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Close to Home This would not stop the repeated raping of Randy.
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD A lot is riding on the success of this children's book written by a child? How? Why? Also, Rex is so smug in that final panel, it's fantastic.
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Feb 18, 2014 02:54
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Mister Beeg posted:This was one of the handful of comics that was picked up by Ted Rall when he was in charge of United Features' comic strip division. Ted Rall delenda est.
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Feb 18, 2014 03:46
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Darthemed posted:e: because no one who doesn't follow this thread will have a clue. 
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Modesty Blaise  Revenge is a dish best served Cajun style in tomorrow's conclusion!
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Feb 18, 2014 04:06
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Wanamingo posted:Zachary Nixon Johnson Direct steal from an obscure '80s Warren compendium called 1984, character himself was a ripoff of Han Solo, some dude named Happy Jim Sunblaster had a lucite revolver that talked to him and shot auto targeting bullets.
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Feb 18, 2014 04:08
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Tiggum posted:A lot is riding on the success of this children's book written by a child? How? Why? B.) Because it is the worst museum, run by the most incompetent people, in the dumbest world imaginable. C.) Because any of Rex Morgan's family experiencing anything other than perfect success and unearned riches must surely herald the End Of All Things. D.) All of the above.
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Feb 18, 2014 04:09
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Kevin & Kell Can someone explain to me how reply all accidents are a thing that ever happened? I can understand clicking on it once by accident, but wouldn't it be really obvious that the list of addressees is now way longer and prominent than any of the rest of the e-mail's technical information? Both my e-mail accounts have you select reply / reply all before writing the e-mail. In the old days did it used to be other way around? Mister Beeg posted:This was one of the handful of comics that was picked up by Ted Rall when he was in charge of United Features' comic strip division. Are the other comics here as terrible as this name association makes them look? Comics (January 31st 2007) Even by 2007 standards that sounds really dated. La Cucaracha  Doonesbury  The Duplex  F-Minus  Non Sequitur  --- Eyebeam  The absence of a background here saddens me. It's All Right Chief Dharma  This is yesterday's comic, because today's comic only makes sense in the context of yesterday's comic. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Apr 18, 2014 |
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Feb 18, 2014 04:32
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Mister Beeg posted:This was one of the handful of comics that was picked up by Ted Rall when he was in charge of United Features' comic strip division. Also every one of those is loving terrible.
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Feb 18, 2014 04:33
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Binary Badger posted:Direct steal from an obscure '80s Warren compendium called 1984, character himself was a ripoff of Han Solo, some dude named Happy Jim Sunblaster had a lucite revolver that talked to him and shot auto targeting bullets. The idea of a talking weapon dates back to Irish mythology, it's not exactly something Warren invented.
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Feb 18, 2014 04:43
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Some Guy TT posted:Can someone explain to me how reply all accidents are a thing that ever happened? I can understand clicking on it once by accident, but wouldn't it be really obvious that the list of addressees is now way longer and prominent than any of the rest of the e-mail's technical information? Both my e-mail accounts have you select reply / reply all before writing the e-mail. In the old days did it used to be other way around? I've seen it happen when the original send was to a group alias, like some email systems and discussion lists allow you to set up so you only have to type a single address instead of twenty or fifty or more. Those are sometimes set so that "reply" automatically goes to the whole group. If that's the way it's set, then when Person A sends an email to one of those, Person B can just hit plain "reply," not noticing that the original was to a group and the response will go back to the group. It's fairly easy to have it happen if B sometimes does get individual emails from A and just doesn't think to check. 
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Feb 18, 2014 05:08
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Some Guy TT posted:Are the other comics here as terrible as this name association makes them look? "Diesel Sweeties" was originally a sprite webcomic. The newspaper version and the "edgier" web version ran simultaneously during its time. I have a soft spot for "The Knight Life", but only because I'm a fan of Keith Knight's "K Chronicles" (something I should post someday). I never paid attention to the other strips.
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Feb 18, 2014 05:17
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Wanamingo posted:Lost Side of Suburbia This is reminding me of Roald Dahl. That is a good thing. Luann  Meh. Apartment 3-G  Meh. Pros & Cons  Ew. Sally Forth  The Amazing Spider-Man  Iron Man's "fly" button is located on his palm? Seems like a great place to put it if you want things to go horribly wrong as often as possible.
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Feb 18, 2014 06:05
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Julet Esqu posted:Apartment 3-G They went shopping for Stuff, and got it cheap, then they spotted a free Thing give-away and got some of those too! Orange Stuff, green Stuff, blue Things, they've got it all!
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Feb 18, 2014 06:11
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Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man 
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Feb 18, 2014 06:50
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Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man Oh, Newspaper Spider-Man.
