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R Ubbish
Apr 15, 2013

Julet Esqu posted:

Juliet Jones

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Mister Beeg
Sep 7, 2012

A Certified Jerk

Darthemed posted:

Now you've got me curious about 50% More Absorbent Comix.

Without giving out future "Thorn" spoilers, wait a bit...

Midnight Moth
Sep 14, 2007

What the hell, dude??
I'm like, right here.

The answer posted:


Notice the bus door is not seen. If the door is on the other side, the driver is on the side facing Slylock, which means the bus is facing left. Slylock told park police the bus is traveling toward the zoo.


Slylock Fox

It's kinda like Gravity but with comically large cartoonish plugs floating in space.

Moose and Molly

All the animals in this comic just kind of stand around wide-eyed probably scarred from all the domestic conflict.

DEAD MAN'S SHOE
Nov 23, 2003

We will become evil and the stars will come alive

EasyEW posted:

Out Our Way (May 14-15, 1924)



OK. Williams was racist, product of his time or no.

The art and expressions are top-notch but the insistence on huge fish-like lips flushes all that away. It's not much consolation that the black people are sometimes portrayed as (trying to act like) normal folks: even the laughing horse knows they are Inherently Lesser Men.

edit: this sounds like I'm reading too much into it but check other strips for the difference in which the animal kingdom considers white and black people adults. It's a telling subtext, and now I'm half expecting a gag where we will see a rascally octoroon battling a stray dog over a stolen chicken.

DEAD MAN'S SHOE fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Feb 3, 2014

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Julet Esqu posted:

Prince Valiant


Holy poo poo. The artist nailed the expression of "Oh god there is a horrible sea monster" on Aleta's face.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Midnight Moth posted:

Slylock Fox
Notice the bus door is not seen. If the door is on the other side, the driver is on the side facing Slylock, which means the bus is facing left. Slylock told park police the bus is traveling toward the zoo.

I figured that the thing here was to remember whether the zoo or the lake was north or south, that it was actually a NYC geography question.

...which way are they going, north or south?

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Is it just me or are everyone's images tinier all of a sudden? Yes I know I can click on them to get full size but that's fairly inconvenient.

Julet Esqu posted:

Prince Valiant


GorfZaplen posted:

Classic Prince Valiant



I only just figured out that Val's current wife is not the same person he's been trying to rescue in the classics. Up until now I could never remember both their names at the same time. Welp, there goes some of the dramatic tension. Not, like, an important amount, but some.

Comics (January 18th 2007)

Replacements have arrived for Boondocks and Fox Trot. You're probably not going to like them.

La Cucaracha


Doonesbury


The Duplex


F-Minus


Non Sequitur


---

Eyebeam


Girlfriend's parents who want the boyfriend to like them? Well I never.

It's All Right Chief Dharma


On major South Korean holidays it's common to ask relatives for money as a blessing. There's a brief kind of bow ritual involved.

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut

Let's see: scraggly-drawn art, talking dog, lame joke. In only a few years' time this would evolve, grow a needless beat panel, and start babbling something about OPRAH ROOMBA ZOOMBA.

Midnight Moth
Sep 14, 2007

What the hell, dude??
I'm like, right here.

Howard Beale posted:

Let's see: scraggly-drawn art, talking dog, lame joke. In only a few years' time this would evolve, grow a needless beat panel, and start babbling something about OPRAH ROOMBA ZOOMBA.
The Duplex is done by one or both of the McCoy conservative political cartoonist brothers so the similarities to Mike Du Jour isn't just coincidental.

Some Guy TT posted:

Is it just me or are everyone's images tinier all of a sudden? Yes I know I can click on them to get full size but that's fairly inconvenient.
King Features comics are now jumbo sized by default and I'm guessing posters are just posting them that way instead of resizing.

Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Feb 3, 2014

TofuDiva
Aug 22, 2010

Playin' Possum





Muldoon

Some Guy TT posted:


I only just figured out that Val's current wife is not the same person he's been trying to rescue in the classics. Up until now I could never remember both their names at the same time. Welp, there goes some of the dramatic tension. Not, like, an important amount, but some.


