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Transmodiar posted:Classic Working Daze This doesn't look awful? Admittedly as a product of the '90s and 2000s my tolerance for random humour is rather high, but I could almost see why a newspaper would pick this up. It's certainly got more life to it than the poo poo they (Zarkour and the new artist, that is) churn out now, art-wise at least. I can't wait to see how quickly it gets really bad. Tiggum posted:The first two were pretty good puzzles for children. The second two are a bit Inspector Danger. Don't you know that women always take their hats off with two hands? That last one is wild. I wonder how many women got away with murdering their husbands because the police just assumed the weapon meant it couldn't possibly be the wife.
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The Dinette Set is missing the fundamental point. Working Daze is up to date, unlike some posters' version.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix still hasn't updated since Friday. I hope it's not just stopping.  Cul De Sac realizes its destiny. 
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No, Holbrook! No! I do not want the bird and the rat to have children! gently caress off!
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Tiggum posted:The first two were pretty good puzzles for children. The second two are a bit Inspector Danger. Don't you know that women always take their hats off with two hands? I used to really like the Encyclopedia Brown series as a kid and there's one that always stuck out to me. There were always some I had no chance of solving simply because they relied on things that were only true decades prior, but this one failed on every level, even undermining its own premise. Basically, it's determined that there are some crooks hiding in a restaurant. The patrons and their positions are all described, and the criminals turn out to be a couple each crossdressing as the other gender (for... some reason. Look it's been a long time. They also may have both been men, I dunno). The reason is that that the woman was sitting in the wrong spot - you see, women are supposed to sit with their backs to the wall in restaurants, and the couple had it the wrong way around, proving their deception. But the very fact that this is a mystery that needs to be solved and is presented as a puzzle relies on the fact that the reader doesn't immediately recognize that as wrong! If it's something the reader might not know, why wouldn't it be something that they didn't know? Most damningly, it's something Encyclopedia Brown himself didn't know - it's solved by another character who knows these things because such knowledge comes standard with being a girl. I realize this has a very tenuous connection to the topic at hand, but I've been mad about this puzzle for like 15 years and I'm going to take any opportunity I can to finally rant about it.
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Zinkraptor posted:I used to really like the Encyclopedia Brown series as a kid and there's one that always stuck out to me. There were always some I had no chance of solving simply because they relied on things that were only true decades prior, but this one failed on every level, even undermining its own premise. Basically, it's determined that there are some crooks hiding in a restaurant. The patrons and their positions are all described, and the criminals turn out to be a couple each crossdressing as the other gender (for... some reason. Look it's been a long time. They also may have both been men, I dunno). The reason is that that the woman was sitting in the wrong spot - you see, women are supposed to sit with their backs to the wall in restaurants, and the couple had it the wrong way around, proving their deception. But the very fact that this is a mystery that needs to be solved and is presented as a puzzle relies on the fact that the reader doesn't immediately recognize that as wrong! If it's something the reader might not know, why wouldn't it be something that they didn't know? Most damningly, it's something Encyclopedia Brown himself didn't know - it's solved by another character who knows these things because such knowledge comes standard with being a girl. This cracks me up because it's so profoundly out of date that my dad - who grew up in the 70s - certainly didn't subscribe to it. Whenever we go to a restaurant he wants his back to the wall so he has a commanding view of the room. And he cared about this so much he'd make child!me move if I took the spot he wanted. I vaguely remember my grandpa doing the same thing - gotta sit like you're worried about gangsters coming into the restaurant.
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Encyclopedia Brown also had one where a stolen key was hidden in a hotdog and the giveaway was that the mustard and sauerkraut had been added in the wrong order and apparently "nobody eats hotdogs that way"
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Archyduchess posted:I'm posting these early today because I'm teaching an 8 AM class starting tomorrow and want to go to bed early tonight.
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coronatae posted:Encyclopedia Brown also had one where a stolen key was hidden in a hotdog and the giveaway was that the mustard and sauerkraut had been added in the wrong order and apparently "nobody eats hotdogs that way" There was also one where the giveaway was that a guy lifted a bar of gold over his head and that gold is too heavy to be lifted overhead so it wasn't gold, even though the story didn't specify how big the bar was or how easily the guy lifted it.
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PetraCore posted:I'm a lesbian but also like, a very mid-20s lesbian who does all my queer socialization online, so Dykes to Watch Out For is really interesting. Yeah it's a snapshot of a moment in queer culture that had passed by the time I started circulating through queer culture, and as acerbic as it is there's a real idealism and wistfulness to it that makes me feel kind of bittersweet. I love that Bechdel's entire social universe in these early strips is queer women.
