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Useless posted:To be honest, I could never understand the reverence people gave Peanuts having only been exposed to it from the 80s on, but these early strips are really charming. Snoopy especially is so much better than the later "He thinks, he talks, he has merchandise" version. Yeah, I never liked the later stuff either, even as early as the 60s stuff that's being posted, but 50s Peanuts is really charming. The art is way better, too.
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Lowen SoDium posted:Let me know if you come to Nashville Comicon this year. We can go get our picture taken with Guy Gilchrist together. Same with me. It's a three hour drive to Nashville, but I'm hoping to go there this year.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth "Gee thanks mom and dad, now if only it made calls and let me message my friends and play games like every other kid's 'camera'. But that's fine, I totally love this lovely plastic thing you probably bought from CVS for $5.99."
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Beeg, if you're going to keep doing old MAD stuff, are you going to post the Red Baron comics? Pickles hates the fabric store, and I don't know why. Fabric stores are cool.  Bleeker still hasn't reached a joke. 
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sweetguts posted:"Gee thanks mom and dad, now if only it made calls and let me message my friends and play games like every other kid's 'camera'. But that's fine, I totally love this lovely plastic thing you probably bought from CVS for $5.99." Haha holyshit is that thing a film camera?
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don Jaime posted:Beeg, if you're going to keep doing old MAD stuff, are you going to post the Red Baron comics? I don't have it. Sorry 
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In fairness, film cameras are mad chic for photography buffs. If I gave my younger brother a classic Nikon he'd probably flip his poo poo.
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Useless posted:To be honest, I could never understand the reverence people gave Peanuts having only been exposed to it from the 80s on, but these early strips are really charming. Snoopy especially is so much better than the later "He thinks, he talks, he has merchandise" version.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon  It's surprising how well this works. Julet Esqu posted:Luann  Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man  Julet Esqu posted:Phantom Classic  Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD Useless posted:To be honest, I could never understand the reverence people gave Peanuts having only been exposed to it from the 80s on, but these early strips are really charming. Snoopy especially is so much better than the later "He thinks, he talks, he has merchandise" version. Wanamingo posted:Arlo and Janis Candorville 
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Johnny Walker posted:How much do you want to bet that Mike Lester put that Redskins thing in there just because the name is controversial right now and it's an opportunity to be "politically incorrect" in a really petty way? I would bet a lot. A lot is the amount I would bet. I hate to defend Mike Lester but you're missing the "joke" that the thing he mentions in panel #4 is all of the things in panel #3, ie. politics/sports/women. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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Redeye Flight posted:In fairness, film cameras are mad chic for photography buffs. If I gave my younger brother a classic Nikon he'd probably flip his poo poo. That is true, if I'd had my own darkroom as a kid I'd probably have lived in it and slowly turned into gollum from the chemicals. Actually why the hell didn't I think of that back then? I was a loving dumb kid. Where were you then Mary? WHERE WERE YOU!?
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Jane's World I've sort of lost track of the plot in this nth iteration. What's she going to do, find Jill by walking? Non Sequitur  Dumb. Heavenly Nostrils  Kliban  I am confuse. 9 Chickweed Lane 8/20/2003  Christ. Yes, Brooke,  Zits  Styx were pretty alright in the early 90s when Dennis DeYoung was still touring with them. I saw two of their shows. They're not too hot nowadays without him. Kevin & Kell  Yeah, I looked that name up and found this (linked, as it may be deemed slightly  ):http://i.imgur.com/natxVcE.jpg That image, second from the end on the bottom row had me laughing. "One of these things is not like the other..."   Is that Grimm back there? Are we done with the old ones for now?
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Hopefully. I take it Nemi wouldn't be very fond of Game of Thrones.
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Skippy (June 1, 1927) Peanuts (August 23, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean  Wait, what? The production fell apart all at once and we didn't even get to see it? What a ripoff. We take a lot of piss out of this strip, but usually you can actually follow the story. Popeye  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (July 6-7, 1925)  
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I'm sure when Hugh Jackman signed the X-Men contract he sighed and went "now where do I go to get my hands on some Wolverine comics, this is falling apart."
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'm sure when Hugh Jackman signed the X-Men contract he sighed and went "now where do I go to get my hands on some Wolverine comics, this is falling apart." Pretty sure he was provided a research set by Marvel, no joke.
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EasyEW posted:
He's probably apologizing about leaving Lust for Lisa for Starbuck Jones. "Sorry I saved my acting career," basically.
