Comic Strip Megathread XVII: I have a special recipe (cackle-cackle)

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Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Kazinsal posted:

Thanks to the previous incarnation of this thread I'm now hate-reading Luann, Funky Cancercancer, and Rex Morgan MD, and I now have an affinity for 20s/30s/40s newspaper comics.

drat you, thread. Happy new year.

By following this thread that not only is all this is true for me, but that it has made me something of an expert on comic strips. Like, every once in a while, a comic strip will come up in conversation in the real world, and I'll start spouting off a poo poo ton of information on artist and writer changes, comic strip history, and Mary Worth storylines and I'm ten minutes into talking about all that before I realize people are looking at me funny.

Mountaineer posted:

I usually just lurk this thread, but I think I'll pick up some comics I like that as far as I can tell have been dropped by others.

Pickles by Brian Crane

Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson

timg'd because I felt they were a little big after posting. I'll just resize them down a little in the future.

I was just thinking about Phoebe and her Unicorn the other day, and I love Pickles, so if you keep posting them, I'll sure appreciate it!

Incidentally, to resize comics you get from imgur, just add an "h" to the filename before the extension: http://i.imgur.com/St7eM9Lh.png. That does it automatically. I also link the original so if someone wants it for editing or just to see the larger size, they can. [ url=imguraddress][ img]imguraddressh[/ img][/ url] (without spaces, of course).

If I edit a comic I post, I link to the original.

Speaking of which, I don't have a whole lot of edits from others, as last year my old laptop died, but I have this Mart Trail one from way back:

And a few I did. I haven't been doing edits long so they're not anything to write home about, but I try to throw one out every once in a while. I fairly regularly change just dialogue as well.

Anyways, I usually post:

F Minus is a one panel gag-a-day comic that I usually find funny. I like Carrillo's style. His facial expressions are very well done and his animals are usually very cute.

Apparently they are adding a title panel to this comic this year.

Mary Worth is a classic soap comic. It follows the adventures of retired widow Mary Worth, who meddles in the lives of the people around her, mostly her neighbors in her condo complex Charterstone. Last year the artist changed, and the frankly competent art we now get has taken away some of the charm the strip once had, but it's still goofy and I still enjoy it so far. Right now one of Mary's neighbors, Iris, is on a date with a much younger man (her son's age) and has embarrassed herself by wearing a skirt and blouse to a rock-and-roll show!

Rex Morgan MD is also a classic soap comic, following the life of the titular RMMD and his family: wife June, daughter Sarah, and now baby Micheal. Sarah was recently hit by a car and has lost her memory of about the last year, but that has nothing to do with today's Sunday strip, which is one of Rex's nurses (who is a veteran) on a date with the butler (who is also a vet, but also is missing a leg) of their billionaire friend who married their nanny. There is also a millionaire former mob wife. There's a lot of money and good fortune constantly getting thrown at the Morgans, but since taking over both writing and drawing, Terry Beatty seems to be trying to veer away from that.

Jungle Jim is only on Sundays, and is a vintage strip I've been posting for a little while now. It's frequently racist to a degree that is, to me, uncomfortable, but I post it anyways. It's otherwise unremarkable so far.

I post a couple of other vintage strips, Secret Agent X-9 and Apartment 3-G, but those are weekdays, and I'm tired of writing, so that's it for today.

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 14:39

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

SomeMathGuy posted:

The Phantom

Phantom's really hung up on this stamp thing.

EasyEW posted:

Peanuts (January 5, 1970)

My most mysterious letter was one I got last year:

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.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 00:01

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

CaptainCaveman posted:

Don't leave us hanging!

I actually didn't open the thing for months, because I knew the reality would probably be less interesting than the possibilities for what the letter could possibly be about that I made up in my head, and I was right.

They were selling pianos, supposedly at a really good price, but I don't know going-rates on pianos. I don't know why I am on a mailing list for buying pianos.

Mountaineer posted:

Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Sounds fun. I hope we get to see the goblin opera.

