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Mr. Squishy posted:Why can't her friends go to the prom with her? What sort of prom does one get invited to that all one's friends aren't immediately invited to too? They're not dating a high-schooler.
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TofuDiva posted:Lu Ann is a teacher TofuDiva posted:Margo has lots of careers, sometimes all at once. She currently has an art gallery or something. For a while, she managed performers or politicians or something like that. Before that she worked in a big corporation but wasn't good enough to advance, so she left. Wanamingo posted:Nancy Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz  Julet Esqu posted:That vet is grieving or bored or something, so he took his horse and rode off somewhere leaving that old lady who looks like Lu Ann melted to hold down the fort. She's not a vet, as far as we know, but that's no reason she can't do the job, right? Anyway, she's not actually the vet's girlfriend; she's just the best friend of the vet's late wife and he may or may not blame her for the death, I don't know. She throws herself at him, but he mostly seems interested in standing around.
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I'd be remiss if I didn't post the end of the Cul De Sac Petting Zoo Saga
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Tiggum posted:She is? I've been reading this strip for years and I had no idea. What does she teach? What could she possibly teach? She teaches art! Even though the only time her own art has ever been good was that time there was a gas leak in her studio! (Really) Edit: I guess I'll throw some comics in here: Luann  She sounds so enthusiastic. Apartment 3-G  Pros & Cons  Sally Forth  The Amazing Spider-Man 
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Piranha Club  Dick Tracy   Judge Parker   9 Chickweed Lane  Today, Brooke answers the question, 'What's long and hard and drips when gams are found?'.  Pibgorn   I guess this counts as the part of the story where Pibgorn gets stabbed in the chest. Can we go home now?
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That is a very lovely rock. It looks like some kind of garbage pile or amorphous blob. Also I still read pibgorn as "pigborn". I can't help it. 
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Geech: We think this is how my brother died edition. EasyEW posted:Out Our Way I'm the idiot who thought that chicken was wearing a boot for some reason. Aardmania posted:Dick Tracy So, we are going to Wisconsin? And they built a nuke there instead of in New Mexico? Are you sure you don't want to go to China? How did Annie know to write to you anyway? And if Annie had to hide her message to get it out, why are her kidnappers letting her write letters at all? Are you absolutely sure you don't want to go to China?
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Aardmania posted:Dick Tracy 45 N 87 W dumps you in a vaguely defined area of Lake Michigan or eastern Wisconsin? efb
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Tiggum posted:I'm pretty sure she is actually Jack Riley's girlfriend, but she wants to get married and he won't because he's still grieving for his wife, so now he's gone off to talk to ghosts or something and when he gets back he'll presumably be ready to move on with his life. And I guess then Tommie will be ready to go home too for some reason. And hopefully after that we'll get another Margo story, because those are the best. Good Listener posted:That is a very lovely rock. It looks like some kind of garbage pile or amorphous blob. F Minus  I like this F Minus. Mary Worth  I'm all for encouraging a kids imagination and sense of wonder or whatever, but I feel like she's going a little far. Rex Morgan MD  Rex Morgan is ridiculous.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth 
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Johnny Walker posted:
Now imagine if she told Mary that there's a monster in her closet and her parents don't believe her.
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Yeah this is more like Mary believes in angels and faeries.
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Sometimes the top row of a Sunday comic is kind of worth keeping: (Mary Worth's mainly just has some platitude about self-confidence attributed to the Dalai Lama.)
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Tiggum posted:That cat is incredibly smug about making GBS threads everywhere. As it should be. Cat's have no shame.
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 Aww...  That's pretty cool, Wiley.Bleh, Heavenly Nostrils is yesterday's... 9 Chickweed Lane 6/29/2003  Ok, granted I stayed up until 3:15am and did shots of tequila, so I might be a bit thick, but this makes no loving sense to me at all. Just a recurring theme this morning in Zits...   What? How can you "rent" produce? No, you would rent crops, not produce. You eat produce. And, I'm pretty sure that's now how cloud software(?) works... Right... maybe another shot of Tequila at 10:33am on a Sunday morning will make it work for me, Holbrook.
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So, wait, does Mary Worth believe the girl is actually seeing angels? The Dinette Set  
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This is all leading up to when they finally have to put Mary in a home.
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 They should start a Predator's Rights Advocacy subreddit. I have a feeling something like that would do really well over there.
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Aardmania posted:Judge Parker Nicely done.  I had to go look up the real strip just to make sure.
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Peanuts (July 2, 1967) Funky WinkerOH FOR CHRIST'S SAKE he's really going with Lust For Lisa, isn't he? Just like the syndicate says, totally realistic realism for reality and young people. Reality. Real.  Maybe if his agent hadn't sold the rights to Arch Hall Sr. we wouldn't be going through this horseshit. (e: because oh gently caress me for missing the hilarity of "Mason Jarr".  )Classic Popeye Sunday (c. 1942)  Krazy Kat's not the only one who feels love through assault. Speaking of which, here's Pogo, in which Howland tries to fight fire with gasoline. (June 22, 1969)  First-Gen Blondie (c. 1942)   Out Our Way (March 11-12, 1925)  
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Anger with Funky Winkerbean now transforming into a mix of anger and general sense of, "WTF?" Let's go read some comics that are less confusing. Cow and Boy  Hey! Speech bubbles in the Sundays! Finally! Sherman's Lagoon 
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So between John Darling and this current story arc, is it safe to assume that Batiuk is a failed TV/film writer, and is insanely bitter about it?
