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Magic Hate Ball posted:The way this thread reacts to Foob, you'd think Lynn Johnston literally murdered her children. Well, she did leave her son out in the snow for crying too much, so there's that. Edit: \/\/\/\/\/\/ Yes, but she actually has issues. Green Intern fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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Yeah, but you guys act like she's an insane devil woman or something. I get that there's an insidious thread of sinister behavior running through the strip, but jesus christ tone it back a bit. "My kids are annoying" has been a comedy staple for about ten million years.
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Midnight Moth posted:Retail Perhaps the store has more employees, but she's only responsible for reviewing these forty. Magic Hate Ball posted:The way this thread reacts to Foob, you'd think Lynn Johnston literally murdered her children. Today one person reacted strongly to foob and the other people were like, "Yeah... Not seeing it," so I'm not so sure about that. In general we are more critical of the "Christ, my kids are annoying" shtick in foob than in other strips because we know this comic is based on a real life family that is now estranged. Going back and looking at the old strips with that knowledge can't help but color things. What stands out to me most is that the strips where Lynn is annoyed by her kids are rarely tempered by strips showing that she loves or even likes her kids. It starts to become less "Christ, my kids are annoying," and more "Christ, I hate my goddamn kids." Some of these are like a cry for help. I didn't see anything objectionable in today's, though.
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Yeah today's is pretty reasonable in a vacuum. Still one of the least hosed up parts of a pretty nasty tale, though. Unless the unpublished panel 5 was a little girl being held underwater. Which is also pretty reasonable to assume.
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Ghostlight posted:It depends on how terrible the writer is, but Magneto is generally just a violently pro-active rights-activist who sees himself as defending mutants against genocide by humans. He will try to control or eliminate humans to prevent mutant genocide, but he recognises that humanity will slowly die off as it breeds more mutants and so doesn't strive for wholesale genocide of the species. And considering that Newspaper Spidey is talking about Newspaper Magneto and Newspaper Doom, as envisioned by an aged and delightfully insane Stan Lee, probably the worst thing Magneto has done is steal all the pies from the U.N. catering kitchen, intending to hold them ransom for an independent mutant state.
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Julet Esqu posted:In general we are more critical of the "Christ, my kids are annoying" shtick in foob than in other strips because we know this comic is based on a real life family that is now estranged. Going back and looking at the old strips with that knowledge can't help but color things. What stands out to me most is that the strips where Lynn is annoyed by her kids are rarely tempered by strips showing that she loves or even likes her kids. It starts to become less "Christ, my kids are annoying," and more "Christ, I hate my goddamn kids." Some of these are like a cry for help. What happened between her and her family? I know she's spoken about how she was abused by her husband and was thoroughly unprepared for the process of child-rearing, thus her tossing her kid into a snowbank in a classic fit of early-parent frustration. Also, how old are these strips?
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Midnight Moth posted:Safe Havens I can't wait to see how your magic trapeze works in zero-G, Magical Trapeze Kid. And, why is he a pilot? Isn't he like 10? Somehow hanging upside down all your life, and performing in Cirque du Soliel qualifies him as a pilot?
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Magic Hate Ball posted:What happened between her and her family? I know she's spoken about how she was abused by her husband and was thoroughly unprepared for the process of child-rearing, thus her tossing her kid into a snowbank in a classic fit of early-parent frustration. Also, how old are these strips? I don't think her husband ever abused her, but he did cheat on her with his secretary or something. As far as her family goes, I think they're just estranged because they don't like being around their crazy-rear end mom, there wasn't really a particular incident as far as we know. Except in the case of Michael. Buckle in because this is a loving crazy one. Michael (the real Michael, idk what his real name is) was working for his college newspaper when he was sent to photograph a fatal car wreck. The next day he found out that it was an old childhood friend of his that had died in the accident. When Lynn heard about this, she decided the thing to do was to put it into her comic, except changing it so that his old friend lived and she and Michael got married and lived happily ever after. Real Michael, understandably, has rarely spoken to her since.
