Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

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ikanreed: Sep 25, 2009; I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

StrixNebulosa posted:

I don't get today's garf. Normally it's just vanilla but today it's confusing and bland

Cat lazy, insults Jon.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:22

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# ? Feb 13, 2025 18:33

Johnny Aztec: Jan 29, 2005; by Hand Knit

That Sloth Robbie is horrifying.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:23

Nyeehg: Jul 14, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Johnny Joestar posted:

i regret absolutely nothing. i would go back and read the comic a third time if i cared enough to go back in the thread.

Here you go

Ghostlight posted:

Does quoting this count as making an illegal copy?

:ohdear:

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:10

Yvonmukluk: Oct 10, 2012; Everything is Sinister

Bad Machinery

quote:

In today's comic, Hugh is eating a big bowl of unadorned minced beef. A mince dinner. Can you imagine sitting down to a big bowl of mince? I've seen it happen. Changed my world.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:56

How Wonderful!: Jul 18, 2006; I only have excellent ideas

Nyeehg posted:

Here you go

Does quoting this count as making an illegal copy?

Quarantine isn't stopping comics crime so from here on out I'm switching to marks of shame. Tread carefully, comics pervs.

How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Feb 11, 2020

# ? Feb 11, 2020 22:11

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange

Retail

Get Fuzzy 2/10/00

# ? Feb 11, 2020 23:15

Professor Wayne: Aug 27, 2008; So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

My Dad is Dracula

hi son 👥 A Guest Comic by @effingdecaf approaches!!

Find more of his work at https://www.effingdecaf.tumblr.com

Pickles

Zits

# ? Feb 11, 2020 23:28

TampaTango: Apr 12, 2007; COMICS CRIMINAL

Is this a technicality, like a grape juice block?
https://i.imgur.com/gasqwAX.png

# ? Feb 11, 2020 23:42

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

Star Wars is totally legal to read as many times as you like, cops

# ? Feb 11, 2020 23:44

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

Vintage Valiant (Sep. 11, 1937)

# ? Feb 11, 2020 23:49

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.

Val's loving brutal. There needs to be a game based on this dude.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 23:55

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

gently caress THE POLICE

# ? Feb 12, 2020 00:03

Gnoman: Feb 11, 2014; Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme

Copying Marvin is an act that punishes itself.

# ? Feb 12, 2020 00:10

Johnny Joestar: Oct 21, 2010; Don't shoot him?

...
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yeah i think the cops would just pity you at that point

# ? Feb 12, 2020 00:14

TofuDiva: Aug 22, 2010; Playin' Possum; Muldoon

Ballard Street

# ? Feb 12, 2020 00:20

Angular Cyrus: May 29, 2007; everything is so much harder than it looks

King Aroo 9/22/53

They'll Do It Every Time 9/4/46

Mopsy 9/14/42

# ? Feb 12, 2020 00:21

Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

Goddamn I love Prince Val.

# ? Feb 12, 2020 00:30

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

The Dinette Set might be busy then.

Working Daze aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :tizzy:

Super-Fun-Pak Comix is a mistake we've all made.

Cul De Sac is a good role model.

# ? Feb 12, 2020 02:04

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Bogor

# ? Feb 12, 2020 03:03

Vox Valentine: May 30, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Ghostlight posted:

Well, good on you for not letting him just loving die, I guess.

# ? Feb 12, 2020 03:24

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

TampaTango posted:

Is this a technicality, like a grape juice block?
https://i.imgur.com/gasqwAX.png

Aww, poo poo! I have been bamboozled into breaking the rules!

As expected, Pru's long distance girlfriend was only a prop to allow Luann to bitch about her love life. And rightly so, apparently. All the years she dated Quill and he never gave her anything on Valentine's Day?

# ? Feb 12, 2020 03:50

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Man young Val does not gently caress around at all

# ? Feb 12, 2020 03:55

A Single Sphink: Feb 10, 2004; COMICS CRIMINAL

Ghostlight posted:

ps

I copied this floppy.

# ? Feb 12, 2020 05:25

amigolupus: Aug 25, 2017

Julet Esqu posted:

As expected, Pru's long distance girlfriend was only a prop to allow Luann to bitch about her love life. And rightly so, apparently. All the years she dated Quill and he never gave her anything on Valentine's Day?

