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ukonvasara posted: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! Luann herself is terrible because even if she didn't act like a 13-year old all the time, she behaves like a typical incel where she refuses to date anyone who doesn't meet her impossible standards, then whines about how she never gets any. It's no wonder she resonates so well with all the assholes at the comic's comment section. ukonvasara posted: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. You're right, I wouldn't want to read Team Evans' take on gay/lesbian relationships anyway. Don't be such an Ed Kudlick, Arlo. What's Lynn trying to say here? That the kid is wrong for thinking having a car would make life easier because then you'd be stuck caring for it forever and be miserable? ...This is somehow Lynn's metaphor for having children, isn't it?
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amigolupus posted:. Nah, it's just "my entitled kids don't respect the hard work I (don't) do for them"
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Crabgrass![]() Support Tauhid's Patreon here. I respect Kevin's attitude towards authority. Old School Peanuts (Jun 23, 1951) ![]() Calvin and Hobbes (Feb 2-3, 1987) ![]() ![]() Robbie and Bobby (Apr 7-8th 2015) ![]() ![]() ![]()
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I want a rocket hug.
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Moomin on the Riviera![]() Moominmama knows that it's best to just let them get it out of their system. And this made me curious, but apparently the Lion's Mane Jellyfish/Brennmanet really doesn't like the Baltic, and doesn't spawn there. Huh! Do you not have any kind of stinging jellyfish over in Finland?
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SubNat posted:And this made me curious, but apparently the Lion's Mane Jellyfish/Brennmanet really doesn't like the Baltic, and doesn't spawn there. This is apparently the only jello we got: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_aurita Not sure if it hurts, never seen one.
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Moon Jellies are basically harmless to touch. The only danger they pose is to any kind of intake valve or engine if they happen to clog it up.
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Yeah they just hang out and chill, and do nothing else. They're quite lovely. You could pick one up without any issue, though you should just leave 'em be, since they're just water and jello. Surprising though, I imagine going to the beach in Finland must be nice, without huge swarms of orange burny jellies hanging about.
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^^^^they are safe, but we get massive cyanobacteria blooming in the summer because of too much nutrients from farming The Baltic Sea is brackish (and gets more so the further you go from Denmark) and many marine species need higher salinity levels to survive/reproduce and it additionally freezes in the winter. Jellyfish haven't evolved to live in these conditions because they're spineless wimps. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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It's really difficult for me not to post today's Mark Trail, holy poo poo, it's killing me. BCN ![]() ![]() Phoebe ![]() ![]() Wallace ![]() ![]() Curtis ![]() ![]()
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riderchop posted:Garfield First: don't feed your dog any scraps from your dining place. Don't. Do this even once and there's a good chance your dog will go "aha it worked" and come back for more. Second: ignore, ignore, ignore. If you did it once and need to stop it, it's going to take a long time but seriously ignore them. Attention only encourages bad behavior. Third: consider putting them in their kennel or in another room while eating if it bothers you that much alternatively, do what I do and feed them scraps in the kitchen while I'm cooking, so they learn to beg in the kitchen instead of at the table ![]() (seriously though I love apollo, his method of begging is standing silently and looking and it's so polite compared to a whine or nosing at me)
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2017 Spiderman![]() 1978 Comics will come later because ![]() Dick Tracy ![]() ![]() Major Crime Squad ![]() ![]() Staton/Curtis' Tracy fanfic continues to be more action-packed than their actual Tracy run. Locher Tracy ![]() ![]() Origins of the Sunday Comics ![]() Footrot Flats ![]()
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Surgeon's Tales![]() ![]() Nancy ![]() ![]() Dustin ![]() Mandrake ![]() 1997 Viivi & Wagner ![]()
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Vargo posted:Phoebe
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Vargo posted:Curtis Wow, a comic strip that suggests social media might be something more than pablum for drooling morons or a scourge on society? Buni ![]() Rhymes with Orange ![]() Retail ![]() Get Fuzzy 2/11/00 ![]()
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King Aroo 9/23/53![]() They'll Do It Every Time 9/5/46 ![]() Mopsy 9/15/42 ![]()
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Green Intern posted:I want a rocket hug. ![]() F Minus ![]() Sorry you all had to wait for The Sad Tale of Vargo and His Desperate Need for Validation but I was having a busy day. ![]() Mary Worth ![]() The Phantom ![]() So he came there to say "Neenerer-neener nee-ner!" Pooch Cafe ![]() It's true. Dogs just love sniffing rear end. Rex Morgan MD ![]() Andertoons ![]() Apartment 3-G ![]()
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Fingerpori![]() -As a child I believed in angels... -...It's difficult now. -Jeremy Clarkson let me try his Mercedes! -We went 200mph on the Beltway! (The original refers 1982 Formula 1 Champion Keke Rosberg)
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.... am I being too cynical or is Mark Trail being ableist here? Losing a leg changes your life sure but it doesn't.... it doesn't cause yeti-delusions or a crippling addiction to social media
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I can't believe how badly Vargo got owned here. Or perhaps "Trailed", as it were.