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Helicity posted:It was a joke... It's a joke that gets bandied about a lot. Julet Esqu posted:In general we are more critical of the "Christ, my kids are annoying" shtick in foob than in other strips because we know this comic is based on a real life family that is now estranged. Going back and looking at the old strips with that knowledge can't help but color things. What stands out to me most is that the strips where Lynn is annoyed by her kids are rarely tempered by strips showing that she loves or even likes her kids. It starts to become less "Christ, my kids are annoying," and more "Christ, I hate my goddamn kids." Some of these are like a cry for help. For me, another part of it is that the children can never win, and that the stuff they do is rarely worth getting that upset over. I mean it's like, the kid's playing outside but he wants to come in because he's getting attacked by mosquitoes? Nope, you're staying the hell out there. They try to do something nice and make her a cup of coffee? Ugh, they can't do anything right. Outside reading? Can't have any of that, you're going to go clean out the garage because we take care of you for free. Inside watching TV? Oh no, you're going outside to do something right now. With today's comic, forcing your kid to learn an instrument he doesn't want to play is kind of bad in and of itself. What gets me, though, is that I'm positive there have been comics before where she's complaining about him playing it too loudly and why can't you just do something else for a while. WeaponGradeSadness posted:I don't think her husband ever abused her, but he did cheat on her with his secretary or something. As far as her family goes, I think they're just estranged because they don't like being around their crazy-rear end mom, there wasn't really a particular incident as far as we know. Except in the case of Michael. Buckle in because this is a loving crazy one. Michael (the real Michael, idk what his real name is) was working for his college newspaper when he was sent to photograph a fatal car wreck. The next day he found out that it was an old childhood friend of his that had died in the accident. When Lynn heard about this, she decided the thing to do was to put it into her comic, except changing it so that his old friend lived and she and Michael got married and lived happily ever after. Real Michael, understandably, has rarely spoken to her since. Wasn't there also some drama about one of her kids being gay? I vaguely hearing that.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:What happened between her and her family? I know she's spoken about how she was abused by her husband and was thoroughly unprepared for the process of child-rearing, thus her tossing her kid into a snowbank in a classic fit of early-parent frustration. Also, how old are these strips? I might be misremembering it, but in real life her son was a photo journo, he came to a flaming wreck that happened to involve his high school sweetheart and he took pictures of it. In Foobland, he heroically tore the door off, saved her, married her, and had kids with her. Her daughter travelled all over the world and was involved in helping the needy abroad. In the strip she comes back after one tour and marries the blandest man alive and stays by her mother's side forever. EDIT: ok I got some details wrong, still it's a very hosed up thing. I also remember that when Lynn was redoing the strip from the very beginning she handled Michael and Deanna's grade school crush like this fated romance from destiny. Calaveron fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:I don't think her husband ever abused her, but he did cheat on her with his secretary or something. Oh no, it was much more interesting than that, because her husband was actually screwing Lynn's chief FOOB staffer, who very suddenly was unpersoned on the official website. The disintegration of her marriage led directly to Lynn kicking the full-blown retirement can down the road a few years, as well as a newspaper profile which talked about her eating her dinner over the sink. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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Darthemed posted:Bloom County At 1/1000 scale, that'd be, what, 15 miles long?
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EasyEW posted:
god dammit Batiuk you are friends with Tony Isabella run this poo poo by him
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Allen Wren posted:At 1/1000 scale, that'd be, what, 15 miles long? The Great Wall is 5500 miles long, so 5.5 miles. Opus bought his gift box from Dr. Who.
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Wee Pals  Is that a racial slur I'm not aware of or something? Andertoons  Zachary Nixon Johnson  It stepped away from it for a while, but ZNJ's really starting to feel like a fetish comic again. Dick Tracy  Maybe not what? Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz 
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz
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"The killer was just about to be exposed when you knocked" Breathes heavily, motions for the Inspector to follow him, walks down the hallway, picks up the book from on the seat of the chair, sits in the chair, opens book to where he was reading. "on my door!"
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Wanamingo posted:Wee Pals It's a groaner of a baseball pun. Fly balls to outfield compared to a grounder bouncing through the infield.
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Wanamingo posted:
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Green Intern posted:Is the doctor supposed to be a pedophile, because that's the only thing I'm seeing when I look at this. The eerie part was I predicted that his mustache would disappear. 
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Wanamingo posted:Wee Pals Baseball terms: Flies, as in balls hit into the air. Grounders, as in balls that travel along the ground. quote:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Or maybe they just wear different shapes of glasses to differentiate themselves?
