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Good Listener posted:I hate how the artist tries to be cutesy in Take it to the Tinkersons and has things randomly change in each panel like shirts, hats, background things etc. Like...it's just obnoxious guy, cut it out. What?
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Stultus Maximus posted:What? Fort Knox, sorry. I got my bad comics mixed up.
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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life F Minus  Mary Worth  A long tradition, is there?  Rex Morgan MD  What in the hell did she do to that teddy bear? She's like 5, and presumably this must have been up there for at least a couple years or she'd remember it, and also I assume it was new when she got it. Secret Agent X-9  More behind-the-scenes old-time FBI action! Apartment 3-G  She's already at "I'm gonna cook and clean for you"? She really did turn entirely around.
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Julet Esqu posted:All these girls trying to trick Piro into loving them. He is a (presumably heterosexual) college-age male who likes sleeping in other peoples' homes. Just be like, "Hey, you wanna?" Even if he says no, at least your not the kind of person who tries to trick people into loving you.
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Heathcliff In case you were wondering who they are... Piranha Club  Dick Tracy  Judge Parker  9 Chickweed Lane  
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann I like how that "awful, shallow bitch" Tiffany is excited for both types of movies. She appreciates old silent films as funny, meaning she can probably enjoy classic physical comedy like Chaplain (exactly the thing that makes Piro "deep"), but also can chill and watch a campy 70s film like Barbarella (so she's as relaxed and fun-loving as Des). But, her interest is seen as a nuisance and her personality still vapid, despite this being a new dimension no one has seen before. I used to not hate Luann. I mean, I didn't like it, but it wasn't anything to be mad about. It seemed like a comic stuck in the Breakfast Club or Revenge of the Nerds-era. Tiffany wasn't bad because she was Tiffany, she was a cipher for Stan Gable or Heather Chandler; every blonde, privileged bully. But man, ever since they graduated, this comic just infuriates me in a way that only rivals Rose is Rose or 9CL.
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Whelp, now I'm watching Barbarella. At least something good came out of the scrawled nightmare of misguided hormones and misplaced slut-shaming that is Luann. Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)  Outbursts of Everett True   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World And He Did.  Guess If They Are Married!  Whoops Sisters  Illustrating Webster  Good Time Guy (click for big)  Dave’s Delicatessen (click for big)  Mopsy  Feiffer (click for big)  Jaf  Wee Pals (click for big)  Mr. Tweedy  Andy Capp (click for big) 
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Slammy posted:Outbursts of Everett True Now why would Everett True have an issue with organized labor? He's always been an advocate of the little g- quote:Many IWW members opposed United States participation in World War I. Oh. 
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Not to mention that the Wobblies were probably the largest and most radical trade union around in those days. I don't think True liked them even before the war.
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Johnny Walker posted:Apartment 3-G You know, when this arc started, for a little bit I thought "hey, this seems like it might be going in a surprisingly progressive direction!" Oh, how naive I was. Celebrity Ghost posted:I like how that "awful, shallow bitch" Tiffany is excited for both types of movies. She appreciates old silent films as funny, meaning she can probably enjoy classic physical comedy like Chaplain (exactly the thing that makes Piro "deep"), but also can chill and watch a campy 70s film like Barbarella (so she's as relaxed and fun-loving as Des). But, her interest is seen as a nuisance and her personality still vapid, despite this being a new dimension no one has seen before. It is amazing just how much character and depth they've managed to inadvertently give Tiffany. SomeMathGuy posted:Now why would Everett True have an issue with organized labor? He's always been an advocate of the little g- I noticed reading the IWW wiki page, it was illegal to not own war bonds? How long did that last?
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The Classic Dinette Set have simple tastes. Working Daze is dead on its feet.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix works the clock, not the job. 
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann (And it's just Bernice who wants Piro, Dez is trying to help her and Tiffany was just trying to distract Piro so that Gunther could ask Bernice out - which he didn't even do) Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD
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FactsAreUseless posted:The punchline is that there are powerful forces in their universe that prevent anyone from ever having sex with anyone else.
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Julet Esqu posted:Rip Kirby Woah it came back! I guess they decided the strip didn't end after all!  I was worried that we'd never get a conclusion to this story!
