Comic Strip Megathread XVII: I have a special recipe (cackle-cackle)

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Johnny Aztec: Jan 30, 2005; by Hand Knit

Manuel Calavera posted:

Foxtrot

Amend's website hasn't updated yet, so small copy for now.

Does this actually ever happen anymore, or is it just one of those "things" that get perpetuated forever for a cheap joke?

I just shove whatever in the washer and I've never had anything bleed like that.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 17:27

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# ? May 13, 2024 21:36

Byzantine: Sep 1, 2007; Can't post for 3 days!

Vargo posted:

Still surprisingly good Wizard of Id

Yeah, what's going on, seems like a lot of comics are shifting better.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 17:29

Shugojin: Sep 6, 2007; THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...

Johnny Aztec posted:

Does this actually ever happen anymore, or is it just one of those "things" that get perpetuated forever for a cheap joke?

I just shove whatever in the washer and I've never had anything bleed like that.

Some dyes are more prone to bleeding out than others and hot water improves the chances. In modern times we have way better detergents that work well at lower temperatures, and dyes that are better at staying in fabrics, so it's less common.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 17:34

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

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Johnny Aztec posted:

Does this actually ever happen anymore, or is it just one of those "things" that get perpetuated forever for a cheap joke?

I just shove whatever in the washer and I've never had anything bleed like that.

I've had one thing run ever, it was red and it made some stuff go a bit pink. I think it was meant to be cold wash only.

I'm colourblind so I didn't even notice until someone else pointed it out.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 18:13

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

RandomPauI posted:

I liked that family circus.

It's cute but not saccharine.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 18:41

Slammy: Mar 30, 2011; Great speech.
PPHPFT!!

Strontium posted:

Webcomics on Paper

Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)

And He Did. (November, 1915)

Outbursts of Everett True (April, 1916)

Doings of the Duffs (February, 1918, click for big)

The Gay Thirties (April, 1935, click for big))

They'll Do It Every Time (March, 1940, click for big)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_donkey

Mopsy (September, 1940)

Tweedy (October, 1956, click for big)

Jaf (1969)

Feiffer (1970, click for big)

Andy Capp (December, 1970, click for big)

Wee Pals (December, 1970, click for big)

Pyton

Richard's Poor Almanac (click for big)

Dick Tracy (October, 2009, click for big)

# ? Jan 8, 2017 18:56

Darkest Auer: Dec 30, 2006; They're silly; Ramrod XTreme

Slammy posted:

And He Did. (November, 1915)

Ah, the story of Young Everett True.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 19:17

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Hey, Ed. The man is just trying to do his job. Go gently caress yourself.

Ed is so frequently an rear end in a top hat to people he deems as lower status (including his own son). At least the wife is almost rolling her eyes today. Are we really supposed to identify with this dick?

SomeMathGuy posted:

Mark Trail Meets a Sunday Strip That Probably Should've Run Back in That Whole Cave Arc Where White Nose Syndrome Was the Excuse Y'know?

He had to take the time to write up all that important research he did in the cave.

quote:

The Phantom

Somebody's throat just got cut, albeit in a culturally improbable fashion, in the Sunday Funnies. Awesome.

The Amazing Spider-Man

Doesn't Spidey have something he can put on those webs to make them dissolve faster? Or did I just make that up? I'm choosing to believe that he does, but he's just pissed at Rocket for beating him up in front of his wife.

Sally Forth

The Heart of Juliet Jones

Prince Valiant

Phantom Classic

Big Ben Bolt

# ? Jan 8, 2017 19:54

Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

Calvin and Hobbes

Outland

Ripley's

# ? Jan 8, 2017 20:03

Byzantine: Sep 1, 2007; Can't post for 3 days!

Ripley's twisting the knife there.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 20:06

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Pop Team Epic

Honey Come Chatka

# ? Jan 8, 2017 20:25

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

F Minus

Well I know I want to set up signs like that to mark my dog's territory now.

Mary Worth

Geez, Mary's giving Iris the third degree here.

Rex Morgan MD

Uh, who wrote that message? :eek:

Jungle Jim with a little va-va-va-voom!