Yeah. I remember the goblins being drat adorable.

Manuel Calavera posted:

Compu-Toon

Holy poo poo a comprehensible Compu-Toon with an legitimately funny gag!

Darthemed posted:

teapartyvoter.jpg

F Minus

Mary Worth

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

Not a chance he's not bringing LuAnn.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 23:51

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Tiggum posted:

Tommie would make more sense, being a nurse. Also, she doesn't really count as bringing anyone, because she's more like furniture than a person.

Oops. Yeah. That's who I meant to say. I think I thought of LuAnn because she's right there and I thought they were setting that up.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 06:32

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Didn't Dick Tracy have an off-panel Popeye appearance as well?

F Minus

Mary Worth

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

So I not only confused LuAnn with Tommie, but I was completely wrong and she's not going with him. Oh well.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 00:46

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

F Minus

Mary Worth

Sorry, Wilbur, but Iris has found a new, younger man to hug.

Rex Morgan MD

Beatty gets political with the "Lame Duck" imagery.

Secret Agent X-9

You don't want to be talking to Panama Mike like that, let me tell you.

Apartment 3-G

"Oh. Never mind then."

# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 23:26

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

I enjoy Wallace the Brave and wouldn't mind if it stuck around.

Evil Mastermind posted:

Actually, what's sickening me about 9CL is that we've been looking at the bottoms of these people's feet for the past week and a half.

Every time I think "This is as bad as Brooke can be" he tops himself. He actually got slightly better in my opinion when he was posting that failed strip of his instead of Pigporn for a while. I don't see why he can't bring some of the elements from that into 9CW. It wasn't great, but it wasn't awful either.

F Minus

Mary Worth

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

The Captain killed Pine. That's just a guess. I don't know.

Apartment 3-G

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 22:17

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Mandrake's parents were weird about naming their kids:
Mandrake!
Lucifer!
Derek.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Has anyone that uses GoComics as their source (as I do) tried out "the new GoComics"? (example) They're certainly trying to make image saving and sharing outside the usual banal social networks more difficult.

Most of my comics are from Comics Kingdom, but hopefully they will still be available from newspaper sites, albeit most likely smaller sized.

RandomFerret posted:

I attended an Indian/Finnish wedding last weekend, and I had a lovely little conversation with the mother of the groom about comics. Started with some light Moomin talk, she showed me her gold Wagner pendant, and I impressed the hell out of her by understanding a Fingerpori strip. Thanks, comic strip thread!

Did they have milk, and was it viperless?

Aardmania posted:

9 Chickweed Lane

Ugh. This is just weird and gross.

F Minus

Mary Worth

Hm, let's see...hot young guy who's available now and interested in doing fun things with her, or dumpy balding fat old guy who loves sandwiches and will be gone for a year. I can see her dilemma.

Rex Morgan MD

OK so now she's not a fabulous artist either. It's almost like Beatty's just erasing the last 4-5 years of the strip.

Secret Agent X-9

Well seems to be pretty flimsy evidence.

Apartment 3-G

"Look, honey, I just walked up and down 6 flights of stairs here and I'm not 20 anymore. Let's take a cab."

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 21:50

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Calaveron posted:

It's a different writer on Rex Morgan right

Yeah, Terry Beatty has been the artist for a while and has taken over the writing for nearly a year now.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 23:39

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

F Minus

Well I know I want to set up signs like that to mark my dog's territory now.

Mary Worth

Geez, Mary's giving Iris the third degree here.

Rex Morgan MD

Uh, who wrote that message? :eek:

Jungle Jim with a little va-va-va-voom!

So, notable this week to me is that Kolu is referred to as "Jim's Native Servant" rather than "Jim's Black," which I think is progress. And based on that right panel, it seems that of the two Alex Raymond strips, which were released together, Flash Gordon was the more popular.

Edit: Oh it seems both those strips premiered 83 years ago yesterday, by the way.