Maybe instead of just giving the guys she dated cards, Luann should have gone on actual dates during Valentines Day. But I guess Good Girls never go on dates ever.

Also, I thought the card was from Pru's ex because giving someone a card on Valentines seems too impersonal. But from how Luann phrases it, Team Evans seem to think Valentines cards are a huge thing for college students.

# ? Feb 12, 2020 05:48

Resident Idiot: May 11, 2007; Maxine13; Grimey Drawer

I'll leave it for the normal poster, but today's Mark Trail is absolutely hilarious in context. Consider that a teaser.

# ? Feb 12, 2020 06:02

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ? Feb 12, 2020 06:09

How Wonderful!: Jul 18, 2006; I only have excellent ideas

Barnaby (July 15-July 16, 1942)

Dykes to Watch Out For

I've read a fair bit of queer lit from the 70s and 80s and I love that Bechdel is willing to show her lesbian characters as just as insufferable and dysfunctional as their straight counterparts in a very quotidian and tender fashion that was pretty uncommon in queer prose fiction of that period. It reminds me of the very intimate, funny and mean queer poetry coming out of the New Narrative people on the West Coast and 2nd gen New York School on the east-- people like Bruce Boone and Dodie Bellamie and Eileen Myles and so on. It makes me super curious about what Bechdel was reading in the 80s-- I know she namedrops Audre Lorde here and there, as someone who was kind of a watchword for a certain kind of political queer bookish-type in the 80s, and talks about Adrienne Rich a bunch in the forward. It makes me want to do a real deep dive in the small papers and magazines she was publishing in, who else she was sharing page-space with.

Sam's Strip (January 15-January 17, 1962)

I think it's kind of interesting that from the vantage point of the very early 60s the Cold War is being sort of referred to as an artifact of the recent past of the 1950s.

Pogo (November 4-November 7, 1948)

For all of the reputation Pogo has I'm finding myself a little overwhelmed by just how wordy it is, to the extent that I keep forgetting where I'm up to because the strips begin to blur together. Anyway this little election storyline culminates with a fairly cute gag about Harry Truman's famous upset over Thomas Dewey in the presidential election held that November 2nd.

# ? Feb 12, 2020 06:35

ukonvasara: Aug 16, 2012; a mixture of gravity and waggery

amigolupus posted:

Maybe instead of just giving the guys she dated cards, Luann should have gone on actual dates during Valentines Day. But I guess Good Girls never go on dates ever.

Also, I thought the card was from Pru's ex because giving someone a card on Valentines seems too impersonal. But from how Luann phrases it, Team Evans seem to think Valentines cards are a huge thing for college students.

The Evanses have spent years and years slowly aging Luann and her peers after writing her as a 13-year-old for the first 15 or so years of the strip, and now they've gone through the rest of middle school and high school and have been in their first two years of college for the last six years, but even when they show flashes of actual age-appropriate behavior the characters always end up snapping back to acting like they're 13, Luann especially. Imagine a college sophomore (who doesn't display any of the other common cultural signs of being egregiously sheltered) ruminating about how many "Valentine's cards" she's gotten from "boys" over the years. If your matches are wet it's because your dipshit writers keep turning the hose on them, Luann!

Also you shouldn't spend too much time thinking about Pru's girlfriend, real or ex or whatever--guaranteed that's just a throwaway line to remind readers that she's a lesbian and the Evanses have not put any thought into expanding this character beyond her one dimension.

# ? Feb 12, 2020 06:46

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

In today's Corto Maltese: Corto and Rasputin invoke the spirit of Engelbert Humperdinck. Specifically 'Blue on blue', or Chang can't shoot for poo poo, or ...if you had prepped the bridge with explosives, Lil, why did you bother trying to mortar it in the first place...?

# ? Feb 12, 2020 07:31

RandomPauI: Nov 24, 2006; Grimey Drawer

I am still convinced that the awards thing was just an excuse to give kids cheap pieces of paper and cheap pieces of plastic instead of ice cream and soda and food that makes kids happy/hyper.

# ? Feb 12, 2020 08:12