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SomeMathGuy posted:Oh, good, Scott Adams was always awful. That's oddly comforting. The difference is that this comes across more as a joke, I think--Dilbert specifically is so unlikable that women avoid him, and the rest of the strip, including the woman's reaction, is deliberately over-the-top. Current Adams would title the guide "Attractive Women's Guide to Avoiding Brilliant Male Engineers" and the strip would end with Dilbert getting in a clunky zinger on the woman.
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Sep 11, 2015 03:31
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ukonvasara posted:The difference is that this comes across more as a joke, I think--Dilbert specifically is so unlikable that women avoid him, and the rest of the strip, including the woman's reaction, is deliberately over-the-top. Current Adams would title the guide "Attractive Women's Guide to Avoiding Brilliant Male Engineers" and the strip would end with Dilbert getting in a clunky zinger on the woman. Yeah. Old Dilbert was fully aware that its protagonist was a loser and used it to its fullest extent. The thing is I remember reading strips drawn in the newer style where that was still the case, so I'm really not sure when the shift occurred; I think it might have been gradual, with the employees getting one up on PHB more and more often and such, before it eventually came the dreck that it is now.
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ukonvasara posted:The difference is that this comes across more as a joke, I think--Dilbert specifically is so unlikable that women avoid him, and the rest of the strip, including the woman's reaction, is deliberately over-the-top. Current Adams would title the guide "Attractive Women's Guide to Avoiding Brilliant Male Engineers" and the strip would end with Dilbert getting in a clunky zinger on the woman. Perhaps, but I'm having a hard time separating the strip I quoted from Adams'  rants - mostly owing to the fact that it reads less as "Dilbert is repulsive" than "Attractive women are actively conspiring against Dilbert." I guess it could just be me taking an innocuous strip and cramming it into a now well-known narrative, though.
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Sep 11, 2015 03:49
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Dilbert is wishing death on a woman because she won't sleep with him.
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Sep 11, 2015 04:07
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Slammy posted:Outbusts of Everett True F Minus   Mary Worth and the Giant drat Couch   Looks like Mary is in fact going to try to convince Toby she overreacted, but I bet this turns into her convincing them both they were equally wrong and they apologize to each other. Rex Morgan MD  And her cheeks are full of nuts she's storing up for the winter, which is a bonus.  Secret Agent X-9   Apartment 3-G Bear in mind, this is where we left off on Wednesday:  Muffled cry? Is that the sound Eric makes when he teleports?  That's because the background changes every panel, Margo. Edit: And shirt colors too. Murdstone fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Sep 11, 2015 06:52
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Johnny Walker posted:What did he do to him? He tied the horse's head back to make it stand at attention.
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Sep 11, 2015 06:58
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SynthOrange posted:He tied the horse's head back to make it stand at attention. But what did True do to the person? You'll never know, but pray it doesn't happen to you.
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Sep 11, 2015 08:08
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Happy 9/11 Day! Beetle Bailey  Piranha Club   Dick Tracy   Judge Parker   Oh boy! Dessert and shoe repair! 9 Chickweed Lane   Pibgorn  Today, Brooke shows us a car wreck watching a train wreck.
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Sep 11, 2015 08:47
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Jane's World Non Sequitur  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Kliban  ahahaha    9 Chickweed Lane 9/11/2004  Zits  Kevin & Kell   There's some serious artifactin' goin' on in this one. THANKS OBAMA! Mark Forehead 
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Sep 11, 2015 13:49
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That's kind of an ominous thing to say out of nowhere. Is... is Mark planning to kill Mississippi Ken? Bloody Murder Comix Pooch Café   That is demonstrably false. You just have to be one of the cool bird species.  Ballard Street   Not only is this the first two-parter Ballard Street, they both show the same scene from different angles! Constance lives in one of those hobbit-style eco-friendly earth-insulated cabins. The Creeps   Title drop!
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Sep 11, 2015 14:17
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ZeeToo posted:Pearls Before Swine I hate it when this is used as an example of a frivolousness law suit. That coffee was so hot that it fused an elderly woman's labia to her thigh. She just wanted money to fix her old lady vagina. And speaking of fixing vaginas, I'm super thrilled to see Everett True back in the thread. e: oh yeah he said it first Indolent Bastard posted:gently caress I hate people that say "Durr, coffee is hot, so of course it burns you. Give me 2 million dollars". text me a vag pic fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Sep 11, 2015 |
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Sep 11, 2015 14:18
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Howard Beale posted:I'm with whoever said the brownies are completely harmless and Bernice is deluding herself into blowing off some steam. There's no way drug use could be portrayed in the good, healthy, American tradition that is the newspaper comics page. (Also, Zonker was talking to pachysandra.) I'm guessing the complete other route, full 'Requiem for a Luann'. Bernice will be shooting up in an ally way by the end of the week.
