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Shugojin posted:How the hell did Ernie Bushmiller make so many funny strips out of the same basic cloth Because he's using the same premise all week not teh same punchline.
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EasyEW posted:
Okay I thought the last one was some kind of elaborate edit. What the Hell is going on.
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F Minus That doesn't look like a mudskipper to me. Probably should have gone with Log. Mary Worth  Rex Morgan MD  "So--uh--Jordan," Rex looks down at his feet and scuffs the ground with his toe, "you maybe wanna get dinner sometime?" Secret Agent X-9  Apartment 3-G  His sister literally mailed that last night, and it was delivered this morning. That's some drat service from the Post Office right there. Edit: 
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Sep 14, 2016 17:37
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Maxwell Lord posted:Okay I thought the last one was some kind of elaborate edit. What the Hell is going on. God help us, Batuik's trying to do a Crankshaft dream adventure.
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I didn't think I could hate a character more than nerd Peter Griffin and nerd Quagmire but boy do I loathe the nerd grrl in intelligent life
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Yay! The bingo story didn't end with Elly winning and all the ladies hating her! 
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Heathcliff Piranha Club  Dick Tracy  Judge Parker  9 Chickweed Lane   Another day, another demand by Brooke that you must listen to him.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Tina's Groove Safety is third. 
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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life Gucci pumps like the one she is describing are going to cost around $1500+ and certainly won't be sold in the type of store where you can just grab some sneakers and sensible flats right off the shelves and stand around holding them. If you are gonna be all "Women be shopping amirite? 'cept those nerd girls! They're not like "other girls," they are special and beautiful and different" don't gently caress it up so much that you make actual nerd girls so mad about your incompetence  I don't know why this bothers me so much. I guess because it perpetuates the stereotype that as a woman you can be into either woman stuff like shoes and yoga or boy stuff like comic books and video games and Star Trek, which is dumb cause it (a) insinuates that girl stuff is boring and dumb by nature (not to say that shoes and yoga aeating yogurt are boring and lame, but that is certainly the tone taken by this comic) and (b) you can't like girl stuff and also boy stuff at the same time because those are mutually exclusive. You can tell the one gals fun and cool like dudes because she don't cotton to them fancy shoes not like them airheaded cheerleaders! 
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EasyEW posted:Bloom County I'm trying to wrap my head around what is happening? The writing is so schizophrenic. Is Rosebud the basselope having gender identity issues? Or is Opus just acting like a loon? FWIW One of the last arcs of the original series involved Rosebud having jackabasselopes with Hodge Podge. I don't know how the intervening years made her younger and sprightlier (or with blue antlers), and most of me doesn't want to know.
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The MSJ posted:Didn't it last for more than a week? It looks like the trapeze artist falling started on July 25, the first "It happened" was on the 27th, Tracy comes out of the crowd on the 28th...nothing really happens until August 2, a Sunday recap. The trapeze artist was shot. A few more "it happened", and on August 7, a clown tells Tracy that a phone call warning that the trapeze would be shot had been received. August 9 is another Sunday recap, so it has an "it happened" in it. Call it two weeks to be generous. The plot goes on from there...The ringmaster is in the witness protection program (lousy job for someone trying to lie low, ain't it?). He also shot a man, as FBI agent Karen Ennen tells Tracy. On September 2, we first see the tiger. Just under a week is spent by Tracy taking to a hand holding a gun. The hand belongs to a square-faced clown from back at the beginning of the story. About the 20th of September he threatens everyone with said gun to make them get into the tiger cage. They're finally in by October 5. Strongman Fee Fi holds onto the tiger's tail. By October 20, Tracy leaps for a trapeze above the tiger cage. Apparently the tiger can't jump as high as Dick Tracy. By November 1, the square faced clown is confronted by police, and climbs to the top of the tiger cage. He is confronted by Fee Fi. Square-face shoots Fee Fi, who drops him into the tiger cage. The tiger is quieted by strongwoman Barb Els, of whom it seems fond. It all wraps up by November 24 with no one being eaten by the tiger, which for Dick Tracy is a bit of a cheat. And Karen Ennen is not run over by a locomotive.
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Mercury Hat posted:
It has been for a while, because this comic sucks, but now more than ever.
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dismas posted:This one is pretty good. It's one of my favorites. Schulz paces the gag perfectly,.
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Sep 14, 2016 23:25
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Maxwell Lord posted:Okay I thought the last one was some kind of elaborate edit. What the Hell is going on. Mind you, I'd be delighted if this strip was just turning into a weird, absurdist thing, like "Heathcliff," but...it's Batiuk, so the lamest answer is almost certainly the right one.
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Trilobite posted:I'm guessing that he drove his bus under/through some kind of "Predinator" ad, the big plastic/fiberglass figure got stuck on the roof, and now they're all such abominable shitheads that they haven't noticed that it hasn't moved, blinked, or shot any of them yet. drat it, this is definitely the answer.
