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It's All Right Chief Dharma The TV show being referenced is "Incomplete Life", a very popular office drama that was running a couple of years ago. It's based off of an equally popular webcomic, if that's not nerdy enough for you.  I've always found the South Korean obsession with negative international statistics to be fascinating. They feature all the time on news shows, and are constantly invoked as the justification for some political policy or other, which almost always has the side effect of loving up some other random statistic for people to complain about later. I contrast this to my own country, which has our own collection of horrible statistics that we never talk about, and any time someone does the response from the talking heads is just "duh American exceptionalism dumb-rear end clearly this problem is unsolvable". And that's assuming they'll even acknowledge a problem exists at all. Like, I did not realize we are the worst country in the world for auto accidents until I saw a graphic where Koreans were panicking about being number three. It's just surreal. Especially when idiot expats repurpose these statistics in an attempt to claim the country is some sort of monstrous hellscape.
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Some Guy TT posted:The TV show being referenced is "Incomplete Life", a very popular office drama that was running a couple of years ago. It's based off of an equally popular webcomic, if that's not nerdy enough for you. You made me look it up, and now I'm a little irked that the company I work for wasn't able to license Incomplete Life (but we did spend too much money for Goblin!).
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Peanuts (December 16, 1969) Funky WinkerNOIR  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (February 5-6, 1930)   Thimble Theater (July 2, 1930)  Peanuts: Year Five (September 5-7, 1955)   
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I swear to god if I had the photoshop skills time and talent I would add Popeye to every single strip threatening every dumb character to get on with it lest he twisks their neck
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Pop Team Epic Takeshobo is their publisher  Honey Come Chatka  
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The cockroach heard the beautiful music of Honey Come Chatka and became a real girl. Also that PTE is one of my favorites.
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Synthbuttrange posted:PTE is definitely the more comprehensible of the two. It varies day to day but imo it's the other way around most of the time. I think it's because Honey Come Chatka's premise keeps it focused while PTE is a lot more open ended.
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Honey Come Chatka makes perfect sense once you realize it's the j-pop equivalent of Metalocalypse. Side A is what's happening to the band, Side B is their crazy fans who think they're gods whose music can heal the sick and perform reverse kafkas.
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (February 5-6, 1930) If I knew what the thing hanging off the table was supposed to be, would I get this one? Or am I just dumb?
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CaptainCaveman posted:If I knew what the thing hanging off the table was supposed to be, would I get this one? Or am I just dumb? I think maybe it's a belt, and he's really late getting home so his dinner's waiting for him but also he's going to be beaten for not being on time?
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I believe it is a leather strap designed for conditioning a shaving razor but being put into service for implying some imminent
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Aardmania posted:9 Chickweed Lane Perhaps, but guess where you are. Kennel posted:Are you ready for a Christmas Miracle?! Is that a Pikachu? Nenonen posted:Yes, there's a cat, a dog and a goldfish. And they're the worst in this cartoon, right after Jesus, Viet Nam Vets and old timey rock'n'roll nostalgy. and a giant bobble-head on a woman's body that likes music older than my parents (and I'm 35). WickedHate posted:Pop Team Epic From the descriptions, i thought I would hate this comic and not "get" it, but I'm loving it so far! As RandomFerret said above, it's a Metalocalypse-level parody of Japanese Pop-Idol worship. Please keep posting it.
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mastersord posted:Is that a Pikachu? I would support a Nancy reboot set in the Pokemon universe. With a different author.
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RandomPauI posted:I would support a Nancy reboot. With a different author.
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EasyEW posted:Funky WinkerNOIR Really looks like we're heading for a suicide.
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The Classic Dinette Set watches what they eat so it won't fall off the fork. Working Daze is always embarrassing when it tries to be topical.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix finds a loophole. 
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catlord posted:I do want to see that movie, it looks like delightful '60's camp, even if it's a really bad Modesty Blaise adaptation. There was also that '80's TV pilot that someone posted in here that I haven't finished watching, and My Name is Modesty, which is apparently decent? I haven't seen that either, but Peter O'Donnell was apparently a consultant on it. You're in luck! It's not hard to find posted in its entirety on YouTube. Luann  Ok, firstly, aside from the fact that she got Brad's name wrong, she seems awesome. Secondly, a tip for a happy marriage: don't poo poo on your (for all intents and purposes) mother-in-law at your wedding reception after knowing her for all of three seconds. The Amazing Spider-Man  Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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Phimosissy posted:I believe it is a leather strap designed for conditioning a shaving razor but being put into service for implying some imminent Yep, it's a razor strop, a common way back then to punish children. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/370702502693?clk_rvr_id=1139351977010&vectorid=229508&item=370702502693&rmvSB=true My dad was born in 1923, and felt one up his backside from his mother occasionally (my grandfather, from all accounts, was a gentle man and not the one to be feared in that family -- by the time I came along in the 1960s, grandmother was threatening the grandchildren and great-grandchildren with a strip of tin). I really like Out Our Way and as well as The Gay Thirties and the vintage They'll do It Every time (thanks, posters who post them!!!) because they fall right into the era when my parents (and grandfather) were the ages of the kids/young people featured in them. Once school ends for the semester, I'll have to dig out some of the pictures I have of my dad and grandfather from those eras because on the one hand they look just like the ragamuffin hell raising kids in Out our Way and on the other, my dad really did look like one of those weird 'adult-children' as young men and women are depicted in The Gay Thirties
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EasyEW posted:Funky WinkerNOIR The lead actress of a major motion picture is going to kill herself because a single tabloid once said she was in a relationship with her co-star? Am I following this right? I'm only half-reading these.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze is always embarrassing when it tries to be topical. So she's the boss and all but just wears a tanktop under her suit jacket? Unless that's just a coloring error.
