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Green Intern posted:Yup. It's reasonably rare for an author to also write a screenplay. Les is just a special snowflake who mopily fought tooth and nail to protect his dead wife from those Hollywood monsters. And the story is SUPER compelling. I mean she died of cancer and was spirited or something. Actually is there anything special about ~Lisa's Story~? That's kind of bugging me now. There's some kind of race, that's about all I know.
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Green Intern posted:Yup. It's reasonably rare for an author to also write a screenplay. Les is just a special snowflake who mopily fought tooth and nail to protect his dead wife from those Hollywood monsters. I remember one time after they got running a race for breast cancer. Les was all "You know what I got on my mind?" and his current wife just looked heart broken because she knows he's thinking about his dead wife. She was just so broken and trapped in this enabling relationship. It's sad.
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Pakled posted:Everett True You just know that, a minute or two later, Everett True saw another guy loitering a little farther down the street and beat him up for it.
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The Sphinxster posted:And the story is SUPER compelling. I mean she died of cancer and was spirited or something. Maybe it's his own version of the Colton Burpo story, where he writes about The Phantom of the Opera taking you away to heaven instead of angels singing or whatever.
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Wanamingo posted:Momma
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spookygonk posted:That woman's never coming out of there with her mind intact, is she? He's just going to keep piling up the ridiculous poo poo, then knock her out and threaten her "guide" into telling her it was all a fever induced hallucination.
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The Sphinxster posted:And the story is SUPER compelling. I mean she died of cancer and was spirited or something. It reminds me of conversation I'd gotten into with someone who worked for a book publisher. I had asked her she had seen any interesting submissions for books, and the first thing she complained about was how every other manuscript she received was about a writer who battled cancer. "It's like every person who's ever had cancer believes they're the only one who has, and their story is unique."
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Exactly. I mean, I hope I didn't come off as callous because cancer is serious business, but as far as I know that's the whole story (I'm not going to research Funky Winkerbean, so I'm ready to be wrong) and we're supposed to believe it's this wonderful saga because the writer says so. Pfft.
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Also of note: in the original Lisa death arc she at one point testified before Congress about how cancer is bad.
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Pakled posted:Good to see that Everett's wartime patriotic enthusiasm hasn't manifested itself as a complete subservience to all authority. 
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Pakled posted:Everett True What.. what is that sound that dude made? Biff. Did he fart? I mean, if he did, it was apparently pretty loud. Is that some sort of an old-timey throat clearing noise? Sneeze? Is that some other dude's name? Interesting.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:What.. what is that sound that dude made? Biff. Did he fart? I mean, if he did, it was apparently pretty loud. Is that some sort of an old-timey throat clearing noise? Sneeze? Is that some other dude's name? Interesting. I think that's the sound of Everett's meaty fist hitting skull.
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Tunicate posted:I think that's the sound of Everett's meaty fist hitting skull. Ah, I read it as the noise/sound that pissed Everett off in the first place.  
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Pakled posted:Everett True But Everett, look at what you're doing, standing up and shouting in the middle of the performance! You have become that which you so despise!
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Ah, I read it as the noise/sound that pissed Everett off in the first place. Me too, and I also found it confusing. I was thinking, "Biff? Is that an old-timey burn or something?" Luann  Worlds best liar here. And her deception hinges on Leslie believing there are hidden cameras in a bathroom frequented by underage kids and nobody's worried about a lawsuit. Apartment 3-G  Your deer, however, will have been raised by humans and not have the natural fear of them that helps most wild animals stay out of trouble. Additionaly, it will not have learned how to function in the wild away from people. Great rescuing skills, Tommie! Pros & Cons  Sally Forth  The Amazing Spider-Man 
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I find myself liking Foxy Grandpa, it's still humorous across the years. Also, I smile when I read it because it reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut story where a Foxy Grandpa was... "Yo, it’s a Foxy Grandpa,” said Mary. She’d seen the person too. A foxy grandpa was an old man, cute and senile, who quibbled and joked and reminisced for hours and hours before letting a hostess put him to sleep. Mary and Nancy half smiled and groaned, “We’ve spent the past two hours trying to decide on a last meal.” " -From "Welcome to the Monkey House"
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Sergio Aragones (Sergio Aragones Funnies #2, August 2011) Don Martin Dept. (Mad #50, October 1959)  That last panel is terrifying  Thorn (February 13-15, 1984)    Lucky Cow (April 19-21, 2004)    Yes, that last strip was used as a basis for the World's Largest Comic Strip, complete with certification from the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Who the gently caress wouldn't want an army of tiny dudes?
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Julet Esqu posted:Worlds best liar here. And her deception hinges on Leslie believing there are hidden cameras in a bathroom frequented by underage kids and nobody's worried about a lawsuit. You've obviously never lived in a real surveillance culture: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/11/cctv-cameras-school-changing-rooms
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann "Oh good so the security camera caught the hippy attacking me first for trying to use the bathroom!" Seriously what the gently caress is this storyline
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Julet Esqu posted:Apartment 3-G Given that the second and third option would require him to give more than half a poo poo about drawing A3G, I'm guessing it's the first one.
