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EasyEW posted:Yep, the character that the entire strip still revolves around has been dead since 2007, which (thanks to the time jump) would be eighteen years in storyline time. Now I want to see some sort of Buckley and Batuik comics cage match. Mr Move-On vs The Sad Sack. Or, if I wasn't so damned tired from working 3 double shifts I'd be on a FW/loss.jpg edit right now (has that been done?)
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RainbowCake posted:I forget, has Michael met Futurewife yet? He's like a year or two older, right? My knowledge of FOOBlore is not strong. Oh yeah, one of the things Lynn has done with the FOOB reboot was show that Michael and Deanna were totally kid-cute on each other from the start. He even got teased for giving her a valentine. 
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Howard Beale posted:Oh yeah, one of the things Lynn has done with the FOOB reboot was show that Michael and Deanna were totally kid-cute on each other from the start. He even got teased for giving her a valentine. The in-comic event that brought them two together was Deanna was in a car wreck, and Micheal saved her from it. In real life, the wreck happened, but Micheal was just a photographer, and took pictures of the wreck. Deanna did not survive. He didn't learn she was in that wreck until later, and it really tore him up. I don't believe any of her children really talk to her anymore.
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Johnny Aztec posted:The in-comic event that brought them two together was Deanna was in a car wreck, and Micheal saved her from it. It also bears mentioning that this plotline was conceived some time after the real Michael came out of the closet. There's being unable to accept your child's sexuality and then there's this.
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F Minus Mary Worth  Mary is an expert knob polisher. Rex Morgan MD  CK never updated Sunday's and I had to go to a couple sites to find one with Sunday's, so that's why it's small and missing the drop panels.  Secret Agent X-9  X-9's got some real flexibility there. Apartment 3-G  So I guess he was supposed to be dead but got found and healed by some Tibetan monks.
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Today I give thanks to those that labor to bring us comics every day! Happy Comic-Postin' Labor Day! Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)   Outbusts of Everett True   Fritzi Ritz   Sick, Sick, Sick (click for big)   Wee Pals  
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The Dinette Set takes only memories. And promotional items. Working Daze does one of its more roundabout "character has characteristic" jokes.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix steps on a butterfly. 
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Wall o' comics as I was too hungover yesterday to even find the power switch on the computer. It's all good now, though. I can happily say the Tequila demons have been demolished. Jane's World  The vegan menace?   That's really pushing the Maine accent there, Wiley, and I swear, the Farmer's Almanac says that every drat year.   Kliban  9 Chickweed Lane 9/6/2004  Is.. Is that a dog with tiny horns? 9 Chickweed Lane 9/7/2004  Zits     History is going to be, like, the "History Of Killing Things", right?  Well that's kind of depressing. And I thought "crikey" was a strictly Australian thing? Mark Trail later because I'm on Amish Internet here at the lake, and Comics Kingdom refuses to zoom, and/or give me an image for some reason.
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Just so you know it's not me doing it this time, Bloom County skipped a day. Skippy (July 9, 1928)  Peanuts (September 9, 1968)  In case you've forgotten (or never knew): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfQvIDTguNE 1968 was a weird-rear end year. Funky Winkerbean  Summer makes her first appearance in six months to give her dad a heart attack. This can only end in tears. Or to put it slightly differently, this drat well better end in tears. But there's no topping the pros today... Josh @ Comics Curmudgeon posted:AT LAST Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (November 9-10, 1927)   Thimble Theater (March 26, 1929) 
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Do it! DO IT! I am going to be so frustrated when this ends in a non-reveal or in Les convincing her to keep the tapes, but until then there's a brief flicker of hope that someone will finally tell Les it's time to move on and by god I'm going to cherish it.
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SomeMathGuy posted:Do it! DO IT! I am going to be so frustrated when this ends in a non-reveal or in Les convincing her to keep the tapes, but until then there's a brief flicker of hope that someone will finally tell Les it's time to move on and by god I'm going to cherish it. There's no way. Not the sacred relics of Saint Lisa.
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Senior Woodchuck posted:Jesus, Les, just pay some guy to transfer them to digital. Who else is willing to bet that's what's happening?
