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Drimble Wedge posted:I'm beginning to think that there isn't supposed to be any continuity in Jane's World, and that she's just throwing out little snippets of stories to run for a few days and then bringing in another -- just little vignettes, or of a more novella or short story, say. I mean, there was that one woman (don't ask me who) was bodyguarding someone in a mountain cabin and the guardee started stripping off; something with the coffee shop; something with the newspaper; something with Jane trying to not be outed to her mother...and I think there were some guys watching TV at some point. Don't forget the woman they brought forward from 1968 and the one that was abducted by aliens and then returned.
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Is Jane's World available anywhere in archive or book format? I like it when it's actually telling a story, but I can't follow it when it's blipping all over the place.
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Skippy tries to keep it in America.  (February 8, 1927) Peanuts (May 2, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean decides to Cancerwife the hell out of the resolution that we hopefully all see coming now.  Popeye  Rip Haywire: It just dawned on me that he's buying crappy ingredients from Mister Haney.   Pogo (May 1, 1956)  Out Our Way (November 14-15, 1924)  
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Evil Mastermind posted:
At long loving last, a lesbian couple that's actually going somewhere. The prophecies have finally come true!
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I just realized that even though we always mock Funky Winkerbean for suggesting that Les could make money off the completely mundane story of his wife dying from cancer... that's exactly what happened when Funky Winkerbean, the comic, did.
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Evil Mastermind posted:You made me realize that nobody's posted Ham Shears in a while, so I went to GoComics to see what's been happening and Am I the only person who finds this amazingly charming and sweet?  Jill and Other Jill, sittin' in a tree...
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Haha, oh my god those sideburns. Arlo and Janis  Wee Pals  Andertoons  Lost Side of Suburbia  Zachary Nixon Johnson  Dick Tracy  Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz 
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Both of those songs came out on the same record. In 1989. Sideburns were not cool in 1989. Also Phil first appeared something like fifty years before that record came out. Get hosed, Gilchrist.
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Who wants a Mark Trail being eaten by a bear avatar?
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy My God, he's actually going to look into PHIL FUMBLE'S TRAGIC PAST
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy So Mark Trail's going to come in and punch him any minute now, right? Right?!
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean decides to Cancerwife the hell out of the resolution that we hopefully all see coming now. I've forgotten what might be significant about her family members. If only there were some kind of introductory panel to remind me again. Julet Esqu posted:Luann I notice that the previous day's strip addressed my plot concern in a really confusing way. They bus stop was 40 minutes away from a parent or something? Evil Mastermind posted:You have got to be loving kidding me. Afraid not friend. We aren't going to see a joke any time soon. Actually, that wouldn't be so bad except that we're going to get a schmaltzy Gilchrist story instead. edit: Evans has never been on a bus or in a field.
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Evil Mastermind posted:You have got to be loving kidding me. For such a nostalgia buff, Gilchrist is loving terrible at being aware of what year anything happened in. I can't even figure out whether Retro Phil there is supposed to look like a stereotypical bad teen from the 1950s, the 1970s, or some unholy mixture of the two. But if he was going around with hair and sideburns like that in 1989 when this song came out, no wonder he's hiding miserably in the shadows while others ponder his worthlessness.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy  He's not even trying for continuity. Why even say his name is Phil, why not introduce an entirely new character, what the hell.
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Probably Magic posted:He's not even trying for continuity.
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Probably Magic posted:He's not even trying for continuity. Why even say his name is Phil, why not introduce an entirely new character, what the hell. Tom Petty, man. The quintessential teen rebel soundtrack, for sure. Calaveron posted:No comic without lesbians.
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Gil Ew, Gil's watching more old people TV. They only show those commercials during old people shows. Retail  Yeah, I'd say you really picked a bad decade to be in department store retail management. Your counterpart at Wal-Mart is probably profiting at your expense though.  Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  I think that game would be too advanced for Skip, actually. Dustin  Dustin is doing more mother-in-law jokes than Moose and Molly, who has an actual mother-in-law as a main cast member. On the Fastrack  Shameless bribery Safe Havens  I had a pet chicken for a while. It was too fat too fly but it could easily jump 2-3x its height. Also I wouldn't let it wander around the house unless you like cleaning up gross bird crap.