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If only Juvenile Diabetes hadn't made me lose my leg, I could have been a social media star
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This Vargo poo poo is so good, I'm so glad this happened
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Holy poo poo mark trail.
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Wow, Vargo, he really showed you! The Dinette Set is technically correct. The best kind of correct. ![]() Working Daze could have been funny if it hadn't been done a million times before. ![]() Super-Fun-Pak Comix gets down to our level. ![]() Cul De Sac plays matchmaker. ![]()
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Gloomy Rube posted:If only Juvenile Diabetes hadn't made me lose my leg, I could have been a social media star I've been thinking about this all day and how it makes no goddamn sense. Whatever James was going for here with Harvey retreating to social media because of his leg is really undone by the fact that Harvey has been HIKING THE loving HIMALAYAS WITH ONE LEG THIS ENTIRE TIME. If his leg didn't stop him from doing this, then why would it stop him from doing anything else? Also, if Harvey wanted to be big on social media, then he would absolutely play up the missing leg, not keep it hidden! The internet would lose its poo poo for a one-legged adventurer! So yeah, James is being ablest as gently caress here and it makes no sense. This is what happens when a man who doesn't know how to use Twitter's @ function writes a story about social media.
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I didn't even read the cursed comic once, and thus have an unused seat license. Meet me in SA-Mart for details. Sally Forth ![]() ![]() ![]() Skippy (September 21-23, 1932) ![]() ![]() ![]() Peanuts (February 12-14, 1973) ![]() ![]() ![]() Funky WInkerbean ![]() ![]() ![]() Crankshaft ![]() ![]() ![]() 9 Spankbank Lane ![]() ![]() ![]() Rip Haywire ![]() ![]() ![]() Thimble Theater (September 10-12, 1936) ![]() ![]() ![]() Out Our Way (February 8-10, 1934) ![]() ![]() ![]()
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This is internet the equivalent of a man attempting a citizen's arrest on a child on a schoolbus for sticking his tongue out at him and then escalating to a civil suit for defamation.
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Wait, okay, I haven't been reading every comic that gets posted, but is the Mark Trail guy using his comic as ammunition for a Twitter fight? A Twitter fight with someone in this thread?? How long has this been happening, there's eighteen threads and they're all five hundred pages.
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Ghostlight posted:Bogor I have been kinda unimpressed by this comic at best, and grossed/creeped out more often than not.
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YggiDee posted:Wait, okay, I haven't been reading every comic that gets posted, but is the Mark Trail guy using his comic as ammunition for a Twitter fight? A Twitter fight with someone in this thread?? How long has this been happening, there's eighteen threads and they're all five hundred pages. Last thread, Vargo made fun of Jame Sallen for using clip art. This made Jam Eseallen very mad, and also confused because he's an old man who doesn't understand twitter or how username tagging works/etc. Jamesal Len responded by writing Mr. Social Media Diabetes as a Vargo insert of a sort. He also started drawing more non-clipart but this is supposedly because he was on vacation and using a tablet. The actual twitter slapfight stopped before this arc started, fyi.
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I bust out laughing at today's Mark Trail. It's so much better than I could've imagined. Jams is such a petty rear end in a top hat and he just looks worse and worse every time he tries to own you, Vargo.StrixNebulosa posted:.... The phrase "the loss of his leg prevented him from becoming" comes across as very ableist to me. Vargo posted:I've been thinking about this all day and how it makes no goddamn sense. All of this requires Jams to be competent at writing, or be able to keep track of the poo poo he wrote. I can't help but wonder if the reason for the inconsistency is because Jams already wrote the first part of this story before he got mad at your posts and decided to change things up midway. Speaking of ableist as gently caress, Dick Tracy didn't even hesitate in telling us that Shaky Trembly was bad even as a kid. If this were Holbrook, there's a good chance this is going to end with her giving birth during this snowstorm.
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EasyEW posted:9 Spankbank Lane Remember when I suggested that Brooke has an entire basement filled with sketchbook after sketchbook of smut featuring his characters? I think he's dipping into them now. I think that's one thing that gets me about Brooke McEldowney, that fact that he's seemingly super lazy. He doesn't do backgrounds beyond the bare minimum, whatever he thinks of is written down without thinking how to make it work for a newspaper comic or editing it, and while he's better at depicting motion than the Frazz guy it's still not great and he's been doing it for years now. Him just grabbing pictures from his sketchbook shouldn't surprise me given that time he just ran his own stupid commentary on individual panels (about loving) for two weeks, but it feels like a new low (well, every single new storyline is, but you know). Edit: At least we have James Allen's Mark Trail meltdown to keep us warm in these troubled times. Seriously though, Vargo must have been one of the best hikers to go that long without anyone noticing he was missing a leg. Haifisch posted:Staton/Curtis' Tracy fanfic continues to be more action-packed than their actual Tracy run. Yeah, I can absolutely see why they got hired in the first place. catlord fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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