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Dewgy posted:So between John Darling and this current story arc, is it safe to assume that Batiuk is a failed TV/film writer, and is insanely bitter about it? Judging by his complete lack of knowledge about the industry, it's more like a boring dude watching a movie/TV show/news report and scoffing, "I can do better than that!" This is the same guy who's written Crankshaft far longer than John Darling, after all.
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Dewgy posted:So between John Darling and this current story arc, is it safe to assume that Batiuk is a failed TV/film writer, and is insanely bitter about it? Probably Magic posted:Judging by his complete lack of knowledge about the industry, it's more like a boring dude watching a movie/TV show/news report and scoffing, "I can do better than that!" This is the same guy who's written Crankshaft far longer than John Darling, after all. I lean closer to Probably Magic's take on what's happening here. There's nothing we haven't seen in this screenplay arc that someone couldn't have gleaned from a lovely sitcom episode about the Hollywood experience. And yet... Tom Batiuk his own drat self posted:Since so many other strips are getting the adaptive treatment by Hollywood, is there any opportunity for Funky to make the leap from metaphorically making movies to literally being a movie? Maybe built around the John Darling murder/resolution? And if one were made, who do you see playing whom?
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EasyEW posted:I lean closer to Probably Magic's take on what's happening here. There's nothing we haven't seen in this screenplay arc that someone couldn't have gleaned from a lovely sitcom episode about the Hollywood experience. What? What comic strips are getting movie adaptations? Comic books, yes. Strips? Not aware of any.
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Stultus Maximus posted:What? What comic strips are getting movie adaptations? Comic books, yes. Strips? Not aware of any. Garfield has movies and a TV show as did Dilbert and Baby Blues (TV shows that is).
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"Lust for Lisa"? I'm smelling a porn movie. 'Mason Jarr' is OK for a porn star name, but the blonde with TNT (two nice tits) should be 'Sherry Hairicooch' and the son should be 'Harry Paratestes'. Then the whole demented movie plot would really come together.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:
Here's the thing I really don't get about this loving insipid storyline: Lifetime loving loves syrupy schlock like this. What the gently caress is, what is it, CME? TAKE YOUR lovely BOOK TO A DIFFERENT NETWORK YOU BRAIN-DEAD HACK!!!!
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Garfield has movies and a TV show as did Dilbert and Baby Blues (TV shows that is). Over the Hedge had a movie that was vaguely watchable too.
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I think this "Lust For Lisa" plot is just stupid. First, the title sucks and would be the first thing to go. Sure it's a play on the phrase "lust for life" and you want to portray how much she meant to you. Real touching. First the movie is about Lisa, not you, so it's misleading before the movie begins. Second, it sound like the title of a porno, which might work if we were making an 80 minute boilerplate summer comedy. The original title might stay in spirit in a subtitle or tag line, probably something like "Lisa's Lust For Life." Nice alliteration. Next thing. This is a screenplay for a movie, not a book. The original manuscript will remain unchanged until about five minutes into the first script session, probably right after a read through. Characters, scenes and plots will be added, subtracted and changed throughout a good portion of the production. Actors may improvise lines or mannerisms, etc. a certain scene that might be powerful on paper might be horrible on film. The studio may want to work in a robot because robots are "in" right now. Unclench,Les. The fact that you're present for any of this poo poo at all means you'll have more creative input than most screenwriters do with their own material. And lose the French cat. If that furball gets injured on studio property the ASPCA will have our heads and the French embassy might raise a stink too, and either of those things might torpedo the production right there. Christ, what an rear end in a top hat.
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"Lust For Lisa" was a mandated change by the strawman TV exec.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Who in their right goddamn mind would see a Funky or Crankshaft movie It's a mystery! I guess there's a reason those options have never been picked up. Maybe it is an altruistic move by some Hollywood angel to keep those properties locked up so that no one can make them. quote:Tom Batiuk his own drat self posted: This reads like one of those questions from a 90s FAQ section of a website where you know good and well that nobody ever asked that question. Apparently it's from an interview and someone actually does care about John Darling. This is shocking news. Also-- metaphorically making movies? Pffft.
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More people cared about Captain America dying and Jason Todd dying, both decisions that have since been retconned, than they did that John Darling died. I think more people cared that Jon Arbuckle got together with that vet.
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Pvt.Scott posted:The fact that you're present for any of this poo poo at all means you'll have more creative input than most screenwriters do with their own material. "Lisa would never say that! I didn't look like that! You've got the death scene all wrong. I can't masturbate to this." In all honesty I can't wait for the rewritten film to start shooting because I can't wait to see what Batiuk considers "bad" dialogue.
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