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Luann's looking for some advice. If you're not following @LuannDeGroot on Twitter, you should be.
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Monty   Mike du Jour    Away we go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Emmy Lou Heathcliff  Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  Pickles  Classic Prince Valiant 
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Mar 17, 2014 16:07
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This was the pay off? What the hell was the point of that entire week of strips?
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Mar 17, 2014 16:20
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Club Life in Moominvalley
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ComradeCosmobot posted:This was the pay off? What the hell was the point of that entire week of strips? Trolls be trollin'
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GorfZaplen posted:Classic Prince Valiant Where is Andelkrag getting its food and water from? There's no way they can last in the siege!
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Mar 17, 2014 16:46
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I'm 12 years old and delighted at the frequent use of the word "gay" in Prince Valiant. Tonight at the banquet: Village People and Bronski Beat 
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Mar 17, 2014 16:49
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SubNat posted:Club Life in Moominvalley Four grown men, all with children of their own, decide it would be fun to go around in floppy ties and annoy people with slingshots. Moominvalley is the land of hipsters. This is a Poor Introduction Comix. Pooch Café  Poncho appears to be subconsciously employing aversion therapy. Ballard Street  At breakfast, Megan started beatboxing.
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Mar 17, 2014 17:18
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Bloom County The Betty Ford Center was basically a notable drug rehab clinic. And Chevy Chase did some drugs once.  Sure, he's died to them before, but how could he say no? Calvin And Hobbes   Cheap Thrills Cuisine  The Knight Life is another comic by Keith Knight. If Mister Beeg were around, I'm sure he could give us a cool run-down of Mr. Knight's accomplishments.  And Last Kiss gets into the holiday spirit, but not vice versa.  (yeah, my phrasing doesn't really work, I know)
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Mar 17, 2014 18:09
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Darthemed posted:
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Mar 17, 2014 18:32
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Darthemed posted:Calvin And Hobbes 
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Mar 17, 2014 18:38
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Off to the Hague with you.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:08
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Funny you should say that...
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Mar 17, 2014 19:10
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Today's Tiny Sepuku is thankfully less saccharine than yesterday's.
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Mar 17, 2014 19:30
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:What the gently caress is wrong with these people? Are they brain damaged or something? "Rose is Rose" takes place in a universe where the worst thing that can possibly happen, ever, is garlic breath. It's so fundamentally divorced from reality that everything in it rings false to a healthy-minded reader. If "Oh Baby" is a war crime, then "Rose is Rose" collections are WMDs, and anyone purchasing them should be prosecuted commensurately. 
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Mar 17, 2014 19:59
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Plus in Rose is Rose people have sex by sticking their toes in mud and it's a family experience.
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Mar 17, 2014 20:05
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This is the worst thing I've seen in a long while.
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Mar 17, 2014 20:05
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:"Rose is Rose" takes place in a universe where the worst thing that can possibly happen, ever, is garlic breath. It's so fundamentally divorced from reality that everything in it rings false to a healthy-minded reader. If "Oh Baby" is a war crime, then "Rose is Rose" collections are WMDs, and anyone purchasing them should be prosecuted commensurately. "Satisfaction guaranteed or double your frown back." Truth in advertising. 
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Mar 17, 2014 20:17
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:"Rose is Rose" takes place in a universe where the worst thing that can possibly happen, ever, is garlic breath. It's so fundamentally divorced from reality that everything in it rings false to a healthy-minded reader. If "Oh Baby" is a war crime, then "Rose is Rose" collections are WMDs, and anyone purchasing them should be prosecuted commensurately. I wonder if Don Wimmer set the strip on this path, or if Pat Brady's originals were this bad. Wikipedia says Wimmer took over in March 2004. Gocomics only has the last couple months of Brady's run. Random non-cherrypicked sampling:      Hmm. Not offensively gooey and no candy canes.
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Mar 17, 2014 20:41
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Also either the artist or the writer has a fat fetish.
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TofuDiva posted:Hmm. Not offensively gooey and no candy canes. That does reconcile my memories of the strip as being occasionally good.
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Mar 17, 2014 20:56
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Jane's World 
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Mar 17, 2014 20:57
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Before "Rose is Rose", Pat Brady did a strip called "Graves Inc." It's absolutely NOTHING like "Rose is Rose". The complete opposite.      "Rose" has always meant to be saccharine. If you don't like saccharine, you're not gonna like the strip.
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Mar 17, 2014 21:29
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I don't understand... is Scary Heron from a fable or a well-known saying, or is it a children's character? Does it have any origin outside of last week's Mike du Jour? Why was there an entire week dedicated to the suspicious desires of a random hunched over bird, with the payoff being "He wants to eat a frog from a cereal box"? What the gently caress is happening?
