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

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Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Manuel Calavera posted:

Bizarro

I dun geddit.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 16:36

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# ? May 14, 2024 22:17

CommaToes: Dec 15, 2006; Ecce Buffo

Selachian posted:

I dun geddit.

be long.

be short.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 16:53

Laputanmachine: Oct 31, 2010; by Smythe

Manuel Calavera posted:

I'm not missing anything, having never watched BBT, right? All I know about it is "NERD REFERENCE" "BAZINGO" and that's probably the extent of the show. Maybe a "life lesson" once in awhile.

It's pretty much Intelligent Life but in sitcom form. Perhaps leaning more towards computer nerds than superhero nerds but you get the idea.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 16:58

Calaveron: Aug 7, 2006

I wonder what kids thought when the funny pages revealed to them that grown ups are as clueless, vulnerable and terrified as they are

# ? Feb 1, 2017 17:18

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

Laputanmachine posted:

It's pretty much Intelligent Life but in sitcom form. Perhaps leaning more towards computer nerds than superhero nerds but you get the idea.

I don't know if I'd go that far, but it's definitely lowest common denominator sitcom stuff. It plays well to folks who are still watching TV with any amount of regularity - my folks watch it if it's on, for example.

Also, to its credit, it had the most accurate depiction of theoretical research ever captured on film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3UXNDKzKJU

# ? Feb 1, 2017 17:26

JacquelineDempsey: Aug 6, 2008; Women's Circuit Bender Union Local 34

Still working on the upside-down-text solution. Feel free to speculate!

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# ? Feb 1, 2017 18:13

Poil: Mar 17, 2007

CommaToes posted:

This bothered me as a kid. Why did they switch places in the middle of the night?

You know how you twist and turn when you can't sleep. :v:

# ? Feb 1, 2017 18:39

RandomPauI: Nov 24, 2006; Grimey Drawer

Would Scott Adams care if he were called out of touch with tech? I know he's fine with having horrible views.

I mean, nobody makes clunky metal humanoid robots. I know that was the big thing back when he last worked in an office. I.e., during the Reagan/H.W. Bush years. But now human looking robots are designed to look like people. Or they're boxy plastic things used as people movers because Japan doesn't want to import foreign caregivers.

Meanwhile, AIs like Watson are boxy computers with a screen and an interface. Which works just fine because you can just send a message to it and it'll answer the question no matter where it was asked

He's not funny, his technical references are more dated than Family Matters, just quit already.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 18:51

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

Manuel Calavera posted:

Bizarro

It took me a second to get this one. I can't decide if I hate it or if I think it's kind of clever.

F Minus

I need one of those.

Mary Worth advises Natalie Imbruglia on a career change.

Rex Morgan MD

Secret Agent X-9

Apartment 3-G

# ? Feb 1, 2017 19:26

Aleph Null: Jun 10, 2008; You look very stressed; Tortured By Flan

CommaToes posted:

be long.

be short.

You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna 'b.'

# ? Feb 1, 2017 19:34

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Nancy

Today's Dogg

Dustin

Mandrake

# ? Feb 1, 2017 19:53

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Kennel posted:

Nancy

Yes, the most scandalous and pornographic material available to children these days is VHS tapes of Charlie's Angels.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 20:01

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Gilchrist's Nancy is stupid on so many levels it's almost art.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 20:04

Randaconda: Jul 3, 2014; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

How the gently caress would a child that age know what either a VCR or Charlie's Angels is?

# ? Feb 1, 2017 20:27

Cicadalek: May 8, 2006; Trite, contrived, mediocre, milquetoast, amateurish, infantile, cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism, eye-fucked me, affront to humanity, war crime, should *literally* be tried for war crimes, talentless fuckfest, pedantic, listless, savagely boring, just one repulsive laugh after another

Small child, ostensibly no older than 12: Oh 1960s Batman, I always wanted to see that

# ? Feb 1, 2017 20:45

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

Cicadalek posted:

Small child, ostensibly no older than 12: Oh 1960s Batman, I always wanted to see that

And that child was me. :v:

That said, Gilchrist needs to gently caress off with the nostalgia pandering. Also in general.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 20:51

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Cicadalek posted:

Small child, ostensibly no older than 12: Oh 1960s Batman, I always wanted to see that

Believable, although I don't think 60s Batman ever actually had a VHS release.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 20:56

Johnny Aztec: Jan 30, 2005; by Hand Knit

Kennel posted:

Mandrake

The constant commenting on their 25% powers and how they combined it to 50%! is hilarious to me.
It just reads like some low rent math focused "learning" comic.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 21:05

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Johnny Aztec posted:

The constant commenting on their 25% powers and how they combined it to 50%! is hilarious to me.
It just reads like some low rent math focused "learning" comic.

