Comic Strip Megathread XV: So smile, Margo, and move on.

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Cricken_Nigfops: Oct 25, 2011; CROM!

Evil Mastermind posted:

Working Daze makes a joke that'd barely qualify for Big Bang Theory.

That "graphic novel" is clearly a collection of hyperviolent porn comics from japan. Probably featuring pedophiles.

Cul-de-sac

Heathcliff

# ? Feb 14, 2015 19:05

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# ? May 28, 2024 11:01

GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Emmy Lou

Mandrake the Magician

The Phantom

# ? Feb 14, 2015 19:35

Raskolnikov38: Mar 3, 2007; We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

GorfZaplen posted:

The Phantom

So does he infuse kerosene into the candle wax or what? Because that hut should be burning the gently caress down right now.

# ? Feb 14, 2015 19:36

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

What has he dipped those candle wicks in?

# ? Feb 14, 2015 19:36

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Somebody got Skippy's letter. (December 17, 1927)

Sooky posted:

Dear Skippy:

Us Orioles give your letter the once-over an' I didn't take five breaths before I got to buzzin' off the answer. The Orioles wants me to say that if you're willin' we'll adopt this kid up there an' make it a mascot. Only the one thing about it is that milk an' stuff for her to eat will have to come out o' the treasury, an' I don't know how long 39 cents will keep her. Somerset Gohagen got the razz from the crowd, 'cause he said if they voted for it he'd black-ball it. He says a canary's a canary, whether they's two-an-a-half or a hundred, they're just plain canaries, an' it'd give the Orioles A. C. a bad name. We got to talkin' it over though an' I pointed out to him that he shouldn't be lookin' at it that way, so after his nose stops bleedin' he finally throws in his vote with the rest o' the crowd, an' here's what we voted:

We voted the 39c to go to the Marg-gee kid for Christmas. Then each one of us got together and chipped in a nickel extra apiece. That makes 75c extra.

We was thinkin' of gettin' up an Oriole Hospital Christmas fund for the poor. Somerset Gohagen butts in again an' says: " What do ya mean, poor? I was eight years old before I knew that food meant anything besides buns an' coffee, an' I had to go 'round meself with half a suspender holdin' up me pants." We booed him an' told him he'd get asked out o' the club unless he raised a nickel, so he is goin' to kill three of Mrs. Tilden's chickens at three for 5c.

You asked us about toys. I don't know what we could send unless it is a football. Corey Ford says he's got a hockey stick in two pieces, but he c'n put some tape over it an' there's a nickel spot on one of 'em, so maybe after all we may be able to get up a Christmas box. Danny Shea is goin' to give a clay pipe, so's they can blow bubbles. After it gets rinsed out a couple o' times the kids won't notice the tobacco taste. If the kids want to read, Ray Marlowe has got a lot of old newspapers up in his barn.

The gang misses you and hopes you get better soon, an' we was wonderin' how it ought to seem if we got up a cake sale or somethin', then give the exceeds for the hospital. Somerset Gohagen says if we do Lizzie says she'll make a cake.

Tell the kid the Orioles all voted for her as a mascot. She didn't get one little black-ball even.

Write as soon as you get this.

SOOKY.

He wrote a whole book like this in 1929. Dear Sooky is $30 "vintage" on Amazon if you're curious.

Peanuts, in which Snoopy's disappointments are small ones. (February 17, 1968)

Funky Winkerbean

Popeye

Rip Haywire

Out Our Way will be along later because I had no idea Percy Crosby would make me type my hands off two days in a row.

EasyEW fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Feb 15, 2015

# ? Feb 14, 2015 19:37

Simian_Prime: Nov 6, 2011; When they passed out body parts in the comics today, I got Cathy's nose and Dick Tracy's private parts.

When my friends from college got married, the groom gave the bride a stuffed gila monster.

They're still together, so apparently it's the secret to a happy marriage. Just a little V-Day romantic advice from your ol' buddy Simian_Prime.

# ? Feb 14, 2015 19:38

Simian_Prime: Nov 6, 2011; When they passed out body parts in the comics today, I got Cathy's nose and Dick Tracy's private parts.

EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean

Speaking of romantic advice, today Mason Jarr demonstrates step 4 of the D.E.N.N.I.S. system.

