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Johnny Walker posted:
 This plotline is giving me vicarious anxiety -- I teach at a university full time and my household is just me and a spouse; if raising a (demon) child with one on the way was added, plus I was expected to work in another equally demanding job AND earn a goddamned doctorate, I would either have a nervous breakdown or run away from home or something. Gah! Any one of those things is a big responsibility, but to do all four at once?  Also, while it's not unheard of for an academic post to have the condition that you earn a doctorate within a certain amount of time of accepting the job (anywhere from one to three years, depending), but if I applied for, and got, a uni teaching post, and then they sprung on me that I needed a doctorate, that would be a deal-breaker. Something that big would have to be in the job description upfront. Ms Boods fucked around with this message at 07:45 on May 23, 2014 |
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TVs Ian posted:I remember those days. It got to the point where if my parents decided to get a treat at TCBY instead of Carvel, I'd just opt out. Frozen yogurt that tried to be ice cream was so bad that a 9 or 10 year old me would rather skip dessert than eat it. Mister Kingdom posted:
RandomFerret posted: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. It's neither of those. Those post-its are just gonig to stay there forever, and the adhesive on them won't last long enough. There are people at the place I work who do this. Their computers are just covered in these post-its that have been there for years. Killer robot posted: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.  He could draw her like that. Home and Away  Unprecedented access? One Big Happy 
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Tiggum posted:Home and Away Well, no employee would be allowed to gently caress around all day on [AMERICAN-ONLY STREAMING WEBSITE] I guess?
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Kennel posted:Mustapukuinen Mies - A Man in Black Holy hell  This one is beautiful.
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Killer robot posted: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 guess it's just the art student raging in me. I didn't take figure drawing for a few years to not learn how tits work! Then again, part of the reason for figure study is so that when you do stuff like cartoon styles, the underlying anatomy and posing feels more natural even if the actual anatomy is extremely exaggerated. You have to know the rules to break them, or something. I guess it's a wash, since the strip itself and most other newspaper comics aren't terribly concerned with realism. E: I'd suggest that Brooke McEldowney take a few figure drawing courses, but we don't need more detailed hand-sex.
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Is this an edit? Why would the artist lovingly render three unique hooked noses and the outlines of a ski mask compressed around a curly mop of hair and make the car be the only relevant clue?
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Wow. Knut was secretly Paul Shaffer this whole time!
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Killer robot posted: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 agree. I mean, gigantic cartoon boobs have always defied gravity. Jessica Rabbit comes to mind. Ms Boods posted:
Don't forget, these are 'toons, and June can do literally super-human things with regard to her family life. I'm surprised they're not throwing her pole dancing, and IT consulting side jobs into the mix too. Plus, Rex can just get a temp RN, and Kelly's got our little potential exorcism subject under control for the time being.  Jane's World  Uh.. hmm. Did somebody up-thread mention "threesome"? Well Jane, when in Rome... Non Sequitur  Good one, Wiley! Just the concept of a "guide chicken" was funny to me. Heavenly Nostrils   Kliban  I wiki'd Mendocino. I'm still 9 Chickweed Lane 5/23/2003  Interesting that Juliette wears an evening gown to bed at night. I guess I'm not surprised, Brooke. Zits  Wait, isn't Jeremy a perpetual HS Sophomore? I was pretty much done with that by that time. Kevin & Kell  poo poo, that's Kevin's Mom? Why do I even care? Nemi Wait, what?! No 5/23 Metro? Do you guys, like, just shutdown the country every couple of weeks?
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I can't stop cracking up at this, I am a child Mr. Squishy posted:Jesus Cobalt you're clueless. How do you keep being outfoxed by a children's comic strip? Cobalt Solves The Mystery, But The Inspector Has Different Plans
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Cul-de-sac Petey is so supportive. The Creeps ...you'd think there'd be a lot more blood. 
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Skippy (March 4, 1927) Peanuts (May 26, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean  "Lust For Lisa"? For a disease-of-the-week movie? What kind of cable network did Les's agent sell that script to? And how many states is it banned in? Popeye  Rip Haywire 
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Bloom County Never can trust those animate teddy bears.  All In The Family did it first. Calvin And Hobbes   Ripley's 
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Ham Shears displays the roadblock every writer faces. Ironically, The Dinette Set has no place to put their dinette set.  I do this too. 
