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Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
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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riderchop
Aug 10, 2010

av by @daikonquest!
Garfield



Heathcliff



Overboard



Monty

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Viperless Moomin

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012


Oh gently caress off.

Rhymes with Orange



Retail



Get Fuzzy 2/22/00

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

So that's it, huh?

So long Retail, you will be missed.

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

The ending was a little abrupt (hey, accurate to real life) but drat if that's not a powerful image for the last comic.

Shneak
Mar 6, 2015

A sad Professor Plum
sitting on a toilet.

A giant department store's retail space not being abandoned for years? Not in my dead American mall.

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Shneak posted:

A giant department store's retail space not being abandoned for years? Not in my dead American mall.
Would it be more accurate if the sign said "COMING SOON: SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN!"?

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable


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.

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Grumbels is a decent pun.

Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:
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

Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

by Reene
Bloom County
March 24th & 25th, 1981

Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

Scary Gary

Tuxedo Ted
Apr 23, 2007

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.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

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

There will always be Dilbert.

Tuxedo Ted
Apr 23, 2007

Not in this thread there ain't.

Poil
Mar 17, 2007

Has the author said anything about starting up a new strip?

Binary Badger
Oct 11, 2005

Trolling Link for a decade


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.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

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.

That said, I still would have liked to see Stewart get shitcanned or something.

Cicadalek
May 8, 2006

Trite, contrived, mediocre, milquetoast, amateurish, infantile, cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism, eye-fucked me, affront to humanity, war crime, should *literally* be tried for war crimes, talentless fuckfest, pedantic, listless, savagely boring, just one repulsive laugh after another

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

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.

Cicadalek posted:

I cannot overstate how much I loving hate the face in panel four here

Easy panel to take out of context tho

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

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.

That said, I still would have liked to see Stewart get shitcanned or something.

At least a strip where he realizes his orders mean nothing anymore.

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
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.

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

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

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Angular Cyrus posted:

They'll Do It Every Time 9/17/46

I just realized that TDIET was the Pluggers of its day. :aaaaa:

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.
You don't get many opportunities to pull the old "small poison gas bombs made to resemble walnuts" trick but man when you wait and finally get the chance it makes it all worthwhile.

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.

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)
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

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)
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

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.
some rexheds, a reason why I continue to like the strip:

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Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

The classical Freudian anal sadistic character in its purest form.
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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BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Discendo Vox posted:

some rexheds, a reason why I continue to like the strip:



Old wrestler here for Cialis!

Professor Wayne
Aug 27, 2008

So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

Selachian posted:

Get Fuzzy 2/22/00



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Pickles


Zits

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

:unsmith:

Pickles is the un-OBH

Angular Cyrus
May 29, 2007

everything is so much harder than it looks
King Aroo 10/4/53


They'll Do It Every Time 9/18/46


Mopsy 9/28/42

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









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

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Johnny Walker posted:

I just realized that TDIET was the Pluggers of its day. :aaaaa:

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.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean










Batiuk finally found a character that's even more insufferably smug than Les.

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



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.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




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

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

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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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:

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.
Bold of you to assume he had shame to begin with.

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