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Jul 29, 2015 05:49
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EasyEW posted:An emergency out-of-band update for Funky Fanservicebean, because holy poo poo, I can't sit on this garbage until morning. Les is just skimming through that book to find the pick-up lines that worked on Lisa. Piranha Club   Dick Tracy   Judge Parker   9 Chickweed Lane  So much for Brooke's plan to attract the furry crowd.  Pibgorn  
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Aardmania posted:Piranha Club Gay interior decorator jokes? Bud Grace really is a time traveler from the 1960s. Aardmania posted:Pibgorn That's the most hostile giraffe I've ever seen.
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Jul 29, 2015 06:19
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EasyEW posted:An emergency out-of-band update for Funky Fanservicebean, because holy poo poo, I can't sit on this garbage until morning. And then Les was so ashamed of what he had become that he killed himself, ushering in the Age of Funkpocalypse. Actually just literally anything having consequence is the only way this stupid arc could be redeemed, but that won't happen because Batiuk is in fact keenly aware that the only thing of significance he ever wrote was Lisa's cancer arc and so he will milk that cow forever across the loving Funky Multiverse like the twisted universal constant that keeps Lex Luthor and Superman forever at odds. There is always a Lisa, there is always cancer, and it is always lethal.
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greatn posted:Oh You Kid was a pick up line back then and in a number of pop songs. Lots of men got the poo poo beaten out of them for saying "Oh you kid" to the wrong guys girlfriend. The full saying was "I love my wife but oh, you kid!" which just adds to the trouble dudes could get into. Rolling pins on head, frying pans on head, crockery thrown, poo poo straight outta Jiggs & Maggie.
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Jul 29, 2015 06:23
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EasyEW posted:An emergency out-of-band update for Funky Fanservicebean, because holy poo poo, I can't sit on this garbage until morning.
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GorfZaplen posted:The Phantom How loving long is this storyline going to go on for? The ending is so telegraphed that I wish for a total bait & switch, but nothing will ever come of this. It'll end as expected after another month of "WOW GURAN IS EQUAL OR WORSE THAN KIPAWA BUT GURAN IS NICER SO HE WINS" trials and then we'll have another agonizingly boring arc where one of the kids needs to go to the dentist or something.
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Jul 29, 2015 07:06
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Geomancing posted:One of the things I enjoy about Everett True is the little slices of culture that are just so strange to modern viewers. Like, multiple strips show that True goes into a restaurant and sits down at a table with complete strangers just because that's the open seat. (Then he beats them up for one reason or another.) I assumed he was sitting down with friends/relatives/business partners/etc for an arranged dinner (and to beat them up)
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Jul 29, 2015 08:50
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"Why couldn't it have been the children?"
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Jul 29, 2015 08:53
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Calaveron posted:I don't have examples on-hand, but african americans are drawn in that old timey really racist way. Oh, I see. I thought you meant there was racism in the strips just posted and I was being very confused.
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Jul 29, 2015 09:50
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I always skip over Funky Winkerbean because it's not the fun kind of bad, but are they doing some sort of time travel plot?
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Jul 29, 2015 11:40
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FactsAreUseless posted:I always skip over Funky Winkerbean because it's not the fun kind of bad, but are they doing some sort of time travel plot? Yes. As teenagers, they found a time portal. Between then and now they all forgot about it, except for Crazy Harry (I think that's his name?). Despite there being no good reason for Lisa to be with them at the time, she was, and so is now in the present. No one is going to tell her about the cancer and potentially save her life. They're telling their past selves all sorts of other stuff though, so it's clearly not about preserving history. And now teenager-Les has found Les's terrible book (about Lisa dying), which was lying around at the school reunion for some reason. But the story's not over yet, so prepare for it to get worse.
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Jul 29, 2015 11:47
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It was lying around at the school reunion because you don't want to spend too much time away from your main character.
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Jane's World A RARE TYPO APPEARS! IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE! Non Sequitur  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Kliban  New from RONCO, it's FIDIK! 9 Chickweed Lane 7/29/2004  Zits  Kevin & Kell   Mark Trail  It's clear this shark was shot up by a rival gang. Perhaps The Jets?
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Jul 29, 2015 12:35
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Jul 29, 2015 14:17
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EasyEW posted:An emergency out-of-band update for Funky Fanservicebean, because holy poo poo, I can't sit on this garbage until morning. The Dinette Set counts calories.  Working Daze is still doing this.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix sees you coming a mile away. 
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Jul 29, 2015 14:39
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I missed early Creeps. Is this the first reveal that Fat Creep has a tumor not just a weird hairdo?
