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Thanks for reposting the cups saga, I enjoyed reliving that! Kennel posted:Let's relive the greatest comic story of 2019! F Minus is a gag-a-gay one-panel and is usually good.  Mark Trail is what everyone knows it is. Notably, there was some inadvertent poop-touching on Twitter last year and now the villain appears to be based on our own Vargo.  I kind of like how they're talking like them finding a freaking yeti is inevitable. Mary Worth is about an old lady who gives advice to people. Currently, Iris here has been morphing into her ex (and longtime regular sad-sack character) Wilbur and is getting fat and going bald and therefore broke up with her much younger rich boyfriend. (I still think she's actually pregnant.)  The Phantom is about a guy who pretends to be a ghost fighting bad guys in the jungle.  Pooch Cafe is about an rear end in a top hat dog and is usually pretty good.  Rex Morgan MD is boring. Nothing happens. Stuff used to happen, now nothing. The last storyline a couple of secondary characters had a baby, which is something that happened but it really had zero tension whatsoever despite being set up as a risky pregnancy. Right now a wacky aunt no one has ever heard of has decided to visit.  Andertoons is a gag-a-day one-panel and is also usually good. It is probably quietly my favorite comic.  Apartment 3-G is a comic about 3 single young women living in NYC. I used to post the current ones but they stopped making them after the artist lost his mind so I post the vintage strips now. We're in 1974, and a misogynistic talk show host who moved into the building has a teenage sister is visiting who is an alcoholic. 
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Manuel Calavera posted:Nono, the Keypad Kid is a mascot for something to do with "the digital divide" I forget the specifics at the moment. Apparently, my avatar is the Early Warning Bird, which has no stated purpose. There is also a dog named Pound for some reason. That said, Charles Boyce is a extremely nice man who is trying to help people and in my opinion is a National Treasure and I feel bad about making fun of his work but I just can't help it.  lmao F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Darthemed posted:I’ll be traveling for the next few days, so you’ll all have to find some way to get through life without servings of Ripley’s.  Vargo posted:Curt- ahahahahaha what the gently caress is this, billingsley you suck so hard, lol F Minus  The Walt Disney Story Mark Trail  That pack? Filled with nothing but bear repellant! Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD   This is the only view we've had of who is visiting. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Jan 3, 2020 18:32
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Kennel posted:My favorite strip as a kid. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Flag on the moon...A woman's purse... Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Jan 4, 2020 18:14
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Why doesn't Helen have any beverage? Not even water. Edit: Oh she did in the original and I'm missing a joke.
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Look! A kinda good Macanudo! F Minus  Mark Trail  Does it appear to anyone else that you're supposed to read the top left panel, then the top part of the big right panel, then the bottom left panel, then the bottom of the right? That's not what comic strips are supposed to do but it doesn't seem to work any other way. Mary Worth  The Phantom  *The Ghost Who Steals Culturally Important Artifacts and Human Remains! Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  "Eat, my pretties!" Andertoons  Popeye's Cartoon Club  Flash Gordon  That story seemed longer than the usual one, but that may be because it was boring.
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FrumpleOrz posted:No Safe Havens on Sundays! F Minus  Commas are important. Mark Trail  Dr Camel hates Mark's passive aggressive complaining. Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Spiffster posted:Yesterday mods: for the love of god don’t make me type in that prob/ban F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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F Minus Mark Trail  Dr Camel is real touchy about some pretty inane questions from Mark. Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  God wreaks havoc with your utilities bills. Rex Morgan MD  "I'll just wait until the afternoon to eat your children." Andertoons  Made me think of this. Apartment 3-G 
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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  *pounds table* PREGNANCY PREGNANCY PREGNANCY The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Normally I imagine Rex having a deep manly bass voice, but today I read it as sassy and effeminate and it works well. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  Geez Tommie got a shorter skirt?
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Bobulus posted:No, one of the completely bizarre plot points of this comic is that some alien creature started on Venus, I guess abandoned it when it became uninhabitable(?), stopped by on Earth (and apparently hosed some humans to make mermaids(?)), and then traveled to Mars to start a new civilization. Which was prompted wiped out when Mars became sentient and deliberately killed them all with their own machines.
