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It's amusing, but also so in-character you could take those two panels, slap on a TOMORROW: HOJO caption, and you'd have a proper Mandrake strip. I really would not mind a Tony DePaul penned Mandrake. Alas.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon 
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Never pay close attention to Compu-toon you'll only hurt yourself.
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Some newspaper comic writers don't understand computers. Boyce understands them in a way no-one else can.
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Wow, I didn't think the coloring could get any worse with Foob, but here we are.
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I know it has been posted in this thread in the past, does anyone have the strip of John Darling's murder?
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Why is Death the mascot for January? 
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Peanuts (March 23, 1969) Funky Winkerbean  Eisner award-winning Rick Burchett is today's guest Remember when these vertical Sunday strips were homages to real Silver Age comics that made a "cute" commentary on whatever was happening in the storyline? Never thought I'd want those back like I do now... Crankshaft  Crankshaft is a bad bus driver and a horrible human being, but the school inexplicably keeps him on, presumably out of negligence. Which one is worse? Out Our Way (December 19-20, 1928)  
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Mar 20, 2016 16:25
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Julet Esqu posted:
Hang on. If they haven't played in intercollegiate competition yet, who's he been scoring 47 points against? Just strikes me as odd that they'd pin their hopes on a kid whose claim to fame is being really good at intramural sports.
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (December 19-20, 1928) And this child saw Black Thursday as an opportunity and grew up to own half the city.
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Alabaster White posted:Why is Death the mascot for January? Look, I just can't really tell when someone is being obtuse on purpose for a laugh, or legit anymore. It sounds like something Tiggum would ask. in case you are legit, that's not Death, it's Father Time FFS what is wrong with you?
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Alabaster White posted:Why is Death the mascot for January? Father Time, one of the mascots for the New Year, is often equipped with a scythe for basically the same reason that Death is. (The mascots are actually The Old Year and The New Year. The Old Year is generally depicted as Father Time.)
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idonotlikepeas posted:Father Time, one of the mascots for the New Year, is often equipped with a scythe for basically the same reason that Death is. (The mascots are actually The Old Year and The New Year. The Old Year is generally depicted as Father Time.) I thought Father Time is depicted with a scythe because of the conflation of Kronos and Chronos.
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Stultus Maximus posted:I thought Father Time is depicted with a scythe because of the conflation of Kronos and Chronos. That's almost certainly how it got started according to contemporary historians, somewhere around the fourteenth century, but people have kept doing it in the several intervening centuries because it's an apt metaphor. (At least, it is as long as people know what a scythe is. I do sometimes wonder what these things will look like in a few hundred years.)
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idonotlikepeas posted:That's almost certainly how it got started according to contemporary historians, somewhere around the fourteenth century, but people have kept doing it in the several intervening centuries because it's an apt metaphor. (At least, it is as long as people know what a scythe is. I do sometimes wonder what these things will look like in a few hundred years.) Father Time and his combine harvester?
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The Classic Dinette Set stands out in a crowd. Working Daze thinks this is what nerds actually talk about.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix saves the future. 
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Evil Mastermind posted:Super-Fun-Pak-Comix saves the future. Jeb! It Connotes Killing Baby Hitler!
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Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze thinks this is what nerds actually talk about. Please, like anybody says Janeway.
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It's Lazy Guy too, because when I think Lazy Good For Nothing Assholes, I think the Terror of the Delta Quadrant, Captain Kathryn Janeway.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Foxtrot missed a prime opportunity to mention Oglaf
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Pluggers 
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Wanamingo posted:Pluggers You're a plugger if you have Alzheimer’s.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Maybe don't have your schoolgirl admit she's 83 years old.
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Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)  Outbusts of Everett True   Fun from the Everett True era ... And He Did.   Good Time Guy (click for big)   Flapper Fanny Says   Feiffer (click for big)   Wee Pals   Life In Hell  
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Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze thinks this is what nerds actually talk about. I had a coworker who tried talking like this but nobody would take him up on the conversation. He'd just walk up and ask "Which would you rather be: turned into a Dalek or turned into a Cyberman?" and I'd say "Gee that's tough, I'll have to think about it." I guess I'm still thinking about it.
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Dr. Hurt posted:I know it has been posted in this thread in the past, does anyone have the strip of John Darling's murder? I have it, along with a newspaper story about the strip ending. John Darling 08/03/1990   edit: This TV page writer apparently didn't recognize Peter Jennings.
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King Aroo (February 24, 1951) Barnaby (August 1, 1942)  Nancy (April 10, 1943)  Wash Tubbs (December 22, 1928)  Gasoline Alley (January 20, 1923) 
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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus I know I'm going to feel like an idiot but can someone explain this to me? The best I can come up with is "He didn't want to go clothes shopping with them," is that really it?
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It's the 80's! We don't care about wearing gloves back now! What? AIDS? What are you talking about? You callin' me a homo? The Amazing Spider-Man  Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones  Prince Valiant  Phantom Classic  Something tells me Little Bobby isn't too bright. Big Ben Bolt 
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Either that or "We've spent all our father's money and now he's gone to moan about it at the barbers". A comic about a man regretting his religious opposition to prophylactics.
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Children outgrow their clothes and adults do not.
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Aardmania posted:
Hah, nobody ever mentions that the murderer got the last word in the entire strip. If Batiuk had actually pre-planned that reveal it'd be a pretty great detail. As it stands, funny coincidence, I suppose.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I know I'm going to feel like an idiot but can someone explain this to me? The best I can come up with is "He didn't want to go clothes shopping with them," is that really it? Dads always wear the same clothes.
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Eve status: Still the best.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Please, like anybody says Janeway. Janeway is hands down the best captain  Moomin  Classic Dilbert  
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