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Kennel posted:
This might be the worst loving Dustin I've ever seen, and Ed Kudlick's not even there. (Except he really is because everyone in this strip is Ed Kudlick) Hey SKELLY, why don't we go ahead and compare the number of elementary schools that have been nuked vs the number of schools that have been shot up? Plus, it's not like nuclear war ISN'T a loving threat in the lives of children today. gently caress you, gently caress you, gently caress you.
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amigolupus posted:That sure was a twist in Mark Trail. Explain yourself, Vargo. Evil Mastermind posted:Dammit, Vargo, what else have you been lying about? StrixNebulosa posted:Vargo! Condolences on your..... juvenile diabetes? There's absolutely no way James could have known this, but my father actually does have type-1 (AKA juvenile) diabetes.
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Johnny Joestar posted:Comic Strip Thread 2020: A Goon Was Immortalized With Juvenile Diabetes By A Clip-Art Wizard I have had some weird things happen to me on the internet before but this is the weirdest by far. BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Holy poo poo, Wallace ![]() Curtis ![]()
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Binary Badger posted:I kinda think that's actually projection by Jallen, it's really his own standin, but making Vargo's namesake super pathetic like him is the best he can do I keep thinking "okay no, he's definitely not doing me anymore" but then again, I have a pinned tweet from 2018 about something cool I did and it contains a reference to "for potential employers who might be googling me", and James thought it was cool and funny to mock me being unemployed based on that. (Even though I have a job) So every time I think this has dragged on long enough, I remember that he's a small, petty, stupid man and yes, he probably did do that ridiculous thing we think he did. BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Wallace ![]() Curtis ![]()
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It's really difficult for me not to post today's Mark Trail, holy poo poo, it's killing me. BCN ![]() ![]() Phoebe ![]() ![]() Wallace ![]() ![]() Curtis ![]() ![]()
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Gloomy Rube posted:If only Juvenile Diabetes hadn't made me lose my leg, I could have been a social media star I've been thinking about this all day and how it makes no goddamn sense. Whatever James was going for here with Harvey retreating to social media because of his leg is really undone by the fact that Harvey has been HIKING THE loving HIMALAYAS WITH ONE LEG THIS ENTIRE TIME. If his leg didn't stop him from doing this, then why would it stop him from doing anything else? Also, if Harvey wanted to be big on social media, then he would absolutely play up the missing leg, not keep it hidden! The internet would lose its poo poo for a one-legged adventurer! So yeah, James is being ablest as gently caress here and it makes no sense. This is what happens when a man who doesn't know how to use Twitter's @ function writes a story about social media.
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YggiDee posted:Wait, okay, I haven't been reading every comic that gets posted, but is the Mark Trail guy using his comic as ammunition for a Twitter fight? A Twitter fight with someone in this thread?? How long has this been happening, there's eighteen threads and they're all five hundred pages. Slightly longer version: WAY back in August, James ran an entire week of strips where Mark complains about losers on the internet who criticize his articles. James found me on Twitter making fun of him for it and proceeded to get into a slap fight with me over it. It went on for days, including him deciding I must be unemployed and making fun of me for that. I even (teasingly) asked if I could be a Mark Trail bad guy. A few other thread people got into it too. I accused him of using clip art and that REALLY set him off. And we ended this fight with him saying something like "You'll see what happens to social media fools in this storyline, STAY TUNED" Two weeks later, Dr Camel appears. And he looks... A little like me. Not a huge amount but enough to make me go "hah, that's funny". And then Dr Camel is a sad little loser and a jerk the whole time. And then stuff from our Twitter feud starts leaking into the strip. Including me getting mauled by a bear, which I think someone actually suggested to him. And now I am friend-zoned and dead. RIP ME.
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amigolupus posted:
This seems like the most likely explanation, yeah. I could also say this is why there are three weeks between Dr. Camel being mentioned and Dr Camel actually being seen, but that's just how time works in this strip. Also, as a result of this feud, the guy who does Over The Hedge is a fan of my podcast and the president of Andrews McMeel syndicate got in my DMs and took my resume. It was a weird time.
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Johnny Walker posted:
Yes, and this is... bad... somehow... because of his leg... I guess.
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Tiggum posted:If anyone wants the longer version, I documented the whole series of Twitter interactions. It's amazing how detailed this is and yet it still missed half the interesting and also doesn't even get into the Dr Camel stuff. https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/status/1176167609059958793?s=20 https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/status/1185967894741618689?s=20 https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/status/1208452034883665920?s=20 https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/status/1210299384891629569?s=20 Also I found an op-ed by an actual newspaper editor saying "I can't keep this garbage in my newspaper" https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/status/1167873010323222528?s=20
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My Lovely Horse posted:He looks actually good in this. Like a slightly more detailed Tintin character, and I realize that's against the point of Tintin. The Morning Call posted:The Morning Call
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Johnny Walker posted:
It's not an alter ego! He's there, actually doing that stuff! There's nothing alternative about it!
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Yvonmukluk posted:The thing is...a proper 21st-century Mark Trail would be doing basically everything Harvey is, save the juvenile diabetes/yeti thing. Honestly, Mark making a web series would provide a diegetic reason for the random animal fact strips. This is... loving hilarious when you put it this way. Like he's so close to getting it right, and he's made them the bad guy.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus It's the middle of February, vacuum your loving floor. BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Wallace ![]() Curtis ![]()
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail As opposed to the much more noble endeavor or risking your life for the minor fame of writing a magazine column. BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Vermin Supreme: Origins ![]() Curtis ![]() Vargo fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Feb 17, 2020 |
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This Mark Trail story conclusion makes me feel like I am losing my loving MIND. Every time I think about the point James thinks he's making versus what he's actually put to paper, I get whiplash. Today's thought: Harvey, the guy who was apparently driven mad to take risks by social media, DIDN'T EVEN HAVE HIS PHONE OUT WHEN HE DIED.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail looooooooolllllllll BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() OH NO WALLACE IS GOING TO DIE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ![]() Curtis ![]()
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davidspackage posted:I feel like Jamesallen means for Mark to be talking directly to Vargo in that close-up. "Hello, police? I've received a death threat. Okay, so you know the newspaper comic Mark Trail..."
