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Cricken_Nigfops
Oct 25, 2011

CROM!

RandomFerret posted:

I could probably just stop coming up with new titles every day and just say Irrational Comix.

Pooch Café


He's not wrong. Once you get to that many cats, it's an uphill battle against toxoplasmosis not to take in every stray you see.

Boy ain't that the truth. I only got two but I got the 'plas so bad I want to take home every cat I see.

Cul-de-sac


That's Mrs. Butterworth's cousin; Enid.

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BlankIsBeautiful
Apr 4, 2008

Feeling a little inadequate?
Non Sequitur



Double Heavenly Nostrils





9 Chickweed Lane 3/29/2003



See, now this is good, Brooke. This captures "cat-ness" really well.

Zits



Kevin & Kell

Fighting Trousers
May 17, 2011

Does this excite you, girl?

Midnight Moth posted:

Retail

How about these other excuses, are they fair game: bad weather, the economy, aggressive internet competition, fewer shopping days, payroll tax increases, food stamp cuts, higher gas prices, household debt, aging clientele, layoffs in the surrounding area

None of those are ever legitimate excuses in corporate retail. It's always your fault.

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Restaurants, too.

Tina's Groove


Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Mother Goose & Grimm


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro


Dilbert

Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

Scary Gary



Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut

Oh, that's gonna get the wrestling fans all in a lather.

Mr. Maltose
Feb 16, 2011

The Guffless Girlverine
The world's safest promotion, apparently.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
Bloom County

Forget the Caspar Weinberger and Tammy Faye Bakker references, thinking (or just joking) that cocaine would be the legalized drug of the future is what really dates this to the '80s.


This one's pretty close to the mark, though. Substance taverns are all over the place these days.

Calvin And Hobbes




Cheap Thrills Cuisine


MythTickle, done by Justin Thompson, pulls off a much better Peanuts name-drop than Gilchrist.


Nest Heads mines that same fertile, bottomless well as Dustin.


And Allison Garwood's NEUROTICA hits us with a computer monitor from 2004.

GorfZaplen
Jan 20, 2012

Emmy Lou


Heathcliff


Mandrake the Magician


The Phantom


Pickles


Classic Prince Valiant


:allears:

Midnight Moth
Sep 14, 2007

What the hell, dude??
I'm like, right here.

Fighting Trousers posted:

None of those are ever legitimate excuses in corporate retail. It's always your fault.
Oh, so it's like the military. That's not a corporate thing, that's an organizational hierarchy thing. You'll get that working at a large hospital or school too.

Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Mar 29, 2014

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

GorfZaplen posted:

The Phantom

How do you know that, Guran? Wasn't this the first time this is happening?

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Luann



Apartment 3-G



Pros & Cons



Sally Forth


Aww, Ralph really is adopting him. :allears:


The Amazing Spider-Man


Oh my god, you guys, I think Newspaper Spidey just broke his knee. :ohdear:

FractionMan
Dec 24, 2003

Bringing back the balls to Rock

Julet Esqu posted:



The Amazing Spider-Man


Oh my god, you guys, I think Newspaper Spidey just broke his knee. :ohdear:

Forget that, he appears to have a robot Hitler Sieg Heiling him in the second panel.

Command Ant
Aug 9, 2010

I can make you
worth your weight
in gold!

The kid's shirt makes this comic.

Humanoid Female
Mar 13, 2008


Wait, what? So why isn't SHE looking for a job too? He looks like he's supposed to be in his 20s, she's probably in her 40s. Why is this entire story arc focused on his job search instead of both of them?

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

Humanoid Female posted:

Wait, what? So why isn't SHE looking for a job too? He looks like he's supposed to be in his 20s, she's probably in her 40s. Why is this entire story arc focused on his job search instead of both of them?

This is about your generation's failings. Don't try and change the subject.

Mister Beeg
Sep 7, 2012

A Certified Jerk
So I went to a comic book store and bought a stack of old MAD Magazines for a dollar apiece. One of the issues I bought (No. 280, July 1988) had this newspaper comics parody that I think you would appreciate. Enjoy!






Upon seeing the cartoonist's byline...

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Juliet Jones



Phantom Classic



Radio Patrol



Rip Kirby



Big Ben Bolt

Aardmania
Jan 1, 2007

Ruining newspapers since 1993.

Shredded Hen
Piranha Club



Dick Tracy



Judge Parker


Kind of an odd pick-up line that the Judge used, but whatever works.

9 Chickweed Lane

Well, someone certainly seems pleased to have found a way out of this storyline.



Pibgorn

Romeo may not have been born to shame, but appearing in this production certainly hasn't helped.

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Aardmania posted:

Dick Tracy



I'd say "it's time for me to start scanning in my Fearless Fosdick strips" but it turns out my scanner is broken. So it's time for me to buy a new scanner.

ChickenOfTomorrow fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Mar 29, 2014

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Mister Beeg posted:

So I went to a comic book store and bought a stack of old MAD Magazines for a dollar apiece. One of the issues I bought (No. 280, July 1988) had this newspaper comics parody that I think you would appreciate. Enjoy!





A good reminder that maybe MAD wasn't any better when I was a child.

Well, at least Aragones, Martin etc. still hold up.

scarycave
Oct 9, 2012

Dominic Beegan:
Exterminator For Hire
I have a far-side book in my house, I actually looked through it a few days ago and Mark Trail was in there getting arrested for some poaching operation he was doing in his house.

Mister Beeg
Sep 7, 2012

A Certified Jerk
I swear, that "Beetle Side" one was directly lifted from a real Far Side comic (with a generic janitor instead of Beetle Bailey obviously)

I also purchased Mad #334, July 1981, which had Don Martin drawing Popeye, in response to the Robin Williams movie that came out few months before.






