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Retail Oh snap, Stuart is Cooper!   Good loving lord. Having Marla as the main in this strip was bad enough and now we have a clone of her. Same expressions and everything. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  I read that as "Aren't you going to ask me out?" and well, that would've made an interesting strip.  He knows. Dustin  Oh Dustin, coming in here every week and taking any assignment you can get, you shiftless card!  Uh, last time Ed went to the doctor the quack told him to just hit up Web MD and save himself the trip. On the Fastrack  Aahhh! Put those back! Our entire legacy system just went down!  Safe Havens  Apparently she was the only resident here who didn't have drunk photos on her wall. Which makes her the only qualified applicant by default.  You still have to pay rent you know.
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Potsticker posted:Is it tightrope walking in high heels? That shouldn't be the answer because it actually is possible to walk a tightrope in heels. There's even a youtube video of a woman doing that. Not that this would matter to the inspector. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grc7fHf5CVk
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RandomPauI posted:That shouldn't be the answer because it actually is possible to walk a tightrope in heels. There's even a youtube video of a woman doing that. Not that this would matter to the inspector. Well, then I'm stumped.
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May 20, 2014 06:59
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Brookes comics are so awful because they are suppposed to be about humans but this characters act in ways that no human being, at least none that I have ever met, act like. 9CL is supposed to be a soapy comic strip, right, at least to some extent, or at least driven by character interaction with each other? So part of the allure of the comic is that we identify with the characters, or at least can recognize trope behavior in them. But they act like aliens in human suits who's only reference point for how humans act is 19th century mime manual or something, what with the horrifying facial expressions and weird poses and such. The most recent strip, for example, the formula is "man finds woman attractive, therefore sex happens" but fails to account for stuff normal, actual humans would perhaps find a hinderance to the sex, like the head wound or all the dead bodies. Combine this 'alien in human skin' approach with the art style and you've got yourself a recipe for one seriously offputting strip.
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You can't see it behind the chest but Inspector Danger spotted the bullet hole in her head instantly.
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Luann and Knute clearly aren't shouting either, unless they're doing it through gritted teeth. ZeeToo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz  Garfield  "The social network". The Pajama Diaries  Well, that's done, problem solved once and for all.
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Midnight Moth posted:
Realizing how much a random non-holiday store closing would piss off the customers would probably be too much for these people considering they don't give a poo poo about the customers any other time either. Here, have some Scary Gary. (Admittedly, this one feels like a transplanted Garfield joke.) 
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Wait, okay, I haven't been following 9CL at all (big shock) but Google tells me the movie is It Happened One Night. However I would argue Mr Smith Goes to Washington is the second most famous Capra film to It's a Wonderful Life. F Minus  Mary Worth  Tommy has experience, but unfortunately he was a terrible janitor. Look at all that water! Rex Morgan MD 
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It's probably the second most famous Frank Capra movie after It's A Wonderful Life, and it's really not too far behind that in how well-known it is. It's also really loving good, to the point where I'm actually mad at Brooke now for making GBS threads all over it.
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Midnight Moth posted:Dustin Wikipedia posted:Ed Kudlick, Dustin's father, is an angry, bitter lawyer who despises Dustin's apparent laziness and is the strip's main antagonist. Ed is never supportive in any way, and always seeks to crush Dustin's attempts to find meaning and useful employment, ceaselessly mocking his son and putting him down Wikipedia posted:Simone Fontenot; the salty owner of TurboTemps, a one-woman employment agency. Simone provides Dustin with temporary job assignments and unending criticism, sarcasm and almost always mispronounces his last name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_(comic_strip) Whoever wrote the wikipedia article got it right. Dustin is surrounded by complete bastards.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Later that day Phil realizes that dedicating his life to some shallow idea of a supreme being and old rock singer memorabilia has been a mistake. He abandons his titbag girlfriend and her weird midget spawn and gets an entry-level job at an investment bank by name-dropping his dad who used to be friends with the greedy rear end in a top hat CEO. After a decade of working there and advancing his career with cutthroat tactics and questionable ethics, he is ordered to oversee the foreclosure and demolition of Fritzi's house to make way for a parking garage. Later that week Phil sees Nancy and Fritzi on the street begging for scraps. He realizes that even though he has become as emotionally numb as his abusive step-father, it still beats the hell out of living in Gilchrist's sappy fiction. Darkest Auer fucked around with this message at 08:57 on May 20, 2014 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth That's not Tommy. That looks almost like a woman's head on a man's body.
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Worst mop. Worst bucket. Guard is holding a shotgun while watching a guy use something that isn't a mop.
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Is 'Nancy' even about Nancy any more? Seems like it should just be renamed 'Guy Gilchrist presents Phil Fumble's Tribute to Jason Crabbs and the Nostalgia Tits'.