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Trilobite posted:the lamest answer is almost certainly the right one. So it's a dream sequence
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gleebster posted:It looks like the trapeze artist falling started on July 25, the first "It happened" was on the 27th, Tracy comes out of the crowd on the 28th...nothing really happens until **snip** Dick Tracy is a bit of a cheat. And Karen Ennen is not run over by a locomotive. Starts here?: Dick Tracy (July 2009)    Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)  Outbursts of Everett True (July, 1915)  And He Did.  Guess If They Are Married!  Good Time Guy (click for big) (August, 1930)  Banana Oil!  The Gay Thirties (January 1935)  They’ll Do It Everytime (December 1939)  Mopsy (June, 1940)  Feiffer (click for big) (1967)  Jaf  Andy Capp (click for big) (August, 1970)  Mr. Tweedy (August, 1970)  Wee Pals (click for big) (October 1970)  True North  That's all I have for True North.
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Slammy posted:Starts here?: You know, I think of myself (perhaps erroneously, I dunno) as being fairly forgiving with regards to strange or bad artistic decision, but goddamn every single example of the tiny, tiny arms in the Dick Tracys from this era is driving me nuts. It's like a peak into an alternate universe where man evolved from T-Rex.
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The Classic Dinette Set celebrates capitalism. Working Daze <nerd reference>.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix knows one of these things is not like the others. 
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kith_groupie posted:I don't know why this bothers me so much. I guess because it perpetuates the stereotype that as a woman you can be into either woman stuff like shoes and yoga or boy stuff like comic books and video games and Star Trek, which is dumb cause it (a) insinuates that girl stuff is boring and dumb by nature (not to say that shoes and yoga aeating yogurt are boring and lame, but that is certainly the tone taken by this comic) and (b) you can't like girl stuff and also boy stuff at the same time because those are mutually exclusive. You can tell the one gals fun and cool like dudes because she don't cotton to them fancy shoes not like them airheaded cheerleaders! Not much to add to this, I mainly want to say I agree with it. It drives me nuts when people talk down "girl stuff" just because it's girl stuff, especially when they do so under the guise of feminism. I like "boy stuff", but lots of girl stuff is pretty awesome, too. I don't know what kind of cretin you have to be to poo-pooh a spa day or a great pair of shoes. Luann  I like a good BM, too, but somehow I don't think it means what they think it means. The Amazing Spider-Man  And now you've perforated his eardrum. Good work, Scott. Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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Julet Esqu posted:
"By the way, I'm not Daredevil."
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Julet Esqu posted:Not much to add to this, I mainly want to say I agree with it. It drives me nuts when people talk down "girl stuff" just because it's girl stuff, especially when they do so under the guise of feminism. I like "boy stuff", but lots of girl stuff is pretty awesome, too. I don't know what kind of cretin you have to be to poo-pooh a spa day or a great pair of shoes. The stupid comic isn't trying to reach an actual female audience. It's just stoking a perfect-girl fantasy for an assumed 100% male nerd audience.
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Kafe Kablooie Katering, eh?   That's not good.
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Adam Ames ugh Between Shots  Ella Cinders 
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King Aroo (August 22, 1951) Nancy (October 6, 1943)  Wash Tubbs (June 19, 1929)  Gasoline Alley (July 4, 1923)  Barney Google (July 5, 1922)  Alley Oop (October 4, 1933)  Lil' Abner (March 3, 1937) 
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treasureplane posted:Nancy (October 6, 1943) You know, another thing modern Nancy is totally missing is this guy. He and Nancy's interactions are always great.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Adam Ames It really is fascinating just how much Adam Ames reads like some weird chatbot version of a 1950s soap strip. Mark Trail  Pearls Before Swine  The Phantom 
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean But...that's where you got them...
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This will prove this guy is totally the same dude, as a simple code phrase between us is perfectly secure and can in no way just be told to other people. Seriously, why bother with this here with these guys? I get that the Ghost Who Walks shtick is all about scaring criminals, but why bother with these guys? The Phantom reguarly spoils his non paranatural nature in casual conversation with strangers.
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WickedHate posted:Seriously, why bother with this here with these guys? I get that the Ghost Who Walks shtick is all about scaring criminals, but why bother with these guys? The Phantom reguarly spoils his non paranatural nature in casual conversation with strangers. I'm seriously just waiting for the instructor to say something like "Yeah we know you're not the same Kit Walker. How stupid do you think we are?"
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Pluggers 
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The Born Loser Cul de Sac  Curtis  Fred Basset  Frog Applause  Ginger Meggs  Hägar the Horrible  Heart of the City  Heavenly Nostrils  Lockhorns  Office Hours  Pickles  Reply All  Retail 
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Tiggum posted:Heavenly Nostrils 
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Tiggum posted:
Fortunately, his doppelgänger was there to cover for him.
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WickedHate posted:You know, another thing modern Nancy is totally missing is this guy. He and Nancy's interactions are always great. He died serving in the Navy SEALs in Viet Nam. God Bless America and Thank a Veteran If You Can Read Nancy!!!  - GG
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