Yvonmukluk posted:

Bad Machinery

SubNat posted:

Huh! Do you not have any kind of stinging jellyfish over in Finland?

Haifisch posted:

Dick Tracy

Strontium posted:

Take It From the Tinkersons

Some Guy TT posted:

She's an obnoxious Swedish hipster that's named after F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife. It's a very specific kind of pretentiousness where it's hard to tell whether we're supposed to laugh with her for her relatable problems or laugh at her for inflicting misery for herself and others due to a generally terrible attitude and poor grasp of long-term consequences. It's kind of like Girls if that helps.

Transmodiar posted:

Samovar posted:

As to the Norwegian comics so far in this thread; yeah, there'sa kind of... sneering superiority around them? That's why out of all of them I 'like' Zelda the most because the titular character is scum as well.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Arlo and Janis Classic (September 11, 1998)

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

He's unemployed, maybe let go by the Rivutti factory. Seems like Finland is in a recession, so he doesn't have any job prospects, just walks back and forth to the unemployment office. Each day, habit makes him start to turn in at the Rivutti gate, and the message reminds him not to. Depressing slice of life.

gleebster posted:

Murder will out, also illicit berry-picking.

amigolupus posted:

Huh, I noticed he's sneaking out of Eino's house there.


Is it implying that he's cheating with Eino, or Eino's wife?

amigolupus posted:

I actually thought Pekka was supposed to be the kid's dad because of this strip:


I parsed their conversation at the start as them going, "Hey, help me out with my homework, dad." "Why don't you let your mom help you with it, sport. I copied off her work when we were kids."


There's also this shot of their family. I thought that the guy sitting on the rocking chair was supposed to be the grandfather. And the way Pekka's lounging on the sofa, sitting right next to the mom with an arm behind her made me think he's the dad.

LazyQ posted:

What others posted is correct. Old man is Erkki Syrjänen, the father, and the woman is his wife, Laina Syrjänen. Pekka and Atte are their sons. Pekka is secretly seeing Eeva Lehtonen, daughter of Eino and Lempi Lehtonen. It was in a recent strip at the dances we saw them get together, with help from little Rauno Santanen who is the son of the bank manager Ensio Santanen.

Keeping track of everyone is bit of a problem in early Mämmilä, Tarmo Koivisto is clearly still figuring out his characters and we tend to jump between them from strip to strip. Other factor is the art, it will slowly change into a more caricaturized style and recognizing characters becomes easier.

LazyQ posted:

There is no grandfather. Erkki is the father, I referred to him as old man. Next up strippers, JFK and Stalin.

riderchop posted:

zelda is cloyingly awful about this no children poo poo and i for one can't wait to read her posts on r/childfree

readingatwork posted:

Arlo had no idea she ever had a sore knee and is bullshitting.

SubNat posted:

Yeah, they're pretty great, though rare to see nowadays. Back on the west-coast(Nor) where I grew up, the people growing up during WW2 were pretty much the last generation to use them.
Though I suspect they're still a fairly common sight in the inland regions that have way longer winter seasons.
I still rememeber going on trips with my grandparents' one, they're pretty stable and nice, compared to most forms of transportation during the winter.

They are very much for riding on compacted snow or ice over surfaces/roads though, they're no good in deep or loose snow, as they don't spread the weight out much at all.
(And as ol' gran shows in the comic, hitting an unexpected patch of sand or gravel is never a particularly pleasant experience, though you just slow down as opposed to fall over, due to it's long design.)

Hella nostalgic though, I genuinely haven't thought about one for years.

e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmpxegQSN8E
For anyone curious to see them in action. At around 0:32 the mayor of Tynset shows how elegant it is to brake.