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Morrie was the best. This cannot be repeated enough.
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Pastry of the Year posted:...what? He's handing over the reins, or tongs as it were. For the first time in twenty something years, his son is doing the barbecuing. It's something of a ceremonial moment, a final rite of passage.
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Wanamingo posted:
Jesus, Trihn is out for loving blood on this one.  Wanamingo posted:
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy There's only one man with a bucket on his head that matters. Gilchrist you fucker.   
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:I don't think her husband ever abused her, but he did cheat on her with his secretary or something. As far as her family goes, I think they're just estranged because they don't like being around their crazy-rear end mom, there wasn't really a particular incident as far as we know. Except in the case of Michael. Buckle in because this is a loving crazy one. Michael (the real Michael, idk what his real name is) was working for his college newspaper when he was sent to photograph a fatal car wreck. The next day he found out that it was an old childhood friend of his that had died in the accident. When Lynn heard about this, she decided the thing to do was to put it into her comic, except changing it so that his old friend lived and she and Michael got married and lived happily ever after. Real Michael, understandably, has rarely spoken to her since. I just read the car accident strips for the first time as a result of this, and holy poo poo. I had always assumed he was angry at her just for the basic reason that she turned a traumatic event for him into a comic strip. Now that I see WHAT SORT of comic strip she turned it into, I'm blown away by how cruel it is and how the hell somebody could do a thing like this to their own son. In the comic, Michael acts like a jerk at the scene of the accident, doesn't help the rescuers, and is happy and excited because he's getting to take photos of a dead or injured person. It's a whole storyline of him being a dick and then the big payoff moment is when his mother tells him it actually matters because it was a girl he knew, and he learns a supposedly heartwarming lesson about the need for compassion. If I had just lost a friend in a car accident, and someone turned it into something like that and printed it all over the place, I'd probably never speak to them again either. Wow.
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Don't forget the part where Comic Strip Michael went on to marry that girl and they had two beautiful children together and Michael specifically states that he is the happiest he could ever possibly be. This was after Real Life Michael came out of the closet.
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Wanamingo posted:Dick Tracy
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RandomFerret posted:Don't forget the part where Comic Strip Michael went on to marry that girl and they had two beautiful children together and Michael specifically states that he is the happiest he could ever possibly be. Oh my God, I didn't know about that last bit. Lynn is loving certifiable.
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RandomFerret posted:Don't forget the part where Comic Strip Michael went on to marry that girl and they had two beautiful children together and Michael specifically states that he is the happiest he could ever possibly be. Oh wow, I didn't know about that last part either. That's crazy. Honestly, I think I'd be pretty uncomfortable having a parent who wrote a fictional version of my life for a living, even if they avoided anything weird or objectionable. It's one thing to have characters and events based on people and things from your own life - every storyteller does that to some degree - but to create something apparently so close to your real life but pass it off as fiction is just kind of strange.
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Ok, I'm convinced. So, who's gonna drive the stake through her heart?Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Wow, I can't believe I actually got an Inspector Danger right.
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Piranha Club  Dick Tracy   Judge Parker    This must be another mistake. Usually we don't see Brooke's windbags spring a leak like that.  Pibgorn  Someone in the audience has really bad aim. That wine bottle didn't even come close to the stage.  Oh, my mistake. Carry on then.
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Luann Yes. This is why they snuck into the prop closet.  Apartment 3-G  Pros & Cons  Sally Forth  The Amazing Spider-Man 
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Aardmania posted:Piranha Club
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Midnight Moth posted:Retail
Midnight Moth posted:On the Fastrack BlankIsBeautiful posted:I can't wait to see how your magic trapeze works in zero-G, Magical Trapeze Kid. And, why is he a pilot? Isn't he like 10? Somehow hanging upside down all your life, and performing in Cirque du Soliel qualifies him as a pilot?
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don Jaime posted:What the hell is going on in Lost Side of Suburbia? It's just a mess anymore. It's pretty straightforward, actually. York meets up with a group of people in the mysterious woods, they come across an inn, and now each is telling a story to the innkeeper to be able to stay for the night. Each style-change is just a different story. Nikaer Drekin fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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