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Tiggum posted:
You just don't get it. You have no idea how expensive it is to set a comic strip in an exotic location like New York. If they don't get back to the regularly scheduled programming they'll blow a year's worth of budget on 10 strips.
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Doug... doing a thing? what the gently caress is this.
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead   Nancy  it's perfect genius Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Pluggers  welp
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Wanamingo posted:Pluggers Pluggers is getting dark in more ways than one, it seems.
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Evil Mastermind posted:
That baby is going to grow up to resent their parents so much!
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Luann UUUAAAAGGGGHHHH TIFF IS SUCH A BITCH  Whatever. "Wanna ask me about my trip?" Who even asks that? The Amazing Spider-Man  For some reason. Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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Johnny Walker posted:Apartment 3-G Chimeric posted:Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog Calaveron posted:I have never watched a single millisecond of any Doctor Who series so all I know about it is from internet osmosis, but aren't all the Doctor Who companions pretty ladies and not fat old hags with lordosis? http://www.doctorwho.tv/50-years/companions/
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Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man As a reminder, his name is Stephen Vincent Strange, and he's a retired surgeon. Doctor Strange is not his superhero title it's his name. I think he's even listed in the phone book.
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Zereth posted:Yeah I'm not sure why Doctor Strange would do that. Uh, duh? To make Peter look like he's talking to himself.
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann BERNICE: Okay, so, we got there, and then we had dinner at a Korean place where our ostensible guide ordered stuff they keep around to troll tourists. Dinner at 8pm had us all tuckered out so we went to sleep as soon as we got back to the hotel. Then our friend got us on the list at an exclusive club with a painfully dumb name somehow, and we took ~scary public transit~ to get there, and we were let in but immediately kicked out because we're like 19 years old. Then we apparently came home the very next day, but not until Luann bought the rube-iest poorly-printed t-shirt she could find. HIPPIE ROOMMATE: [has already stabbed dozens of pins into Bernice voodoo doll] fascinating, do go on
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Wanamingo posted:Uh, duh? To make Peter look like he's talking to himself.
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Command Ant posted:That baby is going to grow up to resent their parents so much! ehhhhhHHHHH, i work with kids and I know one whose parents are insane geeks and, hey, turns out the kid is also a geek who talks about cartoons that were on a good 5 years before they were born. he also talks affectionately of his uncle who evidently LARPs. kid is probably doomed socially but they might enjoy the ride
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ikanreed posted:A couple days old, but god drat is the the dumb jock we're supposed to hate the only decent human being in this strip. I totally agree. I think this sort of thing happens more in webcomics written by people in their 20's-30's rather than in the deathless realm of newspaper comics. The WACKY protagonist is super cool but has to deal with an annoying character who rubs them the wrong way. The writer completely misses the mark on making their main character likable and the reader ends up rooting for the minor antagonist who doesn't buy into the charm of the main character either. Sensing that something is awry, the writer tries to pile humiliation on the beleaguered antagonist so we can all revel in their shame. This only ends up making the readers already on the side of the antagonist identify with them more. I'm trying to think of examples of this in newspaper comics. Luann stands out as an obvious example. Greg Evans likes to assume we all love the DeGroots despite them being the most boring sacks of inaction in the entire strip. For Better or For Worse was pretty guilty of this as well. And as a longtime fan of Bloom County, I hate to admit that the newer incarnation seems to be going that way as well
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Julet Esqu posted:UUUAAAAGGGGHHHH TIFF IS SUCH A BITCH
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Tiggum posted:History sounded more likely to me. Why would a science class be covering the four classical elements? Some school don't have the budget to get the absolute newest edition science text books!
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Bryan loving Adams, huh? Lots of boomer nostalgia for the guy who wrote the song from the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie?
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy You want to draw big-breasted women in tight shirts, Gilchrist? Understandable. So does Mike Manley and no one really has much of a problem with him. Really, it's fine. But could you at least do it competently? Judge Parker is basically an excuse for Woody Wilson to write his fantasies about being rich and for Mike Manley to draw attractive women and both of them to get paid for it, but at least it looks decent. Abbey Spencer may have basically no value as a character, but at least her head stays the same size relative to her body from panel to panel. And have you ever seen either breasts or t-shirts before? What the hell is going on in panel three? Does that shirt have little compartments moulded to her breasts? Why is anyone paying this man to draw anything when he is clearly not capable?
