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Vargo posted:The GoComics people had to be reminded that non-white people exist and they are mad. Remind them that Max has two moms Haifisch posted:Dick Tracy I've gotta say, I'm actually liking the Styx references they keep working into this Dick Tracy story line. .
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TofuDiva posted:I thought that there was a minor time jump somewhere and that the mystery crew were now out of school / young adults? But I could be misremembering. rannum posted:I think it's a summer break but they're still in high school Yeah I think Mildred is only 15 in this story. She turns 16 in September.  From the unmade new Scary-Go-Round comic Allison did (aka Wen-Tac, The Great Unboxing) that takes place after this Bad Machinery story.
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Transmodiar posted:Do you have the full story somewhere? Sadly no, I was only able to find a few strips via various search engines after Allison took it down.
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Safety Dance posted:Once again, archive.org has it covered. howe_sam posted:that's where the Unboxing starts, but the entire Wen-Tack saga starts here. There is at least one very slight spoiler for the end of the current story in the Great Unboxing btw. From a view pages back but I just wanted to thank Safety Dance and howe_sam for the links. I'm actually working on a personal little project with John Allison's works and having access to these strips will be very helpful (I've downloaded them for my own use). By way of thanks here's a pic from Allison's instagram promoting the forthcoming Wicked Things comic.  and here is the cover to issue two, spoilered since it involves some of the plot 
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Transmodiar posted:I assembled "Wen-TACK," "Parents," and "The Great Unboxing" from the Internet Archive. Do you want to post them when this story wraps, or may I add it to my daily posts? I'd wait until this current Bad Machinery story wraps up, as those strips have some spoilers for this story.
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Yvonmukluk missed Friday's Bad Machinery Here it is: quote:Hugh Mortimer gets a lot of stick int his story, mainly because, as you may recall, he looks like a lad at school who caused a code brown in the school pool. Teenage vendettas have been founded on far less.
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Kennel posted:Dustin Kevin Meaney did it better
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise in The Killing Distance Been waiting for Transmodiar to post this story so I can post this intro from the collected edition by Rick Norwood. Rick Norwood posted:It is proverbial that if someone with resources wants to kill a person badly enough, they will succeed. As I write these words, the president of the United States has had a potentialy bad week. First, a disturbed man with a pocket knife jumped the White House fence and made it inside before he was stopped. Then, on a trip to Atlanta, the president rode in an elevator with an armed man who had a criminal record. In the first case, someone came very close to getting within killing distance of the president, who had left the White House shortly before.In the second case, a person was within killing distance. Fortunately, neither of these men was trying to kill the president. But it is sobering to reslize just how hard a job the Secret Service has.
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BigDave posted:DMV jokes are the hackiest jokes in existence, and I have never gotten them, at all. Every time I've been to the DMV, it's been fine. No more worse then the dentist or a doctor's office. When comedians start from a false premise
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Yvonmukluk posted:I'm going to be away on holiday starting tomorrow with only my phone, so someone is going to have to take up the torch of posting Bad Machinery in my absence. I think I'll be back before we reach the end, but if not I'm OK with that. Here's today's Bad Machinery 
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Huxley posted:I thought I remembered this C+H storyline being about a bird. Am I mixing something up, or did he actually do this basic idea twice? You're thinking of this one: 
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Not sure if Yvonmukluk will be back today, so here's today's Bad Machinery also here's a variant cover for issue 1 of Wicked Things, i was just going to get the comic digitally, but I thought this cover was cute and decided to order a physical copy. 
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Bad Machinery Bell_ posted:Who's going to be writing it? I drifted away from Giant Days after a year or so because I didn't care for Susan's characterization. Her original depiction made her an instant favorite, but in comic book form she was just consistently awful to non-lovely folks for no good reason. Allison writes all of the Tackleford comics (Bad Machinery, Giant Days, Bobbins etc) these just have other people doing the art. I think that's because Allison also likes to work on multiple projects, when Giant Days was running he also released By Night and Steeple. I agree with you about Susan though.
