually is a good joke)
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I'm still catching up on the thread, but this has been making me cackle like a mad man and it should be seen again.
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The Bloop posted:Put your glasses on But then I'd have to look at it!
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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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skeleton warrior posted:im only horny for Caspar Milquetoast anyways As can be seen in this installment of The Timid Soul (November 14, 1927), you're not the only one. Perhaps that's the same woman as the one from the strip I posted yesterday - the one who was thrilled to learn that Caspar wanted to buy porn. I assume "Love and the Law" is an allusion to a specific 1927 play - perhaps something that involved homosexuality or adultery, and/or prostitution. 
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Haulin Oates posted:I'm still catching up on the thread, but this has been making me cackle like a mad man and it should be seen again. Ha, I'd forgotten I'd even done that. It was probably the 5th version of the joke because everything harsher was too Dysfunctional Family Circus, and that probably rightly deserves to stay in the misty early internet.
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Ghostlight fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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Parahexavoctal posted:As can be seen in this installment of The Timid Soul (November 14, 1927), you're not the only one. Perhaps that's the same woman as the one from the strip I posted yesterday - the one who was thrilled to learn that Caspar wanted to buy porn. There were a number of at-the-time very daring plays about sexuality and queerness in the mid-late 20s, including Mae West's Sex and its 1927 follow-up The Drag. Eugene O'Neill also very very swiftly rose to almost single-handedly redefine American "legitimate theater" from Anna Christie (1920) onwards and dealt frankly with a whole slew of things that prior to the 20s were usually euphemised or politely ignored on the American stage (Annie Christie itself was about a former prostitute). Love and the Law was a 1913 silent melodrama written, directed by, and starring early megahunk Wallace Reid but it seems unlikely that Caspar and friend are referring to a by-then 14 year old bit of fluff, so I'm kind of stumped but very curious to know what this strip might be referring to! It's certainly not as obvious as Narrowmyth.
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And He Did! (October 20, 1917) Outbursts of Everett True (December 20, 1917)  Hitz and Mrs. (August 1923)  Gay and Her Gang (December 21, 1928)  Dark Laughter (May 14, 1938 click for big)  “Well, there wuzn’t nuthin’ wrong wid de club meetin’ - it wuz only wheen Bootsie started dat new stuff - what did he call it - Fillibuster?” They'll Do It Every Time (June 3, 1941)  Patty-Jo ’n’ Ginger (May 28, 1949)  “Goodness … we must be dizzy … not to let that wunnerful man catch up with us!” Twin Earths (August 25 - August 30, 1952)       Dinky Fellas (February 15, 1965)  February 15, 1965 is the day that “Wee Pals” started running in a few papers around the country. “Dinky Fellas” continued in the Chicago Defender, so I’ll continue posting those as well, and will attempt to keep the dates in sync.  I found five papers that published the first strip - the Oakland Tribune is the only publication I could find that published the strip on the comics page, and not elsewhere in the paper. Wee Pals (February 15, 1965)  You’ll see a bunch of “Dinky Fellas” re-runs with new art. Here’s what appeared on the comic page around the first strip. 
Slammy fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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EasyEW posted:Live Nude Chickweed Meanwhile, the creepy twins are sitting on the floor and seeing all of this.
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O god. I forgot about the unfunny travesty that was Miss Peach. With respect to Mr. Milquetost's theatrical proclivities, a little digging turned up - not a play, but a silent film: Gesetzeder Liebe , released in 1927, that covered quite a wide range of sexual issues and orientations. Which must have been an interesting challenge without sound. Would love to know if it had its own sheet score. https://www.filmaffinity.com/uk/film410186.html It ran under titles such as, "The Laws Of Love" in the US...and, in Austria, "Sexualkatastrophe" and starred a number of popular actors, including forums favorite, Conrad Veidt.
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amigolupus posted:Meanwhile, the creepy twins are sitting on the floor and seeing all of this. I'm all for hating on chickweed but six month old babies seeing their parents nude is not exactly a major concern
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PainterofCrap posted:O god. I forgot about the unfunny travesty that was Miss Peach. Oh my god, the Anders als die Andern reshoot. You are a genius, and that makes absolute total sense. Hirschfeld is a hero of gay and trans rights and I hope that anybody reading this who isn't familiar with him checks out his life story and his work! That's also a really interesting choice for Caspar to be hanging out talking about!
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack There's plenty of worse stuff in recent strips about how little Holbrook understands about working from home, but does he actually think everybody stares at the lens of their webcam for the entirety of a video call?
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Heck, I knew I forgot something yesterday...
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PainterofCrap posted:With respect to Mr. Milquetost's theatrical proclivities, a little digging turned up - not a play, but a silent film: Gesetzeder Liebe , released in 1927, that covered quite a wide range of sexual issues and orientations. Which must have been an interesting challenge without sound. Would love to know if it had its own sheet score. Oh, that's interesting. I wonder if Webster switched it from a film to a play for plausible deniability.
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Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom
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