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The latest Fast Track & Safe Havens made me notice something. They're the same universe, apparently? Red head RA girl is going home to red head & black hair guy who loses his phone a lot (it is a joke  .) Am I reading that right? And we're in for a whole week of Foob fat jokes & loveless marriages it seems, so hold on to your seats for a laff riot.  Tina's Groove  Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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Tiggum posted:The Pajama Diaries Great, now they're going to grow up to be fat and insufferable, just like their mother!!!
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I believe Fast Track, Kenan and Kel, and Safe Havens are all in the same continuity. Kenan and Kel is in a parallel universe that is accessible to the human universe by way of a hole in the something something something.
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's Those are some fine skull-potatoes.
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Jane's World One woman for each arm now, huh Jane? Non Sequitur  Bleh. Heavenly Nostrils is late. Kliban's Cats   9 Chickweed Lane 5/20/2003  I have no idea why GoComics suddenly made this gigantic. It doesn't look like the tables are a'sploded though. Zits  No, it should've been "More wrinkly do you think I am getting?" Kevin & Kell  Well duh.  Well duh.
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Good morning folks, it's a wonderful, Darren Bell Free day, let's celebrate! Cul-de-sac Throws mulch in celebration!!  It's more eco-friendly than confetti! And The Creeps have brought cake!  It's a little dry though. Later, we can watch Broom Hilda get drunk and pretend she's a squirrel! 
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Monty Mike du Jour 
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It's interesting seeing the reactions to Retail from people who don't seem to have lived through the retail experience. Speaking as someone who used to have to do inventory for our store, I can easily say gently caress that job. Although my store at the time was a small video game store in a mall, so it wasn't exactly huge; wouldn't a large department store chain like Grumbel's hire a company to do the audit? There's no way a half-dozen people can audit a whole department store in one night. But enough hate. The Dinette Set is about reaffirming the love. 
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ZeeToo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz IIRC, tightrope walkers use a rope a foot or two off the ground to practice? Either that or the Inspector's going to pull out some hoary chestnut about how tightrope walkers NEVER practice without a net, just in case.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Mike du Jour Jambi is not a psychic. Jambi is a genie. 
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Johnny Walker posted:F Minus It's also worked for me in public restrooms.
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Wanamingo posted:
So good. I'm dreading the day the backlog of new strips runs out.
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Emmy Lou Heathcliff  Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  Pickles  Classic Prince Valiant  
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Another two-parter day... Skippy (March 1, 1927)  Peanuts (May 23, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean  Even the Depression Cat can't deal with Les's bullshit today. Popeye  Rip Haywire 
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Bear in mind that the author is a teacher, and his original intended audience was/is kids: Kory Merritt posted:The Lost Side of Suburbia is a children’s book series, published online by Universal Uclick at GoComics.com and the educational site FunBrain.com since 2010. Ebook collections have been released by Crazy Goat Publishing, the online book arm of The Cartoonist Studio.
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Aardmania posted:Dick Tracy Pfft, you call yourself a crooked cop! It is time to solve the problem. This guy's wanted in connection to multiple homicides and he takes his meetings face-to-face behind closed doors! There are cops out there who would jizz in their tighty whities to get that kind of opportunity to shoot a guy and plant some Evidence Comix!    Aw yeah, posting my backlog just in time for the cliffhanger. Ballard Street   There is no way she didn't push him just then. No way in hell.
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Mustapukuinen Mies - A Man in Black   You might notice that there's one strip missing. The book has ~80 strips but the strip numbers go up to 270. I might have to look for other sources once these are done.
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Evil Mastermind posted:It's interesting seeing the reactions to Retail from people who don't seem to have lived through the retail experience.
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Piranha Club  Dick Tracy   Judge Parker   9 Chickweed Lane  Further evidence that this strip is falling apart at the seams.  What could she have possibly found out other than the name on the tombstone and the helmet that she stole? It's not like anybody was there to explain the details in the flashback. Pibgorn  The audience must have run out of fruit and instead moved on to their footwear.
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TofuDiva posted:Bear in mind that the author is a teacher, and his original intended audience was/is kids: Wait, do people here not realize that Lost Side is supposed to be a children's story?
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Kevin & Kell Yes, we've said it many times, but I still can't get over the gleeful murder in this strip.
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And now, the back half! Pogo (May 22, 1956)  Droodles (May 21, 1956)  Out Our Way (January 2-3, 1925)  
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So wait, the 'encouragement aka guilt trip' line in mary worth wasn't an edit?
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Midnight Moth posted:I did live through the "retail experience". I worked as a pharmacy cashier at a high volume CVS and pretty much rang up customers non stop through my whole shift. There was no downtime. So when I see some jackass like Cooper screwing around on the roof or building box robots on his shift and even getting promoted for it, it pisses me off. Although my boss at the time would slot pretty well into the Retail-verse; he'd do things like open the store half-and-hour to an hour late, then adjust the system time on the computer we used to "punch in" so it'd look like he was on time. Despite the fact that the mall management would notice that the store was opening an hour late and report that to the DM.
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He was bluffing the whole time. Lisa never had cancer!
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Lowen SoDium posted:He was bluffing the whole time. Lisa never had cancer!
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