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amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

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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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!

amigolupus posted:

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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?

Nah, it's just "my entitled kids don't respect the hard work I (don't) do for them"

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
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)




Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

I want a rocket hug.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

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?

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

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.
Huh! Do you not have any kind of stinging jellyfish over in Finland?

This is apparently the only jello we got: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_aurita
Not sure if it hurts, never seen one.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

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.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

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.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

^^^^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

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Zip


Rip


Dick


Duck

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Obligatory:

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
It's really difficult for me not to post today's Mark Trail, holy poo poo, it's killing me.

BCN



Phoebe



Wallace



Curtis

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA


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 :v:

(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)

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
2017 Spiderman


1978 Comics will come later because :effort:

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

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Surgeon's Tales



Nancy



Dustin


Mandrake


1997 Viivi & Wagner

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Still waiting for some non-awesome detail of this character to be revealed.

TofuDiva
Aug 22, 2010

Playin' Possum





Muldoon
Ballard Street

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012


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

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 9/23/53


They'll Do It Every Time 9/5/46


Mopsy 9/15/42

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (Sep. 18, 1937)

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Green Intern posted:

I want a rocket hug.
:same:

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

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
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)

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

....

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

Doomykins
Jun 28, 2008

Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?
I can't believe how badly Vargo got owned here. Or perhaps "Trailed", as it were.

Gloomy Rube
Mar 4, 2008



If only Juvenile Diabetes hadn't made me lose my leg, I could have been a social media star

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
This Vargo poo poo is so good, I'm so glad this happened

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Holy poo poo mark trail.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

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.

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

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.

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


EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
I didn't even read the cursed comic once, and thus have an unused seat license. Meet me in SA-Mart for details.

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Out Our Way (February 8-10, 1934)





Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


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.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

WASP CREW
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.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable


I have been kinda unimpressed by this comic at best, and grossed/creeped out more often than not.

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



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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.
Extreme tl;dr:
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.

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

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:

....

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

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.

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.

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.

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

WASP CREW
Thanks, that's amazing.

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catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

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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