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Mar 17, 2014 21:58
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Mister Beeg posted:Before "Rose is Rose", Pat Brady did a strip called "Graves Inc." Beeg! You're back  I don't mind saccharine if there's a little funny underneath it. If there's no funny, then there's nothing to balance the sweet, and (to me, at least) that's when saccharine crosses into sickening/cloying/annoying. If the small sampling I put here is at all representative, Brady's Rose seems sweet, but there are enough little bits of humor that it doesn't hit me as overpowering. The current Rose writer just seems to do gooey as if that is all that's required.
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Mar 17, 2014 22:05
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TofuDiva posted:Beeg! You're back nth-ing the welcome MB! "Gooey" is one thing, but the concept of all night love letter writing, on post-it notes, and sticking them all over the walls and furniture (and each other, I believe) has to be indicative of some form of brain damage. Jimbo's nose is red all the time, so, obviously, he's drunk, so at least he has an excuse. Plus, jesus, the kid with the massive speech impediment. I just want to reach into the comic, grab him and shake, and scream "WHAT!! WHAT ARE YOU loving TRYING TO SAY!!??" And, whoa, that feeder thing going on aways back.  E: vvvvvv Good point, yeah, I thought that too. Plus, she's still not looking real pregnant, either. vvvvvv BlankIsBeautiful fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Mar 17, 2014 |
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Mar 17, 2014 22:35
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD Did Rex Morgan get a new artist or something? June looks like she's had some plastic surgery.
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Mar 17, 2014 22:37
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Rex doesn't look that much like Rex either.
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Mar 17, 2014 22:38
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Tender Bender posted:I don't understand... is Scary Heron from a fable or a well-known saying, or is it a children's character? Does it have any origin outside of last week's Mike du Jour? Why was there an entire week dedicated to the suspicious desires of a random hunched over bird, with the payoff being "He wants to eat a frog from a cereal box"? What the gently caress is happening? Scary Heron was the first thing Mike Lester saw outside his window when he needed a new week of strips.
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Mar 17, 2014 22:48
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Tiggum posted:Fred Basset Fred-It 
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Mar 17, 2014 22:50
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Borden posted:Did Rex Morgan get a new artist or something? June looks like she's had some plastic surgery. Yes, Terry Beatty - who does Sunday Phantom - took over Rex Morgan around the new year. He's using his own kids as models for Sarah, which makes me worry for his safety if those children ever get access to the knife drawer.
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Mar 17, 2014 23:04
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TofuDiva posted:Beeg! You're back It's actually still written by the same dude. It's just that Brady hired someone else to do the art, and that guy is the one that added the constant grinning and rainbows and lollipops radiating from all the characters.
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Mar 17, 2014 23:10
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Mar 17, 2014 23:22
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Yes, Terry Beatty - who does Sunday Phantom - took over Rex Morgan around the new year. That explains it. It looks like he's putting more effort into the Phantom than Rex (I don't blame him). Or maybe he secretly despises Rex Morgan and is drawing June as a vapid tight skinned witch. He'll slowly start adding the botox lips and more face lifts, and a year from now she'll look like this.. 
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Mar 17, 2014 23:28
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I'm kind of staggered by the number of people who still have expectations for Mike du Jour. And good grief, RandomFerret. What an atrocity. Well done.
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Mar 17, 2014 23:57
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Darthemed posted:I'm kind of staggered by the number of people who still have expectations for Mike du Jour. I don't expect it to be good, or amusing, or even coherent, and it still falls short. Like with Brooke, I've read every strip of this Chickweed Lane arc, and I have no idea what's going on; it's impossible to follow and incoherent at best. But I can see the kernels of the story that he wants to tell. It's very bad, and it's not working, but I can see on some level what Brooke is trying to do. With Mike du Jour I don't even get that much. I have no idea.
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Tender Bender posted:I don't expect it to be good, or amusing, or even coherent, and it still falls short. Like with Brooke, I've read every strip of this Chickweed Lane arc, and I have no idea what's going on; it's impossible to follow and incoherent at best. But I can see the kernels of the story that he wants to tell. It's very bad, and it's not working, but I can see on some level what Brooke is trying to do. Mike Lester has an idea, then milks it for a week for an easy paycheck. It's not very complicated. He's honestly much better at his political cartooning. I mean, he's reprehensible, but he tends towards an idea a day at least.
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Comics (February 28th 2007) La Cucaracha  Doonesbury  The Duplex  F-Minus  Non Sequitur  --- Eyebeam  It's All Right Chief Dharma 
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