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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus A Progressive Comic
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Hoover Dam posted:Frozen yogurt in 1987 is relatively new and is positioned entirely as a replacement for ice cream. It is not the Pinkberry "tart with 1000 available toppings" style you see now. Ted Turner bought up a bunch of movies and colorized some of them, but eventually everyone realized this was a bad idea. I am sure there are samples on Youtube if you're interested. The most entertaining thing about the Turner colourisation debacle, in hindsight, was one director's impassioned speech before Congress where he said that altering old movies was the act of barbarians and egotistical gangsters. A direct quote: "These current defacements are just the beginning. Today, engineers with their computers can add color to black-and-white movies, change the soundtrack, speed up the pace, and add or subtract material to the philosophical tastes of the copyright holder. Tomorrow, more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with ‘fresher faces,’ or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor’s lips to match. It will soon be possible to create a new ‘original’ negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires." That man's name was George Lucas.
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May 22, 2014 18:13
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Indolent Bastard posted:Mike du Jour And now I'm remembering Gorgeous George!
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Fingerpori - How's the bathroom renovation coming along? - Nicely! We're spackling and laying tiles Spackling is the proper verb for it, but literally the Finnish word means leveling. In a less literal manner, "leveling" and "laying tiles" mean "hair of the dog" and "puking", respectively. Fok_It elaborates upon the the problems of democracy 
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RandomFerret posted:The most entertaining thing about the Turner colourisation debacle, in hindsight, was one director's impassioned speech before Congress where he said that altering old movies was the act of barbarians and egotistical gangsters. A direct quote: It's sad to see Lucas now. He used to be super passionate about stuff and really creative (albeit with strong oversight and others with veto power) but I guess he just liked money more. Can't really blame him for that, even if I think it lead to some really terrible movies due to having nothing but yes-men at that point. He was a student of Joseph Campbell and set out to tell the story of the Hero With a Thousand Faces in a modern way and succeeded wildly with Star Wars. Joseph Campbell is cool.  About comics, Run, Jane! I'm pretty sure your friend knew you were dating Skye and you only hosed her yesterday (spur of the moment, too) and now your friend is a raving, jealous lunatic? Eject! Sever! Hide! Or try for a threesome!
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May 22, 2014 21:43
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Hoover Dam posted:Frozen yogurt in 1987 is relatively new and is positioned entirely as a replacement for ice cream. To this day I still have a huge bias against the stuff, even though I'm sure it's improved.
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May 22, 2014 21:45
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Luann   This is still going on.  I guess at least now we know the horrifying truth of why Knute always wears that hat.The Amazing Spider-Man    More to come. I have a lot to catch up on and I'm feeling lazy.
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May 22, 2014 22:30
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Pogo, in which Howland and Beauregard discuss the delegation from the great state of Mars. (May 24, 1956) Droodles (May 24, 1956)  Out Our Way (January 7-8, 1925)  This first one was posted before in the overyonder, but this copy is missing a stray vertical line that made one of you ask if the homely girl had hung herself. 
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May 22, 2014 22:38
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 Stop buying the store brand, you cheap bastard!
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May 23, 2014 00:15
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I think he's supposed to be using squares of scrap paper that he cut up himself and that's why they're in a messy little pile, but the colourist DON'T GIVE A gently caress. Still, that's going a little overplugger. I don't think there are that many people out there who are cheap enough to make their own post-its.
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May 23, 2014 00:22
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Rude Cop Theater This one is actually a reference to my very first Spider-Man edit, back in 2011, now sadly lost to time. It featured the phrase "I want to do Spider-Man!" and Peter Parker's timeless response: "Ok."
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May 23, 2014 00:27
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Lots of things are cheaper if your time has no value.
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May 23, 2014 00:28
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Midnight Moth posted:Dustin The joke is crushingly bad but at least it's a believable typo.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Rude Cop Theater 
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann
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May 23, 2014 00:46
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 Mystery solved...    
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May 23, 2014 02:26
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That's a great Mandrake gestures hypnotically! you've got right there in panel 3. 
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Y'know what I hate? Two things. One, waking up in bed scared so I sit up dead straight immediately; and two, doing the first so hard that my blanket mysteriously shuffles halfway to my knees. A constant nuisance, that!
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May 23, 2014 03:59
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Dewgy posted:Y'know what I hate? Two things. One, waking up in bed scared so I sit up dead straight immediately; and two, doing the first so hard that my blanket mysteriously shuffles halfway to my knees. A constant nuisance, that! And finding that your rear end is at the base of your giant pillow
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May 23, 2014 04:06
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Allen Wren posted:And finding that your rear end is at the base of your giant pillow This is actually a normal problem for me but I sleep on like a billion giant pillows.
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May 23, 2014 04:07
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Also, tits that that big don't hang like that in nothing but a nightie. Does she wear a push-up bra to bed or does Gilchrist not know how knockers work?
