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For better or worse, Modesty Blaise is about to head into new territory:quote:After Jim Holdaway's death in 1970, the art of the strip was provided by the Spanish artist Enrique Badía Romero. Eight years later, Romero quit to make time for his own comics projects, and after short attempts by John Burns and Patrick Wright, Neville Colvin drew the strip until 1986. Then Romero returned to the job and continued until the end of the strip. In other words, we're about to enter the post-Romero years. You will notice the change in art style immediately - and I totally understand if you bail out as Burns steps in. He'll be taking the lead on only two stories, so we'll see how Patrick Wright works out soon enough. And now, without further ado, Yellowstone Booty:  
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Jan 13, 2017 20:36
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Kennel posted:Mandrake RandomFerret posted:And for those not following the dedicated NSM thread, here are some avs:  F Minus  Mary Worth  Rex Morgan MD  Secret Agent X-9  Apartment 3-G 
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Pop Team Epic Honey Come Chatka  
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD "Obviously, the core concept."
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Jan 13, 2017 21:10
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Oh, boy, "Yellowstone Booty." I suppose it's not a terrible story for a comic strip from 1978 written by a British guy, but it's probably the only one of the lot that's got some poorly-aged racial politics.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:26
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Vargo posted:There's actually a deaf guy who comes around my local comic shop sometimes dressed as Hulk Hogan 
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Jan 13, 2017 21:54
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Jesus, that art. Well, I guess I knew the good times had to end someday.
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Jan 13, 2017 22:37
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treasureplane posted:Nancy (February 4 & 5, 1944) This one is begging for a Gilchrist edit, better be quick about it though before someone el Nenonen posted:this one is begging for a Gilchrist edit well poo poo 
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Jan 13, 2017 22:39
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Forktoss posted:This one is begging for a Gilchrist edit, better be quick about it though before someone el Oh man. I needed that laugh.
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Heathcliff Piranha Club  Dick Tracy  Judge Parker  9 Chickweed Lane 
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 I can't stop laughing at the last panel, though the first panel also reaches some new dimensions - like Bushmiller predicted this edit and therefore made Nancy look so wary.
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Jan 14, 2017 01:24
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Kennel posted:Mandrake  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)  Well now I want to hear this joke. Mopsy (September, 1940)  Tweedy (November, 1956, click for big)  Jaf (1969)  Feiffer (1970, click for big)  Andy Capp (December, 1970, click for big)  Wee Pals (January, 1971, click for big)  Pyton  Richard's Poor Almanac (click for big)  Avatar goodness:  Dick Tracy (October, 2009, click for big) 
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Come on True, that was on you, shoulda tipped the guy.
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Vargo posted:The incoherent old-man ramblings of Curtis: Transmodiar posted:For better or worse, Modesty Blaise is about to head into new territory:
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Transmodiar posted:For better or worse, Modesty Blaise is about to head into new territory: Eh, it could be worse. It's definitely looser and more stylized, and the sense of space is Not Great, but after that last story I was starting to tire of Romero's one Asian face. I'm not looking forward to Burns's idea of a Modesty Blaise fight scene though. WickedHate posted:Honey Come Chatka Tayowns Hell Yeah. Tiggum posted:You pay less than a dollar for a potato, but thousands of dollars for a car! People are willing to pay thousands for a new TV, but they won't pay the same for a can of softdrink! They'll spend hours on a plane to go on holiday, but not to get to work every day! People will spend two hours watching a movie, but not two hours cleaning their teeth! It's madness everywhere you look! *in extremely Billingsley voice* athletes get paid more than janitors
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Nenonen posted:I bet this was because he met a certain Mr. True on his way home. Oh. I thought that he had gone to war and is now homeless and maimed.
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The Classic Dinette Set doesn't allow suckers to keep their money. Working Daze is an HR nightmare.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix is no laughing matter. 