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Who keeps flowers and water in their invaluable ming vase?
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Allen Wren posted:Both of those songs came out on the same record. In 1989. Also, if he was a teenager in 1989 then he's significantly younger than Miss Three Rocks 1978. She must be at least ten years older than him.  Baby Blues  Barney Google and Snuffy Smith 
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Evil Mastermind posted:You made me realize that nobody's posted Ham Shears in a while, so I went to GoComics to see what's been happening and I didn't call this out in the thread, but I totally called this way back in the Boss/Ingrid date arc. Also: Manuel Calavera posted:Foxtrot Looks like the rocketship's exhaust trail is in the shape of the Horde symbol. Couldn't expect Amend to go without a WoW reference.
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bonestructure posted:Am I the only person who finds this amazingly charming and sweet? Eh, I just feel it's incredibly out of place for a strip like Ham shears. When the strip first started, everyone was all " Oh they must be dating" because obviously if two 20 something women are in an apartment together, it must mean they're gay! Although, honestly it feels like the writer went " gently caress, I have no idea where to take this strip now" and just lost steam. That diamond story lasted way to loving long.
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Midnight Moth posted:Slylock Fox
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Poil posted:It's going to be a raccoon digging a tunnel, isn't it? Or maybe a raccoon broke into the foreman's home, stole the key, looted the shed and replaced the key. Or simply that the key was copied at a convenient time earlier, by a raccoon. Or an insider job involving a raccoon splitting the profit from the theft.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Eh, I just feel it's incredibly out of place for a strip like Ham shears. When the strip first started, everyone was all " Oh they must be dating" because obviously if two 20 something women are in an apartment together, it must mean they're gay! I would have to agree with you here. Especially regarding the diamond heist. That, to me, almost killed the strip. When Ham Shears was first posted, it was really pretty funny, and (I don't want to use the term "lighthearted") had a fairly quirky/funny plot. That changed with the diamond thingy. So yeah, maybe the cartoonist was like "poo poo, this is really starting to flatline... we need to change it up", and BAM! lesbians. Which, honestly, might just be the shot in the arm it needs. As long as it doesn't go all "Jane's World-y", or "DtWOF-y". I guess we'll see. Speaking of which... Jane's World  Whoops...  Non Sequitur  Cleveland streets are like a loving warzone due to this past winter's intensity. My two older kids who live up there have completely destroyed two brand new tires, and one rim by nailing some of these craters. And I mean craters. I've dodged a few that were at least 2 feet across and 18 inches deep that were surrounded by hubcaps, and pieces of wheel.  Heavenly Nostrils is still a day late.  Kliban  Yes, yes it is. I don't know if I should  that or not.E: #whoawow I just noticed. No "Kliban" signature. Huh. 9 Chickweed Lane 4/30/2003   Of course, if you cover her mouth long enough, and hard enough, she won't talk forever.  Zits  Teen_Appetites, v3.0, R2, Build 2.4x1018 Kevin & Kell  The strip's got it all today. Lesbians, lesbian animals, lesbian animals of different species, and conifer genocide.  Save us Nemi!  Uh.. ok? To me she looks a little more wasted rather than in love, Lise. BlankIsBeautiful fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Apr 30, 2014 |
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:I would have to agree with you here. Especially regarding the diamond heist. That, to me, almost killed the strip. When Ham Shears was first posted, it was really pretty funny, and (I don't want to use the term "lighthearted") had a fairly quirky/funny plot. That changed with the diamond thingy. So yeah, maybe the cartoonist was like "poo poo, this is really starting to flatline... we need to change it up", and BAM! lesbians. Which, honestly, might just be the shot in the arm it needs. As long as it doesn't go all "Jane's World-y", or "DtWOF-y". I guess we'll see. I guess it doesn't feel that way to me because there was so much foreshadowing of it, especially during the date with Boss arc. I was glad to see Madeline Queripel didn't go with the standard romantic comedy trope of "Jill yearns silently and endlessly for Ingrid instead of just saying something" and instead had Jill actually just speak up and get it out in the open. But yes, the diamond story was pretty slow and pointless. Still like Ham Shears, though.  I'm curious to see where she goes with it now.
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