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The MSJ
May 17, 2010

quote:


I thought that this one is the father from the thumbnail.

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Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
I never realized there were that many sexy Thel edits.

Darthemed posted:

And Graham Harrop brings us Ten Cats.


This is a fetish thing, right?

Six Chix


Zippy the Pinhead


Nancy


Arlo and Janis


The joke is that they're actually watching porn together. :corrupt:

Wee Pals


Andertoons


Lost Side of Suburbia


Zachary Nixon Johnson


Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz


The most circumstantial of evidence.

Dick Tracy


gently caress it, the archives go back to 2004. I'm picking up the Locher era Tracy.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Juliet Jones



Phantom Classic



Radio Patrol



Rip Kirby



Big Ben Bolt

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
drat it, now Gilchrist is just recycling jokes from his pre-Nancy strips, except he's swapped out Moody Blues' "Nights In White Satin".

Wanamingo posted:

Dick Tracy


gently caress it, the archives go back to 2004. I'm picking up the Locher era Tracy.
This way lies madness! And tiny arms!

Midnight Moth
Sep 14, 2007

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

So Gil is like Skip Smalls except instead of working out he goes with the stealth approach?

Retail

The girl's the mall Easter Bunny, and Foot Locker guy is conspiring with hot dog boy which I swear is a customer from a while back and probably back for revenge.

Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog

Speaking of which, how could Skip completely forget about Easter? That's a bigger candy event than Halloween.

Dustin

I'm not sure these "Dustin gets burned by hot girls" strips are that effective when he seems to no problem getting new dates.

On the Fastrack

Shouldn't Wendy already have some idea of your capacity after working with you for several years now?

Heaven's Love Thrift Shop

Where are they now? Because I've been to several churches that actually were just held in gymnasiums.

Tumblr of scotch
Mar 13, 2006

Please, don't be my neighbor.

Midnight Moth posted:

Dustin

I'm not sure these "Dustin gets burned by hot girls" strips are that effective when he seems to no problem getting new dates.
God help me, I actually belly laughed at this.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Midnight Moth posted:

On the Fastrack

Shouldn't Wendy already have some idea of your capacity after working with you for several years now?


how the gently caress is holbrook in newspapers

Zereth
Jul 9, 2003



Darthemed posted:

This way lies madness! And tiny arms!
Yessss :unsmigghh:

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut

Midnight Moth posted:

On the Fastrack


I'm Bill Holbrook, and I'll anthropomorphize any object for $29.95.

Gloomy Rube
Mar 4, 2008



Midnight Moth posted:


Heaven's Love Thrift Shop

Where are they now? Because I've been to several churches that actually were just held in gymnasiums.

90% sure that's a soup kitchen.

But it does a darn good impression of a church basement.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Roadside.



Midnight Moth
Sep 14, 2007

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

The answer posted:


The stolen car is one of two cars in the lot that have the same license plate, "902KTV." The car thief removed a plate from the front of a car and put it on the back of the stolen car to try to avoid detection.

Slylock Fox

Wow Slylock. I'm sure those bullfrogs would be really appreciative of your specie-ist supremacy. And here's some sewer monster kidnappings, grouchy dogs, and bathing with toilet tools. Happy Easter, kids.

Moose and Molly

Molly's mom would rather watch the neighbors' sex lives than the latest theatrical release.

Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Apr 20, 2014

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



Moose and Molly is so pleasant because it's like a backwards sitcom. Instead of getting home after a family outing, complaining that his wife's mother is there, then telling the kids to leave him alone because he needs to relax in a hammock forever, Moose does the complete opposite and enjoys life.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Wanamingo posted:

The most circumstantial of evidence.
Hey, it's actually logical and you can work it out without outside knowledge. I was fully expecting the solution to be "only a professional sign painter would write a message while fleeing a murder scene."

Midnight Moth posted:

Heaven's Love Thrift Shop

Help me out here, is it a thing to not give people plates?

Also that Dustin is straight up cribbed from The IT Crowd.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
To the best of my knowledge food gets served on plates and the people eating the food get silverware to eat their food with Unless they're supposed to use the cookies at the end of the table as buns for the meat and scoops for the mashed potatoes.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

SharkTales!
Woo-oo!



