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GorfZaplen posted:Mandrake the Magician I hope this story goes on forever. Look at those smug frogs!
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Pakled posted:Also, the February 14th, 1918 edition of the Tacoma Times included this. The Tuscania Disaster 
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Mmann posted:When someone asks if you're a god, you say yes.
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Midnight Moth posted:That will just get them to kill you so they can declare themselves the new gods. If they ask if you're a god they're probably planning to kill you anyway. Might as well take the outside bet in hopes they're willing to speak to a god. 
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Non Sequitur As a hospital insurance biller, not a day goes by that I don't wish insurance company employees to contract a flesh-eating virus and die in a fire while being eaten by wolves. Anyway, content:  Plugger category: decrepit  I laughed.
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:The Creeps I don't care how many times it's said, The Creeps is the best.
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^^ Womanizing!Mister Kingdom posted:As a hospital insurance biller, not a day goes by that I don't wish insurance company employees to contract a flesh-eating virus and die in a fire while being eaten by wolves. I did some of that as a temp and hearing that it was their job to try to not pay claims really opened my eyes. Depressing!
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Borden posted:Classic Nancy (1949) Edit: The strips in question as they appear in the Fantagraphics book: 
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SubG posted:Where are you getting these? They're slightly different versions of daily strips that, according the the Fantagraphics Bushmiller anthologies, originally ran (in this case) in 1945 (the individual dailies in this case are dated February 21 and February 22). I got them here. http://www.bigblogcomics.com/2010/01/sparkle-comics-nancy-by-ernie.html Do you have a copy of the Nancy anthology?
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Crosleys are poo poo and will ruin your records. They don't even look that much like vintage stereo equipment. Get on my loving level, shitler.
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Borden posted:I got them here. Borden posted:Do you have a copy of the Nancy anthology? Why?
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SubG posted:I have the two volumes they've published so far---Nancy Is Happy, which is the dailies from 1943-1945, and Nancy Like Christmas, the dailies from 1946-1948. They've got the rights to the first 24 years of Nancy, from 1938 to 1961 but I have no idea what the publication order/schedule looks like, and they seem to like publishing out of chronological sequence. You could totally post them. It would be great! 
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Hey, guys, I'm back! Looks like you all haven't missed much except Gil Thorp while I was gone, and that's ok because nobody gives a poo poo about Gil Thorp. Here's the last few days of some vintage comics: The Heart of Juliet Jones   Kind of hoping there's a human head in there.  Phantom Classic   
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Some Guy TT posted:Eyebeam Wow. That is super creepy.  Mmann posted:We all know Cooper is gonna get the job just because he told Josh "I'll have your job within the year" or however it was phrased, because Retail is hot garbage. Luann is way better than Retail. At least it has Tiffany. Ema Nymton posted:You see, Holbrook, if a comic strip is going to joke about intelligent creatures with feelings being eaten without remorse or question, this is how you do it. The person-eater is a monster. He's likeable, but still a monster. We're not supposed to accept his behavior as normal or identify with him. He's not a fantastic Gary Stu who also happens to eat people off-panel. It can be read without mental whiplash, and thus has potential to be funny. It's just a pity it never lives up to that potential. Drakyn posted:This is the bit that you'd think would sort of puncture the HERO OF THE PEOPLE narrative brewing about this guy. He's Smithers minus the secret love and plus the hope of career advancement, and the only reason he's at loggerheads with his employer right now is because someone who knew him from working at the same level got promoted into the position, rather than an outsider he could rear end-kiss. Like, if anyone wants to dislike Marla or Cooper or Klambert or whatever the hell all those other cranky people are, sure, that's an honest decision to make, but you don't have to start reinventing a perfectly obvious toady as something other than what he is to do it They're all terrible, obviously, but Josh was by far the least hateable. He was the only one not motivated by petty spite.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Is she... is she loving crying?  I don't even like original Nancy all that much, although it's usually good for a chuckle--I'm just constantly offended by how Gilchrist has hijacked the strip and turned it into something saccharine and self-serving. Goddammit.I'm getting to the point where I'm considering writing an honest-to-Krazy Kat letter to him. Maybe I'll include a few Bushmiller-era strips for Gilchrist to glance at, because clearly he's never read the strip he took over. E: VVVVV Guess I'd never noticed before--I didn't even notice it this time on my first pass. Still, though. Everything Counts fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Jan 17, 2014 |
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Everything Counts posted:Is she... is she loving crying? Gilchrist having Fritzi cry over this sort of thing isn't new.
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Catching up with Lio.    Somehow, I found these less disgusting than Red and Rover, which is why they're here and that ain't. Cricken_Nigfops posted:Cul-de-sac I'd forgotten how much I hated it when I did something cute. GorfZaplen posted:Mandrake the Magician Try all you like to look tough, frog guy, I remember when you failed to defeat a little old lady and her yip-dog. And yet, yours is the best action strip right now.
