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riderchop posted:Garfield This is the frustration of the modern Garf. The first one has a new prop! An actual piece of the world that has been affected by the cast. But they're all so static, so lifeless, so ramrod straight and copy pasted. The second one is just aggressively static. The off screen bizarre event gag can work, but it works best when the concept of seeing action is somewhat plausible.
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Jucika "22 - Jucika and "Romeo"" "Jucika Saves a Life" 
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Vintage Valiant (Oct. 08, 1944)  The Medieval Castle (Oct. 08, 1944) 
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somepartsareme posted:Also, Crankshaft ignoring Covid for over a year, and now making jokes about it as if people aren't still dying from it, is amazing. I know it's not gaslighting but is this gaslighting? The speculation for some time has been that Batiuk writes his strips a year in advance so that he gets a good long lead time, but also so he can be in the proper mind set (writing Christmas strips around Christmastime, wildfire strips when everybody's dying in wildfires, etc). So he wasn't really ignoring it for a year, because COVID-19 didn't exist yet when he was writing those strips. As for the storyline we're seeing today, a year ago we were just starting to get our minds wrapped around the idea of this whole COVID thing and starting to quarantine, but we didn't yet realize that this would still be such a huge loving problem a year later. Batiuk, like a lot of people, seems to have assumed that COVID would just be a dim memory by now. Remember that weird pandemic thingy that happened? Crazy! Glad that's over!  Time to cut your losses, sit down with your coworkers you wrangled into this, and enjoy some fancy loving dinner and harp music.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:10
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It’s pretty impressive that Tiffany was able to put anything together with like what, a day’s notice? I don’t understand why the Evanses are so hellbent on assassinating Bets’ character.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:29
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Some Guy TT posted:"He has two friends, lives with his mom so he can spend money on toys, and is prematurely bald." How he makes a living remains unexplained as far as I know. Other than that I agree: Just get on with it. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mark Trail is now nothing but adventures in running into childhood friends. Mary Worth  He's a doctor in a hospital and works in a clinic, and they certainly haven't set up any reason to believe he's particularly unhappy. I assume the issue is he's single, and therefore cannot possibly be happy. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Yeah that's a dog. Apartment 3-G 
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Apr 16, 2021 19:41
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Green Intern posted:It’s pretty impressive that Tiffany was able to put anything together with like what, a day’s notice? I don’t understand why the Evanses are so hellbent on assassinating Bets’ character. Without looking, I'm gonna bet a cup of coffee that the comments are tearing Bets apart. (Wrongly, I might add: she's the one who's ponying up the cash, and she specifically asked for pirates, so she's completely justified in leaving.)
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Eh, I think Bets is wrong(too.) Either this is clumsy character assassination or a really strained friends fighting story but nobody is really good here(so classic Luann storytelling.) The exchange is like "Here's my idea for a fine dining set up, a hypothetical project pitch for our business course." "Wow, I'd pay $300 to have a nice dinner for two with my boyfriend, also no other restaurant exists in town." "Ok, deal. Mansion fine?" "Yes also pirates lol random." "No. Here's my waiter, cook, immaculate decor and literal harpist I got on a days notice." "AGGHHHH IM UNREASONABLE" "ME TOO." Edit: Remembering that Betsy pressured Gunther, a "good boy" out of righteous studying to do costume work out of the blue. Definitely supposed to see Betsy as a bad egg according to author bumbling. Bets walking out and leaving Tiffany in the hole is pretty lousy. I don't even see how you'd make a pirate themed dinner on a budget like that anyway. Comb a bunch of antiques shops for old wooden pieces and "my first personal living space" goth-lite decor, serve some fruity punchy "grog" and whatever rustic food, hire some guy who'll act in character and play on an accordian or something as a hobby? Or maybe Bets really would be all in on the $50 at party city kids setup.
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Mikl posted:Without looking, I'm gonna bet a cup of coffee that the comments are tearing Bets apart. (Wrongly, I might add: she's the one who's ponying up the cash, and she specifically asked for pirates, so she's completely justified in leaving.) Fairly evenly spit between "Bets sucks," "The Customer Is Always Right," "They both suck, actually," and "Saganaki is good"/"Tiff should eat the food." A few "Gunther should date Tiff" and "I like Ox's French" for spicy flavor. I was mildly amused by the comment observing that of course TJ is into flambe. Anyway, Tiff has a fancy mansion that she was willing to use as a convenient location to host a fancy meal. Sure, fine. Demanding that Tiff gently caress up her fancy mansion with pirate decor for a mere $300 is not reasonable. I was going to go back and see if Tiff ever actually said, "No, I'm not doing the pirate thing," but GoComics is taking a poo poo right now.
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Apr 16, 2021 20:27
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Upper middle class and low upper class would love a custom, private dinner experience like that. Like, Dunno if it’d ultimately be worth the time/effort but I could see the wealthy dropping $$$ for an exclusive experience.