Trilobite
Aug 15, 2001

Humanoid Female posted:

Wait, what? So why isn't SHE looking for a job too? He looks like he's supposed to be in his 20s, she's probably in her 40s. Why is this entire story arc focused on his job search instead of both of them?
This was bugging me, too. Looking back a few weeks, she's apparently taking classes at "the university," but she should at least be looking for a part-time job somewhere. I guess it doesn't really matter, since she and Tommy will vanish into thin air as soon as Mary Worth's done fixing their problems with her homespun wisdom (i.e., waving her finger at them while misquoting trite aphorisms), but c'mon -- a condo there can't be cheap. And even if Santa Royale University is basically a diploma mill run out of an abandoned parking lot, the tuition probably isn't free. PULL YOUR loving WEIGHT, IRIS.

Or maybe Iris should pay for Tommy to go to school instead. A degree would be a lot more useful for him than for her, considering how many years they each have left in the workforce.

Trilobite fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Mar 30, 2014

Humanoid Female
Mar 13, 2008

Really Pants posted:

This is about your generation's failings. Don't try and change the subject.

I'm 42 and I can't imagine a world where I'd be sitting at home on my rear end all day without a job or income, acting like that's normal, and then bitching about how my kid needs to get a job because we don't have any money.

I don't even know what century comic strip writers are living in anymore.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Code Jockey posted:

Junji Ito edits are always preferable.

[also thanks for the tip on that book of his I hadn't read you guys]
If I could rock the photoshop like Borden, then every fish in Gyo and every spiral in Uzumaki would be sporting Nancy's gormless face.

Anyway.

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Humanoid Female posted:

I'm 42 and I can't imagine a world where I'd be sitting at home on my rear end all day without a job or income, acting like that's normal, and then bitching about how my kid needs to get a job because we don't have any money.

I don't even know what century comic strip writers are living in anymore.

I went to look up how old the current author is, and apparently she's pretty young. Couldn't find her exact age, but I did find this picture of her standing next to the current Mary Worth artist back in 2009.



I don't think she's writing from experience or anything, but rather she's writing it based on how she thinks elderly people view the world.

Six Chix


Zippy the Pinhead


Nancy


Arlo and Janis


Wee Pals


Andertoons


Four Eyes


Lost Side of Suburbia


Zachary Nixon Johnson

Kismet
Jun 11, 2007


Look well upon this, the crux and nadir.

Goober Peas
Jun 30, 2007

Check out my 'Vette, bro


Wanamingo posted:


Arlo and Janis




This is a sex joke, right?

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Goober Peas posted:

This is a sex joke, right?

She was skipping, and then when she got back home she acted like she was out on a normal walk. It's Rose is Rose, except without the glurge.

CaptainCaveman
Apr 16, 2005

Always searching for North.

Julet Esqu posted:

The Amazing Spider-Man


JJJ taking Spider-Man in for being a vigilante is totally not being a vigilante, uh, somehow, I guess.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice

:burger::burger::burger::burger::burger:

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



CaptainCaveman posted:

JJJ taking Spider-Man in for being a vigilante is totally not being a vigilante, uh, somehow, I guess.
The only moral vigilantism is my vigilantism.

Borden
Jul 23, 2008


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuKYf-n3Icc

BooDoug187
Apr 8, 2005

Don't you fear the yetis in Rio?
I think they'll lose it during the 2nd act.

don Jaime
Apr 3, 2004
Poke around in older MADs, like the 60s, and they do that with other strips. I know I've seen one where different strips are redrawn as Bushmiller's Nancy.

Geech is thrown off balance.


Oh Baby is completely incomprehensible, but at least there are no animals eating each other.



What a cute little boy! May I pet him??

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


GorfZaplen posted:

The Phantom


Wait a second, are they trying to say that giving someone a guided tour of your secret lair and then giving them an uncontrolled dose of an amnesia-inducing drug mixed up by some untrained guy in the middle of the jungle might not be a 100% flawless plan? Who could possibly have predicted that something like this might happen!



I love when Spidey does something pointless just to feel like he's actually contributing. :haw:


EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean


If I've been following this correctly, Donna's argument here is that comic books aren't just for boys, as evidenced by the fact that she had to pretend to be a boy to play video games. :confused:


Julet Esqu posted:

The Amazing Spider-Man


A year or two! :allears:

I really hope Iron Jonah does just keep showing up every time Spidey tries to do something fo the next two years.


CaptainCaveman posted:

JJJ taking Spider-Man in for being a vigilante is totally not being a vigilante, uh, somehow, I guess.

Well, the reason Jonah hates Spider-Man but not Iron Man is that Tony Stark doesn't hide his identity, and as Iron Jonah he's not hiding his identity either. In fact, he went out of his way to make himself recognisable even in the armour.


Mandrake the Magician (1941-12-14)

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Mark Trail


Quincy


Buz Sawyer


The Little King



HOT STUFF COMING THROUGH

ChickenOfTomorrow fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Mar 30, 2014

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


F Minus



Mary Worth



You know, regardless of whether she's trying to trust her son and that he's trying to stay clean and live life right and all that, "What [as in, specifically] do you need this money for?" is hardly an uncalled-for question here.

Rex Morgan MD

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Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

9 Chickweed Lane 3/29/2003



See, now this is good, Brooke. This captures "cat-ness" really well.

Brooke does really fun cat comics. It's just a pity that he thinks his real calling is drawing gam fetish softcore porn.

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