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Selachian posted:Edge of Teddy Bears Wow, stealing bits from the Dreamweaver himself? What a jerk.
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I'm starting to suspect he's an alien from a culture with no concept of storytelling, like the guys in Galaxy Quest. What's going on with the art? I'm not gonna say it's better, but it sure is different. Like, the kid and the nurse are cartoony, but have features broadly in line with a real human face rather than a doughy approximation, and also everything was colored in with four colored pencils, all slightly differently brown.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'm starting to suspect he's an alien from a culture with no concept of storytelling, like the guys in Galaxy Quest. Maybe he's adjusting to being able to use colors other than black and acid green again.
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Tina's Groove Family Circus Rose is Rose One Big Happy Foob Compu-Toon Bizarro Dilbert
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Manuel Calavera posted:Bizarro Why isn't there an RPG with a dog main protagonist titled 'Fetch Quest' yet?
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Aardmania posted:9 Chickweed Lane F Minus She won that bet on the strength of the man-bun alone. Mary Worth Rex Morgan MD "Look, Rex, neither of us had any idea about the dangerous world of museum gift shop book production." Secret Agent X-9 That's like over eight grand in today's money. I don't know how much money and effort a big, multi-state criminal enterprise was willing to put up back then for a low-level car thief but I assume it's wasn't that much. Apartment 3-G Look at all the effort Kotzky used to put into backgrounds. It must have taken hours. I mean look at like MW or RMMD compared to this. Those aren't even bad now, but they are far from this. Selachian posted:Edge of Teddy Bears
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Johnny Walker posted:Everybody thinks the pirates' favorite letter is "R," but it's really the "C" that they love.
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Can't find this clip in english, but it's the first thing I thought of when I read this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpgMh8ywZtE
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth
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Skippy (June 7-8, 1929) Peanuts (August 11, 1969) Funky Winkerbean Crankshaft Rip Haywire Out Our Way (September 2-3, 1929) (e: because 1-2 is not 2-3) Thimble Theater (February 25, 1930) EasyEW fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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EasyEW posted:Thimble Theater (February 25, 1930) Popeye was 40 in 1930, so that makes him 126 today.
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csammis posted:With Hil at summer camp I think the point being made was that she was masking the depth of the problem quote:Francesco; You are an incredibly good looking man. You are talented, capricious in the good way, authentic, and downright hilarious. I wish you nothing but the best of success in all your endeavors.
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I look forward to Judge Parker's foray into cannibalism.
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Hey look it's time for me to go full GoComics again!! Apologies in advance, kids!! "Sally Forth," pre-Marciuliano, was a ridiculously bland and boring comic strip. The only thing at all notable about it was that Sally smirked at everything, even though no one ever did or said anything clever or amusing. Francesco Marciuliano made the characters interesting. He wrote actual jokes, most of them reasonably smirkworthy. And if some of the characters became unrealistically zany as a result, that was okay. It's a comic strip. The thing is, those characters have been unrealistic for so long now that these recent plotlines dealing "realistically" with Ted and Hil's exaggerated personalities have become, paradoxically, unrealistic. If their flaws are "real," and not just quirks to serve as nucleation sites for joke formation, then there is no reason that those flaws should only now have consequences. Calaveron posted:Hahah dang, Sally Forth, that's something you find out in the first couple of months of relationship, not well over a decade into a marriage. Change it to "Haha dang, Marciuliano, ..." and that's pretty much where I'm at. These recent plots aren't bad, they just feel abrupt and artificial, because they're a very sharp change in a well-established tone. We're going from a comic strip to "this ain't no comic strip!! Your beloved jokeman is a broken human being, how do you like that, jerks??"
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I Wish I Were Gary Larson, or, Foolish Mortals Curse of the Undead! or, Scary Gary Moving. Spiritually enriching. Sublime. “High” art, or, Gasoline Alley Phoebe and her Unicorn, or, Heavenly Nostrils Descent into Madness, or, Ziggy Ye Olde Fox Trot Uncanny X-Men
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:These recent plots aren't bad, they just feel abrupt and artificial, because they're a very sharp change in a well-established tone. We're going from a comic strip to "this ain't no comic strip!! Your beloved jokeman is a broken human being, how do you like that, jerks??" I guess I'm just sort of rephrasing your argument to say I agree with it, but man I hope Marciuliano's dedicated to that light tone philosophy he mentioned or he's in real danger of killing a good thing with bathos.
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SomeMathGuy posted:Yeah, it feels like the strip's teetering close to a webcomic-esque descent into the dramatic for almost no reason - I know the justification is "well, but the characters would..." but it's like no, they wouldn't, because 1. we've established that they're all very flippant about this stuff and 2. as much as (some) authors like to pretend otherwise these characters really don't exist outside of their whims and it isn't exactly rocket science to figure out that a light-hearted strip shouldn't veer into hard drama nor is it a Herculean task to avoid it. You might even say that writing a comic strip is often harder on the writer then the readers.
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It's like you go to see a vaudeville duo and in the middle of the act the straight man has a meltdown about how he never gets to make any jokes. e: this is surely a hip & happening metaphor that all the kids who read the comics page will get! 23 skidoo
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Modesty Blaise
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Ripley's catch-up, week two.