Murdstone fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jan 8, 2017

# ¿ Jan 8, 2017 20:34

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

bean_shadow posted:

I've never been so relieved about something being an edit.

Yeah it was an edit. I forgot to link the original, sorry. I saw "Bob Schneider" and thought "Rob Schneider" and that's as much thought as I put into the joke. I wasn't sure if anyone would even notice, since it's just that quote box that's there every week. I don't even know if I read it every time,

F Minus

Mary Worth

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

A new storyline! Some kind of serial killer? Might be interesting. I mean probably not but I can dream, can't I?

Apartment 3-G

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 21:04

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Elysiume posted:

Option #1: Run this javascript from the console of your browser, usually opened with F12:
code:
$(".item-comic-link-disabled").removeClass("item-comic-link-disabled");
Option #2: Add a bookmark with this as the URL/URI, click it to run the above javascript on whatever page you're on:
code:
javascript:( function() { $(".item-comic-link-disabled").removeClass("item-comic-link-disabled"); } )();
Option #3: Add this CSS profile with Stylish to override the CSS they use to block right clicks, this one will work automatically whenever you open a page:
code:
.item-comic-link-disabled {
    pointer-events: auto !important;
    cursor: default !important;
}
Option #4: Use Greasemonkey or something to run the above javascript automatically but I don't have that installed right now so it doesn't get an example

I've only got one comic on GoComics so I don't really need this...yet, but I want to second Kennel: Could this be added to the OP for easy future reference?

F Minus

Edit: Oh this is kind of blurry, isn't it? Maybe I do need one of the above solutions.

Mary Worth

Bingo or Shuffleboard?

Rex Morgan MD

Oh boy here we go. I imagine she won't remember Mrs. Pierpont either.

Secret Agent X-9

"You dare doubt my conclusion? Do you not see my pince-nez?"

Apartment 3-G

"You're not going anywhere until I get my high-five."

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 19:13

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

F Minus

Mary Worth

Let's bowl, let's bowl
Let's rock and roll!

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 19:31

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

F Minus

Mary Worth

Rex Morgan MD

Honestly, it's a little terrifying to think about how so much of this little girl's life is just gone. She's only like 6. 1/6 of her life has gone poof. Considering she probably doesn't even really remember anything until around 3 or so, it's closer to a third. The entire book project, Rene the art teacher, Mrs P., Bugsy, any new friend she made in her new school; all strangers now.

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

Of course she won't call him Cindy. He's the Professor! :rimshot:

# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 18:33

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Johnny Aztec posted:

Eh, How much of being 6 do most people remember anyway?

"I kicked a ball a bit, pet a dog, threw up some, and had some juice."

She's not depressed, isn't brain damaged. Not a huge deal. It will be a huge deal, if you keep shoving what she's forgotten in her face. Gonna give her a complex.

Well I don't remember much now about when I was 6, but I live with a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old, and they certainly remember a lot from the last few years of their lives, and as someone who has been there with them, I know they've seen and experienced a lot. They're not toddlers at that age by any means. Losing a whole year of memory would be a huge deal for them.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 19:02

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Kennel posted:

Mandrake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_R-G_i4Xk

RandomFerret posted:

And for those not following the dedicated NSM thread, here are some avs:

There's a NSM thread! :monocle:

F Minus

Mary Worth

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 20:45

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Nenonen posted:

and now for your appreciation,

this isn't an edit

A lot of people have a thigh longer than their torso.

F Minus

Mary Worth

I know it won't be, but I'd love it if this letter was about porn.

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 23:33

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

SomeMathGuy posted:

Mark Trail

It looks like the insects have upped their game against the spiders, our allies in mankind's perpetual war on insects.

F Minus

Mary Worth

Oh what insights Mary brings to this advice column.

