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amigolupus posted:I doubt Moy realizes that Keith comes across as a huge piece of poo poo who's only doing this so he can force his daughter to see what a cool and good I suspect she does. She knows exactly how people feel about Wilbur, for example, yet here he is, presiding over today's strip. That doesn't mean I think Keith isn't going to get exactly what he wants out of this storyline. Moy may know how Keith comes across to Internet lefties like us, but she also knows which side her bread is buttered on and who the primary readership of newspaper comics is. I'm interested to see whether she even tries to thread the needle by pointing out his hypocrisy and getting him to make an effort to improve, or whether she just says "gently caress it" and lets him win the story, no questions asked.
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While there are still a few hours left in 2023 (at least in my neck of the woods): Wallace the Brave, Phoebe and Her Unicorn, and Breaking Cat News continue to be favorites of mine, although BCN kinda lost me with the whole Mole War storyline. Stick to funny stories about your cats Georgia, and we'll be fine. I can't express enough how much I love the new Flash Gordon, though I wonder how long the author will be able to keep the quality up. I'll have to check out his other works as people itt have recommended. This comic makes up for the disappointing Mara Llave. I'm also loving We Are Reproducing. My sister just had her first child in June, so the timing of this strip is fortuitous. I kinda like the soap opera strips Rex Morgan and Mary Worth. Not always great mind you, but occasionally some stroylines turn out to be really fun to read. Of the older strips I mostly follow Out Our Way. I try to keep up with most of the others, but sometimes their is so many and I'm usually reading them during a slow period at work, so I don't always give them the attention they deserve. I am liking Archie and Li'l Abner, although I often have to force myself to read Abner after reading Al Capp's biography. Both versions of Prince Valiant are great. Of the strips I don't like / hate read Dustin comes to mind first, for reasons I think most of this thread shares. I'm kinda fascinated by Funky Winkerbean / Crankshaft as you have these comics that were a bit of a phenomenon, but I never heard of them until I was in my thirties since my local papers never ran any of Batiuk's comics. I've been following the Son of Stuck Funky website and have liked the article were they use Batiuk's writing to show what not to do. While I can't say I like Luann, i don't actively hate it other. That comic has been running in my local papers since I was a kid so I think I'm kinda immune to it's dullness. Just wanted to share my thoughts like others. Those aren't the only comics I read of course, but 2023 is almost over and I don't want to take up more thread space. Happy New Year to my fellow readers and posters in this thread.
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Julet Esqu posted:I suspect she does. She knows exactly how people feel about Wilbur, for example, yet here he is, presiding over today's strip.
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Giant Ethicist posted:Well, it's 2024 here, but not in the thread, so here's one more post - which also finishes up the chapter of BH, which would be weird to do in a first post in a new thread anyhoo. Such an amazing and wild story, as always with Q-Rais
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Medenmath posted:Q-Rais is the good kind of weird IMO. Heathcliff is trying for a sort of surreal where its repetitive nonsense starts to take on a type of moon logic of its own. I really do enjoy it, but it's not to everyone's taste, for completely legitimate reasons. I'd echo the rest of this, especially the stunningly good Flash Gordon and my deep love of generally-translated comics. Fingerpori especially.
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There are so many comics in this thread, I'm glad they're being posted. Even the bad ones! I keep on trying to pick out ones I'm particularly looking forward to seeing more of, and it's real hard. One last WAR baby for the year: 
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Regarding the current Mary Worth storyline:Chicken Parmigiana posted:I assume there’s to be some sort of twist in the reveal, and I predict it will be feeble. On another topic, one comic that I haven't seen called out for year-end kudos is Andertoons. It's often very funny, and it's rather rare for it to come in below a nice solid "good". Its overall average is high enough that I include it in my top three humorous strips on today's comics page, alongside Wallace the Brave and Arlo & Janis. For non-humor (action/drama/etc.) strips, which I consider a completely different category, Flash Gordon has easily knocked The Phantom out of my top spot. The man who cannot die is dead; long live the earthman.
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De-lurking to say thank you all for posting all these comic strips for good and for ill. Hope you all have a safe and happy New Years.
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Murdstone posted:F Minus Missed opportunity to have made it a 1996 calendar
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may've overimbibed, so instead of making a sloppy rear end out of myself on my year-end comics reflection, I'm just gonna say: thread rules. Love Heathcliff, understand why people hate it, but I can't stand Breaking Cat News so I call it even. Thanks a ton to everyone who posts archival and/or foreign stuff, it's so cool experiencing the world and history through the funny pages, and almost makes up the hole in my heart where Mopsy et al. used to be. Wallace owns. Always be posting Wallace.
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Old Archies are way hornier than I thought they’d be, but I probably should have expected that. So many incidental characters are drawn with such careful attention, like that teacher who wished she could cram a lot of Latin into Jughead.
