Comic Strip Megathread XVI: Winking Throwbacks to Retro Sexism

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

Moomin

Classic Dilbert

# ? Mar 4, 2016 11:44

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# ? May 30, 2024 01:27

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

There's always the Chris Christie option.

Peanuts (March 7, 1969)

Funky Winkerbean

Crankshaft

This story's actually turned out kind of cute so far. Wonder how they'll screw it up?

Rip Haywire

Out Our Way (November 16-17, 1928)

The lighter side of life before the OSHA Act!

Thimble Theater (September 21, 1929)

_{e: to sneak in Bloom County before anybody noticed it was missing (because I'm diligent as hell like that).}

EasyEW fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Mar 4, 2016

# ? Mar 4, 2016 12:36

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

A Married Couple Try To Spice Things Up

# ? Mar 4, 2016 13:14

JaggerMcDagger: Feb 13, 2012; Bringing you Barry from the sordid depths of the Internet

Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!

# ? Mar 4, 2016 13:31

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

Wanamingo posted:

Six Chix

amputation of legs

# ? Mar 4, 2016 13:44

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Luann

The Amazing Spider-Man

Sally Forth

The Heart of Juliet Jones

# ? Mar 4, 2016 15:51

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

FactsAreUseless posted:

A Married Couple Try To Spice Things Up

# ? Mar 4, 2016 15:51

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

Mark Trail

Pearls Before Swine

The Phantom

# ? Mar 4, 2016 16:15

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

Calvin and Hobbes

Ripley's

# ? Mar 4, 2016 17:34

treasureplane: Jul 12, 2008; throwing darts in lovers' eyes, &c.

King Aroo (February 9, 1951)

Barnaby (July 17, 1942)

Nancy (March 26, 1943)

Wash Tubbs (December 7, 1928)

Gasoline Alley (January 5, 1923)

# ? Mar 4, 2016 19:00

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Buni

Rhymes with Orange

Pros and Cons

# ? Mar 4, 2016 19:02

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tina's Groove

Family Circus

Rose is Rose

One Big Happy

Foob

Compu-Toon

Bizarro

Dilborf

# ? Mar 4, 2016 19:45

Johnny Aztec: Jan 30, 2005; by Hand Knit

SomeMathGuy posted:

Mark Trail

......What just DID you mean, then?

Something something spelunking?

# ? Mar 4, 2016 19:52

Forktoss: Feb 13, 2012; I'm OK, you're so-so

Barnaby (July 2, 1921)

# ? Mar 4, 2016 19:54

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

The Classic Dinette Set is just looking for an excuse to get lit.

Working Daze continues the murder spree.

Super-Fun-Pak-Comix gets to the truth.

# ? Mar 4, 2016 20:25

dordreff: Jul 16, 2013

Julet Esqu posted:

The Amazing Spider-Man

that is stephen strange's pod-person replacement

# ? Mar 4, 2016 20:44

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Manuel Calavera posted:

Bizarro

This is thoroughly dumb and I laughed.

# ? Mar 4, 2016 21:28

The Wild Man of YOLO: Apr 20, 2004; A little cross-country, gentlemen?

Pickles

Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog

Wallace the Brave

# ? Mar 4, 2016 21:44

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

treasureplane posted:

Barnaby (July 17, 1942)

I knew they were running off to get high.

F Minus

The slings and arrows are a nice touch.

Mary Worth

Speaking of getting high, I think Jeff is hosed up.

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

It looks like Mr Frost's face is swelling. Must be allergic to something in his lunch.

# ? Mar 4, 2016 22:14

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.

Skippy (January 4, 1929)

Pogo (March 6-7, 1958)

Laika? No, we're just friends. :downsrim:

Peanuts: Year Four (May 27-30, 1954)

And that's the last time he ever tried that on a Sunday.

# ? Mar 4, 2016 23:55

Trilobite: Aug 15, 2001

Prediction: the old coot ranting about how this house is rotten to the core just doesn't want sexy(?) grandma here to move out of the neighborhood and is trying to scare off all prospective buyers. The house is actually the greatest house in the entire neighborhood, and Rex's reward for grimacing through a couple of conversations over the next month or so will be that old coot and sexy grandma will hook up more or less on their own and the house will be sold to the Morgans at a steep discount.

