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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



BlankIsBeautiful posted:

Jane's World



I don't get all this grief. I mean, shouldn't you be good friends with somebody before getting intimate? My wife and I were friends and drinking buddies for about 5 years, and we ended up married. Seems to work just fine.
You've never heard of one night stands? Sex and intimacy aren't always the same thing. The issue here is that Dorothy doesn't seem to be interested in a relationship with Jane (or anyone?) which can certainly complicate an otherwise non-sexual friendship.

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Indolent Bastard
Oct 26, 2007

I WON THIS AMAZING AVATAR! I'M A WINNER! WOOOOO!
Monty


Mike du Jour

scarycave
Oct 9, 2012

Dominic Beegan:
Exterminator For Hire

Quoting this because of an Old man jerking off in a bush.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

DC Money posted:

Now the big question - does putting John Darnielle lyrics on Guy Gilchrist trash neutralize out the crappitude? or even maybe rise above it? Could that panel now even be considered good?

No.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
Bloom County

Gazongas: A quality publication.


Cheeky narrator, a plus.

Calvin And Hobbes

Calvin's dad's job revealed!

dismas
Jul 31, 2008



Oh my god. Perfect.

BlankIsBeautiful
Apr 4, 2008

Feeling a little inadequate?

Endless Mike posted:

You've never heard of one night stands? Sex and intimacy aren't always the same thing. The issue here is that Dorothy doesn't seem to be interested in a relationship with Jane (or anyone?) which can certainly complicate an otherwise non-sexual friendship.

Of course I know what one night stands are. I guess I'm not getting the feeling that both of them are treating this as one, though. It seems like they're worried that because they're friends, that getting into a more intimate/sexual relationship will ruin their friendship, and therefore "it is a bad thing". And I guess that's my point of contention, because, at least with my relationship, it worked just fine. And yes, Dorothy might not be interested in taking any relationship further, but it seems to me that she might want to with Jane, but is afraid to.

But, I digress, she was drunk at the time, so yeah, there's that.

Andorra
Dec 12, 2012

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

9 Chickweed Lane 5/1/2003



Why are you always splitting your pictures up with panels!?! Do you not understand what panels are for!?! And why out of everything in this terrible comic strip is this the thing that bothers me most!?!

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

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




The panel dividers are syndicate-mandated so that editors can chop up the strips for layout purposes. Brooke wants to go all Bill Watterson on them, but he knows he'll never have that kind of clout so he just draws the strip however he wants and slaps the dividers on top because he is a Fake-rear end Busta Comix.

Pooch Café


Fish is happiest when the other characters in the strip forget he exists.

Ballard Street


Kevin posts in the yob.

LtStorm
Aug 8, 2010

You'll pay for this, Shady Shrew!


Johnny Walker posted:

Rex Morgan MD





Am I the only one completely lost on whatever drama is going on in Rex Morgan MD? Teenager #1 was dating Teenager #2 but when Teenager #1 came over to the home of Teenager #2 he instead engaged in intimate behavior with Teenager #3? Teenager #2 discovered this and is now using it as leverage to manipulate Teenager #1 in a wacky sitcom episode that makes light of slavery?

Were Teenager #1 and Teenager #2 actually dating or is this even stupider and Teenager #2 caught Teenager #1 and #3 doing nothing wrong but is still somehow using this to manipulate Teenager #1? And where is Teenager #3 in all of this, the little hussy?

Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

SharkTales!
Woo-oo!



LtStorm posted:

Am I the only one completely lost on whatever drama is going on in Rex Morgan MD? Teenager #1 was dating Teenager #2 but when Teenager #1 came over to the home of Teenager #2 he instead engaged in intimate behavior with Teenager #3? Teenager #2 discovered this and is now using it as leverage to manipulate Teenager #1 in a wacky sitcom episode that makes light of slavery?

Were Teenager #1 and Teenager #2 actually dating or is this even stupider and Teenager #2 caught Teenager #1 and #3 doing nothing wrong but is still somehow using this to manipulate Teenager #1? And where is Teenager #3 in all of this, the little hussy?

Sarah is the Morgan's young daughter who Kelly was babysitting at the time, not another teen in the story. Heather was her former au pair or something.