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Bloom County 2015 Skippy (May 30, 1928)  Peanuts (July 31, 1968)  So, Franklin. This story has been told in great detail over recent years, but the short version was that in the wake of the MLK assassination, a schoolteacher wrote Schulz a letter asking if there was a way to introduce a black character into Charlie Brown's world. Schulz was sympathetic to what the teacher was asking, but didn't want to make a diversity move come off in a patronizing way. They traded a few letters and Sparky became convinced that it would be more wrong to not try. In the end, Franklin was just another one of the kids, but even that was too much for some people. "I did get one letter from one southern editor who said something about 'I don't mind you having a black character, but please don't show them in school together.' Because I had shown Franklin sitting in front of Peppermint Patty. But I didn't even answer him." And if Franklin seemed a little bit bland in the long run compared to the neurotics he was surrounded with, keep in mind that there were many ways to blow the type of thing Sparky pulled off.  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (August 15-16, 1927)   Thimble Theater (February 14, 1929) 
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Jul 29, 2015 15:40
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How is no-powers supporting character Popeye so much cooler than punch-an-alligator-so-hard-it-flies-into-the-sky-and-falls-back-down-as-a-set-of-luggage protagonist Popeye?
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Jul 29, 2015 15:53
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RandomFerret posted:How is no-powers supporting character Popeye so much cooler than punch-an-alligator-so-hard-it-flies-into-the-sky-and-falls-back-down-as-a-set-of-luggage protagonist Popeye? I'm betting cuz this Popeye does not seem to give a poo poo in comparison.
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Arelon posted:Fingerpori The meanings of esittää include to play (in an act), to display, to present and to exhibit. I'll let you guess what Asko meant.  quote:I love it how a hundred years later none of this makes any sense. I wonder how most gag cartoons would fair a century from now. Maybe we should start annotating our contemporary cartoons so that future generations can understand what the hell they were about. Unfortunately only Charles Boyce knows what goes on in Computoon...
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Nenonen posted:The meanings of esittää include to play (in an act), to display, to present and to exhibit. I'll let you guess what Asko meant. 
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Nenonen posted:I love it how a hundred years later none of this makes any sense. I dunno, I thought it was clear enough even without knowing the slang implications of "Oh you!" back then. Guy eyeballs and tries to flirt with a woman on the street, woman looks alarmed and unhappy at the attention, Everett pastes him.
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Selachian posted:I dunno, I thought it was clear enough even without knowing the slang implications of "Oh you!" back then. Guy eyeballs and tries to flirt with a woman on the street, woman looks alarmed and unhappy at the attention, Everett pastes him. Yeah. Like, if the strip is done today, the guy would be catcalling her.
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Jul 29, 2015 18:43
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (August 15-16, 1927) I don't get it. "Robert" because those are Robert's legs, yes, but... what's Robert doing?
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Parahexavoctal posted:I don't get it. "Robert" because those are Robert's legs, yes, but... what's Robert doing? It's 1920s version of Zits.  Those darn kids who don't sit properly!
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Jul 29, 2015 19:56
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So what you're saying is that the joke isn't that he's eating out grandma
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RandomFerret posted:How is no-powers supporting character Popeye so much cooler than punch-an-alligator-so-hard-it-flies-into-the-sky-and-falls-back-down-as-a-set-of-luggage protagonist Popeye? Because relatively speaking Castor and the rest are even more unbearable than the relatively modern Popeye cast.
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Octatonic posted:So what you're saying is that the joke isn't that he's eating out grandma He's on the bench behind Grandma making it look like she has goofy legs.
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RandomFerret posted:How is no-powers supporting character Popeye so much cooler than punch-an-alligator-so-hard-it-flies-into-the-sky-and-falls-back-down-as-a-set-of-luggage protagonist Popeye? Because everyone else in Thimble Theater is a horrible rear end in a top hat and he doesn't want anything to do with them. Contrast that to super Popeye, where he hangs out with horrible people by choice.
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Aardmania posted:9 Chickweed Lane Shadeoses posted:I assumed he was sitting down with friends/relatives/business partners/etc for an arranged dinner (and to beat them up) F Minus  Mary Worth  Greybook University has a competitive working environment. Rex Morgan MD  Secret Agent X-9  Yeah that mask really protects your identity, and you don't look like a jackass wearing it.
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You know what, I will unironically start loving Funky Winkerbean if Sunday's strip ends with the old cast leaving and the focus remaining on the young group, and it resets into being a comic strip about goofy teenagers in the 70's devoid of the emotional baggage created by so much cancer and unwarranted self-importance.
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Calaveron posted:You know what, I will unironically start loving Funky Winkerbean if Sunday's strip ends with the old cast leaving and the focus remaining on the young group, and it resets into being a comic strip about goofy teenagers in the 70's devoid of the emotional baggage created by so much cancer and unwarranted self-importance. It's fun to dream, but not a chance. TomBat has a two year buffer of these, so you'd assume that an about-face that drastic would've been leaked by now. The topic of tonight's Pogo is the measure of a man. Um, male mammal. (July 31, 1957)  Peanuts: Year Three (Decmeber 18-22, 1952)    
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EasyEW posted:An emergency out-of-band update for Funky Fanservicebean, because holy poo poo, I can't sit on this garbage until morning. Les is going to plagiarize himself. I feel sorry for that other lady who died. You know, the poor soul who has to share a memorial board with the Sainted Lisa. None of the present people care, and even the time travelers who are currently going to school with her do not give a poo poo. Luann  The Amazing Spider-Man  Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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Julet Esqu posted:The Heart of Juliet Jones Gee, thanks, Eve.
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