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Is anyone else sensing a huge, sudden dropoff across the board in the quality of the drama strips? Not that most of them were great before, but even a year ago things actually happened. Now it's just endless off-topic conversations and perfect, problem-free existence. It's like all the writers have run out of ideas at the same time and are just trying to fill space. Except for Prince Valiant. Prince Valiant just keeps getting better.
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Chester Gould is loving metal. That reminds me, I think I got behind on my Dick Tracy collections. Unfortunately all of them are in storage now. Dammit, I step in this thread for the first time in eons and now I'm spending more money on quality comics. Parahexavoctal posted:Holy poo poo it's unsettling to read an "unwanted pregnancy" strip that was produced years before Roe v. Wade. Really? poo poo, I was going to say post it and let's go nuts, but if that's the case.... Hobnob posted:I fondly remember how nasty the Locher-era strips posted in previous incarnations of this thread could be. Villains would meet their end under steamrollers or by being torn apart by vicious dogs, while the short-armed, clenched-fist Dick Tracy stands around and makes a quip about it. And they were even brutal for their time. EC comics made fun of Dick Tracy in one of their issues of Panic (I think it's in the new hardcover that was just released a bit ago) and it's pretty nasty and surprisingly gory for a freaking newspaper strip. SomeMathGuy posted:This has been harped on, but I cannot get over the fact that a comic full of robots - or any comic in 2016, really - would have a "science project" involving the classical Greek elements. Like... what the actual gently caress is going through the author's head on this one? It's like I never left at all.  Presto posted:It turns out that Quill is in Hamilton, he wins awards and gets rich and famous and during his interview on the Tonight show he remarks that it never would have happened if his dumb selfish girlfriend hadn't dumped him. "Thanks, sweety!" *blows kiss* Or rather, he forgets her name completely, and goes on to live a Guntherless life of joy.
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It's been so long since the last time Chester Gould-era Tracy was posted I'd nearly forgotten how brutal it was, Christ.
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They're all too scared to talk about anything that could be seen as politically inflammatory.
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Apr 29, 2016 20:10
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft - First, the old lady wants to donate a bunch of books to the library to get them out of her house - (insert stupid side plot about her thinking some of the books are overdue) - the library doesn't want the books - therefore, she spends a bunch of her own money setting up a used bookstore in her house to sell those unwanted books, and presumably buy/sell other books, too Because if that's the story so far, it is a new level of idiocy even for Batiuk.
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Apr 29, 2016 20:29
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I think you've got most of it. I was thinking it would just be a loving garage sale, but nope, they've gone straight down the "setting up a business is a painless experience that you can begin at the whim of two aspergic children" route.
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Apr 29, 2016 20:32
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Evil Mastermind posted:Waitwaitwait... Myself want to know when they teleported to the Tate in London -- isn't that where The Kiss is?
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Apr 29, 2016 20:36
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Esplanade posted:Is anyone else sensing a huge, sudden dropoff across the board in the quality of the drama strips? Not that most of them were great before, but even a year ago things actually happened. Now it's just endless off-topic conversations and perfect, problem-free existence. It's like all the writers have run out of ideas at the same time and are just trying to fill space.
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Apr 29, 2016 20:49
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Apr 29, 2016 21:30
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Or rather, he forgets her name completely, and goes on to live a Guntherless life of joy. Really, anything that gets you out of the Luann cast is a win. Quill could die off camera and I'd still consider him one of the most well-off characters in the strip.
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Apr 29, 2016 21:32
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SomeMathGuy posted:Really, anything that gets you out of the Luann cast is a win. Quill could die off camera and I'd still consider him one of the most well-off characters in the strip. Or they could simply bring you back ala that old boss lady that for some reason Luann's brother had to work under when the firefighting thing failed and GOD WHY DO I REMEMBER THAT?? Speaking of sadness, did Paul Ryan have a few Phantom strips left before he passed? I noticed the more recent ones are still done by him.
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Apr 29, 2016 21:38
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The Classic Dinette Set debates the second trilogy. Working Daze is...uh, what?  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix has my support to be true to itself. 
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Apr 29, 2016 21:40
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Speaking of sadness, did Paul Ryan have a few Phantom strips left before he passed? I noticed the more recent ones are still done by him. According to Tony DePaul, they worked on the strips in batches based around story arcs, so at this point I assume we have Paul Ryan art for the duration of this plotline about Baronkhan.
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Apr 29, 2016 21:44
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Pluggers 
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Apr 29, 2016 21:51
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Selachian posted:Buni The darker side of Ham Shears
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Apr 29, 2016 21:52
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Oh man, Ham Shears was so good. Well, it started out good, then sort of got bogged down.
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Apr 29, 2016 22:00
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Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze is...uh, what? Wow. It's like they are going for a world record of missing a joke here. If you don't get the reference, then the Google reps are just robot things. This is not funny. If you do get the reference, then Google reps are being compared to space Nazis. Has Google done anything recently to deserve being compared to a space Nazi? No? Then there is no joke and this is not funny. We are left with two options: 1. The entire "joke" is a reference to a nerd thing. But unlike even low-brow nerd reference humor like Big Bang Theory or even this very strip at times, there's no attempt to make it clever or relevant. Like if they were security or Comcast representatives or something where the common understanding was they are unhelpful or unfriendly, then at least you are making your reference relevant, even if it's not funny. 2. The idea of a Google rep being a space Nazi is based off a specific experience, either by that of the writer or from a story he heard. This lacks universality and makes the joke even more confusing, because it's a personal reference that can only be understood once it's explained, and explanation is typically a joke killer. So congratulations Working Daze. You made yourself so unnecessarily esoteric that when asked to tell a joke you effectively shouted the name of a TV show and smiled expectantly.
