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Surgeon's Tales![]() The book has interludes where the listeners chat with the surgeon (who is telling these stories). At one point grandma complains how Bertel(sköld) became such an rear end in a top hat, while he was pretty likable as a young man. The surgeon answers that he tries to build these characters as realistic as possible and someone who is an ambitious and successful career soldier is pretty much guaranteed to become a piece of poo poo. ![]() Nancy ![]() Dustin ![]() 1997 Viivi & Wagner Finale! ![]() And that's it. HS web archive ends there (not that I'd be particularly interested to continue anyway). Unfortunately we won't see one storyline (I think it was '98 or '99) where Wagner "dies", goes to Hell and hangs around with Satan for a week or two. I remember it being pretty neat when I was a teenager.
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Manuel Calavera posted:One Big Happy Oh gently caress off. Rhymes with Orange ![]() Retail ![]() Get Fuzzy 2/22/00 ![]()
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Selachian posted:
So that's it, huh? So long Retail, you will be missed.
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The ending was a little abrupt (hey, accurate to real life) but drat if that's not a powerful image for the last comic.
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Selachian posted:Retail A giant department store's retail space not being abandoned for years? Not in my dead American mall.
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Shneak posted:A giant department store's retail space not being abandoned for years? Not in my dead American mall.
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Darthemed posted:Dick I really appreciate Maxine keeping a bowl of poison walnut bombs in her apartment just so she can fool any police coming to arrest her.
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Grumbels is a decent pun.
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Now where will I get my its barely September why are Christmas decorations going up already jokes or my retail is a thankless hateful job that I loathe with white hot intensity but due to economic downturn and a dearth of opportunities I cant afford to not do it yuks or the always famous everyone is an idiot but me chuckles
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Calaveron posted:Now where will I get my it’s barely September why are Christmas decorations going up already jokes or my retail is a thankless hateful job that I loathe with white hot intensity but due to economic downturn and a dearth of opportunities I can’t afford to not do it yuks or the always famous everyone is an idiot but me chuckles Sir, Grumbels closed last week, this is a Dollar Admiral. We can't handle your complaints here.
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Calaveron posted:Now where will I get my its barely September why are Christmas decorations going up already jokes or my retail is a thankless hateful job that I loathe with white hot intensity but due to economic downturn and a dearth of opportunities I cant afford to not do it yuks or the always famous everyone is an idiot but me chuckles There will always be Dilbert.
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Not in this thread there ain't.
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Has the author said anything about starting up a new strip?
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No, he wants to work on more children's books. Nothing he said on his own blog about closing Retail indicates he will have anything further to do with the strip, other than establish a digital archive somewhere.
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Selachian posted:Retail That said, I still would have liked to see Stewart get shitcanned or something.
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Manuel Calavera posted:One Big Happy gently caress this faux-from-the-mouths-of-babes bullshit. Next up, a strip where Ruthie earnestly asks "But daddy, wouldnt it be better to give the homeless person a job rather than some money?" I cannot overstate how much I loving hate the face in panel four here
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Cicadalek posted:I cannot overstate how much I loving hate the face in panel four here Easy panel to take out of context tho
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Evil Mastermind posted:I was actually a little disappointed at first by this ending, but really it's the perfect last strip: the store closes, everyone moves on with their lives and (eventually) just pretty much stops thinking about it, and the store just...goes away. At least a strip where he realizes his orders mean nothing anymore.
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People like Stewart never truly suffer for their actions nor do they come to any sort of self-awareness. The ending we got really was the most true and good one we could have asked for.
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Cicadalek posted:I cannot overstate how much I loving hate the face in panel four here It's the exact same face she uses for Farley
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Angular Cyrus posted:They'll Do It Every Time 9/17/46 ![]() Green Intern posted:I really appreciate Maxine keeping a bowl of poison walnut bombs in her apartment just so she can fool any police coming to arrest her. F Minus ![]() Mark Trail ![]() James, seriously, I'm talking to you, keep using the tablet. Mary Worth ![]() I, too, enjoy parody films. The Phantom ![]() Pooch Cafe ![]() Rex Morgan MD ![]() Aging is hilarious! Andertoons ![]() Flash Gordon ![]() No PCC again this week.
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I would gladly read a comic strip centered around Tildy and Andrzej in a post-Lockhorns dysfunctional elderly dating couple setup over the general tepid limpness that is the actual Rex Morgan comic
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I also feel like I"m the only person on earth who has been Team Tildy since she was introduced into the strip, perhaps because she actually has a personality and isn't even an rear end in a top hat
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some rexheds, a reason why I continue to like the strip:
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And two: edit god drat it paint3D Don't forget to remove that frigging circular icon out of there, I'd love to know why it just gets saved onto the drat image sometimes.
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Discendo Vox posted:some rexheds, a reason why I continue to like the strip: Old wrestler here for Cialis!
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Selachian posted:Get Fuzzy 2/22/00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt40yL31mdc My Dad is Dracula ![]() hi son 🤗 enjoy this life-affirming Guest Comic by Tumour Humour then check out their other great comics: https://www.instagram.com/tumour_humour/ Pickles ![]() Zits ![]()
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Professor Wayne posted:
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King Aroo 10/4/53![]() They'll Do It Every Time 9/18/46 ![]() Mopsy 9/28/42 ![]()
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Sally Forth![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Skippy (September 30-October 1, 1932) ![]() ![]() Peanuts (February 22-25, 1973) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Funky Winkerbean ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Say what you will about TomBat (I always do), but Crankshaft is finally getting to the goddamn point, unlike some other strips I could name. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 9 "Some Other Strips I Could Name" Lane ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rip Haywire ![]() ![]() ![]() Thimble Theater (September 21-23, 1936) ![]() ![]() ![]() Life (With Skippy) (February 21, 1924) ![]() Elsewhere In The Issue: The grand finale of the Mr. Kleboe saga! A clinkin' time was had by all. ![]() ![]() Art Young, a socialist-leaning cartoonist who got put on trial for sedition during the First World War (link goes to PDF). He kept coming back to the topic of Hell throughout his career. Alias: Buster Brown (April 19, 1908) ![]() EasyEW fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Feb 24, 2020 |
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Johnny Walker posted:I just realized that TDIET was the Pluggers of its day. Pluggers is "this behavior that you and your friends do, it's relatable and makes you the salt of the earth." TDIET is "this behavior you notice other people do, you're not alone in being annoyed/amused by it." They may generally address the same social class (of their times) but they thrust in opposite directions.
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Batiuk finally found a character that's even more insufferably smug than Les.
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i don't know quite when but brooke has just lost all sense of shame during this pregnancy arc and i can only imagine the colourists are glad to be receiving digital inks rather than the spattered originals.
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EasyEW posted:9 "Some Other Strips I Could Name" Lane One thing I've found to be true of gay men is they love arranging opportunities to look at some quality pussy
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EasyEW posted:9 "Some Other Strips I Could Name" Lane Edda is what I imagine Diane Chambers would have been like as a girl.
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Ghostlight posted:i don't know quite when but brooke has just lost all sense of shame during this pregnancy arc and i can only imagine the colourists are glad to be receiving digital inks rather than the spattered originals.
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