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Roland Jones posted:However, from what I can remember Marla and co hated Josh even before he did that and were assholes to him even when they didn't have an excuse. The characters hated Josh because he was a sychophantic kiss-rear end who drank the corporate kool-aid from the moment he appeared. In an early appearance he tells Marla that corporate policy says she shouldn't be wearing a skirt above the knee. When she replies that the Delman's dress code hasn't been updated since the 50's, he sneers "Doesn't matter, rules are rules."
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EasyEW posted:The Uncle Tom shows, most of which were heavy on melodrama and minstrely (and loose with the source material), had a long and bizarre history, and that they're even called "Tom shows" should tell you how these touring companies became a huge entertainment genre unto themselves. The further we got away from the Civil War, the closer the whole thing was to straight-up vaudeville with a wrap-around story, with singing quartettes and specialty acts. I'm still having trouble getting my head around the "double Tom" shows (as J. Frank Davis described it, "two Toms, two Evas, two Topsies, and two Legrees", because why the hell not) except as a sign that it wasn't about social progress as much as it was about spectacle. Anyway, Harriet Beecher Stowe wasn't involved with any of them. Like a lot of deeply religious people in the 19th century, she didn't like the theater. Kind of an ancestor of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, maybe?
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Roland Jones posted:Though, the people hating Josh reminded me of something. There were people saying that Josh was an rear end in a top hat and deserved to be fired for hanging Marla out to dry that one time. (There were also people saying that his general dickishness made him worthy of hatred but everyone in this strip is an rear end in a top hat so trying to say that he's the bad guy for that reason is stupid.) However, from what I can remember Marla and co hated Josh even before he did that and were assholes to him even when they didn't have an excuse. I mean, obviously Cooper was, because Cooper's whole character is being an rear end in a top hat, but am I correct in thinking Marla was too? Because unless that is actually a recent development I don't see how not helping out the nepotistic rear end in a top hat boss who hates you is supposed to make him the bad guy in this feud. I think the dude who writes Retail just has no loving idea how to write likable characters.
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Bloom County The horror! Calvin And Hobbes  Biff & Riley is about "two canine brothers who are clearly at opposite ends of the personality spectrum." But today, we've got a squirrel sidekick. 
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:
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Redeye Flight posted:Kind of an ancestor of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, maybe? If we're going with a Rocky Horror analogy, it'd be the original Rocky Horror Show if the various road companies decided to go into business for themselves and rewrite the script just to one-up each other.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Kliban
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Nipponophile posted:The characters hated Josh because he was a sychophantic kiss-rear end who drank the corporate kool-aid from the moment he appeared. Darthemed posted:Bloom County
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Moomin and the Martians link to a giant version, in case anyone wants a higher quality comic to get Moominmamma avatars from. http://min.us/i/Y0hKdZGJEERt
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"Smart" Uncle Alex just spent 30 minutes watching a dummy standing on its head. Meanwhile Foxy Grandpa spent that time in a bush without his pants.
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Indolent Bastard posted:[b]Mike du Jour Bigotry against astronauts is no laughing matter.
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Indolent Bastard posted:[b]Mike du Jour In case they didn't get yesterday's strip I'd better explain it!
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Momma   Wee Pals  Andertoons 
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SubNat posted:Moomin and the Martians The inconsistency of Moominmamma's size is very noticeable in these strips, and it has always bothered me.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy The only thing worse than a glurgey  praise Jesus and bless our lost Boomer musical icon Nancy is a bland, nearly joke-free Nancy. Thanks, Gilchrist.
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Mr. Cool Ice posted:Foxy Grandpa 
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Nipponophile posted:The characters hated Josh because he was a sychophantic kiss-rear end who drank the corporate kool-aid from the moment he appeared.
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Blondie Elmo knows they're in a zombie strip. Heathcliff  Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  Pickles  The Amazing Spider-Man   Classic Prince Valiant  
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Kliban The English one is upsettingly accurate, at least for 50 years ago. Andorra posted:In case they didn't get yesterday's strip I'd better explain it! He really needed to though. I hope from now on MDJ is a spiraling attempt to correct the strips of yesterday and before.
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GorfZaplen posted:Mandrake the Magician Good lord - they're gender fluid. 
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Kliban Ha! Buttocks!
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GorfZaplen posted:The Phantom *For the MRA who Reddits
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Mr. Squishy posted:The English one is upsettingly accurate, at least for 50 years ago. Indeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcB6gwInny0
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I don't feel like we've seen enough golf comics lately. Charles Addams 
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Thorn (October 27-28, 1983)  Nina's Adventures (1999)   Lucky Cow (March 7, 2004)  
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For the true majesty of Action Man (I couldn't find the Australian ad with the tag "If Action Man can't do it, then its not worth doing": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZCnRtMXYTA I had one from the early eighties with the eagle eyes - yes, it was as awesome as it sounds. Incidentally, is there a source for Chief Dharma with a larger version of the office workers dancing up near the title?
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Skippy is a few parts light tonight. (September 6-8, 1926)  
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Modesty Blaise  In one page Romero gives and takes with the great art. Lovely work on Modesty, but gah those two close up.
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Volume posted:I think the dude who writes Retail just has no loving idea how to write likable characters. I don't know, Gil seems all righ-oh wait forgot who I was replying to. Midnight Moth posted:I seem to remember that strip had Marla replying that if he looked at her skirt again she'd break the glasses on his face. Has Marla ever even wear a skirt outside this one incident to prove how terrible Josh is? I can't remember seeing anyone at the store without a standard uniform. Although since they're almost always drawn from the waist up it's hard to tell. ...Wait, does anyone in any retail store wear skirts? I'd think that's a wardrobe choice one would want to avoid making in a job that involves lots of bending over. Comics (November 27th 2006) Huh, apparently we do get to finish that plotline. How unusually considerate. Boondocks  Doonesbury  F-Minus  FoxTrot  Non Sequitur  --- Eyebeam  Well this is awkward. It's All Right Chief Dharma  So close. edit: Unfortunately all I could find was this-  ...Which as you can see is smaller than the one in the actual comics. The image doesn't come from an actual comic, since it's on the title card from the beginning. Maybe you can reverse Google image search it but I don't even know what that term means or how you're supposed to do it. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Jan 16, 2014 |
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Piranha Club  Dick Tracy   Judge Parker  I wouldn't underestimate those meddling kids, or their talking dog.  9 Chickweed Lane  He must be taking revenge for having to sit through those awful Edie Ernst P.O.W. concerts.  Pibgorn   Any guesses where the blood that was in Romeo's face has now rushed to?
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Borden posted:Classic Nancy (1949) Child labor. Darthemed posted:Referencing GRIT magazine, which started in 1882 as a newspaper, and used this selling arrangement (minus warthogs) for quite a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70s_Y7KwBlA
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Gil Yes, but it'll cost you some chores... Retail  Marla is just such a team player she just volunteered a boatload of free unpaid labor hours to the benefit of well, The Powers That Be. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Aw, everyone didn't forget about Bleeker after all. And maybe they can be friends and Bleeker will lighten up a bit. Dustin  Reverse psychology doesn't work on the oblivious. On the Fastrack  You're living in a Holbrook-verse so you can bet it's current events related. You don't even need to ask. Safe Havens  "After all, I do have a menagerie of other animal sidekicks to experiment on. Now where are those dodos..." Some Guy TT posted:Has Marla ever even wear a skirt outside this one incident to prove how terrible Josh is? I can't remember seeing anyone at the store without a standard uniform. Although since they're almost always drawn from the waist up it's hard to tell. Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Jan 16, 2014 |
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