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Green Intern posted:So that guy is supposed to be incredibly muscular, and not made of pillows? I'm having a hard time seeing anything else. He's supposed to be a man with body image issues, a lot of money, and access to advanced medical technology. Everybody around him thinks he looks like a fluffy cloud, but who cares, he's HUGE. I don't think anybody's actually reading this strip any more, they're just racing to be the first one to find a new thing in the art to complain about. Overly Excitable Comix. Pooch Café  Poncho, you drew your paw on backwards. Who are you, Mike Lester? Ballard Street  This happens to me all the time. Some thought crosses my mind and suddenly I'm going to build a new kind of cheap, stylish, quick-build housing that will solve all the world's problems and I tell everybody about it and then two days later I get disillusioned with it and quit. A year later I find the cross section drawings in a drawer and get mad at myself for wasting my time on it.
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Bloom County It's a go!  Brutal honesty will be shown on this screen. Calvin And Hobbes   Cheap Thrills Cuisine  Molly And The Bear is...  gross. Motley Classics, by Larry Wright.  "Motley Classics are from the mind of creator Larry Wright, also known for Kit ‘N’ Carlyle. Now retired, Wright served as editorial/op-ed page cartoonist at The Detroit News for 30 years, drawing three editorial cartoons a week. Wright is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He lives in Michigan with his wife, Naoko and cat, Domino." And Mr. Gigi and the Squid is a two-person effort with the lengthiest summary so far.  "When a self-serving, completely inept street-hustling mutt crosses the Peaches, a deranged Daisy Scout, his only refuge is to submit to the disturbingly obsessive ownership of 10-year-old tornado, Candi Cankerson. In her hyper-active clutches he goes from rough ‘n’ rowdy to pink ‘n’ poofy in a heartbeat. The catch?... The newly crowned “Mr. Gigi” all- too-quickly becomes addicted to basic cable, generic cheese doodles and mildly stained sofa cushions. He can’t go back to the streets now, unless he scores big-time. Still a schemer, Mr. Gigi kidnaps Waldorf the Squid from Donny’s Disco-Quarium to supply the brawn his spectacularly lame plans will demand. What he hasn’t counted on is that this sheltered - but not completely clueless - gentle giant also provides the conscience Gigi’s worked his whole life to avoid."
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Aardmania posted:
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HAmbONE posted:Very nicely done. Excellent Maus reference. I cant believe its been over 20 years since I read that. For those of you who aren't old like me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
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Farside posted:Excellent Maus reference. I cant believe its been over 20 years since I read that. For those that haven't read Maus, do so. It is 2 books and they run from $10-$20 each.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy That is not a joke.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon Except, she doesn't? All the letters are TV screens now. They light up and Vanna touches them, but it's somebody in the control room pressing a button to make the letter appear. I don't even have TV service and I know this. Is Boyce literally living ten years in the past? That would explain some things.
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RandomFerret posted:He's supposed to be a man with body image issues, a lot of money, and access to advanced medical technology. Everybody around him thinks he looks like a fluffy cloud, but who cares, he's HUGE. That's because there's practically nothing else going on in ZNJ - the entirely story line is just this gormless douche being shuffled around to different locations and meeting unlikeable characters because LOL SO RANDOM!!! SEE THESE ROBOTS THEY'RE FUNNY BECAUSE THEY CURSE A LOT ARE U LAUGHING YET?!? The busy, overcrowded composition of the art is really just to distract the viewer from the lack of plot. It's a lot like Gil Thorpe in that way.
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Borden posted:Time for some low hanging fruit! Say Nothing posted:Hellstar Nancy! Both of these own so much.  They don't look familiar though - is there Junji Ito I haven't read? Because if so, I need to remedy that immediately.
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Code Jockey posted:Both of these own so much. Yeah, that's Junji Ito's Hellstar Remina. Which is really loving weird.
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GorfZaplen posted:Classic Prince Valiant I like how the donkey is named Socrates.
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Simian_Prime posted:That's because there's practically nothing else going on in ZNJ - the entirely story line is just this gormless douche being shuffled around to different locations and meeting unlikeable characters because LOL SO RANDOM!!! SEE THESE ROBOTS THEY'RE FUNNY BECAUSE THEY CURSE A LOT ARE U LAUGHING YET?!? Gil Thorp may not have much in the way of plot, but what it has is quality. Where else would you find a multi-week story about a magical peacock that helps a high school basketball team win games?
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catlord posted:Yeah, that's Junji Ito's Hellstar Remina. Which is really loving weird. Junji Ito made something that's really loving weird? You don't say!!! (I hadn't read that one, thanks) e: still not as great as his cat diaries though
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Simian_Prime posted:That's because there's practically nothing else going on in ZNJ - the entirely story line is just this gormless douche being shuffled around to different locations and meeting unlikeable characters because LOL SO RANDOM!!! SEE THESE ROBOTS THEY'RE FUNNY BECAUSE THEY CURSE A LOT ARE U LAUGHING YET?!? Look at the eyelines in the first panel. Look at Staypuft Man there. He's talking to DeeDee and his sightline is over her shoulder and about a foot in front of her head. That's not even getting into the stroke victim in the last panel. And yeah, the narrative has a lot of problems too.
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edit: ^ awesome, it just keeps deliveringJulet Esqu posted:Luann Because if there's one thing teenagers who are nearly 18 are totally known for it's sticking absolutely to the letter of the law when it comes to 'adult activities' and I'm sure nobody here knows anyone who didn't wait till the very day so they could start sucking down grog and sneaking into nightclubs. We're all totally self aware at 17 and totally do NOT want to break any law to have fun whatsoever. Overwrought sarcasm aside - even I was sneaking into pubs at 16 and I really was a boring wallflower goody two shoes, sheesh. And anyone who says "oh the writer is just old" dood kids've been doing that poo poo since my NAN was a kid, let alone today's kids.
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Tambaloneus posted:And anyone who says "oh the writer is just old" dood kids've been doing that poo poo since my NAN was a kid, let alone today's kids. More like the readership is old and it's easier to make Luann and her pals unrealistically good and pure than to put up with the flood of angry letters about what kind of example Greg/Greg's Daughter is setting for  OUR CHILDREN.
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Why does Delta have a gradient it's distracting.
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catlord posted:Yeah, that's Junji Ito's Hellstar Remina. Which is really loving weird. 
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I don't know, arent Bernice and Delta supposed to be super studious academically-oriented girls? I could believe that they're not the drinking and partying type.
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Shugojin posted:Junji Ito made something that's really loving weird? You don't say!!! Well, I mean it starts Ito weird and then it gets absurd. And yes, Cat Diaries is hilarious. Kammat posted:Modesty Blaise Holy poo poo I'm so glad I started reading this comic.
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Borden posted:At least this Nancy story is making for some easy edits. The gift that keeps on giving.
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Cosima posted:Why does Delta have a gradient it's distracting. 
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RandomFerret posted:He's supposed to be a man with body image issues, a lot of money, and access to advanced medical technology. Everybody around him thinks he looks like a fluffy cloud, but who cares, he's HUGE. Kennel posted:That is not a joke. 
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I'm laughing my rear end off, and I should be sorry, I think because "racisim". But, no, I'm not. Brilliant!
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Tambaloneus posted:edit: ^ awesome, it just keeps delivering
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In case anyone is wondering, the thing on Oona's head is from the manga Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki. Also a good read. 
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Wanamingo posted:Lost Side of Suburbia This is kind of like Arabian Nights: start a story, wait until the next night to finish, immediately start another, repeat until the bad guy lets you go.
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