So, notable this week to me is that Kolu is referred to as "Jim's Native Servant" rather than "Jim's Black," which I think is progress. And based on that right panel, it seems that of the two Alex Raymond strips, which were released together, Flash Gordon was the more popular.

Edit: Oh it seems both those strips premiered 83 years ago yesterday, by the way.

Murdstone fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jan 8, 2017

# ? Jan 8, 2017 20:34

bean_shadow: Sep 27, 2005; If men had uteruses they'd be called duderuses.

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth

Geez, Mary's giving Iris the third degree here.

Did he really put in a quote by Rob Schneider or is this an edit?

# ? Jan 8, 2017 21:19

Transmodiar: Jul 9, 2005; You're a terrible person, Mildred.

Julet Esqu posted:

Luann

For reals. If they had a honeymoon, we didn't hear about it. They've been married maybe a day. Whoever set up their schedule hates the hell out of them.

I think I've mentioned it before, but their schedules aren't even possible. In general, a firefighter has a "one day on, two day off" schedule. That means they're at the fire station for a full 24 hours, then off for 48. This three day cycle is repeated nine times, and then during the tenth cycle their on day is off.

Firefighters have a ton of downtime. There's no way anyone would be on for four days straight - that's insanity. The only way that would happen is if they swapped shifts with someone else to build up a larger consecutive day time off/vacation. But they would never be on for 96 hours. Greg Evans is an idiot.

And now, for a palette cleanser, Modesty Blaise:

# ? Jan 8, 2017 21:33

sweeperbravo: May 18, 2012; AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Transmodiar posted:

I think I've mentioned it before, but their schedules aren't even possible. In general, a firefighter has a "one day on, two day off" schedule. That means they're at the fire station for a full 24 hours, then off for 48. This three day cycle is repeated nine times, and then during the tenth cycle their on day is off.

Firefighters have a ton of downtime. There's no way anyone would be on for four days straight - that's insanity. The only way that would happen is if they swapped shifts with someone else to build up a larger consecutive day time off/vacation. But they would never be on for 96 hours. Greg Evans is an idiot.

Evans is really scraping to milk some drama out of this situation but wrote himself into a corner months ago. He thinks he's in the clear because TJ is in the storyline so therefore the strip is funny, right (since the strip has to either be funny or dramatic), but TJ actually serves no purpose here because you know this plot isn't going to go anywhere (other than "TJ eventually overstays his 'welcome' and is Evicted by Brad and Toni and gets mad b/c he helped htem SOOO MUCH). Man, Luann was my favorite strip when I was like, eleven years old and she really resonated with me and my stupid crushes on boys.

What do the gocomics commenters have to say about TJ lately

# ? Jan 8, 2017 21:56

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Johnny Walker posted:

Rex Morgan MD

Uh, who wrote that message?

Abbey is very excited.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 22:08

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

sweeperbravo posted:

... you know this plot isn't going to go anywhere (other than "TJ eventually overstays his 'welcome' and is Evicted by Brad and Toni and gets mad b/c he helped htem SOOO MUCH).

This sounds like something that might happen between real people so we can likely rule it out safely.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 22:13

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

Darthemed posted:

I'd just like to take a moment to thank this particular C&H for being the reason I will have the opening of Hamlet's Act III soliloquy memorized until the day I die.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 22:24

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001

Julet Esqu posted:

Hey, Ed. The man is just trying to do his job. Go gently caress yourself.

Ed is so frequently an rear end in a top hat to people he deems as lower status (including his own son). At least the wife is almost rolling her eyes today. Are we really supposed to identify with this dick?

Kelley probably thinks he's getting in sick burns on those drat idiot lazy millenials or whatever, but the actual audience probably mostly views Ed more like we do.

quote:

Ed Kudlick, Dustin's father, is an angry, bitter lawyer who despises Dustin's apparent laziness and is the strip's main antagonist. Ed is never supportive in any way, and always seeks to crush Dustin's attempts to find meaning and useful employment, ceaselessly mocking his son and putting him down, yet the only thing they have in common is their love of golf.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 22:33

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

I think that was a goon edit, but it's still funny as hell because those changes were made ages ago and nobody's fixed them yet.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 22:46

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

There's nothing to fix because it's entirely accurate.

