Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

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Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Another new year where I'm sick, another new thread that gets a low effort post introducing some comics :tootzzz:

Daddy Daze is a comic about the "weirdness of parenting", starring divorced Dad and his infant son Angus. While the child can only say "ba", dad is perfectly capable of translating to the readers and there's no ambiguity about it.

Take It From the Tinkersons is a slice of family life comic that rarely portrays the women of the house in a sympathetic way and frequently drops story arcs before they get resolved so as to not change the status quo. This is what some paper(s) replaced Cul de Sac with. Rest in peace, Richard Thompson.

Dark Side of the Horse is a Finnish comic about clever wordplay and clever sight gags. It sometimes manages to deliver on that premise. It also has a an inconsistent upload schedule so I may on occasion post a random one from the archives if a strip is late or omitted on any given day.

Viivi & Wagner is no longer posted by me, as the only archive of strips in english that I could find was three years' worth on repeat. For lack of another finnish comic, I'm posting...

Fort Knox. Supposedly it's about a military family who moved to a new town, new base, and new scholl when the strip started in 2009.

Intelligent Life runs M/W/F, and so I post the weekly batch on fridays. :twisted:

# ¿ Jan 1, 2020 07:53

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# ¿ Jan 25, 2025 10:39

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 2, 2020 06:54

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Intelligent Life did some extra tall strips for no good reason.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 3, 2020 08:59

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 4, 2020 08:40

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 5, 2020 10:48

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 09:15

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 07:57

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Comics Kingdom is 404'ing, so the first two strips are through ArcaMax.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Compu-Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 8, 2020 12:04

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 9, 2020 12:12

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Intelligent Life

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 10, 2020 06:27

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 11, 2020 14:21

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 12, 2020 15:06

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 06:29

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 06:13

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 15, 2020 06:52

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 16, 2020 06:25

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Intelligent Life

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox

# ¿ Jan 17, 2020 07:56

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

It has been many years since Sarah last showed up in Intelligent Life, so let's do a recap of the years she was part of the comic.

At first, Sarah was just a name passed from co-workers to Skip. Apparently she was a recent hire who had begun following Skip on social media.

And then Skip made a fool of himself when they were introduced.

Note that in 2015, Skip was pining after Gwen and frequently writing creepy poo poo in his journal, so the whole stalker accusation lacked self-awareness. This will get brought up later.

Despite the previous blunder, Sarah still had the hots for Skip.

This attraction was entirely one-sided, but Skip did take pity on her and take her out on exactly one date. She immediately decided to be way too forward and creepy.

There was no second date. But apparently they were still considered a couple? Or hung around casually some times?

Sarah then proceeded to stalk Skip and try to restrict who he could see without her permission. She's especially jealous of Gwen.

So it's all weird and controlling between them, so Skip tries to break it off. After that, nothing really happens for a while, and there's plenty of strips wherein nothing happens.

Meanwhile, Gwen has stated her intention of never dating a co-worker out of principle. Skip is bummed out, and for a second it seemed like was gonna go back to Sarah, but no.

Around this time, Intern Jeff was spying on the employees to report on them to bossman Finch, who would not actually appear in the comic until 2019.

However, Jeff felt too guilty doing it so he got fired and he confessed, but he was then immediately re-hired. Sarah stole his report.

Sarah then manages to also steal Skip's journal, to blackmail him into pretending to be her boyfriend in front of her dad (and maybe actually becoming a real couple.) It is unclear if the Finch Files helped enable her to do this.

In a turn of events, Sarah's military dad approves of Skip, thereby rendering her plotting moot. (???)

So Sarah confesses to dad that it was a ruse, and Skip gets out of the awkward situation without having to do anything.

Gwen got some security footage of Sarah stealing Skip's journal that he apparently brings to work in a backpack. This is apparently good enough blackmail material that Sarah was written out of the comic for over 3 years.

And now Sarah has apparently become an anger management therapist to her boss in Florida, and leveraged that to become COO of her old workplace.

That's it. That's the lore on the biggest villain the comic has ever had.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2020 09:07

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

Fort Knox hasn't updated.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2020 16:54

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

re: Daddy Daze. I'm not posting it because it's good. :v:

I started posting it because it was something else with an art style that I didn't like, and the babytalk made the writing clunky.

But sometimes it can land.