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Archyduchess posted:Yeah it's a snapshot of a moment in queer culture that had passed by the time I started circulating through queer culture, and as acerbic as it is there's a real idealism and wistfulness to it that makes me feel kind of bittersweet. I love that Bechdel's entire social universe in these early strips is queer women.
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EBB posted:These are really amazing and special, thank you for posting them I'm glad people are enjoying it  Kennel posted:Had to read this twice: The character isn't named Clint, at least! Archyduchess posted:Yeah the cleanness really reminds me of Achewood more than anything else. It's like ligne claire to the nth degree, I can't think of anything else of that period which looks quite like it. You're right! I knew it reminded me of something visually. Some years ago, I took a few blacksmithing classes at a local arts center for fun. The guy who ran the classes had a day job making custom stair railings and gates and stuff. He told us how a century or more ago, perfect straight lines and flat surfaces were popular because they required a lot of skill for a smith to make by hand, but nowadays wobbly lines and visible hammer marks are more popular because straight lines just look machine made. Barnaby's perfect lines and typeset text reminded me of that comment. Professor Wayne posted:My Dad is Dracula I like it!  Some years ago this strip mentioned that Jeremy's parents went to Woodstock and I complained then that they seemed too young. I guess this is a retcon of that. Or Dad went despite being like nine years old I guess. Endless Mike posted:Star Wars is FAST AND FURIOUS Thanks for posting this! I was never huge on Star Wars but I'm enjoying this a lot.
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Medenmath posted:Some years ago this strip mentioned that Jeremy's parents went to Woodstock and I complained then that they seemed too young. I guess this is a retcon of that. Or Dad went despite being like nine years old I guess. Sliding timeline.
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Something I really appreciate about Modesty Blaise is her sense of caution. Sure, she and Willie have taken on great odds before, but they never just charge right in; they try and even out the odds first in very creative ways. We know Modesty can easily beat the Grim Jokers, but the tension comes from making sure the unconscious Willie doesn't get hurt. Isn't the cat supposed to be the mother of one of these two or something? Either way, it's still pretty creepy how the cat acts like a pet when it's sentient and had spent time as a human being before.
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You know, I do have to thank Holbrook., Today's Safe Havens, and Yesterdays and todays Kevin and Kell just gives me a reminder that I am not completely dead inside yet, if I still have the vitriol to get upset at a comic strip.
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"Nature knows not of mercy" -MC Ride https://twitter.com/NoobtheLoser/status/1216711970386333696?s=20
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Kennel posted:Dustin WORKING THIRTEEN DAYS STRAIGHT IS A LOT, YOU LAZY BOOMER poo poo. Archyduchess posted:I'm posting these early today because I'm teaching an 8 AM class starting tomorrow and want to go to bed early tonight. I am enjoying these effortposts. I mostly skipped Barnaby and DtWoF when they were first posted in this thread, but the background info and historical context is helping me be interested. Zinkraptor posted:I used to really like the Encyclopedia Brown series as a kid and there's one that always stuck out to me. There were always some I had no chance of solving simply because they relied on things that were only true decades prior, but this one failed on every level, even undermining its own premise. Basically, it's determined that there are some crooks hiding in a restaurant. The patrons and their positions are all described, and the criminals turn out to be a couple each crossdressing as the other gender (for... some reason. Look it's been a long time. They also may have both been men, I dunno). The reason is that that the woman was sitting in the wrong spot - you see, women are supposed to sit with their backs to the wall in restaurants, and the couple had it the wrong way around, proving their deception. But the very fact that this is a mystery that needs to be solved and is presented as a puzzle relies on the fact that the reader doesn't immediately recognize that as wrong! If it's something the reader might not know, why wouldn't it be something that they didn't know? Most damningly, it's something Encyclopedia Brown himself didn't know - it's solved by another character who knows these things because such knowledge comes standard with being a girl. I am a woman. Can confirm I like to sit with my back to the wall in restaurants because then I can see what's going on in the room. Did not realize this preference was hardwired into me by my gender. Ghostlight posted:Nekonaughey Bless this wholesome content.  Oh, Jesus Christ. Okay, you know what I, an adult, would do if my also adult friend was dating someone (an adult) and I was curious if they'd had sex yet? I would meet up with that friend, ask how the relationship is going, and at some point be like, "So. You two having sex yet?" Which would be nosy, but whatever, we're friends. I would not show up at the workplace of their roommate with whom they do not get along and interrogate that person like some kind of a creepy fucker.  No, you dingdong, Tiffany would also just ask. Like a normal person. And then the strip would treat her like garbage for having the nerve to ask a straightforward question. This kind of thing is why we like Tiffany.
