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Evil Mastermind posted:Does anyone actually know why this 9CL storyline has been going on for over a loving year? Is he that enamored with whatever the hell's going on there? Well this is the same man who, immediately after wrapping up and congratulating himself on a terrible adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, promptly began to congratulate himself on the rest of his own work, up to and including the terrible adaptation of Romeo and Juliet that he just congratulated himself over. I'm going with yes, is what I'm driving at.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Does anyone actually know why this 9CL storyline has been going on for over a loving year? Is he that enamored with whatever the hell's going on there? Well, you see, that one time the guy was captured by German soldiers and the German soldiers were shot by the girl after she distracted them with GAMS wasn't enough to hammer home the point that war is futile. So it needs to be repeated 20 loving times. Or, Brooke McEldowney is a loving hack
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Aardmania posted:
"Remember, everyone, Juliet is THIRTEEN. And I am SEXUALIZING the CRAP out of her." At a certain point this stops being loyalty to the source material.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Does anyone actually know why this 9CL storyline has been going on for over a loving year? Is he that enamored with whatever the hell's going on there? Of course he is. It's something he came up with, therefore it is amazing.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Intelligent Life[/b] Two people are very annoyed when a friend is excited to see them. Is this Luann?
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And this is all a sequel to the world war 2 story from a few years ago that he was so goddamn proud of that he actually replaced his own strip with an ad for the printed collection after it wrapped up. Inane, Repetitive Comix. Pooch Café  Good thing there aren't actually any lines running on those poles. Ballard Street 
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Evil Mastermind posted:Does anyone actually know why this 9CL storyline has been going on for over a loving year? Is he that enamored with whatever the hell's going on there? I think the reason he went back to the WWII storyline was that he actually managed to make some money on the first one. Brooke wrote about it during his Twitter Q&A a while back: Brooke posted:#AskMcEldowney Q: Have you ever thought about animating your work? #gocomics So, if he is actually working on a script, he probably realized how thin the original story was and is using this new storyline as a way to add some filler.
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the Jock is probably the least awful character in Intelligent Life. He is excited and sociable, he's friendly to his coworkers, he tries to include his friends in his hobbies when they would otherwise feel left out-oh god drat it why am i saying anything positive about Intelligent Life
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Midnight Moth posted:Dustin Her microphone isn't plugged in.
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Aardmania posted:I think the reason he went back to the WWII storyline was that he actually managed to make some money on the first one. Brooke wrote about it during his Twitter Q&A a while back: I looked, but I never could find out how his musical, "Many Mansions" did. A few "will be performed on this date at this place" spots, but no reviews. I didn't really GIS very hard though.
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It probably ended up like the Luann Musical where it was performed by a couple high school groups or maybe a couple local theaters and no one ever heard of it after that.
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treasureplane posted:Her microphone isn't plugged in. She also enters the mirror-world between panels.
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SomeMathGuy posted:Well this is the same man who, immediately after wrapping up and congratulating himself on a terrible adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, promptly began to congratulate himself on the rest of his own work, up to and including the terrible adaptation of Romeo and Juliet that he just congratulated himself over. As bad as Romeo & Juliette was, the self-fellating "director's commentary" of it is somehow even worse.
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The "sneaking out theory" is what I figured also. What was throwing me initially was that I couldn't tell if it was a kid, or an adult though. If adult, what would be the motive? Welp, Jane's World gets paraphysical today thanks to those whack-rear end energy vortices, or whatever...  gently caress this lesbian earth...
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Evil Mastermind posted:As bad as Romeo & Juliette was, the self-fellating "director's commentary" of it is somehow even worse. It's really doing my head in to see his thorough satisfaction about just total dogshit.
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Mr. Squishy posted:It's really doing my head in to see his thorough satisfaction about just total dogshit. Well, it's long established the Brooke only listens to people who tell him what he wants to hear: i.e. that he's an amazing writer. He has to tell himself that because I doubt that many other people will tell him that nowadays.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Does anyone actually know why this 9CL storyline has been going on for over a loving year? Is he that enamored with whatever the hell's going on there? I think because he actually thinks that A) this is deep, revelatory storytelling showing the past of these characters and B) that people care enough about these characters to care about revelations about their past. He's already starting two steps removed from reality. Great Moments in Rock 'n' Roll 
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Cholmondeley posted:The "sneaking out theory" is what I figured also. What was throwing me initially was that I couldn't tell if it was a kid, or an adult though. If adult, what would be the motive? Is this going to be a Kevin and Kell crossover?
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Bismuth posted:Is this going to be a Kevin and Kell crossover? These are reprints of stories that are a decade old - you can follow online with the zany hijinks in Volumes 3 and 4: http://www.amazon.com/Paige-Braddock/e/B0034PDNHU/ This poo poo has been posted before and wasn't any better when it first came up on the syndication train; can we shelve it until the series picks up with new material? Or at least post a disclaimer so people will quit confusing it with newly minted storylines?
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Evil Mastermind posted:Does anyone actually know why this 9CL storyline has been going on for over a loving year? Is he that enamored with whatever the hell's going on there? Yeah there'd have to be at least 5 "Phantom watches a lion leave a cage" stories for there to be a storyline this long and drawn out.