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Bad Machinery Transmodiar posted:After this Modesty Blaise adventure, I'll present something very special. But for now, The Aristo! I think you forgot to post the last pages of The Killing Distance. Also could I have a tag, if it's not too much trouble? The_Other fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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riderchop posted:Monty Not going to lie, I'd go to this museum. Also here is a preview of the first seven pages of Wicked Things (with dialog this time!) and an interview with John Allison about the comic. It does have this quote with I thought was kind of bittersweet: John Allison posted:
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howe_sam posted:And Wicked Things is pretty good, although i think Lottie blundered into that frame job a little too easily. I'm chalking that up to her being a little out of her element / frazzled from the other mystery teens. I'm wondering if Allison will introduce any supernatural / paranormal elements (like in Bad Machinery) into this comic or keep it a straight mystery. I'm hoping for the latter. The_Other fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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Transmodiar posted:Scary Go Round: The Great Unboxing So I went through and tried to identify all the characters in that third panel  1) Giant Bee from Scary-Go-Round The Great Tackleford Show (story 39) 2) Desmond Fishman 3) Dr. Daniel Petrescu, mad scientist (Scary-Go-Round, Romania, story 6) 4) Creature from another dimension? (Scary-Go-Round, Where the Dumb Things are, story 8) 5) Imp from various Scary-Go-Round stories 6) Gibbous Moon, American marine biologist 7) Mayor Mayor, former mayor of Tackleford 8) Robot Ambassador from Robotania 9) ?Cockroach? 10) Man-o-War from this Scary-Go-Round story 11) Tim Jones, inventor 12) Poh Drake, aka "The Child", reoccurring character that would declare that "things are going to change", mainly featured in the last Scary-Go-Round story (which is basically a proto Bad Machinery story) 13) Ernest the sailor/inventor 14) Barbara McChinnery from the Ministry of History (Destroy History) 15) Vampire 16) Santa Claus / Father Christmas, as envisioned by John Allison 17) Bob Crowley occultist 18) Erin Winters, Shelly's younger sister, journalist and former Queen of Hell 19) Esther De Groot, gothic star of Scary-Go-Round and Giant Days 20) Perkin Warbeck from the Ministry of History (Destroy History) 21) Shelby Winner, American Journalist 22) NEMULON Shape-shifting robot from Destroy History 23) One of Ryan Beckwith's pet bats (Friend Bat was the first, Comrade Bat was the second) 24) Devil Bear
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Johnny Walker posted:What happened to Thel's face? Parahexavoctal posted:Thel's face seems particularly disturbing today, not sure why. Something about the way the fleshtone just stops with no border, maybe? I'm guessing that this is an old strip from when Thel had a different hairstyle:  a lot of FC strips are like this, old art with some updates (adding seatbelts in car scenes for example).
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Pastry of the Year posted:Lockhorns has been super duper good for a long time now. They didn't even make a thing out of it, and what with long-running zombie strips being what they are, they probably didn't need to. But! They're like the nega-A&J; a good, funny comic with actual effort put into the art, only the protagonists actively hate each other*. According to the creators, the Lockhorn couple stays together because the sex is amazing.
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FrumpleOrz posted:The Lockhorns I guess Leroy saw those posts on this thread about him and Loretta.
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Here are some pictures from John Allison's Twitter and Instagram The opening character spread for the 10th Bad Machinery book:  and a redrawn final panel for said book (which originally just said "The End") 
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howe_sam posted:I thiiiiink Destroy History takes place in between Scary-Go-Round ending and Bad Machinery starting, but I'm sure a scholar more learned in Tackleverse lore will correct me. Destroy History pretty much takes place right after Scary-Go-Round (seen in this strip where Shelley gets hired before she even sends out her resume). Allison did that first strip in 2009, and did the rest of the first story in 2015. It was included in the collection Giant Days: Extra Credit. Where things get interesting is when / how Shelley left the Ministry of History. In 2012's one-shot comic Murder She Writes (which you should pick up on Comixology if you want to read a good Lottie Grote story, and why wouldn't you?), Shelley says the department she worked for was cut two weeks later and Shelley became a writer. However in Giant Days Esther and her friends visit Shelley in London where she is still working for the Ministry. The Doylist explanation is that Allison changed his mind about Shelley's time at the Ministry. Of course, since the Ministry has access to both time travel and mind altering technology, the Watsonian explanation is that they sent Shelley back in time with her memories of the events there wiped (of course that would mean there were two Shelley Winters in existence at once, a scary prospect)
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD Rex's face in the first panel. I'd never thought I'd laugh at Rex Morgan MD
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catlord posted:I mentioned the... ambivalence towards civilization in Howard's Conan stories before. In Beyond the Black River, one of Howard's final Conan stories, he finally explicitly states the common theme running through the series: In one of the Conan comic collections (I think it was the adaption by Dark Horse) they mentioned how Howard and Lovecraft would have these arguments in the letter section of Weird Tales regarding the merits of civilization vs barbarism (with Lovecraft taking the side of civilization).
