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This isn't a request to stop posting it by any means, but I don't think I "get" Jaf.
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Slammy posted:They'll Do It Every Time (January, 1940, click for big) Huh, interesting. One of the main characters in Finnegans Wake is Shem the Penman -- I never realized Joyce borrowed the name from an actual person.
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Oct 19, 2016 02:41
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Senior Woodchuck posted:I like this one. It's from a storyline where Charlie Brown is cracking up over his obsession with the baseball team's continual failure. People claim Snoopy took over the strip at one point, but actually reading it from start to finish (thanks, Fantagraphics!), it really isn't so. His strips are the simplest ones, usually quick, repeating gags, but I still enjoy their daffiness. And the other characters maintain Schulz's theme of semi-adult neuroses in child-size characters. Peppermint Patty deals with single-parent households and feminine body issues (a topic that would be noteworthy today, let alone in the 1970s). Sally is about school anxiety and not really knowing what's going on when you're young. Rerun's about that last part, too, often in a very good way. Linus, Lucy, Charlie Brown, and Schroeder are pretty much the same as they were in the "classic" period, and with the addition of Marcy as Peppermint Patty's foil, we get the crush triangle between her, Peppermint Patty, and Charlie Brown. Schulz also cuts a lot of dross around this time; Violet, Original Patty, Shermy, and even Frieda had outlived their usefulness (this Head Beagle story is pretty much the last major thing she'd be a part of), to say nothing of 3, 4, and 5. ("Who?" Exactly.) Franklin rounds out the cross-town cast, and around now we also get one of my favorite Schulz creations: Spike. There's something about Spike that's just so bizarrely existentialist that I can't help but love him. I would read a strip just about Spike. Congratulations! You're the first person I have ever known who liked Spike. You win a cookie through the internet. I still don't like Spike. As a kid, I was already used to Peanuts being disappointing in its cliched way (He missed the football again! That tree ate another kite! Time for the Great Pumpkin!) but I had to count it worse when it turned into retarded mustache Snoopy talking to cactuses all the time. Spike made Peanuts awful in an entirely new, worse way. I'm still grateful for the early strips being posted. I'd never read Peanuts and enjoyed it before.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:
And that's the bleakest thing of all
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:
Truly, the bleakest scene of them all...
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Oct 19, 2016 03:49
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I spent the day at the North Carolina State Fair, and as I walked around, a particular sign caught my eye. So I went in and told Guy Gilchrist he was a hack that was making Ernie Bushmiller spin in his grave, and everybody stood up and clapped. I actually didn't see him at all, I wasn't there at those times. No idea if this was a one day thing or not.
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Oct 19, 2016 03:52
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Out Our Way (December 16-17, 1929)  Peanuts: The Ones That don Jaime Likes (July 18-20, 1955)   
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Oct 19, 2016 04:11
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The Classic Dinette Set are a hard sell. Working Daze doesn't respect the chain of command.  Super-Fun-Pal-Comix doubles your entendre...if you know what I mean.  
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Oct 19, 2016 04:25
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 That Rookie from the 13th Squad  Ella Cinders   And that's the end of this storyline. Next I'll jump back to the beginning of Ella Cinders, where fewer things fall into her lap. Myra North, Special Nurse 
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Oct 19, 2016 04:26
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Phantom Classic Radio Patrol  Rip Kirby  Big Ben Bolt 
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Oct 19, 2016 04:46
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Transmodiar posted:I am legitimately curious to know how Woody Wilson would have wrapped up these plot line, if for no other reason than to see exactly the opposite of what is happening now. Any idea why they took Wilson off the strip mid-story? Julet Esqu posted:Luann sweeperbravo posted:This isn't a request to stop posting it by any means, but I don't think I "get" Jaf.
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Oct 19, 2016 05:01
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Wait, so Everett went to a fancy restaurant that served french food and got mad at the waiter listing the french names of the french dishes? Is there even an English word for pate?
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Oct 19, 2016 05:02
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RandomPauI posted:Wait, so Everett went to a fancy restaurant that served french food and got mad at the waiter listing the french names of the french dishes? Is there even an English word for pate? Also, Everett is okay with referring to food as "grub" but calling a Frankfurter Sausage a "hot dog" is right out?
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Oct 19, 2016 05:06
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Johnny Walker posted:
I think Jaf is delightfully surreal. I enjoy looking for the ways in which the artist has taken our expectations and turned them on their head by playing with gestalts or perspective. It's not a comic, per se, but a little sketch.
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Oct 19, 2016 06:01
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Mark Trail Pearls Before Swine  The Phantom 
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Oct 19, 2016 06:32
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean ...This was a man who got an offer to coach for a college team? And he got set off by roughing the passer of all things? That's big in the NFL mainly because quarterbacks are expensive and hard to replace. Practically the whole point of football in a high school context is that it's a controlled environment for teenage boys to smack each other around. If you don't want the poo poo kicked out of you then be the kicker, although rest assured everyone in the locker room will talk poo poo about you to compensate. Senior Woodchuck posted:Peppermint Patty deals with single-parent households and feminine body issues (a topic that would be noteworthy today, let alone in the 1970s). Oh for the love of...Peppermint Patty is a tomboy who's not very smart. Those are the distinctive character traits which give rise to jokes not possible with the other characters, and that's how she became an important character. Identity politics critical theory is stupid in general, and I can't imagine why you decided to take that particular tact with that particular character when everything else in your post focused on actual content, rather than background trivia no one has ever heard of. It's All Right Chief Dharma  ...And now the actual reason I come to this thread. Which come to think of it is also a form of sperging about my work experience, just more well-disguised. This is one I've already translated before. The file was on the computer I'm currently using, so I wanted to update it to current standard.