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sweetguts posted:the Jock is probably the least awful character in Intelligent Life. Speaking of jocks, you know where else people talk about sports? In TV newscasts, like they have in JOHN DARLING! In today's installment, we abandon the "Disco News" plot -- not because the syndicate didn't like it, but because the book publisher decided to jump from August to February. Instead, here's a sportscast. (There was never an NBA team called the "Stilts", of course.) Punchline for this strip: sportscasters use figurative language. 
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Transmodiar posted:These are reprints of stories that are a decade old - you can follow online with the zany hijinks in Volumes 3 and 4: Can we just shelve it?
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Andorra posted:Yeah there'd have to be at least 5 "Phantom watches a lion leave a cage" stories for there to be a storyline this long and drawn out. As near as I can tell, this flashback/storyline started around November 25, 2013. So we're closing in on a solid year.
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Vegetable bin? That's a crisper, you dweeb. Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Lost Side of Suburbia    Dick Tracy  Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz  You know what? I'll take it. It's dumb, but that works. Deep Dark Fears 
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Wait, no mawkish Veterans' Day glurge? You're slipping, Gilchrist.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Brian Setzer Orchestra? That's not a country band! What kind of horseshit is this?
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I refuse to believe someone paid Brooke for the film rights to that stupid Edie Ernst story. As far as the current storyline, I have no idea what is happening or why or why anyone should care. I think it's a flashback but I am a bit unclear who is telling this story. All I know is for weeks it's been these two idiots talking to each other about nothing while Brooke tries to I guess imitate witty repartee from old movies which doesn't really work with comic strips and so it sucks. Is there any way to tell how well the Edie Ernst: Nazi Fetishist book sold? F Minus   Mary Worth   Why is Mary so angry? Rex Morgan MD   You tell her, Rex.
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Johnny Walker posted:Is there any way to tell how well the Edie Ernst: Nazi Fetishist book sold? No, not without him supplying those figures. I don't think he even sells it through major retailers.
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Johnny Walker posted:I refuse to believe someone paid Brooke for the film rights to that stupid Edie Ernst story. I can believe it, because film companes routinely buy film rights to all manner of random crap that they have absolutely no intention of producing. It's one of the reasons why Les' whining about the movie in Funky Winkabean is so annoying- it's a ridiculous moon shot that anyone would actually do something with randomly acquired film rights in the first place. From a meta perspective, this is also why Les thought the whiny film perspective was an interesting story. People who don't know much about the industry tend to assume, not entirely irrationally, that production companies don't pay good money for random crap they're not going to use. But all of this is easy enough to confirm for anyone who's willing to do the slightest amount of research. It's All Right Chief Dharma  No research necessary for this strip though.
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Johnny Walker posted:
What exactly did she do that was bringing nursing school politics into his practice? What did I miss here, I thought I had been following what was happening to these entitled, rich assholes in the storyline.
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goatface posted:No, not without him supplying those figures. I don't think he even sells it through major retailers. I just checked amazon. Sales rank is #3,145,485, but it's not sold new. That and his other terrible books are only sold used on amazon for really absurd prices. Man, I wish I could find an obsessive niche to be talentless in.
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LtStorm posted:What exactly did she do that was bringing nursing school politics into his practice? What did I miss here, I thought I had been following what was happening to these entitled, rich assholes in the storyline. Remember how June has that new teaching job? And she went and had a long talk with that old lady that everybody hates and is walking out over. Eventually June decided to be a goddamn professional and just do her job and not take sides. When she got back to the office and told Becka what's up, she (Becka) acted like a total snot about it and made June cry. Can't get more specific than that because I don't remember.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Man, I wish I could find an obsessive niche to be talentless in. Ted Rall, who used to work for United Features Syndicate, said that "Chickweed" was one of the most popular comics on the site, with the highest traffic. I mean, I know it's Rall, but I think I can believe him when he said that. From his tone, he's not exactly a Brooke fan anyway.
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I just want to see an Intelligent Life strip without a single raised eyebrow. Once in a blue moon there will be a panel in a strip without a raised eyebrow, but never more than one.Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz It's at the very least better than an earlier one with the same premise (picture of a clock that was reversed) where the answer is "Because she's wearing a bracelet on this wrist and in the picture it's on the opposite wrist."
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Stultus Maximus posted:I just checked amazon. Sales rank is #3,145,485, but it's not sold new. That and his other terrible books are only sold used on amazon for really absurd prices. Whenever books on Amazon are only available used at absurd prices, it's because the retailers are using pricing bots to juggle supply and demand. When there are plenty of books out there and humans setting market prices they behave sensibly, but when bots are left to calibrate themselves off each other's mark-ups they start spiralling up cent by cent into infinity. If anything, it probably means nobody has moved any of Brooke's books for a while and they're just sitting around gathering dust in overstock warehouses somewhere.
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Kismet posted:Whenever books on Amazon are only available used at absurd prices, it's because the retailers are using pricing bots to juggle supply and demand. When there are plenty of books out there and humans setting market prices they behave sensibly, but when bots are left to calibrate themselves off each other's mark-ups they start spiralling up cent by cent into infinity. If anything, it probably means nobody has moved any of Brooke's books for a while and they're just sitting around gathering dust in overstock warehouses somewhere. Interesting. Although I think that the high prices for "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" really are because it's out of print and ridiculously good.
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