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Arlo and Janis is doing a drama arc much better than "proper" drama comics.
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The Facebook page for Star Trek was trying to promote Intelligent Life as "Finally, a comic strip for geeks!" despite Fox Trot, Dilbert, Gil, etc. existing, and I can't tell you how tempting it was to comment on the story, "NO, DON'T, IT SUCKS, IT SUCKS." Glad to see that promoting did it absolutely no favors in the actual funny pages.
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Jul 25, 2014 03:00
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Kennel posted:Arlo and Janis is doing a drama arc much better than "proper" drama comics. Arlo and Janis has the most realistic characters in the paper, which is why about a third of them make no sense and half are completely comprehensible but don't actually make any points. I still like it most of the time.
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Jul 25, 2014 03:04
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If I lived in Inspector Danger's Murderopolis I'd get the hell out ASAP. It's worse than Detroit.
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Jul 25, 2014 03:05
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Is it possible for someone to get a hairstyle touched-up in under thirty minutes? Edit: I just realized she could also have rescheduled the appointment to be earlier in the day. RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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Jul 25, 2014 03:07
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I could just barely see it as possible to get in and out and back home from a hair appointment in under 30 minutes, if you live close (or are rich enough to have the stylist come to your home) and if maybe you're just getting it styled instead of washed and cut and styled. I know there are blowdryer bars in some cities where you can just get an express hairdo in a lunch break. BUT she was also booked for a massage, and you can't get that done simultaneously with the hairstyling, and virtually no salons offer less than a 30 minute massage, with 1 hour being the standard. UNLESS it was a hand/foot massage being done by somebody else while she was having her hair done. Whatever, my real question is who the gently caress wears a watch anymore except male hipsters
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Jul 25, 2014 03:19
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Finally caught up with my entirely arbitrary Pogo schedule in time for Pogo to split town. (July 26, 1956) Bonus Peanuts (July 26, 1956) 
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Jul 25, 2014 03:29
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Evil Mastermind posted:Oh come the gently caress on. To be fair, this one is less bullshit than the car jack one. edit: Inspector Danger's consistent usage of "probable cause" probably keeps most lawyers in the US wealthy.
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Jul 25, 2014 04:09
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Humanoid Female posted:
Old cranks who don't have smartphones, thank you very much.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus Presto posted:If I lived in Inspector Danger's Murderopolis I'd get the hell out ASAP. Humanoid Female posted:I could just barely see it as possible to get in and out and back home from a hair appointment in under 30 minutes, if you live close (or are rich enough to have the stylist come to your home) and if maybe you're just getting it styled instead of washed and cut and styled. I know there are blowdryer bars in some cities where you can just get an express hairdo in a lunch break. BUT she was also booked for a massage, and you can't get that done simultaneously with the hairstyling, and virtually no salons offer less than a 30 minute massage, with 1 hour being the standard. UNLESS it was a hand/foot massage being done by somebody else while she was having her hair done. Humanoid Female posted:Whatever, my real question is who the gently caress wears a watch anymore except male hipsters
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Jul 25, 2014 04:45
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Probably Magic posted:The Facebook page for Star Trek was trying to promote Intelligent Life as "Finally, a comic strip for geeks!" despite Fox Trot, Dilbert, Gil, etc. existing, and I can't tell you how tempting it was to comment on the story, "NO, DON'T, IT SUCKS, IT SUCKS." The sad thing is, it was probably dropped because of geezer newspaper readers who hate novelty, rather than general lack of quality. But still, a pleasant schadenfreude rush.
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Jul 25, 2014 05:06
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Indolent Bastard posted:Old cranks who don't have smartphones, thank you very much. Also those of us who are just too lazy to fish a phone out of our pockets for the few seconds it takes to tell what time it is.
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Jul 25, 2014 05:23
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Manuel Calavera posted:Bizarro  Pickles saved its fork.  Geech did too.   
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Jul 25, 2014 05:27
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Juliet Jones  Phantom Classic  Radio Patrol  Rip Kirby  Big Ben Bolt 
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Angels didn't see that coming, did they? Julet Esqu posted:Phantom Classic F Minus   Mary Worth   No! Rex Morgan MD  
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Jul 25, 2014 07:00
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Johnny Walker posted:
So is this actually happening at night and the colorist is a fuckup, or is Mary Worth a vampire, sleeping through the day?
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Jul 25, 2014 07:06
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Emmy Lou Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  Classic Prince Valiant  
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Mandrake wins again. Bloom County  Opus is slowly becoming an alcoholic. Calvin And Hobbes   Bye, Uncle Max!   Ripley's 
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Jul 25, 2014 07:19
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Oh its only a little whipping, dont take it seriously!
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Jul 25, 2014 07:24
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann As theater logistics go I think these are about on the same level as "are the curtains up y/n."