# ? Feb 14, 2015 19:41

Pentaro: May 5, 2013

Cricken_Nigfops posted:

Cul-de-sac

YOU WHADT?

# ? Feb 14, 2015 19:45

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Simian_Prime posted:

Speaking of romantic advice, today Mason Jarr demonstrates step 4 of the D.E.N.N.I.S. system.

I was this close to saying in the post that Funky Winkerbean fails the Bechdel test, but then I realized I was counting Cindy's ego as a second woman.

# ? Feb 14, 2015 19:51

Daduzi: Nov 22, 2005; You can't hide from the Grim Reaper. Especially when he's got a gun.

I kind of enjoy Lu-Ann and everything, but it's hard to get over how much she looks like Pob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqxZo_myyA

Also holy crap that intro is a lot more unsettling than I remember as a kid.

# ? Feb 14, 2015 21:09

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

# ? Feb 14, 2015 21:22

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

Kennel posted:

# ? Feb 14, 2015 21:23

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

There will be repercussions!

Tina's Groove

Family Circus

Rose is Rose

One Big Happy

Mother Goose & Grimm

Foob

Compu-Toon

Bizarro

Dilbert

# ? Feb 14, 2015 21:59

flavor.flv: Apr 18, 2008; I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches

Yeah, I'm pretty sick of those linkedin pulse articles, too. Pick your Brain Comix

Pooch Caf�

Hey, no tools in sight, that's good. I was expecting Poncho to be leaning over him with a pair of pliers asking 'Is it safe' by this point.

Ballard Street

Ballard Street is a terrifying place.

# ? Feb 14, 2015 22:06

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Luann

1. Gunther should say yes. A fantastic way to learn something is to try to teach it to somebody else. As long as he doesn't actually do her homework for her, he should be good.

2. Tiff. Cosmetology school. Do it.

Sally Forth

I can't speak for everybody else in that class, but Mason's problems with learning definitely extend beyond teacher quality.

The Amazing Spider-Man

Juliet Jones

# ? Feb 14, 2015 23:13

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean

The young action movie star isn't calling the 50 year old broadcaster back? How shocking.

# ? Feb 14, 2015 23:36

computer angel: Sep 9, 2008; Make it a double.

Stultus Maximus posted:

The young action movie star isn't calling the 50 year old broadcaster back? How shocking.

She's meant to be 50? I don't follow this comic regularly, to me she seems she could be as young as 13 and as old as 35.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 00:09

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Cosima posted:

She's meant to be 50? I don't follow this comic regularly, to me she seems she could be as young as 13 and as old as 35.

She's Funky's ex wife; she, Funky, and Les all graduated high school in the same class.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 00:12

Wanamingo: Feb 22, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

Six Chix

Zippy the Pinhead

Nancy

Arlo and Janis

Andertoons

Four Eyes

I don't know, peplums seem hot enough. And I've known dudes that would be way into that horse legs thing.

Lost Side of Suburbia

Dick Tracy

Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz

Think this one may be a repeat, but by god I'm posting it anyway.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 02:04

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Wanamingo posted:

Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz

Think this one may be a repeat, but by god I'm posting it anyway.

It is; I think it was one of the first ones posted because I remember everyone's "oh COME ON" reactions.

Little did we know that this is pretty logical by Inspector Danger standards.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 02:19

Ride The Gravitron: May 2, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

I guessed it was the lady sitting down. figured her foot problems wouldn't let her stand for long . Also didn't his mysteries take like a week before?

# ? Feb 15, 2015 02:21

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Julet Esqu posted:

Luann

So, did Gunther somehow manage to enrol after returning to America after the start of the semester?

# ? Feb 15, 2015 03:54

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Pogo (February 15-16, 1957)

Peanuts: Year Two (April 3-5, 1952)

Super-Fun-Pak Comix

# ? Feb 15, 2015 04:23

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Tiggum posted:

So, did Gunther somehow manage to enrol after returning to America after the start of the semester?

This is not a very good school.

Also, Gunther's been home for days but still hasn't gotten around to shaving because he's just so drat rugged now. His manly-rear end beard just breaks any blade he brings to it.

Phantom Classic

Radio Patrol

Rip Kirby

$50,000 in 1955 dollars would be $436,421.34 in today money. That is an impressive number of slow ponies.

