Comic Strip Megathread XVI: Winking Throwbacks to Retro Sexism

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Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Mark Trail has taken Show, Dont Tell and turned it into Show and Tell, or Show that Butt

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

SynthOrange posted:

Mark Trail has taken Show, Dont Tell and turned it into Show and Tell, or Show that Butt

To be fair, Show and Tell is still a bit of a step up from Provide a Loose Approximation via Clip Art and Tell, and given some of the... interesting... artistic samples Jam Esallen has provided us over the past half a year I can't really blame him for not being confident in his visuals' ability to carry the story.

That being said, seriously, that five inch bird is as big as her loving face.

SomeMathGuy fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Jul 20, 2016

# ? Jul 20, 2016 06:31

Zanzibar Ham: Mar 17, 2009; You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.; Grimey Drawer

Julet Esqu posted:

Hey, guys! No need to speculate on who owns what in The Amazing Spider-Man

It's like they anticipated us.

Hmm, apparently her will says she's leaving her stock of The Daily Bugle to some guy called a R. Morgan? Apparently he's a doctor of some sort.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 06:38

Aardmania: Jan 1, 2007; Ruining newspapers since 1993.; Shredded Hen

Heathcliff

Piranha Club

Dick Tracy

Judge Parker

9 Chickweed Lane

# ? Jul 20, 2016 07:47

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

JESUS CHRIST DICK TRACY :stare:

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Tunicate: May 15, 2012

SynthOrange posted:

JESUS CHRIST DICK TRACY

CARNAGE

# ? Jul 20, 2016 08:22

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Most of the time Dick Tracy is boring. But every now and then, a few times a storyline if we're lucky, it goes balls to the loving walls.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 08:24

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

SynthOrange posted:

JESUS CHRIST DICK TRACY

I think you mean "YE GODS!"

# ? Jul 20, 2016 08:44

Simian_Prime: Nov 6, 2011; When they passed out body parts in the comics today, I got Cathy's nose and Dick Tracy's private parts.

WickedHate posted:

Most of the time Dick Tracy is boring. But every now and then, a few times a storyline if we're lucky, it goes balls to the loving walls.

I was about to say the same about Mary Worth.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 08:47

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Intelligent Life - title drops do not constitute punchlines.

Take It From the Tinkersons

Dark Side of the Horse

# ? Jul 20, 2016 08:56

Countblanc: Apr 20, 2005; _{Help a hero out!}

ikanreed posted:

Certainly nothing else was ever worth memorializing about that school. Nope.

the campus actually has a rather moving and very well maintained memorial to the massacre, staffed by history graduate students and faculty who answer questions. there's even markers in the parking lot where each of the students was gunned down.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 09:37

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

SomeMathGuy posted:

Mark Trail

I'm guessing her most likely course of action will be to fall off the cliff.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 10:47

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

Aardmania posted:

Dick Tracy

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

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Stop interfering with that rare bird/invasive species, lady.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 13:22

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

Calaveron posted:

I just want to beat the goon who posts the gocomics massive weirdo who does all the alternate titles for Luann, and tell him not to do it because nobody actually reads them and chances are that some day the FBI will use those posts as evidence when they discover children's body parts in his freezer.

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I wonder why Shannon is back to calling Brad �Bwad� again. It seems to me that every time she is involved with some issue having to do with her father, that she �acts up� with Brad.

I can remember when my younger sis�s first relationship broke up and she had to take her young daughter and go back to live with our stepfather. The little girl was upset about not getting to see her father, and mouthed off to all the other adults who were trying to make her situation better.

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Brad and Toni are TOO comfortable with each other. Its like they�ve already been married for 5 years.

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IamJayBluE said, 1 day ago
�Well Versed�
�Relatively Speaking�
�A Little Worn, But A Lotta Love�
�Up On My Feet, But Still Down On My Niece�
�Wear And Tear�
�Bedazzled And Frazzled�
�Hanging By A Nerve�
�Frisky Kid Was The End Of Mine� (♪)
�Close Quarters�And Still No Change�
�Finally Moving, After The Change Of A Dress�
�It�s A Small, Small, Small, Small, Small, Small, Small World�
�Close Encounters Of The Third Verse�
�The Early Bwad Gets The Earworm�
�More Of A Pinch, Than A Cinch�
or
�I Can�t Hold You Any Closer, Tiny Dancer!� (♪)

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IamJayBluE said, 1 day ago
Don�t think Jonah realizes just how good he has it! Shannon has the love of her Aunt Toni and the Degroots to lean upon. In fact, Toni lovingly looks after Shannon, and what thanks has he even given her?

fort knox

# ? Jul 20, 2016 13:24

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Wait, do you have to share posts to imgur now instead of just uploading them and getting a link?

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Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Buni

Rhymes with Orange

Pros and Cons

# ? Jul 20, 2016 14:18

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

The Classic Dinette Set knows that knowledge is valuable.

Working Daze make what may be it's laziest joke yet.