Or Dragon Ball Z.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 21:06

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

How many weeks of Sluggo watching old tapes are we going to get?

# ? Feb 1, 2017 21:07

computer angel: Sep 9, 2008; Make it a double.

Kennel posted:

Dustin

That's not really a question is it? Is this not an advice show?

# ? Feb 1, 2017 21:11

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Somehow it really irks me that the VHS tapes could be from the 1990s like Friends, Ducktales, TMNT, Batman cartoon et cetera and it would be believable, but Gilchrist gotta Gilchrist.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 21:15

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

WickedHate posted:

Believable, although I don't think 60s Batman ever actually had a VHS release.

The movie did.

Also, I'm old enough to be nostalgic about some of this stuff, and even I find this nauseating.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 21:34

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

Modesty Blaise

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# ? Feb 1, 2017 22:16

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

Nenonen posted:

Somehow it really irks me that the VHS tapes could be from the 1990s like Friends, Ducktales, TMNT, Batman cartoon et cetera and it would be believable, but Gilchrist gotta Gilchrist.

It irks me that Sluggo is head over heels for Charlie's Angels, but somehow an aerobics lady is completely disgusting to him.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 22:35

Savidudeosoo: Feb 12, 2016; Pelican, a Bag Man

Green Intern posted:

It irks me that Sluggo is head over heels for Charlie's Angels, but somehow an aerobics lady is completely disgusting to him.

He only finds sexual pleasure in patriotic women who do their duty to America.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 22:43

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Johnny Aztec posted:

The constant commenting on their 25% powers and how they combined it to 50%! is hilarious to me.
It just reads like some low rent math focused "learning" comic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFoC3TR5rzI

Also as a 90s kid I'm 100% nostalgic for the 60s Batman.

# ? Feb 1, 2017 23:41

tiercel: Apr 22, 2008

Green Intern posted:

It irks me that Sluggo is head over heels for Charlie's Angels, but somehow an aerobics lady is completely disgusting to him.

Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda.

# ? Feb 2, 2017 00:15

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

Tiggum posted:

He doesn't live in a cardboard box. He lives alone in an abandoned house that's probably horrendously unsafe for anyone, let alone a child. Because he's too proud to accept charity and all the adults who know him respect him too much to force charity on him.

The next time Child Protective Services finds a kid living by himself, on his own wits, who cheerfully says he got the idea from an old newspaper comic strip he/she found lying around, hopefully it'll go viral and Gilchrist will be brought up on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and forced to retcon Sluggo's living arrangement.

# ? Feb 2, 2017 01:05

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

See, the counterargument to hating on Gilchrist's nostalgia porn is that only old people and obsessive internet weirdos read newspaper comics anymore anyway.

# ? Feb 2, 2017 01:09

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

WickedHate posted:

See, the counterargument to hating on Gilchrist's nostalgia porn is that only old people and obsessive internet weirdos read newspaper comics anymore anyway.

I think I am those things tho

# ? Feb 2, 2017 01:12

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

Green Intern posted:

It irks me that Sluggo is head over heels for Charlie's Angels, but somehow an aerobics lady is completely disgusting to him.

In reality, most kids at that time didn't give two shits about the brunettes, it was Farrah they wanted (as evidenced by the sales of the now-famous red swimsuit poster she did.)

I am now expecting Sluggo to announce that he's distancing himself from the two vets because he 'likes vets that didn't get captured..'

# ? Feb 2, 2017 01:14

Countblanc: Apr 20, 2005; _{Help a hero out!}

When I was a little kid I read newspaper comics when I ate breakfast. I didn't really understand most of them but I liked the art. I actually remember loving Hi and Louis because the wife reminded me of Nancy from Snowboard Kids.

# ? Feb 2, 2017 01:15

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

Kennel posted:

Nancy

VHS tapes were removed from the BOTTOM of the box. Immersion in this realistic comic ruined.

Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)

And He Did. (January, 1916)

Outbursts of Everett True (May, 1916)

Doings of the Duffs. (May, 1918, click for big)

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

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

Mopsy (October, 1940)

Tweedy (October, 1955, click for big)

Archie (October, 1955, click for big)

Jaf (1970)

Feiffer (1971, click for big)

Andy Capp (February, 1971, click for big)

Wee Pals (March, 1971, click for big)

Pyton

Richard's Poor Almanac (click for big)

Dick Tracy (November, 2009, click for big)

# ? Feb 2, 2017 01:19

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Slammy posted:

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

Haha, you could run this one today just fine. I'm telling ya, TDIET is timeless.

# ? Feb 2, 2017 01:25

catlord: Mar 22, 2009; What's on your mind, Axa?

Slammy posted:

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

Jesus Christ.

# ? Feb 2, 2017 02:17

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.