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Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange



Retail



Get Fuzzy 2/14/00



Stephen Collins

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gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
Juliet Jones, where it seems I misread Tuesday's strip. It is not baseball that is Don's dread secret, but where he played it. The world seems a little duller just now. Back on Monday with more exciting blackmail action.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

amigolupus posted:

How do you even forget your own company? And buying a bunch of copyrights and just sitting on them is extremely lovely. Harmony Gold just did the same thing where they extended their stranglehold on Macross just so they could keep doing nothing with it.

I like how in Batiuk's fantasy of starting his own comic company the only solution he can think of to any problem is just having a really rich guy in the room being rich. He can't even pretend like success in the field has anything to do with talent.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

Some Guy TT posted:

I like how in Batiuk's fantasy of starting his own comic company the only solution he can think of to any problem is just having a really rich guy in the room being rich. He can't even pretend like success in the field has anything to do with talent.

Why should he? He doesn't have any real talent and he's a nationally syndicated cartoonist. :v:

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Tina's Groove Classic (July 17, 2008)



Arlo and Janis Classic (July 17, 1998)



Garfield Classic (July 17, 1988)

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Moomin on the Riviera

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 💃 this guest comic by @jubaltheearlyworm loves to hang out in strip malls. See more of Tim’s comics here: https://jubaltheearlyworm.tumblr.com

Pickles


Zits

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
Old School Peanuts (Jun 27, 1951)




Calvin and Hobbes (Feb 8-9, 1987)






Robbie and Bobby (Apr 15-16, 2015)




Ice Train
Nov 17, 2012

Orca lady?

readingatwork posted:

Calvin and Hobbes (Feb 8-9, 1987)





The first a classic the second me when I was Calvin's age.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"


College Slice
Docks




Zip


Rip


Dick


Duck

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.


Selachian posted:


Stephen Collins



This is NOT funny, how DARE you doxx me like this.

The worst form of this dream I had was when I realized I was dreaming and so my subconscious threw in serial killers who were hunting me down. AND I still had to finish the exam.

riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!
BCN



Phoebe



Wallace



Curtis

Zereth
Jul 8, 2003



:raise: there was a marathon in antarctica?

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Some Guy TT posted:

Cheer Up Boss Dharma
Man Korean needs a whole lot more characters for "what's with Peggy" and a whole lot less for "semiconductor factory" than I would have guessed.

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

Kids these days use the clicker to go to channel Netflicks. Get with the times, old man.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

Is he now part of the fentanyl problem or something?

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks

Hoover Dam
Jun 17, 2003

red white and blue forever

My Lovely Horse posted:

Man Korean needs a whole lot more characters for "what's with Peggy" and a whole lot less for "semiconductor factory" than I would have guessed.

Korean's an alphabet with separate letters just like the Latin alphabet, so if you figure no spaces and ' as its own character, English only needs four more for "semiconductorfactory" than "what'swithpeggy"

edit: while we're on language equivalents for Boss Dharma, anyone else see Peggy's speech tick as "like," instead of "gee," since that makes more sense in American English? Eg:
"Like, you don't know anything?"
"Like, 60% of infections come through the hands"

Hoover Dam fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Feb 15, 2020

NRVNQSR
Mar 1, 2009

Zereth posted:

:raise: there was a marathon in antarctica?

No reason why not; if you go to Antarctica and run 42km then you ran a marathon there.

I'm just surprised Ripley's didn't talk about her more recent feat of completing eight marathons on eight consecutive days across eight continents.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Oct. 02, 1937)



This lucky man merely gets tied up.
Well he's a noble. Commoners are mere chaff.
It's canon.

F Minus



Mark Trail



James Allen thinks 'penultimate' means 'extra ultimate.'

Mary Worth



Relax, Dawn: under any circumstances, Wilbur is not right.

The Phantom



Oh no he didn't!

Pooch Cafe



Rex Morgan MD



Andertoons



Apartment 3-G

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




In case any of you are having the same problem I was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIruOFg56aA

It's not what I thought, but it makes sense now that I see/hear it!



Julet Esqu fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Feb 15, 2020

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.
Vargo, you do understand you have to make a comic starring Dr. Harvey Camel now, right?


Sluggo is Perv

Zereth posted:

:raise: there was a marathon in antarctica?

