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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons
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Darthemed posted:
This is eerily similar to a page from Age of Apocolypse that came a few years later and I can't work out if it's some sort of in-joke reference to this or Bill was just so spot on with his satire he happened to predict a page from Marvel Comics in the future.
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Jan 2, 2017 09:47
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King Aroo (December 10, 1951) Nancy (January 24, 1944)  Wash Tubbs (September 23, 1929)  Gasoline Alley (October 22, 1923)  Lil' Abner (June 21, 1937)  Barney Google (October 23, 1922)  Alley Oop (January 22, 1934) 
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Arlo and Janis Arlo and Janis Classic (Oct. 27, 1994) 
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Nancy Today's Dogg™  Dustin 
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Ballard Street is a one-panel strip drawn by Jerry Van Amerongen. It covers the things done on what appears to be a street populated by ungainly retirees and their ungainly animal friends. If I remember correctly, the old thread's blurb about it was "it reads like one man having a New Yorker caption contest with himself and losing". It runs Monday through Saturday. Unlike Marlon Manley, who runs whenever he has sufficient motivation. 
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Jan 2, 2017 14:41
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Ballard Street is pretty great. It's probably my favorite single panel comic out there currently. Pickles  Phoebe and Her Unicorn 
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Jan 2, 2017 15:33
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I've enjoyed Ballard Street for many years. I used to read it in the Swedish "The Far Side" comic book (called "Larson!") and loved every stupid little thing them dogs and elderly folks were up to.
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro Club  Dilbert 
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I'd expect a cannibal from Pirahna Club but Bizarro is supposed to be better than that! Not by a whole lot, but still.
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Jan 2, 2017 16:06
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Kennel posted:Nancy Note how Fritzi's winter coat somehow clings to her boobs like it was painted on. Buni won't be back until next week, so here's Rhymes with Orange.  Pros and Cons  And Edge of Adventure, which really wants to be a throwback to the great adventure strips of yesteryear, but is undermined by muddled storytelling that manages to kill any hint of drama, crappy (and often traced) art, and above all a glacial weekly pace. For instance, our hero has just arrived in Vancouver's Chinatown, been shot at, and heard that he's supposed to be delivering a golden dragon that will somehow give China the advantage in their war with Japan -- but Allen and Vorderbrug take a week to draw various Chinese cliches so we know we're really in Chinatown. Don't you just feel the sense of place? 
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Mark Trail Pearls Before Swine  The Phantom  Pooch Café 
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Taken as a self-contained story, these three strips suggest Calvin will have a future rich in serial murdering.
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Jan 2, 2017 17:27
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Honestly, that's a pretty sweet dragon. Calvin and Hobbes    And the GoComics comments think he's talking about actual sex ed, completely missing the joke. Ripley's 
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Jan 2, 2017 18:31
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Darthemed posted:And the GoComics comments... completely missing the joke. Right, but is there anything noteworthy occurring there?
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Kennel posted:Nancy 
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Selachian posted:And Edge of Adventure, which really wants to be a throwback to the great adventure strips of yesteryear, but is undermined by muddled storytelling that manages to kill any hint of drama, crappy (and often traced) art, and above all a glacial weekly pace. For instance, our hero has just arrived in Vancouver's Chinatown, been shot at, and heard that he's supposed to be delivering a golden dragon that will somehow give China the advantage in their war with Japan -- but Allen and Vorderbrug take a week to draw various Chinese cliches so we know we're really in Chinatown. Don't you just feel the sense of place? Let's not underplay the "muddled storytelling" angle. It took something like six months of one-a-week posts to actually get to the beginning of the story. Two of those months were just about getting the protagonist to wake up. Anyway, on to the good stuff (according to Jerry Robinson): "Nothing like Skippy [(Percy Crosby)] had ever been seen before in the comic strips. It was not just Skippy’s expert draftsmanship or remarkable flair, although that artistry earned its creator a reputation as ‘the cartoonist’s cartoonist’… The brilliance of Skippy was that here was fantasy with a realistic base, the first kid cartoon with a definable and complex personality grounded in daily life." Which is why what happened later on will make you want to eat Peter Pan or Jif for the rest of your life. (October 14-16, 1929)    Peanuts (January 5, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire is a send-up of the type of two-fisted adventure strip that only diehards like us seem to read anymore, at least in the US market. It's about a square-jawed man of action and the redhead that he married to troll the GoComics comments section.  Out Our Way (March 10-11, 1930)   This is a good place to mention that we present the past warts and all. This will probably be your only warning. Thimble Theater is the legendary adventures of Castor Oyl, a restless little shrimp who lives in a seaport town, and some guy named Popeye, a sailor who is destined for great things once his jawline fully inflates. (July 22, 1930) 
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Well, last Christmas I was able to binge on 20,000+ posts and catch up with the 2016 thread in early January, this year, I gave up and skipped from April to today. Any major developments?
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Allen Wren posted:Any major developments? Mary Worth's art is good now, all of Judge Parker is good now, Guy Gilchrist and Tom Batiuk remain irredeemable.
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SomeMathGuy posted:Mary Worth's art is good now, all of Judge Parker is good now, Guy Gilchrist and Tom Batiuk remain irredeemable. Funky Winkerbean is great if you like smug faces.
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Allen Wren posted:Well, last Christmas I was able to binge on 20,000+ posts and catch up with the 2016 thread in early January, this year, I gave up and skipped from April to today. Brooke McEldowney abdicated his pervert throne and actually started drawing really good and interesting comic strips starting sometime in the middle of last year; go to the 9CL archives and just keep reading until you hit the fun stuff (it starts around Mid-May, maybe? with an AI simulation of Shakespeare gaining consciousness and realizing it's being used to sell hamburgers iirc).