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Good for her. Letters and videos from the dead can be quite painful for the living. You want to move on and live your life, but year after year you have this message from your departed loved one you have to sit through to bring back all that grief. Worse yet, is mothers tend to have hopes and dreams for their offspring that don't always pan out in real life. A living mom can observe how things are going and adjust her expectations accordingly, but not so with a dead mom. You're a teen and she's talking about you getting into dating or having your first kiss or going to prom, but you're kind of a late bloomer or socially awkward and dating hasn't really happened for you yet. Mom's mentioning how she's sure you'll have a great time on the big new life adventure that is college, but you decided college isn't for you. Maybe you're in your thirties and Dead Video Mom has assumed you're married with kids by now, but... nope! Oh, hey! You are getting married and here's your video all about how she's so proud and she's sure you and your handsome new husband will live happily ever after, except she never knew that you're a lesbian. Fun times, disappointing a mother who's been dead for 20 years.
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Julet Esqu posted:Good for her. Letters and videos from the dead can be quite painful for the living. You want to move on and live your life, but year after year you have this message from your departed loved one you have to sit through to bring back all that grief. Worse yet, is mothers tend to have hopes and dreams for their offspring that don't always pan out in real life. A living mom can observe how things are going and adjust her expectations accordingly, but not so with a dead mom. You're a teen and she's talking about you getting into dating or having your first kiss or going to prom, but you're kind of a late bloomer or socially awkward and dating hasn't really happened for you yet. Mom's mentioning how she's sure you'll have a great time on the big new life adventure that is college, but you decided college isn't for you. Maybe you're in your thirties and Dead Video Mom has assumed you're married with kids by now, but... nope! Oh, hey! You are getting married and here's your video all about how she's so proud and she's sure you and your handsome new husband will live happily ever after, except she never knew that you're a lesbian. There's an episode of This American Life about this exactly, where the daughter decides to throw out the letters from her dead mom for exactly this reason. That won't happen here, unless there's a final video instructing the daughter to do it.
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Julet Esqu posted:The Heart of Juliet Jones Something tells me this guy isn't on the up-and-up, but what?
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean 
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Alterian posted:Why did he say Lisa and not "Your mom?"
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Evil Mastermind posted:Oh god he's setting us up with false hope. Either she's already converted Lisa's videos to digital format (where they've been uploaded to ShmooTube where they have ONE BILLION VIEWS because LISA or Lisa's last video was "Now throw this poo poo out and stop living in the past or you'll end up like your father."
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (September 9, 1968)
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Green Intern posted:Something tells me this guy isn't on the up-and-up, but what? He's fabricating the hate mail to himself as a way of getting up close and cozy with the mayor. At least, that's my prediction.
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SomeMathGuy posted:Do it! DO IT! I am going to be so frustrated when this ends in a non-reveal or in Les convincing her to keep the tapes, but until then there's a brief flicker of hope that someone will finally tell Les it's time to move on and by god I'm going to cherish it. You know that she just transferred them to some electronic file and put them on the cloud so that Baldie can live forever. With luck, though, she played them on a lovely TV, videotaped them with a camera, then ran them through a lovely .mpeg algorithm with the compression cranked to the max.
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (September 9, 1968) Aaand we're well and truly into the poo poo Peanuts now, where 90% of the strips follow this formula: 1. Snoopy does <THING DOGS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO DO> 2. Snoopy mugs for the readers 3. Breaking the fourth wall, Snoopy explains <THING DOGS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO DO> 4. At the same time, Snoopy makes some reference to a topical thing from 1968 which immediately makes the strip feel dated. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Sep 7, 2015 |
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Howard Beale posted:Oh yeah, one of the things Lynn has done with the FOOB reboot was show that Michael and Deanna were totally kid-cute on each other from the start. He even got teased for giving her a valentine. That was part of the original run, though somewhat more subtle. I remember this strip from books I read as a kid, because as boy myself I thought it was a really weird way for a boy to act. 
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Taking a break from posting this week, due to travel. If anyone wants to pick up Ripley's for the next few days, go for it; if not, I'll do a catch-up post when I get back.
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I could buy and sell this whole thread, you guys are Chump Change Comix. Pooch Café  I always wondered if birds got tired of flying and would prefer to walk everywhere if they could. It looks like a lot of work. Ballard Street  1940s cartoon wallet moths spotted The Creeps  The tape recorder makes a return appearance. Continuity in this strip is puzzling sometimes, Tumor Creep got his fingers back a month ago and it was never discussed again.
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EasyEW posted:
YES DO IT YOU MISERABLE gently caress, FLUSH HER ROTTED CORPSE DOWN THE TOILET AND MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIVES.
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