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Aardmania posted:9 Chickweed Lane You know, it occurs to me that in pretty much any other strip, the hiding-in-the-tutleneck thing would be cute.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth They're eating in front of a tractor trailer with a poster on it Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD They're eating at Johnny Rockets
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Aardmania posted:Gil 03/22/15 Apparently a real book.
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I went to look up "Sounder" and realized that wasn't the book, but the jerk-rear end peckerwood neighbor story sounded familiar.
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Say Nothing posted:WHERE IS YOUR rear end? rear end was traded in for an extra 15cm of GAMSGAMSGAMSGAMSGAMS. p.s. r ubbish i miss you
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Johnny Walker posted:What are they talking about? Anyway, Sam's recently decided that it's easier if he only has one client, Alan Parker, the original Judge Parker in the strip (his son Randy, Sam's old partner, is the new Judge Parker). And he's not wrong about that -- Alan's taken up writing novels, and naturally they're all best-sellers and the movie rights were worth a ton of money and everyone was just so happy to be a part of it that Sam literally did gently caress-all to make any of it possible. I mean, he showed up to a "tough negotiation" for the movie deal with some Hollywood bigwig, and the very first thing that happened was said bigwig just breezily agreeing to a huge amount with absolutely no discussion or hesitation and declaring that he wanted to go fishing with Sam instead. Which ended in some shotgun diplomacy with a pot-growing operation in the back woods that turned into a lucrative solar farm deal (of which Sam also got a cut). And no, that's not actually relevant to this particular storyline, but I feel compelled to mention it, for obvious reasons. But because he's only got one client now, Sam doesn't need his old office anymore, and seeing as his current law partner -- Steve, the Iraqi war veteran with missing legs -- wanted to go off and marry their secretary and never appear in the comic strip again, Abbey's making a 'home office' for him out in the old barn. Which until recently had a dead rat stinking up the place, and which currently still smells of horse manure. Which I guess is tragic, or something? Poor Sam Driver, with his massive wealth and luxurious home and vast portfolio of lucrative properties and his hot wife -- his future home office which he doesn't even need will have to be deep-cleaned and aired out for a little while.
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Darthemed posted:Which day of my posts is the last one with functioning images? January 15th. I use google chrome with the SA extension. I used to run the SA images extension on scriptmonkey too but it was causing problems of its own.
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Trilobite posted:Right. So, that's Sam Driver and his wife Abbey Spencer, who are pretty much the main characters of Judge Parker these days. Sam's a lawyer, Abbey's a rich lady who owns a horse farm. In true soap-strip fashion, neither of them have to do much actual work, mostly they just hang around and other people show up to give them money or wineries or whatever. Their two adopted (and brilliant and independently wealthy) daughters live with them, and have their own drama, but generally not the kind that requires Sam or Abbey to do anything. The best part of this story is that the only person who didn't like Judge Parker's novel was some shrewish, middle-aged book critic. It's OK, though, because Judge Parker met her on a cruise and confronted her, and even her own husband told her she was wrong and confirmed that Judge Parker's novel was the best thing ever. Judge Parker makes Funky Winkerbean's literary wish-fulfillment look like the Bataan Death March. treasureplane posted:King Aroo (January 5, 1951) I gotta say, I like King Aroo. It has a charming, Moomin-like sense of humor.
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Kid Fenris posted:Judge Parker makes Funky Winkerbean's literary wish-fulfillment look like the Bataan Death March. At least the characters in Judge Parker have the decency to be happy about everything always going their way. Les Moore gets everything he claims to want and then complains about it.
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I was about to comment on something someone mentioned a while back, about how all the defendants in Pros and Cons seem to be guilty, and obviously so, and if that was supposed to reflect the author's views or something, but I just realized that it's actually probably far simpler than that: Guilty people are funny, innocent people aren't. Like this last one, the guy is guilty, but he's being found not guilty. There's some banter and comedy and such, and it's funny. Reverse that, though, with an innocent person being declared guilty, and it's not funny anymore. That kind of situation is a tragedy and would likely overshadow any attempts at jokes, and would definitely bring down the mood of an otherwise rather light, clever comic strip. It'd also affect our perceptions of the characters a lot. At the moment, Stan and Gillian are funny, despite being jerks fairly often; if they put someone who didn't deserve to be there in jail, though, they'd lose a lot of sympathy from the audience, even if going for a guilty verdict is arguably Gillian's job. Heck, even just having her prosecute someone who's not guilty would probably make her look a lot worse, as the audience might feel that she's "attacking" an innocent person. Samuel, on the other hand, can defend actual criminals and not look so bad, not only because most of the criminals end up in jail anyway, but because, barring a really bad sort of criminal who's not likely to show up in a comic strip anyway, trying to keep a guilty person out of jail doesn't look/feel as bad as trying to put an innocent person in jail.
