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Comic Strip Megathread XV: Whistle the patter! Bleeker answers this thread's prayers - yes, you can switch out Refurb's parts like Mr. Potato Head.  Pickles reminds us that whales eat Toast-Chee.  RevKrule posted:This is twice this week Fatty Lumpkins has bitched in some way about food. And you wonder why America has an obesity problem. You're the problem Billy, you're the problem. That's Jeffy, not Billy. Jeff Keane writes the strip now and for some reason likes to present his own character as a nauseating freak. RandomFerret posted:Manak does a pretty good job of mimicking Prohias' art style (unlike the current illustrator), but the writing falls flat. It shouldn't just be 'Spy uses gadget, Other Spy dies,' It should be 'Spy uses gadget, Other Spy deploys counter-gadget, it turns out the first gadget was actually a decoy, Spy uses counter-counter-gadget, Other Spy dies.' But it's best when it's "Gray Spy shows up, murders the other two while they slobber over how hot she is." EasyEW posted:Thimble Theater, Starring Viper Velma I can't remember the last time I was vapped with a vengeful finger. Wanamingo posted:Nancy The local classic stations don't even play those groups anymore. It's all late '70s and godawful '80s stuff, with the occasional softer Beatles or Beach Boys thrown in.
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Darthemed posted:July, 1987. Thanks so much for all of these. This is a rewind of my "sewing the oats" time. Unfortunately, this is sort of the beginning of the end for the strip IIRC.  Green Intern posted:Why the hell is Juliet wearing what appears to be a latex bodysuit? BrookeWear "Gams Collection®" 
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JohnnyCanuck posted:YOU'VE KNOWN HER FOR TWO GODDAMN DAYS, MARY F Minus  Mary Worth  Mary has conveniently omitted the hallucinations part from her little story here. Rex Morgan MD 
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Emmy Lou Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  How long has this fight been going on? A few weeks? Classic Prince Valiant   We're actually entering an apocryphal storyline where Val becomes the first Phantom and meets the first Devil.
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GorfZaplen posted:Mandrake the Magician "A million years before your time"? If they can reanimate dead species willy-nilly why are they keeping a zoo on earth where nobody lives? I thought the bozz women were supposed to be sensible 
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Green Intern posted:Why the hell is Juliet wearing what appears to be a latex bodysuit? Also why is Romeo a Dracula?
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Green Intern posted:Why the hell is Juliet wearing what appears to be a latex bodysuit? 
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert  Red Meat 
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Manuel Calavera posted:One Big Happy Nubbins Fairlygood is an excellent pirate name.
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Cul-de-sac has PTSD. Poptropica Narrowly avoids a copyright infringement lawsuit.  Heathcliff just does what he do, man. 
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Jane's World Ok, so it's not what I thought it was. Non Sequitur  Two in a row, Wiley! Made me  Heavenly Nostrils  Kliban's Cats  That cat's far too fat to pole vault. 9 Chickweed Lane 8/14/2003  Whatever you're doing with your mouth in the last panel, Juliette, it's certainly not making you sexy. Stop it. Zits  Meh. teens_amirite.jpg Kevin & Kell  Maybe the kid just needs his diaper changed. 
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Evil Mastermind posted:The Dinette Set I want that t-shirt.
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Hey, I remember this episode of Columbo.
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Dick Tracy       And that's the whole story! The woman is killed. POOF. The End Spy vs. Spy    Bonus. One of Mad's "Usual Gang of Idiots", George Woodbridge, briefly took over "Spy vs. Spy" for two installments after Bob Clarke. Here's a three-pager he did (Mad #322 October 1993)    He did a good job emulating Prohias' style, thankfully. Duck Edwing did the story. Mister Beeg fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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This! I've done this with my siblings one year long ago because of this comic. A snowball fight during Midsummer is great!
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I tried the same thing, but I guess my family's freezer wasn't very reliable because by the time it came to use the snowballs, they'd melted and refrozen into balls of solid ice. I still threw them because I was a little rear end in a top hat. Lack of Foresight Comix. Pooch Café  I had a ferret once who loved cheese. She had learned to roll over for treats, and she decided that the transaction had to work both ways. If you were eating a sandwich with some cheese on it, she would walk up to you, bite your toes to get your attention, and then roll over until you gave her some. She'd get mad if you didn't pay up, too. I wish I'd gotten it on video, this little animal just rolling over and over furiously in between toe nips. Ballard Street  Never mind how they got up there in the first place.
