Comic Strip Megathread XV: So smile, Margo, and move on.

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BlankIsBeautiful: Apr 4, 2008; Feeling a little inadequate?

Non Sequitur

Pretty good, Wiley!

Heavenly Nostrils

at Phoebe, completely uninterested in the "therapy" and totally immersed in her vidya game. :v:

9 Chickweed Lane 1/11/2003

Cats do that not just with dance. Pretty much any time they can get in your way to get your attention, they will.

Zits

Hey, whatever, better than Rainbow Dash I guess. :v:

Kevin & Kell

That's just stupid. :ughh:

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# ? May 23, 2024 14:12

Mister Beeg: Sep 7, 2012; A Certified Jerk

Darthemed posted:

Calvin And Hobbes

_{I believe this is the only time Susie got a strip to herself.}

No, I remember that there were two or three other strips that only featured Susie.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 17:24

flavor.flv: Apr 18, 2008; I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches

These Runaway Comix are never coming back.

Pooch Caf�

The last week's weather was absolutely brutal. My tongue froze to a metal knife indoors.

Ballard Street

I used to do this when I was a kid. A friend and I would just stand somewhere doing nothing suspicious at all, and bolt whenever we saw an adult. It was a game to see who would chase us under no other provocation than the fact that we ran.

A lot of dogs, as it turned out.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 17:30

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Mechahamster posted:

Right, the Comic Strip Megathread certainly is the last thread I expected massive Breaking Bad spoilers

I wouldn't have known if you hadn't said anything. I only just started watching Breaking Bad. Oh well.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 17:45

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Who cares about Breaking Bad, it's not a comic, :v:

:iamafag:

Tina's Groove

Family Circus

Rose is Rose

One Big Happy

Mother Goose & Grimm

Foob

Compu-Toon

Bizarro

Dilbert

# ? Jan 11, 2014 17:51

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ? Jan 11, 2014 18:47

Shugojin: Sep 6, 2007; THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...

EasyEW posted:

Popeye

It's a little less hard to talk about divided loyalties with Swee'pea over the other characters, who don't usually have any loyalties. That said, he turned really quickly, didn't he.

I have a weird hope that this storyline will resolve with the pirate finding out that Swee'pea is adopted and vanishing.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 20:00

Wanamingo: Feb 22, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

Six Chix

Basically what Steam sales do to me.

Zippy the Pinhead

Nancy

Momma

Wee Pals

Andertoons

# ? Jan 11, 2014 20:35

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Breaking Bad is one of the best TV shows of the past few years, but sadly not everyone got to experience it at the same time it aired in the USA. As someone who was late to The Wire, I have sympathy for those who find spoilers in unconventional places; I still remember how I felt when I learned that Omar and Wallace go into space in the final episode.

Mark Trail
This is really worth viewing at full size.

Apartment 3G

Nope! She's a mess, too.

Juliet Jones

# ? Jan 11, 2014 21:06

Borden: Jul 23, 2008

Well, this makes even less sense now that I look at it.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 21:36

Ice To Meet You: Mar 5, 2007

# ? Jan 11, 2014 21:39

Midnight Moth: Sep 14, 2007; What the hell, dude??
I'm like, right here.

Borden posted:

Well, this makes even less sense now that I look at it.

This totally kicks rear end.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 21:44

Dr. Dos: Aug 5, 2005; YAAAAAAAY!

Mr. Cool Ice posted:

I'm sad this one doesn't have a title after the one about getting gay with his lemonade.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 21:57

butt dickus: Jul 7, 2007; top ten juiced up coaches
and the top ten juiced up players

Dr. Dos posted:

I'm sad this one doesn't have a title after the one about getting gay with his lemonade.

I'm sad that he didn't use an improvised sail to outrun the kids this time.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 22:00

LvK: Feb 27, 2006; FIVE STARS!!

Maybe one of you could help me find an edit, here. It was an old school Dennis the Menace edit, where Dennis was holding his dad's severed head and presenting it to a group of his mom's friends.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 22:11

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Is Sluggo supposed to be naturally bald or something? Does he have the same disease as Charlie Brown?

I want to just attribute this to the fact that Gilchrist is a hack and forgot these characters are children, but does anyone know if this is precedented?

# ? Jan 11, 2014 22:15

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

He's drawn with head stubble so I'm going to say no. It's just a typical Gilchrist nonjoke.

Haha, dogs eat garbage! Sluggo wants his hair to grow faster and will never be drawn with longer hair unless a gag calls for it!

# ? Jan 11, 2014 22:20

Transmodiar: Jul 9, 2005; You're a terrible person, Mildred.

