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Midnight Moth posted:Good news everyone! Gil is being revived as a Sunday-only comic carried by one paper, the Providence Journal, and Norm Feuti's apparent masochistic willingness to work for the paltry wages that come with that. Well, it worked for Kevin and Kell for umpteen years so why not. Yes! That is fantastic news.
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Midnight Moth posted:Good news everyone! Gil is being revived as a Sunday-only comic carried by one paper, the Providence Journal, and Norm Feuti's apparent masochistic willingness to work for the paltry wages that come with that. Well, it worked for Kevin and Kell for umpteen years so why not. I like how that spelling of "Awesome" makes sense when you say it with a Boston/New England accent. Now I just imagine Gil and everyone talking my me and my friends when we were growing up and it makes me happy. I have also seen "wicked" in Gil and Retail before which gave me a strange swell of pride from two comics I'm pretty indifferent towards.
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Jesus christ what the gently caress!
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Wanamingo posted:Lost Side of Suburbia OK, now it's getting heavy handed. quote:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz I figured it had to be Americans do it like this but British people do it like that. But figuring these out beyond the first clue step is just trying to make crazy moonshots.
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May 12, 2014 03:44
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Hey, I guessed this one right!  Surely the assassin would have brought ample paper with them from their home land to commit murder. Also that letter could have been written on a post-it to completely gently caress over the good inspector.
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Some Guy TT posted:OK, now it's getting heavy handed. I would agree with you if it seemed to be trying to make a deeper point than "the adults in this town are kinda assholes even if they're well-meaning." 
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Heavenly Nostrils Nah, he's all good. It was part of a Transformers/MLP crossover. Plus he's referencing the old stuff. That's like having a bizarre Rainbow Brite crossover into TMNT. You'd know the characters, and probably their names, without having to watch the other show.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Batiuk's characters never try to (or are allowed to) move on. Les will never get over Lisa, nor will he every try. Funky is destined to have PTSD forever, support dog or no support dog. The mom will constantly be worried about her son deployed overseas. What's-her-face (John Darling's daughter) has come the closest to a happy ending, and that's just because she learned that her father, John Darling, was nice to her (which she seemed to already know), and she seems to conveniently forgotten that her father, John Darling, was an unrepentant rear end in a top hat to everyone else he ever crossed paths with. Funky is the fat old guy who's actually about 20 years younger than he looks. Wally's the one with the dog and PTSD. 7thBatallion posted:Nah, he's all good. It was part of a Transformers/MLP crossover. Plus he's referencing the old stuff. That's like having a bizarre Rainbow Brite crossover into TMNT. You'd know the characters, and probably their names, without having to watch the other show. Also, don't bronies hate the original MLP? Beetle Bailey  Berger & Wyse  Bizarro  This makes no sense. Dennis the Menace  Alice Mitchell has no nose.  Dustin  Dustin's reaction in this strip is pretty reasonable. Sure, just go along with it. why not? Hi and Lois  There's no contradiction there, Lois. Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz  Pardon My Planet 
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Tiggum posted:Bizarro William Tell is associated with the feat of shooting an apple off of someone's head with an arrow. When he takes a vision test, rather than identifying letters, he identifies apples. A Good Cartoon... wait, poo poo, wrong thread. quote:Pardon My Planet gently caress this comic
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SALT CURES HAM posted:gently caress this comic Please start posting Pardon My Planet again someone - I have enough hatred and loathing left over after Zachary Nixon Johnson and Nancy to handle it appropriately. Wanamingo posted:Zachary Nixon Johnson Who is he (she?) talking to? I don't see a phone or a bluetooth thingy or anything that would remotely suggest someone is having a conversation. Why are they talking to their mom while working in a warehouse? Why does their mom care about the specific activity - wouldn't you just say "I have to go back to work, mom"? Haha, art school makes you poor! Why are they excited for chicken nuggets, and why aren't those nuggets refrigerated? Why is ZNJ in space one strip, and then crashing through a warehouse wall the next - would it have killed the artist to maybe draw a loving warehouse in the previous strip? What is happening in that last panel - are they busting through a wall, or just hitting two blocks floating in mid air? Why- ughhhhhhh gently caress you, ZNJ
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May 12, 2014 12:34
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GorfZaplen posted:The Phantom Writer/artist is a secret republican.