Winnie the Pooh




Drimble Wedge
Mar 10, 2008

Self-contained

Scary Gary

tiistai
Nov 1, 2012

Solo Melodica
Fingerpori


This is apparently a reference to an old humor book or something.

Fok_It knows why I was late

TofuDiva
Aug 22, 2010

Playin' Possum





Muldoon

My Lovely Horse posted:

Help me out here, is it a thing to not give people plates?

Some shelters/soup kitchens use unbreakable rectangular plates with dividers in them, kind of like "TV Dinner" trays. They're easy for the guests to handle and there's less chance of spilling. Plus you only have one thing to run through the dishwasher instead of two, so you can have fewer volunteers on cleanup and more on the serving line.


The good ones also have compartments for the silverware and cup. Frank just didn't draw in all the little dividers.


[edited to fix the extraneous "s". Kevin Frank, not Franks. Also to give props to him for yet another strip with a religious message that is sweet and straightforward but not cloying or heavy-handed. IMHO.]

TofuDiva fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Apr 20, 2014

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
I've actually depleted the scans I've been using, so until next week, it's time for

Ripley's Believe It Or Not

What a frog~

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Wanamingo posted:

I never realized there were that many sexy Thel edits.

Borden is pretty magical. :allears:

Tina's Groove


Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Mother Goose & Grimm


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro


Dilbert


Foxtrot

Mercedes Colomar fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Apr 20, 2014

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


F Minus



Mary Worth



Rex Morgan MD



Rex is a perv.

TofuDiva
Aug 22, 2010

Playin' Possum





Muldoon
Another Cheap Thrills Cuisine from the backfile: more vaguely disturbing rectangular food!

January 15, 2014


Although, to be fair, the few cabbage rolls that I've ever seen looked every bit as gross as that drawing, so, accuracy.

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
Peanuts, in which Charlie Brown just deals with it. (April 23, 1967)



Hey, it's Roy again! And he's still wearing the camp hat! You get the feeling that one year his parents won't be able to afford summer camp and it'll just break him.

Funky Winkerbean



Is that baby in a dark gray jumper? Because God forbid we have something colorful in a Funky Winkerbean Sunday strip.

It seems like it's been awhile since we've had a Classic Popeye Sunday with Wimpy being a dick. So here's Wimpy, being a dick. (c. 1942)



At least he's sharing this time.

And speaking of doing awful things to people, Pogo wrings laughs out of contaminating the environment! (April 9, 1972, click for the legible one)



First-Gen Blondie (c. 1941)



Well, at least now we know how to get a rise out of Alvin's dad.

Out Our Way (October 27-28, 1924)





And unfortunately, all I could think of was this.

Yeah, I flaked on the back half of my catch-up day. Goin' down this afternoon, I promise.

EasyEW fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Apr 20, 2014

Goober Peas
Jun 30, 2007

Check out my 'Vette, bro


Wanamingo posted:


Arlo and Janis


The joke is that they're actually watching porn together. :corrupt:


drat, beaten. :heysexy:

Goober Peas
Jun 30, 2007

Check out my 'Vette, bro


TofuDiva posted:

Some shelters/soup kitchens use unbreakable rectangular plates with dividers in them, kind of like "TV Dinner" trays. They're easy for the guests to handle and there's less chance of spilling. Plus you only have one thing to run through the dishwasher instead of two, so you can have fewer volunteers on cleanup and more on the serving line.



We ate off these in our school cafeteria up until I was in high school. They switched over to Styrofoam versions that could be dumped into the trash (and fill up the landfills) :cry:

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Darthemed posted:

I've actually depleted the scans I've been using, so until next week, it's time for

Ripley's Believe It Or Not

What a frog~

Who was doing that ripley's edit strip, anyway?

BlankIsBeautiful
Apr 4, 2008

Feeling a little inadequate?

Kammat posted:

Modesty Blaise





Never has clothes drying been so intense. Will their pants be ready in time?

