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Welcome back, and the condensed cream of the Hall of Fame is all you get at half past two in the morning... (Borden)   (David's Package)  (Depressing Box)   (Not a clue, and the trail's gone cold.)
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Peanuts (Charles Schulz) has been an inescapable fact of the Western world for well over half of a century. It's also one of my few cherished childhood memories that isn't an abject embarrassment when I pay it a revisit (which is at least once a day). So that's my excuse. (January 4, 1970) Up until relatively recently, Funky Winkerbean (Tom "Goddamn" Batiuk) was advertised as "a reality-based comic strip that depicts contemporary issues affecting young adults in a thought-provoking and sensitive manner". I will never get tired of reminding people of this, and when you see what the first shot of 2017 is, you'll understand why.  Also, to reiterate what I said when I started posting this strip last year: gently caress you, here's Crankshaft (Tom "Goddamn" Batiuk/Chuck "You Could've Escaped By Now If You Really Wanted To" Ayers). It's the story of an rear end in a top hat school bus driver and the friends and family that grudgingly tolerate him. This strip inhabits the Funkyverse, but its timeline is ten years behind Funky Winkerbean, and yet both are set in the present day. They also cross over a lot recently. It's really only confusing if you don't stack the two strips on top of each other, which is exactly why I started stacking the two strips on top of each other. Suffering builds community!  Out Our Way is a single panel strip about cowboys, machine shop workers, turn-of-the-century small town nostalgia, sibling rivalry, high-strung mothers,, and BOYZENDORGS. Out Our Way With The Willets (J.R. Williams, genuine cowboy) is the Sunday page spinoff, which is basically "Why Mothers Get Gray: The Series". Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs just hitched a ride on the top deck of my usual sources, so you get that as a bonus because newspapers were generous with their Sunday sections back in the day. (January 29 and February 5, 1928)  
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Jan 1, 2017 23:14
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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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Jan 2, 2017 19:03
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Kazinsal posted:Can someone explain to me what the gently caress 9 Chickweed Lane is about? Probably not. Like everything involving Brooke McEldowney, 9CL defies explanation. Anyway, because it's still Monday somewhere, here's the night schedule. Bloom County: The biggest content bomb of 2015 was when Berke Breathed suddenly and with only one day's warning decided to bring back the quintessential 80s comic strip as a Facebook exclusive. He dropped strong hints at the time that it had something to do with the Trump candidacy, which means we'll be slogging through the next four years together. Posted whenever BB feels up to it.  Peanuts: Year Six is a secondary post from earlier in the Schulz timeline designed to satisfy those who believe the older Charlie Brown strips were better and less forehead-smacking ridiculous, and not (I REPEAT, NOT) as a dirty trick to indoctrinate the forum into my way of thinking. And you didn't read any of this. (October 6-9, 1955)    
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Jan 3, 2017 06:57
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Bloom County Skippy (October 17-19, 1929)    Peanuts (January 6, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (March 12-13, 1930)   Thimble Theater (July 23, 1930) 
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Jan 4, 2017 04:15
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Skippy (October 21-23, 1929)   Peanuts (January 7, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (March 14-15, 1930)   Thimble Theater (July 24, 1930) 
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Jan 4, 2017 15:26
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Peanuts: Year Six (October 10-12, 1955)  
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Jan 5, 2017 06:03
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Skippy (October 24-26, 1929)   Peanuts (January 8-9, 1970)   Funky Winkerbean  ' What's less plausible in this scene? An anal-retentive film fan, or three kids going to see a 75 year-old black-and-white movie? Crankshaft   Rip Haywire   Previously, on Out Our Way...   (March 17-18, 1930) Thimble Theater (July 25-26, 1930)  
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Jan 6, 2017 15:28
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Peanuts (January 10, 1970) Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (March 19-20, 1930)   Thimble Theater (July 28, 1930) 
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Jan 8, 2017 00:54
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Stultus Maximus posted:So was it meant to be funny, you posting this comment right before a string of "head beagle" comics? Let's just say I'm not that smart and I'm not that dumb.