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Jul 25, 2014 08:16
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Calaveron posted:I think the crow is confessing? And the Pope is forgiving him? It also references a real event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ_JnOi4q7w
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Jul 25, 2014 08:26
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Oh, my! Looks like somebody should have taken those swimming lessons her parents tried to give her. Blhue posted:So is this actually happening at night and the colorist is a fuckup, or is Mary Worth a vampire, sleeping through the day? This daring escape is meant to be taking place in the dead of night. Olive's parents probably didn't hear her sneaking out because, as has been heavily established, they're more interested in banging than in having a daughter.
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Jul 25, 2014 08:53
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth this wouldnt even be a problem if she had just learned how to swim like literally every kid her age who isn't a paranoid hallucinating cancerpsychic
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sweetguts posted:this wouldnt even be a problem if she had just learned how to swim like literally every kid her age who isn't a paranoid hallucinating cancerpsychic So basically she's in danger of drowning because her
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Tiggum posted:Get ready for a week of Holly trying to make him take more money for it since he put it there by mistake. Either that or a week of her smugly talking about how she got this rare comic for 25¢. Now, just a few years later, that same motherfucker is closing down his entire loving store for over a week so he can go to SDCC with Holly, secretly buy an apparently wildly expensive comic, fly back, and fake-sell it to her for a quarter at a local convention. Not that it really matters whether the store is open, I guess, since the only people who ever go in there are Crazy Harry, who obviously doesn't buy anything, a couple of teenagers who also never buy anything, and Holly, who never has to buy anything because her son is a soldier in Afghanistan and therefore just gets everything given to her because maybe it'll help her cope with the imminent death of her only child. But seriously, where is this guy's money coming from, anyway? Is he still coasting on his payoff for putting all of Crazy Harry's poo poo up on eBay? Is he embezzling from the pizza place? Is he dealing meth?
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Jul 25, 2014 09:08
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Roland Jones posted:So basically she's in danger of drowning because her she sees angels who warn her to stay away from the pool, so when her parents ask her if she wants to learn how to swim she's like "nah" and now here we are drowning in a pool
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Jul 25, 2014 09:13
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sweetguts posted:she sees angels who warn her to stay away from the pool, so when her parents ask her if she wants to learn how to swim she's like "nah" Yeah, see, between this and that they apparently manifest through a cyst I am pretty sure these "angels" are actually trying to kill her. In any sane (relatively speaking) comic, that would likely be the plot, really, but... Yeah.
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Jul 25, 2014 09:24
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So Mary's got angelcancer now too, right? That's why she's having a vision?
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RandomFerret posted:Arlo and Janis has the most realistic characters in the paper, which is why about a third of them make no sense and half are completely comprehensible but don't actually make any points. But I am starting to warm to that Zach poo poo Morrissey or whatever that loving poser Detective comic is so I don't know if this thread is good for my tastes. Maybe I have a cyst.
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GorfZaplen posted:Mandrake the Magician
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Tiggum posted:Rule one of time travel, don't change anything. Even something as minor as stepping on a lizard could change all of history. It's totally OK to kidnap prominent humans though, that couldn't possibly have any consequences.
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How would stepping on a lizard even make them the dominant species. Is that one lizard the source of all lizard weakness like some kind of evolutionary poo poo-Adam that prevents lizards from genociding the well-established and widely spread Homo erectus populations of the year 0.95 BCE.
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Mandrake is pretty bad but in the Bradbury story they lifted the concept from a time traveller steps on a butterfly and the result is that a fascist wins the election so let's not be hasty in pointing fingers.
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I'm more willing to believe that and it's a better story hook because it perfectly demonstrates the chaos and unpredictability of change by juxtaposing two unconnectable events rather than steps on a butterfly->world populated by butterflies.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Get out of the garbage Sluggo you'll get sick. Kennel posted:Arlo and Janis is doing a drama arc much better than "proper" drama comics. Are you kidding Mary Worth is on loving fire at the moment. Wake me up when Boring Family Squabbles has angels in it. Blhue posted:So is this actually happening at night and the colorist is a fuckup, or is Mary Worth a vampire, sleeping through the day? I think the colourist was pretty hamstrung by the large amount of ink-black water, and if he made the sky black (or dark purple) too the strip would look muddy. It's a happy accident because no way are those guys paid enough to care about things like that. Ghostlight posted:How would stepping on a lizard even make them the dominant species. Maybe it's a mouse getting stepped on, all you can see is a tail and a foot. Nenonen posted:It also references a real event That's clearly a hooded crow while the bird depicted in the strip is just regular. I'm jumping off the Pope Francis strip train here. Have a bunch of Tom Gauld     Some good avs there in that last strip. And a Rarebit Fiend that's a metaphor about the military-industrial complex 
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Blhue posted:So is this actually happening at night and the colorist is a fuckup, or is Mary Worth a vampire, sleeping through the day? Yes.
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