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My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I think you're being very charitable on One Big Happy, but I suspect I may have also said that last year :v:

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My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

StrixNebulosa posted:

Funky Winkerbean was spoiler-tagged for the entirety of that arc, so something was done. Additionally, an insensitive depiction of an illness isn't the same as hate speech. Ignoring isn't the best solution, either - letting hate speech go unopposed is a great way for it to push its way into a community and then get more extreme.
We were opposing it all the time, though, by loudly pointing out whenever it was particularly lovely, making edits, generally mocking it, and calling Scott Adams out on things he did outside of Dilbert like the time he used a shooting to promote his online service. And we do this with all comics when it's warranted, which is often. Mocking the poo poo is half these threads' raison d'etre ever since I've known them, I don't think they're in any particular danger of having their Overton window shifted. I do come here to read the happy place stuff, but I also do come here to read the vicious takedowns. No one else I want to go to on the internet seems to be doing it. It's quite genuinely not even a "love to hate" thing for me.

Ghostlight posted:

i think the difference is that those other comics are lovely because they're not funny and poorly written and a bit weird. dilbert is lovely because its creator uses it as a mouthpiece for his regressive political views on the validity of other people's identities and value as human beings.
Dustin is lovely for very close to the same reason. One Big Happy and Luann have entire characters set up to be nothing but strawmen for the creators' backwards views. Pros and Cons, well. Not a week passes where a Foob strip isn't called out for featuring emotional child abuse.

Purely as a comic, Dilbert is probably one of the least consistently lovely out of the lovely ones. It had one transphobic arc recently, no doubt at all that's reflecting Adams' own views, but 95% of the time it isn't. Dustin is lovely every single day. I get banning Dilbert from the thread because it's a reminder that Scott Adams is doing his thing, but a lot of comics are cut from the same cloth and it seems they get a pass because their creators are staying just below the line with overt social media statements while regularly crossing it in the actual comics.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

so remember when y'all were saying you didn't see how Fort Knox was a military strip

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Been a good while since the last time it was posted and it's a good strip.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

You know who I am? I'm Johnny Two Hats.

This hat story is pretty baffling even for Billingsley but at least he's trying to make it a thing in the comic unlike the Working Daze guys with their water bottle who just put the backstory on Wikipedia.

I will say, though, that the new hat makes Curtis pretty bottom heavy, visually speaking.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Kennel posted:

I had to check out. Classic Valiant was posted by GorfZaplen from November 2013 to February 2015 and we reached January 1945.

It's a great comic and deserves to get reposted.
I'm gonna level with everyone straight off the bat, I will repeat all the jokes I made about how Valiant constantly calls things gay, because six years later I'm somehow still twelve. I may even come up with new ones.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Haifisch posted:

I've decided that unless this arc is actually interesting somehow or unless there's a surprise contingent of people really into modern Tracy, I'm going to stop posting it after this arc. This isn't even bad in a fun to hate way, it's just boring. There's only so many times I can make fun of the stories getting constantly sidetracked by Flintheart bullshit before it gets old.
Feel free to not give it the benefit of doubt and stop right away, for my money. :v:

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Parents beware: social media will lead your children* to immoral behaviour!

*adult-aged

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Harvey you couldn't have told us about that before we took you on a expedition to the harshest mountains in the world

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I think you're right and I think that may have been the first reappearance of Splitface. And I also think it's possible that wasn't the first instance either.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Darthemed posted:

I'm thinking 200 DPI should be sufficient.
Eh, I'd go up to 300 or 400. I see some fairly noticable steps in the 200 dpi scan. You can read it fine but it's not as crisp as it could be.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Gloomy Rube posted:

Dustin's artist is the creator of 'Gil', it's the author who has the crummy opinions. I think a goon got an email interview with them a couple threads ago about it.
I think you're mistaking Jeff Parker for Norm Feuti, who did Gil and does Retail.

I do dimly recall that interview and that Parker came off as a reasonable guy in it, buuuut even then he's still putting himself in Kelley's service each and every day drawing his strip, and it takes a lot more than drawing a video game accurately to make up for that.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Evil Mastermind posted:

Working Daze honestly surprised me with this one.

Did they just write it on a desk?

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I want to say Mark Trail might look wonky now but still 1000x better than with the cliparts, but it also just looks like he got a different set.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

amigolupus posted:

Is...Is Billingsley entering that Batiuk Phase where everything works out well for all his characters even when it's completely unearned?
I thought he might be entering the Retail phase where things work out for everyone before the comic ends and they all ride into the sunset. But then he just spent seven years on exploring the concept of Curtis wearing a new hat. But then if anyone would do that just before ending the comic...