Rex Morgan MD

Jungle Jim

You know, those cutouts look like they'd be pretty hard to get. Especially considering they'd be on newsprint paper.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2017 21:51

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

sweeperbravo posted:

Honestly, I figured as much (edit: that there was significance to his choice), because if that weren't the case, I'd say it was too dumb even for Gilchrist. It's still awkward IMO to honor King (with no shortage of great quotes to choose from) by quoting a white guy. And by not even mentioning King's name somewhere in there.

Hey Sluggo's guitar is the "MLK Edition. Isn't that enough for you?

Seriously though. All else aside, it's also bad because Sluggo, a child, is playing a song that even most adults probably don't remember and then has a preachy monologue about it. It's mostly just the usual Gilchrist Nancy bad.

F Minus

I am almost positive someone has done this. I saw some video where they made giant pool tables and you use soccer balls once. It looked like fun.

Mary Worth

This is the kind of entertaining and hard-hitting advice people go to Ask Wendy for. No wonder Wilbur gets paid to tour the world if this is the level of writing he's producing day in and day out.

Rex Morgan MD

Hey at least he also quit cigarettes. Sure, he's onto cigars now, then he moves onto pipes, then...well, it's all part of his long-term plan.

Secret Agent X-9

Gee, guys. Do you think he's going to analyze the dirt on the pants?

Apartment 3-G

# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 19:43

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Tiggum posted:

Sally Forth

I only just now realized this is an edit. I could see Ces writing this. I guess it's out there even for him in SF, but he'd definitely have something like that in M-L.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 05:20

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Aardmania posted:

9 Chickweed Lane

I'm trying to imagine what kind of multi-million dollar company has an organization chart where one of the flight attendants is next in line to become CEO.

I wonder if this character might meet a man soon and then they won't get along but then suddenly they will be wildly and passionately in love.

F Minus

Mary Worth

I have to admit, I did not expect these two storylines to cross over into each other.

Rex Morgan MD

Did you ever experience deja vu?

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

Still got it, eh, professor?

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 18:24

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

SomeMathGuy posted:

Mark Trail

"I can't write a story like that! Who do you think I am, Wilbur Weston?"

Mary Worth

Dawn's trying out for a part on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Rex Morgan MD

"Hahaha! Just go the loving gym."

Secret Agent X-9

The guy literally died right then when he was about to tell them what happened. How cliche can you get?

Apartment 3-G

That was all part of her plan. She was just sick of living in a six-story walkup.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 20:11

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Vargo posted:

Does any other strip (besides maybe Cul De Sac) play around with fonts and lettering the way Wallace does? It's my favorite part of the strip, really gives these sentences personality.

I think Moe in Calvin and Hobbes had a different font. I am not sure it's as unusual as you might think, but judging from this one strip this comic looks like it makes much more frequent use of the method than most.

F Minus

Another good idea from Carrillo. Besides golf courses, cemeteries are perhaps the biggest wastes of space there are.

Mary Worth

Rex Morgan MD

"Have you ever heard of Cutco?"

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

"What? I should pointlessly repeat everything you say for the audience?"

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 18:42

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

SomeMathGuy posted:

The Phantom

Front page news: Stamp Debate Heats Up

Julet Esqu posted:

The Amazing Spider-Man

Planning to eat out of a trashcan, but totally not a raccoon!

He's also naked.

Here are some comics to hopefully help you get through this dark day.

F Minus

Mary Worth

Once you go Weston, there's no need for the rest of 'em.

That's the best I could do, sorry.

Rex Morgan MD

I thought you weren't doing this anymore, Terry. < :mad:

>

Secret Agent X-9

This one confused me to read. I think the word balloons in the last panel may be reversed from what the writer intended.

Apartment 3-G

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 19:36

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Julet Esqu posted:

The Amazing Spider-Man

I did that real quick earlier and posted it in the NSM thread, but I figure I should post it here too. It's weird having a separate thread for NSM now though. I don't know how to handle it.

F Minus

Aww, the poor lonely chef.

Mary Worth

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

It's probably the girls in 3-G. That special veal dish of the Professor's can have that effect on people.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2017 00:12

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

F Minus

This kind of exercise might actually help a meeting be productive.