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August, 1987. Bloom County   The joke is Oliver North.    Due to some GoComics hijinx, there'll be a double dose of Calvin And Hobbes to get things right.    Except then they have the same Sunday strip for two consecutive weeks. Oh, GoComics. Then again, in The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes, that last Sunday strip is followed by this next one, so maybe Mr. Watterson missed a week there.     
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Aardmania posted:Piranha Club If you ask Bud Grace who's president, he'll wiggle his eyebrows and make a Bedtime for Bonzo joke.
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Skippy gives us more whistlin', more patterin'. (May 26, 1927) Peanuts (August 17, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean continues with "Reveries of a Middle-Aged Doofus".  The oldest Hollywood joke in the book: the actress so stupid that she slept with the writer.  Popeye  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (June 22-23, 1925)  
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Indolent Bastard posted:[b]Mike du Jour
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Wanamingo posted:Looks Zachary Nixon Johnson was taken down from Gocomics, so we're not going to see any more of it. Nothing is ever really taken down if you know where to look. Zachary Nixon Johnson  (I grabbed the remaining strips so we can at least finish out the run.)
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean continues with "Reveries of a Middle-Aged Doofus". Guest author: Brooke McEldowney.
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Aardmania posted:Nothing is ever really taken down if you know where to look. Oh. Gee. You shouldn't have.
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Pogo (August 16, 1956) MEANWHILE IN CHICAGO: On August 16th, Adlai Stevenson drew 905 1/2 votes on the first ballot, 219 more than necessary to cinch the Presidential nomination for the Democratic ticket. What happened next was another thing Porky didn't find in that soup pot: To drum up excitement for the '56 ticket, Stevenson announced that he was throwing open the selection of his Vice-President to the convention floor. "The choice will be yours. The profit will be the nation's." This definitely stirred things up, since the vote was going take place at 1 pm the next day, leaving potential veep candidates precious little time to scramble for support. Peanuts: Year One (February 22-24, 1951)   
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts: Year One (February 22-24, 1951)
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Mark Trail    The Terrible Webcomics thread has an axiom that sooner or later, every comic author puts their fetish in their comic. The detail in this last panel probably goes to show something about Jam Esallen and/or Jackelrod, though I'm sure I don't know what. Office Hours  "He may act like he wants a secretary, but most of the time they’re looking for something between a mother and a waitress." 
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My library's doing some meet the creator type thing next month, with the cartoonist Roz Chast. Can't say I'll be going. Six Chix  Old people, am I right?  Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Four Eyes  A Friends parody in the year 2014? Seriously? Should've went with Downton Abbey or something. Lost Side of Suburbia   I liked the arc, but close as it is to the end, it's about to start overstaying its welcome. The comic before this would have been a good stopping point. Dick Tracy  Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz 
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Well, I certainly didn't expect Gilchrist to make this stylistic choice. My internet was out for a week, but it's fixed now! I guess there's some catch-up to do now. So much catch-up.  Luann       
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Now I understand why people cried bloody murder at Doonesbury being posted in this thread. This made me mad as hell.
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Regarding the Lost Side of Suburbia, I liked it a lot that running away from the "final boss" of the story arc was enough to shake him off. As much as I like intense confrontations in stories, it brings some refreshing change when the big bad isn't an all-knowing supervillain.
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Darthemed posted:How many times did Schulz recycle this joke? I could swear I've seen it with Charlie Brown swapped out for Linus. You've got a good eye. The semi-canonical list of gag repeats in the Peanuts FAQ listed this one as coming back on July 15, 1959 (which more people probably saw back in the day).  As someone on GoComics pointed out, the distance between '52 and '59 is basically the entire lifespan of Calvin and Hobbes.
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz poo poo! A reasonable deduction in Inspector Danger!
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Green Intern posted:poo poo! A reasonable deduction in Inspector Danger! It's okay, it's still barely supported by the art at all. There's one little tiny line added to the back of the car.
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What I saw: 
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Wanamingo posted:
I don't even get this one. Are conservatives pissed off at CFLs? 
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Poor Alfie hasn't figured out the Inspector's tricks yet. I doubt he expected the first watch of the night to mean "You stay up until morning while I get a good night's rest."
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cobalt impurity posted:I don't even get this one. Are conservatives pissed off at CFLs? Yes.
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