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Apr 29, 2016 22:04
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dirksteadfast posted:So congratulations Working Daze. You made yourself so unnecessarily esoteric that when asked to tell a joke you effectively shouted the name of a TV show and smiled expectantly. Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze finally stops trying and just starts shouting nerd things.  " and calls it a day, the other half it's just "<character> has <characteristic>".
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Apr 29, 2016 22:09
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dirksteadfast posted:Wow. It's like they are going for a world record of missing a joke here. Is this the first WD strip you've read? I feel so sorry for you.
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Apr 29, 2016 22:11
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dirksteadfast posted:Wow. It's like they are going for a world record of missing a joke here. I thought it was a self-driving car reference gone horribly awry.
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Apr 29, 2016 22:17
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Nenonen posted:Is this the first WD strip you've read? I feel so sorry for you. Oh I know that is entirely WD's "thing", it's like a train wreck I just can't help but see how horribly they mangle any humor each time. This example just somehow felt extra lazy.
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Apr 29, 2016 22:21
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Wanamingo posted:Pluggers Do I need to make a Depends joke here?
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dirksteadfast posted:Oh I know that is entirely WD's "thing", it's like a train wreck I just can't help but see how horribly they mangle any humor each time. This example just somehow felt extra lazy. But seriously you managed to describe all of their strips in one go. Well maybe not the weird insider joke ones - the witch/hypnotist/medusa strips in particular which are always the same and contain no actual jokes.
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Apr 29, 2016 23:58
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Nenonen posted:But seriously you managed to describe all of their strips in one go. Well maybe not the weird insider joke ones - the witch/hypnotist/medusa strips in particular which are always the same and contain no actual jokes. it's not an insider joke it's a fetish
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Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)  Outbusts of Everett True   Guess If They Are Married!   Good Time Guy (click for big)   Flapper Fanny Says   Feiffer (click for big)  Well. Goddamn.  Jaf   Wee Pals   Andy Capp wikipedia posted:Andy Capp is a British comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe (1917–1998), seen in The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror newspapers since 5 August 1957. Originally a single-panel cartoon, it was later expanded to four panels.  
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Apr 30, 2016 00:41
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Slammy posted:Feiffer (click for big) Hey, are you keeping these in an album? I'd love to get a link to that.
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Apr 30, 2016 01:37
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Feiffer is some rough chuckles man
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann I refuse to believe that even the blandest, most complaint-letter-writing old lady reading this garbage is going to think that taking a cab alone or riding the subway is something so amazing you have to brag about it to your teenage friends. Moomin   Classic Dilbert  
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Johnny Walker posted:So was that the post-assassination comic? I knew it was coming soon. It looks like the date is in January? That's way after. How often did he do these? Checked my Feiffer books and the Kennedy assassination strip ran on January 2, 1964, which would have been a bit over a month after the assassination. Feiffer's strip ran in the Village Voice, which was a weekly paper.
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Phantom Classic Classic Phantom had never seen evidence of his own father before today.   Radio Patrol  Hospital nurses then, as now, had important poo poo to be getting on with and don't have time to coddle patients' poor little baby feelings.  Rip Kirby   If you shoot that bullet out of another gun that will change the marks, so how do you propose to kill somebody with it? Feed it to him and hope he chokes? Big Ben Bolt  
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Julet Esqu posted:Radio Patrol 
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Green Intern posted:Hey, are you keeping these in an album? I'd love to get a link to that. Same. These are gold.
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Darkest Auer posted:I refuse to believe that even the blandest, most complaint-letter-writing old lady reading this garbage is going to think that taking a cab alone or riding the subway is something so amazing you have to brag about it to your teenage friends. You've never lived in a small, rural town, have you? Cabs and subway systems are things of myth to people who live in 15,000 or less pop. rural towns. I'd probably be telling my friends if I rode a subway or hired a cab for the first time 
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Gloomy Rube posted:You've never lived in a small, rural town, have you? Cabs and subway systems are things of myth to people who live in 15,000 or less pop. rural towns. I'd probably be telling my friends if I rode a subway or hired a cab for the first time Counterpoint: Luann is supposed to be, what, 19 or 20 years old.
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Wealthy alumni buying stuff for star college athletes? Does the NCAA know about this?! Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons 
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Gloomy Rube posted:You've never lived in a small, rural town, have you? Cabs and subway systems are things of myth to people who live in 15,000 or less pop. rural towns. I'd probably be telling my friends if I rode a subway or hired a cab for the first time Ghostlight fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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Apr 30, 2016 13:42
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Intelligent Life Fort Knox  Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Skippy (March 2, 1929) Peanuts (May 1, 1969)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (March 11-12, 1929)   Thimble Theater (November 18, 1929) 
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Apr 30, 2016 14:16
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Nenonen posted:Is this the first Working Daze strip you've read? I feel so sorry for you. I envy him.
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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life Is there a reason Mike doesn't just straight up identify as a furry who has a connection to his cat fursona or some poo poo? Are furries that far down the nerd totem pole?
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Laputanmachine posted:Is there a reason Mike doesn't just straight up identify as a furry who has a connection to his cat fursona or some poo poo? Are furries that far down the nerd totem pole? This is fourteen years out of date, but most of the joke-like references in Intelligent LIfe are pretty dated too, so... 
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