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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail hahahahaha, he's made me such an rear end in a top hat this rules. Yes, it is I, actual Mark Trail bad guy, Dr. Vargo, here to post the good good comics we all know and love and also there's Curtis at the end for some reason. Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn is about three cats that report the news of their household. They are good boys who say "ma'am?" whenever they have to ask a question. It is sometimes overly saccharine and has way too many characters but it's a thread favorite because it's generally very cute and can really pack in a high gag-per-panel ratio when it wants to.   Phoebe and her Unicorn by Dana Simpson is about a little girl who is friends with a unicorn. Sometimes there are dragons and goblins and stuff, but mostly it is about daily mundane kid stuff when your best friend happens to be magic as hell. Occasionally uses "unicorn" as a punchline too often.    Thread favorite Wallace the Brave by wine-and-cheese-store-owner-and-nice-guy Will Henry is cream of the crop. It's about some kids hanging out in Rhode Island. The art is fun and whimsical and sometimes is just Will wanting to draw a cool monster or something. Bonus points for Wallace's parents being the best parents in comics.   By the way, all three of these comics, plus nu-Nancy, are the result of one editor at Andrews McMeel - Shena Wolf. Follow her on Twitter and say thanks: https://twitter.com/nancysweatyedi1 And then there's Curtis by Ray Billingsley, a strip with occasionally good character design and artwork but also sporting some of the clunkiest writing of all time. I will regularly remind you that Billingsley is 62 years old and is still angry about kids with their pants hanging down and the rappers these days. But it's okay because he has his sixth grader stand-in say it instead. Curtis used to run an original sci-fi story during Kwanzaa and then Billingsley stopped doing it for like five years. But this year, he started up again for some reason. Here's the entirety of the story so far, including the most recent strips I haven't posted yet:       
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readingatwork posted:
I love the onion storyline so much, it might be my favorite C&H bit. The worst IL strips (and all strips, really) are the ones where there's actually something like a joke hidden in there. The Red Lobster line is actually pretty funny, but it's buried in the hack writing and the belief that there needs to be a second punchline after the punchline. BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Curt- ahahahahaha what the gently caress is this, billingsley you suck so hard, lol 
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FrumpleOrz posted:Frazz gently caress oofffffffffffffffff lol, what the gently caress, are you trying to say these two things somehow offset each other? Shut the gently caress up, Frazz. BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Curti... what the gently caress 
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Safety Dance posted:Now I'm super invested in whatever Michelle gave Curtis. Spill the beans, Billingsley! It's extremely weird because this is the last strip before the Pixel-Anne Lee story:  Which seems to imply that the story was the gift. But then you get yesterday's strip saying Michelle got him something else and his mom gave him the book? It is incredible how bad of a storyteller Billingsley is.
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BCN Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis  Think this is a permanent character redesign?
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BCN Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis  The CK comments on this one explained that canonically, Curtis' original hat was originally his father's, given to Curtis when he was little. But also, Curtis can wear more than one hat.
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Jan 7, 2020 13:55
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BCN Phoebe  Wallace  YOU CAN OWN TWO HATS, CURTIS 
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BCN Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis reminds you that we live in a society. 
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Team Evans has always been lazy writers but this hack job assassination on Bets out of absolutely nowhere is really something else.Tiggum posted:
It means "not wearing underwear." No, I don't know why. BCN  Phoebe  Walter the Concave  Curtis  Oh, I'm sorry, do you not remember this event from loving OCTOBER?  Horrifying. EDIT: I got curious and read up to the newest Luann. Holy poo poo, this thread is going to lose it.
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Holy poo poo to both of these.Johnny Walker posted:Did you guys know this is Ray Billingsley of Curtis fame? I unironically love both Anime Mark Trail and Daddy Billingsley.
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Strontium posted:Daddy Daze Holy poo poo, Daddy Daze guy BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  GEORGE! Curtis 
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BCN Phoebe  Baldo  This is a pretty funny gag but also infuriating when every other Baldo strip is "Gracie's so smart and precocious, she reads booooookkkssss" Wallace  Curtis 
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Jan 14, 2020 22:57
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Discendo Vox posted:
Apologies to Johnny Walker, but I absolutely had to post today's Mark Trail.  He is absolutely making it a point to not use clip art in this. Look at that "I'm a very serious artist" cross-hatching. At that Picasso-rear end face. At the hosed proportions of the man landing in the third panel. When James Allen is trying, he draws like a 14-year old. This is him really showing me what's what.
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BCN  Phoebe   Wallace   Curtis   I hate the new hat. And in case you thought Brewster Rocket was the only one doing a CATS storyline a month too late: 
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Endless Mike posted:Vargo please make an A/T thread about having your leg eaten by a yeti TIA. StrixNebulosa posted:Vargo! Condolences on your leg! Weirdly enough, I am actually interested in the developments of Mark Trail over the past few days. I even preferred James' original "art" in yesterday's strip to his normal Xeroxing. Honestly, if the entire strip was like the past few days it would be fine. Not good, but fine. My Lovely Horse posted:Harvey you couldn't have told us about that before we took you on a expedition to the harshest mountains in the world On the other hand, yeah! Yeah, why hasn't this come up before now?
