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I wanted to argue about what an awful person Josh is, but Gunther managed to dull the life out of me. You are wearing a pink and black checked cardigan! You button your shirts all the way to the top! You probably utter the phrase "sensible shoes" at least once a week. You are not a teenage boy with a gallon of hormones in your junk, and a hot girlfriend! You are a thirty-eight year old, live at home, actuary with an overbearing mother who probably insisted on giving you baths until you were twelve! No seventeen year old guy like you has ever existed! I hate you! I'm yelling at a comic strip character! gently caress!
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 10:03 |
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I like that Evans can't come up with a better example of crazy teenage shenanigans than rolling down a drat hill.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 10:56 |
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Really Pants posted:I like that Evans can't come up with a better example of crazy teenage shenanigans than rolling down a drat hill. An angle of 147 would also be 43. He can't just say 45 degrees, or 43 degrees, he has to measure the angle by eye accurately. "Sewing has given me trigonometric superpowers when I was pricked by a Radioactive needle."
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 14:10 |
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sweetguts posted:The parents in Cul-de-sac are the best. The FOOB parents probably would have just lectured their kid for saying it wrong or something. Why wouldn't a tree have a gender?
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 14:18 |
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Peanuts (January 20, 1967) Funky Winkerbean Popeye Rip Haywire Pogo was originally drafted as the swamp's presidential nominee in 1952. A pro-Pogo rally at Harvard was chaotic enough to be busted up by the police, an event the class of '52 termed The Pogo Riot. (January 20, 1956) Out Our Way (April 7-8, 1924)
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 14:26 |
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don Jaime posted:Catching up with Lio. Literally the first thing I thought of: Jane's World Ahhh! Hulk Hand! Non Sequitur I burst out laughing when I read this in the morning paper. Very good, Wiley! Heavenly Nostrils At least you're not posting it to Facebook, Phoebe (or are you?), like half the people on my friend list do. Kliban Man, he's been kinda out there this week. Is that a separate panel, or is that monk in the room below the praying dude? 9 Chickweed Lane 1/17/2003 For the love of God, Brooke, step off it. It's dumb, and it's dead. Zits I'm sure it most likely will, Jeremy. Kevin & Kell Ok, I smiled at that. Not too bad, Holbrook. Nemi
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 14:40 |
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Everett True February 15 & 16, 1918
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 14:43 |
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Kliban The second one is the downstairs neighbor.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 14:55 |
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TampaTango posted:An angle of 147 would also be 43. He can't just say 45 degrees, or 43 degrees, he has to measure the angle by eye accurately. It's a shame we can't have a cross-over with Spider-man, then he could get needled by a radioactive prick! Cul-de-sac The Creeps
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 15:05 |
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Fingerpori Rock climbing course: (My vision is getting dark... I'm going to fall...) - THIS IS DIZZYING! - Yeah, isn't it? Technically, huimaa just means "I feel dizzy". The reason I specifically wrote "dizzying" is because it (or rather huima, meaning "reckless") can be used as a positive adjective meaning something akin to "awesome", as in both awe-inspiring and excellent. Fok_it
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 15:12 |
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Mike du Jour Monty
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 15:29 |
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Indolent Bastard posted:[b]Mike du Jour Jesus Christ, Doorknob.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 15:56 |
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Mister Beeg posted:Thorn (October 28-November 1, 1983) Thank you for posting these. I'm currently reading the Bone books to my son at bedtime, and being able to see "Thorn" where there are all of the same characters with the same personalities and style but less developed and in a much rougher style - it's a very interesting contrast. For those unfamiliar, here's what the characters of Foney Bone, Fone Bone, Thorn, and Gran'ma Ben look like in the Bone books: It's a much crisper, cleaner look. Some of that might be development as an artist, but I think it's also a stylistic choice: in "Thorn", he's going for something much closer to Bloom County, which is appropriate given the political/societal commentary. "Bone" is much more, as someone else put it, "Mickey Mouse in Lord of the Rings", and the cleaner style works much better there.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 16:07 |
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Indolent Bastard posted:[b]Mike du Jour
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 16:28 |
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Indolent Bastard posted:[b]Mike du Jour Ahahaha loving Lester you shithead. I now choose to believe he's just an elaborate troll doing all this intentionally.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 16:35 |
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Stultus Maximus posted:Jesus Christ, Doorknob. Doorknob? Did someone fart?