# ? Jan 8, 2017 22:59

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange

Pros and Cons

# ? Jan 8, 2017 23:16

Mister Beeg: Sep 7, 2012; A Certified Jerk

Johnny Aztec posted:

Does this actually ever happen anymore, or is it just one of those "things" that get perpetuated forever for a cheap joke?

I just shove whatever in the washer and I've never had anything bleed like that.

Bill Amend tweeted that this actually happened to him a week after he drew the strip, so the answer is, yeah, it still happens.

https://twitter.com/billamend/status/818138354420219906

# ? Jan 9, 2017 01:20

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

Heathcliff

Piranha Club

Dick Tracy

Judge Parker

9 Chickweed Lane

I really don't want to know if this happened to Brooke after he drew this strip.

# ? Jan 9, 2017 01:26

Calaveron: Aug 7, 2006

loving Piranha Club loving aste of paper and ink nothing good ever came out of loving Bayonne New Jersey

# ? Jan 9, 2017 01:43

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

Julet Esqu posted:

Big Ben Bolt

Couldn't bear to tell the kid about what a bad deal he was getting into until after his dad got the poo poo beaten out of him?

# ? Jan 9, 2017 01:50

A HUNGRY MOUTH: Nov 3, 2006; date of birth: 02/05/88
manufacturer: mazda
model/year: 2008 mazda6
sexuality: straight, bi-curious
peircings: pusspuss; Nap Ghost

Julet Esqu posted:

Hey, Ed. The man is just trying to do his job. Go gently caress yourself.

Ed is so frequently an rear end in a top hat to people he deems as lower status (including his own son). At least the wife is almost rolling her eyes today. Are we really supposed to identify with this dick?

Any time someone else is in a position of superiority over him—even, say, a doctor or a mechanic—he becomes the whiniest, pissiest baby about it. Not to their face, though; he rants to his family, later, ~~at home~~ in his safe space.

Ed's a poo poo.

A HUNGRY MOUTH fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jan 9, 2017

# ? Jan 9, 2017 02:55

angerbot: Mar 23, 2004; plob

I stopped reading this thread again and forgot 9 Chickweed Lane existed.

I made a mistake today, thread!

# ? Jan 9, 2017 03:15

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.

Peanuts (January 11, 1970)

Funky Winkerbean

Crankshaft

Out Our Way With The Willets (and Wash Tubbs Gets A Monkey!) (February 12 and 19, 1928)

# ? Jan 9, 2017 03:53

Dr. Dos: Aug 5, 2005; YAAAAAAAY!

I think the only time I've ever been asked if I knew how things worked at a restaurant was when it wasn't a "sit here and order from a menu" place and was something like a mongolian grill

# ? Jan 9, 2017 04:06

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

Kennel posted:

Johnny Walker posted:

Rex Morgan MD

Uh, who wrote that message?

The dog.

bean_shadow posted:

Did he really put in a quote by Rob Schneider or is this an edit?

It's an edit. The original is '"Love is when two people who care for each other get confused." - Bob Schneider'. I have no idea what that means though.

Aardmania posted:

Dick Tracy

Even though it's so often disappointing, I still get excited whenever I see a character I like reappear in this comic. I don't even remember what's going on in the current story most of the time, but I keep reading it and expecting it to be good.

# ? Jan 9, 2017 04:27

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

The Classic Dinette Set is poor value for money.

Working Daze is a wide-awake nightmare.

Super-Fun-Pak-Comix butts.

# ? Jan 9, 2017 05:16

MariusLecter: Sep 5, 2009; NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

angerbeet posted:

I stopped reading this thread again and forgot 9 Chickweed Lane existed.

I made a mistake today, thread!

Welcome back to the fold. Our anguish sustains Him.

# ? Jan 9, 2017 05:41

Transmodiar: Jul 9, 2005; You're a terrible person, Mildred.

A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

Any time someone else is in a position of superiority over him—even, say, a doctor or a mechanic—he becomes the whiniest, pissiest baby about it. Not to their face, though; he rants to his family, later, ~~at home~~ in his safe space.

Ed's a poo poo.