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MariusLecter posted:Oh. I thought that he had gone to war and is now homeless and maimed. He got stuck in a flamewar
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WickedHate posted:Come on True, that was on you, shoulda tipped the guy. Tipping wasn't common custom at the time, just a fad designed to make consumers feel like rich benefactors. Labor movements opposed it, counter-intuitive though that must sound, because of the belief that it discouraged class consciousness and made it easier for managers to justify low salaries by passing costs on to the customer. And they ended up being right about that. Modern tipping is little more than an extra informal tax at restaurants, which is why no one does it outside the United States. Tracksuit  Yep, untranslatable pun.  Horror translates pretty well though. It's All Right Chief Dharma  I like Miss Han's deadpans. Never get to mention that, since they're never full punchlines.  "Porn" doesn't really work because as was seen previously, the word in question more generally just means eroticisms, like good cleavage.
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Manchild Life Write Your Own Setup and Punchline no, this is not edit, this is actually the original.  Dark Side of the Horse  Viivi & Wagner 
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Finally a relatable Vivi and Wagner.
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MariusLecter posted:Oh. I thought that he had gone to war and is now homeless and maimed. The strip is from 1915 so no. That only happens a couple years later when USA enters the war and Mr. True sees this hapless guy loitering in the street and drags him to a recruitment agency.
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Aardmania posted:Judge Parker He seems to be making sense to me?
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Aardmania posted:
Fitzgerald, huh. Could be worse; Brooke could be folding into the dialogue references to James Joyce's letters to Nora Barnacle. http://mentalfloss.com/article/74934/13-nsfw-lines-james-joyces-incredibly-dirty-love-letters Also: my uptight American parents were more stodgy and scandalised when me and pre-Mr Boods were in a relationship than my future English in-laws ever were (my parents either forced him to sleep in another room or for us to stay at a hotel, but Mr Boods' mum assumed we'd bunk up together in the guest room). This has me giggling.
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Some Guy TT posted:It's All Right Chief Dharma Beetle Bailey  Fred Basset  Frog Applause  Hi and Lois  That would be an interesting development. La Cucaracha  What? Lockhorns  Mark Trail  Office Hours  Reply All  Zits 
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Some Guy TT posted:Tipping wasn't common custom at the time, just a fad designed to make consumers feel like rich benefactors. Labor movements opposed it, counter-intuitive though that must sound, because of the belief that it discouraged class consciousness and made it easier for managers to justify low salaries by passing costs on to the customer. And they ended up being right about that. Modern tipping is little more than an extra informal tax at restaurants, which is why no one does it outside the United States. Looks like something the Affront would've designed.
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Tiggum posted:La Cucaracha "Native Americans from Central and South America are disproportionately represented amongst illegal immigrants" together with a "the Falklands have just been invaded!" calibre rerun.
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Tiggum posted:Frog Applause I can't help but see this as a loss edit.
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Ghostlight posted:There's somewhat of a meme that the Mayans just disappeared among the fringe science types that also buy into bunk like Mayans predicting the end times
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Some Guy TT posted:Tipping wasn't common custom at the time, just a fad designed to make consumers feel like rich benefactors. Labor movements opposed it, counter-intuitive though that must sound, because of the belief that it discouraged class consciousness and made it easier for managers to justify low salaries by passing costs on to the customer. And they ended up being right about that. Modern tipping is little more than an extra informal tax at restaurants, which is why no one does it outside the United States. Ah, a fair point. As someone who detests the cancer on the economics of the young working class that is the tip system, True is now even more heroic in my eyes.
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I had a dream that Chief Dharma was my boss. Sadly can't remember anything else. Nancy  Today's Dogg™  Dustin  Mandrake  
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Kennel posted:Nancy I despise every atom of this.
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Tiggum posted:I'd never heard of this. I mean, I'd heard of the "Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world bit" but not the idea that the Mayans somehow disappeared without trace. So when I saw that comic it just struck me as a really weird question to even ask - they were conquered by Spain, that's what happened to them. So, according to shittily understood quotes across the late 20th century that alien theorists keep citing from each other, the Spanish just walked into Maya and found massive abandoned cities that hadn't been destroyed due to war, so therefore the Maya must have chosen to leave, and of course if they were predicting thousands of years in the future through the power of stars and math, then maybe they left for the stars!!!(???) Buy my book about why previous calculations on the end of the Mayan Long Count were miscalculated and it's actually taking place in January 2017.
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