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EasyEW posted:
Has Batuik ever explained why Lisa's Story in particular is so engrossing? I mean, not to be insensitive but LOTS OF PEOPLE have had their spouses die from cancer. Is there anything particularly tragic or special about Lisa specifically? What would the story of this movie even be? How are they going to pitch "some guy's wife gets sick and dies: the end" to any Hollywood exec? RandomPauI posted:Why did Gilchrist and other guy split? Who knows, but it means the other guy has made at least one good decision in his life. Gilchrist has lost both his jobs in two years and now he's just left re-posting old Nancy strips on Facebook and pretending they're new. And eventually the syndicate will take that away. This is exactly how his story should end. gently caress Gilchrist. Vargo fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Gloomy Rube posted:Vargo accidentally posted their comic update in the wrong thread so I'll quote it here Hahaha whoops my bad.
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lol, jesus christ this rules BCN   Phoebe   Wallace   Curtis   Curtis' new hat is going to make Billingsley's frequent trips to rerun-ville even easier to spot.
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Hostile V posted:1: BCN no please don't jump on the meme bandwagon. I'm willing to give BCN a pass on this one because of how autobiographical it is, how Georgia Dunn is exactly the sort of person who would fall for Baby Yoda, and how consistently willing she is to give herself poo poo for this. And jesus christ, agreed on that Zits.
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BCN Phoebe  The GoComics people had to be reminded that non-white people exist and they are mad. Big Nate  Me explaining Judge Parker:  Wallace  Curtis  "You exaggerate so!" - an eleven-year old.
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Discendo Vox posted:Dare ya to send it to him James hasn't been on Twitter since November, which is probably best for everyone involved. Also he won't know what a "Vargo" or a "Goon" is. Tiggum posted:The plot of Cats is very straight-forward and easy to explain. The cats are competing in a talent contest, but the evil cat is cheating by kidnapping the other contestants. There's a lot about it that's weird and hard to explain, but the plot is easy. I mean, this leaves out that the talent contest is meant to determine which cat gets to die and ascend to heaven, but yeah. BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis 
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God, I literally don't have the time to respond to all of this individually but gently caress everyone in Luann, gently caress Dethany, and I will be happy to not see Frazz anymore, I want to push Jef Mallet into a snowbank. Look at this loving guy, he even looks like Liberal Dilbert Dude:  BCN  Phoebe  The Adventure Zone: Amnesty  Curtis 
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Today in "comics by old white guys who kinda hate brown women"EasyEW posted:
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BCN    Phoebe    Big Nate   I like how Pierce being too lazy to draw other people in the seats makes it look like Nate and Dee Dee are the only ones in the theater, and thus makes it more realistic. Wallace    Curtis   
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Johnny Walker posted:
holy loving poo poo, I'm dying here.
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Johnny Walker posted:I think you got to him, so he started trying more, and this is the result, and that's why he's off Twitter. I am a loving MUSE.
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BCN Phoebe  Wallace  Malibu Stacy has a new hat  so I guess we're stuck with the hat, huh. Billingsley even changed the logo.
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BCN BC   Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis  Curtis is now apparently just hat-based humor. Please update the OP accordingly.
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PetraCore posted:I actually think it's cool Jam is figuring out how to draw with a stylus to get Mark Trail up to snuff, it's easy to mock but I think there's been big improvements over the past week. I'm genuinely proud of him! Now he just needs to learn to pace a story and also what human beings sound like when they talk.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail Johnny Walker posted:
Alright, gently caress it, I'll say it, I actually like this. Also wanna point out that since James (or someone) is actually drawing this now, that one guides face is like 100X less racist. BCN   Phoebe   Wallace   Curtis   I really really hate the Michelle strips and this is looking to be worse than normal, so we may not see Curtis for a few days.
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BCN Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis  This is so loving stupid.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail Oh my god, am I going to die in an avalanche chasing blindly after proof of something that doesn't exist? FrumpleOrz posted:
Hagar the Wholesome. BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Ray Billingsley's The Thing 
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amigolupus posted:I can't wait for Jams to smugly @ you on Twitter about this. He genuinely does not know how to do that. Last time we got into it, he posted to his own page for three days without @-ing me, thinking he was talking to me the whole time. I also sincerely kinda think whatever petty revenge plot he's had for my character, if he had one at all, has been forgotten by now. I got attacked by a bear, and now he's going forward with whatever the plot idea was that he had before.
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It cannot be said enough but gently caress EEEEEEEVVVVEEERRYYYONE in Luann. BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis 
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amigolupus posted:
There was actually one about a week ago before Curtis went to Michelle's that seemed like it was just a one-off. Apparently we were supposed to realize they were part of the same story. Vargo posted:Curtis Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail The Mitt Romney/Nancy Pelosi team-up we've all been waiting for. BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis 
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