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann is every character in this strip with visible makeup some form of tramp/monster/freak/ne'er-do-well?
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LvK posted:is every character in this strip with visible makeup some form of tramp/monster/freak/ne'er-do-well? I always assumed that's what Mrs Degroot's giant lips were about, so I don't know, but I see what you're getting at.
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Some samples from "The Lighter Side of the Television Set", the first in the series by Dave Berg from 1961. Sorry the picture quality is poor.  I like this drawing style better.
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I think a lot of the perceived harshness of The Lighter Side comes from the realistic figures. The scowls and bug-out eye grimaces stuck on a human-looking character just look really extreme.My Lovely Horse posted:I take it Nemi wouldn't be very fond of Game of Thrones. I'm guessing she loves it but howls in anger and pain whenever anybody dies, so it's perfectly reasonable to assume she hates it. People in Game of Thrones tend to die like Dog Comix. Pooch Café  I was going to make a Detroit joke, but then I remembered the neighbourhood where I grew up didn't look all that different. Ballard Street  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OT9n_q8BH8
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My Lovely Horse posted:Hopefully. Not sure on Nemi but we have seen how Cyan feels about it. 
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Intelligent Life  Is it just me or is the first strip not totally terrible? I mean, it's still dumb GEEKS N JOCKS stuff, but at least it's not showing it as a WAR FOR THE AGES between TWO BITTER ENEMIES. These guys are still friends, and Barry's even inviting Skip along! Though I guess being a few degrees less dumb than Andrew Dobson on the subject isn't really much of an achievement. I'm not so sure about the idea in the second strip, though, Gwen. I've heard some horror stories from ladies wearing revealing costumes at cons. Big Nate   I'm with Peter on this one. I'd rather make a fort inside and not lose a third of my blood to mosquitoes, thanks.
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I need to write my Women's Empowerment article! Help me, male friend!
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Man, I really want to like Ham Shears for how cute it is and how interesting it COULD be, but it seems to have the opposite problem of a lot of strips--everything is just solved way too easily. The protagonists don't look like they're actually going to be challenged by anything at all; there's no tension in just setting up obstacles and blowing them over the next week. Please don't say they get to the farm, it's a wreck, but a friendly construction company just happens to be moving in next door and having a 99% off on repairs special. Also all the cows milk themselves and the tractors are run by robots. (granted, it's more likely the author is just eager to get to the actual point of the storyline... and I wonder if it'd feel so weird if it was dragged out to Mandrake levels. Is there no in-between with these things?)
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Nenonen posted:Kunnas has also drawn whole albums on Mick Jagger and the Beatles, plus Finnish literature classics recited by dogs That last picture really takes me back, one of the first books I can remember being obsessed with as a child, was written by Kunnas. The book was about a family of anthropomorphic crocodiles who also happened to be vampires and when I was 3-4 years old that book was pretty much my Bible. Thanks for reminding me about it, Nenonen.
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GorfZaplen posted:Classic Prince Valiant I really enjoyed these last few strips where the vikings were terrified of what we would consider normal animals these days. It reminded me of a painting of a legendary qirin from Ming China, which you can see on the Wikipedia page for qirin. Mister Olympus posted:Man, I really want to like Ham Shears for how cute it is and how interesting it COULD be, but it seems to have the opposite problem of a lot of strips--everything is just solved way too easily. The protagonists don't look like they're actually going to be challenged by anything at all; there's no tension in just setting up obstacles and blowing them over the next week. Ham Shears had the opposite problem with the diamond theft/trial storyline, so maybe the writer is still trying to figure out how best to get the pacing right. I think it can be a delicate balance with newspaper-style strips, especially if the writer is used to stuff like regular comic books or manga.
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life I agree, it's got the kind of feeling Dustin has when his family isn't being complete scumbags to him.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'm sure when Hugh Jackman signed the X-Men contract he sighed and went "now where do I go to get my hands on some Wolverine comics, this is falling apart." Mr. Maltose posted:Pretty sure he was provided a research set by Marvel, no joke. Hilariously enough, you're both wrong! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-3dPya9aiw
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Another aspect of his Wolverine prep I remember Jackman talking about (I think in Nickelodeon Magazine of all places) is that when he was shooting the first X-Men movie the water heater or whatever where he was staying didn't work, so his shower every morning was freezing cold. He realized that it made him feel how Wolverine felt, pissed beyond belief but unable to do anything about it so he had to bottle in that anger most of the time. When they were making X2, he purposely took a cold shower every morning to get the same feeling.
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