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Feb 18, 2014 06:54
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Juliet Jones  Phantom Classic  Wasn't there a big pen full of hogs in the back? Maybe they covered them over with cobwebs, too. Radio Patrol  Rip Kirby  Big Ben Bolt 
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Feb 18, 2014 06:54
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Gil Whenever someone introduces to you a new card game it's always bad news. Retail  A safe if not remarkably boring choice. On the plus side she's already had her soul crushed so she comes pre-jaded to a life in retail. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  Holy smokes when did we get a chair in this house? Dustin  You don't say... (mildly NWS)  On the Fastrack  Virtual escapism always brightens my day when I'm feeling down. Safe Havens  Spending half your life as a fish in a fishtank actually sounds pretty awful.
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Feb 18, 2014 07:16
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Johnny Walker posted:F Minus  sea turtles are idiots
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Holy poo poo, so do I! That is the coolest format! I seem to recall DD doing that in the past too. At least once, reporting on Earth's then-ongoing food crisis back in Voyage to Venus (maybe Red Moon Mystery, too, but I'd have to check). A creative solution to the age-old problem of exposition dumping, and it fleshes out the setting at the same time. BlankIsBeautiful posted:Thanks Bitchtits! That joke will never get old.  Wanamingo posted:I just want to say, I appreciate Krazy Kat being posted again. It's a good comic. Non-depressing factoid I learned from his Wikipedia page: Krazy Kat was apparently not very popular with readers in its day, but William Randolph Hearst a personal fan and gave Herriman a lifetime contract with King Features Syndicate. Wanamingo posted:Zachary Nixon Johnson Speaking of problems with exposition dumping... (Also his gun is a pacifist ha ha ha that is zany.  )Julet Esqu posted:Luann Oh just pair 'em off already fer chrissakes. Gunther the Wunder-Weenie trying to flex his cremaster ain't gonna be enough if you're really wanting to sell this "new management" bit. Turn the tables on her, Gil: come back tomorrow suggesting a friendly game of "Mao".  Gahan Wilson 
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Midnight Moth posted:Gil In retrospect I'm not sure how my grandparents managed to teach me how to play any of those games. Naturally I've forgotten the rules to every last one of them except for rummy. Bitchtits McGee posted:Gahan Wilson That attic was in the Gahan Wilson Haunted House game, although it's not that close. The horse and the doll are the only thing that actually resemble anything in the game, although the tone of the room is almost identical. Good thing you can kill the evil jack-in-the-box with a bomb. You could kill everything in that game with a bomb, especially the speaking characters. Kind of a messed up thing to sell to kids now that I think about it.
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Feb 18, 2014 08:48
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Bitchtits McGee posted:Who's kid is that, anyway? Is Nemi enrolled in the "Big Brother, Big Sister" program? Do they even have that in Norway? I'm not sure about Sibling programs like that, but that's her little brother. It doesn't get shown off a lot in the normal newspaper strips, but her entire family is goth. Little My is a Force of Nature, never mistake it. 
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Feb 18, 2014 09:08
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Some Guy TT posted:In retrospect I'm not sure how my grandparents managed to teach me how to play any of those games. Naturally I've forgotten the rules to every last one of them except for rummy.
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Piranha Club  Dick Tracy   Judge Parker   9 Chickweed Lane  Oh, so that's what the musical notation for 'Two Pump Chump' looks like. 
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Wanamingo posted:Arlo and Janis
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Kammat posted:Modesty Blaise I'm surprised the General and Blanche want anything to do with Custer. They seem to be Fine Southern Folk, and every Confederate history aficionado I've talked with agrees that Custer was a colossal, glory-hogging, idiot coward.
