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Shiroc posted:Is this in the actual Little Women book or is Olive explicitly driving it towards a trans masc story? It's a direct quote, or as close as I can remember without looking it up. It's a good book.
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I stumbled across this earlier. The third group of contestants of this episode of To Tell The Truth has an expert on comic strips from 1964. He has over two thousand strips! I wonder what he'd think of threads like this if he could've seen them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlnHTUKdqw The Lockhorns  Brewster Rockit Space Guy  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Kevin & Kell  Mother Goose & Grimm  Hagar The Horrible  Sherman's Lagoon  Ella Cinders  The return of Zorro! 
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Mandatory holiday parties through Zoom sounds like hell on earth so of course Fast Rack supports this course of mandatory fun.
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Vargo posted:Curtis A bird's nest is lucky because YOU still have a house you monster.
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side Hostile V posted:Mandatory holiday parties through Zoom sounds like hell on earth so of course Fast Rack supports this course of mandatory fun.  ' humour anymore without being vaguely tasteless and insulting on some level, but if there is we're never going to find it in this strip.
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Drakyn posted:I'm ashamed to admit that I still don't get this one. And google isn't cooperating. the entire point of butterfly collecting was their distinct and colorful wings, not their interchangeably gross little bug bodies
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In this installment of The Timid Soul (January 15, 1933)... I'm not sure. Do you think Webster meant to portray Caspar as foolishly weak and easily intimidated here? Because to me, it looks like he wants to fairly pay people for their labor. The look on the homeless man's face, though... (Inflation Calculator says $1.75 in 1933 is about $35 today.) 
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yeah i think the wage is intended to be exorbitant because he's intimidated by the large angry man. i think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody willing to even pay half that amount today for the same work, let alone hand out a free dinner on top.
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Hwurmp posted:the entire point of butterfly collecting was their distinct and colorful wings, not their interchangeably gross little bug bodies
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Ghostlight posted:yeah i think the wage is intended to be exorbitant because he's intimidated by the large angry man. i think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody willing to even pay half that amount today for the same work, let alone hand out a free dinner on top. I think the actual amount of the wage is a secondary element of the joke--the initial offer was "I'll work for my dinner", and Caspar is so intimidated that he throws in money on top of the dinner.
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Drakyn posted:I just completely overshot it then; I was sure this was a joke about some specific guy out there. There was a Perry Bible Fellowship long before PBFing, and I have fallen for it.
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ukonvasara posted:I think the actual amount of the wage is a secondary element of the joke--the initial offer was "I'll work for my dinner", and Caspar is so intimidated that he throws in money on top of the dinner.
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The Timid Soul reminds me a little of Dr Seuss in the faces.
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Sally Forth Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (June 5, 1933)  Peanuts (December 17, 1973)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  9 Chickweed Lane  Bullshit. There's nothing remotely 21st century about Chickweed. Rip(-off) Haywire  Thimble Theater (July 15, 1937)  'Out Our Way (October 10-12, 1935)    Toonerville Folks (November 16-18, 1916)    Lilly (July 2-4, 1923)   
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A really great detail in that Timid Soul is to look at their shoes. The snow could be cleared with a broom!
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The Dinette Set only has so many hours in the day. Working Daze peters out.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix leaves us hanging.  Cul De Sac knows that the thought doesn't count that much. 
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And He Did! (November 15, 1917) Outbursts of Everett True (January 19, 1918)  Hitz and Mrs. (September 1923)  Gay and Her Gang (January 7, 1929)  Dark Laughter (November 19, 1938)  “Fight? No. Officer, there wuzn’t no fight. We jest asked Mr. Bootsie an’ Stewmeat to leave on account of they isn’t in our social set.” They'll Do It Every Time (June 19, 1941)  Patty-Jo ’n’ Ginger (September 17, 1949)  “Hold it, Sis .. don’t ’splan nothin’ to him! … sir, we left that color line blank, and refuse to answer on accounta in THIS school, it might be INCRIMINATIN’.” Twin Earths (September 8 - September 13, 1952)       Dinky Fellas (March 3, 1965)  Wee Pals (March 3, 1965) 
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Slammy posted:Gay and Her Gang (January 7, 1929) That's the best final panel in the history of comic strips. An absolutely killer burn.
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I know it's going to be incredibly stupid but I have to ask. Why is that bear (I think it's a bear?) in Kevin and Kell wearing a turtle shell?