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Jan 8, 2017 04:42
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Peanuts (January 11, 1970) Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Out Our Way With The Willets (and Wash Tubbs Gets A Monkey!) (February 12 and 19, 1928)  
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Jan 9, 2017 03:53
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bean_shadow posted:Aren't they related? Or am I thinking of the couple from Funky Winkerbean? Yeah, you're thinking of Funky Cancerbean. These two went out on a date that turned into a business partnership...with benefits.  Skippy (October 28-30, 1929)    Peanuts (January 12, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft gives us some of the backstory, since it's been several months since these two have shown up.  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (March 21-22, 1930)   Thimble Theater (July 29, 1930) 
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Jan 9, 2017 18:56
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SomeMathGuy posted:The extension at least allows you to automatically upload a cropped area but, yeah, the only other way seems to be digging through the source code for the assetts.amuniversal.com link. Gross. Load the source, search the page for "assets", the first link is golden. That's more steps than any sane person should want to take for Luann, but there you are. I kind of hesitate to say all of that, just in case we're being watched.  Bloom County  Peanuts: Year Six (October 13-16, 1955)    
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Jan 10, 2017 04:27
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Bloom County Skippy (October 31-November 2, 1929)    Peanuts (January 13, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (March 24-25, 1930)   Thimble Theater (July 30, 1930) 
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Jan 11, 2017 03:33
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Bloom County Peanuts (January 14-15, 1970)   Funky Winkerbean   Crankshaft   Quoting Ed to your boss should be a firable offense. I beat the Thursday Rip Haywire out of bed, so you only get the one at the moment.  Out Our Way (March 26-27, 1930)   Thimble Theater (July 31-August 1, 1930)  
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Jan 12, 2017 09:49
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Thursday's Rip Haywire Peanuts: Year Six (October 17-19, 1955)   
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Jan 13, 2017 05:34
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Bloom County Peanuts (January 16-17, 1970)   Funky Winkerbean   Crankshaft   Rip Haywire   Out Our Way (March 28-29, 1930)   Thimble Theater (August 2 and 4, 1930)  
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Jan 15, 2017 04:03
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Peanuts (January 18, 1970) Funky They'reJustFuckingWithUsNowbean  Crankshaft  Out Our Way With The Willets (And Wash Tubbs's Monkey) (February 26 and March 4, 1928; click for big)  
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Jan 16, 2017 03:20
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Bloom County  Skippy (November 4-6, 1929)    Peanuts (January 19, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (March 31-April 1, 1930)   Thimble Theater (August 5, 1930) 
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Jan 16, 2017 18:17
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Peanuts: Year Six (October 20-23, 1955)   
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Jan 17, 2017 05:13
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Bloom County  Peanuts (January 20-21, 1970)   Funky Winkerbean     Rip Haywire   Out Our Way (April 2-3, 1930)   Thimble Theater (August 6-7, 1930)  
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Jan 18, 2017 23:03
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Another last-minute panic post. I blame the beginning of the Age of Clowns. Peanuts (January 22-24, 1970)    Funky Winkerbean    It didn't dawn on me until now that this is supposed to be Cory Winkerbean and his fiancee, who hasn't really done much since the end of 2015, when he sold his mom's Starbuck Jones collection for an engagement ring. Another "major development" that kind of sputtered out. TomBat Hates Art History AND Children...and Also Crankshaft    Rip Haywire    Thimble Theater (August 8-9 and 11, 1930)   
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Jan 22, 2017 05:53
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Bloom County on inauguration weekend.  Peanuts (January 25, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean celebrates a jumble of dead trees.  What The Hell Did Monet Ever Do To Deserve Crankshaft  Out Our Way With The Willets/Wash Tubbs On Sunday (March 11 and 18, 1928)  
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Jan 22, 2017 17:40
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Pyroclastic posted:Anyone happen to have an archive of the Minimum Security edits from...gently caress, a decade ago? I have a Duck and Coconut folder over here, if that's what you mean. Just not online yet. Bloom County  Skippy (November 7-9, 1929)    Peanuts (January 26, 1970)  Funky WinkerOhGodIsItGoingToBeAnotherFlashbackWeek  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (April 4-5, 1930)   Thimble Theater (August 12, 1930) 
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Jan 23, 2017 18:05
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bean_shadow posted:Not only that but Crankshaft is making a guest appearance. The most amusing part of these Crankshaft crossovers is how the FW characters very pointedly never refer to him by name even though everybody in the main cast has had extensive interactions with him. But they either can't say the name or don't remember it. Y'know, the way self-involved assholes do. Or maybe they're afraid of a Bloody Mary situation, and saying "Ed Crankshaft" out loud is all it'll take for him to rise out of his retirement home bed to give them cancer. Or at least an ulcer.
