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Kid Fenris posted: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. Or even that while nobody enjoys receiving criticism, it's a vital tool to help you improve your work and yourself as an author. It is not a personal attack or an attempt by the unwashed brainless masses to destroy your beautiful art.
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Wanamingo posted: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 loss less than I did when I was a kid. I had every C&H collection as a kid and even had the final strip from my local newspaper saved somewhere in my room for years. Reading them in this thread is kind of depressing since I am missing why I liked it so much as a kid. I guess I grew up to be a horrible individual!!!
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Peanuts has a lot of different things going on in it and not all of it is great, but it's a major achievement all the same. I couldn't care less about Snoopy WWI strips, or a lot of camp strips, etc. But gimme a despondent Charlie Brown alone in a darkened room and that's gold. I like Cul de Sac more than Calvin & Hobbes. Not sure if it's better but I like it more.
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Dustin So glad I only have a few coworkers that prefer communication over Skype and can telecommute. The best antisocial job. On the Fastrack  Facebook has diluted the meaning of friend to nothingness, and also includes mortal enemies. Safe Havens  To recap, Dave, the 14-year-old-looking 27-year-old is trying out for Team USA in Las Vegas for the upcoming Olympics. I guess he's hasn't crashed and burned horribly yet. Slylock Fox  The little ones grow up into criminals so fast 
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Midnight Moth posted:Slylock Fox Show me a kid who's never burned his rear end off on a metal slide on a hot day, and I'll show you a kid who's never truly lived.
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Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man Julet Esqu posted:Prince Valiant  Wanamingo posted: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. Though I also never cared for Peanuts, and I did read some of that when I was young. I do like some of the early strips now (particularly the very first one) but I just don't see how it stayed so popular for so long. Funky Winkerbean  Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz   OK, that second one has got to be my favourite Inspector Danger solution ever.  Mandrake the Magician (1942-03-29, 1942-04-05 and 1942-04-12)   
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Haha. Inspector Danger just keeps getting better. I smoke, but I'm properly housebroken. Regardless of weather I take my flaming plant matter outside. This also applies to cars, and in public spaces I try to find a secluded spot. Guess I should just turn myself in before I commit murder.
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Pvt.Scott posted:Haha. Inspector Danger just keeps getting better. I smoke, but I'm properly housebroken. Regardless of weather I take my flaming plant matter outside. This also applies to cars, and in public spaces I try to find a secluded spot. Guess I should just turn myself in before I commit murder. I'm gonna give it to Inspector Danger here, the husband is shown smoking inside after the murder when his wife isn't around, so why then would he stand outside the day before? Tiggum posted:
Did anyone expect any other ending for this?
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Madam Psychic was right! This is so embarrassing! Also a person is dead.
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Peanuts and Calvin & Hobbes both still seem good to me even in the retrospectives on here. Peanuts has that slightly harmless feeling in it with the occasional bite that really makes it work, as if someone took the best parts of Ziggy and made a whole series out of them. And I'll always love C&H, even if I don't idolize it as highly as I see a lot of people do with it. The one that's kinda suffered in reading on here is Bloom County. I loved that strip as a kid partly because I didn't really get over half the jokes and so just laughed at it thinking it was much more wacky than it actually was. Now I read it and feel like I'm looking at some college strip that nonstop whines about the culture wars and throws in pop culture refs just for the sake of itself. It still has some charm, but it's definitely one of those things where ignorance really is bliss. I definitely wouldn't say Cul-de-Sac is better than C&H, though, that really puzzles me. I like Cul-de-Sac quite a bit, but not to the point where I think it's better. Honestly, I probably wouldn't say any strip is best ever unless I guiltily said Fox Trot. Anyway, Cow and Boy  Sherman's Lagoon  Yeah, you should probably blow off the rest of this week's arc, it's really going to suck.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Madam Psychic was right! This is so embarrassing! Also a person is dead. But mostly embarrassing.
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Tiggum posted:Funky Winkerbean Colorist mistake? I'm not sure there's a good reason why Les would be confidently strutting around a movie studio lot with a bare chest. Unless this is a new direction for Funky, which I can get behind.
