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

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Poil: Mar 17, 2007

Darthemed posted:

Calvin and Hobbes

I just love this one for some reason. Calvin and Hobbes is the best. :3:

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Dragongem: Nov 9, 2009; Heroes of the Storm
Goon Tournament Champion

I love how past Newspaper Spider-man is still incompetent :v:

# ? Aug 6, 2015 17:51

Esplanade: Jan 6, 2005

Johnny Walker posted:

Tomorrow: Will she come i...oh wait she said she's not. But she is already isn't she? How do doors and walls work?

I'd like to think this whole sequence is just the writer's metacommentary on the artwork.

# ? Aug 6, 2015 17:51

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Esplanade posted:

I'd like to think this whole sequence is just the writer's metacommentary on the artwork.

I now desperately want that to be the case; he's going to write Margo realizing the breakdown of her reality, and Bolle's just going to draw whatever the gently caress he wants without reading the dialog as always, just reinforcing Margo's realizations.

Accidental postmodernism.

# ? Aug 6, 2015 18:20

Lowen SoDium: Jun 5, 2003; Highen Fiber; Clapping Larry

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

Christ, how long has this been going on? I thought Guran won already.

Jane's World

Oh, we are finally back to the log cabin republicans.

# ? Aug 6, 2015 18:45

Slammy: Mar 30, 2011; Great speech.
PPHPFT!!

Fritzi Ritz (1938)

Rarebit Fiend (1905, click for huge)

Everett True on Vacation (1910)

again, not vacation, but in the run.

Sick, Sick, Sick (1956, click for big)

# ? Aug 7, 2015 00:09

Darkest Auer: Dec 30, 2006; They're silly; Ramrod XTreme

Fingerpori

In Finnish butter that's gone bad is "h�rski", which is also what you can call people like the letch uncle everyone has who keeps telling dirty stories and hitting on everyone.

Fok_it

# ? Aug 7, 2015 01:48

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 (August 7-8, 1957)

Peanuts: Year Three (January 8-11, 1952)

# ? Aug 7, 2015 03:38

Rand Brittain: Mar 25, 2013; "Go on until you're stopped."

I appreciate the way Everett True is a jerk. I just know that anybody doing him today would make him a political mouthpiece who was never wrong.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 04:18

Lowen SoDium: Jun 5, 2003; Highen Fiber; Clapping Larry

Slammy posted:

Fritzi Ritz (1938)

I like this uncle.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 04:19

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

EasyEW posted:

Peanuts: Year Three (January 8-11, 1952)

So in the 50's a high chair was just a hole cut in the center of a table?

Phantom Classic

You dummies! She went and blew the candle out for you so you could have the advantage of creeping up on him in the dark and then you gotta go and yell as you jump him!

Radio Patrol

Rip Kirby is still rerunning last week's.

Big Ben Bolt

# ? Aug 7, 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.

Julet Esqu posted:

So in the 50's a high chair was just a hole cut in the center of a table?

Some of 'em, not all of 'em. Others were dangerous to babies in more traditional ways.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 04:50

mastersord: Feb 15, 2001; Gold Card Putty Fan Club
Member Since 2017!; Soiled Meat

Mister Beeg posted:

Few more, from New York Daily News, May 1979. These were easier to scan since these are tabloid format.

Dick Tracy's artist back then did not know how to draw a woman's nose apparently

Notice how Spiderman's dialogue doesn't beat you over the head with the plot arc like it does today.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 04:52

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

Lowen SoDium posted:

I like this uncle.

I know he's supposed to be a lazy layabout but to me he seems to be the only one that knows what's up and has enough self-respect not to put up with bullshit. If you want to invite people to dinner, do so without demanding they work. And a worker has every right if not a duty to fight for better treatment from their employer.

F Minus

Mary Worth

Just Toby going to the store in her flying saucer no big deal.

Rex Morgan MD

Pinky out means it's not alcohol abuse.

Secret Agent X-9

See? He does just like loving with people.

Apartment 3-G

This is not the inside of the diner.

Evil Mastermind posted:

I now desperately want that to be the case; he's going to write Margo realizing the breakdown of her reality, and Bolle's just going to draw whatever the gently caress he wants without reading the dialog as always, just reinforcing Margo's realizations.

Accidental postmodernism.

I think the thread consensus is that the writer has given up on doing anything real with A3G and is just going through the motions until Bolle retires or dies. For the record, though, the writer is a woman, Margaret Shulock. Apparently she's one of the Six Chix! (Tuesday, according to Wikipedia.)

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GorfZaplen: Jan 20, 2012

Mandrake the Magician

The Phantom

# ? Aug 7, 2015 06:21

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

Johnny Walker posted:

F Minus

He stole... a dog's leash with its owner far off in the background?

# ? Aug 7, 2015 10:19

Command Ant: Aug 9, 2010; I can make you
worth your weight
in gold!

Mr. Squishy posted:

He stole... a dog's leash with its owner far off in the background?

It's a deep sea diver & treasure chest ornament for an aquarium. If he had tried stealing it from an aquarium with something dangerous inside of it, like a lion fish, that would be more impressive than the others.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 10:26

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

Oh! that makes a lot more sense. And he definitely stole it from a goldfish bowl.
Tom Gauld is now doing strips for New Scientist, the pop-sci magazine

And Rarebit Fiend with some Cronenberg poo poo

# ? Aug 7, 2015 10:41

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

Jane's World

Non Sequitur

What the hell did she do?

Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Kliban

9 Chickweed Lane 8/7/2004

Zits

Kevin & Kell

I get it. Predators are dumb.

Mark Trail

Who're "they"? Also, it seems Mark has stumbled upon a veritable aquatic junkyard.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 12:41

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

If you like chauffeurs, you will love Rex Morgan, M.D.

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Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

The Dinette Set discusses inequality.

Working Daze has violence, calves, and an unnecessary word balloon.

Super-Fun-Pak-Comix needs a new cinematographer.

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kidcoelacanth: Sep 23, 2009

Lowen SoDium posted:

I like this uncle.

He's no

VIET
NAM
VET

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Cricken_Nigfops: Oct 25, 2011; CROM!

I like Petey.

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Indolent Bastard: Oct 26, 2007; I WON THIS AMAZING AVATAR! I'M A WINNER! WOOOOO!

Miss me?

Mike du Jour

# ? Aug 7, 2015 14:28

Indolent Bastard: Oct 26, 2007; I WON THIS AMAZING AVATAR! I'M A WINNER! WOOOOO!

Monty

# ? Aug 7, 2015 14:30

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Arelon posted:

Fingerpori

In Finnish butter that's gone bad is "h�rski", which is also what you can call people like the letch uncle everyone has who keeps telling dirty stories and hitting on everyone.

H�rski translates directly as rancid, which actually also means offensive, disgusting etc.

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Indolent Bastard: Oct 26, 2007; I WON THIS AMAZING AVATAR! I'M A WINNER! WOOOOO!

Retail

# ? Aug 7, 2015 14:37

Indolent Bastard: Oct 26, 2007; I WON THIS AMAZING AVATAR! I'M A WINNER! WOOOOO!

Intelligent Life

# ? Aug 7, 2015 14:51

Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

Calvin and Hobbes

Ripley's

And here I was thinking there were only three or so outcomes for tic-tac-toe.

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plainswalker75: Feb 22, 2003; Pigs are smarter than Bears, but they can't ride motorcycles; Hair Elf

I really thought Intelligent Life was going to have Mike and Gwen get together and Skip cries bitter nerd tears because he's too gutless to have any self-agency. Too much to hope for anything interesting to happen in this banal crap I suppose.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 15:36

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.

Bloom County 2015

Skippy, continuing the Uncle Louie whistle stop tour. (June 8, 1928)

Peanuts (August 9, 1968)

Funky Winkerbean

So who collects the kill fee?

Rip Haywire

Out Our Way (September 5-6, 1927)

Thimble Theater (February 23, 1929)

# ? Aug 7, 2015 16:17

SomeMathGuy: Oct 4, 2014; The people were ASTONISHED at his doctrine.

EasyEW posted:

Is he seriously about to make this entire arc just a dream? Possibly with a lazy "or was it?" stinger twist? Goddammit Batiuk you can't even commit to your terrible ideas.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 16:57

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

EasyEW posted:

Out Our Way
(September 5-6, 1927)

You know, for all the cowboys gently caress with Wes, we're definitely seeing him get better at this stuff. Lately you see him taking on tougher jobs and going off on his own, and the guys are talking to him like he's one of the gang now instead of an outsider. It's neat to see the progression of his Training Comix.

Pooch Caf�

Ballard Street

Ronnie, baby, you don't just look for bug fights. You make them happen. http://www.japanesebugfights.com

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My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

Darthemed posted:

Ripley's

Yeeeah something got lost in translation there. Berlin has a problem with loud drunk tourists, and the mimes are part of a campaign to drive up awareness that the bar areas are usually also residential areas. They do stuff like the fingers-to-lips gesture and mime sleeping people, not as far as I know act drunk. Nobody would give a poo poo about how much you drink :v:

e: not to mention that if you go out in Berlin you'll see the consequences of overindulging all around you.

My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Aug 7, 2015

# ? Aug 7, 2015 16:59

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

SomeMathGuy posted:

Goddammit Batiuk you can't even commit to your terrible ideas.

Why are you surprised by that? Remember how he had Les sink the "Lisa's Story" movie for absolutely no reason?

# ? Aug 7, 2015 17:02

Nevets: Sep 11, 2002; Be they sad or be they well,
I'll make their lives a hell

Yes, that loud obnoxious drunk is really going to calm down and sleep it off after a mute in clown makeup waggles his fingers at him. It seems like the only thing that initiative is going to accomplish is increasing the noise level when the crowds start laughing and taunting mimes.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 17:05

SomeMathGuy: Oct 4, 2014; The people were ASTONISHED at his doctrine.

Evil Mastermind posted:

Why are you surprised by that? Remember how he had Les sink the "Lisa's Story" movie for absolutely no reason?

True, but at least that still had some ramifications later on since it's how Les met that one actor. This is just a copout and, arguably, a less interesting copout than one where only Crazy remembers or what have you. Admittedly, that would then beg the question of why I'm surprised to be underwhelmed and frustrated by Funky Winkerbean, and I have no answer for that one.

# ? Aug 7, 2015 17:28

Lowen SoDium: Jun 5, 2003; Highen Fiber; Clapping Larry

SomeMathGuy posted:

Is he seriously about to make this entire arc just a dream? Possibly with a lazy "or was it?" stinger twist? Goddammit Batiuk you can't even commit to your terrible ideas.

One can hope that this is a set up for a new timeline where young Les killed him self to avoid the pains of his future life.

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