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Sorry I can't remember the start date but it's definitely the kind of thing you want to read from the beginning, so just keep going forward until you find it. When you catch up let me know your thoughts on whether the hints that the ruling oligarchy is itself a simulation are actually flaws in the AI's robot body's perceptions
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EasyEW posted:
Ticket holders don't give a poo poo when people buy their ticket. People buy their tickets early all the time. But we just have to be reminded of how cultured he is by his love of Casablanca. You're no Fingal from Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.
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Allen Wren posted:Well, last Christmas I was able to binge on 20,000+ posts and catch up with the 2016 thread in early January, this year, I gave up and skipped from April to today. Mark Trail got out of the cave. Richard Thompson died. Momma died.
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Kennel posted:Mark Trail got out of the cave. And the wrong Paul Ryan died (the one who was drawing the Phantom).
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SomeMathGuy posted:
Is there not an off switch? Seems a little overenthusiastic.
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SomeMathGuy posted:The Phantom EasyEW posted:Peanuts (January 5, 1970)  What kind of piano information short of "There is one falling down towards where you are sitting right now" could possibly be important to me? F Minus  Mary Worth  Oh my! I'm getting the vapors here. Rex Morgan MD  Yes, and there's space there for you to have all the rabbits that you want! Secret Agent X-9 is a vintage strip about an FBI agent who investigates various crimes. I find myself getting lost in the storylines a lot. It features cutting edge 30s-era crimefighting technology, so it's a little like an old-fashioned CSI sometimes. It was created by Maltese Falcon writer Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond (who also did the other comic I post, Jungle Jim) of Flash Gordon fame, but it appears they both left the strip early in its run.  Apartment 3-G is another vintage strip. 3-G ended last year altogether, and I posted that so I started posting this when it became available. I'm really impressed by Alex Kotzky's art a lot of the time. Right now, 1971 just began and the 3-G girls' neighbor and friend the professor is looking for the son of an old flame of his (actually a now-married former student with whom he had an affair), who has gotten himself into some kind of predicament. 
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SomeMathGuy posted:Mary Worth's art is good now, all of Judge Parker is good now, Guy Gilchrist and Tom Batiuk remain irredeemable. huh A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:Brooke McEldowney abdicated his pervert throne and actually started drawing really good and interesting comic strips starting sometime in the middle of last year; go to the 9CL archives and just keep reading until you hit the fun stuff (it starts around Mid-May, maybe? with an AI simulation of Shakespeare gaining consciousness and realizing it's being used to sell hamburgers iirc). somehow I don't believe you
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Gotta say, I'm worried about Gilchrist. I don't think he's handling the recent election well.
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Allen Wren posted:somehow I don't believe you  nyoro~n
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Odonata posted:Gotta say, I'm worried about Gilchrist. I don't think he's handling the recent election well. Is that really what that's referring to? I had the Gilch down as a trumpster for sure.
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Johnny Walker posted:My most mysterious letter was one I got last year: Don't leave us hanging!
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SomeMathGuy posted:Mark Trail Yes. Thank goodness those invasive ants and birds have been destroyed. Now they will never be able to damage that island's delicate ecosystem.  Luann has decided to start the new year out right by switching to the more boring of its currently running plotlines. The biggest development last year was that Luann's brother Brad finally got around to marrying his girlfriend Toni. Fun Fact: They almost got married on September 11, but public outcry forced Team Evans to change the date. Anyhoo, looks like this week Brad and Toni are home from the honeymoon to spend time with their hideous wallpaper and arsonist roommate.  The Amazing Spider-Man  I hope Spidey never stops getting his rear end kicked by a space raccoon. If Sally Forth shares one quality with Luann, it's that it flip flops between multiple storylines from week to week. The background to this one is that Hilary broke up with her long distance boyfriend Jon and then he started hitting on her friend Nona when Hil went to summer camp.  The Heart of Juliet Jones: In this timeline, Julie is a mayor! She got invited to some big mayor's confab where the dashing Governor Millson, noticing that Julie is the only lady mayor in existence, immediately set his sights on getting all up into her panties. Date night was spoiled, however, by the arrival of Gov Millson's son, who is a complete poo poo.  Edit: Sometimes I forget to adjust the image size from colossal to merely huge. Usually it doesn't take me so long to notice, though. Hope I didn't just blow up anybody's monitor. Julet Esqu fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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It's not like Nona can even lie. Their friend telepathy would reveal that immediately.
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I'm being lazy right now, so I'll post a description with my next post. Heathcliff  Piranha Club  Dick Tracy  Mr. Carri-on is well known for packing light and avoiding luggage fees. Judge Parker  9 Chickweed Lane 
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The Classic Dinette Set sees the opening, takes it. Working Daze gets back to its roots (lazy nerd references).  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix gets into merchandising. 
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I feel like saying Judge Parker "got good" undersells its transformation. Francesco Marculiano, aka "the Sally Forth guy," took over and immediately began to destroy the lives of the overly-wealthy protagonists in the most satisfying way. That factory staffed only by old people and run primarily on bribery? Sinkhole! The movie based on the Judge's book? Cancelled! Sophie? Missing! Basically every ongoing plot thread involving the Parker-Drivers receiving lots of money based on being main characters was shoved into the goddamned dirt to make something new and crazy.
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