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May 23, 2014 04:13
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Comics (April 20th 2007) La Cucaracha  Doonesbury  The Duplex  F-Minus  Non Sequitur  --- Eyebeam (March 18th 1983)  It's All Right Chief Dharma (October 16th 2009) 
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  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:
This strip is bullshit. Banks aren't open on Sundays, so #2 couldn't have gone to church. Obviously.
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May 23, 2014 04:26
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Catchup! Mark Trail    Office Hours  Buz Sawyer   
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Dewgy posted:This is actually a normal problem for me but I sleep on like a billion giant pillows. My point is that if she leaned back from there, she'd bash her head on that headboard. (doooo iiiit)
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May 23, 2014 04:34
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Mr. Bill posted:This strip is bullshit. Banks aren't open on Sundays, so #2 couldn't have gone to church. Obviously. He could be a Seventh Day Adventist?
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Mr. Bill posted:This strip is bullshit. Banks aren't open on Sundays, so #2 couldn't have gone to church. Obviously. It's Wednesday evening service.
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Wanamingo posted:Wee Pals  Morrie owns.
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Gil In some parallel universe your dad died in that accident and you were never born Gil. Makes you think, huh. Retail  Hahaha. Dude, the store manager is an incompetent joke and a white-collar criminal. Why you would take anything she says seriously is beyond me. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog  With that GO AWAY doormat no one's gonna want to come. Dustin  Pedantry runs in the family I see. On the Fastrack  I'll admit I laughed. Birds are my weakness. Safe Havens  Why not dump reversal potion on them and have them run away?
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Pvt.Scott posted:Also, tits that that big don't hang like that in nothing but a nightie. Does she wear a push-up bra to bed or does Gilchrist not know how knockers work? You know, I'm good with this. My experience with non-realistic art styles has been that big breasts that always look like they're in a pushup bra might not be great anatomy, but big breasts that are lovingly rendered in their response to gravity and motion are fetishy as gently caress. I certainly know that if he drew them that way people would be complaining even more.
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Wanamingo posted:Lost Side of Suburbia Diggin' this. I am clearly nekulturny swinia, who is N meant to be?
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Redeye Flight posted:Diggin' this. I am clearly nekulturny swinia, who is N meant to be? Cricken_Nigfops posted:It's Stuart Little and Nicodemus from the rats of NIMH. I hope Toad has a bitchin' car 
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I like this Lost Side installment, it's just I can't stop thinking about the whole Dr. Moreau thing in volume II and it gives it a whole different vibe. "And this is H-142." My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 06:27 on May 23, 2014 |
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Mr. Maltose posted:It's Wednesday evening service. If it's the evening, the bank would still be closed. Pros & Cons     Sally Forth    
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BlueDestiny posted:I hope Toad has a bitchin' car Peter the Rabbit there, incidentally, is mostly one character but with hints of another. Peter Rabbit is, of course, the little rabbit who didn't listen to his mother, pilfered a farmer's garden, and got in trouble. He also had a sister named Cotton-tail. However, Peter Cottontail is a completely different contemporary rabbit from the other side of the pond, who later became more famous with the Easter song "Here Comes Peter Cottontail". Both were children's characters and came about at roughly the same time, though Peter Rabbit has a bit of an edge. Peter Cottontail, incidentally, also has a connection to Br'er Rabbit and Sammy Jay from the intro. The three of them shared a couple of story appearances back in the day. As for the rest, while I'm not sure why Moby Dick's skeleton is in the League chamber, the Sword of Martin the Warrior is a blindingly obvious fit. For those who never read Redwall books, Martin the Warrior Mouse founded the titular academy, and his effectively indestructible sword has been passed down for dozens of generations, always reappearing when the Abbey is threatened and needs what is effectively a medieval tac-nuke (not literally, though). It makes badasses out of most anyone who wields it in good faith, largely because Martin's spirit is almost certainly still tied to the blade. It is pretty much always hidden behind a series of puzzles of varying but usually elementary-school difficulty. And I was going to suggest that the mouse might be one of the Three Blind Mice, but he clearly still has a tail, so nix to that. Redeye Flight fucked around with this message at 06:46 on May 23, 2014 |
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Thanks to Nigfops for explaining who those leaguers are. Now I'm wondering why Nicodemus is so much bigger a fox. Toad's pretty outsized too. I have only the vaguest idea of what happens in Reynard the Fox stories, but I do remember that they largely revolve around killing and eating the family of Cuwart the Hare. This Vix Reynard has somehow encountered two rabbits and has yet to eat one, so she's not very good at her job. Geech: Ti-iii-iii-ime! Is on my side! Yes, it is! 
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don Jaime posted:Thanks to Nigfops for explaining who those leaguers are. Now I'm wondering why Nicodemus is so much bigger a fox. Toad's pretty outsized too. We appear to be operating on Redwall Size Conventions here, wherein creature size serves as a general rule of thumb instead of an absolute. That way, when the largely mouse-populated Abbeydwellers encounter a badger, he only stands about two or three of them tall instead of being the size of a small house.
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