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catlord posted:Oh my God, I love that panel of Sparrow explaining (I assume deadpan) her psychic's past life issues. There are a LOT of strips that could learn about exposition and setup from this.
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Was Batiuk too lazy to look up *actual* ways to fight unjust deportations and use them to educate readers or is he just intentionally writing lame stories?Selachian posted:Edge of Curse You, Red Baron LOL at the title. Oh, and where is Sam going to land? One of these days I want to see the hero blow up the villain's base using these absurd self-destruct mechanisms. "Oh look, the base is already riddled with explosives! And I thought this was going to be difficult." curtadams fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Oct 24, 2020 |
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Horace posted:Bill Clinton had the number of a pizza place he visited decades ago and never revisited saved on his iPhone 4. Evil Mastermind posted:Do you think he thinks he's doing a good job, or does he just constantly try to write something then just goes "gently caress it who cares"? curtadams fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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Slammy posted:Dinky Fellas (December 17, 1964)
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Magna Kaser posted:0 of those are Chinese characters in Nancy. The ad is all real characters but it's kinda nonsense and just a list of random stuff in Chinese, no idea if it's any more coherent in Japanese. It's a pity Bushmiller didn't go to somebody who wrote Chinese to put an easter egg joke in the kanji. That would have been an instant classic. Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Dec. 28, 1941) Anti-slaver defend-the-weak Val's ethics are remarkably situational. And although this has been said many times, drat, that art! curtadams fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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If you like Pina coladas - Getting lost in the rain. Holbrook seems like a decent guy, but there is (almost?) nobody who can write a quality daily gag strip for decades. He's writing and drawing THREE. It's inevitable that the jokes will be lame, the plots nonsense, and consequences unexamined.
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #113 (1991)
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Best Boondocks ever.
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Selachian posted:Edge of Narcolepsy Darthemed posted:Docks
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Vargo posted:I did this and asked for Randy to take over Popeye specifically and also called out for more Mandrake. If that questionnaire is really about Milholland's "Popeye", it's kind of off because Milholland's revival is so different from the various early versions. It's more a parody of the original, which wouldn't work for any of the others because they aren't well enough known* (that includes "Krazy Kat", which I know a lot of aficionados like, but it's been gone way too long for the general public to get anything.) Theoretically a good rework could make any of them good (see Alan Moore's reworkings of Swamp Thing and MiracleMan) but that's unknowable and has little to do with the value of the originals, so what's the point of a survey? *OK Flash Gordon mayyybeee because of the later movie which gets light play for mockery.
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csammis posted:This is not a "Don't post 'Cathy'" screed, post it and post all comic strips, but I have to get this off my chest: Irving also gets softened a lot. By the time I started reading he was callous and chauvinistic, but no longer actively malicious. Eventually as Cathy slid into being a legacy strip he lost that and became kind of a male version of Cathy.
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fondue posted:I feel like a super villain is being born here ...
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Mar. 29, 1942) Selachian posted:Nope, he's serious. His contract with Gocomics came up for renewal, apparently. I don't recall him explicitly mentioning whose decision it was not to renew the contract, but the upshot is he moved the strip over to tapas.io instead (and, in the process, started it all over). He was also talking about putting it on Webtoon, but it doesn't seem to be there yet. And he seemed quite enthusiastic about the plans for Lucinde pinup calendars and whatnot. curtadams fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Nov 13, 2020 |
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How Wonderful! posted:I'm super stressed and busy with dissertation stuff so here's a sneaky middle-of-the-knight DtWOF. It's a really, really funny one, too. "Skimpy". I see what you did there. Note the layered closing joke - Lois almost walking out with a tag attached would be a joke, but the real joke is Lois misinterpreting Ginger's comment - or maybe she isn't and is needling Ginger a bit more? Which would be a 3rd layer, if it was actually intended.
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #120 (1991) My take on "you used to think I was adorable when I panicked" was more about how flaws don't seem like flaws when you're first in a relationship. IIRC there's a joke about just that in one of the strips in the first volume (pre-storyline) of DTWOF. I expect "sweet and sour soybean succotash" doesn't have tofu, because it's not in the name. I'd think it was succotash with edamame replacing lima bean, and a sweet and sour sauce. Limas -> edamame sounds like an improvement to me.
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How Wonderful! posted:TGIDTWOF Bechdel is very realistic in that new relationships normally form from outside the group - much as in real life. The way that Lead Boy and Lead Girl basically *have* to have a relationship -even if they are totally unsuited - really grates on me. There's a story about forcing relationships I find entertaining. When Modest Mussorgsky first wrote the opera Boris Godunov the opera house refused to perform it because it didn't have a love affair, and they insisted all operas *must* have love affairs. Mussorgsky wrote in an affair between a gold-digger and the villain, which I've always thought sounded like mockery of that absurd requirement. But, the opera company apparently had a weak sense of irony, because they accepted the altered version and performed it. I *love* Serial Monogamy! Even if you don't post the other backing stories, you *have* to post that one. Very funny and insightful.
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How Wonderful! posted:Edit: On that note-- a double header since #123 is, I think, a Thanksgiving strip!
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riderchop posted:Rae the Doe #300, from the web archives
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ukonvasara posted:I like a fair amount of what new Mark Trail is doing and am willing to give it substantial benefit of the doubt, but I do wish it wasn't trying to rush into separate conflicts involving the unknowable backstories of every single character at once. Take some time, establish and let us get to know the current nature of these versions of the characters a bit, then maybe do the "here's why they're like this" arcs individually?
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean
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Powered Descent posted:It seems like mega-hit comic strips -- let's use a definition of "pretty much everyone would recognize the main character" -- used to come around at the rate of several per decade. But not anymore. The last strip I can think of that became that kind of sensation was Dilbert, and that happened over 25 years ago. I do think Pearls reached the Cathy/Beetle Bailey level. But that was started effectively 2002 (technically Dec 31, 2001). Which, by the 10 year rule, means the strip that has a running gag about legacy strips is now a - legacy strip. There's a lot of webcomics I love but they just don't get an audience like the newspapers could. Biggest hit I can think of is Andrew Hussie's Homestuck but that was really sui generis and pretty niche. It seems off that they don't get going - comics were originally a big draw to get people to read newspapers, and now people can follow them for free. But they don't. Edit: xkcd has gotten some traction in popular culture. curtadams fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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Ghostlight posted:Axa's had too many marijuana snails if she thinks she's not going to wake up betrayed. Asking a plastic helmet to stand up to a log dropped from 6 stories is quite a lot.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:The ending of Modesty vs. Mrs. Fothergill is ...not a good interpretation either
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side Somebody fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2025 03:01 |
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How Wonderful! posted:In a Christmas miracle of sorts, I have a phone again. Unfortunately I'm still having problems with the app I used to scan DtWOF but I suppose something is better than nothing so please accept my apology for the long delay with a crummy phone-pic of
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