Doll House Ghost posted:

Watch out Valiant, Thor himself tried to rassle time and that didn't go too well:

How Wonderful! posted:

My brother and I were both adopted, and my wife and I are in the early stages of beginning to plan towards adoption, and yeah, it's a huge endeavor even in the best of circumstances. I was less than a month old when I was adopted so obviously I have no memory of live before my adoptive parents, but I still grappled with a lot of stuff around it as an adolescent, and I know my brother really really struggled with some of it as a young adult. It's something I'm profoundly grateful to my parents for doing and something I'm looking forward to hopefully doing myself but Mark Trail's assumption that children operate under "finders keepers" rules is really aggravating.

LadyPictureShow posted:

Fun random factoid regarding Moomin and Japan:

Japanese Sign Language has a sign for Moomin (index finger goes nose to chin indicating the snout-shape). It was actually the third word I learned after 'gaijin' and 'bathroom'.

LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä

Some Guy TT posted:

This comic very quickly took on a rather extreme science fiction bent. I'm halfway expecting some kid in the mailroom is going to turn out to be Superboy.


I was kind of intrigued at first because I interpreted the prospector line as mundane and functional, like this was going to be Planetes but for space miners. Not sure why I would make an assumption like that, since the tone of all the fake comics in Funky is just generic pulpy trash.


Why would anyone bother running a four AM radio show live?

Cheer Up Boss Dharma





Solomon being a naive idiot failure when it comes to women seems new. I'm pretty sure when we were starting out Solomon was dating women fairly regularly.

Transmodiar posted:

Modesty Blaise

Poil posted:

He has way less than half his hair left though.

Kid Fenris posted:

If someone offered me a walrus bank like that, I'd probably sign anything they put in front of me

Some Guy TT posted:

The other Zelda understandably got most of the attention but I identify with this one speaking as someone with a similar job who is also kind of shithead when it comes to looking for work that would actually be useful.

duz posted:

Yeah, there's been multiple previous strips with him saying his doctor keeps telling him to lose weight but he just hates exersize and loves eating cakes.

Huxley posted:

Even if you're not finishing your noodles in your sauce in the pan, dumping the sauce in the pot is a tried-and-true way to keep your kids from fighting over who got more sauce. Then all that's left to fight over is who got more shaky cheese.

Savidudeosoo posted:

I'm torn between really dig Ye Olde Phantom costume and puzzling over the idea of not mixing the sauce in the pan.

Do you have like, a sauce bowl? That you spoon out?

Some Guy TT posted:

I'm assuming that silly-looking New York Bowling Team coat was also in the original? Just something the whippersnappers thought was cool because it was printed in English?

edit: and while I'm at it...


The Heisenberg reference seems deliberate and believable in the original Swedish but Parks and Rec? Comedies don't travel well in general internationally and that one in particular would seem like a hard sell in a foreign market considering how wrapped up it is in the idea of small town America.

BigglesSWE posted:

Zelda is not in the wrong there, but I am surprised this particular friend of hers would take that stance.

Like, that’s the same lady who got constantly harassed at the gym for being a woman, while very obviously aware of that fact. It seems weird for her to not see Zelda’s point immediately.

Vargo posted:

Curtis

Johnny Aztec posted:

I've never seen or heard an Ice Cream Truck

#smalltownproblems

Julet Esqu posted:

Okay, I'm well aware that the entire point of the joke is that Bernice is a ridiculous nerd, but shut up, Bernice, you ridiculous nerd.

Hempuli posted:

B. Virtanen

I apparently forgot one page from the consult saga. For miss Jantunen's name, here's some trivia. When we got to the point in Finland where people needed official surnames instead of the usual local identifiers, there was some work to invent unique (or uniqueish) surnames for families. Older families with existing Swedish surnames often translated their surname into Finnish, but for a lot of poorer folks the surname was just pulled out of thin air by taking some everyday noun and applying the ending "-nen" to the end. Thus we have names like Jokinen, Lahtinen, Järvinen (i.e. something like "Riversby, Baysby, Lakesby") which to a Finnish ear have a fairly distinct "generic" sound to them. For reasons I don't know "Juntunen" & "Jantunen" have become generic names for janitors/custodians, and I guess secretaries in this case.