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Is this something that used to happen with box macaroni in the 70s? Tiggum posted:I've been wondering for a while why Dustin keeps going to whatever this place is. If it were Australia I'd assume it was a mandatory job network meeting but presumably that's not a thing in America. Is he paying her? What is the supposed purpose of these meetings? Does he have to keep showing up for some reason? Neither of them ever seems to get any value from it. But now that I think about it, in my experience you almost never meet them in person after you interview with them. After that it's all email/phone calls. F Minus   Macanudo  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  Goddammit I hate that Toby was right. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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I just want to say that I finally finished my binge of the last thread over a few months and am almost caught up with this one. I too originally found these threads from that banner ad, so you know it's working! With a the new thread I'll post this; my friend's parents recently gave him the newspaper from the day he was born, so I thumbed through it and snapped all the comics out of it! There are quite a few so I'll probably break it into two parts.Some of these strips I've never heard of before. The quality of all of them should be good (except Cathy which is slightly blurry), these were quick phone snaps and I tried to resize them so they wouldn't be massive. The Corpus Christi Caller Times for November 8th, 1989   Dennis the Menace / Bent Offerings  A slightly blurry vertically formatted Cathy  Rose is Rose / Word for Word  Mother Goose and Grimm / Geech  The Far Side  Tumbleweeds / B.C.  The Family Circus  I can't believe Dagwood is put out of his misery once and for all.  Finally, hidden in the business section is Big Biz  I'll post the second half tomorrow, I've never heard of Geech, Tumbleweeds, Word for Word, or Bent Offerings. Tiggum posted:Mary Worth is fun to edit. That cat was the best thing to happen to that comic. Me thinkin' about that cat now that it's over:  I'd also like to take advantage of this post to say that of all the dogs in all these comics, Boot from The Perishers is my favorite. Luxrage fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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Oh man, I'd forgotten Geech. I wonder if there's an easy archive of it somewhere? Today's Garf  Zippy  Ripley's 
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Luxrage posted:The Far Side Note that it's a rerun from 1983. I also don't know that I've ever seen this one in the calendars/anthologies. Geech...I'd never seen or heard of it, but something about that art style immediately made me think "This is made by and for Texans."
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Believe it or not, the diamond industry is kinda a horrible explorative shitshow!
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JethroMcB posted:Geech...I'd never seen or heard of it, but something about that art style immediately made me think "This is made by and for Texans." It's on GoComics, but despite the strip starting in '82, their "Read it from the beginning!" link directs to the start of 2000. I'll add it to my line-up and keep looking for an archive of the real beginning. Here are the first three, to get the weekdays lined up correctly. Geech    e: Here's one I was able to find from August 7, 1982, about a month after the strip started, but Google's archives of Texan newspapers are spotty. 
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I am actually kinda scared that Jamal is going to kill off the mom.
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why all the hiding the face and then just there it is
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Because he's emotionally vulnerable at that moment, maybe?
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yeah it's obviously an artistic/storytelling decision
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He's less of an abstract target for hero worship now. He has been humanised by his fallibility.
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Green Intern posted:I am actually kinda scared that Jamal is going to kill off the mom. Yeah, when Vargo mentioned a storyline, I really started to worry about the brother. This comic's good.
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it introduces the character as an archetype for you to detail around with your own prejudices and assumptions as they move through the prologue before stopping in the middle of the storyline to say "hey, this is actually a person like everyone else in this situation" while the framing brings him back down to jamal's level after having towered over him (and the cop) the whole time because in that moment he's just someone's kid.
