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 Jeez, this story arc could last months. Heavenly Nostrils   9 Chickweed Lane 2/9/2003  Not bad, Brooke. Zits   
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The first Homer story I ever saw (the one where he's just trying to live a long life) is pretty good. The trick is finding it, of course. Peanuts (February 12, 1967)  In Charlie Brown's world, nothing quite delivers soul-crushing disappointment better than Valentine's Day. In Funky Winkerbean's world, on the other hand, nothing delivers a crushed soul better than just waking up in the morning.  Classic Popeye Sunday (c. 1941)  Wimpy hasn't learned the pusher's lesson: getting hooked on your own junk is hazardous to your bottom line. Pogo is missing a week from my source, but it's easy to sum up: Owl's solar expedition has already gone off the rails. (February 15, 1970)  First-Gen Blondie (c. 1941)  It's another BOYZENDORGS day at Out Our Way! (May 30-31, 1924)   The lighter side of the long minute before mom takes a mangled kid to the hospital!
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Sunday Funnies Bloom County     Calvin And Hobbes     Cheap Thrills Cuisine  Diamond Lil is about a feisty old woman. On a personal note, I really don't care for the art style.  Who was it that used to post The Dinette Set? It's a strip that rips on the type of people who are proud to shop at Wal-Mart. 
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Moomin's Winter Follies I'll give it a few days, then start on Moomin Builds a House, don't think that's been posted.
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Cul-de-sac is a high-concept strip.
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert  Foxtrot 
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Momma  I know a Vietnamese woman, and apparently the social mores over there concerning how women dress are pretty weird. While the strength of the practice has been lessening recently, traditionally once women hit the age where they're supposed to settle down and start a family they are expected to, among other things, start dressing extremely plainly. Their clothes shouldn't be at all revealing, they should be in subdued colors, and so forth. The person I know was saying that a few years back when her family came to America, her mom was really loving thrilled because it meant that she would be able to wear floral print shirts. Now I bring up this little story because this comic is not that, and also gently caress Momma. Wee Pals  Andertoons  Four Eyes  Wow, topical. Arlo and Janis  Lost Side of Suburbia  Zachary Nixon Johnson  It's MRA bullshit, but holy gently caress I think something might actually happen in this comic.
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Aardmania posted:Pibgorn The water is deep enough to sink a canoe entirely in, but shallow enough to stand ankle-deep. This fact is becoming increasingly obnoxious to me! Wanamingo posted:Zachary Nixon Johnson Good lord, those proportions. 
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Wanamingo posted:Zachary Nixon Johnson I guess the pillowcase boot is the future hot ticket footwear.
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Wanamingo posted:Zachary Nixon Johnson I'm trying to suspend judgment until something does happen, but somehow the pacing is really off and not just because it's moving so slowly. It's like the writer meant to storyboard a slapstick 3-minute live comedy sketch and got carried away with reaction shots - all the wrong things are getting emphasized. And that drat hamburger should have fallen apart or gotten dropped on the floor by now.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy TofuDiva posted:I'm trying to suspend judgment until something does happen, but somehow the pacing is really off and not just because it's moving so slowly. It's like the writer meant to storyboard a slapstick 3-minute live comedy sketch and got carried away with reaction shots - all the wrong things are getting emphasized. And that drat hamburger should have fallen apart or gotten dropped on the floor by now.  is going to play a pivotal role in the mystery, no doubt.
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Aardmania posted:Pibgorn A sword fight is happening, but that might be interesting and/or exciting, so it's important that we now focus on someone looking petulant because his boat is sinking.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Just a small fix there: 
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Sergio Aragones Funnies (Mad #286, April 1989) Don Martin Dept. (Mad #102, April 1966)  Thorn/50% More Absorbent Comix Crossover Extravaganza (February 29, 1984)  Lucky Cow (May 2, 2004)  
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I agree that MAD should have it's own thread, that way it could also attract posters who don't read the comic strip thread. Besides, some of my favorite MAD segments aren't even comic strips! Heathcliff  The Phantom  Pickles  Sunday Rip Haywire  Classic Prince Valiant  
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GorfZaplen posted:I agree that MAD should have it's own thread, that way it could also attract posters who don't read the comic strip thread. Besides, some of my favorite MAD segments aren't even comic strips! GorfZaplen posted:Classic Prince Valiant Hal Foster uses that word a lot. Maybe he lacked a thesaurus.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Bizarro EDIT: and right after I post this, I see the K2 he snuck in there.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Hal Foster uses that word a lot. Maybe he lacked a thesaurus. I forget where I read it, but this is apparently a rewritten and simplified version by Max Trell, which explains the strange box of text in the first panel of yesterday's strip.  quote:Writer Max Trell's serialized children's stories ran in North American newspapers from the late 1920s through the early 1950s. His "Good Night Stories" told of the adventures of Knarf and Hanid, two shadow children who lived in Shadowland. Trell wrote for a number of cartoon strips as well and was one of the writers who replaced Dashiell Hammett after his departure from the strip Secret Agent X-9. He collaborated with several writers on the Prince Valiant comic strip and related books and authored several other books and screenplays over his long career.