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Mark Trail Pearls Before Swine  The Phantom  Pooch Café 
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Working Daze is like a little bratty kid who says stuff to people like "Good idea... for a DUMB IDIOT!" and thinks he laid some kind of sick burn on you.
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Nancy [/quote] Judging by that lightning bolt on the forehead, that kitten might be Harry Potter.
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's How does EB White raise spiders in a barn in Maine located in NYC? Am I reading this wrong?
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bean_shadow posted:How does EB White raise spiders in a barn in Maine located in NYC? Am I reading this wrong? They were found in a Maine barn, but reared in NYC. mastersord posted:From the descriptions, i thought I would hate this comic and not "get" it, but I'm loving it so far! As RandomFerret said above, it's a Metalocalypse-level parody of Japanese Pop-Idol worship. Please keep posting it. I shall! 
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bean_shadow posted:How does EB White raise spiders in a barn in Maine located in NYC? Am I reading this wrong? A farm is a peculiar problem for a man who likes animals, because the fate of most livestock is that they are murdered by their benefactors. The creatures may live serenely but they end violently, and the odor of doom hangs about them always. I have kept several pigs, starting them in spring as weanlings and carrying trays to them all through the summer and fall. The relationship bothered me. Day by day I became better acquainted with my pig, and he with me, and the fact that the whole adventure pointed toward an eventual place of double-dealing on my part lent an eerie quality to this thing. I do not like to betray a person or a creature, and I tend to agree with Mr. E.M. Forster that in these times the duty of a man, above all else, is to be reliable. It used to be clear to me, slopping a pig, that as far as the pig was concerned I could not be counted on, and this, as I say, troubled me. Anyway, the theme of "Charlotte's Web" is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect. As for Charlotte herself, I had never paid much attention to spiders until a few years ago. Once you being watching spiders, you haven't time for much else --- the world is really loaded with them. I do not find them repulsive or revolting, any more than I find anything in nature repulsive or revolting, and I think it is too bad that children are often corrupted by their elders in this hate campaign. Spiders are skilful, amusing, and useful, and only in rare instances has anybody ever come to grief because of a spider. One cold October evening I was lucky enough to see Aranea Cavatica spin her egg sac and deposit her eggs. (I did not know her name at the time, but I admired her, and later Mr. Willie J. Gertach of the American Museum of Natural History told me her name.) When I saw that she was fixing to be a mother, I got a stepladder and an extension light and had an excellent view of the whole business. A few days later, when it was time to return to New York, not wishing to part with my spider, I took a razor blade, cut the sac adrift from the underside of the shed roof, put spider and sac in a candy box, and carried them to town. I tossed the box on my dresser. Some weeks later I was surprised and pleased to find that Charlotte's daughters were emerging from the air holes in the cover of the box. They strung tiny lines from my comb to my brush, from my brush to my mirror, and from my mirror to my nail scissors. They were very busy and almost invisible, they were so small. We all lived together happily for a couple of weeks, then somebody whose duty it was to dust my dresser balked, and I broke up the show. At the present time, three of Charlotte's granddaughters are trapping at the foot of the stairs in my barn cellar, where the morning light, coming through the east window, illuminates their embroidery and makes it seem even more wonderful than it is. I haven't told why I wrote the book, but I haven't told why I sneeze, either. A book is a sneeze.
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Arlo and Janis Arlo and Janis Classic (Oct. 5, 1994) 
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Aardmania posted:Heathcliff I love what this comic has come to.
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CaptainCaveman posted:If I knew what the thing hanging off the table was supposed to be, would I get this one? Or am I just dumb? It's obviously a cow tool.
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Intelligent Life Take It From the Tinkersons  Viivi & Wagner 
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons If he had said "it's a sheep in wolf's clothing" this might have almost been considered a joke
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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Batman and Robin Merry Christmas, criminals! Calvin and Hobbes  I've yawned   Ripley's  Helpfully omitted: any mention of whether either of them lived in the vicinity of New Orleans.
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Darthemed posted:Calvin and Hobbes  Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)  And He Did. (October, 1915)  Guess If They Are Married! (November, 1915, click for big)  Illustrated Comical Joke (1916)  Outbursts of Everett True (February, 1916)  The Gay Thirties (March, 1935, click for big))  They'll Do It Every Time (March, 1940, click for big)  Mopsy (August, 1940)  Tweedy (September, 1956, click for big)  This is ahh... poor cropping job. Jaf (1969)  Feiffer (1970, click for big)  Andy Capp (December, 1970, click for big)  Wee Pals (December, 1970, click for big)  Richard's Poor Almanac (click for big)  Dick Tracy (September, 2009, click for big)  Illustrated Comical Joke is on its way out, so I'm bringing back an old favorite. Most of these have probably been posted, but it was over three years ago, so I think it's okay. Some strips I have are in the original language, so if one of the many Swedish speakers here could get in touch, I'd appreciate it. Or, you know, google translate. Pyton (click for bigger)    
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Phimosissy posted:I believe it is a leather strap designed for conditioning a shaving razor but being put into service for implying some imminent The prevalence of spanking in older comics always kind of creeps me out. Especially in "Wee Pals" since it seems to appear so often. "Out Our Way" I usually enjoy so this is a bit jarring. Manuel Calavera posted:Dilbert Alright - I admit I laughed at this one.
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