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Apr 16, 2021 20:39
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The Far Side      Pickles  Zits 
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side I probably say this a lot, but that right there is the platonic ideal of a Far Side strip.
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Apr 16, 2021 21:31
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Julet Esqu posted:Fairly evenly spit between "Bets sucks," "The Customer Is Always Right," "They both suck, actually," and "Saganaki is good"/"Tiff should eat the food." A few "Gunther should date Tiff" and "I like Ox's French" for spicy flavor. I was mildly amused by the comment observing that of course TJ is into flambe. Because if that's the case then yeah Tiffany is loving up big time.
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Apr 16, 2021 22:35
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2017 Spiderman 1979 comics      Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  e: amigolupus posted:Okay, that's a fair point about not wanting a teenager to work in a bar. Though, I got curious and checked it out, and I got a detail wrong. It wasn't actually a bar he wanted to work in, it was his aunt's diner/pool hall: Haifisch fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Apr 16, 2021 23:13
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I'm in this picture and I don't like it. Dinky Dinkerton, Flyin' Jenny, and The Red Knight Oct. 23rd, 1940    Axa  
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Deathless Deer 11/23-25/42 Middle strip spoilered because Frappy opens his yappy and talks like, well, a black person in a 1940s comic.    "It's the woman we have only heard described in a 3,000-year-long game of telephone! We'd know her anywhere!"
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Apr 16, 2021 23:21
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics
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Author Unknown? John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website My Author Unknown? intro guide password is TheOther
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Evil Mastermind posted:Wasn't this whole thing supposed to be a proof-of-concept for her small business class or something? Proof of concept as far as like, coming up with names and slogans I think, not putting together a mock restaurant. Actually building something at all was entirely Bets' idea, as was it being pirates.
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Apr 16, 2021 23:33
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Drimble Wedge posted:Scary Gary Poor Cooper couldn't escape. 
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Apr 17, 2021 00:56
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At least he's working somewhere with a chill dress code, apparently.
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catlord posted:Axa I wonder what's going to be wrong with this dystopia. The obvious explanation is that the farmers are slaves and the artisans are nazi overlords but that seems unlikely given that Romero himself is an artisan. Selachian posted:Deathless Deer 11/23-25/42 Ehhh I'm not convinced Frappy is a black person compared to just a guy who talks in working class slang. He certainly doesn't look black, and I wouldn't have made that connection if you hadn't said as much.
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Some Guy TT posted:Ehhh I'm not convinced Frappy is a black person compared to just a guy who talks in working class slang. He certainly doesn't look black, and I wouldn't have made that connection if you hadn't said as much. He's literally calling Prof Hoot "massa" in the spoilered strip.
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Some Guy TT posted:I wonder what's going to be wrong with this dystopia. The obvious explanation is that the farmers are slaves and the artisans are nazi overlords but that seems unlikely given that Romero himself is an artisan. It's an interesting one, I'll say that. Some Guy TT posted:Ehhh I'm not convinced Frappy is a black person compared to just a guy who talks in working class slang. He certainly doesn't look black, and I wouldn't have made that connection if you hadn't said as much. Based on this one (which wasn't spoilered when it was posted, but I'll do that here): I'm pretty sure he is, but the printing is light. Edit: ^^ that too.
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And He Did! (October 31, 1917) Outbursts of Everett True (June 19, 1918)  Banana Oil! (February 16, 1924)  Gay and Her Gang (June 1, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (October 31, 1935)  Mopsy (December 30, 1936)  Dark Laughter (February 24, 1945)  Those Were the Days (October 23, 1952)  Dinky Fellas (July 22, 1965)  Wee Pals (July 22, 1965) 
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Selachian posted:He's literally calling Prof Hoot "massa" in the spoilered strip. Massie, actually, which I didn't recognize as a bastardization of massa and which I'd never seen before. But I concede the point. And am also appreciating the irony of how the caricature went unnoticed. Just my personal opinion that spoiler tags are overused in this thread and should be retired for timg tags except in particularly egregious cases.
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (October 23, 1952) Anyone who thinks taxes work this way should be required to pay them that way.
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Personally I'm intrigued by the implication that the whole "no one understands how income tax brackets work" talking point dates to the fifties rather than to when income taxes were actually introduced.
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Medenmath posted:Anyone who thinks taxes work this way should be required to pay them that way. 
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Slammy posted:Dark Laughter (February 24, 1945) I don't mind the poor image quality because I'm really enjoying Private Bootsie Goes to War.
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I'm actually really coming around to the increasingly intense binary color scheme in Dark Laughter because it makes it harder to get lost in the detail so I can just focus on the punchline. By the same token, I actually like Classic Kevin and Kel a lot less now that it's transitioned to a full palette because it's so bright and colorful I can't focus on the insane worldbuilding as easily.
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