Big Ben Bolt

# ? Feb 15, 2015 04:28

Ensign_Ricky: Jan 4, 2008; Daddy Warlord
of the
Children of the Corn

_{or something...}

Julet Esqu posted:

Luann

1. Gunther should say yes. A fantastic way to learn something is to try to teach it to somebody else. As long as he doesn't actually do her homework for her, he should be good.

2. Tiff. Cosmetology school. Do it.

3. Gunther. Tiff. Do her.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 04:47

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Out Our Way, because I knew I'd forgotten something. (August 20-21, 1926)

# ? Feb 15, 2015 04:58

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

EasyEW posted:

Peanuts: Year Two (April 3-5, 1952)

It begins.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 05:04

Parahexavoctal: Oct 10, 2004; I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

EasyEW posted:

"Cypher" => "Cipher", old name for "zero".

quote:

I dunno, aside from the eye dialect and the Samboesque facial features, this one seems somehow less racist than most of the Wash Funk strips. The Funk child seems so genuinely excited over the birth of a foal.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 05:19

flavor.flv: Apr 18, 2008; I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches

All of the Wash Funk strips would work exactly the same if he were a poor white man instead of a poor black man, and that alone probably made it the most progressive strip of its day.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 05:32

Midnight Moth: Sep 14, 2007; What the hell, dude??
I'm like, right here.

Dustin

As opposed to "Our love will only last for a few days and then start to wither, fall apart and die."

Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog

And we were on such a roll with No Words Week.

On the Fastrack

"Also I get a cut from the Valentine card companies for making everyone in the class buy a box."

Safe Havens

I'm pretty sure they have prairie vole DNA. Close enough. Failing that you can turn him into a flower.

Midnight Moth fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Feb 15, 2015

# ? Feb 15, 2015 06:56

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

RandomFerret posted:

All of the Wash Funk strips would work exactly the same if he were a poor white man instead of a poor black man, and that alone probably made it the most progressive strip of its day.

Certainly over half a century more progressive than Dennis the Menace.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 07:04

dordreff: Jul 16, 2013

Wanamingo posted:

Nancy

That bear is utterly ready for death's sweet, loving embrace.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 07:29

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

It's one thing to go a few days without shaving and get all stubbly, but it's another thing entirely to just have that look permanently. I mean to keep the look you have to trim your stubble to keep it down, and if you do that it looks too "clean" and you just wind up looking stupid. Plus you aren't saving time or effort or anything, which to me is a big part of the whole point. I don't get it. I know a guy that does it and it's terrible.

F Minus

Mary Worth

Well that was boring.

Rex Morgan MD

"My free luxury car isn't perfect! Why have you forsaken me, Lord?"

# ? Feb 15, 2015 08:55

RandomPauI: Nov 24, 2006; Grimey Drawer

Midnight Moth posted:

Safe Havens

I'm pretty sure they have prairie vole DNA. Close enough. Failing that you can turn him into a flower.

The cat girl and the mouse guy are gonna become an item aren't they?

# ? Feb 15, 2015 08:57

Johnny Aztec: Jan 30, 2005; by Hand Knit

Midnight Moth posted:

Safe Havens

I'm pretty sure they have prairie vole DNA. Close enough. Failing that you can turn him into a flower.

I let a lot of things pass in this strip but every time they go " Oh lemme just grab this DNA to transform into X" I just go :argh:

It is just ..JUST SO drat WRONG.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 09:02

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Hey it worked out okay in Rick & Morty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8nZR_L762E

Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Feb 15, 2015

# ? Feb 15, 2015 09:08

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tina's Groove

Family Circus

Rose is Rose

One Big Happy

Mother Goose & Grimm

Foob

Compu-Toon

Bizarro

Dilbert

Foxtrot

# ? Feb 15, 2015 09:35

Poil: Mar 17, 2007

dordreff posted:

That bear is utterly ready for death's sweet, loving embrace.

It just wanted to play pirates.

# ? Feb 15, 2015 13:01

BlankIsBeautiful: Apr 4, 2008; Feeling a little inadequate?

Bleh.

Phoebe and Her Unicorn

9 Chickweed Lane 2/15/2004

Ha. Haha.

Zits

My '69 Beetle was so cool, I had to wear a snowmobile suit when I drove it to work in the Winter. Had to keep the window down too so the windsheild wouldn't frost over. Good times.