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Pentaro posted:Isn't Barnaby the comic about the boy with the gruff fairy godfather? I remember it being fun. F Minus  Mark Trail  The Vosgian Beast posted:I don't think Allen understands Mark constantly whining during this expedition he agreed to come on just makes him seem like a weird killjoy Tiggum posted:Not just agreed to, he's also being paid to be there. Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Dogs have bad breath. Rex Morgan MD  OK, I'm in on the Aunt Tildy visit storyline. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Did you guys know this is Ray Billingsley of Curtis fame?   Tiggum posted:Mandrake waves his hands. riderchop posted:'Board F Minus  Mark Trail  Yeah, OK. Mary Worth  "Well, suddenly getting fat and losing my hair is kind of stressing me out, but I'm not sure how to 'cut back' on that." The Phantom  One of the Bandar watching Phantom's back maybe? Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons   Apartment 3-G 
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Now you're stuck in a cage. Hang tight while I go rescue Narda.
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riderchop posted:Overboard F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  I swear she gets fatter every strip. The Phantom  I'm starting to think they're not going to tell any of these stories. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  "Hm...'White Claw' wonder what that's like." Andertoons  Popeye's Cartoon Club  Flash Gordon 
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Haifisch posted:Locher Tracy 
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F Minus Mark Trail  "Yetis killed my father!" Mary Worth  Zak can hardly contain himself. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Kennel posted:Had to read this twice:  FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell
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Selachian posted:Huh. I always heard the rule was that the man should walk on the outside, closest to the curb, so the woman would be protected from any splashes if someone rode/drove through street mess too fast. The only specific Encyclopedia Brown solution I still remember vividly was a guy had a sword that was supposedly given to a general after the First Battle of Bull Run and EB knew it was fake because it was engraved "For the First Battle of Bull Run" and he was like "How would they know it was the first when they hadn't had a second yet?" F Minus  Mark Trail  No they weren't. This is dumb. Mary Worth  Apparently, MW has become "Edge of Drama" since they keep killing interesting possibilities before they happen. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  This could very well be why time machines don't exist. Apartment 3-G 
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Archyduchess posted:I'm doing a slightly longer block of these as well because I like the gag on the 13th. I initially thought the joke about the mysterious "Axis spy ship" was a reference to foo fighters, an at-one-time popular rumor about mysterious aircrafts that dovetailed into the nascent stages of American UFO mythology, but it turns out those weren't really a going concern until 1944. F Minus  Mark Trail Vargo posted:Apologies to Johnny Walker, but I absolutely had to post today's Mark Trail. Third panel guy had me literally laughing out loud. Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Thanks, creepy old lady! Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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RandomPauI posted:Why did Gilchrist and other guy split? Strontium posted:Daddy Daze Strontium posted:It has been many years since Sarah last showed up in Intelligent Life, so let's do a recap of the years she was part of the comic. F Minus  Mark Trail  Wholesome Food  The Phantom  That man needs serious medical attention now, Mr Whowalks. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Well, when I was a kid what I considered "old" is different from what is "old" now. I don't think that's weird. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  Tiggum posted:Sure, Tommie drank half a bottle of vodka in the time it took Sara to finish getting ready. Totally plausible.
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Safety Dance posted:Daddy Daze is far from the worst thing in this thread, even among comics that get posted ironically. It's maybe a little bland, but solidly okay. But to each their own. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Obviously the editors wouldn't let him get away with blood. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  *Dustin's dad's head explodes* Apartment 3-G 
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It really was a blessing when James Allen stumbled across Vargo's tweets.
