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Things I've wanted to say since I first started catching up with this thread: *Bless the goon that inadvertently got James Allen to draw Mark Trail -- it feels like a second coming of Locher Tracy, which, as you all can tell, I enjoyed. *Somebody posted about disliking Zelda, and I wanted to agree with them at the time, but my opinion is basically on the negative side of indifferent these days. I wanted to reassure the person who posted about disliking Zelda by telling them about my unpopular comic-related opinions, but I think I'll save them for later. *Dethany is so loving UGLY it makes me sick. She looks like Nemi's dying grandmother. *Speaking of Norwegian comics, yay Pondus  *In the Apartment 3-G arc where Tommie is an alcoholic, her behavior was basically indistinguishable from that of someone who might have been drugged. She didn't know where she was when she woke up, she sounded confused, she insisted that she hadn't had that much to drink (and the comic didn't show her drinking all that much either), and it weirded me out that everyone basically refused to hear her out. *Every time I read a 9 Chickweed Lane strip, I imagine all the characters' voices as Stewie Griffin. Also, 9CL is my favorite strip in the thread to hate-read (Funky Winkerbean is a close second). It is so loving disgusting and I can't get enough, seriously. *Tina from Tina's Groove looks like a young worried Sally Field. *I hate the following comic strip characters: Amos, Dustin's dad, Dethany's creepy boss, Bernice, the baby from Daddy Daze, Ruthie. *I love the following comic strip characters: Tildy & her wrestler "ex"-husband, Mopsy, Fleshy, the grandfather in Boondocks. Things I've wanted to reply to that I actually managed to save the quotes for, not necessarily in chronological order: Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth I'm not going to lie -- I thought Dawn's plane was going to crash, because of irony or something. Evil Mastermind posted:Cul De Sac receives a warning of DOOM! The Uh-oh Baby is my favorite child character in any comic strip.  EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean As someone whose name is Ursula, gently caress people who make stupid name jokes/references upon introduction. Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Doing horny comics the RIGHT way. Bingo Bango posted:That's some pretty fair logic, but I think people still extremely into astrology. Coworkers at my last office job, all late-20s to mid-30s absolutely loved talking about their horoscopes on a daily basis. I think social media has had a major part in keeping the tradition alive. I'd argue that maybe (hopefully) people take them less seriously but who knows. An uncomfortable amount of my friends (like, double digits) take that silly garbage deathly seriously, to the point of blaming typos & missed emails on Mercury retrograde, whatever the hell that even means. I've seen people blame dating issues on negative behavior associated with their sign & the other person's sign, and blame crumbling friendships on the other person's sign. Last month I decided to take a break from social media, and not constantly seeing people circlejerk about astrology has been pretty great. 
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD I am not optimistic about this storyline. Kennel posted:And the best part was that I barely had to touch it. It's like they deliberately left that spot open so you could put the gun in there. Beautiful. 
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drat, she is digging ALL the way up in there.  you broke my grill posted:all our heroes drown people Everett True is a man of the people! Manuel Calavera posted:Rose is Rose Seriously though, what the gently caress is wrong with this child?
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Cicadalek posted:I always mentally hear the terrible Rose Is Rose baby dialogue in a raspy, gargly voice I hear it as someone trying to enunciate during a conversation on a phone with unbelievably bad service. edit: it would make more sense if the kid had a speech impediment or was just learning how to talk, but the sentence structure & vocabulary is all correct, just spelled over-phonetically for some reason.
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JethroMcB posted:Tune in tomorrow for another exciting installment of "Hey, let's get ready to tell this story! Hopefully it's shorter than the Dawn/Hugo/Jared story in Mary Worth. Ugh.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:this is probably sacrilegious, but, er, i don’t think “the far side” is that funny. i get that the comic was highly influential in its time, and maybe all the mediocre imitations that followed devalued it. still, the captions feel overwritten; they should have been edited down to be snappier. There are a lot of comics that are very popular in this thread that I can't imagine EVERYONE likes, and my theory is that people don't want to be negative in here. There are a lot of hateable punching bag comics in here, but there are definitely a few that I personally dislike that are seemingly universally loved to the point that I think people would be uncomfortable saying anything negative about. I could see Far Side falling into the latter category. Personally, I think it's okay.   I feel like I'm watching a soap opera.EasyEW posted:9 Chickweed Lane Amos is the Gary Stu-est character I've ever seen, fanfiction or not. I can't imagine getting paid to just draw my own wank material. goatface posted:Zero butt. Those gams are much more important than dat rear end. And I think they at least dropped them off at the firehouse. Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail Wow, this is the anti-Rex Morgan.
