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Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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FrumpleOrz posted:


Hagar The Horrible


I'm trying very hard to think of a non-homophobic explanation for the throwaway panels here, and I can't come up with one.

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Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Copying Marvin is an act that punishes itself.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Professor Wayne posted:


Ghost newspapers


It is interesting (and somewhat depressing) to note how many of the strips spoofed here are still around.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jul 25, 2022

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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"On Cloud Nine" is an old expression for being extremely happy. There is a popular media trope that Heaven is a bunch of fluffy clouds, and people turn into angels with wings and a halo when they go there.

Thus, a combination of these tropes with the (probably unrelated) phrase is fairly natural. This is where this particular comic is mining for humor - the recently deceased didn't get to the good cloud (cloud 9), only reaching the "OK" cloud (Cloud 5). So he turns into an "OK" angel with cardboard wings and a pipe-cleaner halo instead of a "good" angel with real wings and a real shiny halo.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Parahexavoctal posted:

I'm remembering the Ask/Tell thread about 'references in older media lost on modern audiences'. People would bring bottles of ink with them on vacation? The notion that "modern newspaper cartoons" weren't necessarily contemporaneous with pre-filled pens is... wow.

The leak-proof fountain pen wasn't even invented until 1908, and ballpoints (first marketed in 1938) didn't displace dip and fountain pens until the 1960s when the price of ballpoints dropped.

Truly amazing how recently something as simple as a pen has reached the modern incarnation.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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BigDave posted:

Pretty sure alarm clocks haven't looked like that since LBJ was president, guess they're still reusing old clip art.

My middle school issued me one just like that in 1996.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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This sums up the problem of Funky Winkerbean completely. We go from a genuinely touching strip about a dying mother, to a pretty decent "look on the bright side of life" moment... to a stupid and wacky storyline about somebody stealing a stupid memento from his old high school.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Zereth posted:

Is Ella Cinders in Britain? I thought she was in the US somewhere. It's probably a pun about milk.

EDIT: the "hottentot's hair" thing earlier in the same strip does seem kinda racist, though.

"The white thing", "that's white of you", and similar expressions were common in pre-WWII US.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Tiggum posted:


I don't think have ever encountered this idea before. Every parent I know just feeds their kids the same stuff they're eating.

"Make cheap food for the kids, and good food for the adults" was once a common attitude at parties and holidays. It was also fairly common for kids to only be allowed to use the furniture with limits (you can see this in early episodes of the Simpsons, where Bart and Lisa are sometimes sitting on the floor in front of an empty couch) The attitude was still around in the early 90s when I was a kid, but on the way out.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Professor Wayne posted:

I double checked, and it doesn't have italics on the site. A good reminder to make sure I get them in the future, though.

Checked my copy of Prehistory Of The Far Side, and the stress on both was absolutely in the original, and integral to the joke - Larson found it hilarious that the parents are implying that eating only one kid would be bad, but eating both was way too far.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Hostile V posted:

I think they're blurry because they're reposts. He made a bunch of them for fun after he did the family reunion one and the trawler putting them on the official feeds is probably just taking low-res copies off his Twitter or something.

The fact that each panel is about the size of a Something Positive word balloon probably doesn't help.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Ghostlight posted:

:lol: i'm not sure what's funnier - that les altered the record of events so that nobody would know he slept with his wife while his daughter was in the house, or how the juxtaposition of "who could resist that siren's song" with "nope" suggests he was sitting through the auditions expecting to pop a boner.



The funny thing is that it would have been so easy to interweave the original panels here, which would have a great effect (except for the whole "the comic sucked then too" thing, of course), but he was too lazy to do that obvious thing.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Professor Wayne posted:


Of course, the slugs worshipped their god out of fear, not love.


The caption on this comic has been changed! Originally, it was "Eeny-oony-wanah!", intended as a nonsense chant.

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Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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ukonvasara posted:

All of Randy Milholland's S*P characters speak in the exact same wordy-snarky register and it's a bit uncanny seeing all the Popeye characters do it too!

Most of his characters are assholes, and Popeye lends itself well to rear end in a top hat characters.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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StrixNebulosa posted:

why would a gutenberg bible be a tip-off

e: okay it's a big book but also the gently caress why would you fall for that in the first place

A Gutenberg Bible is not a specific translation of the Bible, but one actually printed by Gutenberg in the mid-1400s. As only 49 copies are known to exist, this makes it an incredibly rare artifact, akin to having a Stradivarius violin or original Donatello painting just sitting there.