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I dunno, I guess since it's a newspaper comic it needs to keep things relatively light-hearted or something, but it feels too uneven... I guess it's because I read those police justice threads in D&D, masochist that I am. Though I don't think the Pro & Cons creator is some kind of just world 'anyone in jail is guilty' or somesuch. I remember them having someone on a jury snark at the prosecutor in response to a recent shooting of a black person.
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Or just that the cartoon's name is Pros and Cons. Lyndon's patients too usually are not in need of a shrink but a good slap on the face, not because mental health problems are funny but because self-obsessed, deluded manchildren are funny.
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Yeah, and that makes light of people who actually need therapists. In a world where there's too many just world believers and laymen who think psychology is a useless profession, I think it would be nice if more media gave a fairer view of these things.
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Could it be that cartoons, comedy and humour just aren't your thing?
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Yeah, and that makes light of people who actually need therapists. In a world where there's too many just world believers and laymen who think psychology is a useless profession, I think it would be nice if more media gave a fairer view of these things. It's a fair point and a good criticism of entertainment media in general, but I don't think you can usefully apply it to this specific case.
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Tiggum posted:At least the characters in Judge Parker have the decency to be happy about everything always going their way. Les Moore gets everything he claims to want and then complains about it. Well, the Judge Parker people are about a billion times better off than Les Moore, who still has to work as a high-school teacher. Yeah, I think I resent Judge Parker more. It's just "The rich get richer, and isn't that wonderful?" over and over, with the occasional dash of unquestioned jingoism.
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I throw this open to the Comic Strip Megathread hive mind - anyone know what comic this is? It was published in January 1930, in the Prescott Evening Courier. There are no titles listed in the paper. I'm intrigued. The lead womans' names are Gay and Elsie.      Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)   Outbusts of Everett True   Fritzi Ritz   Feiffer (click for big)   Wee Pals   Life In Hell  
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Evil Mastermind posted:Super-Fun-Pak-Comix outsources. I would legit read Family Oval every day 
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Mark Trail Looks like we can soon look forward to Mark Trail "not" killing people once again. The man has tasted blood and the thirst must be sated! Pearls Before Swine  The Phantom  By "new adventure" given the standards of the weekday Phantom I assume they mean back to school shopping.
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Slammy posted:I throw this open to the Comic Strip Megathread hive mind - anyone know what comic this is? It's by Gladys Parker if that signature can be trusted, so I assume it's Gay and her gang
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Say Nothing posted:WHERE IS YOUR rear end? You forget, asses get in the way of gams. Also I am liking King Aroo a lot too. He's a cute lil guy for a cute lil strip 
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Kid Fenris posted:Judge Parker makes Funky Winkerbean's literary wish-fulfillment look like the Bataan Death March. To be fair, most things make Funky Winkerbean look like a death march. That's what Funky Winkerbean is: people who refuse to even consider any silver linings because there's all these clouds around. I would say a more apt comparison would be Rex Morgan. The Morgans get everything they want, particularly in this most recent storyline with Sarah the Genius, but their grasping for unearned prosperity still pales in comparison to the piles of riches amassed by the Spencer-Drivers. Luann  Oh boy, I sure hope the two worst people in this strip get together! To form a murder/suicide pact! The Amazing Spider-Man  They're handling it, Spidey. Butt out. Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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goatface posted:It's by Gladys Parker if that signature can be trusted, so I assume it's Gay and her gang You're wonderful. You really are. I'm posting it. It's fun. Gladys grew up a few miles from where I did, and had quite a career: wiki posted:After drawing the flapper strip Gay and Her Gang in 1928-29, she took over Ethel Hays' Flapper Fanny Says panel, which she did for NEA from 1930 to 1936. She also did a comic strip series for Lux Soap during the 1930s. Gay and Her Gang (1930)  
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Gil 03/29/15 Piranha Club   Dick Tracy   Judge Parker    Liar. You couldn't wait for the ink to dry on that check before you cashed it.  9 Chickweed Lane   Look at this big spender, paying extra to get the only hotel room with a window. 
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What the Hell is That Comix?? Pooch Café  Ballard Street  Gee, isn't he a little old to be having The Talk? Lost Side of Suburbia  Reminder to read Flimm's dialogue in the voice of Keith David.
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Goober Peas posted:I would legit read Family Oval every day To bad Tina's Groove  Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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Julet Esqu posted:Sally Forth  The Classic Dinette Set sets a good example.  Working Daze gets in on the trend.  Super-Fun-Pax-Comix takes a day off. 
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Manuel Calavera posted:
Finally a Dilbert I can get behind. Peanuts (February 1, 1969)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  NO. NO 'TO BE CONTINUED'. NO. Rip Haywire snickers up his sleeve that you thought the strip was winding down.  Out Our Way (September 5-6, 1928)   Thimble Theater, in which Herringbone succumbs to scoundrel's guilt. A little self-medication at the speakeasy will fix that right up. (August 19, 1929) 
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"Gay and Her Gang" is cool; please keep it up if you can.
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Slammy posted:Gay and Her Gang (1930) Heehee, that's great.
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EasyEW posted:
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (February 1, 1969)  He does have a pretty nice smile.
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