LvK posted:

Maybe one of you could help me find an edit, here. It was an old school Dennis the Menace edit, where Dennis was holding his dad's severed head and presenting it to a group of his mom's friends.

It's not an edit. A newspaper swapped the DtM and "The Far Side" captions for that day - and improved each immensely in the process*:

* According to Gary Larson.

Transmodiar fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Jan 13, 2014

# ? Jan 11, 2014 22:27

LvK: Feb 27, 2006; FIVE STARS!!

Transmodiar posted:

It's not an edit. A newspaper swapped the DtM and "The Far Side" captions for that day - and improved each immensely in the process*:

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* According to Gary Larson.

Haha, I forgot about that! Thanks, but not what I was looking for. I think it was last thread, it was just a really old Dennis the Menace comic where someone edited Dennis' dad's head into Dennis' hand and changed the caption to say "I have killed him" or something like that.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 22:29

Hamiltonian Bicycle: Apr 26, 2008; !

I think you might mean this one, one of mine from two or three threads ago:

I think the original had him holding some sort of creepy crawly and saying "don't worry, he's dead", something like that.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 22:31

LvK: Feb 27, 2006; FIVE STARS!!

That's the one! Thanks!

# ? Jan 11, 2014 22:42

Mister Beeg: Sep 7, 2012; A Certified Jerk

TIMG that, Transmodiar!

Also, I think the best part about that edit is that the mom is only slightly disturbed.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 22:48

Howard Beale: Feb 22, 2001; It's like this, Peanut

Mr. Cool Ice posted:

I really like the signature bunny showing up to laugh at the situation like Edward True's onlookers.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 22:57

Cricken_Nigfops: Oct 25, 2011; CROM!

Borden posted:

Well, this makes even less sense now that I look at it.

This is the grandest of all things. Look at how he's dancing!!

# ? Jan 11, 2014 23:05

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Borden posted:

Well, this makes even less sense now that I look at it.

That's better than the current Pringles' commercials.

# ? Jan 11, 2014 23:18

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Borden posted:

Well, this makes even less sense now that I look at it.

With those moves, he could join the Archies.

Skippy (August 26-28, 1926)

# ? Jan 11, 2014 23:31

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

Aardmania posted:

Pibgorn

So that's what a bore-skin rug looks like.

Oh, it's so wacky! They're both fated to a tragic death.

Maxwell Lord fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Jan 12, 2014

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Kammat: Feb 9, 2008; Odd Person

Modesty Blaise

Gods those two are creepy.

Kammat fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Jan 12, 2014

# ? Jan 12, 2014 00:17

catlord: Mar 22, 2009; What's on your mind, Axa?

Kammat posted:

Modesty Blaise

That top one was already posted.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 00:51

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

EasyEW posted:

With those moves, he could join the Archies.

Skippy (August 26-28, 1926)

Holy poo poo, that's a good joke.

# ? Jan 12, 2014 00:54

Sharay: Apr 19, 2008

Green Intern posted:

Holy poo poo, that's a good joke.

I don't think I get it. Is the joke that he eats food which is coloured the same as whatever glass he needs to blow or am I missing some finer point?

# ? Jan 12, 2014 01:20

tiistai: Nov 1, 2012; Solo Melodica

Fingerpori

- ��RP
- 5.8 seconds
- It was nice to drink after so long / It was nice to time a long beer

Oh boy, this was clever. I'll first list what that phrase is literally: Oli mukava "it was nice", ottaa "to take", pitk�st� "from/of [a] long", aikaa "time". "It was nice" works perfectly as a literal translation, so nothing to dissect there. Anyway, what Jarla did here was combine two different phrases.

Pitk�st� aikaa, literally "since/from a long time", has only one equivalent English phrase that I can think of: "long time no see" which unlike the Finnish phrase only works as a greeting. I guess it could work also as something like "it's been so long since we last X" but that's pretty wordy. Ottaa, "to take", has some situational uses, but here it clearly means "to drink (alcohol)".

Ottaa aikaa, literally "to take time", means to time/clock, especially in a speed competition. Of what requires a word in elative case (-sta) and here it's pitk�st�, "from a long". Pitk� on its own, "a long", in this context refers to a 0.5 liter beer as opposed to a beer served in a "shorter" glass which would be... something like 0.33-0.4 liters. Using long/short for the beer size distinction is a bit of an older tradition and nowadays the younger generations tend to use iso/pieni, big/small. Maybe because the glasses are the same.

tiistai fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Jan 12, 2014

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