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"Emmy Lou" was created by a woman (Marty Links) who just plain stunk at drawing human beings. I mean, ha ha, yeah they're gawky teenage girls, I get it, but there's a limit. Everybody's got gross stump arms and crazy spindle legs attached at random points to a ketchup-bottle-shaped torso, their crudely scribbled bodies only made even more jarring by the neat, confident lines of the furnishings.  e: Great, I'm literally Comic Book Guy saying the penciling is sub-Ziggy and the main character is off-model in every frame. Nice life. A HUNGRY MOUTH fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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Maybe he just really likes girls with Marfan's Syndrome.
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Sep 17, 2014 04:44
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I guess the people sort of look like drawings of some Mesopotamian rear end sculpture from 4000BC but the strip as a whole has a lot of charm and gives me enormous pleasure.
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Sep 17, 2014 04:48
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Maybe because hippies didn't always wear shoes? Does Emmy Lou qualify as a hippie? Bleeker is surprised Refurb lost pieces again.  Pickles is better than anything Mike Lester ever did. 
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Sep 17, 2014 05:23
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I dunno, they go barefoot in the middle of the sidewalk in Out Our Way too. Maybe it ended for good in the 80s.
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Sep 17, 2014 05:32
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Say Nothing posted:Maybe he just really likes girls with Marfan's Syndrome. Ok guys, Another Idea I've been having for a while. The plot to this comic is Emmy Lou got sick and had to go into the Hospital. It turned out, that the treatment for her illness is to touch this very large, green crystal with her feet.
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Sep 17, 2014 05:37
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But she doesn't like it, that part is important. That and there's a pony nurse for some reason.
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Sep 17, 2014 06:01
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Sep 17, 2014 06:36
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If you get that reference you're in too deep.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Mike du Jour[/b] Why does it not surprise me that Lester likes the football team with a racist name?
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One of my Facebook friends' mother went to the same high school Greg Evans went to. He did comics for the student paper. Well, she happened to save one of the papers. From the 1960s: 
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Sep 17, 2014 07:42
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Ok guys, Another Idea I've been having for a while. The plot to this comic is Emmy Lou got sick and had to go into the Hospital. It turned out, that the treatment for her illness is to touch this very large, green crystal with her feet. Wait, this isn't the webcomic thread. You motherfucker.
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Sep 17, 2014 07:57
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Kids wearing shoes all the time is a fairly recent thing. Kids and teenagers would run around freaking everywhere barefoot(even up to the 60ish, I'd say) Kids today have pussy rear end feet. My grandfather told me when he joined the army, he had to get another pair of boots a couple months in, after his feet shrank down. Hell, I think there was a similar bit in Robinson Crusoe, at the end. He returns to England and has trouble with his shoes after running around years barefoot. People just dont seem to get that things have really changed. Johnny Aztec fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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Sep 17, 2014 08:30
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It makes a lot of sense in the context of shoes being relatively expensive. You wouldn't want to waste the money on something your kids wears for a year before his feet grow too big, or if you did, you wouldn't want them to wear them in the woods or at the pond where they could get damaged, is what I'm guessing. Same with clothes in general, the kids in Out Our Way are basically wearing rags and from what I can judge their families aren't poor in any way by the standards of the time. Maybe that's why Emmy Lou's feet are so freakishly large as well
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It makes sense to me in Out Our Way. It feels just like the kids in Skippy all wearing clothes that are seven sizes too big for them. Emmy Lou, on the other hand, feels much more "modern" in every other way, and is constantly buying clothes. Her fashion obsession is like a thing with the comic. Perhaps it was just the fashionable thing to do that year or somesuch.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:"Emmy Lou" was created by a woman (Marty Links) who just plain stunk at drawing human beings She trained as a fashion illustrator. Everyone's wiry and lanky because fashion design focuses on the clothes; the people wearing them are just talking hangers.
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Partly that, partly because "teens and the way they dress" is a timeless concept in comic strips, but probably chiefly because Marty Links got her art training and worked as a fashion illustrator. e: Dam!
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Mister Beeg posted:One of my Facebook friends' mother went to the same high school Greg Evans went to. He did comics for the student paper. Considering how a lot of teenage strips usually look, this is really good. Especially for high school.