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TofuDiva posted:This. I think Everett is doubly mad because the guy has ordered hot chocolate. Cocoa and chocolate were among those items that folks were supposed to voluntarily forgo because it was such a morale-booster for the troops to receive them. Plus hot cocoa required both sugar and canned milk to make it. So he thinks the guy is being self-indulgent as well as greedy and putting himself before the troops. No, it's his "cocoa" as in "cocoanut", as in head. Why coconut is no longer spelled cocoanut, I can't tell you, but it used to be.
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Selachian posted:Edge of Teddy Bears Geez, that is inexcusably bad art for ITYOOL 2016, it looks like he traced everything from a bad 1930's comic book. The style is from that period, check the kid's face and the nurse's face/hair/uniform. Never seen a uniform like that in a modern hospital. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Aug 8, 2016 |
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Endless Mike posted:Catwoman! Batman (1966) was fun. Commissioner Gordon: It could be any one of them... But which one? Which ones? Batman: Pretty *fishy* what happened to me on that ladder... Commissioner Gordon: You mean where there's a fish there could be a Penguin? Robin: But wait! It happened at sea... Sea. C for Catwoman! Batman: Yet, an exploding shark *was* pulling my leg... Commissioner Gordon: The Joker! Chief O'Hara: All adds up to a sinister riddle... Riddle-R. Riddler! Commissioner Gordon: A thought strikes me... So dreadful I scarcely dare give it utterance... Batman: The four of them... Their forces combined... Robin: Holy nightmare!
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RandomPauI posted:Batman (1966) was fun. This actually makes sense, from a Batman 66 perspective. Those villains do theme stuff all the time, and leaving all those clues is a sure sign the Riddler cooked it up to telegraph they were working together.
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WickedHate posted:This actually makes sense, from a Batman 66 perspective. Those villains do theme stuff all the time, and leaving all those clues is a sure sign the Riddler cooked it up to telegraph they were working together. Hell, by Adam West-era Riddler standards it's positively straightforward. "What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree, and is very dangerous?" "A sparrow with a machine gun!"
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Meanwhile he wasn't able to figure out Miss Kitka was Catwoman. And also meanwhile they immediately recognized Penguin when in disguise.
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I guess my reading comprehension skills could use work... Wanamingo posted:Pluggers You can still have pen pals, Plugger chicken lady. And they'll send you hand written notes through the snail mail and everything. You just have to find them on the Interne-- Oh. Never mind. Wanamingo posted:Deep Dark Fears I worry about my family finding my naked corpse. I prioritize my worries well. csammis posted:With Hil at summer camp I think the point being made was that she was masking the depth of the problem Ces posted:When I started writing the summer’s storylines, this is not at all what I envisioned would happen. I had planned Sally and Ted to go on wacky adventures sans Hil. I had expected Hil to have a triumphant summer even sans Faye and Nora. And I had expected Faye and Nora to cement their friendship sans Hil. I read this and all I could think was, "What? Who the hell is Nora? All this time I thought her name was Nona! How am I just figuring this out???" But then I checked Wikipedia and it calls her Nona, too. It's Nona, Ces! That character you created? Her name is loving Nona! (I still like Sally Forth, though. It's one of the high points of the comics thread for me, so I can put up with the occasional angst. Just as long as it doesn't go full Sally Winkerbean.) A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:It's like you go to see a vaudeville duo and in the middle of the act the straight man has a meltdown about how he never gets to make any jokes. That is an act I would like to see. Luann The Amazing Spider-Man Sally Forth NONA!!! The Heart of Juliet Jones
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So I have this old book I got as a gift years ago and forgot about until recently, Cartoon Cavalcade by Thomas Craven. It's from 1943 and covers cartoons from 1883 to when it was printed. I thought I'd scan a few pages of cartoons and see if you all are interested in seeing more. Some of them are political so I'm not sure they belong here? These are the first 3 cartoons from the section for 1883-1916. All of these are by AB Frost. (Click for big.) Murdstone fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man Newspaper Spidey never lets me down.
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My main gripe with Sally Forth is mostly just the zany fourth-wall mind reading stuff.
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kidcoelacanth posted:My main gripe with Sally Forth is mostly just the zany fourth-wall mind reading stuff. Yeah, it was a pretty amazing joke the first time it appeared but all of a sudden it's a legit thing that happens constantly and other people are also getting in on it and it just sucks so bad
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Reply All That's weird. A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:The thing is, those characters have been unrealistic for so long now that these recent plotlines dealing "realistically" with Ted and Hil's exaggerated personalities have become, paradoxically, unrealistic. If their flaws are "real," and not just quirks to serve as nucleation sites for joke formation, then there is no reason that those flaws should only now have consequences. Julet Esqu posted:Sally Forth Calaveron posted:Yeah, it was a pretty amazing joke the first time it appeared but all of a sudden it's a legit thing that happens constantly and other people are also getting in on it and it just sucks so bad
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Ok, that was actually a little funny. Stop picking on Hank Pym or he might have to smack a bitch. Alternatively, stop picking on Scott Lang, he's an okay dude.
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Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man Evidently MJ dated Ant-Man in the newspaperverse.
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Seems legit
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Mark Trail Meets Manta Ray Photobombs Pearls Before Swine The Phantom
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Mark Trail have always been all about the wildlife photobombs. Also the skeleton tribe looks badass.
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Six Chix Wow, this is garbage Zippy the Pinhead Nancy Arlo and Janis Andertoons Pluggers
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy Is there any reason this is split into two panels? Is there some sort of syndicate thing or what?
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Yesterday's Fingerpori (fittingly the strip for 8.8.) sure went places.
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