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King Aroo (September 26, 1951) Nancy (November 10, 1943)  Wash Tubbs (July 10, 1929)  Gasoline Alley (August 8, 1923)  Lil' Abner (April 7, 1937)  Barney Google (August 9, 1922)  Alley Oop (November 8, 1933) 
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Oct 19, 2016 08:49
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Evil Mastermind posted:Super-Fun-Pal-Comix doubles your entendre...if you know what I mean. treasureplane posted:Wash Tubbs (July 10, 1929) Heh ... boner.
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Oct 19, 2016 08:52
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Some Guy TT posted:It's All Right Chief Dharma I'll always love the way he draws white people as slightly unsettling. Like the time the boss hired a white guy to wander around the place, scaring the staff with how not-Korean he was. EDIT - the Chief in the second last panel looks like he's going to punch the Italian guy in the butthole.
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Intelligent Life Take It From the Tinkersons  Viivi & Wagner 
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Oct 19, 2016 10:32
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Julet Esqu posted:Big Ben Bolt
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Pluggers 
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F-Minus Fred Basset  Frog Applause  Henry  Kliban  Marmaduke  Office Hours  Reply All  Slammy posted:Outbursts of Everett True (August, 1915)
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Oct 19, 2016 11:02
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In which the Phantom is a smarmy dick to his wife
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Oct 19, 2016 11:31
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SomeMathGuy posted:Mark Trail Poor tree! Also R.I.P. Mark Trail, crushed between hog and the said tree.
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Oct 19, 2016 12:17
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Julet Esqu posted:
quote:AnyFace said, 1 day ago quote:ORMouseworks said, 1 day ago quote:Mordock999 GoComics PRO Member said, 1 day ago quote:JPuzzleWhiz said, about 23 hours ago quote:Luanaphile GoComics PRO Member said, about 21 hours ago No titles for a couple of days.... fort knox  Flying McCoys  Shoe  Dustin 
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Oct 19, 2016 12:35
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JaggerMcDagger posted:Dustin That sure is some fresh material there. Or is this the middle of a story-arc where Dustin's dad and that kid switched bodies?
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Oct 19, 2016 12:41
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Is there a strip with a higher body-count than And He Did?Tiggum posted:Frog Applause I'm going to need Mr Beeg to explain what appears to be some very inside gossip inexplicably used as the subject for a comic strip presumably intended for wider consumption.
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Oct 19, 2016 13:11
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EasyEW posted:
In case anyone wants some context for this (dunno about you, but I always learn some cool poo poo from this thread, of all places)... on a military base, when they raise the flag at Reveille (0630) or lower it for The Colors (1700), if you're outside, you're expected to stop whatever you're doing, face the direction of the flag, and just stand there. I'm a civilian contractor for KP, and this confused the hell out of me when I first started night shifts --- literally, all traffic on base stops at 1700, and people get out of their cars to salute a flag they can't even see. So yeah, this poor KP dude got caught taking the garbage out in the cold when they started playing The Colors, and that's why he's freezing his rear end off. Been there, done that. 
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mastersord posted:My guess is that she had Daddy wrapped around her finger the whole time and set this up as some kind of test.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:
I had to read this a few times to decipher that they weren't saying the injured man was owned by Grace Semble. treasureplane posted:Wash Tubbs (July 10, 1929) Tee hee Green Intern fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Oct 19, 2016 |
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Oct 19, 2016 14:32
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Mr. Squishy posted:I'm going to need Mr Beeg to explain what appears to be some very inside gossip inexplicably used as the subject for a comic strip presumably intended for wider consumption. My first thought was Scott Adams, because he has been caught sockpuppeting before and of course he has a lovely attitude toward women. But I haven't heard anything about him trying that stuff again recently. Buni  Rhymes with Orange, Still Catching Up    Pros and Cons 
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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Oct 19, 2016 15:21
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My God. Does anyone under 35 even get this joke?
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Oct 19, 2016 15:31
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Aleph Null posted:My God. Does anyone under 35 even get this joke? um ... I laughed. But then I am most certainly not under 35.
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Aleph Null posted:My God. Does anyone under 35 even get this joke? I don't think it matters, because nobody under 35 reads Shoe.
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Aleph Null posted:My God. Does anyone under 35 even get this joke? Uh, yes. Although when I was growing up Tang was less of an "astronaut food" and more of a "powdered orange drink with chimpanzees advertising it for... some reason."
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Aleph Null posted:My God. Does anyone under 35 even get this joke? I'm 29 and I got it. It's not funny to me, though.  Also since I'm already posting about Shoe, that cold turkey joke they made a bit ago I know I'd seen before. This joke may also be a slightly redrawn comic from a decade or more ago.
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Not even a new page yet..? Ah gently caress it I've been out lately and I can't get any sleep. It's All Right Chief Dharma  
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