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Sep 11, 2015 14:38
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Only one of my strips is 9/11 related. Guess which one! The Dinette Set doesn't pick at it.  Working Daze goes back to its roots: turning people into inanimate objects.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix knows that kid had it coming. 
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Sep 11, 2015 14:39
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Sep 11, 2015 14:56
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Sep 11, 2015 15:52
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This strip is normally just utterly useless, but gently caress YEAH COBBLER TIME! 
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Sep 11, 2015 16:35
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Indolent Bastard posted:
This strip can be saved if Barry hijacks it Urkel-style.
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Sep 11, 2015 16:51
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 Just like Aunt Petunia used to make.
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Sep 11, 2015 17:15
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:
Ken needs to be rockin' a dolphin skull on his boat's deck to match up to his baller Caddy.
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Sep 11, 2015 18:18
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Bloom County 2015 Peanuts (September 13, 1968)  Funky Winkerbean  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (November 18-19, 1927)   Thimble Theater (March 30, 1929) 
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Sep 11, 2015 19:22
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Luann Amazingly, Bern ate some weed* and the sky is not falling**! *as far as we know **yet The Amazing Spider-Man  "But if you were slightly less hot, hooooooooo boy." Sally Forth  That seems a bit advanced for whatever grade these kids are in. Potentially a good project, though. I wouldn't want to grade it. The Heart of Juliet Jones  Eve... just... just stop speaking for your sister, ok? 
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Sep 11, 2015 19:24
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Obviously a hallucination caused by drug induced psychosis.
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Sep 11, 2015 20:06
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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Sep 11, 2015 22:09
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So buy another one...???
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Alabaster White posted:So buy another one...???
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Safe Havens Samantha is God.       Dustin The adventure continues!       On the Fastrack      
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Classic Dilbert  In these early strips I think Dilbert is genuinely portrayed as a loser, there's no yet. It's also weird reading the Dogbert ones because he still sometimes does dog things too (Snoopy syndrome?).
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Sep 12, 2015 01:06
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Arelon posted:Classic Dilbert I think it's more that, early on, Dogbert was meant to be smart and an rear end in a top hat, sure, but he was also still a dog. Catbert likewise was a cat because it fit the sadistic, evil management thing. Over time, though, the "dog" part of Dogbert got used less and less, (probably because the weird schemes of his and stuff were so popular so they took over the character) Catbert became ineffectual the same way PHB and the other management did, and so on.
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Sep 12, 2015 01:22
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Adams once wrote that people really liked it when Dogbert did dog things (especially wagging his tail when he did mean stuff) so I'm not really sure why he stopped
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Pogo (September 12-13, 1957)  Peanuts: Year Three (April 2-5, 1953)     Calaveron posted:So was the switch from Peanuts being a cute, funny comic strip focusing on precocious children to a lovely, depressed comic focusing on a bunch of loving assholes sudden or was it gradual A lot of people have been asking this (in the same type of tone), and really, this is the only correct answer: this is the transition. The next five or six years, roughly speaking. In fact, it's already been going on for awhile. Sounds like you might want to back up and start taking notes. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Sep 12, 2015 |
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Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)   <<Obamacare joke>> Outbusts of Everett True   Fritzi Ritz   Sick, Sick, Sick (click for big)   Wee Pals  
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Mandrake the Magician The Phantom 
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Phantom Classic Radio Patrol  Rip Kirby  Big Ben Bolt 
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Johnny Walker posted:This is the early 80s! What do you think they have big displays of all sorts of magazines in nearly every grocery or convenience store and even in stands on some street corners? Seriously, and it's not like a magazine featuring someone's work would ever give that person a whole box full of copies as part of it or anything.
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Sep 12, 2015 06:30
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Or doing something as unreasonable as not just letting the magazine lie around among the other ones that are always discarded without a care.
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Sep 12, 2015 08:15
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Manuel Calavera posted:
Wait -- I haven't lived in the US for several years now -- is this a thing there now? (Not remarking on 11 September, but that people light candles for it, &c.).
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Sep 12, 2015 08:52
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Transmodiar posted:Safe Havens Advanced aging huh? So soon all of these moments will be lost like tears in the ocean. Slammy posted:Fritzi Ritz ...where did Nancy get that baby?
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Ms Boods posted:Wait -- I haven't lived in the US for several years now -- is this a thing there now? (Not remarking on 11 September, but that people light candles for it, &c.).
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Mandrake the Magician Theron is such a tease. The Phantom 
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