Isn't Val's oldest son named Arn, though? Most people don't name their sons after their first romantic rival. That's got to be worth something in the dramatic tension department.

Midnight Moth
Sep 14, 2007

What the hell, dude??
I'm like, right here.
Gil

God. Everything comes from God. The Bible has answers to all your questions!

Retail

Wow sounds like we're in for a wild ride. Also Dustin just needs to go to all out war with Retail and do a "Retail Clerks Say the Darndest Things" week. It's already halfway there.

Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog

Are you kidding Karl? This has to be one of the cleanest houses I've seen since it perpetually looks like everyone just moved in. That or Skip is squatting in an unfurnished lot.

Dustin

It could just be sour grapes.

On the Fastrack

I'll save myself the headache of trying to make sense of any of this.

Safe Havens

They don't? Have you tried applying?

BlueDestiny
Jun 18, 2011

Mega deal with it


SPLORT

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Some Guy TT posted:

On major South Korean holidays it's common to ask relatives for money as a blessing. There's a brief kind of bow ritual involved.
I'm guessing the admonishment of how she's speaking is related to a family position/status inflection that doesn't translate to English?

Mr. Maltose
Feb 16, 2011

The Guffless Girlverine
Actually, yes, you can be either too tall or too short to be an astronaut. NASA does not gently caress around regarding people who get shot into space. If you're over 6 feet 4 inches too bad.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Julet Esqu posted:

Phantom Classic


Medenmath
Jan 18, 2003

EasyEW posted:

We might want to prepare for the eventuality that the strip ends with Morrie. Can you imagine any other way forward?

Unless they find exactly the right person, I certainly hope it ends with him. As recently as last year he was willing to be pretty controversial ("Run, Trayvon, run!") and I can't imagine a worse fate for the strip than someone turning it into some sappy zombie strip. Maybe they can reprint old ones? That would be nice.

A lot of them are probably still relevant. :smith:

DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:

OK. Williams was racist, product of his time or no.

The art and expressions are top-notch but the insistence on huge fish-like lips flushes all that away. It's not much consolation that the black people are sometimes portrayed as (trying to act like) normal folks: even the laughing horse knows they are Inherently Lesser Men.

edit: this sounds like I'm reading too much into it but check other strips for the difference in which the animal kingdom considers white and black people adults. It's a telling subtext, and now I'm half expecting a gag where we will see a rascally octoroon battling a stray dog over a stolen chicken.

He was a white man a hundred years ago. That's not an excuse, but basically yeah, of course he was a racist. Although I think it's taking things a bit far to interpret the horse's expression as laughter.

The way he portrays Wash Funk is still pretty progressive for the time, which admittedly is pretty disheartening.

Mr. Maltose posted:

Actually, yes, you can be either too tall or too short to be an astronaut. NASA does not gently caress around regarding people who get shot into space. If you're over 6 feet 4 inches too bad.

Yeah, basically going into space is still as difficult and expensive as anything humanity has ever done, so if you have an unusual physical profile there's just no way to manage it.

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

M. Trail



Quincy

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Mr. Maltose posted:

Actually, yes, you can be either too tall or too short to be an astronaut. NASA does not gently caress around regarding people who get shot into space. If you're over 6 feet 4 inches too bad.

Additionally unless you're a random specialist they have along for a mission your average astronaut is going to be much shorter than that since the selection pool is (or at least was) jet pilots and military jet planes have very small cockpits.

Mr. Maltose
Feb 16, 2011

The Guffless Girlverine
Here are the requirements to be a US Grade A Space Man.

Ironically you can be as short as 58 inches, but you have to be at least 62 inches tall to be a pilot. But on the other end a 'mission specialist' can have an inch on their pilot, 76 to 75 inches.

Throwing people into space with the world's most developed explosion is serious business.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

If you design plugs for incompatible types of power supply to look exactly the same, you deserve to have your satellites ruined. Stupid budget cuts in the space program.

