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Wanamingo posted:Lost Side of Suburbia I very much want to be wrong, as I like Margo more than I have liked any character in this thread since Modesty Blaise was being posted.
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Apr 8, 2015 05:29
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Wanamingo posted:Four Eyes
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Apr 8, 2015 05:33
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Dustin "Our son seems depressed." "Good." A+ writing Kelley. Bleeker  Didn't Karl have a crush on Eve from Wall-E? On the Fastrack  One of your contractors did it I bet. Safe Havens  "Hey, I can use all the free labor I can around here." Recess  What is this, Wallace and Gromit?
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Apr 8, 2015 05:34
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Midnight Moth posted:On the Fastrack Everyone who? Aren't most of the staff in this room right now? There's the big guy who's always sleeping, and...?
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Tiggum posted:Everyone who? Aren't most of the staff in this room right now? There's the big guy who's always sleeping, and...?
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Midnight Moth posted:Recess It's where you take one concept from Gary Larson, overcomplicate it, and call it a day.
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Apr 8, 2015 09:12
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Elissimpark posted:Quick and nasty... Nice. Aardmania posted:9 Chickweed Lane The thing I like about these strips is how they display an understanding and appreciation of classical music beyond just knowing the names of some composers. Howard Beale posted:It's where you take one concept from Gary Larson, overcomplicate it, and call it a day. Looking forward to his version of Cow Tools. Have some Tom Gauld strips, since I like him still    If you're in Canada he's got a book tour this week.
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Apr 8, 2015 10:59
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Mr. Squishy posted:The thing I like about these strips is how they display an understanding and appreciation of classical music beyond just knowing the names of some composers.
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Apr 8, 2015 11:52
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"Good sufferin' gosh! He'll fold like a cheap suit for Honey's getaway sticks!" - a modern teenager
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Apr 8, 2015 12:04
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Skippy (February 8, 1928) Peanuts (April 10, 1968)  Funky Winkerbean  Popeye  Rip Haywire  With great power comes great responsibility. Out Our Way (December 17-18, 1926)  
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann 1. Yep, when I'm doing a messy art project like papier mache, I find the best place to do it is on my bed, not, say, in the kitchen, basement, or outside. 2. I've done masks like that (with plaster). You cut the drat straws down so they don't fall out of your nose and you can actually breathe through them. 3. I can only hope the punchline to this is that Luann has failed to put Vaseline on her face, and Quill rips her eyebrows out when he takes the mask off. quote:Juliet Jones ...but thankfully Julet also posts Juliet, which I have fallen in love with. Thanks for posting these! Been a fan for a while and couldn't remember if I ever thanked you for it.  (sidenote to Julet: where does your avatar text come from? It seems familiar but I can't place it. Did it come from one of these threads?)
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Jane's World Non Sequitur  C'mon Flo, I'm sure you guys have heard of NASCAR in Maine. Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Should be a Kliban Cats but nope, it's just billed as a regular old Kliban  If the switch was turned off, it would stop leaking.  My late Grandmother was a Mennonite, and she insisted that all the outlets in the house must be occupied with plugs. She didn't want the electricity to leak out.9 Chickweed Lane 4/8/2004  Not bad, Brooke, I smiled at that. Zits  Kevin & Kell  So, over the last week or so, they apparently made up and are back together?  Well, it's the truth.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:3. I can only hope the punchline to this is that Luann has failed to put Vaseline on her face, and Quill rips her eyebrows out when he takes the mask off.
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Cul-de-sac Well, yes, if she hadn't already pulled Dill's head clean off. The Creeps... still hasn't updated?
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The Dinette Set crosses over with Retail. Working Daze has never heard of graphical adventures. 
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Apr 8, 2015 14:14
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That's where the big money is, in 2015. Text adventure games. Triple A titles like Zork and Space Quest.
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Apr 8, 2015 14:36
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An adventure game using entirely non-verbal clues? That could be interesting.
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Johnny Aztec posted:An adventure game using entirely non-verbal clues? That could be interesting. Like Journey of a Roach?