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Julet Esqu posted:Rip Kirby Woah it came back! I guess they decided the strip didn't end after all! So yeah, these are drawn by John Prentice after Alex Raymond died in a car accident. Btw. I found this article about Raymond's death: http://cartoonician.com/alex-raymonds-last-ride/ quote:When he awoke, he was lying in a hospital bed, a doctor standing beside him, cursing: “That goddamn son of a bitch!” Drake asked him what the matter was. The doctor told Drake that this was the fourth time in the past month Raymond had been hospitalized due to injuries sustained in auto accidents. “He had been trying to kill himself,” Drake said. quote:Drake knew Raymond only as a colleague, not as a friend. They fraternized over work, and neither man discussed his personal life. So Drake could not have known of Raymond’s troubled marriage (at the time, he was living apart from his wife); of his wife’s refusal to grant him a divorce so he could marry his mistress (the Raymonds were Catholic); or of the insurance policy that would grant Raymond’s wife $500,000 (and with the policy’s double-indemnity clause, potentially $1 million).
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Darkest Auer posted:Moomin "He was an awful bore." Well done, Lars, well done 
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Bloom County Peanuts (May 30, 1969)  Funky Reminder-Of-Your-Eventual-Mortalitybean  Cancershaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (May 1-2, 1929)   Thimble Theater (December 14, 1929) 
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Wanamingo posted:Pluggers Pluggers live in a sisyphean nightmare of reheated pork chops, never to experience new cuisine. Why try anything new? We'll all be dead before our reliable plugger Ford pick up stops running. Mix your heart medication with week old mashed potatoes so they go down faster than Betty Lou at the Sockhop. Pass the pork chops.
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Endless Mike posted:Come on Crankshaft, surely you have a black trucker cap you can wear to the many funerals I'm sure you have to go to between both being old and living in the Funkyverse. On the other hand, at this point I'm surprised he bothers to dress up.
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EasyEW posted:Funky Reminder-Of-Your-Eventual-Mortalitybean Julet Esqu posted:Luann  Aardmania posted:Piranha Club
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root posted:Can someone explain to me why new strips worth reading have to fight tooth and nail to get onto the comics page while the rancid comedy/pathos gruel that is Batuik's work gets a free pass for eternity?
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Evil Mastermind posted:Because, as we've seen many times, there's a large number of people who will flip THE gently caress out if a comic they've been reading for years suddenly stops appearing in the paper. It doesn't matter if it's any good or not, it doesn't matter what it's about. All that matters is that they don't want change because nostalgia. Offer not valid for 9 Chickweed Lane.
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root posted:Can someone explain to me why new strips worth reading have to fight tooth and nail to get onto the comics page while the rancid comedy/pathos gruel that is Batuik's work gets a free pass for eternity? Someone recently posted (like in the last 25 pages) a letter to the editor from a soon-to-be corpse who was complaining about how disgusting and crass Pearls before Swine is. This old person wanted to see Pearls removed in favor of whatever old strip was retired from his paper recently. Mary Worth, maybe. Pearls has been in paper for 15 years, so it's not quite new, not but a zombie strip. Now imagine that every time a newer, "edgier" strip comes out, but times 10.
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Hell, there were people saying that "Heavenly Nostrils" was too risqué a name for a newspaper comic strip.
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Nenonen posted:So yeah, these are drawn by John Prentice after Alex Raymond died in a car accident. Goddamn.  This is definitely worth a read.And though it's mostly about a terrible car accident(?), I couldn't help but notice this: quote:One day, Raymond paid Drake a visit as he was working on a Juliet Jones strip. “Back in those days, I was doing The Heart of Juliet Jones, and I was using Polaroid references of models. I gave them all kinds of expressions—fear, anguish, happiness—and Alex never did. And he came to me and said, ‘What is this thing with expressions you’re doing? It looks great.’ He complimented me on doing these real people in Juliet Jones. I couldn’t believe that the greatest artist in the world was asking me about expressions!” Yeesh, the vibrant facial expressions are the best part of Juliet Jones. Eve Jones is a riot and it's because her face is so expressive. We tend to think of the old days in comics as times when artists were really able to showcase their talent while today the syndicates just want static talking heads, but it looks like syndicates have always been stodgy and dumb. Luann  A silent film "fest" with only one film. Way to put in the work, Bernice. This is so stupid. "Hey, Piro, I really enjoyed that movie we watched together and that's making me think there are probably lots of other great old movies I've never seen. Wanna come by my dorm and watch some with me?" Oh, look! That's so much easier and less likely to end up with a bunch of randos in your room when you just want to suck face with Piro! The Amazing Spider-Man  You're dodging the question, Xenu or Xenon or Xavier or whatever the gently caress. Sally Forth  Story of my life.  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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