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Strontium posted:Dark Side of the Horse This strip is much better if you mentally add a final panel of Andy Capp kicking the poo poo out of the loving horse.
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Wanamingo posted:Pluggers Wait. Wait a loving moment. Fannie Flagg is sending in incontinence jokes to Pluggers? What next, Betty White? Buni  Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons 
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Stuccojeff posted:I totally agree. I think this sort of thing happens more in webcomics written by people in their 20's-30's rather than in the deathless realm of newspaper comics. I strongly disagree about Bloom County. It's certainly not above criticism but its biggest strength is that it has an ensemble cast with clear personality traits that always bear on the stories they're involved in. Steve Dallas is the protoypical straw man frat boy character but he is an accepted member of the main cast that hangs out with all the other more likeable characters without any of them ever calling him a jerk behind his back - except that they probably could because his established personality trait is being superficial and sexist. His latest arc was not about him being a jerk that everybody should hate but actually had him broing around with a terminally ill little kid, which came about because of he was drunk and wanted to atone for being a jerk (making decisions while drunk is also pretty well established for him). The arc is just starting to involve interactions with the kid's single mom, who thinks he is playing the long game and just wants to get in her pants. And while this may well be the story's end game it certainly wasn't a factor in his initial decision and right now it is being held up by his established character trait as he basically tells her he could do way better. It's more difficult to say who the main character but I'm going to go with Opus (Cutter John would have been the obvious Mary Sue candidate except that Breathed actually killed him off decades ago). Opus is the most likeable character in the strip but I don't think it's because he's the author's idea of a cool guy just like the author - he is actually the most pathetic character in the cast. His main personality trait is that pretty much everything is outside of his comfort zone, and he is actually the stereotypical goon. Almost every single arc he's been in has involved something cool and interesting happening to him and he always just wants to go home and watch t.v. in a dark room. He actually had a wish fulfilment arc back in the eighties where he got engaged to an attractive woman but he got all nervous about things like her having a prior dating history and he ultimately flubbed it. I' not a fan of Binkley's unrequited love thing but it's not a huge part of the strip the way it is in intelligent life, and it is a pretty universal thing for a kid. Given BB's history with the strip, I'm not worried about Bloom County.
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SomeMathGuy posted:The Phantom Bad guy is slow on the uptake "My striped panties! What color panties are you wearing big boy?"
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Stuccojeff posted:I totally agree. I think this sort of thing happens more in webcomics written by people in their 20's-30's rather than in the deathless realm of newspaper comics. quote:I'm trying to think of examples of this in newspaper comics. Strontium posted:Cat Comix EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean And you should be careful posting thost Batuik strips together... You'll create a singularity of smug... 
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Call Your Grandma posted:I strongly disagree about Bloom County. It's certainly not above criticism but its biggest strength is that it has an ensemble cast with clear personality traits that always bear on the stories they're involved in. I swear Cutter John has shown up at least once since the reboot, and though he ceased to be the regular character he was back in the beginning of the original run, he'd still appear in the odd Sunday strip for the periodic "starchair enterpoop" running gag. As to main character, Opus slowly grew into that role over the run of the original strip, and clearly was throughout Outland and Opus (obviously), but at the beginning he was basically a sidekick to Binkley, who I'd call one of the two candidates for the original main character of Bloom County (the other being Milo). Hey, that reminds me, whatever happened to Milo's grandfather? He just seemed to disappear at some point in the late 80s as I recall.
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Call Your Grandma posted:It's more difficult to say who the main character but I'm going to go with Opus (Cutter John would have been the obvious Mary Sue candidate except that Breathed actually killed him off decades ago). Captain_Maclaine posted:I swear Cutter John has shown up at least once since the reboot, and though he ceased to be the regular character he was back in the beginning of the original run, he'd still appear in the odd Sunday strip for the periodic "starchair enterpoop" running gag. Yeah, Cutter John came back for the first few months, and falling into a relationship with a single mom is how we got the little girl character. Breathed updated him to an Iraq veteran, although which Iraq war isn't exactly clear.
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dismas posted:Bryan loving Adams, huh? Lots of boomer nostalgia for the guy who wrote the song from the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie? Tiggum posted:Why is her head as big as her torso? How long is her hair? What is she looking at in panel two? Clearly not the pants she's referring to. Who is she talking to? Obviously not Nancy. 
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