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you broke my grill posted:the team with the worst record gets the highest draft pick so you have a chance to get better players like that The Philadelphia 76ers have all but admitted to doing this for nearly a decade until they scraped together a decent team recently. "Trust The Process" was the unofficial slogan for a long time.
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readingatwork posted:
I know everyone looks back fondly on C&H as the whimsical imagination adventure strip, and they should, but as I get older I really appreciate these little family moment strips where Hobbes doesn't even appear. BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Baldo ![]() Huh, this seems like kind of a big moment, a huge leap for a character. Let's see what set this in motion, what happened yesterday... ![]() Oh, this is just a completely random bit of forced development with absolutely no lead-up and it will never be mentioned again. Like the Dreamers that Tia Carmen is (still?) hiding in their attic. Also, I went back and looked at the past week of strips, he's not even wearing a ring. Wallace ![]() Curtis ![]()
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Johnny Walker posted:
This is some straight psychopath poo poo to say about a guy you think died five minutes ago, 50 feet in front of you. amigolupus posted:
Yvonmukluk's idea is better, but when I was making fun of James, I wrote this tweet off-hand https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/status/1166820505237823490 And then suddenly realized that this actually isn't a bad idea for a Mark Trail story. Instagrammers and influencers actually do disrupt habitats, disturb sacred sites, do damage to ecosystems all the time. Hell, you could do a "Logan Paul and the suicide forest" kind of thing if you wanted to be macabre. Have Lost Forest suddenly become a popular influencer site and Mark has to deal with an influx of wealthy teens disturbing his forest. Cherry says its a good thing that young people are coming, Mark suddenly has to deal with his feelings about people enjoying nature "wrong". Finally, some instagrammers wander off-trail, get lost, don't have survival skills, are attacked by a cougar, Mark has to be a hero and then you have a story about ACTUAL social media dangers. And this is all something I came up with in a tweet to mock this dude. Also, since you all have enjoyed my adventures in old-person comics, you're all now legally obligated to listen to my podcast, Breaking Mayberry, which is about my adventures in old-person TV. As you can imagine, I wind up talking about newspaper comics regularly on the show. And if you think comics storylines are bad, plotless, and dumb, that's nothing compared to like, half the episodes of the Andy Griffith Show. BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Baldo ![]() Again, this would be much better if the artist had ever included the detail of Sergio wearing his ring before now. Like, imagine seeing this strip if you hadn't seen yesterday's. Wallace ![]() Curtis ![]()
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I get to cross-post from the Idiots on Social Media thread. The official Peanuts Twitter account tweeted this today, they managed to catch and delete it quickly, but someone got a screenshot:![]()
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MariusLecter posted:A day late and a dollar short, champ. Was this already posted? I scrolled through the past couple of pages.
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Aw jeez, same page, too. I bet they posted while I had the window open to post. My bad. EDIT: Okay, well, here's something I know hasn't been posted yet because it just happened, to me, right now. I'm sitting at work and my friend Adam is next to me, he gets a package, and screams "this is the best day ever! My Garfield/Neon Genesis Evangelion t-shirt has arrived!" ![]() He was not lying. Vargo fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Green Intern posted:I have read ahead on Mark Trail, and well No, you know what? I get to be the one to post this. I've earned it. ![]() It has been eight months and this is exactly where we started.
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Some Guy TT posted:Well now I'm not sure whether this was actually an intentional tribute or whether Allen was just going along with it. I'm extremely torn, because 1: James has put real-life people in his strips before, people he claims are friends of his, but he doesn't really seem to give a poo poo how they're portrayed beyond "hey look I drew you" but also... 2: That guy... doesn't look like Dr. Camel. And his evidence is... a blue shirt? I mean, with the Mark Trail filter ruining everything, it's hard to say who looks like whom. I guess he looks as much like Dr. Camel as I do, in that we both have brown hair and beards. But like, Dr. Camel's hair is curly. My hair is curly. Loren Coleman's is not. Loren Coleman looks like Hans Gruber. 3: James doesn't ever say "haha, you figured it out!" and gloat like he does when there's an intentional reference, he just says "thank you for reading my work" because he likes it whenever anyone pays attention to him. Making me think it was unintentional. But on the OTHER hand: 4: Loren Coleman ACTUALLY did write a book about hunting the Yeti. 5: He seems like exactly the sort of dude James would be into. But on the other OTHER hand: 6: Outside of having a Twitter, Loren Coleman doesn't seem to have any connections to social media, so including him makes no sense. 7: But neither does anything James Allen does. So in conclusion, Mark Trail is a land of contrasts.
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Johnny Walker posted:
Y'know what, I'll just say it, I straight-up unironically like this.
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Oh crap, it's the baby raccoon saga, prepare to cry, everyone. BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Wallace ![]() Curtis ![]()
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Stultus Maximus posted:I haven't used cursive since elementary school and I sure as hell don't care if my students do. I've got plenty of other ways to teach patience and precision than sweating over an outmoded means of writing. God, I miss this kind of benign 80s-movie stupidity from Mark Trail. BCN ![]() Phoebe ![]() Wallace ![]() Curtis ![]()
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