Mary Worth

Great! And now she's skyping with Doctor Octopus too! Harlot!

Rex Morgan MD

He says that like he suspects Rex is lying for some reason.

Flash Gordon's Less Popular Brother

# ¿ Jan 22, 2017 21:31

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

EasyEW posted:

Crankshaft

Is it up to the bus driver when field trips end? Shouldn't they have had this conversation before now regardless?

F Minus

Mary Worth

Oh come on it's one of the most famous lines in history.

Rex Morgan MD

Buck really seems kind of smarmy.

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

Oh so it's some Weather Underground thing.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 18:27

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Tiggum posted:

Iris is what, 50? 55?

I have been thinking about this too much and have worked out the following in my head:

I don't think she's over 50 yet. I think she's more mid- to late-40s. Tommy is 25 (as is Zak). I think she had him young though, which is part of why she's going back to school now, so I would put that happening sometime around 20. It is possible she was younger than 20, but certainly she wouldn't have been under 18 in the Worthiverse. So, ~43/44 at the absolute minimum (and unlikely), and let's say 48 at the oldest.

That's my theory.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2017 04:28

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Mountaineer posted:

Pickles

I just press the sliver into the new bar when it gets too small and I start using a new one. Works for me pretty good after the first couple showers.

F Minus

Mary Worth

"Boy I feel so foolish, just like Myrna Loy in The Thin Man!"

Rex Morgan MD

I figured out what bugs me about this guy. Beatty keeps doing the "looking over the glasses" thing with him.

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

Now how will she get the deposit back!

# ¿ Jan 24, 2017 19:59

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Julet Esqu posted:

The Sick of Rocket's poo poo Spider-Man

That look on Pete's face. I love this comic.

I love reading NSM every day, because it is awesome, but some days I envy the people who come in and just see that one day's comic completely out of context and without any understanding of what kind of comic strip NSM is. Today is one of those days.

F Minus

Mary Worth

Uh oh! They're going to start hugging!

Rex Morgan MD

There's no reason to be judgmental of Buck Fatty, lady in black.

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

He's gonna go make his special veal dish for him.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2017 23:10

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

F Minus

Mary Worth

Selachian posted:

Matching tattoos.

You are a wizard.

Now I'm rooting for Iris getting a tramp stamp.

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

# ¿ Jan 26, 2017 22:08

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Manuel Calavera posted:

Compu-Toon

The caption doesn't help much.

F Minus

Mary Worth

If she has to go get Mary's advice because she's being pressured to get a tattoo, I'm burning Charterstone to the ground.

Rex Morgan MD

The future Mrs. Buck Fatty?

Secret Agent X-9

Well that information certainly narrows things down.

Apartment 3-G

Or you could go home and call them.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 19:36

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Kennel posted:

Nancy

"I'm so sleepy I can barely keep my eyes open."

F Minus

Mary Worth

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

The file says the guy likes lunch cars, black coffee, and pork and beans, so naturally X-9 goes to every lunch car and orders black coffee and pork and beans until he gets to one where the guy behind the counter happens to mention that there is another guy that orders that exact same thing. That's just good detective work.

Apartment 3-G

# ¿ Jan 28, 2017 17:20

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Manuel Calavera posted:

Family Circus

As far as these "Billy draws the strip" FCs go, this one's not bad.

F Minus

For some reason, I'm reminded of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO_ZtXQBO48

Mary Worth

Wow. That was an intense week:
"Maybe we should get matching tattoos!"
"Nah."

Rex Morgan MD

Jungle Jim

# ¿ Jan 29, 2017 22:28

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

F Minus

Mary Worth

Oh for gently caress's sake do you want her to hold your loving hand? Flip a God drat coin.

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent Whiskers

"Whiskers" is an insult I guess? X-9 needs a shave maybe? I don't get it.

