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Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


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One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro


Dilbert

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dirksteadfast
Oct 10, 2010

"Constrictor" doesn't sound enough like "conductor" for this pun to work. How does a cartoonist not pun? That should be like second nature.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
Calvin and Hobbes






Zippy


Ripley's

Alterian
Jan 28, 2003


A bunch of animals died a horrible death. Woopsiedoodle!

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

quote:


I don't get this joke. Why is the hat talking?

NRVNQSR
Mar 1, 2009

Tunicate posted:

I don't get this joke. Why is the hat talking?

Grown-up spotted.

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
Flash Gordon


2001 Spiderman







Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Selachian posted:

Rhymes with Orange


Nice!

Nancy


Dustin


Mandrake


Kennel fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jul 12, 2017

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

dirksteadfast posted:

"Constrictor" doesn't sound enough like "conductor" for this pun to work. How does a cartoonist not pun? That should be like second nature.

Mike du Jour isn't for smart people. Or even people of average intelligence.

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise



ssb
Feb 16, 2006

WOULD YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON A BRISK WALK? I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU!!


A twofer because I think I missed a day:

Moomin on the Riviera Page 9


Page 10


gently caress you so much, Intelligent Life

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Modesty Blaise proving no good deed goes unpunished.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Tracksuit





Mother From Another Country

ssb
Feb 16, 2006

WOULD YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON A BRISK WALK? I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU!!


Some Guy TT posted:



Mother From Another Country



She's from France originally? I thought it was like Minnesota or California or something.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Luann

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Some Guy TT posted:

Tracksuit





Mother From Another Country



These are both great, the Tracksuit ending made me laugh.

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



shortspecialbus posted:

She's from France originally? I thought it was like Minnesota or California or something.
It's come up a few times that she doesn't speak English.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

shortspecialbus posted:

Moomin on the Riviera Page 9


Walks around naked, worries that her bikini is too risque....

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Say Nothing posted:

Walks around naked, worries that her bikini is too risque....

Where does lipstick go on a moomin? We just dont know.

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

shortspecialbus posted:

She's from France originally? I thought it was like Minnesota or California or something.

That's the joke. Because she's white, everyone assumes she's an American.

Aardmania
Jan 1, 2007

Ruining newspapers since 1993.

Shredded Hen
Heathcliff


Piranha Club


Dick Tracy


Judge Parker


9 Chickweed Lane

You should have thought of that before the two of you went out dressed like a traffic signal.

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit

Synthbuttrange posted:

Where does lipstick go on a moomin? We just dont know.

You know, now I am thinking that Moomins don't even HAVE mouths. They are just big, fleshy blobs.
Their flesh is spongy and malleable. They just shove the food and drink directly into their bodies for nourishment.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

The Classic Dinette Set was just making conversation.


Working Daze makes a dated reference even by its standards.


Super-Fun-Pak-Comix is just trying to start a conversation.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

shortspecialbus posted:

She's from France originally? I thought it was like Minnesota or California or something.

This specific comic doesn't actually say she's from France, it instead makes vague reference to her "home country". In Korean, this is a dedicated word that doesn't sound awkward, so I'm cheating by referring to the country by name so it sounds normal in English. I'm pretty sure it was only ever specifically mentioned in that one memo where Park Seong-hoon explains that he's not being racist. Although there was also the whole thing with the baguettes. I don't know if any country aside from France considers baguettes to be traditional food.

Evil Mastermind posted:

Super-Fun-Pak-Comix is just trying to start a conversation.


I've been wondering, does Bolling make new ones specially for GoComics or are they all just sliced up versions of the originals?

catlord
Mar 22, 2009

What's on your mind, Axa?

Evil Mastermind posted:

Working Daze makes a dated reference even by its standards.


All because he left some popsicles in the break room freezer.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Aardmania posted:

9 Chickweed Lane

You should have thought of that before the two of you went out dressed like a traffic signal.

I don't see what the big deal is. A great many out-of-the-closet gay men go around kissing women for kicks. Sometimes they will even sleep with a woman and then be honorbound to ask for her hand in marriage.