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Flash Gordon is the big winner of the revivalists. The old Archies and Invisible Scarlett O'Neill continue to be a treasure, and Breaking Cat News still hit me in the good places (once we got past the Mole War). Anyway, before we lock the door on 2023, it's one more A Sketchy Life for December 29, 1927! And the editors seem to be doing something a little different this year.  So more or less no new(-old stock) cartoons this week. Perfect excuse to roll a recap of my own. One for each month, to keep things sane (with a couple of exceptions). January 6 (but posted with the 13th) posted:And one of the ones I left out last week, reprinted without a signature from the German satire magazine Lustige Blätter: February 3 posted:A bunch of little LJ Holton panels (at least I think that's his squiggle) that dotted this issue like measles, so I bundled them into a single page for convenience... March 17th posted:Johnny "Raggedy Ann" Gruelle: April 7 posted:Brown (a first name would be nice, but not necessary just yet): April 14 posted:A real humdinger of a two pager from Frederik Strothmann: May 19 posted:Herb Roth (or herb roth, if you're being a stickler about it): June 16 posted:James Montgomery Flagg: July 7 posted:Ellison Hoover takes you to a Florida school board meeting: August 25 posted:We open with a double shot (and at least one unfortunate recontextualization) from Bruce Bairnsfather. September 29 posted:And one from a guy who's usually working the theater beat, Robert Benchley: October 13 posted:Oliver Herford gives a salute to one of Life's own: November 24 posted:And from the ain't-from-around-here quarantine page, Alf Jackson: December 15 posted:a Fred G Cooper page. As always, thread stuff has been one of the bright spots of my past twelve months (especially the way this year went (don't ask)), so forever forward in 2024. See you there. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jan 1, 2024 |
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I like at least half of the stuff being posted, in particular the classic Valiant and Archie. The reboot of Flash is also really good so far and the Nancy reboot is at least better than average in my eyes. Oh, and the Invisible Scarlett O'Neill is pretty funny unintentionally. I just scroll past the stuff I don't care about and it's not terrible but just doesn't appeal to me. For some reason my eyes just slide off of Scary Go Round and I can't tell if it's the art style or the story, I just can't get into it. Oh well. Looking forward to a new year and thread!
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Thank you all for making this thread what it is. I would like to show my appreciation for the single panel wonders of F Minus, Rhymes With Orange, and Andertoons that are always worth a look. Hägar the Horrible is the comic I'd say has seen the most improvement this past year, and I know I'm not alone in having grown much more fond of Arlo and Janis over a longer period of time. Wallace the Brave, Crabgrass, and Zits are easy choices for overall favorites with the quality of their average strips, but Rae the Doe can really do it for me when it wants to go for a really contrived and laborious pun. And while I may be biased as the person posting them, I do enjoy hate-reading Intelligent Life and Legend of Bill. Now... 2024 comix Daddy Daze  Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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Looking forward to posting Blueberry and Corto Maltese in the new year!
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Happy New Year, y'all. Thanks for another year of daily posting joy and guffaws, chuckles and grumbles.
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as for me, i do love a Heathcliff, i'd die for Jimmy. Arlo and Janis, Take it from the Tinkersons, every Easy EW comic, Heart of the City, Wallace, and Sally Forth all have shooters and they're all me!!! the only comic i wish was dead for real is Luann. Heathcliff  Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (January 28, 2002)  Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead  i'll crosspost to the new thread when it's up!
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Fingerpori Yes, in Finnish the stands for Christmas trees are called "feet", and the same thing applies for many other things. You don't use a kick stand to keep a bike upright, you use a standing foot!
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I'll repost these in the 2024 thread when it's made, but I have a few minutes before I have to go run a 5K (I am a dummy!) THORN, November 22-29, 1982   Note 1: quote:Barely A. Foulword  quote:Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr.[a] (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007)[3] was an American Independent Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist.[4] He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, founded Liberty University in 1971, and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979. We also get the introduction of another pretty major character: The Cartoonist. Fans of Bone will note this is a departure - Thorn will get a bit meta here in a way Bone never does.
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New year, new thread! But do keep an eye on this thread, as there's still one big finale to officially close it out!
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As promised, one last finale. I'd hoped to do finish this before the year ended, but Pancho was gracious enough to leave the thread open long enough that I could close out The Demons of Baseball with some fairly gigantic posts. Apologies if the tension of how I space these is key to your enjoyment. Only one way to find out! The Demons of Baseball                          edit: I've decided against rushing the remaining pages. Future historians can see how the story ends here. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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GodDAMN Maggie's sister is my new favorite in this comic. All things can be done through spite.
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That's all folks! See you in  Comic Strips 2024: Guess That Means I'm A Plugger
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