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You could have a really short list of " Really good comic strips" and an also short list of " Strips that COULD be good but aren't" Dick Tracy and Phantom go on that second list. COULD be good, but.....just loving isn't. Tracy is ACAB and Phantom is some Boomer Power fantasy.
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Rhymes with Orange Retail  Get Fuzzy 1/8/00  Like a dog is going to care about any of that.
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Jan 10, 2020 00:22
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BigglesSWE posted:I read modern Tracy in these threads because I’m fascinated by the different ways they keep messing up their arcs. same except I only look at it when people react and say it's doing wild poo poo so I didn't even see the anti-Semitic arc holy moly
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Jan 10, 2020 00:35
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Bobulus posted:No, one of the completely bizarre plot points of this comic is that some alien creature started on Venus, I guess abandoned it when it became uninhabitable(?), stopped by on Earth (and apparently hosed some humans to make mermaids(?)), and then traveled to Mars to start a new civilization. Which was prompted wiped out when Mars became sentient and deliberately killed them all with their own machines.
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I'm wondering if Holbrook decides that Venus became "too hot" because of mer-made (hyuk) global warming or because it remembered it's so close to the sun.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:I'm wondering if Holbrook decides that Venus became "too hot" because of mer-made (hyuk) global warming or because it remembered it's so close to the sun. Because Venus is pregnant with the child of a sentient shape-shifting computer planet. Just mash all the worst Holbrook bullshit together.
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Jan 10, 2020 00:53
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Some Guy TT posted:Cheer Up Boss Dharma This comic makes no sense. How am I supposed to read this thing when they're all vertical and there aren't two columns? 
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Jan 10, 2020 01:19
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail I don't think Allen understands Mark constantly whining during this expedition he agreed to come on just makes him seem like a weird killjoy
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i finally made it through my comic backlog and was going to see if it was cool to try and start posting bloom county since gocomics seemed to have it all, but i see i've already been beaten to the punch. nice! it's pretty nice and the art is cool. sure beats the hell out of a lot of the copy/pasted stuff going on in some of the current zombie strips.
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Sally Forth Skippy (August 26, 1932)  Peanuts (January 11, 1973)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  9 Chickweed Lane  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (August 10, 1936)  Out Our Way (December 14-16, 1933)    Toonerville Folks (June 26-27 and 29, 1916)    Dok's "If Loudness Persists For More Than Five Hours, Consult Your Doctor" Duck (January 14, 1913)  Rube Goldberg (January 10-12, 1924)   
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Jan 10, 2020 03:10
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean For gently caress's sake, Les! I don't think I've ever seen someone whine so much about using up a few sick days! Just take a couple of days off and shut up.
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riderchop posted:same except I only look at it when people react and say it's doing wild poo poo so I didn't even see the anti-Semitic arc holy moly It was an arc about anti-semitism, not an anti-Semitic arc. A ripped from the headlines style story based on that huge vandalism spree at the Jewish cemetery in Pennsylvania a couple years back, if I remember correctly.
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Jan 10, 2020 03:31
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I remember someone in a completely different thread about like the hardy boys or something posted about the storyline where tracy goes to the moon to rescue the moon princess and I couldn't believe he wasn't BSing
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Jan 10, 2020 03:34
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The Dinette Set lives like royalty. Working Daze is embarrassing when it tries to be meta.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix ships it.  Cul De Sac misses its window.  
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Jan 10, 2020 04:48
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I for one enjoy hate-reading modern Tracy. Hwurmp posted:Actually that is Snag Toothle and his EU backstory is as follows(1/438):  https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Zutton/Legends
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Jan 10, 2020 05:15
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 It's just a kiss, dudes, they're not loving. I wonder who's holding the camera.
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Jan 10, 2020 05:25
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Julet Esqu posted:
Good lord, you can't be serious. They wouldn't show loving on Instragram! That's for livestreaming to her premium subscribers.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:It was an arc about anti-semitism, not an anti-Semitic arc. A ripped from the headlines style story based on that huge vandalism spree at the Jewish cemetery in Pennsylvania a couple years back, if I remember correctly. That came out of nowhere in what we thought was an arc about... thefts at a comic convention, I think? Anyway, also glad to see Bloom County back, I've always loved it. I read it as a kid and so much of it went right over my head, it's great reading it now that I'm older.
