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Emmy Lou Heathcliff  Mandrake the Magician   The Phantom  Pickles  Classic Prince Valiant  
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RandomFerret posted:Right-click and copy the image onto your clipboard like you were going to paste it into photoshop, and just ctrl-v (or option-v) anywhere in the imgur upload window. Well, I'll be dogged! That's easy! Thanks! Pros & Cons  Sally Forth  Juliet Jones  Phantom Classic  Edit: Somebody's gotta want this thing: 
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy This is a prime example of the Nancys I hate the most. A straight line followed by a bunch of super clunky glurge instead of a punchline. Say what you will about Rose is Rose's saccharine dialogue but this right here is way more unbearable to me. Gilchrist can't form a joke on the best of days, but this is the exact opposite of a joke. This is the comic equivalent of grossly sweet emails grandmas forward to each other.
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GorfZaplen posted:Mandrake the Magician If he could pull the guns out of their hands, why was all the cloning stuff necessary?? 
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Alabaster White posted:If he could pull the guns out of their hands, why was all the cloning stuff necessary??
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Skippy (March 18, 1927) Peanuts (June 6, 1996)  Sparky in WW2: "[Schulz] served as a staff sergeant with the 20th Armored Division in Europe, as a squad leader on a .50 caliber machine gun team. His unit saw combat only at the very end of the war. Schulz said that he only ever had one opportunity to fire his machine gun but forgot to load it. Fortunately, he said, the German soldier he could have fired at willingly surrendered." Funky Winkerbean  Popeye  Rip Haywire 
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Darthemed posted:Mandrake's a magician, he's gotta find some way to show off. Remember how long he dicked around wifh the inspector who was just there to tell him about the case? Mandrake spent more time loving with the inspector than he did tracking Algie down and catching him.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:It doesn't usually get posted here because its ideas have largely been played out, but Metafilter recently has been abuzz with some discussion about this week's Pearls Before Swine: The latest one: 
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Jane's World And the witty banter continues... Non Sequitur  The image of Cap'n Eddie at Woodstock is just killin' me.  Heavenly Nostrils caught up for the second time this week.   Kliban   Zits  Not having a tattoo, is the ink in too deep to have any effect on UV absorbtion? Kevin & Kell  Interesting attempt, Holbrook, but it didn't quite work in my book. 
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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Ham Shears Alternate punch line: "Then you can take over writing Funky Winkerbean." The Dinette Set just makes me sad today. 
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean
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Manuel Calavera posted:Mother Goose & Grimm Writing a gag about the Mayflower and drawing one of Christopher Columbus's ships. That's some attention to detail, Peters.
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Selachian posted:Writing a gag about the Mayflower and drawing one of Christopher Columbus's ships. That's some attention to detail, Peters. Also lazy: an "April showers bring May flowers" joke in June.
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These Maladjusted Comics need help, not hate. Pooch Café  Me irl Ballard Street  How is he the only one up there? Any party I've ever been to, one person going out on the roof means twelve people go out on the roof until the truss cracks or we get yelled at to get the gently caress down before the truss cracks.
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RandomFerret posted:Pooch Café I have a cat who did this, would paw at the door to the outside porch on and on, but if it swung open, off she scampered, no longer interested. Cow and Boy 
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RevKrule posted:Ok, firstly, didn't she bring scissors with her? Wasn't that the threat that got her in the door? Secondly, again, why wasn't she hunting down a reading copy of this book? She wanted it for completion sake, I'm sure she could've found a VG or below copy for a reasonable price and not had to destroy something this guy put extra money into preserving. Third, even if this is one of the only copies in existence, and even if she knows her son won't care about that and will want to open it up and read it, shouldn't she let him do that himself? I hate when people open my stuff for me without my asking them to.
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Probably Magic posted:I have a cat who did this, would paw at the door to the outside porch on and on, but if it swung open, off she scampered, no longer interested. Was it being chased by a butterfly?
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Tiggum posted:Was it being chased by a butterfly? No, but what's notable is that she's completely declawed, on the somewhat overweight and older side, and has never really shown off any huge amount of athleticism, and yet she always pounced on the door window, trying to scare whatever creatures may lie just beyond. With squirrels and birds, it's actually somewhat effective and they'd freak and run away, but there used to be another cat that was a battle-worn ironclad momma cat, and this declawed thing would trying to intimidate her through the glass, and the momma would just give her a blithe, "Yeah, whatever," look and walk away. Alright, enough Pet Island posting from me today.
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Bloom County Jessica Hahn, as you may recall from previous name-drops, was the secretary of televangelist Jim Bakker, with whom she was involved in a sex scandal.   Calvin And Hobbes   Ripley's 
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Why ponies and not horses? A pony is NOT a baby horse, argh!
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Lowen SoDium posted:Chris Columbus looks high as a motherfucker. Those bee bouncers need to keep Columbus and his "infused" pickled cucumbers out of America.
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Did Pearls Before Swine use to be funnier or am I just older? Because I really used to love it and I'd hate it if the latter was the case  .
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RandomFerret posted:Ballard Street
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Drimble Wedge posted:Why ponies and not horses? A pony is NOT a baby horse, argh! Something bred into the line? Ponies are a specifically bred type of horse, I think, so sensitivity to pollen could be something picked up through in-breeding along the way.
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FunkyAl posted:Did Pearls Before Swine use to be funnier or am I just older? Because I really used to love it and I'd hate it if the latter was the case No, we've seen before in this thread it was never really funny at all. I'm sorry to break it to you, but Pearls Before Swine has always been awful.
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:No, we've seen before in this thread it was never really funny at all. I'm sorry to break it to you, but Pearls Before Swine has always been awful. It was great when it started, over 10 years ago. And for several years after that. I think he's just kinda run out of ideas. 
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:It was great when it started, over 10 years ago. And for several years after that. I think he's just kinda run out of ideas.
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I still enjoy the ones with Rube-Goldberg-level puns.
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Johnny Walker posted:Most comic strips should just end after a certain number of years, like TV shows. Seriously this, but sadly creating a popular comic strip is like winning in a lottery* so it's quite understandable why that won't happen. *) I'm not saying that it makes you super rich, I'm saying that it's something that's not going to happen twice.
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I still can't bring myself to dislike PBS. It used to be great, and even now that it's gotten stale it's still better than most of the other stuff on the comics page. I'd just like it if Pastis hung it up and moved on to something else. I think he'd probably make a great novelist if he worked on stuff like Douglas Coupland's novels or A Confederacy of Dunces (which he listed as a huge influence on him in the first PBS treasury). I will agree that I still like the unbelievably tortured puns that take like eight panels of setup.
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I'd be a lot more okay with Pearls Before Swine if the punchline to so many strips wasn't "Rat insulting and/or threatening Pastis for making bad jokes."
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DoubleDonut posted:I'd be a lot more okay with Pearls Before Swine if the punchline to so many strips wasn't "Rat insulting and/or threatening Pastis for making bad jokes." Yeah. Like, it would be one thing if he just did the elaborate puns or whatever, but it seems like he always does this as some sort of defensive "haha, yeah, I know it's not good, but that's not going to stop me from repeatedly doing this." Really, I think a big problem with Pastis's work is that he gets stuck in these years-long ruts. Like where he spent what felt like two years on "wacky crocodiles speaking in broken english" and the times where he will do the same "pun -> threat" sunday comic formula for a year or so, broken up with the occasional Danny the Donkey thing.
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