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dirksteadfast posted:I don't think we're meant to agree with or root for Calvin all the time, and Watterson wasn't afraid to show Calvin's actions having negative consequences (or be straight up put in his place by Hobbes). But I always got the sense that at his core he's a good person with a lot of potential once he started to apply himself. Calvin is essentially a Wile E. Coyote figure. The strip generally follows a shenanigans-comeuppance format and outside of a few rare arcs like the bully arcs Calvin is largely the architect of his own misery, often through "inventions" malfunctioning in absurd and impossible ways. Even so, I do think that people generally remember the strip better for the sequences where Calvin's imagination is his own antagonist, as opposed to having him antagonize Suzy or the adults that are in charge of him. The art is a big part of why people gush about C & H so much, though. Look at dat fuckin art: Darthemed posted:Calvin and Hobbes Watterson draws the hell out of these strips. Like, the chair upholstery is super busy (I think Watterson calls himself out on this in some of the annotated compilations) but that's not really characteristic of most of the strip's run--he generally does a great job with conservation of background detail. And these are just two random pre-sabbatical dailies--later in the strip's run Watterson had enough pull to get away with more creative layouts and formats, letting him do things in terms of art that literally no other comic in mainstream newspaper publishing was allowed to do.
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Emmy Lou Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom 
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Calvin and Hobbes also had so many dinosaurs. And sometimes, they were in F-14s.
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GorfZaplen posted:The Phantom I hope the next couple of strips are Colonel Week's losing his poo poo at how lax the dress code at the Jungle Patrol has become.
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert  Red Meat 
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's
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Apr 8, 2015 17:23
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Midnight Moth posted:
When did "dogs like to chase cats" (true) become this cliche of "dogs want to exterminate cats from existence"/"cats and dogs are MORTAL ENEMIES and dogs will be ostracized from their own kind if they are friends with a cat" thing? I see it done over to the point its really tired and often seems pointlessly cruel on the side of the dog rather than funny in any way, especially when theres never any context given for why the dog should hate the cat. Maybe I'm biased, in many dog/cat households I've been in they all get along or even seem to love each other. At least in Tom & Jerry there was usually some reason that the dog was pissed and they would put aside their differences if the need arose.
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butt dickus posted:It's only 1/365 since the two of them were already born, probably even less since it's possible this was planned. Even if we just want the odds of three people sharing the same birthday it's only around 1/133400. It's 1 in 48 million if you assume that the birthdays had to be on New Year's too.
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Apr 8, 2015 17:32
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ComradeCosmobot posted:It's 1 in 48 million if you assume that the birthdays had to be on New Year's too. It must be popping that night when the family goes out on new years for free pancakes at Denny's
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Seeing this Calvin and Hobbes storyline again just makes me wonder why Rosalyn didn't go to the neighbors and call the restaurant/locksmith/police. My diagnosis:  Bad babysitting.
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Bismuth posted:When did "dogs like to chase cats" (true) become this cliche of "dogs want to exterminate cats from existence"/"cats and dogs are MORTAL ENEMIES and dogs will be ostracized from their own kind if they are friends with a cat" thing? I see it done over to the point its really tired and often seems pointlessly cruel on the side of the dog rather than funny in any way, especially when theres never any context given for why the dog should hate the cat. Maybe I'm biased, in many dog/cat households I've been in they all get along or even seem to love each other. At least in Tom & Jerry there was usually some reason that the dog was pissed and they would put aside their differences if the need arose.
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Midnight Moth posted:Because 1) dogs and cats are the most common companion animals that everyone is familiar with and 2) every situation with some loose basis in reality gets exaggerated eventually to make it more interesting so having them at war with each other is the natural conclusion of that exaggeration. Yeah, I get exaggeration like in tom and Jerry and even Itchy and Scratchy but stuff like that comic I quoted and the dogs in pooch cafe are just boring one-sided abuse
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Apr 8, 2015 18:55
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There's a market for one-sided abuse entertainment. After all Dustin has a fanbase.
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Piranha Club  Dick Tracy   Yes, it certainly is the name of a cartoon. Judge Parker   9 Chickweed Lane   Don't worry, Seth will be back shortly with the box full of toasters. Pibgorn 
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Manuel Calavera posted:Dilbert sooooo what's the deal with Dilbert lately? is Scott Adams trying to make up for being a raging misogynist shithead in the past? or is this another one of those "lol irrational women getting mad over nothing" things like that time he spent a week joking about cutting off people's testicles
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I read Theron's name as "The Ron" in that last strip and I have to say I kind of prefer that. F Minus   Mary Worth  "Or, it did, and now you're here."  Rex Morgan MD   
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Lost Side of Suburbia   Dick Tracy   Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz 
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz That's it. No Inspector Danger will beat this one.
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