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howe_sam posted:Also, Shelley's not speaking in hypotheticals. Since she did pass the Beatles's songs off as her own when she and Amy went back in time thanks to a time teapot they stole from Tim Jones. But then Tim Jones went back in time and stopped them from stealing the time teapot in the first place! 
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD So The Comics Curmudgeon had a post yesterday about who that old woman was The Comics Curmudgeon posted:Folks, I try to keep you appraised of the deep lore of these strips, but where I fail you, my faithful commenters and your favorite guest blogger Uncle Lumpy will pick up the slack. This stern, mysterious crone who demands that Rex take a mate isn’t just any old lady; she’s Melissa Claridge, who, as Uncle Lumpy explained in a 2012 post, insisted that Rex and June couple up back in the ’70s in first iteration of this storyline in the strip, and also, uh, used to slap around her niece, I guess.
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Vargo posted:Comics Kingdom seems to be making GBS threads the bed, so I couldn't post Curtis even if I wanted to. Got it here, but I don't blame you for not wanting to post it: Curtis  Yvonmukluk posted:I forgot to post Bobbins yesterday, so hooray for a double feature! Got to admit, I'm really not much of a fan of Shelley Winters, or at least most of the Shelley-centric story-lines (which would include Destroy History). I don't hate the character, but I also don't find her that interesting. The_Other fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze Probably not news to the people in this thread, but the character here is Agatha Crumm, main character of the strip by the same name, which was created by Bill Hoest, who also created The Lockhorns.
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So I watched the 1954 Prince Valiant film this weekend. Pretty good in my opinion! The movie follows the broad strokes of the early comic, with some scenes being taken from specific strips. I also felt that the 50's Technicolor aesthetic fit well with the comic. As for the acting, Robert Wagner is fine as Valiant, but I really liked Sterling Hayden as Sir Gawain, who is clearly having fun with the role. I also picked up the first volume of the Fantagraphics collection from my local library. In it there is an interview of Hal Foster from 1969. The interviewer, Fred Schreiber, was the American representative of SOCERLID, the French comics appreciation society. Here is Foster's opinion of the Prince Valiant movie: quote:SCHREIBER: How did you like the movie version of Prince Valiant? There is also some discussion of the reduction of fantastic elements in the strip, note that before working on Prince Valiant, Foster drew the Tarzan strip from 1931 to 1937: quote:SCHREIBER: To what degree did Tarzan influence Prince Valiant – or to what extent was Prince Valiant a reaction to Tarzan? Also here is drawing from the book which I found amusing, Val and Aleta at the 21 Club in NYC. 
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise in Fraser's Story Now I'm picturing a young Sir Gerald hanging out with Joe Craven 
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD God help me, I laughed at that Rex Morgan
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Manuel Calavera posted:But what's grog made of? A secret mixture that contains one or more of the following: Kerosene, Propylene Glycol, Artificial Sweeteners, Sulfuric Acid, Rum, Acetone, Battery Acid, red dye#2, SCUMM, Axle grease and/or pepperoni
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Green Intern posted:I find it a bit hard to believe that these expert Soviet intelligence agents with their foolproof brainwashing and accurate profiling somehow missed that Fraser and Mary were a thing. Looking at the earlier strips, it seems like Fraser never admitted his feelings to Mary so they were never a thing to begin with.
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Vargo posted:BCN On @BreakingCatNews Georgia Dunn posted some pictures from the Halloween the Boy and the Girl dressed up in these costumes.  
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