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Perfect. Great Moments in Rock 'n' Roll 
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Jul 27, 2014 21:13
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In today's Great Moments in Rock n' Roll, Bill Stix half-remembers something he saw in a movie once. Thank you, Bill.
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Jul 27, 2014 21:19
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Darthemed posted:Bloom County I guess this one won the contest, since it was on a record in one of the books. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNKCPk1tl9Q
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Jul 27, 2014 21:20
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Kennel posted:Look at those faces! Such a talent! Not to mention their tiny baby hands in comparison.
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Jul 27, 2014 21:43
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TVs Ian posted:I guess this one won the contest, since it was on a record in one of the books. Actually, it was the other one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUt-lDH85k
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Jul 27, 2014 22:13
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Intelligent Life   So it looks like the bald one in the yellow shirt's main character trait is "manchild". Not that that doesn't apply to three-quarters of the characters in this strip, I guess. Robbie and Bobby  Is that a reference to GEEK CULTURE?? Am I in the right strip? Big Nate    What's that by Chad's head in panel three of the second comic? It sorta looks like bits of Mike Teavee.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:21
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Cicadas and locusts have all sorts of weird gestation periods. Rob Zombie did a song about them on his album Educated Horses, but I can't find a video on Youtube that works. It might just be my iPad though. Having lived a good chunk of my life in Missouri and spent a couple years in South Korea, it just doesn't seem like summer to me unless the humidity is 80% or higher, the temperature is 90F or above and you have to yell to talk to someone because there are thousands of insects loving as loudly as possible within a few yards. Some years are definitely more quiet than others. E: also really cool to hear those Billy and the Boinger songs. I had a bunch of Bloom County books when I was a kid, the one with the record included. Never had anything to play it on though. Most of the humor in Bloom County went over my head when I was little, especially the political stuff. Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Jul 27, 2014 22:21
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life I can't describe to you how much I hate the artwork in this strip.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:33
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Mister Kingdom posted:I can't describe to you how much I hate this strip. Much better.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:59
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Peanuts (July 30, 1967) Funky Winkerbean  Michael Golden, if you must know. Classic Popeye Sunday gives us a scholarly interlude, just like the man says. (c. 1942)  Pogo demonstrates why Beauregard is no Offisa Pupp. (July 20, 1969)  First-Gen Blondie, in which Baby Dumpling tries to kill his father. Several times. (c. 1942)  
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Jul 27, 2014 23:05
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Luann Apartment 3-G  Oh, be real. Tommie doesn't have a story. Pros & Cons   Sally Forth   The Amazing Spider-Man  
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Jul 27, 2014 23:50
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Julet Esqu posted:Apartment 3-G Why are their faces melting off their skulls?
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Jul 28, 2014 00:03
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life I know I've said this before but jesus gently caress I hate the faces in this comic.
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Jul 28, 2014 00:07
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:The Little King 
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Jul 28, 2014 00:25
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life A lot of these non-punchlines remind me of the dregs of Keenspot I use to browse through when I was still a fresh-faced lass and hadn't yet realized most people who make comics suck at it. How many editors did this Reddick character have to blow to get this thing published on even a website, much less picked up by a paper for two weeks?
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Jul 28, 2014 00:49
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Dustin For Ed that would probably be a couple bites. On the Fastrack  More importantly, how much does that cost? The havoc on a global scale thing might be cheaper. Heaven's Love Thrift Shop  One thrift shop I went to just had all the Disney stuff at $2 and everything else at $1. Makes things pretty easy. Slylock Fox  Slylock is seriously a lame chump if he spends his days at the beach picking up trash. Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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Jul 28, 2014 00:52
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life I too wear a shirt labeled "Nerd" to show off how nerdy I am. Classic Prince Valiant   The rest of the comics tomorrow.
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Jul 28, 2014 00:57
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Midnight Moth posted:Heaven's Love Thrift Shop I will occasionally check ebay/thrift shops for VHS/laserdisc stuff not available on DVD/BR.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:03
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:We had these when I was a kid. Basically sort of horseshoes with steel pointed, plastic finned darts. Probably a decidedly Midwestern lawn game. Also, as you can see, the potential for injury was present. I somehow survived that era without a Jart related injury, though. I once put a hole in the roof of my dad's car with one of those. Miraculously, I survived to adulthood.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:05
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Comic strip colourists have never given a poo poo about their work. It's nice to see that some things truly are timeless.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:07
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Midnight Moth posted:Heaven's Love Thrift Shop That's... not a terrible idea, but then again, I've been looking for a copy of Project Metalbeast for a while now.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:14
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Midnight Moth posted:Dustin If this is how Ed usually acts in restaurants, I'm guessing a good 10% of his diet consists of waiters' phlegm and saliva.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:32
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Midnight Moth posted:Slylock Fox I read these for the "today's artist" bits.
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Jul 28, 2014 02:33
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Dick Tracy in I have no Gun, and I Must Shoot. Six Chix  Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Lost Side of Suburbia   Zachary Nixon Johnson  Dick Tracy  I don't really get it. If they know they're corrupt, then why bother setting a trap? You could just fire them. Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz 
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Jul 28, 2014 02:41
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life This strip makes me so loving angry. everything about it is infuriating. from the "jokes" that read like they were written by a middle aged man trying to appeal to Those Kids Today to the Nerd shirt on black haired Peter Griffin to the fact they are referencing Angry Birds in this, the year of our lord 2014. Burn this strip. Burn it in a fire as hot as the hell from which it came
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Jul 28, 2014 03:09
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz That, and 20 minutes after 1:20 is more than 20 minutes before 2:03. 
