Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

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Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

FrumpleOrz posted:

On The Fastrack

"Trappings" has nothing to do with literal traps, you loving hack. :psyduck:

# ¿ Feb 16, 2020 07:27

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# ¿ Jan 15, 2025 03:18

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

RandomPauI posted:

Today's 9CL reminds me of my birthday a lot.

It was today, and my mom made my birthday party all about her. How painful it was giving birth to me and my sisters, what the experience of giving birth was like. There were also really shallow, superficial comments about how horrible the holocaust was and gosh it was so horrible and wasn't it horrible?

That feels like the fate that will befall those poor kids. A fate where the most important things will always be putting their parent's wants, needs, and desires front and center.

Happy birthday! I'm sorry your mother tried to ruin it.

9CL is just so up itself, the way those two go on and on like no one else has ever been in love, and did she seriously think her friend was going to kiss that nebbishy Amos or whatever his name is? It's positively.... JEJUNE.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 07:47

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Darthemed posted:

Rip

I don't know about anyone else, but that conveyor belt made me do a double-take:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bou_Craa

The belt transports phosphates from the mine to the coast. :science:

I used to post Scary Gary back in the day:

This comic centers around Gary the vampire and his demonic sidekick Leopold as they try to adjust to life in the suburbs. Follow Gary, Leopold, and Travis, the severed head in a jar in, Scary Gary by Mark Buford.

There's also a Wednesday Addams-type, Beatrice, a morbid little girl who crushes on Leopold:

# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 19:11

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Hostile V posted:

Yeah you can still destroy plumbing/public property with them, wasn't uncommon for kids to flush cherry bombs.

Or Keith Moon.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 22:05

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Savidudeosoo posted:

I just noticed but like

Why does Peekaboo have a Spade and their mother have a heart on their heads?

Is this a playing card thing?

Could be! (I really hate the art/character design in this strip, not gonna lie)

Vargo posted:

OH NO WALLACE IS GOING TO DIE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

What's with all the Yeti references in the comics lately? What are they trying to tell us?

# ¿ Feb 18, 2020 16:57

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Isn't that part of the premise of The Boys? ^^

Scary Gary attempts a diplomatic resolution:

# ¿ Feb 18, 2020 18:50

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Feb 19, 2020 21:53

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Feb 21, 2020 14:14

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

That chicken. :3:

# ¿ Feb 22, 2020 05:32

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Feb 23, 2020 18:49

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

Drimble Wedge fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Feb 25, 2020

# ¿ Feb 25, 2020 04:40

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

I may not be able to post again until the weekend, so please enjoy:

Scary Gary

Dude, you could have coloured ONE of them.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 07:02

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

gently caress off with that whole "missed seeing the big shot" arc. It feels like yet more "Boomer has minor inconvenience/disappointment and the whole world reels at the tragedy of it all" bullshit.

Scary Gary catchup!

# ¿ Mar 1, 2020 17:03

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Mar 3, 2020 05:13

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 05:40

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

...please tell me that's not their tribute to International Women's Day :aaaaa:

# ¿ Mar 8, 2020 17:54

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary is full colour but then I noticed the dates:

drat head in a jar has a better social life than I do. < :mad:

>

Here's a mini-dump from October 2019 because Tuesdays are hard to get through:

# ¿ Mar 10, 2020 04:58

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Took me a while but he's under Flags and other nationalist crap.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2020 13:17

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Tag me like a rummage sale please!

# ¿ Mar 11, 2020 16:54

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Thank you for the tag!

Scary Gary

# ¿ Mar 12, 2020 06:10

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Ol' Greg is somehow conflating minor authority figure (RA who just wants to organize events for people) with Grim, Adult Fun Police Following Saudi-Approved Morality Guidelines. It's weird as hell.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2020 21:11

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Mar 14, 2020 16:26

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Mar 16, 2020 04:10

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Mar 19, 2020 05:29

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Mar 21, 2020 16:38

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

Cicadalek posted:

I would also like to drop kick the Rose Is Rose baby. I am not accepting criticism at this time.

You won't get any from me; I hate the art in that strip. It seems full of an abhorrent twinkliness.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2020 18:43

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Mar 24, 2020 04:09

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Manuel Calavera posted:

Foob

For gently caress's sake. Delivery people face the same lovely driving conditions as anyone else; don't force some poor sod making next to nothing drive out with a pizza for your spoiled asses.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2020 04:40

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

amigolupus posted:

"I was just so in love with you that the only way I could express it was to kiss you out of the blue, whether you wanted it or not!" says the Nice Guy.

I've read the speculation that Lynn pressured her first husband to have a child to keep their marriage going, so this doesn't sound too surprising. Between pressuring the partner in a loveless marriage to have a child, and having a huge thing for someone despite being married, does this make Anthony Lynn's self-insert? Is that why Lynn was so adamant to have him marry Liz in the comic's ending?

Lynn Johnston parachute account spotted.

I actually met her once or twice when I was a teenager; I grew up in North Bay, and she lived in Corbeil, a small town just on the outskirts. (if it sounds familiar, I've posted about it before)

https://www.fborfw.com/news/video_lynn_and_the_pattersons_in_3d/

For Better or For Worse � Now on Main Street!
North Bay locals may have noticed a new addition to the Main Street area of the North Bay Regional Health Centre.
Statues of the Patterson family, from the For Better or For Worse, are now on display.

I vaguely remember a similar sculpture of the Pattersons making a brief appearance downtown, I want to say in the eighties? Didn't last long and I assume it got whisked into storage somewhere. I remember there being bananas. I came across the video above while googling for evidence.

Also, apologies if anyone's already found this, but here are the first and last Foobs:

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/09/09/first-and-last-for-better-or-for-worse/

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The first For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston was September 9, 1979.

quote:

That strip was a Sunday, the dailies started the following day on September 10, 1979.

So....the poo poo on the radio sank in after all? :psyduck:

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The strip ran for 29 years, with dailies ending on August 30, 2008�

quote:

and the final strip, like the first one, being a Sunday. This dated August 31, 2008.

That page also notes that in the 20s, there was a strip called For Better or Worse:

And now, a more realistic look at the suburbs:

Scary Gary

Drimble Wedge fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Mar 28, 2020

# ¿ Mar 28, 2020 05:55

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Mar 30, 2020 04:29

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

If Jan the Navy jet pilot is INSISTING that Pru ditch, hitch, and then...become a housewife? then she's a control freak and Pru needs to run away. :colbert:

Scary Gary

# ¿ Apr 1, 2020 04:15

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Bogor is a wonderful study of a mind dissolving under extreme solitude. I like to imagine a supervisor or hiker watching him from afar then silently tiptoeing away.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2020 07:08

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Apr 12, 2020 19:29

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 16:35

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Angular Cyrus posted:

They'll Do It Every Time 11/18/46

That's quite a good scam. $2.85 back then would be worth $37.72 today. Inflation calculator

# ¿ Apr 16, 2020 15:07

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

His characters don't have natural conversations either; everything they say is them explaining the scene to onlookers/the reader.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2020 02:34

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Jesus CHRIST. It's absolutely true: women's work is never done. What do you wanna bet hubby comes home from his day and still expects a clean house and dinner on the table?! Die, boomers, die.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2020 18:14

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

I think Josh nailed Zippy pretty well:

Comics Curmudgeon posted:

This dripping, self-indulgent bolus of hipper-than-thou omphaloskepsis no longer stains even the benighted San Francisco Chronicle. Voted off in a reader poll. Deluded fans howled: such sweet, sweet music!

https://joshreads.com/2007/01/monday-festival-of-bile/

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 03:43