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Posting before gocomics has updated so you get random Finnish comic strips Comix

Intelligent Life


I am growing increasingly frustrated with all these strips where Gwen expresses some concern or emotion and Skip replies with either a nerd reference or silence, and this somehow satisfies her.

Take It From the Tinkersons


random Dark Side of the Horse


random Viivi & Wagner

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Strontium posted:

Intelligent Life


I am growing increasingly frustrated with all these strips where Gwen expresses some concern or emotion and Skip replies with either a nerd reference or silence, and this somehow satisfies her.

Come to think of it this has to be the "joke" for at least every other strip for the past several months. I'm starting to wonder if the issue with this arc has been less than pacing or more the sheer repetition. Ignoring, for the moment, that the underlying content is the main obvious cause for the awfulness.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011


Reddick just needs to quit.

I'm seriously hoping this is one of those cases where poo poo's getting overly spread out because he's trying to fill a contractual obligation before putting down the pen forever.

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



manchild unironically quotes peter pan

Mister Mind
Mar 20, 2009

I'm not a real doctor,
But I am a real worm;
I am an actual worm

Transmodiar posted:

Modesty Blaise





Sixth strip, final panel - holy poo poo, Modesty is Supergirl!

Grogquock
May 2, 2009

Ghostlight posted:

manchild unironically quotes peter pan

Countdown to embarrassing comment that this is actually a Star Trick quote.

...

0... poo poo.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Arlo and Janis Classic (September 13, 1995)



Garfield Classic (September 13, 1985)

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007


:(

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Pastry of the Year posted:

Garfield Classic (September 13, 1985)


drat, this is a vintage-rear end comic. Look at that little box of popcorn.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013


Yeah, A&J this week has been rough, but I admire Jimmy for putting these out. The conventional wisdom is that comics are done pretty well ahead of time, yeah? - but these strips landing at the same time as that "we're all doomed" article in New York Magazine, well, dang.

FactsAreUseless posted:

drat, this is a vintage-rear end comic. Look at that little box of popcorn.

And Roger Ebert's in there!

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

[quote="Some Guy TT" post="474314523
I've been wondering, does Bolling make new ones specially for GoComics or are they all just sliced up versions of the originals?
[/quote]

I think it's a mix? I know there have been strips from the originals, but some of these feel stand-alone.

ssb
Feb 16, 2006

WOULD YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON A BRISK WALK? I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU!!


Some Guy TT posted:

This specific comic doesn't actually say she's from France, it instead makes vague reference to her "home country". In Korean, this is a dedicated word that doesn't sound awkward, so I'm cheating by referring to the country by name so it sounds normal in English. I'm pretty sure it was only ever specifically mentioned in that one memo where Park Seong-hoon explains that he's not being racist. Although there was also the whole thing with the baguettes. I don't know if any country aside from France considers baguettes to be traditional food.


I went back and looked at some of the earlier comics and in a few of the flashbacks to when she was in her home country, poo poo's written in French. So, it's either France or unlikely Quebec, I guess. France definitely makes the most sense. I have no idea why I thought she was from Minnesota.

Moomin on the Riviera Page 11


Mouth-having CONFIRMED

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Transmodiar posted:

Modesty Blaise

I'm reading another Modesty novel at the moment (I, Lucifer), and O'Donnell dropped in a reference to what sounds like a similar plot to this story:

quote:

"Did you ever find yourself involved in ..." Vaubois paused, then went on apologetically, "in protection?"

"Not as a racket," she said simply. "It's the next worse thing to drugs and vice. But sometimes we were asked for protection and offered a price for it. Laroche found that someone was trying to wreck his chain of casinos and he came to me about it." She shrugged. "We didn't have to do very much."

"How much?"

"Willie Garvin snatched the biggest of the big boys. We put him on one of the m.f.v.'s we used for smuggling."

"I'm sorry, m.f.v.'s?"

"Motor fishing vessels. So the big boy worked as a greaser under a very tough captain for three months. That was the end of it." She sipped her cognac. "The Network gave genuine protection here and there, but we didn't force it on anybody."


I, Lucifer was published back in 1967, so I wonder if he looked back at this bit and decided to expand it into a full story for the comic.

Rhymes with Orange



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Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro


Dilbert

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