We finished the second half of the Modesty Blaise movie last night and it, well.. ended. The plot became pretty crazy, which basically involved Modesty and Willy shooting at anything that moved, and pretty much all of the bad guys dying in weird and hilarious ways. There was sort of a denouement, I guess, after the island they were on was stormed by a bunch of Arabs. Yeah. Several of the ending fight scenes looked more like Benny Hill skits to me. All in all, it's a very watchable movie that gets a bit confusing, and downright weird in spots. Now that I think about it, not unlike the Modesty strips, I guess. :v:

Speaking of weird, nth-ing the love for the Thel edits! I'd totally forgotten about those!

Let's have some I'm drinking Long Hammer Red Hook IPA, and baking 4 loaves of bread for Easter dinner later this afternoon Comix!



Bear selfies.

Heavenly Nostrils



Rerun I think.

9 Chickweed Lane 4/20/2003



Uh, ok?

Zits





This is really dumb, Holbrook.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
Had to share today's Soup To Nutz because of how dumb it is, for reasons that will be evident to anyone who saw Jurassic Park.

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




Are you implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will breed?

Johnny Walker posted:

Rex Morgan MD



Rex is a perv.

What the gently caress happened to Niki?? He just aged thirty years between pauses in a conversation!

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
Maybe it's a Latin joke? Is rex a masculine word?

BlankIsBeautiful
Apr 4, 2008

Feeling a little inadequate?

RandomFerret posted:

What the gently caress happened to Niki?? He just aged thirty years between pauses in a conversation!

A conversation like that would probably age me thirty years too. :v:

Punished Chuck
Dec 27, 2010

Pvt.Scott posted:

Maybe it's a Latin joke? Is rex a masculine word?

Well, yeah, it is, but I think she's saying it's impossible because T. Rexes are extinct.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

Well, yeah, it is, but I think she's saying it's impossible because T. Rexes are extinct.

Well, the peacock/peahen "joke" doesn't make much sense either because peacock is what we call the animals as a whole, unless they're actually called peabirds or something. I've never heard them referred to as anything but peacocks other than when specifically calling out the gender differences, and even then it's usually more like, "male peacocks have beautiful plumage to attract female peacocks."

TL;DR
English is dumb and the comic is worse.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Pvt.Scott posted:

Well, the peacock/peahen "joke" doesn't make much sense either because peacock is what we call the animals as a whole, unless they're actually called peabirds or something. I've never heard them referred to as anything but peacocks other than when specifically calling out the gender differences, and even then it's usually more like, "male peacocks have beautiful plumage to attract female peacocks."

TL;DR
English is dumb and the comic is worse.
"Peafowl" actually is the collective term.

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Six Chix


Zippy the Pinhead


Nancy


I'm going to go ahead and post this as a response.



Arlo and Janis


Eww.

Wee Pals


Andertoons


Lost Side of Suburbia


Zachary Nixon Johnson


So, nipples. Classy.

Dick Tracy


Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz


Oh wow, one that's actually kind of reasonable.

BlankIsBeautiful
Apr 4, 2008

Feeling a little inadequate?

Wanamingo posted:

Zachary Nixon Johnson


So, nipples. Classy.

Which reminds me, we haven't seen them in Judge Parker for quite awhile either.

ZNJ is just not making any sense. If this is from a book, the book must be drat near incomprehensible.

TofuDiva
Aug 22, 2010

Playin' Possum





Muldoon

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

ZNJ is just not making any sense. If this is from a book, the book must be drat near incomprehensible.

Has anyone read any of the original books? They seem to have decent reviews. I wonder if the comic strip team may be assuming that readers know a bunch of backstory that would make this less disjointed. FWIW, none of the plot synopses on Goodreads match the strip at all, so maybe the comic is a "further adventures" kind of thing.

All of which is to say that yes, the strip doesn't make any sense at all, the art is sloppy and self-indulgent, and the pacing is terrible. I keep hoping it will get better.

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LtStorm
Aug 8, 2010

You'll pay for this, Shady Shrew!


Darthemed posted:

Had to share today's Soup To Nutz because of how dumb it is, for reasons that will be evident to anyone who saw Jurassic Park.



So they specify that it's impossible for a peacock to lay an egg but then draw a drake for the duck and don't comment on it. This comic isn't even consistent in its stupid joke.

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