Yes, run by the planned travel "experience" company, "Marathon Adventures", that promoted the fact that she was doing this. The news articles Ripley's is citing were basically set up as promotions for the company.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Zereth posted:

:raise: there was a marathon in antarctica?

https://www.racingtheplanet.com/thelastdesert

Yvonmukluk
Oct 10, 2012

Everything is Sinister


Discendo Vox posted:

Vargo, you do understand you have to make a comic starring Dr. Harvey Camel now, right?

The thing is...a proper 21st-century Mark Trail would be doing basically everything Harvey is, save the juvenile diabetes/yeti thing. Honestly, Mark making a web series would provide a diegetic reason for the random animal fact strips.

It's like Jam Esallen basically laid out a blueprint for what a competent writer would be doing with the character, but he's going 'look at how much VargoHarvey sucks, what a loser!'

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

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



Taco Defender
Wow I've been awful at keeping up on these this week.

2017 Spiderman




1978 Comics






Considering dropping Rex Morgan from these unless it stops being terminally boring.

Dick Tracy




Major Crime Squad




Locher Tracy




Origins of the Sunday Comics


Footrot Flats


Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Yvonmukluk posted:

The thing is...a proper 21st-century Mark Trail would be doing basically everything Harvey is, save the juvenile diabetes/yeti thing. Honestly, Mark making a web series would provide a diegetic reason for the random animal fact strips.

It's like Jam Esallen basically laid out a blueprint for what a competent writer would be doing with the character, but he's going 'look at how much VargoHarvey sucks, what a loser!'

This is... loving hilarious when you put it this way. Like he's so close to getting it right, and he's made them the bad guy.

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.

Haifisch posted:

Considering dropping Rex Morgan from these unless it stops being terminally boring.

I'm enjoying it - it's certainly more coherent than the modern strips and 2/3 of the Dick Tracies running in the thread.

Modesty Blaise



howe_sam
Mar 7, 2013

Creepy little garbage eaters

Transmodiar posted:

Modesty Blaise


Mrs. Fothergill doesn't gently caress around.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

this is really cute

Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003
Vintage Valiant (Oct. 09, 1937)



Unfortunately I don't think I can get the whole middle panel without slicing it due to the size of the page.

amigolupus
Aug 25, 2017

Some Guy TT posted:

I like how in Batiuk's fantasy of starting his own comic company the only solution he can think of to any problem is just having a really rich guy in the room being rich. He can't even pretend like success in the field has anything to do with talent.

That could be applied to all his characters. His other solution is to keep stumbling onto talented old people who used to be famous and now struggling financially, and then stoking their egos so they'd beg to be hired. It's all incredibly predatory and I doubt Batiuk even realizes what he's made.


Arlo is seriously doubling down on this, huh? It'd be interesting to see how this gets resolved.


These are adults in their mid-40s to early 50s and even their idea of a nice Valentines is to give cards to each other. :psyduck: It's impossible not to compare this with the Arlo and Janis strip the other day where they ate chocolates and hosed.

Haifisch posted:

Considering dropping Rex Morgan from these unless it stops being terminally boring.

The art's better and way more dynamic than modern Rex Morgan, but that's it. There's still nothing interesting going on.

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Star Wars is using plugs





TofuDiva
Aug 22, 2010

Playin' Possum





Muldoon
Ballard Street

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.
I like modern Rex Morgan, but I think I'd need to start the strip from the beginning to be able to build up a tolerance for this semi-retro Rex.

Also I think I'm sold on a set of the prince valiant tracts now. Holy crap.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

Haifisch posted:

Dick Tracy



Isn't this just what they did with Flyface's nephew, down to him having an attractive accomplice girlfriend?

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 9/26/53


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


Mopsy 9/18/42

Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:

PetraCore posted:

Isn't this just what they did with Flyface's nephew, down to him having an attractive accomplice girlfriend?

Modern Dick Tracy is loving terrible

Also that Arlo and Janis doesn’t read like Arlo doubling down, but him trying to explain and justify him being so hard on Gene because raising a kid is probably difficult and you constantly have to adapt as the little terrors develop and there isn’t a universal guide to educating one

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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.
Sally Forth



Peanuts (February 16, 1973)



Mopey Pete and BoyLisa's Absent-Minded Millionaire Boss



Crankshaft



9 Chickweed Lane



Rip Haywire



Thimble Theater (September 16, 1936)



Out Our Way (February 19-21, 1934)







Toonerville Folks (August 21-23, 1916)







Dok's Juvenile Delinquent Duck (February 9, 1913)

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