Super-Fun-Pak-Comix is love with its back turned.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 14:42

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

Tina's Groove

Family Circus

Rose is Rose

One Big Happy

Foob

Compu-Toon

Bizarro

Dilbert

# ? Jul 20, 2016 15:33

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

Someone on GoComics posted:

Brad and Toni are TOO comfortable with each other. Its like they�ve already been married for 5 years.

Have those two even so much as spent a night together? I feel like Luann and Quill kissing with the lights off in the prop closet was going further than Bwad and Toni ever have.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 16:02

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

King Aroo (June 27, 1951)

Barnaby (December 2, 1942)

Nancy (August 11, 1943)

Wash Tubbs (April 24, 1929)

Gasoline Alley (May 9, 1923)

Barney Google (May 10, 1922)

Alley Oop (August 9, 1933)

Lil' Abner (January 6, 1937)

# ? Jul 20, 2016 16:11

Parahexavoctal: Oct 10, 2004; I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!

Aardmania posted:

9 Chickweed Lane

this really feels like it's leading into a threeway.

edit: oh, also, Kevin Frank wants us to know that a) the last HLTS is a callback to the very first strip, and b) he's got a (non-faith-based) graphic novel coming out soon.

Parahexavoctal fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jul 20, 2016

# ? Jul 20, 2016 16:48

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

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dismas: Jul 31, 2008

Forktoss posted:

missing a crying statue of liberty

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Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

dismas posted:

missing a crying statue of liberty

Also should have labelled something DEBT.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 17:42

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 (May 21-22, 1929)

Loss, Regret, Anxiety and Despair (Featuring Good Ol' Charlie Brown) (July 16, 1969)

Mopey Pete and Boy Lisa Hijack A Cargo Ship

Crankshaft

Ed was illiterate. Now he's just intolerable.

Rip Haywire

Out Our Way (July 31 and August 1, 1929)

Thimble Theater (February 6, 1930)

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Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

dismas posted:

missing a crying statue of liberty

Korner Kelly: "PULLING a fast one."

# ? Jul 20, 2016 19:26

Savidudeosoo: Feb 12, 2016; Pelican, a Bag Man

Countblanc posted:

the campus actually has a rather moving and very well maintained memorial to the massacre, staffed by history graduate students and faculty who answer questions. there's even markers in the parking lot where each of the students was gunned down.

Each one of those markers is even a pokestop!

Manuel Calavera posted:

One Big Happy

This actually made me laugh, although I'm sure not for the reasons intended.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 19:35

Indolent Bastard: Oct 26, 2007; I WON THIS AMAZING AVATAR! I'M A WINNER! WOOOOO!

# ? Jul 20, 2016 19:37

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

Evil Mastermind posted:

Wait, do you have to share posts to imgur now instead of just uploading them and getting a link?

No. The button says "New Post" but you just upload your pictures and you can get the links in a similar way to how it has been working. If you were doing it like me, the only difference is I used to upload a bunch of them at once, but now it automatically uploads the first one and I just have to add the other images I want to upload to that page. There's another button to "Share to Community."

The main difference for me is I wish it had the direct link to the image with the file extension, because it makes posting here faster the way I have been doing it.

treasureplane posted:

King Aroo (June 27, 1951)

This comic is so drat adorable. I just love it.

F Minus

Mary Worth

"This is great! I don't know why I ever quit drugs!"

Rex Morgan MD

This should come as no surprise. The mob has long been involved in the museum gift shop book racket.

Secret Agent X-9

This strip is really like a 1930s CSI. I never thought of it that way before but a lot of this is just showing what was cutting edge tech and how it is used in crimefighting back then. I may just be thinking about this because I watched an old movie from the 50s last night about the FBI and it was pretty much the same type of stuff. "Wow! Look at that camera that's only the size of a pack of cigarettes and takes up to 10 pictures!"

Apartment 3-G

I seriously wish I knew more about what is going on here. I feel like there's a lot of backstory we just don't have about all these characters.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 19:40

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

dismas posted:

missing a crying statue of liberty

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Also should have labelled something DEBT.

Selachian posted:

Korner Kelly: "PULLING a fast one."

ughh you guys!!

# ? Jul 20, 2016 20:02

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Forktoss posted:

ughh you guys!!

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:04

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

Forktoss posted:

ughh you guys!!

This is awesome, and I didn't notice Nancy had a tear the first time.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:12

ukonvasara: Aug 16, 2012; a mixture of gravity and waggery

Tiggum posted:

Have those two even so much as spent a night together? I feel like Luann and Quill kissing with the lights off in the prop closet was going further than Bwad and Toni ever have.

I don't think they've ever shown or implied it directly, but they also haven't had the characters themselves be weird Brooke-ish puritans about it (and they've stopped having the parents spend so much time obsessing about their adult son's sex life). They also spent a long time having the two leeringly imply that things would, could, or might be happening at some point. I think overall they've just stopped addressing it and readers are free to assume that they're having a normal 21st century adult relationship if they want, without being explicitly forced to thing about Brad loving, for which I for one am grateful.

# ? Jul 20, 2016 21:14