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Jul 28, 2014 03:15
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sweetguts posted:This strip makes me so loving angry. everything about it is infuriating. from the "jokes" that read like they were written by a middle aged man trying to appeal to Those Kids Today to the Nerd shirt on black haired Peter Griffin to the fact they are referencing Angry Birds in this, the year of our lord 2014. Burn this strip. Burn it in a fire as hot as the hell from which it came Hey, now. Practically every strip has an ignoble beginning. C&H was a garden variety "kid with animal" strip at the very first, Bloom County kinda ambled behind Milo and did little else, Dilbert didn't even focus on work, Peanuts was meh, really, every strip has to find its footing, and eventually, this strip will finds its true niche and its true potential and, uh, be CAD. ...yeah, it needs to burn.
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Jul 28, 2014 03:25
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Probably Magic posted:this strip will finds its true niche and its true potential and, uh, be CAD. That is the greatest damning with the faintest praise I've ever seen. Bravo.
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Jul 28, 2014 03:29
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Good Listener posted:Not to mention their tiny baby hands in comparison. It must be a related strain of the tinyarms virus from Dick Tracy.
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Jul 28, 2014 03:29
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sweetguts posted:This strip makes me so loving angry. everything about it is infuriating. from the "jokes" that read like they were written by a middle aged man trying to appeal to Those Kids Today to the Nerd shirt on black haired Peter Griffin to the fact they are referencing Angry Birds in this, the year of our lord 2014. Burn this strip. Burn it in a fire as hot as the hell from which it came I was definitely getting some Family guy vibes from the dude, which kind made me "ugh" a bit. That aside, its not healthy to hate comics on the internet. Probably Magic posted:this strip will finds its true niche and its true potential and, uh, be CAD. Buckley was just trying to make people laugh, is that truly such a crime?
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Jul 28, 2014 03:30
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life You know, it's terrible that Gwen is the most human-like character in the strip. Everyone else looks like some cartoony Brazilian Family Guy ripoff called "Relative Man." If everyone at least looked a little more human, at least the strip might be a little more tolerable. Well, probably not, but those rubbery raised eyebrow faces, too. Jesus Christ.
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Jul 28, 2014 03:34
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life I thought he was wearing a shirt with a Dreamcast logo on it for a second.
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Jul 28, 2014 04:28
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Probably Magic posted:Peanuts was meh, really, every strip has to find its footing, and eventually, this strip will finds its true niche and its true potential and, uh, be CAD. Actually, the first year of Peanuts was far superior, in both quality and humor, than the later established characters. Hell, the very first strip has more worth than a hundred "Snoopy things he is a WW1 pilot" strips. I really can't understand why Peanuts gets so much acclaim. I think it was just sort of a right place/right time thing and just keeps going on "well of course Peanuts is awesome. everyone says so" inertia. Serious question to people who thinks Peanuts is grand: Why? I mean the era of the established characters, cartoons and such.
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Jul 28, 2014 04:39
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scarycave posted:I was definitely getting some Family guy vibes from the dude, which kind made me "ugh" a bit.
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Jul 28, 2014 04:40
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Julet Esqu posted:Sally Forth I'm really happy we don't have this invite neighbors for barbeques tradition here to be honest. This strip makes it even more so.
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Jul 28, 2014 04:44
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I think I know exactly how Intelligent Life got picked up. It's designed to please everybody. You've got bright colors and clean lines. It looks just like that Family Guy that all the kids are watching. It makes frequent references to geek culture, and isn't that what's in now with your Big Bang Theories and your Iron Mans and your Star Tracks? The youth market that newspapers are desperate to tap into in order to survive will eat all this up! At the same time it's as inoffensive and toothless as Family Circus. There is absolutely nothing in this comic that will piss off your elderly readers, inspiring them to write letters about how your liberal paper is contributing to the destruction of our culture and cancel their subscription. This, of course, is also why the comic fails. The youth market likes biting and edgy humor. It's so homogenized, it's like the comic equivalent of unflavored instant oatmeal (only without the benefit of providing fiber) and no young person will go for that. And the elderly won't like it either because it's all about beeps and boops and Batmans and Nintendos and whatnot. Juliet Jones   Phantom Classic   Radio Patrol  Rip Kirby  Big Ben Bolt   Prince Valiant 
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Jul 28, 2014 05:17
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Johnny Aztec posted:Serious question to people who thinks Peanuts is grand: Why? I mean the era of the established characters, cartoons and such. It's primarily the amount of people in this thread that can't wait to tell everyone how they don't think it's that great that does it for me.
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Jul 28, 2014 06:05
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Johnny Aztec posted:Serious question to people who thinks Peanuts is grand: Why? I mean the era of the established characters, cartoons and such. I don't really get it either. I mean it's pretty okay I guess, but it's honestly not all that terribly great. Same thing with Calvin and Hobbes, really. Rereading that as an adult, I'm liking it a lot less than I did when I was a kid. Wanamingo fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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Jul 28, 2014 06:16
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Julet Esqu posted:Juliet Jones After seeing insufferable storylines about characters publishing instant hit novels in For Better Or For Worse and Judge Parker, it's refreshing to see a comic acknowledge writing as a difficult process that involves actual editing and self-criticism.
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Jul 28, 2014 06:25
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Johnny Aztec posted:
Honestly? Baby Boomer nostalgia. Peanuts hit the national spotlight in 1965, and most people who grew up with it learned to love it. Not for what it was, but for when it was made. Why do you think MetLife still uses Snoopy to sell reverse mortgages?
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