Not that this excuses the "joke", because it is a really crappy punchline to a really stupid storyline, but that would be suspicious.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Weembles posted:

Just out of curiosity - how sincere is everyone being when the thread starts picking apart the punchlines in On the Fast Track?

Are we trying to discover the subtle motivations behind the characters' actions or is this a margharita machine sort of thing?

The comic is so terrible that the only way to cope with it is to pick apart the fine details.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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EasyEW posted:

9 Chickweed Lane





What the hell pose is that first panel supposed to be? Either she's snapping his neck, or her back is broken.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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This is a weird one. Television existed in 1935, but was far from common (due to the still-primitive nature of the tech) and most people wouldn't be interacting with it.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Past history with Bets makes me think they're expecting us to take Les's side and conclude that it is a stupid thing for stupids.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

I've never watched the movie, do they go into the grimness that followed?
https://www.seeker.com/mutiny-on-the-bounty-what-happened-next-1768513470.html

The 1935 film was a direct adaptation of the 1932 novel Mutiny On The Bounty. The book was followed by two sequels - Men Against the Sea (what happened to Bligh and the loyal crew) and Pitcairn's Island (what happened to the rest of the muntineers), but those didn't make it to film. Probably because both would be hard to do with the then-new Hays Code in effect.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Eugenics was a universal obsession in North America and Europe im the early part of the last century. It probably would have held on a lot longer than it did had Aktion T4 and the Holocaust not demonstrated the only possible endpoint. Even then, the backlash didn't take full force until the sixties and some countries still had (unused and dormant) involuntary sterilization laws on the books until after the turn of the century.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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These are some rough ones today.

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Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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It really feels like that was supposed to be Star Wars, producing a "what kind of idiot..." reaction.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Mikl posted:

As far as I can tell, "the online service" means the ISP they're all using? Maybe? I'm not up to date with mid/late nineties computer jargon, especially since I'm not a native English speaker.


"Online service" generally refers to the walled-garden setups such as CompuServe, Prodigy, or America Online. These did not connect to the Internet as a whole, but to a specific set of services all provided by whoever was running it - for example, only AOL users could use AOL chat rooms, and they could not access CompuServe forums unless they also paid for an account on CompuServe. In modern terms, you might think of them as dialing into a giant LAN that had a bunch of services you could use. These were beginning to die in 1997, as the big three were transitioning to simple ISPs instead (CompuServe gave Internet access in 1995, Prodigy was limited in 1994 and full in 1996, and AOL completed their transition in 1998), and the walled-garden services proved redundant and unnecessary.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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With that look on his face, I don't think the guy he's going after is going to be conscious of anything ever again. I think that's the angriest Everett True expression out of all the ones I've seen posted.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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I'm guessing this is about changing fashion, but I don't quite get it. Pants weren't the thing for women in 35 yet.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Selachian posted:

Being pushed on the swing makes her skirt fly up and you can see her ankles and everything, hence the shocked grannies at left.

More I don't get what change in fashion would prevent that.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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The strange thing about the Lockhorns is that it is comprised almost entirely of worn-out old gags that would be horrendous in any other strip - but it somehow makes them work.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Oof. This one hasn't aged well at all, has it?

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Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Films were relatively new at the time, and I remember reading somewhere that they were often referred to as plays in the early days.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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In 1935, relations between the United States and the Empire Of Japan were deteriorating rapidly due to Japan's invasion of China - a US ally - in 1931. I suspect that there was a "watch out for Japanese people with cameras, they might be spies" thing going on a the time, and that somehow got to this result.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Kavak posted:

They invaded the northeast and created Manchukuo out of it back in 31, the invasion of China proper was still building and would come in 1937.

Manchuko is the invasion I was referring to - the region was part of China before 1931 and after 1946.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Drimble Wedge posted:

:stare: That's $7.63/hour, assuming a 40-hour week.

That's a major assumption. The 40-hour week didn't get popularized until the late 20s with the rise of Fordism. In 1917 you were more likely to be working 50-60 hours a week.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Is it just me, or did Hagar get a major uptick in quality in the last year or so? I remember the strip being super bland in the past.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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All the focus on this is about the lazy updating, but this misses the fact that the "joke" of the strip is centered on them not only keeping stuff in the freezer for six years and then throwing it out, but doing it routinely.

Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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Slammy posted:



Outbursts of Everett True (January 23, 1918)




That's a good True, and a well-drawn poor child.

As to where Hoover coems into it, he was the head of a wartime rationing board.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Food_Administration

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Gnoman
Feb 11, 2014

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LvK posted:

odd question, but does anyone know what the Nancy strip for June 6th, 1966 is? Thanks!

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