Apartment 3-G

Sure, just feel free to wander around gawking at all the people in pain and shock that are overflowing into the hallways of the house of horrors this hospital has become.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2017 18:04

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Slammy posted:

Richard's Poor Almanac (click for big)

It's a small detail, but I appreciate that it looks like he put the two Batman ones where there are actual HOV lanes. I mean there are more now (HOV or HOT), but back when this was made I think it would have just been 270 and 66.

F Minus

Mary Worth

Mary's not quite sure what to do. She already meddled. That usually does it.

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

When you agree to live with the nickname "Fats," you lose the right to be angry for being called fat.

Apartment 3-G

"Well, there are all these other critically injured people, but, nah, we'll just drop everything to help your slightly dazed acquaintance."

# ¿ Feb 1, 2017 06:17

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Manuel Calavera posted:

Bizarro

It took me a second to get this one. I can't decide if I hate it or if I think it's kind of clever.

F Minus

I need one of those.

Mary Worth advises Natalie Imbruglia on a career change.

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

# ¿ Feb 1, 2017 19:26

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

F Minus

Mary Worth

Great advice, Mary. "I suggest you think about it." Gee, how helpful.

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

"Hmm. I could assume this letter warning me off of my investigation is from the man my investigation led me to who kept me hostage and went through a lot of trouble to conceal his identity, and then drugged me so they can all get away, but without a signature, how can I be sure?"

Apartment 3-G

One sentence later: "Tommie, put Wayne back on the pho...ah forget it. Jesus Christ I can't decide which of you two idiots is worse to talk to. I'll call back when Margo's home."

# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 05:28

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Ms Boods posted:

Given that it's VHS, is it's a commercially produced tape, there probably isn't more than 1 or 2 episodes per tape (6 if it's homemade).

So with luck Sluggo's got himself Spock's Brain and maybe the other one with the space hippies or something.

The Beanie and Cecil tape -- ugh. There was, I think, only one produced on VHS because I remember my mum being so happy to find it. My brother, who is now 62, was crazy about Beanie and Cecil when he was a little boy, 3 or 4 years old, so that would have been 1957 or 8.

Also, isn't Sluggo himself only about 7 or 8? Maybe it's just me, but a little boy like that over jiggle-TV seems a little creepy.

This is a little off-topic, but I am reminded of how much of a ripoff TV shows on VHS were, not to mention what a waste of space it was. They put literally one episode per tape most of the time. To have a whole series you'd have to have a dedicated shelf just for that one, and probably pay ~$20 per, and for any longer-running series it was completely impractical.

This was especially true with children's shows. I worked at Blockbuster way back in the day and sold and rented tapes with one loving random 20 minute episode of TMNT or Power Rangers or whatever on it. It was awful.

Ralepozozaxe posted:

The more I look at this, the more I realize this may be the peak Computoon.

I hadn't really looked closely at it until this and now I'm glad I did so thank you.

F Minus

Mary Worth

A month later:

Dear Wendy,
I've been weighing this decision for months now. The jobs in question are long gone due to my prevarication. Your advice has been no help whatsoever. What are you, some kind of fill-in advice columnist? Pros and cons? Think? Go with your gut? This is advice? I am homeless and destitute and selling myself to make ends meet. So, what do I do now? I don't ask expecting good advice, but because recent history indicates if I do the exact opposite of your suggestions, I could not possibly do worse.
Sincerely,
Hopeless in Santa Royale

Rex Morgan MD

"And for the first discussion topic: I understand we have a family named the Morgans, and in particular a little girl named Sarah to thank for this. Care to comment?"

Secret Agent X-9

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Safety Dance posted:

Although to be fair, what the hell is Mary supposed to say? "Go with whicher pays more"?

You make a valid point. I was trying to sort of make fun of both of them and how ridiculous it is to even write a letter requesting advice on this at all, let alone the letter getting a response printed in the paper, and then to go even further with a follow up.

If this entire situation represents the kind of questions Ask Wendy gets and tries to answer in the first place, I don't see the point in the column at all.

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