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 16:40 |
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JohnnyCanuck posted:This is an edit, right? There's no goddamn way this racist poo poo made it into the papers, right? It's probably an edit.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 16:41 |
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After a week's reprieve the temperature's starting to dip again, so cuddle up with some Warm and Cozy Dog Comix. Pooch Café The way Paul draws cats' paws and eyes makes them all look like little purple gorillas. Ballard Street The way Jerry draws dogs' everything makes them all look amazing all the time.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 16:48 |
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Wanamingo posted:Andertoons
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 16:54 |
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted: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. Tiggum posted: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. Midnight Moth posted:Pretty much. I mean, hell, she doesn't like him because he likes his job. Why NOT Josh? Again: I seriously have no beef with hating Retail and/or Retail's characters. I just cannot for the life of me understand why one of them must be reinvented as a p. cool dude struggling against the tides simply because the rest of the cast dislikes him.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 17:01 |
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Spoil sport
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 17:08 |
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Indolent Bastard posted:Spoil sport Oh you had me suckered. I posted your edit in the Politcal Cartoons thread as the real thing.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 17:19 |
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Bloom County The epitome of Steve and Opus' relationship. Calvin And Hobbes The Big Picture is referred to in the past tense in its GoComics blurb. Is it a zombie?
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 17:30 |
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It has a 2002 date on it, so probably.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 17:31 |
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Drakyn posted:
I don't think anyone here is seriously rooting for Josh or calling him a hero. He just comes off as the least detestable person in this strip. So far, he's the only person in the strip who doesn't seem satisfied to wallow in their own mediocre wretchedness, and he's seen as the bad guy for it. Now that I think about it, Mina's the only other person in the strip with any motivation to get ahead in life, and she's presented as unambiguously evil. It's a pretty lovely attitude for a comic strip to have, and 'rooting' for Josh is just a way for people to rag on it. Honestly, I don't think I could stand to be around someone like Josh for five minutes, but that's five minutes and fifty five seconds longer than I'd put up with just about anyone else in the drat strip.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 17:35 |
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Tina's Groove Family Circus Rose is Rose One Big Happy Mother Goose & Grimm Foob Compu-Toon Bizarro Dilbert
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 18:45 |
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I'm... I'm not sure how historically correct that is, Sluggo.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 18:45 |
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I think that Slugo pissing on things should be the new Calvin pissing on things.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 18:51 |
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Darthemed posted:Bloom County I've been reading Calvin and Hobbes since I was a child and it's still teaching me new words.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 19:21 |
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Heathcliff Mandrake the Magician The Phantom Pickles Classic Prince Valiant
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 19:32 |
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Drakyn posted:Why NOT Josh? Again: I seriously have no beef with hating Retail and/or Retail's characters. I just cannot for the life of me understand why one of them must be reinvented as a p. cool dude struggling against the tides simply because the rest of the cast dislikes him. Because we hate everyone else more and they're the author's favorites/the "good guys", so the person they all hate and who the author wants us to think of as a bad guy despite pretty much being on roughly the same level as them becomes more likable. This is also why we were excited for Mina's arrival and then disappointed by her inability. Though assuming Marla can't get away with nepotism and doesn't take on the hours herself, Mina getting so much attention might mean she's sticking around after all. Actually that might be what all this is. Author realized that Josh really wasn't working as a villain because he was basically to the real boss what Cooper is to Marla rather than an actual villain, so he's being swapped out for someone who is literally and deliberately evil. Which is both hilarious and really, really dumb.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 19:33 |
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In today's installment: Slipping on a banana peel.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 20:06 |
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Holy poo poo, Foxy Grandpa is a badass. I thought he'd get out of the duel somehow or maybe get the count to slip on a second banana peel or something, but nope, he just straight up outclasses him in open combat. Look at the last panel. The man is terrified.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 20:19 |
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GorfZaplen posted:Mandrake the Magician Is that a lily-pad shaped ship? Of course it's a lily-pad shaped ship, because what else would frog aliens fly around in.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 20:24 |
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Mr. Cool Ice posted:In today's installment: Slipping on a banana peel. Sexy Grandpa Abroad. Unintentionally he hurts the feelings of a Parisian Count, but he gives him full satisfaction on the field of honor. (If you know what I mean ).
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 20:47 |
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (January 20, 1967) Big Freedia coming one more time. I don't know why but this one got me chortling. I don't want to eat a mouse on a foggy morning either. Indolent Bastard posted:Spoil sport You got me too. Say, would it be a big deal to post Monty first and MdJ second? Processing how awful MdJ is puts me right off comic strips for a few moments makes me skip Monty a lot of times and I think it is to my detriment. I know it's a weird request.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 21:00 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Luann Don't let people peer pressure you into rolling around on a bunch of poky rocks, Gunther.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 21:20 |
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Based upon his outfit, I would say Gunther takes risks...or is colorblind.
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# ? Jan 17, 2014 21:26 |
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Mr. Cool Ice posted:In today's installment: Slipping on a banana peel. The first Foxy Grandpa I actually had to read! I feel awful, who am I?
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Charles Addams
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