Winnie the Pooh



Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Green Intern posted:

So, is Wilbur's new forever-wife going to take the job without even thinking of her son, then wondering why the guy can't get work?

Either that, or she'll push him to take the job and he'll decline it because he's an arrogant useless slacker like all the kids these days.

Hamiltonian Bicycle
Apr 26, 2008

!

LtStorm posted:

Am I the only one completely lost on whatever drama is going on in Rex Morgan MD? Teenager #1 was dating Teenager #2 but when Teenager #1 came over to the home of Teenager #2 he instead engaged in intimate behavior with Teenager #3? Teenager #2 discovered this and is now using it as leverage to manipulate Teenager #1 in a wacky sitcom episode that makes light of slavery?

Were Teenager #1 and Teenager #2 actually dating or is this even stupider and Teenager #2 caught Teenager #1 and #3 doing nothing wrong but is still somehow using this to manipulate Teenager #1? And where is Teenager #3 in all of this, the little hussy?

There are only two teenagers involved. The deal is that Kelly was so worried about the potential consequences of the Morgans finding out she got her boyfriend (Niki) in for makeouts once when she was (supposed to be) babysitting Sarah that she let herself get blackmailed over it. Eventually she told Niki about this and he immediately went behind her back and passed it on to Rex, who told June, prompting the currently ongoing conversation.

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

Mercury Hat posted:

Winnie the Pooh


"Cold and broke", Pooh. I guess this is a rap about how you came up from nothing and those hipsters with artichoke on their sandwiches are phonies?

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

Some Guy TT posted:

There are, of course, hundreds of old Chief Dharmas. Haven't decided if I want to translate those, or just move on to something new. For all I know this guy could be starting a new comic next week, or there will be a different comic starting next week, or maybe the Daily Focus has just given up on comics altogether. Or maybe there will be an extended break until they find a new cartoonist they want to devote print space to. I really have no idea. But between this, my 2007 cartoons hitting a Monday, and my having to make a big trip this weekend, I'm not posting any more comics until next week.



Please post the old Chief Dharmas! It's by far my favourite strip in this entire thread.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

idonotlikepeas posted:

1) People worry that if you break up with someone, you won't be able to be friends anymore, which will cause problems both for you and everyone in your social circle who now has to avoid putting both of you in the same room.
2) Friendship is frequently seen as being a completely distinct thing from romantic love and there's a worry that you might be mixing the two up.
3) A lot of people think there's supposed to be some kind of "spark" or instant connection that you feel with a romantic partner, and if you had felt that for your friend, why weren't you already dating before?
4) Everyone in Jane's World is hopelessly neurotic and worries about everything all the time whether there's a good reason to or not.
5) this may all in fact have happened ten years in the past and be completely resolved in whatever passes for the present and we have no way of telling at all.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
I've asked a few of my friends out in the past, and they were like "lol, no," and that was that. What I'm concerned about is how Jane will deal with being a filthy date rapist.

GorfZaplen
Jan 20, 2012

Emmy Lou


Heathcliff


Mandrake the Magician


The Phantom


Pickles


Classic Prince Valiant


Gone fishin'.

R Ubbish
Apr 15, 2013

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Tina's Groove


Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Mother Goose & Grimm


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro


Dilbert

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

I haven't been following this thread for a while. What happened to Everett True? Did we eventually run out? :(

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Beenexklox is a spoonerism of kleenex box.

I knew it seemed familiar and I should have known it was something dumb!

Punished Chuck
Dec 27, 2010

The Sphinxster posted:

Beenexklox is a spoonerism of kleenex box.

I knew it seemed familiar and I should have known it was something dumb!

Jesus loving Christ I hate Brooke. I was wondering what the hell it meant but I never thought it would be quite that stupid.

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut

Cialis Railman posted:

I haven't been following this thread for a while. What happened to Everett True? Did we eventually run out? :(

I don't know if we completely ran out, but near the end of it Everett went full-on jingoistic as America entered WWI and folks got all uncomfortable about it. If there are any post-war strips left, ones which don't feature him beating up people for saying stuff like "I'll have sauerkraut on my frankfurter", I'd sure love to see 'em.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

The Sphinxster posted:

Beenexklox is a spoonerism of kleenex box.