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Jane's World is the 9th's. Non Sequitur is dumb.  Heavenly Nostrils is yesterday's. Kliban is, um, "different".  It's just  today in 9 Chickweed Lane 5/12/2003 Zits is just teens_ignore_crap.jpg  Kevin & Kell is more or less as stupid as usual.  Nemi is a slob at heart. News at 11.  Bleh. Monday.
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Cul-de-sac hope she doesn't have weed allergies. The Creeps hope they don't have dust allergies.  Candorville hope he gets allergies.  Broom Hilda drat, that's a fine gopher.  Edit: Huh. Looks like candorville is broken. Good. Edit2: drat, it fixed itself. Sorry folks, enjoy it in its crapulent splendor. Cricken_Nigfops fucked around with this message at 14:57 on May 12, 2014 |
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May 12, 2014 13:58
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Haha, that Kliban strip is awesome. See, she paid her way through college by hooking, and can't find any other jobs now. Or she has a degree in sex work. Either way, I giggled.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Zits is just teens_ignore_crap.jpg Ham Shears almost has two storylines intersect.  The Dinette Set understands the power of good marketing. 
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Wanamingo posted:
Like there is any possible way we can see in this comic that the paper is A4 or not. You can't have a goddamn mystery puzzle if you leave out the essential clue! I love hating this dopey strip. Monty    Mike du Jour   
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Double post be damned. This is a prime example of why this comic is so bloody stupid. Aside from the fact that the "sand" looks like snow and the blatant racism about "Garlic Smelling Mobsters"; the final clue is dealt with completely off camera. We have no clue that a car was even used as we never see one, so the final reveal may as well be an eye witness or a CCTV camera, either of which is as valid as the stupid solution that the comic uses. Raging on mediocre comics 
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Evil Mastermind posted:Actually, isn't it pretty much common knowledge that the SATs are pretty worthless because they don't test actual knowledge? The only thing the SATs test is your ability to prepare for and take the SATs. "Actual knowledge" is worth far less to an employer than evidence of your ability to learn. If you prove you can ace an arbitrary test you've proved you can do 90% of jobs out there.
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Tiggum posted:Pardon My Planet Every time somebody posts this comic for the first time in forever, I check how far back we can go in the archive before we hit a "WIMMIN AMIRITE" panel.  Friday, as it turns out. BlankIsBeautiful posted:It's just This repost was perfectly timed, since this popped up yesterday in a fiction writing course I've been taking: "Originality for its own sake often results in false writing: real people are seldom either so self-conscious or remarkable that they think and speak in entirely new ways. On the other hand, attempting to convey or describe something as accurately as possible will very often result in striking or fresh-sounding expressions." So naturally, my thoughts wandered back to Chickweed. And speaking of getting to the point already, here's Skippy (February 21, 1927)  Peanuts: You see, kids, back in the day when you wanted to pester somebody about some bullshit good luck charm (or even your latest so-called brilliant scam), it wasn't as simple as paste and post. You were expected to write it out and buy stamps. (May 15, 1967)  In Pamplona, some smartasses root for the bulls. In today's Funky Winkerbean, we're rooting for a heart attack.  Popeye  Rip Haywire  Pogo (May 14, 1956)  Droodles (May 14, 1956)  Out Our Way (December 15-16, 1924)  
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Indolent Bastard posted:This is a prime example of why this comic is so bloody stupid. I warned you about Danger bro, I told you dog Fingerpori  - We designed an ad for the family events in Pieksämäki [Bad mood leaves the child in Pieksämäki] Jarla got the name of the town of Pieksämäki wrong. Too bad, because the correct name works better with the pun. Pieksämäellä, "in Pieksämäki", sounds very similar to pieksämällä, "by beating". Also, I believe the original saying doesn't have "bad mood" but simply "bad/evil" (paha means both). If there's an English equivalent to that phrase, let me know. Fok_It  In the 1800s when romantic nationalism was on the rise in Europe, philosopher and author J.V. Snellman was one of the early key players in the Fennoman movement which sought to elevate the status of the Finnish language and culture to a national level, in order to surpass Swedish which was at the time dominant in areas like administration and high education. Long story short, they succeeded, and Finnish was given an official language status in 1863. Snellman also played his part in giving rise to national literature (despite himself writing mostly in Swedish) and the Finnish mark. I couldn't find his exact cause of death, but I suspect it was brick-induced.