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Wanamingo posted:Four Eyes I wonder if these strips happen because they spot something they can run through a thesaurus 12 times and call it a joke, or if they just wake up really wanting to draw twelve cakes and the "joke" is just an excuse. Mister Beeg posted:"Diesel Sweeties" was originally a sprite webcomic. The newspaper version and the "edgier" web version ran simultaneously during its time. Diesel Sweeties is still running as a webcomic, apparently. I'm as surprised as everyone else. Rarebit Fiend  Artifacts of the humdrum world taking on a monstrous aspect and isolating you from society is a running theme in RF. Momma  "I run my own life" isn't really an excuse for that. It's more of a declaration of intent. e: could someone tell me what's going on in Judge Parker? Mr. Squishy fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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Feb 18, 2014 13:20
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Fingerpori Heimo's adolescence: [High school graduate hearing] - Studying doesn't motivate me... What if I can't get a job? I'm emotionally scabbed I don't want to explain the intricacies of the Finnish school system right now, but ylioppilas isn't exactly a high school graduate (since we don't exactly HAVE the exact equivalent of a high school) but it's close enough. Kuuntelu is literally a hearing but in this case it means a listening exam for some unspecified language, likely Swedish or English. So, it's actually an exam that's part of the graduation process, not a "hearing" for graduates which Heimo already is (as evident from his ylioppilaslakki, graduate hat). Fok_It  This is what some people actually believe The alliteration parts were thankfully not particularly difficult, but there was a good one that had to be lost in translation: pakkopulla, literally "forced bun" or "bread", basically giving a name to that thing that's being shoved down your throat whether you want it or not. Something unpleasant and/or repetitive that you have no influence over and you have to do anyway. I replaced it with pressure, couldn't come up with any better synonym-ish word for "forced" that starts with p, and pressure works anyway in the context of that rant. tiistai fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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Mr. Squishy posted:e: could someone tell me what's going on in Judge Parker? Judge Randy Parker, son of Alan Parker (the original Judge Parker) is getting married to (probably) CIA agent April, in this hidden jungle fortress place that is supposedly a hospital where April's father is apparently dying of cancer (and may also be working for the CIA?). Alan Parker and his wife Katherine are there with them. On the cruise ship they took to get there, April spotted a woman watching them. That woman, whom we now know as Li Hai, disappeared. We saw her hat floating in the ocean behind the ship, but April apparently doesn't know what happened to her. Li Hai's husband Flaco confronted April about the disappearance on the ship. Once they left the ship they were met by armed guards who brought them to see April's father. On the way they discovered they were being tracked. They thought they'd managed to get rid of the tracking device but have since discovered a second one. Also, Alan is writing a film script based on his successful book about Sam Driver, who is a lawyer who worked with Randy before he was a judge, and I can't remember what's happening with the Spencer-Drivers back in America but they're probably being given a lot of money for no reason, because that's what usually happens. Any mistakes I've made in this retelling are down to the fact that all this has taken several months to unfold. And I'm really not sure what this place where Abbott (April's father) lives actually is supposed to be. I'm pretty sure it was described as some kind of medical facility, but its location is secret and it has heavily armed guards? I don't know.
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Jane's World Ok, here we go... Non Sequitur  Bleh. Jeeze Wiley, you need a vacation or something. Heavenly Nostrils   Kliban's Cats  Still doing the Sochi thing. Pretty neat. 9 Chickweed Lane 2/18/2003  Oh Jesus, Brooke, the Arabesque thing again?  Zits  Weird. She doesn't look any different. Kevin & Kell   Nemi  Thanks, Cyan. Lorde's "Royals" just started up on repeat in my head again. 
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Cul-de-sac gives you exactly what you ask for, but not what you want. The Creeps is doing a thing. (click for big) 
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Tiggum posted:Judge Randy Parker, son of Alan Parker (the original Judge Parker) is getting married to (probably) CIA agent April, in this hidden jungle fortress place that is supposedly a hospital where April's father is apparently dying of cancer (and may also be working for the CIA?). Alan Parker and his wife Katherine are there with them. On the cruise ship they took to get there, April spotted a woman watching them. That woman, whom we now know as Li Hai, disappeared. We saw her hat floating in the ocean behind the ship, but April apparently doesn't know what happened to her. Li Hai's husband Flaco confronted April about the disappearance on the ship. Once they left the ship they were met by armed guards who brought them to see April's father. On the way they discovered they were being tracked. They thought they'd managed to get rid of the tracking device but have since discovered a second one. Much obliged. I wonder how it's all going to end. I hope Parker gets shot or bitten by something
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SubNat posted:I'm not sure about Sibling programs like that, but that's her little brother. It doesn't get shown off a lot in the normal newspaper strips, but her entire family is goth. SubNat posted:Midsummer bonfires are pretty rad, all things considered.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Nemi Try this version of "Royals". Monty  Marmaduke circe 1968  Mike du Jour  You couldn't just use a real drink like an appletini, you had to make one up? Indolent Bastard fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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Skippy (November 30, 1926) This is what Our Hero was selling in '26, if you're curious.  The one the center is the most severe guy I've ever seen wearing pointed shoes and a hat that looks like it should have jingle bells. Peanuts: When you pay five cents for advice, you get advice that's worth no more than a nickel... (February 21, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean  To be fair to the pick-up artist, weekend broadcast news shows that aren't Meet The Press or Face The Nation aren't exactly ratings giants. Popeye  Rip Haywire  Pogo (February 21, 1956)  Out Our Way (June 20-21, 1924)  Mom knows that one sudden move and she's picking a kid's face up off of the floor. There's a lot to admire in Williams's style, but it doesn't really lend itself to a full-tilt mom freakout.  (The counterexample: Toonerville Folks by Fontaine Fox, June 23, 1943)  The third member of their party knows the score: chicks dig dorgs.
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean To be fair it's 2014 and most well off people who are under age 55 get their news from various online sources. The closest I come to "watching news" is a clip that is linked to from a thread.
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