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Jan 10, 2020 06:09
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Why do all the characters in Funky Winkerbean look insufferably smug all the time?
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Jan 10, 2020 06:12
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Haifisch posted:Locher Tracy The Vosgian Beast posted:I don't think Allen understands Mark constantly whining during this expedition he agreed to come on just makes him seem like a weird killjoy Unlucky7 posted:Why do all the characters in Funky Winkerbean look insufferably smug all the time?
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Jan 10, 2020 06:29
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Unlucky7 posted:Why do all the characters in Funky Winkerbean look insufferably smug all the time? Tiggum posted:Because they are insufferably smug all the time. Don't you wish all of life's questions had easy answers like that?
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Juckia     I'll probably take up posting Dick Tracy if it's going to disappear. Its banality fascinates me.
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Unlucky7 posted:Why do all the characters in Funky Winkerbean look insufferably smug all the time? It's a common practice to use a mirror when drawing expressions. King Aroo 8/20/53  They'll Do It Every Time 7/27/46  Mopsy 8/6/42 
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Ghostlight posted:Classic Cat 
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Jan 10, 2020 07:27
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Parents beware: social media will lead your children* to immoral behaviour! *adult-aged
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Jan 10, 2020 08:01
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My Lovely Horse posted:Parents beware: social media will lead your children* to immoral behaviour! I read ahead to the latest one and hahaha they really are adult aged children.
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Jan 10, 2020 08:06
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Oh gently caress this bullshit! Guy should be laughed right out of university for somehow being so incompetent that he made actively malfunctioning AI. What's even the use of an IoT appliance if there's a good chance it won't open up for you, or spew hot coffee on your face, or act too helpful and tell anyone your WiFi password. I think what pisses me off more is that I came in expecting some stupid Holbrooksian explanation on what makes Guy's IoT security so secure, only for Holbrook to skip all of that and just declare that he passed. And I know this defense is a big farce, but why is Dethany even here? Even if it's their home, she should at least go away for a few hours so her boyfriend can finish his thesis without her hovering around and making it awkward for everyone. The Vosgian Beast posted:I don't think Allen understands Mark constantly whining during this expedition he agreed to come on just makes him seem like a weird killjoy Tiggum posted:Not just agreed to, he's also being paid to be there. What really bugs me is Mark going ,"Well Genie told me Nepal was going to be modern, so I assumed people here would have cellphones." There's no way to spin that that doesn't make Mark/James sound like a condescending rear end in a top hat.
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Jan 10, 2020 08:21
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Jucika has the same type of charm as Arlo and Janis, I feel. Sorry for the lack of Corto yesterday everyone, I was travelling. But on that note, in today's Corto Maltese: Corto lives for revenge, or Corto engages in some T.E.A., or El Cairo gives the guarantee of all mercenaries  
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Jan 10, 2020 08:24
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I think every Dick Tracy reader can agree that it can only get better the further away we get from the Lum and Abner garbage. Anyway, has anyone ever posted The Heart of Juliet Jones before? It's mostly a standard soap opera story. The titular character is a sensible young woman living in the small town of Devon. She's so sensible that she was elected mayor. Most of the drama comes from her younger sister, Eve, who is more romantically inclined. But this story begins with their father, Pop Jones, who is just shutting up the office...  
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Jan 10, 2020 12:02
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it used to be posted but I've no idea why it stopped showing up here.
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Jan 10, 2020 12:17
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Because posting comics everyday is very boring and can be unrewarding. I very much enjoyed Juliet Jones when it was posted.
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (June 17, 2008)  Arlo and Janis Classic (June 17, 1998)  Garfield Classic (June 17, 1988) 
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Manuel Calavera posted:
Far too ornate for brutalism.  (I debated taking the face off entirely, but you can justify the face serves a function to help identify it as a snowman)
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Jan 10, 2020 14:10
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God A&J is good, past and present.
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It's terrific!
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