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Cricken_Nigfops posted:The Creeps commits war-crimes. (or just plagiarizes Frozen) I've not seen Frozen, but that's a straight-up Arrested Development joke. Though the cartoonist has said that they just write down the jokes friends make, which is probably how things like this slip in.
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:I've been wondering the same thing. I stopped reading it once it became a lovely Jim's Journal. JaggerMcDagger posted:Why don't these have anything to do with rock and roll anymore? It's metaphorical. I'm posting in order. Sometimes they are bog-standard "I met musician!" stories, sometimes they're not. Great Moments in Rock 'n' Roll 
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TofuDiva posted:I didn't realize it was a translation; somehow I missed that part of the origin of these, and I'm genuinely grateful that folks here take the time to translate stuff. My apologies and appreciation to the translator! Just for the record, I don't translate poo poo. I'm pulling these straight from GoComics. Six Chix  Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Wee Pals  Andertoons  Lost Side of Suburbia   Zachary Nixon Johnson  Oh, hey, drama. Dick Tracy  Oh, Brother 
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The Dinette Set is surprisingly un-patriotic today.
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GorfZaplen posted:Morrie truly was one of the greats. I've been thinking... Wee Pals was launched on February 15, 1965. Depending on just how deep Morrie's buffer really is, it's not out of the question that "50 continuous years of a comic strip, without repeats, all by the original author" could be added to his list of accomplishments. (And firsts? Has anybody else ever done that?)
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GorfZaplen posted:Morrie truly was one of the greats. An absolute legend. May his backlog keep going forever! Wanamingo posted:Lost Side of Suburbia Those Ice Cream Dorgs  Wanamingo posted:Zachary Nixon Johnson This Incoherent Garbage 
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TofuDiva posted:I've been thinking... Wee Pals was launched on February 15, 1965. Depending on just how deep Morrie's buffer really is, it's not out of the question that "50 continuous years of a comic strip, without repeats, all by the original author" could be added to his list of accomplishments. (And firsts? Has anybody else ever done that?) Didn't someone say he had like 9 months of strips backlogged when he died?
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Johnny Aztec posted:Didn't someone say he had like 9 months of strips backlogged when he died? It's supposed to end in late September so I've heard.
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Sorry kids, but material forces beyond your control or the control of anyone else, together with a cynical, exhausted political order mean that your potential life outcomes are poorer and more constrained than those of the recent generations that came before you in many ways. No one to witness and adjust, no one to drive the car
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F Minus Mary Worth  Thing happens--person reacts. WOW! Must be psychic! Rex Morgan MD  Sally Jesse Raphael is not happy.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth I really hope Mary helps the indigo child learn to connect with the cosmos. I really hope that's actually going to happen in this storyline, it'll be great.
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Skippy (April 16, 1927) Today's Peanuts is filed under "Sometimes he just brings it on himself." (July 8, 1967)  The Immaculately Pure (If Temporarily Debased) Artist Goes To Lunch  He's going to get into the producer's head through the tandoori guy, isn't he? It wouldn't be Les if he took a more direct approach. Popeye  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (March 25-26, 1925)  
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Well, it was bound to happen someday, Cul-de-sac which we've seen before.  I know, I know, the dangers of posting a retired strip. Makes me miss it all over again. Richard T, you are STILL my favorite comic stripper. Neither The Creeps nor Poptropica seems to update on weekends.
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TofuDiva posted:I've been thinking... Wee Pals was launched on February 15, 1965. Depending on just how deep Morrie's buffer really is, it's not out of the question that "50 continuous years of a comic strip, without repeats, all by the original author" could be added to his list of accomplishments. (And firsts? Has anybody else ever done that?) Peanuts came close (October 1950 - February 2000). I can't recall Schulz ever doing reruns (except for Rerun, of course!), and the Al Plastino fill-in strips were never actually published so they don't count. The Guinness Book of World Records says that the longest running daily comic strip by a single author is a UK strip called Bristow, which I've never heard of but has apparently been running since 1961. Beetle Bailey has been running since 1950, and Mort Walker is still the official creator, although who knows how much he actually has to do with it these days. Selachian fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Selachian posted:The Guinness Book of World Records says that the longest running daily comic strip by a single author is a UK strip called Bristow, which I've never heard of but has apparently been running since 1961. Looks like low-key office comedy to me. The website design is a blast from the past, too.     
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth This is the worst version of The Shining ever. Cow and Boy  Sherman's Lagoon 
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Non Sequitur  Heavenly Nostrils  Makes sense. 9 Chickweed Lane 7/5/2003  Oh Brooke, come on. Edda looks too loving weird in that dress without even the slightest hint of cleavage. How did you manage to restrain yourself? Zits  That was to be expected based on the job description, Jeremy. Kevin & Kell  
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Yesterday's Ham Shears because the holiday threw me off. Today's The Dinette Set because whatever. 