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Jan 23, 2017 22:49
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Bloom County, featuring the most eloquent Heinz 57 mutt of them all. Skippy (November 11-13, 1929; sorry, no blown-up ones tonight.)    Peanuts (January 27, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (April 7-8, 1930)   Thimble Theater (August 13, 1930)  Peanuts: Year Six (October 24-26, 1955)   
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Jan 25, 2017 02:34
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Imgur decided to be difficult tonight, so this is everything you get from me today. Skippy (November 14-16, 1929)    Peanuts (January 28, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (August 14, 1930) 
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Jan 26, 2017 04:36
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Bloom County Skippy (November 18-20, 1929)    Peanuts (January 29, 1970)  Funky Misplaced-apostrophebean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (April 9-10, 1930)   Thimble Theater (August 15, 1930) 
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Jan 26, 2017 21:12
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Peanuts: Year Six (October 27-30, 1955)   
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Jan 27, 2017 04:42
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Bloom County Skippy (November 21-23, 1929)    Peanuts (January 30, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (April 11-12, 1930)   Thimble Theater (August 16, 1930) 
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Jan 27, 2017 15:49
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Peanuts: Year Six: In honor of not sticking to a regular schedule recently, here's a whole week instead of half of one. (October 31-November 6, 1955)       And no, I'm not sure what's the deal with the tacked-on panel, either.
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Jan 28, 2017 05:04
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Six Skippys to get us caught up for Monday. (November 25-30, 1929)      Bloom County   Peanuts (January 31, 1970) Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (August 18, 1930) 
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Jan 28, 2017 21:22
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Bloom County All those Earthling cookbooks and To Serve Man is nowhere to be seen. Peanuts (February 1, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Out Our Way With The Willets / Wash Tubbs On Sunday (March 25 and April 1, 1928)  
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Jan 30, 2017 01:12
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Skippy (December 2, 1929) Peanuts (February 2, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (April 14-15, 1930)   Thimble Theater (August 19, 1930) 
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Jan 30, 2017 11:47
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Peanuts: Year Six (November 7-9, 1955)  
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Jan 31, 2017 05:08
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Skippy (December 3-4, 1929)  Peanuts (February 3-4, 1970)   Funky Winkerbean   Crankshaft   Rip Haywire   Out Our Way (April 16-17, 1930)   Thimble Theater (August 20-21, 1930)  
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Feb 2, 2017 03:11
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Skippy (December 5-7, 1929)   Peanuts (February 5-7, 1970)    Funky Winkerbean   Interrupting the strip dump to point out that we may have reached peak Funky (the character) here, because the punchline is literally "Christ, what an rear end in a top hat."  Crankshaft    Rip Haywire    Thimble Theater (August 22-23 and 25, 1930)   
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Feb 5, 2017 05:58
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Bloom County Peanuts (February 8, 1970)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Um...what? WHAT? I need a Red and Rover, stat.
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Feb 6, 2017 04:55
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Aardmania posted:9 Chickweed Lane And yet another chance to underline how utterly nonsensical this plot was, because the story to this point was about a woman in labor and the hallucinations struck a nun who was just standing off to one side. Meanwhile, this is new, not having to wait all night for the GoComics updates. Skippy (December 9-10, 1929)   Peanuts (February 9-10, 1970)   Funky Winkerbean   Following up on last week's surprise showing, the Tuesday punchline is about begging for the sweet release of death. A sideways strip, to remind you that they really do stack poo poo that high. Crankshaft   Rip Haywire   Thimble Theater (August 26-27, 1930)   And now, a double dip of Out Our Way. (April 18-19 and 21-22, 1930)    
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Bloom County  Peanuts: Year Six    
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