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Fingerpori - Hi, I'm Jamppa, of Ahonen - Wanna dance? - Didn't you hear him? He's mine! [Ahonen] Saying someone's full name sounds slightly less... formal, I guess, when you say the surname first. However, the surname must be in possessive form: "I'm Ahonen's Jamppa". I think the idea is something like "Jamppa of the Ahonen family" but with the family part dropped. Fok_It  "In a fog" means heavily drunk in Finnish. tiistai fucked around with this message at 15:02 on May 23, 2014 |
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Julet Esqu posted:If it's the evening, the bank would still be closed. The (Catholic) church I grew up in did (sparsely-attended) services every day at multiple times. That said, it's more likely that that goon is lying. He just happens not to be the most likely culprit for this particular crime according to the twisted logic by which Inspector Danger's universe operates.
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EasyEW posted:
It'll work better if they change the character's name to Liza. They should see if Les will go for that.
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean This isn't actually happening, this is just the story Les tells when people ask him how his movie script is selling. "No, no, I got plenty of people who wanted to buy it, but they were going to sully Lisa's memory, so I turned them down." Because we all know that Lisa was such a beautiful person that even a book about her dying from cancer turned people into total horn Dog Comix. Pooch Café  Here, have another cliffhanger that I won't resolve for several days. Ballard Street  When you're improvising, you need to fit the narrative to the props you've got.
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Lost Side of Suburbia is pretty OK but I'm surprised no one else has mentioned its thesaurus obsession. Seriously read the dialogue in the Heckbender story - it's a million miles from natural. The words supposedly coming out of this fourteen-year-old (?) girl range from "stilted" to "archaic." It's goony writing through and through and I honestly couldn't bear reading it after a couple pages into her reading the Hobbit and wondering if "the gruesome monster might delight in the happenstances of the diminutive hero or draw parallels between our plight and his imminent satiation of hunger" or whatever the gently caress. Just saying it's odd to get a pass from everyone when Brooke McEldowny's pretentious word soups are regularly mocked. I am, however, reading the new story, because it's drawn in a neat style and colorful. And hasn't yet shown any problems in writing. Whereas I automatically scroll past any and all McEldowny comics. Also I say again, Creeps forever.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Mike du Jour Mike du Jour is pissing me off more than usual. Karl Kasell's final show was last weekend. It was quite a good sendoff. He's retired now. This joke would have been terrible even if it wasn't late. edit: also, they've been saying "home answering machine or voicemail" for a long rear end time  mad about stupid poo poo
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Julet Esqu posted:Pros & Cons Still one of the best strips in this thread.
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SuperKlaus posted:Lost Side of Suburbia is pretty OK but I'm surprised no one else has mentioned its thesaurus obsession. Seriously read the dialogue in the Heckbender story - it's a million miles from natural. The words supposedly coming out of this fourteen-year-old (?) girl range from "stilted" to "archaic." It's goony writing through and through and I honestly couldn't bear reading it after a couple pages into her reading the Hobbit and wondering if "the gruesome monster might delight in the happenstances of the diminutive hero or draw parallels between our plight and his imminent satiation of hunger" or whatever the gently caress. Just saying it's odd to get a pass from everyone when Brooke McEldowny's pretentious word soups are regularly mocked. I talked like that when I was 14 because all I did was read long books with big words by myself. I'm going to say that the protagonist's speech patterns when retelling her experience seems ok to me. I now talk like the dumb mid-western waste of space that I am, because that's how real people talk.
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Has anybody suggested that Alibi Algie might have a twin brother nobody knows about? He's passing himself off as his own twin brother? I had an old comic where that was the answer.
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (January 7-8, 1925)
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:The Creeps ...you'd think there'd be a lot more blood.  that last panel is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time
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Trent posted:Mike du Jour is pissing me off more than usual. Well, considering that the last thread had a week of Car Talk jokes which landed a full year after they stopped making new episodes, we should be thankful Lester got it that close.
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RandomFerret posted:Haven't done one of these in a while. Please keep doing these, they are wonderful.
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RandomFerret posted:Haven't done one of these in a while. Honestly this isn't that far from your average Winnie the Pooh strip.
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The difference between the slightly flowery stuff of Lost Side of Suburbia and McEldowney's wank fest is that one sounds like a kid who's had their head dipped into too much Edwardian/Victorian literature and the other one sounds like someone who literally right clicks random words in his speech bubble and selects the longest thesaurus suggestion he can find, resulting in a stream of incoherent garbage. Nobody talks like they do in Lost Side of Suburbia, but nobody even naturally writes like they do in Chickweed Lane. Scary Gary  Cow and Boy 
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