I knew it seemed familiar and I should have known it was something dumb!

It would have to be either that or "Land-Hotion," wouldn't it.

Dr. Dos
Aug 5, 2005

YAAAAAAAY!
There's a 224 page Heavenly Nostrils book available for pre-order on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Phoebe-Her-Unicorn-Heavenly-Chronicle/dp/1449446205/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398979776&sr=1-1

Comes out in September.

Roland Jones
Aug 18, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

Midnight Moth posted:

Safe Havens

...Become a vengeful creator?

Now I'm remembering the K&K plot where humans were so inherently destructive and evil that their presence literally threatened to destroy the universe, and how the idea of being one was utterly repugnant to everyone (including the humans). I had been thinking that, for as bad as Holbrook's stuff can be, at least he left all that crap behind him years ago. Curse you, Holbrook.

sweetguts
Apr 29, 2013

I know what I'm about.

Dr. Dos posted:

There's a 224 page Heavenly Nostrils book available for pre-order on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Phoebe-Her-Unicorn-Heavenly-Chronicle/dp/1449446205/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398979776&sr=1-1

Comes out in September.

Oh, neat! I guess that must be what Dana's been up to.

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.
Skippy (February 10, 1927)



Peanuts continues the nyaahvalance. (May 4, 1967)



Funky Winkerbean



Oh, if (your father) John Darling had lived to be 80, he'd never get that surprise out of that child...

Popeye



Rip Haywire



Holy crap, morbid obesity doesn't usually sneak up on you that fast.

Pogo has a running mate! Whether he likes it or not! (May 3, 1956)



And now, since one person asked for it (and that was 75% over my quota), more Droodles! These still get reprinted every now and then, but you don't usually see them in their natural state with Price's little yarns underneath them. Since he was a writer/comedian, that couldn't have gone over well the first few times it happened. (May 3, 1956)



Out Our Way give us a boyzendorgs double down! (November 19-20, 1924)



goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Small child, trousers falling down, holding a six pound axe and grinning madly.

Only 8 of those boys will return.

Zamboni Rodeo
Jul 19, 2007

NEVER play "Lady of Spain" AGAIN!




EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean



Oh, if (your father) John Darling had lived to be 80, he'd never get that surprise out of that child...

Okay, can someone who's familiar with the old John Darling strip (whatever the hell it was called) clarify something for me? I was always under the impression that he was just sort of clueless and came into a moderate amount of fame in spite of his bumbling idiocy. Is Batiuk just retrofitting this whole idea of him being a terrible person for DRAMA!, or was that actually the case with the original strip?

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Six Chix


Zippy the Pinhead


Nancy


Arlo and Janis


Wee Pals


Andertoons


Lost Side of Suburbia


Zachary Nixon Johnson


Dick Tracy


He's supposed to be fat, I think?

Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Thanks to Charles Boyce for this week's caption.

Humanoid Female
Mar 13, 2008

Wanamingo posted:

Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz


Gulp-murdered is the worst kind of murdered.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


I know it's been really recently changed, but could we maybe change the title to "It's Not Alright, Chief Dharma"? Pleeeaaase? :smith:

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Mark Trail's Facial Theatre




Buz Sawyer

And I believe that's the end of this little storyline.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

Mark Trail's Facial Theatre




Mark Trail fanservice! :dance:

Aardmania
Jan 1, 2007

Ruining newspapers since 1993.

Shredded Hen
Piranha Club



Dick Tracy


Another case closed by the funny pages's laziest detective.

Judge Parker



9 Chickweed Lane


Martine's bad breath appears to have knocked Bill back into another round of hallucinations.

Pibgorn
http://i.xomf.com/vrgrm.jpg
http://i.xomf.com/mrfkr.jpg
Linked today because of an arm-melting crotch grab.

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


F Minus



Mary Worth with the best second panel of the year so far.



Rex Morgan MD

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Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Apartment 3-G


Baldo


Blondie


Moose and Molly


It may not have been what he wanted, but you can't deny that it took skill.


Zits


Seriously though, why not call him?

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