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Prince Valiant does all the same planning for his overseas voyages that the kids in Out Our Way do. "Ats okay, we'll only need to go fer a day or so cuz we kin hijack a pirate ship once we hit open water! Gorsh fellas, why am I allays th' only one thinkin round here?" The fact that it works should fill everyone around him with Existential Dread Comix. Pooch Café  Twist ending, Poo Poo was a toy all along! Are any of the dogs real? Are any of us? Ballard Street  Look at his face. He doesn't know why this keeps happening. It's not him doing this, by God, it's not him!
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Calling it now- Olive has a high midi-chlorian count. Only a matter of time before the Jedi Council shows up to take her away from her family forever!
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Calling it now- Olive has a high midi-chlorian count. Only a matter of time before the Jedi Council shows up to take her away from her family forever! At which point her parents shrug and say "a bunch of celibate magicians want to raise her? Well, as long as I don't have to leave the pool"
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Fingerpori - This year I'm going to have my holiday in the Central African countries - Ooh [Vesa Keskinen] Okay. "Central" is the pun here. The way adjectives work in Finnish is that they agree with the number and case of the noun. In this instance, "Central" is the adjective and "Africa" is the immediate noun. Afrikan here is the genitive (possessive) case of Afrikka (Afrikan maissa "in the countries of Africa, in the African countries"), therefore keskinen "central, middle" must also be in the genitive case: keskisen "[of] central". Vesa Keskinen is the CEO of a large Finnish department store and a fairly common sight in the yellow paper headlines. I guess he's kinda like a poor man's Donald Trump. Fairly wealthy by local standards anyway. So, when both "central" and "Africa" are in the genitive case, Keskisen Afrikan maissa can be read as "in Keskinen's African countries". No, it was not a funny pun.
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Ema Nymton posted:Do the writers of Luann know that it's not out of the ordinary to wait a few years between high school and college? They clearly haven't heard of work visas so...
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Ema Nymton posted:Do the writers of Luann know that it's not out of the ordinary to wait a few years between high school and college? In general, yeah, but for someone like Gunther (who is going to loving die in Peru)? It's pretty unusual. I think he'd have been better off getting on with his life than following a high-school romance to Peru to work in a clinic without any qualifications beyond a high-school diploma. I mean, I suppose that's a good set of memories to have, but does he even speak the language?
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You know what I bet third world medical clinics really could use more of? Glorified tourists showing up knowing nothing about the work they plan to do or the local culture and whose reasons for going include "I don't want to break up with my girlfriend" rather than any real desire or passion to help out! Definitely that American high school diploma beats whatever credentials any so-called "doctor" got in Peru, right?  This is why you shouldn't narrate your activities out loud.    I don't know, Ock. That vehicle still looks like it got pretty hosed up to me. Here's the only thing that happened in A3-G   The baby is, of course, Tommie's deer. Also note that you can tell we aren't supposed to like Carol because she is not fond of babies and approves of nannies.     
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Gunther returns from the rugged wilds of Peru a changed man. An ultranationalist separatist organization kidnaps all of the clinic workers for being tools of foreign commercial interests. After several months of physical abuse and harsh labor, Gunther breaks free of his captors and flees blindly into the night. Broken and starving, Gunther blunders into a clearing and his vision fades to black. Gunther is found and nursed back to health by an ex-tier 1 operative, Juan, who fled to the wilds of Peru to forget his past life and commune with the divine in solitude. During their time together they both learn the true value of living. Juan finds the peace and personal fulfillment he had craved in teaching his military and wilderness skills to Gunther. Gunther finally experiences the firm guidance and respect of the father he never had. The duo begin stalking the countryside, a pair of phantoms bringing justice and vengeance to those who need it. Entire criminal empires crumble in the long bloody nights of their crusade. The clinic workers are freed and their captors punished as a matter of course, but it is only a moment as brief as a single heartbeat to the Ghosts of Peru. Ten long years after they met, Juan has a fatal heart attack. As Juan lays dying, he and Gunther exchange a silent and tearful knowledge that they truly knew and loved one another, as father and son, as brothers in arms and as lovers. Six months after Juan's passing Gunther returns to the US to see his mother. At first she does not recognize the boy she had long thought dead in the grizzled man before her. Soon though, mother and son wordlessly embrace and cry tears of joy and sorrow for hours. Later that day when his mother inquires about Rosa, Gunther quietly replies, " Rosa? The last time I saw her I was too busy buying her and the others time to escape to say hello." He smiles and rolls up his left sleeve to reveal a deep jagged scar and offers no further explanation. Or I guess Gunther will go to Peru and be an awkward douche as usual. Luann is pretty terrible. Has dude's daughter taken over or is the strip transitioning ? I figure the whole graduation arc will end with the change of leadership. It would be cool if she did something different with the characters.
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