Allen Wren posted:

I figured that the thing here was to remember whether the zoo or the lake was north or south, that it was actually a NYC geography question.

...which way are they going, north or south?
South, and assuming the bus stays on East Drive he's nowhere to go but Grand Army Plaza and then the police can basically walk up to the bus and nab the guy because he ain't going anywhere for a while.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Ghostlight posted:

I'm guessing the admonishment of how she's speaking is related to a family position/status inflection that doesn't translate to English?

Pretty much yeah.


Whatever problems a seven-footer would have going into space would likely be infinitesimal compared to bringing along several small children.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


I think this cartoon would have been greatly improved if they had bothered to change the expressions on the fruit faces.

EasyEW posted:

We might want to prepare for the eventuality that the strip ends with Morrie. Can you imagine any other way forward?
I love Wee Pals as much as anyone, but with Morrie gone I'd really prefer it go away so it can be replaced with a new strip by a new artist. Preferably, it would be of higher art quality than Reply All and just plain better than Mike Du Jour.

F Minus



Mary Worth



Rex Morgan, MD

ellie the beep
Jun 15, 2007

Vaginas, my subject.
Plane hulls, my medium.

Midnight Moth posted:

Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog

Are you kidding Karl? This has to be one of the cleanest houses I've seen since it perpetually looks like everyone just moved in. That or Skip is squatting in an unfurnished lot.


that's what you get
for owning a human

tiistai
Nov 1, 2012

Solo Melodica
Fingerpori

- May I have a pack of filter coffee
- That good brand


merkki: brand, mark

also sign, character, symbol, make (as opposed to model), circumstance, badge, note, emblem, cue, omen and so on

edit: Whoops, almost forgot Fok_It

Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



Midnight Moth posted:

On the Fastrack

I'll save myself the headache of trying to make sense of any of this.
It seems like Holbrook has a real problem with silly joke metaphor things morphing into things he treats seriously.

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Tina's Groove


Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Mother Goose & Grimm


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro


Dilbert

Mr. Squishy
Mar 22, 2010

A country where you can always get richer.
I feel I should also say that it's sad Morrie Turner died and add that the polititoons posted to mark his passing were excellent. He lived a long life doing what he was good at, it seems.


One thing I've noticed recently is that Mr. Rose is actually buff as hell. He carts his family on his back like a horse.

quote:

Foob


Elly has postpartum depression by proxy. Impressive.

Johnny Walker posted:

I think this cartoon would have been greatly improved if they had bothered to change the expressions on the fruit faces.

Yeah really. Their style's OK to look at, but they should junk any joke which requires it to convey any more emotion than a drama mask.

Loomus returns

The bellybutton, like the rest of the human body, is disgusting and should be covered at all times while in public

Berger & Wyse


I believe this is a joke on the name of a style of shoe.

Stephen Collins

What a tiresome man. (entity?)

The Fall

Tom Gauld

Memento Mori. Also compare the faces with the fruit cartoon. Maybe it's just me but for me, this really plumbs the depths of feeling that pass between two friends hanging out.

There's currently a movement out to rewrite all of the Austen novels and set them in modern times and it can gently caress off.

Rarebit Fiend with 0 post-processing on my part. They link to full sized images, tell me if this is acceptable.

Still Fluxing
Feb 14, 2013

A vision. A picture in my head. A picture of this.

Those look great. Ah, Mymble, is there anyone in your family who isn't a badass? :allears:

BlankIsBeautiful
Apr 4, 2008

Feeling a little inadequate?

Midnight Moth posted:

Retail

Wow sounds like we're in for a wild ride. Also Dustin just needs to go to all out war with Retail and do a "Retail Clerks Say the Darndest Things" week. It's already halfway there.