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coronatae posted:Encyclopedia Brown also had one where a stolen key was hidden in a hotdog and the giveaway was that the mustard and sauerkraut had been added in the wrong order and apparently "nobody eats hotdogs that way" Except I have, in fact, done exactly that. Julet Esqu posted:WORKING THIRTEEN DAYS STRAIGHT IS A LOT, YOU LAZY BOOMER poo poo.
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Zinkraptor posted:I used to really like the Encyclopedia Brown series as a kid and there's one that always stuck out to me. There were always some I had no chance of solving simply because they relied on things that were only true decades prior, but this one failed on every level, even undermining its own premise. Basically, it's determined that there are some crooks hiding in a restaurant. The patrons and their positions are all described, and the criminals turn out to be a couple each crossdressing as the other gender (for... some reason. Look it's been a long time. They also may have both been men, I dunno). The reason is that that the woman was sitting in the wrong spot - you see, women are supposed to sit with their backs to the wall in restaurants, and the couple had it the wrong way around, proving their deception. But the very fact that this is a mystery that needs to be solved and is presented as a puzzle relies on the fact that the reader doesn't immediately recognize that as wrong! If it's something the reader might not know, why wouldn't it be something that they didn't know? Most damningly, it's something Encyclopedia Brown himself didn't know - it's solved by another character who knows these things because such knowledge comes standard with being a girl. God drat it, I remember that one. Encyclopedia Brown's female friend Sally Kimball solved it. Those books had some really nice illustrations though.
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I have to assume that when Dustin is complaining about working to Jan 13 without a day off he means he works Mon-Fri and gets weekends off and is complaining about not getting a weekday off because that is Ed's schedule and of course he assumes everyone else works normal business hours like he does
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coronatae posted:Encyclopedia Brown also had one where a stolen key was hidden in a hotdog and the giveaway was that the mustard and sauerkraut had been added in the wrong order and apparently "nobody eats hotdogs that way"
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Kennel posted:Had to read this twice:  FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell
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Johnny Walker posted:I was going to ask why the rabbit has a skunk spray but of course I know the answer is stupid and probably hosed up anyways so why bother.
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Zinkraptor posted:The reason is that that the woman was sitting in the wrong spot - you see, women are supposed to sit with their backs to the wall in restaurants, and the couple had it the wrong way around, proving their deception. There used to be a whole bunch of weird etiquette involving men and women, like when walking down the side of the street the man had to be closest to the middle, and what's more you should walk up the right side of the street so the woman would be on the right, as that was the more honoured position. It persisted long enough that I'd occasionally be corrected on it by my teachers (growing up in the UK in the 70s/80s). And I've noticed such things do tend to show up in older mystery fiction, perhaps because it can indicate something or someone is Not Right in a subtle way. I think my favourite is a minor plot point in a Dorothy L. Sayers story where a murdered gentleman's laces are tied in a lazy bow, indicating that his shoes must had been put on later by the murderer, because his valet would never have tied his laces in such a way. (I'd never heard of a lazy bow before reading the story, and on looking up what it was I suddenly realized why my laces would never stay tied).
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In today's Corto Maltese: Corto has friends in low places, or This is a period of the world that is not often taught about in the 'West', as it were. The world was very far from peace after the Armistice, or GET YOUR HANDS TOGETHER, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FOR THE ONE, THE ONLY...!  
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Tiggum posted:She's actually a skunk disguised as a rabbit, because (I guess) they needed to get into/through rabbit-controlled territory.
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amigolupus posted:Something I really appreciate about Modesty Blaise is her sense of caution. Sure, she and Willie have taken on great odds before, but they never just charge right in; they try and even out the odds first in very creative ways. We know Modesty can easily beat the Grim Jokers, but the tension comes from making sure the unconscious Willie doesn't get hurt. I think at this point the tension is more about how she's going to prove that they're the Grim Jokers at all. Whatever plan they had before to get actionable evidence beyond their word alone is likely kaput now that Willy's out of action. Simply turning them against each other won't be satisfying, because even if the men are misogynist brutes it's been made fairly clear that whatshername is the one who's dragging the killings out instead of just finishing off the final target for their payday.
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Tiggum posted:The first two were pretty good puzzles for children. The second two are a bit Inspector Danger. Don't you know that women always take their hats off with two hands? Added with  WIMMEN WOULD NEVER USE LUGER
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Juliet Jones returns us to the bad old days when there was a law against women being criminals, something that Encyclopedia Brown would have known.
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Archyduchess posted:In lieu of Cathy I'm going to post Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For. Thank you for this gift.
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