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He's going to turn Mark Trail into his other interminable "adventure" strip. Even moreso than it was. With equally awful art.
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The thing about A3G towards the end was you got the palpable feeling that the artist no longer gave a gently caress (the writer was another story entirely). Jam Esallen honestly thinks he's doing a great job.
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SomeMathGuy posted:The thing about A3G towards the end was you got the palpable feeling that the artist no longer gave a gently caress (the writer was another story entirely). Jam Esallen honestly thinks he's doing a great job.
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Skippy (December 21, 1929; click to zoom in on The Moral) Peanuts (February 21, 1970)  And then he tells Chris Christie to order the same. Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (May 9-10, 1930)   Thimble Theater (September 8, 1930) 
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Johnny Walker posted:Am I mistaken or is Dirty a character we've seen before? I probably have the details wrong but I'm like 90% sure that Dirty was a wildlife refuge worker who was secretly working with poachers to smuggle ivory. His comeuppance was to be eaten by lions or trampled by an elephant stampede or something, so obviously if he's brought back he must have a facial scar. goatface posted:He's going to turn Mark Trail into his other interminable "adventure" strip. And a single style of bubble-letter onomatopoeia that he uses in two out of every three strips. KRRRRMMMBBBLLLKAKAKRGAGAKK A HUNGRY MOUTH fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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Johnny Walker posted:I got the impression that at the end of 3-G the artist was still trying and cared, he just couldn't do it anymore, and considering he was ~90 when the strip ended, that's not hard to believe. The A3G artist was actively hostile towards the writer, blatantly not even trying to draw the things the writer described in the dialogue.
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD He's clearly meant to be a sympathetic "lovable loser" character, but he's not lovable because joking self-pity is still self-pity, and he's not a loser because he had millions of comic book dollars dropped into his drat lap. e: Stultus Maximus posted:The A3G artist was actively hostile towards the writer, blatantly not even trying to draw the things the writer described in the dialogue. Frank Bolle deteriorated pretty sharply toward the end. The last few strips were just crude scratchy people in turtlenecks and sportcoats smilingly reciting unevenly-lettered dialogue with minimal backgrounding:  I still think this was funny though: 
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Darthemed posted:Calvin and Hobbes I remember being a VERY annoyed six-year-old when the refrigerator box I'd so
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Catching up with Sally Forth  Way longer than that.     How so? Lots of kids call their friends' parents by their first names. 
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Johnny Walker posted:God, I hate Buck. I don't know, he's starting to grow on me a bit.
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Julet Esqu posted:Catching up with Sally Forth
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When I first started reading this thread I thought the kids in Sally Forth were at least 15.
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Baldo  So I really want to make fun of Baldo, but that Texas flag/Chile flag is apparently such a thing that Texas lawmaker actually introduced a bill asking people not to use the Chilean flag emoji when talking about Texas, so I guess they got that right. So... like, how would that bill even work? It's obviously unenforceable, was he asking for money to like, start an ad campaign? Put up flyers or something? Wizard of Id believes in climate change more than Mark Trail   Big Nate   There's no new Wallace the Brave from friday, so here's two random Wallace:   Curtis doesn't have a punchline in the first strip, so it decided to make up for it by including two in the second strip.  
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Drakyn posted:I remember being a VERY annoyed six-year-old when the refrigerator box I'd so My Calvin and Hobbes box story: My little brother won a giant tiger (the size of him) at a ring toss at Bush Gardens when we were kids, and he insisted we ship the tiger home (we lived in Kansas, this place is in Tampa, Florida). So my dad boxed it up in a box bigger than me and shipped it home. First thing I did was gut that human adult sized box and draw buttons and labels on the side to turn me into the Incredible Hulk.
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Once again I will note that I hope Hil remains 12 while Bettina ages in realtime.
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I like the Calvin & Hobbes where he gets the beanie with the little propeller on top, after waiting weeks and imagining himself flying through the air. Of course he's extremely mad and disappointed when it doesn't make him fly but it turns out OK because he and Hobbes play with the box. I guess the closest thing I have to that disappointment was when I ordered Sea Monkeys and finally got them. They're just brine shrimp. Boring. No, I didn't think they would wear clothes and read the paper in the water, but I figured they would be better than brine shrimp.
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I've decided to fill two holes in this thread: Weekly strip Flash Gordon. Yes, that one. I'm starting from a year ago, since it provided a convenient starting point. I'll be posting two at a time until we catch up.   Old Newspaper Spider-Man. You know it. You love its delusions of adequacy. It's been running a really loving long time, and our friends in the Newspaper Spider-Man thread have assembled an archive of strips going all the way back to 1999. They're worth the read, but 18 years of strips at once is a slightly intimidating read. I'll be posting them at a more sane week at a time, starting with Peter facing the greatest villain of all: a TV psychologist.  (I loving love that they've been recycling the same Sunday headers since at least 1999)      
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Haifisch posted:I've decided to fill two holes in this thread: yeeeeeeesssss both of these are great additions to the thread. Is the Keefe that does the Flash Gordon strips the same Keefe who does the artwork for Sally Forth? If so, it's great seeing that clean art style used in a different genre. Sometimes you get hints in Sally Forth that the artist wants to be doing more than the fairly-static family discussions Francesco writes for him, and I think it's great seeing him go ahead and go full-on retro-serial style.
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Vargo posted:Is the Keefe that does the Flash Gordon strips the same Keefe who does the artwork for Sally Forth? If so, it's great seeing that clean art style used in a different genre. Sometimes you get hints in Sally Forth that the artist wants to be doing more than the fairly-static family discussions Francesco writes for him, and I think it's great seeing him go ahead and go full-on retro-serial style.
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The Classic Dinette Set can't do this if you're watching. Working Daze is in an abusive relationship.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix is out of touch. 
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Intelligent Life Take It From the Tinkersons  random Dark Side of the Horse - I'm gonna post a random one every day there's no timely update, which feels like it happens multiple times a week.  Viivi & Wagner 
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Arlo and Janis (For historical context, Carter appeared on TV in a cardigan asking people to conserve energy by simply turning down their thermostats and dressing more warmly at home. People hated this. This strip also reminded me of another way in which Carter was held to a different standard.) Arlo and Janis Classic (Dec. 22, 1994)  Garfield Classic (Dec. 22, 1984) 
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Endless Mike posted:Once again I will note that I hope Hil remains 12 while Bettina ages in realtime. I hope Bettina never gives up the nose-grabbing thing.
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Vargo posted:Baldo Christ.
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Vargo posted:
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A Canadian who fall on she own ice, a shameful Canadian.
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