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Scary Gary So if it's not living up to its potential, how could it be improved?(not being defensive, just curious)
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Gil Just be glad you don't have to memorize Bible verses, Gil. Retail  Funny, "smug and arrogant little jerk" just as well describes Cooper but you enable it because he just doesn't do it to you. Customers and other staff are fine though. And it's not like you don't slander and gossip about Josh all the time. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  I hate all biological units and their biological functions. Robots 4 lyfe. Dustin  You're like a local celebrity, Dustin. On the Fastrack  Do phones even work on planes once they're airborne? I haven't checked. Safe Havens  "She murders those whose names I whisper to her at night."
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Mmann posted:When someone asks if you're a god, you say yes. Tiggum posted:They're all terrible, obviously, but Josh was by far the least hateable. He was the only one not motivated by petty spite. I repeat: he's a less loyal and competent Smithers. There is nothing else there. You can despise everyone else in Retail for being the awful people that they are without trying to martyr one of the strip's nastier and more superficial characters on the altar of their dislike. Wanamingo posted:Nancy EDIT: GorfZaplen posted:Ray Price died the 16th of December last year, according to Google. Drakyn fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Jan 17, 2014 |
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Drakyn posted:Don't forget the sentences.... many ellipses. Missing words, too? Happens often... Ray Price died the 16th of December last year, according to Google.
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GorfZaplen posted:Ray Price died the 16th of December last year, according to Google. If Nancy has done nothing else it's managed to make me actually feel sad when a country star dies. Because I know when one goes, soon, I will have to see another one of these lovely 'tribute' strips.
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Drakyn posted:One of the first things we saw him do in the strip since the threads started carrying it was deliberately make his boss look like a dunce in a conference call when it would've taken literally no effort to bail her out. He was then shocked and surprised when this entirely rational stratagem backfired and made her dislike him more. Marla already hated him when this happened. He had no reason to back her up. Besides which, she is a dunce, and is pretty clearly incompetent as a manager, since she can't even handle an employee quitting without throwing a loving temper tantrum.
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Mmann posted:If Nancy has done nothing else it's managed to make me actually feel sad when a country star dies. Speaking of which, we should be due for the Phil Everly one anytime now, if it's on a 2-3 week lag.
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Some Guy TT posted:It's All Right Chief Dharma Now I am not sure if I am completely missing something or if the internet has perverted my brain forever... This is a rather long poop joke right? The parents dream of snakes which they believe has a spiritual meaning but it is actually a warning about the massive, coiling deuce their daughter is about to drop?
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Drimble Wedge posted:So if [Scary Gary is] not living up to its potential, how could it be improved?(not being defensive, just curious) By including some actual jokes. "Leopold eats a person" isn't a joke by itself, it's just a thing he does. A monster that eats people living in a suburban house in the modern world is a good premise on which to base a humorous comic, as is a fat, friendly suburban vampire or an evil little girl who's infatuated with a monster who's dating a giant woman, but on their own they're not jokes, you have to actually do something with it. Scary Gary is just lazy and doesn't bother. Every strip is basically just restating the premise. It works for a while, but once you've been reading long enough you see that it's just repeating itself over and over and never actually builds on any of it. Drakyn posted:One of the first things we saw him do in the strip since the threads started carrying it was deliberately make his boss look like a dunce in a conference call when it would've taken literally no effort to bail her out. He was then shocked and surprised when this entirely rational stratagem backfired and made her dislike him more. If that was the first Retail strip you saw I can understand how you'd get that impression, but A) He didn't deliberately make her look dumb, she made herself look dumb and he just didn't bother to help her out of the hole she'd dug herself and B) she'd given him absolutely no reason to ever help her in any way, since she'd made it abundantly clear that he would get nothing in return. She's petty and never lets go of a grudge. So instead of trying to please her, which is pointless, he let her deal with her own problems. Even if he had helped her in that situation she'd just have found something else to hate him for instead, because she always does.
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Tiggum posted:Even if he had helped her in that situation she'd just have found something else to hate him for instead, because she always does. August 1, 2013 
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don Jaime posted:Catching up with Lio. I laughed like a loon at that cat's insane stare.
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F Minus Welcome back, Julet Esqu! I've already got these so I'm posting them, but then you can go ahead and go back to doing them. Luann  Pros and Cons  Sally Forth 
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My Lovely Horse posted:A 147° slope? Gunther is just being needlessly obtuse.
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My Lovely Horse posted:That's not remotely what Pit and the Pendulum is about! LtStorm posted:I laughed like a loon at that cat's insane stare. Two great tastes that taste great together*!  the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. *avatar not YOSPOS certified
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