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Ashsaber posted:

So, as someone who hasn't even been reading these threads for a full year, can someone give me a cliff's notes explanation of how and why there are moon people in Dick Tracy? Because suddenly, from my perspective, there's literal magic powers in the strip and you can easily acquire giant, cornucopia sized snails from the moon as a regular thing? What?
The artist duo think they're Grant Morrison and they aren't.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

riderchop posted:

Hey, whatever happened to reboot Alley Oop, who was posting it?
Haven't you visited enough misery upon us today already?

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I see someone's been getting into old MAD issues.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

What a fate for an innocent child.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Evil Mastermind posted:

Working Daze is...wait, is this how they're showing off a new look?

You'd think a big time CEO wouldn't have her office right under the roof

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Strontium posted:

Intelligent Life

Oh look Reddick remembered his designated target group.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

He looks actually good in this. Like a slightly more detailed Tintin character, and I realize that's against the point of Tintin.

Can someone quote the Morning Call article for us poor Europeans who are being locked out?

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Some Guy TT posted:

Cheer Up Boss Dharma
Man Korean needs a whole lot more characters for "what's with Peggy" and a whole lot less for "semiconductor factory" than I would have guessed.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

So Ed, what you're saying with that rather strained comparison is you hosed up parenting your children out of your own lack of commitment? Cause hey, sure, checks out.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Do you think Curtis may, at some point, get new shoes? I feel like there's some panel real estate to be gained and it'll be good for three weeks of strips minimum.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Vargo you'd better strap the gently caress in cause I think this guy's about to lay some major :iceburn: on you!

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I'd just like to remind everyone that James Allen spent something like a week setting up an elaborate story about clowns where the punchline, such as it was, was "the phrase 'Wilhelm scream' exists", and his pride in coming up with that stellar gag oozed out of every line of artwork he retrieved from the folder.

Spending a few months on a storyarc in exclusive order to, in his mind, dunk on a twitter person would seem entirely reasonable for such a man.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

oh hey it's Destruction and Barnabas

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

"Why just the other day Rusty posted a picture from his arts & crafts class and was harassed about his clip art!"

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Whoever put this lady on restocking duty should probably rethink a thing or two.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Over all this clipart and twitter furor I completely forgot how clumsy and amateurish Allen is at writing, too.

EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean




so Funkyworld just, what, doesn't have youtube

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

The Bloop posted:

The way some of you people talk about certain strips is a but worryng. Character assassination because Team Evans had something against Bets for being a Strong Woman.... You know she's a fake shallow character that they literally invented from nothing fairly recently, right? She's literally whatever they want her to be. There's no one there to defend. It's not even like she's an established beloved character like Picard
I agree but I also feel given the Evans' general writing track record whether they wanted a "shallow social media" character and therefore introduced Bets or wanted a "shallow social media" character and decided to hang it off Bets after she was already established is anyone's guess.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Crowetron posted:

No one's mentioned it in awhile, but man, Zippy sucks, huh?
no :colbert:

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Why does he even talk to him instead of locking the kids inside and going on Nextdoor to post that someone really should call the police.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Victor here feels like he should have been part of the main cast.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Medenmath posted:

Val's kill count: 11
There are countless action movies that had whole writer's rooms at their disposal and decades of established visual language and tropes to draw on to come up with tense and creative fight scenes, and you can probably count those that, in terms of putting the stakes against our hero and him using the environment to his advantage and whatnot, come even close to what Hal Foster was thinking up 80 years ago on one hand.

Like Iron Man will always have more CGI rockets and Thor may lose his hammer but it's always "Thor gets his hammer back" rather than "Thor has to come up with another plan", meanwhile this guy right here killed three men with a rope and a goose and only needed the goose for one of them and I'm rooting for him like you wouldn't believe.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Ghostlight posted:

my stalk's vowel is unrounded and slightly longer
I wouldn't worry, most girls don't really care one way or the other

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

this is absolutely worth its own post: what the gently caress

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My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

The Bloop posted:

Like, it's not bad art, right? It's detailed and well done, I can see that. But Anime Lottie just doesn't feel like the same person at all.
I have in the past criticized the art and had accusations levelled against me of being a grump who can't stand new things, which is only coincidentally true.

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