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Evil Mastermind posted:More-so than Guy Gilchrist's changing Phil Fumble from a three-foot tall joke character to a flawless person with the build of a linebacker and Aunt Fritzi's one true love? Actually I don't think I've ever seen Phil Fumble. Do you have any before/after examples?
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Hostile V posted:Phil Then: Holy poo poo I can't believe I forgot about this guy. In all fairness though, I never saw the "before" Phil Fumble.
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack "At this point, I'm an ugly bootlicking piece of poo poo. "Angular Cyrus posted:Mopsy 1/7/43 I love Mopsy so much. Also, it's actually impressive how dated Boondocks is at every single turn. I never liked it, but now it looks like it should be in a museum.
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD Kind of a weird time to be meta, if you ask me. quote:Apartment 3-G Go get 'em, cougar 
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Sundae posted:I don't know what possessed me, but given how lovely Gilchrist was about Fritzi as a character, I googled images for "Gilchrist Fritzi" and oh god, he is/was drawing her as a pinup and selling the art. When I saw these, I immediately thought about what Brooke McEldowney's Edda pinups would look like. 
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Now that I've seen it, you all have to suffer too.
This one sold too.
Gilchrist has a DeviantArt account
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Seriously, eeeeevery bit of dialogue by eeeeeevery character in 9CL sounds like it could have been said by Stewie Griffin. It's unsettling. Also,  atStultus Maximus posted:because, despite all comics to the contrary, she has a better rear end than all the other models! followed by this quote:and let Ghulk get in on the action There is literally nothing there. Nothing. edit: wait a minute, what the hell happened to her arm? quote:Speaking of, I pulled all those from Google Image Search because when I tried to get them from Gocomics archives, I ran into the Ghulk "I hosed her artistry" storyline and just couldn't deal with it. I don't remember that either, but I won't put you through the ordeal of digging it back up for me. YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Jun 12, 2020 |
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Vargo posted:Phoebe I'm going to come right out and say it -- I don't understand the appeal of Phoebe.
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Haifisch posted:It's generally cute and lighthearted, although it does have a problem with weeks like this where it's repeating the same joke over and over. I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt but the joke literally never changes. Phoebe and her unicorn friend are the least most annoying characters in the thread, by which I mean that while I don't like them, their competition is pretty stiff (Ruthie, Dustin's dad, the enunciating baby in Rose Is Rose, etc.). It is sweet that Phoebe's parents are kind and caring, but it seems common enough. Rex Morgan, Sally Forth, Mark Trail, and Alice's mom from that one comic are nice too. The parents that dislike their kids are SUPER vocal about it though. Parahexavoctal posted:Let's just say Brooke McEldowney's depravity knows no bounds. A woman/man/dog threesome would definitely shake things up.
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Julet Esqu posted:Les flirts with Tiff whenever Team Evans wants to show what a scumbag he is (that vile villain even kept flirting with her AFTER she got fat!!!) What actually is the story behind her gaining weight? I thought I was just imagining it.
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EasyEW posted:9 "Oh, Are We Back On THIS Pedantic poo poo Again?" Lane I spent way too much time making this.  My Lovely Horse posted:Species has Characteristic I can't tell how annoyed you are, or if you're annoyed at all, but as someone with a low cuteness tolerance I think you'd be better off scrolling right past. The comic is seemingly designed to be cute and LGBTQIA+ friendly. If "species has characteristic" is going to bother you, what's the point? This comic isn't even established enough to hate-read. fake edit: I described this comic as shallow at first, but it's early in the comic's run so having a bunch of introductory strips devoid of plot makes sense. Is the whole "Jeremy likes to eat a lot" thing a teenage boy thing or a Jeremy thing?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Species has Characteristic Touché!
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Kavak posted:I don't mean disrespect to anyone but Rae doesn't feel like it has anything going for it besides "Our cast is all LGBT!" There needs to be substance to representation. That's because it doesn't. EasyEW posted:The Saint Lisa of Cancerwife Casting Call First of all,  . Second of all, in the first strip, it looks like they're spitting into each others' mouths.quote:9 "Everyone In This Strip Wants To Be Pregnant RIGHT NOW" Lane I guess other characters talking about how happy/tired Edda looks is easier than drawing us a panel of her looking happy/tired. Tell, don't show. Have there been any strips that show Edda with her babies aside from the first one where she had them?
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kidcoelacanth posted:i will never stop posting. you can't make me. Peter but not Quagmire? Well okay then.
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