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Twelve by Pies posted:I know it's going to be incredibly stupid but I have to ask. Why is that bear (I think it's a bear?) in Kevin and Kell wearing a turtle shell? She was a weasel and she transitioned to being a turtle to keep her head down after the poachers that wanted to skin her thought they killed her when George, the gopher she's with, disguised himself as her and the wig he wore got... caught on something? I feel like someone got hit by a car at some point during that chase sequence and it was tied to that. Anyways, someone else had the turtle shell... a frog maybe? And the snake had it in her closet or whatever after the previous owner... I don't know. There's like, half a dozen metaphors in this stew and they've all mixed together.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I know it's going to be incredibly stupid but I have to ask. Why is that bear (I think it's a bear?) in Kevin and Kell wearing a turtle shell? Weasel lady was fleeing Poachers. She needed a new identity, so 'the heroes' hacked databases to declare her dead and give her a new identity as a turtle. She used to use the real turtle shell used by the frog-pretending-to-be-a-turtle who was the snake's boyfriend, but they returned that one and 3D printed a new one. So now she can never show her real face again without having people trying to kill her. If you think this sounds absurd and dumb and convoluted keep in mind I am leaving out as much as I can. It is so, so much dumber.
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Axa kinda sucks.
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how many people live under that tree
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Ashsaber posted:If you think this sounds absurd and dumb and convoluted keep in mind I am leaving out as much as I can. It is so, so much dumber. It's Kevin and Kell so that goes without saying.  Especially since just wearing a turtle shell doesn't give you the ability to retract your head into it so it doesn't even make any sense to begin with. But this is also a comic where a moth got burned by trying to gently caress a giant light bulb that wasn't even lit.Green Intern posted:Axa kinda sucks. It seemed kind of exciting and the promise of a woman going out into the ruins of civilization to have cool swordfighting adventures made me interested, but yeah. It just turned into her getting repeatedly kidnapped and backstabbed by Matt, who I really hope doesn't get miraculously saved because he's an incredible rear end in a top hat.
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it's kind of poetic that he's a huge piece of poo poo that constantly defers to a male authority figure without question rather than slightly acknowledge the personhood of women while also being from a culture that venerates the waybackwhens of the decades in which the actual comic is being written, but i'm 100% sure that's entirely by accident.
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 How the typical 1950s man envisioned feminism.
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Ghostlight posted:it's kind of poetic that he's a huge piece of poo poo that constantly defers to a male authority figure without question rather than slightly acknowledge the personhood of women while also being from a culture that venerates the waybackwhens of the decades in which the actual comic is being written, but i'm 100% sure that's entirely by accident. I dunno, I think that might actually kinda be what they were going for with his character. But coming from 1978, it's... weird, since we're looking at it so much later and 1978 is, as the past tends to be, an utterly foreign country. Anyways, Twelve by Pies posted:It seemed kind of exciting and the promise of a woman going out into the ruins of civilization to have cool swordfighting adventures made me interested, but yeah. It just turned into her getting repeatedly kidnapped and backstabbed by Matt, who I really hope doesn't get miraculously saved because he's an incredible rear end in a top hat. boy, is he. I'm hoping it picks up in the adventure department and drops off in the "rear end in a top hat men" department. It's like a sword-swinging, nudist Apartment 3-G sometimes. I won't leave you in suspense, here's a special quick update: Axa  Bye Matt!  This feels super appropriate for this post. I love it. Wonder if it'd work as an Av. catlord fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Scary Gary in which Leopold becomes unexpectedly endearing 
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Little Women is an incredible book, and Jo is a really interesting character. Louisa May Alcott is just the best-- I highly recommend her sketch Transcendental Wild Oats too. Anyway, I apologize for falling way behind on Dykes to Watch Out For, I had been extremely busy with wrapping up the semester and holding student conferences and having various committee meetings. I was planning on resuming this week but my phone was stolen on Saturday so I'm temporarily unable to do much with the books I have on hand. As soon as I have phone access again though I'll get right back on it.
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Family Circus Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon Zing?
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Twelve by Pies posted:It's Kevin and Kell so that goes without saying. Note that what makes this even stupider is that pheromones are A Thing. Weasel lady only disguised herself with that shell, so any predator tracking down a weasel can still find her by scent. Twelve by Pies posted:It seemed kind of exciting and the promise of a woman going out into the ruins of civilization to have cool swordfighting adventures made me interested, but yeah. It just turned into her getting repeatedly kidnapped and backstabbed by Matt, who I really hope doesn't get miraculously saved because he's an incredible rear end in a top hat. Matt being terrible just makes me appreciate Willie more, for being a stand-up guy and never being shoehorned as Modesty's love interest.
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amigolupus posted:Note that what makes this even stupider is that pheromones are A Thing. Weasel lady only disguised herself with that shell, so any predator tracking down a weasel can still find her by scent.
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Tiggum posted:Zing? This was the first computoon I ever found remotely funny.
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amigolupus posted:Note that what makes this even stupider is that pheromones are A Thing. Weasel lady only disguised herself with that shell, so any predator tracking down a weasel can still find her by scent. We'll see later on that pheromones in the K&K Hellverse work phenomenally well. At one point they do a "masked ball" which has the guests douse themselves in other species' scent, and there's a gag where a giraffe bonks their head on a low doorframe because the pheromones made them forget they were a giraffe. Classic Kevin and Kell (June 8-12, 1998)     
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