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

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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

You see, when two animals love each other very much, the storks will deliver a genetic abomination from his other comic strip for them to raise as their own.

# ? Sep 3, 2017 20:41

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# ? May 15, 2024 03:00

Taear: Nov 26, 2004; Ask me about the shitty opinions I have about Paradox games!

Darthemed posted:

Ripley's

County Donegal is most definitely not in Northern Ireland Ripleys. That's a pretty lovely mistake to make as well. I mean it's in the north of the Republic and it used to be part of Ulster but that's seriously not something you should be getting wrong.

Also, please never stop posting King Aroo. It is great! It's the only old comic I read, it really appeals to me.

Spirit of the Staircase I'm enjoying as well but it feels like it's in SD and the rest of the thread is HD. There's something about it that I find hard to see, I dunno. Especially when it's in black and white, it's unreadable.

# ? Sep 3, 2017 20:47

Voltin Bolt: Oct 17, 2004; IT DOES NOT FIX

Cowslips Warren posted:

Okay okay I have a question about the animal people.

How the gently caress do wolves and rabbits make a baby? How did the bat and porcupine make their abomination?

I hate-read Harbourmaster but at least that doesn't have prey being the bad people for not wanting to be eaten.

They just.. do. Genetics means fuckall in this awful world! This is even funnier (worse) with Lindesfarne being a "biologist" but apparently dumb or gullible enough to have believed she was a porcupine for half her life, just because her adoptive parents didn't want to raise an insectivorous hedgehog. Cause, you know, those animals are identical.

~who gives a poo poo~

Anyway the best biological fuckup in the whole comic is Francis, whose parents are a fennec fox and a human-turned-rabbit. After spending time as a generic fuzzy thing, he ended up metamorphosing into a human.

# ? Sep 3, 2017 20:51

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

Cowslips Warren posted:

Okay okay I have a question about the animal people.

How the gently caress do wolves and rabbits make a baby? How did the bat and porcupine make their abomination?

I hate-read Harbourmaster but at least that doesn't have prey being the bad people for not wanting to be eaten.

Holbrook never quite realized why most media with talking animals staunchly avoids the subjects of "so do the predators eat other sentient beings, or...?" and interspecies...relations.

# ? Sep 3, 2017 22:24

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

The Ayshkerbundy posted:

U.S. Acres

Even the colorist refuses to read this thing.

# ? Sep 3, 2017 23:14

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009

Whoever said US Acres could entertain little kids, do you mean like not yet reading little?

# ? Sep 3, 2017 23:29

Calaveron: Aug 7, 2006

Also the comic explicitly says that the hedgehog got knocked up because the bat's condom got punctured with her quills while they were loving

# ? Sep 3, 2017 23:35

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

The Lockhorns

Brewster Rockit Space Guy

On The Fastrack

No Safe Havens on Sunday

Kevin & Kell

Mother Goose & Grimm

Hagar The Horrible

Old New Yorker Cartons

# ? Sep 3, 2017 23:56

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

goatface posted:

Dang son, what have you got against Africa?

I was just trying to bless the rains and my finger slipped

look the manual for SimEarth is like a million pages long okay

# ? Sep 4, 2017 00:17

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Man, I don't know which is worse; Holbrook's ridiculous "internet world" or his "DNA is just magic" crap.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 00:38

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

# ? Sep 4, 2017 01:06

Johnny Aztec: Jan 30, 2005; by Hand Knit

^I'm not complaining, but god drat, I'm gonna be 80 years old and still see Loss Edits. It's gonna be glorious.

Evil Mastermind posted:

Man, I don't know which is worse; Holbrook's ridiculous "internet world" or his "DNA is just magic" crap.

Deffo the "DNA is magic" stuff.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 01:08

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

Pastry of the Year posted:

I was just trying to bless the rains and my finger slipped

look the manual for SimEarth is like a million pages long okay

That manual is a loving work of art.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 01:11

Vargo: Dec 27, 2008; 'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Say Nothing posted:

I was hoping someone would do this the minute I posted it.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 01:12

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Anything with four panels is fair game.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 01:42

nishi koichi: Feb 16, 2007; everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.

FrumpleOrz posted:

The Lockhorns

I appreciate the fridge-cam in the last panel

# ? Sep 4, 2017 01:46

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

Strontium posted:

random Viivi & Wagner

This actually made me laugh out loud.

bad posts ahead!!! posted:

I appreciate the fridge-cam in the last panel

Yeah, I like the new or unusual angles that turn up in The Lockhorns from time to time. Makes me feel like even though the strip is repetitive, H&R are still having fun with it.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 01:56

How Wonderful!: Jul 18, 2006; I only have excellent ideas

Alterian posted:

This one pisses me the gently caress off and is really offensive. No, teachers do not like buying new supplies for all the kids in their class. In a class of 30 kids, even if you spend only $10 on new supplies for each kid, that's $300 they're eating. No, they most likely won't get reimbursed. That's easily a student loan payment on an already low salary.

Yeah for real, gently caress this. Rose is Rose is always garbage but this specific strip and the kind of thinking about pedagogy that it encourages in dipshit parents is borderline evil.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 02:04

Rand Brittain: Mar 25, 2013; "Go on until you're stopped."

