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In this installment of The Timid Soul (March 4, 1935), it's interesting to see how far back the stereotype of "dentist's office has old magazines" goes. Look at the detail on that dentist's chair. 
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The Dinette Set should mind their own business. Working Daze ugh.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix might want to reschedule.  Cul De Sac is out with the old, in with the new. 
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Kennel posted:Dustin kelley get your poo poo together.
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Kelley doesn't understand the jokes he's making? Say it ain't so. Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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Have insects been characterized as being fully sentient, or is this one specific slice of the hellworld that doesn't have overtly horrifying implications?
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Elysiume posted:Have insects been characterized as being fully sentient, or is this one specific slice of the hellworld that doesn't have overtly horrifying implications? Oh no, every living thing except plants (*) in the K&K universe is fully sentient. Even microbes and viruses. (*) With some exceptions that involve sci-fi shenanigans. You'll see when we'll get there.
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (April 30, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (April 30, 1999)  Garfield Classic (April 30, 1989) 
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Mikl posted:Oh no, every living thing except plants (*) in the K&K universe is fully sentient. Even microbes and viruses.
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Mikl posted:Oh no, every living thing except plants (*) in the K&K universe is fully sentient. Even microbes and viruses. If anything it's even worse with the insects since most animals here are kinda scaled up to human size while insects are still normal insect size, so insectivores are basically murdering dozens if not hundreds of people a day.
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Zerilan posted:If anything it's even worse with the insects since most animals here are kinda scaled up to human size while insects are still normal insect size, so insectivores are basically murdering dozens if not hundreds of people a day. e: not even getting into the obvious issues with having lab mice that are fully sentient/sapient Elysiume fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Elysiume posted:Somehow the worst part of this response is that some plants aren't sentient, because I hadn't even thought about plants. Is the tree that the main family lives in sentient because of shenanigans, orrrrr I don't even know how to finish this question because the K&K world is so hosed up The very short version is: the Birdluminati have an Intelligence Beam that they can use to make people smart (or smart-er, as the case may be and it also has a reverse setting but don't think too hard about that because the implications are extra horrifying); if used on non-sentient living things, such as plants, it makes them sentient. The tree the family is living in isn't sentient right at this moment in time, but will later get accidentally zapped by the Intelligence Beam.
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Mikl posted:The very short version is: the Birdluminati have an Intelligence Beam that they can use to make people smart (or smart-er, as the case may be and it also has a reverse setting but don't think too hard about that because the implications are extra horrifying); if used on non-sentient living things, such as plants, it makes them sentient. The tree the family is living in isn't sentient right at this moment in time, but will later get accidentally zapped by the Intelligence Beam. Was the beam used by mistake, meaning that they accidentally brought a sentient, immobile, borderline defenseless intelligence into existence, or was it intentional for some likely-contrived reason? I'll be more than content to get a high-level answer and wait for the actual storyline to pop up in the thread. vv e: Little My is a hero and a scholar Elysiume fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Elysiume posted:Was the beam used by mistake, meaning that they accidentally brought a sentient, immobile, borderline defenseless intelligence into existence, or was it intentional for some likely-contrived reason? I'll be more than content to get a high-level answer and wait for the actual storyline to pop up in the thread. Nigel, Miss Aura's son, was playing around with it, and it accidentally went off. It hit a few things, including the tree.
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Mikl posted:Nigel, Miss Aura's son, was playing around with it, and it accidentally went off. It hit a few things, including the tree. *: a human-sized insectivore, assuming they needed to scale up insect consumption (since insects are still insect-sized) directly proportional to mass would likely need to consume dozens or hundreds of insects per day to stay alive, each of which was a sentient being with a family, interests, hopes, and dreams
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PainterofCrap posted:Monster Rally - 1950 Keep posting. I love these cartoons. My mother is French, back in the early 1960 she came here, and knew English. To better understand Americans, she had a copy of Homebodies that she annotated in french and english. Thanks for posting!
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Starting to look like a FOIA request in here.
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Mämmilä Real world reason for the Ekox name change was that Koivisto and co. hadn't realised that there already was a real Finnish company named Ekox. Apparently the owner took it all in good humor, but in the comic the company will now be known as Ekoday.
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  Rae the Doe presents: Little Women, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  Rae the Doe's web archives Laps  Representation 
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it is one lap but high-capacity, just like how a bus is still one vehicle
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 12/27/00  Brenda Starr 2/24/45  So Mr. Jinx is apparently famous enough that his actions are front page, above the fold news...? Smokey Stover 2/27-3/1/39    Richard's Poor Almanac  If you're confused by the last panel.... 
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Elysiume posted:*: a human-sized insectivore, assuming they needed to scale up insect consumption (since insects are still insect-sized) directly proportional to mass would likely need to consume dozens or hundreds of insects per day to stay alive, each of which was a sentient being with a family, interests, hopes, and dreams There are both normal-scale sentient insects (Like Tammy, the moth that Fenton was cheating Limdesfarne with) and tiny scale sentient insects (like the ones who tried to get Fenton extradited and were eaten by the jury) in K&K.
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Vargo posted:Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV8N5JP29q0
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (May 16, 1952)  Calvin and Hobbes (Sept 24-25, 1988)   Robbie and Bobby (Dec 21, 2017)  (Jan 16, 2018)   Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here.
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SubNat posted:Moominposting Comic Strips 2021: The Rhinoceros has got stuck in the Piano
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Darthemed posted:Popular Comics There must have been at least one person who learned a little about how to fly a plane by reading this strip, and thought that was enough to try it for real. I hope they survived. 
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Powered Descent posted:There must have been at least one person who learned a little about how to fly a plane by reading this strip, and thought that was enough to try it for real. I hope they survived. I'd like to think that through picking up bits and pieces over the years, that, in an emergency, I could fly* a plane *that is, do the bare minimum, and not like IMMEDIATELY just crash it.
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Sally Forth Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (June 16, 1933)  Peanuts (December 31, 1973)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  9 Chickweed Lane  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (July 29, 1937)  Out Our Way (November 7-9, 1935)    Dok's "War Against Nature" Duck (May 25, 1913) 
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Vintage Valiant (Dec. 20, 1942) 
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Darthemed posted:Docks This one got an external laugh. Vargo posted:Phoebe This one got an internal scream. Vargo posted:CURTIS KWANZAA STORY This one got an internal ooohhh yeeeeah.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Dec. 20, 1942) 
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