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Macaluso posted:Seriously what the gently caress is this storyline What the gently caress is Luanne? Didn't it used to be just a cute daily about teenage girl problems? Or was I too young to pick up on all the what-the-gently caress-ery?
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The Sphinxster posted:And the story is SUPER compelling. I mean she died of cancer and was spirited or something. It's author self-insertion. To Baituk, Lisa dying of cancer was the most beautiful and transcendent thing he ever wrote, so it's clearly a story for the ages.
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Julet Esqu posted:Me too, and I also found it confusing. I was thinking, "Biff? Is that an old-timey burn or something?" Guys, did you never watch Batman?  Fingerpori  - Heimo, go get us a new motherboard quickly! In an hour: Emolevy is a fairly literal translation of motherboard: emo means mother and levy means board. Basically a levy is any relatively thin, flat object, so it also refers to plates, slabs and discs such as CD-levy, which now that I think about it is literally compact disc disc. The pun aside, there's an interesting thing about the word for mother. Emo or emä are old Finnish and haven't actually been used by children to refer to their mothers for a long time. Those words are now used for animal mothers. For humans, mother is äiti which is a loan from ancient Germanic aithi or Gothic aiþei. Germans, in turn, eventually took to using the Latin mater instead. Fok_It 
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My Lovely Horse posted:Say what you will about Achewood but when Achewood characters are depressed you notice from their dialogue and behaviour and not from them saying "my depression is setting in" while behaving in every way like they usually do. This is just those hallucinogens he took kicking in.
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The Sphinxster posted:And the story is SUPER compelling. I mean she died of cancer and was spirited or something. It just hit me. It's the plot of "Love Story". It was a nothing book and a nothing movie but in 1970, everybody seemed to think it was the most romantic thing ever. I was a kid, so I thought it was just bathos. I still do.
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Guys, you're forgetting that Lisa also got teenage pregnant with an jock's baby! And then gave the baby up for adoption! Her story is the most tragic one ever!
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Wandering Knitter posted:Guys, you're forgetting that Lisa also got teenage pregnant with an jock's baby! And then gave the baby up for adoption! Her story is the most tragic one ever! Not just a jock, a retconned date rapist who tried to connect with his son later and got told off!
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Several cartoonists, including Wiley Miller, Keith Knight, and Lynn Johnston, talk about Morrie Turner. It's pretty touching
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Mister Beeg posted:
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TofuDiva posted:It just hit me. It's the plot of "Love Story". It was a nothing book and a nothing movie but in 1970, everybody seemed to think it was the most romantic thing ever. I was a kid, so I thought it was just bathos. I still do. So the rich, white, intelligent, and altogether perfect Harvard student falls in love with a rich, white, intelligent and altogether perfect Radcliffe student, but his father doesn't want them to be together because... why? And then the doctor doesn't tell his patient that she's terminal, but instead opts to tell her boyfriend? And the doctor does that while specifically saying that he's not to inform her of the fact that she's dying? loving Roger Ebert liked this poo poo? I guess it's no surprise we got the expression love means never having to say you're sorry from this awful piece of fiction. Six Chix   Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Momma  Wee Pals  Andertoons  Four Eyes  Arlo and Janis  Lost Side of Suburbia  Zachary Nixon Johnson 
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Maxwell Lord posted:It's author self-insertion. To Baituk, Lisa dying of cancer was the most beautiful and transcendent thing he ever wrote, so it's clearly a story for the ages. Definitely this. For the comics page, it's obviously a unique thing because long-established comic strip characters don't die off on a regular basis, especially in a long lingering way the way cancer can provide for you. From the Funky Winkerbean POV, Lisa's Story is something unique and special because it's a story that happened to Lisa, not because of anything that's actually in the story. And that's why the author can't stop telling it. However, that puts us in an awkward position since the character the author is most fascinated with was rendered permanently unavailable seven years ago. Skippy (November 4-6, 1926)    Just in case you thought meta was something new.
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Wanamingo posted:So the rich, white, intelligent, and altogether perfect Harvard student falls in love with a rich, white, intelligent and altogether perfect Radcliffe student, but his father doesn't want them to be together because... why? And then the doctor doesn't tell his patient that she's terminal, but instead opts to tell her boyfriend? And the doctor does that while specifically saying that he's not to inform her of the fact that she's dying? loving Roger Ebert liked this poo poo? It's a relatable story about likable people that could conceivably actually happen, if you ignore the dumber plot threads. I know that's not much of a compliment but modern American romances really don't have any kind of any comparable grasp as far as making love stories people would actually want to see. I'd rather endure bathos than jokes about Ashton Kutcher's scrotum. edit: that Love Story has memorable bad writing automatically puts it a cut above more recent stuff. You can laugh at Love Story. You just want to strangle the people involved in adapting the latest Nicholas Sparks novel. Wanamingo posted:Zachary Nixon Johnson One one level I'm annoyed that the characters are loudly screaming their character traits but on another I'd probably have no idea what the difference between any of them were if the comic didn't take the time to explain this to me. Anyone else being driven nuts by Rip Haywire's tendency's to only mention character's names when they're not on-panel, so it's impossible to remember which goon they're talking about? Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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