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these are all good reasons and I accept them
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Ghostlight posted:it introduces the character as an archetype for you to detail around with your own prejudices and assumptions as they move through the prologue before stopping in the middle of the storyline to say "hey, this is actually a person like everyone else in this situation" while the framing brings him back down to jamal's level after having towered over him (and the cop) the whole time because in that moment he's just someone's kid. But then why was the girlfriend (Cody's big sister) also given the hidden-head treatment? Is she an archetype that towers over the other characters too? This sort of thing is why I'm leery of over-complicated literary analysis. (Which is why all my English lit teachers hated me.) e: 
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Jamal is one hell of a good comic and I'm scared for the characters
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Powered Descent posted:But then why was the girlfriend (Cody's big sister) also given the hidden-head treatment? Is she an archetype that towers over the other characters too? The story ain't about them or from their perspective maybe (except for those brief moments when it is)?
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 The mutual no-headedness establishes a connection between Cody's Sister and Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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Powered Descent posted:But then why was the girlfriend (Cody's big sister) also given the hidden-head treatment? Is she an archetype that towers over the other characters too? The comment about towering-over was in regard to placing him down on the curb next to Jamal for the reveal of his face - there's a partial reveal during the argument with the cop but why wasn't that the full reveal? Having him sit on the curb next to his brother while, presumably, his mother argues with the policeman shifts the frame of who he is from a (justifiably) angry black teen to a mother's son by equivocating him and Jamal through attitude, body position, and expression. Revealing his face asks the reader to connect with his character as something other than an abstract - doing it during the conflict with the policeman would inherently also ask the reader to take a side in the conflict, but doing it in a moment of understood vulnerability asks the reader to simply sympathise with the feeling of vulnerability induced by the conflict, which itself has been momentarily abstracted by being moved completely out of frame.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery I hope the little French girl loses her head.
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In every previous panel, Tauhid actually drew the entire face before concealing it. Until now, though, his attempts to make a face older than Jamal's instantly turned into the Crypt-Keeper.
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Ghostlight posted:Those were two separate analyses. Yes, I believe she's also blank to function as an archetype. I'm really sorry if I just repeated what you said but Jamal is shaping up to have a lot of nice little symbolic tricks and meanings as it unfolds and I seriously can't overstate how this has all taken place over the same period as an overarching story (Jermaine takes Jamal to his girlfriend's house) but doesn't feel like an unnatural shift of the current focus, it flows organically and naturally as poo poo happens.
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Darthemed posted:Good call. According to Wikipedia, it's set in a Texas town, though the humor style and hairstyles always struck me as more Midwestern. There was apparently also a musical adaptation, with music by Angelo Badalamenti(!). Didn't someone use to post "Shirley and Son," the artist's other strip, here?
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Johnny Walker posted:Macanudo  Luxrage posted:Rose is Rose / Word for Word Luxrage posted:The Far Side Luxrage posted:Tumbleweeds / B.C. 
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He’s checking the coin return for change.
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manero posted:He’s checking the coin return for change. So what's the joke?
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You must be new to Far Side. edit: non snarky answer- Far Side jokes usually mash up dissimilar concepts and tropes. The humor is subtle and some would say nonexistent. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jan 15, 2019 |
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Also, he normally is in a hurry doing the phone booth thing, and absent-mindedly checking the coin return doesn't really fit the moment. He's checking for cow tools. E: I GOT BEAT TO COW TOOLS Huxley fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jan 15, 2019 |
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Tiggum posted:So what's the joke? Cow tools
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Huxley posted:
Oh, is that actually supposed to be Superman? I honestly just assumed it was someone wearing a Superman T-shirt.
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yeah, clark kent's "thing" is to strip down to his costume in a phone booth
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that sounded way more kinky than i intended
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Tiggum posted:Another thing I don't get: This Rose is Rose.
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Tiggum posted:No idea what the joke in this BC is supposed to mean either. Apparently, in beauty pageants, "Miss Congeniality" is given to friendliest or "most fun" contestant, so I'm pretty sure the joke is that she's easy.
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Andy Capp December 5, 1957   Heathcliff Old and New -- I'm actually hitting a point where I prefer Old Healthcliff? Old Heathcliff does things, he's way more physical - yeah, it's less surreal, but there's more punch to the punchlines aside from "wtf is going on"   Ballard Street October 22, 2002   Outbursts of Everett True 
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