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I really don't think we should have a Mad thread. This thread's absolute strength, and why I like it so crazily better than basically anything else in this subforum, is the variety in comics posted. Like this ain't no low-rent thread where we talk about One Comic and One Comic Alone, this is ALL COMICS from ALL OF HISTORY and ALL OVER THE WORLD and I've been exposed to so much great new and old and weird stuff because of it and if you want to start getting nitpicky about what should and should not be posted here then the thread is going to end up as like seven threads which all suck just a little bit more than this one did. Also literally one person is posting Mad comics that is not a thread that is literally one person posting Mad comics
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FunkyAl posted:I really don't think we should have a Mad thread. This thread's absolute strength, and why I like it so crazily better than basically anything else in this subforum, is the variety in comics posted. Like this ain't no low-rent thread where we talk about One Comic and One Comic Alone, this is ALL COMICS from ALL OF HISTORY and ALL OVER THE WORLD and I've been exposed to so much great new and old and weird stuff because of it and if you want to start getting nitpicky about what should and should not be posted here then the thread is going to end up as like seven threads which all suck just a little bit more than this one did. Yeah, I agree with this. Even me, who is crazily obsessed with all things cartoons, learned so much from this thread. If other people started posting content from MAD, then yeah, I can see that as a justification for its own thread, but like you said, I'm the only person so far.
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Waterhaul posted:Threads & You.
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SubNat posted:Moomin's Winter Follies I have to say thank you so much for posting these stories. I've enjoyed them so much I've bought all the Moomin strip collections I could find. It's fast becoming one of my favourites. Esseb posted:Just a small fix there: This is beautiful 
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Ahhhhh. It wouldn't be a Comic Strip Megathread if every so often we didn't derail into a heated argument about whether or not a comic should be posted here.  Cricken_Nigfops posted:Cul-de-sac is a high-concept strip. I gotta give it to Petey, this would work on me. The anticipation of getting scared is ALWAYS at least as scary, if not scarier, than the scare itself. Pros & Cons  Powdered Toast Man   The Amazing Spider-Man  Prince Valiant   Juliet Jones  Phantom Classic  Big Ben Bolt 
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GorfZaplen posted:Classic Prince Valiant Wow... "boisterously gay." That's, like, a gay scale that goes to 11, huh?
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Jane's World JANE YOU hosed UP
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Wow... "boisterously gay." That's, like, a gay scale that goes to 11, huh? It's like, "how much more gay could this be?", and the answer is "none". None more gay.
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Bitchtits McGee posted:It's like, "how much more gay could this be?", and the answer is "none". None more gay. Hey! Where's Dan Dare!? I'm gonna start doing bath salts if I don't get my fix...
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Julet Esqu posted:Powdered Toast Man
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The only way to successfully navigate this thread is to develop your scrolling skills. For example, I counted 114 comics posted in the last day or so. Luckily, I skipped over 65 of them so I didn't have to be here all day.
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Fingerpori - The time is almost... - The time is almost half two At half two: There's no good way to translate this. First off, kello means both "the time of day" (time in general is aika) and "a clock" or "a watch". It also means "a bell", but that's irrelevant here. Tulee means "[he/she/it] comes", and when talking about the time (kello tulee) it refers to the next significant time (usually half or sharp whatever). Kello tulee puoli kaksi therefore means "it's not half two (half past one) yet but it soon will be". Also, while there is a form that more or less corresponds with the English "at" (puoli kahdelta, "at half two"), at least in this case it's not necessary: puoli kaksi is the basic infinitive form and it works just as well. As that was probably slightly confusing, the pun was "the clock comes at half two". Why that clock is pointing at 3:40, I have no clue. The dialogue likely sounds a bit weird. The girl is asking what the time is in a true polite Finnish fashion  . If you want to be super polite, don't ask anything from other people directly - rather, make it known that you need something and let other people offer it to you. "Could you please pass me the salt?" is a nicely worded demand: impolite; "Could I have salt?" is a passive wish: polite. In this case, "I wonder what the time is" would have worked as well. Respecting personal space taken to an extreme.Of course in the real world the expected levels of politeness aren't half as strict even if you were addressing the president, but that's the logic behind it. tiistai fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Feb 10, 2014 |
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There's a lot of comics out there, and this thread's a great place to catch up on them. If you don't like 'em, scroll on by, or maybe try reading them, they may grow on you. How many of us were Moomin minded before this thread and how many more became converted after a few posts worth? I know I was in the latter category. So,  and if you don't like 'em, just scroll. At least it ain't thatababy or Marvin, or that monstrosity with the big nosed fetus.
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Mr. Cool rear end posted:The only way to successfully navigate this thread is to develop your scrolling skills. For example, I counted 114 comics posted in the last day or so. Luckily, I skipped over 65 of them so I didn't have to be here all day. If Foxy Grandpa has taught me anything, it's that people had a really loose definition of a prank 100 years ago. That being said, I love it.
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:At least it ain't thatababy or Marvin, or that monstrosity with the big nosed fetus. Don't tempt me.
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Pakled posted:If Foxy Grandpa has taught me anything, it's that people had a really loose definition of a prank 100 years ago. Gonna straight pwn some fuckers by stealing their blankets and laying them under a tree by the watering hole so I can fall asleep in the comfort of my best bro's loving embrace, poo poo's gonna be hella tight
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:There's a lot of comics out there, and this thread's a great place to catch up on them. If you don't like 'em, scroll on by, or maybe try reading them, they may grow on you. How many of us were Moomin minded before this thread and how many more became converted after a few posts worth? I know I was in the latter category. You mean Oh baby? 
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