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Some Guy TT posted:It's All Right Chief Dharma (October 4th 2009)  This almost makes me forget about the Looming Shadow of Dog ComixPooch Café   Finally, some real confrontation! Ballard Street  I'd buy one. How often do you get the chance to buy something from a dog? The closest I ever got was swapping stuff with a ferret, and even then it wasn't really a business transaction as much as him getting distracted enough by the new thing to forget about the plastic bag long enough for me to put it back in the recycling.
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sassassin posted:"Actual knowledge" is worth far less to an employer than evidence of your ability to learn. If you prove you can ace an arbitrary test you've proved you can do 90% of jobs out there.
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So I went to the TCAF opening plenary on friday. Both Lynn Johnston and Kate Beaton were speaking about their work and their time in the industry. It was pretty cool, Kate was charming and hilarious in a kind of dry matter-of-fact way. Lynn was actually insane, she brought up pretty early into the discussion the fact that her husband cheated on her. Also, in reference to the question "what would you have done differently with your strip if you could do it again" she said she would have killed off John "in a funny way". Jesus christ lady. Anyways, the room was pretty full and I feel like most people were there to see Lynn if that surprises any of you. She did have a really interesting anecdote about beating Jim Davies in the Reuben awards. I guess her and Charles Shulz shared the commonality of hating Garfield which started their friendship.
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^^^ I'm actually sort of surprised by Johnston coming off as crazy. I mean, I knew her history because of this topic, but I figured she was someone who hid it well and the evil clown music only started when you really dug into things she had done or said. Apparently I was wrong and she was willing to discuss killing her ex-husband via proxy in front of an audience.BlankIsBeautiful posted:Kevin & Kell is more or less as stupid as usual. This comic actually angers me because the first two panels set my expectations substantially higher than the punchline paid off. I thought the punchline was going to be Kel arguing she doesn't have a cake, and actually clever about the zebra pattern being an attempt to hide it from the lion. It would still be dumb, but I would have chuckled and felt bad for being amused by Kevin & Kell. Instead we get this wet fart of a punchline.
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Cosima posted:Lynn was actually insane, she brought up pretty early into the discussion the fact that her husband cheated on her. Also, in reference to the question "what would you have done differently with your strip if you could do it again" she said she would have killed off John "in a funny way". Jesus christ lady.
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Evil Mastermind posted:This is the most perfect thing. The only way it could have been better was if she brought up throwing her kid in the snow or eating over the sink. Actually the moderator brought up how in the strip she was pretty hard on her kids, especially Liz (is she harder on Liz than the others? I'm not sure). Anyways, Lynn kind of just smiled and nodded slowly in acknowledgement.
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Cosima posted:Actually the moderator brought up how in the strip she was pretty hard on her kids, especially Liz (is she harder on Liz than the others? I'm not sure). Anyways, Lynn kind of just smiled and nodded slowly in acknowledgement.
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Evil Mastermind posted:How many awkward silences were there after Lynn's answers? A couple. One after she said she would have killed off John, and a few others when she was being crotchety about new technology and modern cartooning. It wasn't terrible though. One of the more interesting things she talked about was when Lawrence came out in the strip she received all these emotional letters from people going through similar experiences, and that when that strip got published she was dropped by 150 newspapers, but was immediately picked up by more than 150 other newspapers.
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Darthemed posted:DOGG I think the word 'hate' is thrown around far too much. It's a very powerful word, for a very powerful emotion. Hate can give you succor in the face of adversity, but it can just as easily give strength to your enemies. Hating somebody, truly hating them, gives them power over you. I strongly dislike Guy Gilchrist.
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RandomFerret posted:I think the word 'hate' is thrown around far too much. It's a very powerful word, for a very powerful emotion. Hate can give you succor in the face of adversity, but it can just as easily give strength to your enemies. Hating somebody, truly hating them, gives them power over you. p.s., did you know? quote:He has designed logos for Minor League baseball teams, including the Portland Sea Dogs, Norwich Navigators, and New Britain Rock Cats, and also designed the J. League football team Shimizu S-Pulse's mascot, Palchan. 
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's Wait, what? 70 million? I had to go check the actual comic to see this wasn't some kind of edit. Wasn't this kind of an involved process? I'm picturing the ancient egyptians invading other countries exclusively to mummify the inhabitants.
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