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Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man 
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THANK you.  The Creeps  Poptropica Forgot to post it yesterday, here's a double dose:   Heathcliff 
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With regard to Emmy Lou, I've always been in the "gangly teenage girl/boy" camp. It just seems like she's accentuating that with the art. You know, like how puppies have absurdly big feet? Anyway... Jane's World  Yeah, I looked it up and it's definitely a movie I want to watch, now that I've heard of it. And yeah, Jane, I totally agree with your logic. Dorrie just doesn't get subsistence packing.  Non Sequitur  -5, Wiley. Really dumb. Double Heavenly Nostrils, Dana caught up.  I love Phoebe's face in the first two panels. Nice artwork.  Kliban   Huh. That's different.9 Chickweed Lane 9/17/2003  The cat ones are good. I smiled at that. Zits  Kevin & Kell  Uh, right. Weird way to put it, but ok.  Yes, let's. The internet truly cares about your "awful day". This, and cryptic Facebook status updates. Updates like, "Wow, such a bad day.", or, "So sad...". WHY!!? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHY THE gently caress ARE YOU SO SAD AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE!!!!???? I've actually responded to a couple of posts like that, in that way, and was promptly de-friended.
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Some Guy TT posted:It's All Right Chief Dharma I don't know why, but I love how they show white people in this strip. They're always so weird looking. My favourite one: 
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Kevin & Kell Did I miss them partaking in the traditional rival seat switching ritual, or what? I'm pretty sure she was to the left of him (from our pov) before.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Yeah, I looked it up and it's definitely a movie I want to watch, now that I've heard of it. Everyone should watch Priscilla. It's a great movie.
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Ham Shears gives us the punchline to a three-year-old joke.  The Dinette Set learns that there is, in fact, such a thing as a dumb question.  Working Daze raises the question, "this time?" 
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Evil Mastermind posted:The Dinette Set learns that there is, in fact, such a thing as a dumb question. Wait, what? Burl is asking this? The dinette set set are usually the type to See No Evil Comix. Pooch Café  Chazz never played Bloody Mary. Ballard Street  No, no, you don't wrap it all the way around your head, you just press it to your face with both hands. That way once you lose consciousness you let go. Jeff's just going to suffocate in that thing.
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Those cowboys are going to get heatstroke.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Yes, let's. The internet truly cares about your "awful day". This, and cryptic Facebook status updates. Updates like, "Wow, such a bad day.", or, "So sad...". WHY!!? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHY THE gently caress ARE YOU SO SAD AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE!!!!???? I've actually responded to a couple of posts like that, in that way, and was promptly de-friended. F Minus: An idea is born  Mary Worth  Mary's about to gently caress someone's poo poo up. Rex Morgan MD  Shipment? How many of these does he do?
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD I hope David Cross is getting paid for this cameo.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth I love the drama they're trying to inject into a completely commonplace, everyday event. Next week's strip: Mary is heading home...but the car ahead of her is only driving 35 in a 40?!  
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Did the cars even hit? There's no indication in the art that they did, but I can't imagine what the point would be of showing Mary NOT getting into a minor fender bender.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:I love the drama they're trying to inject into a completely commonplace, everyday event. Next week's strip: Mary is heading home...but the car ahead of her is only driving 35 in a 40?! I don't appreciate these dramatic changes in the plot! I was really invested in Mary's grocery list!
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Yeah, I looked it up and it's definitely a movie I want to watch, now that I've heard of it. And yeah, Jane, I totally agree with your logic. Dorrie just doesn't get subsistence packing. Nope. There is literally no situation that calls for socks and sandals, ever. If you need socks, you wear real shoes. If you're that desperate to have sandals with you, you pack them. Sandals are small and fit anywhere, basically. (The real solution is always wear steel-toes.) Great Moments in Rock 'n' Roll 
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth The yellow car in the first panel looks like a moon rover or something.
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Fingerpori Fok_It  I had to change the joke in the first panel pretty drastically. There are two ways of saying "of apples" in Finnish. The apple guy said omenoiden twice for emphasis, to which the offscreen guy replied with "Is it omenoiden or omenien?" I considered "Is it apples' or of apples" but I don't think that would have really worked too well. Also, raaka can mean raw, rude, crude, brutal etc.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:I love the drama they're trying to inject into a completely commonplace, everyday event. Next week's strip: Mary is heading home...but the car ahead of her is only driving 35 in a 40?! It'd be more likely that she's driving 30 and a guy behind her is going 41.
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Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man 
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