Maybe they'll end up renting their old house to the elderly couple just to tie everything up in a neat bow and poignantly illustrate the problem of senior citizens in our country by almost immediately pretending that they don't exist and never mentioning them ever again, I don't know.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 00:05

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Man, Luann really does not give a poo poo about her breakup with Quill.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 00:44

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Those glasses are full of vodka.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 00:47

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

Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)

Outbusts of Everett True

Good Time Guy (click for big)

Gay and Her Gang (click for big)

Feiffer (click for big)

Wee Pals

Life In Hell

I think I'll have a little drink now.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 01:44

algebra testes: Mar 5, 2011; Lipstick Apathy

EasyEW posted:

And that's the last time he ever tried that on a Sunday.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 01:46

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Slammy posted:

Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)

Legit horrifying. Like the transporter argument only infinitely worse.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 01:51

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

Green Intern posted:

Man, Luann really does not give a poo poo about her breakup with Quill.

She's the worst.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 02:10

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

Moomin

Classic Dilbert

# ? Mar 5, 2016 02:39

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Phantom Classic

Radio Patrol

Rip Kirby

Big Ben Bolt

# ? Mar 5, 2016 05:05

Ms Boods: Mar 19, 2009; Did you ever wonder where the Romans got bread from? It wasn't from Waitrose!

Trilobite posted:

Prediction: the old coot ranting about how this house is rotten to the core just doesn't want sexy(?) grandma here to move out of the neighborhood and is trying to scare off all prospective buyers. The house is actually the greatest house in the entire neighborhood, and Rex's reward for grimacing through a couple of conversations over the next month or so will be that old coot and sexy grandma will hook up more or less on their own and the house will be sold to the Morgans at a steep discount.

Maybe they'll end up renting their old house to the elderly couple just to tie everything up in a neat bow and poignantly illustrate the problem of senior citizens in our country by almost immediately pretending that they don't exist and never mentioning them ever again, I don't know.

I'm on this :bandwagon:

, and would not be at all surprised to see that the plot is some variation of this.

My prediction was more cynical: the lady finds out about demon-child second grader and immediately gives/sells Rex the house at some sort of deep discount; we get to see several close ups of smug demon-child during the proceedings, &c.

Also, as someone who's spent the last few years wending her way through the Byzantine bureacracy that is immigration visa, residency status, work permits, citizenship and all that guff, I'm idly curious about Quill's status. I'm guessing he's still in the States on a student visa (for university)? Everyone in this strip travels to other countries to study or work willy-nilly without much acknowledgement of the paperwork involved (re: Gunther's Big Adventure).

Also, Luann's reaction to the breakup -- bleurgh. On the other hand, Mr Grey amuses me. I like to think he'd be played by Donald Pleasance if Luann did a live action thing and if, of course, he were still alive.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 10:03

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

Green Intern posted:

Man, Luann really does not give a poo poo about her breakup with Quill.

Neither does Quill. In a better comic this would be where they realize that they were never The One for each other and that they were being a bit silly about it all.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 11:00

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

Mark Trail

Pearls Before Swine

The Phantom

# ? Mar 5, 2016 15:29

The Wild Man of YOLO: Apr 20, 2004; A little cross-country, gentlemen?

Pickles

Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog

Guys, did you know Refurb's arms come off easily? No, really!

# ? Mar 5, 2016 15:46

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

I'm pretty sure Mark Trail is in a D&D map.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 15:47

Mercedes Colomar: Nov 1, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tina's Groove

Family Circus

Rose is Rose

One Big Happy

Foob

Compu-Toon

Bizarro

Doorbert

# ? Mar 5, 2016 15:53

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

goatface posted:

I'm pretty sure Mark Trail is in a D&D map.

We'll know for sure if they come to a 10x10 room with an orc and a treasure chest.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 16:01

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.

Peanuts (March 8, 1969)

Funky Winkerbean

Crankshaft

Okay, let's get this straight, since I used to ignore Crankshaft, but now that we're talking about digital projectors and Kickstarters, it's probably worth sorting a few things out. This strip takes place firmly in the present, but it also takes place ten years before the current run of Funky Winkerbean, which is also anchored in an off-brand version of the present, but still one where Ed Crankshaft has decayed enough that he's sucking in oxygen through a nose tube. Still, both in the here and now, but separated by a decade.

I assume this is called "M.C. Escher continuity".

Rip Haywire

Out Our Way (November 19-20, 1928)

Thimble Theater (September 23, 1929)

# ? Mar 5, 2016 16:40

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

EasyEW posted:

Okay, let's get this straight, since I used to ignore Crankshaft, but now that we're talking about digital projectors and Kickstarters, it's probably worth sorting a few things out. This strip takes place firmly in the present, but it also takes place ten years before the current run of Funky Winkerbean, which is also anchored in an off-brand version of the present, but still one where Ed Crankshaft has decayed enough that he's sucking in oxygen through a nose tube. Still, both in the here and now, but separated by a decade.

I assume this is called "M.C. Escher continuity".

I'd call it Batiuk Time, in honor of the writer who didn't fully think through the ramifications of his own dumb time skips.

# ? Mar 5, 2016 16:51