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Slammy posted:Oh great, how does Holbrook explain this one?? guy destroying his body for entertainment asking to be paid more, the horror
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Doomykins posted:LMAO this owns and is exactly why I defend Curtis. Also check out that dorg design and background detail in the same league as good Garfield. Weird Curtis only works because it stands in contrast to the 95% of the time it's very by-the-book That said, I genuinely laughed out loud at that penultimate panel. I especially like that there's no in-between panel, it's just jumping into his arms and then GONE
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CommonShore posted:It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen Thel is, vaguely, aware that the children should be grown, and she should be old. That this 1950s landscape has existed for far longer than it has any right to. " Is this hell?" she wonders, " Am I dead and cursed to live this unchanging existence?" The thoughts are slippery, though, and can never hold onto them for long. Thel picks up the basketball, tosses it in the basket and goes inside to start dinner. It's meatloaf night. again.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Thel is, vaguely, aware that the children should be grown, and she should be old. That this 1950s landscape has existed for far longer than it has any right to. " Is this hell?" she wonders, " Am I dead and cursed to live this unchanging existence?" Your attempt at making a canon hell of being a zombie comic strip is nowhere near as depressing as the all too plausible idea of being terrified of being seen and judged for doing something other than childcare and house chores.
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rannum posted:I thought it was kinda cute honestly. same, really did not ping wrong for me
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There was a time when Thel would unleash the Chaos Dunk at a moment's notice, but this is a quiet time in a quiet land so she stays her hands another day.
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ikanreed posted:Your attempt at making a canon hell of being a zombie comic strip is nowhere near as depressing as the all too plausible idea of being terrified of being seen and judged for doing something other than childcare and house chores. It's like a sci-fi story where you don't fully realize you're dealing with a totalitarian dystopia until a character encounters something totally alien to them that the audience immediately recognizes as a common, everyday object. As she tosses the orange globe at the hoop, she feels light, and a lost feeling from the distant past tickles the edges of her mind; has this happened before? Was this something she did on her own, before the Man Without Eyes took her as his thrall and put his seed in her belly?
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The "doppelganger" is really just John X.
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Oh my God, Pattersons, watch your drat baby. Vargo posted:Curtis  Darthemed posted:Retail I kind of hate this bookstore dude. Only one Junk Drawer this week.  At least it's a good one.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä (August 24, 1991) As borderline as Mukku's design is, at least he's characterized as a really good and intelligent individual. This rules.
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Green Intern posted:As borderline as Mukku's design is, at least he's characterized as a really good and intelligent individual. This rules. yeah, he seems like a cool guy so far
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nishi koichi posted:guy destroying his body for entertainment asking to be paid more, the horror SubNat posted:Moominposting 
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Evil Mastermind posted:At the very least they could have each person continue the last person's strip. Y'know, like an actual serial. A game of comics telephone could be fun though.
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Johnny Walker posted:Yeah I think that would be really cool, but unless they want to make it like a game of telephone they'd need a writer to do the overarching story and It think the idea here is to not spend a lot on this. The Dinette Set should be wearing a mask.  Working Daze has "long day" written all over it.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix gets in under the wire.  Cul De Sac plans ahead. 
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Hi thread! I’ve been reading this thread since at least 2006 (one of the reasons I eventually registered) and have mostly lurked the whole time. These threads are probably one of the most complete resources of comic strip history and evolution on the entire internet, and I have learned a crazy amount about many topics, not just this genre of art, because of the dedicated, funny (like really fuckin funny), and exhaustive contextual write ups and commentary from all you magnificent posters. I love this thread so drat much, in fact, that I think it’s time for me to start contributing! Zits is, to quote Schulz, “the worst name for a comic strip since Peanuts.” The strip started in 1997, written by Baby Blues artist Jerry Scott and drawn by Jim Borgman. I’ll be posting out of the collection Humongous Zits, published in 2000. This is one of the strips that I remember debuting (my hometown paper always made a big deal of new strips coming in), and I immediately loved it. The art is (to this day, imo) lowkey very graceful and lovely, the gags are solid and never punch down, and the family dynamic is kind and funny. I’ll be posting these as the book has them formatted, with each page having either three dailies or a Sunday. I’m using the library scanner and extremely limited photo editing, so please pardon any lovely images (and let me know how I can fix them if it’s bad!) So now, without further ado, Classic Zits! Starting with this gorgeous splash sequence that makes up the first six pages of the collection:       E: love that framed portrait of Eyeroll Jeremy in the upstairs hall. Bibliotechno Music fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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Sorry about that, here's my comics Dinky Dinkerton, Flyin' Jenny, and The Red Knight Oct. 18th, 1940    And a big dose of Axa     
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Welcome to the "share what you love" crew, Bibliotechno Music. Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Peanuts (April 14, 1974)  Well poo poo, Of COURSE This Is What We Were Building Up To All Week  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Life (With Skippy) (April 2, 1925)  Elsewhere in the issue: Don Herold being relevant to something else we've been reading recently.   (Charles Forbell)  (Frank Hanley)
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Hi thread! I’ve been reading this thread since at least 2008, and have mostly lurked the whole time. These threads are probably one of the most complete resources of comic strip history and evolution on the entire internet, and I have learned a crazy amount about many topics, not just this genre of art, because of the dedicated, funny (like really fuckin funny), and exhaustive contextual write ups and commentary from all you magnificent posters. I love this thread so drat much, in fact, that I think it’s time for me to start contributing! This is cool, thank you! I definitely post Zits because of it was one of my favorites when I was a kid. The Far Side   Pickles  Zits 
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Ghostlight posted:Nekonaughey I don't appreciate Q-rais calling me out like this.
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Ghostlight posted:Nekonaughey I didn't even notice the "reduced fat" label at first; I thought it was referencing when you drink after overeating and everything swells and you regret every decision that led up to that moment.
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Darthemed posted:Docks As incomprehensibly deep as the Boondocks gets into early aughts pop culture stuff this was the first one to totally lose me. Usually, as is seen in the second comic, enough context is given that you don't necessarily need to be familiar with the work in question to get the joke. quote:Popular Comics I know this is supposed to read as racist but in the current foodie climate Terry and Pat there just come off like snooty assholes. Johnny Walker posted:Flash Forward Personally I'm disappointed the Popeye's Cartoon Club people never tried that. It would have been a much better fit for the format, given that individual Popeye strips still have jokes in addition to continuity.
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Some Guy TT posted:As incomprehensibly deep as the Boondocks gets into early aughts pop culture stuff this was the first one to totally lose me. Usually, as is seen in the second comic, enough context is given that you don't necessarily need to be familiar with the work in question to get the joke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeZZr_p6vB8
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