After having "done my time" in retail, I don't know why this is always considered such a dumb question. There were many times, especially in the case of a hot item, a clearance, or a particularly good sale, that we would have a tough time keeping the shelf/display stocked. There were lots of times when I was asked "Do you have any more in the back", and I responded "Yep, just let me catch my breath, and I'll run back and grab another load." It doesn't hurt to ask. Now, if we were truly out of an item, and the customer threw a tantrum claiming that we were "holding out", the question then becomes stupid, and laughable. :v:


This is great! Avatar material, people!

Jane's World



I'll bet Jane's mother is a bible beater or something.

Non Sequitur



Heavenly Nostrils is caught up, so here are Sunday's and today's:



What? No duckface? :v:



Gotta keep the priorities straight.

Kliban



:)

9 Chickweed Lane 2/3/2003



:ughh: Christ, aren't we done with this yet, Brooke?

Zits



teen_bitching.jpg

Kevin & Kell



Oh jeez. :rolleyes: How the gently caress does that desk work? She has her right butt cheek on the chair, right? That's the only way I can see it.

Nemi



:v:

Cricken_Nigfops
Oct 25, 2011

CROM!
Cul-de-sac


1 Groundhog
Cold water
Salt
Pepper
Sweet potatoes or white potatoes
Cornbread

The animal should be dressed as soon as possible and well soaked for several hours in cold, salty water. All excess fat may be trimmed off after the meat is cold. Parboil to remove and remaining fat and drain well. Place in a moderate oven and pack sweet potatoes or even white
potatoes all around. Salt and pepper the meat and bake unti brown. Be sure the potatoes are thoroughly cooked. Serve with cornbread and use the heavy gravy that forms during baking.

The Creeps

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Ham Shears January 20, 2014


luchadornado
Oct 7, 2004

A boombox is not a toy!

Is there a Mark Trail font? I haven't really been able to find anything on Google.

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.

DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:

OK. Williams was racist, product of his time or no.

The art and expressions are top-notch but the insistence on huge fish-like lips flushes all that away. It's not much consolation that the black people are sometimes portrayed as (trying to act like) normal folks: even the laughing horse knows they are Inherently Lesser Men.

edit: this sounds like I'm reading too much into it but check other strips for the difference in which the animal kingdom considers white and black people adults. It's a telling subtext, and now I'm half expecting a gag where we will see a rascally octoroon battling a stray dog over a stolen chicken.

Part of me hopes that it's more out of ignorance than malice, the way someone would grow up with that stuff in the air and it becomes invisible to them until somebody yanks the proverbial knot in their rear end when something questionable is kicked out in unfamiliar company. Sounds like I'm making excuses for total strangers, but yeah, there was a lot of that going around for a long time.

Peanuts (February 6, 1967)



Funky Winkerbean



Popeye (February 6, 1956)



You're a ghost. They can't hang you twice.

Rip Haywire



Pogo (February 6, 1924)



Out Our Way (May 16-17, 1924)



Indolent Bastard
Oct 26, 2007

I WON THIS AMAZING AVATAR! I'M A WINNER! WOOOOO!
Monty







Mike du Jour





My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Gonna be a long week.

scarycave
Oct 9, 2012

Dominic Beegan:
Exterminator For Hire

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


What's fresh from Mike Lester this week? BLATANT TRANSPHOBIA

Mr. Squishy
Mar 22, 2010

A country where you can always get richer.
Maybe that drawing associates with the gender assigned at birth but happens to enjoy cross-dressing, way to assume Shujogun

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

Midnight Moth posted:


Dustin

It could just be sour grapes.

Hey Ed! Stop tailgating you loving prick! :argh:

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LtStorm
Aug 8, 2010

You'll pay for this, Shady Shrew!


Mr. Squishy posted:

Maybe that drawing associates with the gender assigned at birth but happens to enjoy cross-dressing, way to assume Shujogun

Being that it's a Mike Lester drawing I'm pretty sure it's impossible it's anything else. I would be absolutely shocked that Mike "I take selfies at Chick-fil-a to show those faggots what for" Lester could conceive of transgenderism as anything other than gross hairy men wanting to wear wigs and use women's bathrooms. So glad he can do this in the funniest section now rather than just the editorials section.

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