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Helicity posted:Colorist mistake? I'm not sure there's a good reason why Les would be confidently strutting around a movie studio lot with a bare chest. Unless this is a new direction for Funky, which I can get behind.
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life He could still prefer the face-to-face dating scene. These aren't mutually exclusive. I hate this comic so much.
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Helicity posted:Colorist mistake? I'm not sure there's a good reason why Les would be confidently strutting around a movie studio lot with a bare chest. Unless this is a new direction for Funky, which I can get behind. It's an edit. Can't say I really get it, but it's an edit.
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Wanamingo posted:It's an edit. Can't say I really get it, but it's an edit.
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Helicity posted:Colorist mistake? I'm not sure there's a good reason why Les would be confidently strutting around a movie studio lot with a bare chest. Unless this is a new direction for Funky, which I can get behind. Never trust a tiggum post.
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Jane's World seems to be back on track, if not rather uneventful, as we start this week. I think these are about to get linked. Non Sequitur  What? Heavenly Nostrils is yesterday's. Kliban  What? 9 Chickweed Lane 7/28/2003   But, hey, where's this North Africa thing coming from? Didn't Brooke put her in Europe during the "I hosed an Austrian to save the world" flashback? If I recall correctly, North Africa wasn't even mentioned once.Zits  Man, corn on the cob sounds really good right now. At 7:52am.  Kevin & Kell  What? I mean, seriously,  Wendell was never like that as I recall. I love how Nemi is just totally oblivious to Cyan's reaction. And, "cellars"? Huh. That's a new one.
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ZeeToo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Okay I'll bite: what's the actual text?
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Skippy (May 9, 1927) Peanuts (July 31, 1967)  Funky WinkerWHOBEATMETOohnevermind Les's middle age drift hanging over his belt only on the right side is absolutely horrifying. Well, anyway...  For those of you who were enjoying gag-a-day Popeye, I am so, so sorry...  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (May 15-16, 1925)  
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Ham Shears is still   The Dinette Set is still tacky. 
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It's a British English thing. What's universal is matching salt & pepper shakers with no clear indicators worked into their design.  Cricken_Nigfops posted:The Creeps SCHEDULE CHANGE 
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Breetai posted:Okay I'll bite: what's the actual text? Probably something about plastic flowers? If the flowers had been real, they would've been wilted after a couple of hours. I don't know, it's hard putting yourself in the mind of a total idiot.
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ZeeToo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Inspector Danger is an impostor, and has been for the past 99 strips.
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Emmy Lou  Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom   Sunday Rip Haywire  Classic Prince Valiant  
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Tunicate posted:Inspector Danger is an impostor, and has been for the past 99 strips. Back when the Man with the 99 Faces impersonated Inspector Danger's doctor and tried to poison him, he succeeded. In order to further his nefarious plans, he's been posing as the inspector all this time. Since he's not actually any good at sleuthing, he just accuses people and his assistant believes these accusations based on the strength of Inspector Danger's reputation.
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Wanamingo posted:Four Eyes I know Four Eyes isn't popular around here, but look at that quahog.
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Fingerpori - Look, owlet moths! - Funnily named creatures... -  The owlet moth is yökkönen in Finnish, from the word yö that means night. The -kkönen part is a kind of a diminutive, so I guess you could call them nighties or something. It's also a slang word for a little puke. As for why, it's probably because it's sort of onomatopoeic. Fok_It 
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Calaveron posted:Probably something about plastic flowers? If the flowers had been real, they would've been wilted after a couple of hours. I don't know, it's hard putting yourself in the mind of a total idiot. They were tulips. Couldn't you tell they were tulips? They're definitely tulips. Clear as day. 
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert  and a special Penny Arcade that I'm only including because it was drawn by Bill Amend, of Foxtrot fame. 
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Manuel Calavera posted:and a special Penny Arcade that I'm only including because it was drawn by Bill Amend, of Foxtrot fame. "Hey Dad, what are "dickwolves"?"
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