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F Minus Mark Trail  MyronMulch posted:I strongly suspect that all the heads are drawn by somebody else, either before as a big collection of assets for Jam to choose from or as something drawn into the panel before or after by an assistant. The drawing style of the heads and drat near everything else is different, and things don't fit together too well -- the head positions don't make sense, necks too long or too short, etc. I'm thinking of the Cherry bikini lounging pose from way way back. We see the real Jam style when the characters are far away (probably because he doesn't have assets that small, or they look terrible when he reduces them), and also in Edge of Adventure, where a given character's face looks different every time he draws it. But he does probably draw the character bodies himself, which is why they often don't seem to fit together right, and when he is free-drawing a character that is brand new and he has no source material to draw from for the face, like not-Vargo, it clearly sticks out as different. I doubt he has an assistant at all. He started out as that but times have changed and I don't think there's that much money coming from the syndicate to him for drawing MT for him to pay for one. Mary Worth  The Phantom messes with his daughter for another week.  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Popeye's Cartoon Club  Flash Gordon 
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Hm that's interesting I think I'll fact-check that mouth one. Let's see..."big gape" should do here in GIS and oh--oh no. Well, now I'm fired. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mark has been loving intolerable in this entire "adventure." Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Everyone comes to the Morgan's to die. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  Also don't ask her about those pills. Or that weed. Or those threatening notes from a bookie.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon Good Listener posted:I saw some of the book collections in the Kids books section of Target over the weekend and it made me happy. Dana seems like good people and I hope kids like the strip too. F Minus  Mark Trail  For some reason I'm thinking of smurfs. Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  I wonder if they wouldn't let him use a more current show. Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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csammis posted:I think the Frazz-child is trying to say that it was a sports story that was written outside of hockey season (pucks), football season (goalposts), and - basketball season? Soccer season? Something with nets - and so did not mention those elements.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:How is neither this nor the last one edits? Archyduchess posted:Theatre rules! It's so much fun! Also this is the thread about posting newspaper comic strips, I don't think any of us should be acting smug about obsolete mediums. Good point. readingatwork posted:Robbie and Bobby (Feb 4-5, 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3vfyZ_O7DQ F Minus  Mark Trail and Thumbhead  Mary Worth  Also known as a "blanket." The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Has she been gaining weight? Going bald? Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  Well you drank half the vodka!
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Strontium posted:Fort Knox F Minus  Ladies love my Zubaz car. Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Geez Rex gently caress you. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Darthemed posted:So, Kelley has never eaten pizza with a family, is my take-away.
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That was a really good Robbie and Bobby. F Minus  Mark Trail  This whole week has been these two heads in identical outfits arguing about whether the yeti exist. James Allen sucks. Mary Worth continues to disappoint by completing its return to the boring status quo.  The Phantom  I don't even know what's going on in Phantom anymore. I think all these bad comics are getting to me. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons once again saves my mood from the bad comics  Apartment 3-G 
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Kennel posted:Nancy F Minus  Mark Trail  lol Mary Worth  Sounds like a healthy relationship to me! The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Vargo posted:holy loving poo poo, I'm dying here.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Wait. Stylus on glass? Oh my god is he drawing on a digital tablet and getting results like these?! But if I was doing a comic strip for newspapers around the world I would probably have not submitted that one. riderchop posted:Garfield F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Popeye's Cartoon Club  "Matey's Night"Flash Gordon 
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Kennel posted:IMO you could post fewer strips in one go. That's 26 now (and all of them interesting), so these posts are getting quite laborious to read unless I start skipping stuff. F Minus  Mark Trail  "No one's talking to you, Mr Goat!" Mary Worth  The Phantom  "Wait, we walked all this way and you don't even know?" Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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F Minus Mark Trail  It's like watching someone take a cartooning class. Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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PetraCore posted:I actually think it's cool Jam is figuring out how to draw with a stylus to get Mark Trail up to snuff, it's easy to mock but I think there's been big improvements over the past week.
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F Minus Mark Trail  "This has never happened before! It must be all the stress I've been under!" Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  My dog was asleep when I read this and her nose was not warm. From what I can tell this actually may have to do with the nose drying during sleep since dogs don't lick their noses when they're asleep. Rex Morgan MD  It's called "The Change of Life," doc. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  The classiest cocktail.
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