I feel sort of bad for Sprocket, but on the other hand, "you're a terrible criminal because you insist on wearing a very specific and recognizable kind of outfit no matter what, so just have this free jailbreak and relax" isn't that bad a deal.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 02:06

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

Tracksuit

Mother From Another Country

# ? Sep 4, 2017 02:38

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

Alterian posted:

This one pisses me the gently caress off and is really offensive. No, teachers do not like buying new supplies for all the kids in their class. In a class of 30 kids, even if you spend only $10 on new supplies for each kid, that's $300 they're eating. No, they most likely won't get reimbursed. That's easily a student loan payment on an already low salary.

I don't know how it is elsewhere, but in my part of the country teachers don't get paid over the summer. My mother taught middle school for 40 years, and she got one big paycheck at the end of the school year that was intended to cover the next three months.

(Add on to that how being a teacher involves a ton of unpaid overtime; I remember my mother spending three or four hours a night grading papers, writing tests, reading reports, and so on "for free".)

# ? Sep 4, 2017 03:19

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

Prince Valiant

# ? Sep 4, 2017 03:35

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

Alterian posted:

This one pisses me the gently caress off and is really offensive. No, teachers do not like buying new supplies for all the kids in their class. In a class of 30 kids, even if you spend only $10 on new supplies for each kid, that's $300 they're eating. No, they most likely won't get reimbursed. That's easily a student loan payment on an already low salary.

Do teachers even do that poo poo? Back when I was a kid, we had to bring our own damned supplies. We even had to contribute to classroom kleenix boxes and whatnot. The teacher might have a supply of pens/pencils for people who needed one, but that was it.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 03:38

Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

Calaveron posted:

Also the comic explicitly says that the hedgehog got knocked up because the bat's condom got punctured with her quills while they were loving

I. What.

Condoms. You're serious?

# ? Sep 4, 2017 03:56

Calaveron: Aug 7, 2006

Cowslips Warren posted:

I. What.

Condoms. You're serious?

I mean maybe it was a punctured diaphragm

# ? Sep 4, 2017 04:27

Bobulus: Jan 28, 2007

Y'all are majorly underselling the weirdness inherent in the strip if 'bat/hedgehog hybrid' is the strangest thing you talk about.

- The hedgehog is the lost heir to the human-Earth British royal family.
- The setting is actually the result of a scifi dystopia time-travel plot.
- Multiple characters have their own social media accounts with their own completely insane stories being played out outside the comic.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 04:33

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Haifisch posted:

Do teachers even do that poo poo? Back when I was a kid, we had to bring our own damned supplies. We even had to contribute to classroom kleenix boxes and whatnot. The teacher might have a supply of pens/pencils for people who needed one, but that was it.

It isn't unheard of, though not generally on the scale shown in this comic. I've known teachers to keep some extra supplies handy to discretely give to kids who can't afford school supplies of their own, but that's not the same as buying supplies for the whole class every year. That said, though it may not go to individual students, teachers do end up paying for a lot of classroom stuff out of their own pockets.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 04:37

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Bobulus posted:

Y'all are majorly underselling the weirdness inherent in the strip if 'bat/hedgehog hybrid' is the strangest thing you talk about.

- The hedgehog is the lost heir to the human-Earth British royal family.
- The setting is actually the result of a scifi dystopia time-travel plot.
- Multiple characters have their own social media accounts with their own completely insane stories being played out outside the comic.

God drat, comic strips rule, lol.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 04:49

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

Bobulus posted:

- The hedgehog is the lost heir to the human-Earth British royal family.

Wait, what? :psyduck:

This strip keeps topping itself when I think it can't get any weirder.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 04:50

Calaveron: Aug 7, 2006

Also birds are responsible for creating whatever's happening in that comic strip

# ? Sep 4, 2017 04:53

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

Heathcliff

Piranha Club

Dick Tracy

Judge Parker

Even if he did want it, Bob Saget hasn't hosted America's Funniest Videos in years.

9 Chickweed Lane

# ? Sep 4, 2017 05:05

Evil Mastermind: Apr 28, 2008

The Classic Dinette Set knows the value of lovely buffets.

Working Daze fails to tell a joke, and still manages to overexplain it.

Super-Fun-Pak-Comix finds your lack of faith disturbing.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 05:10

Ein cooler Typ: Nov 26, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

what the gently caress is Meg's problem

Dustin has jobs all the time and Meg never does nothing

Dustin probably does more real work than radio host Mom and lawyer Dad

# ? Sep 4, 2017 06:49

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

Zippy

Ripley's

# ? Sep 4, 2017 06:52

His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Aardmania posted:

Dick Tracy

What a lame-rear end forced situation, she could just have changed her loving clothes.

# ? Sep 4, 2017 07:49

Ms Boods: Mar 19, 2009; Did you ever wonder where the Romans got bread from? It wasn't from Waitrose!

Manuel Calavera posted:

Rose is Rose

Late to the party, but yeah -- aside from the Tor Johnson Baby, the way this teacher/teachers are depicted in this strip gets me seeing the red mist. They always show Miss Whatserface lying on the beach all summer, too, and not working her second/third jobs to make up for no pay over summer, or spending her entire summer stuck in development workshops, admin, or writing all new lesson plans because upper management binned all of the previous year's work and initiatives.

This only reinforces what people like my family, my in-laws, and even Mr Boods think - that I work only 24 weeks a year, only 8 hours a week, ooooh, must be nice, shouldn't you think about getting a summer job instead of just lying around?

t :mad: