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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD My diabetic father in law still keeps bowls of candy around his house and loves to eat swedish fish by the handful in between meals of pasta and beer. The guy is too stubborn and fatalistic to actually eat healthier. So this little arc is basically real for me.
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Green Intern posted:My diabetic father in law still keeps bowls of candy around his house and loves to eat swedish fish by the handful in between meals of pasta and beer. The guy is too stubborn and fatalistic to actually eat healthier. So this little arc is basically real for me. My papa was that way, but he was also of the generation where he did no grocery shopping or pantry stocking. So between his house and my aunts' houses, he spent his last 15 years eating sugar-free diabetic candy everywhere he went without even knowing it. Granny probably squeezed another 5 years out of him. e: taking a moment today to reflect on the people working to keep me alive forever, and showing a little god drat gratitude. Huxley fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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Feb 2, 2021 14:52
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Some Guy TT posted:Does anyone have that Creeps comic where they talk about how smart they are for figuring out that cat food is made of cats because logically, why else cats would be on the cover? I've been thinking of that storyline infrequently ever since hearing about the Quillette guy who just thought there was a dog on the packaging of his shampoo for no reason. https://twitter.com/mercury_hat/status/1355953255910662144
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Moominposting FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens Yes, the story is that the entire crew was selected through an insane amount of nepotism, where the entire crew consist exclusively of the commander's nearest friends and family, most of them without any kind of scientific background. So of course they're friendly with the chief medical officer, they're probably great friends. Imagine being some of the astronauts in this world, having gone through decades of study, training, and exercise. And you're told that oh no, none of you are going on the first manned expedition to a different planet, but some kids are. 'Sorry, while you are eminently qualified to be one of the 'pilots', due to a decade flying experimental aircraft, and multiple trips to the ISS, the slot is already taken by the commander's husband. ' 'What are his qualifications, I've never heard of him before?' 'He's a minor league basketballer, and before you ask, no, he has zero relevant experience.'
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Yeah but can any trained astronaut spend an entire trip hanging upside down from a trapeze swing?
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I do wonder if a big parade would really be held for a bunch of astronauts these days. Especially ones a private corporation founded. I guess going to Mars and back would be a big thing but it's not like we have a space race going on or it was even a government sponsored thing.
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SubNat posted:Yes, the story is that the entire crew was selected through an insane amount of nepotism, where the entire crew consist exclusively of the commander's nearest friends and family, most of them without any kind of scientific background. Don't forget that the Medical Officer and the Granddaughter are the same person, because time travel.
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Mikl posted:Classic Kevin & Kell (May 17-21, 1999)
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Selachian posted:Bonus ad! The war's over, so here's General Electric to brag about how fast they'll be rolling out new goods for you, the victorious American, to consume! People had lots of money to spend, and no place to spend it. Ads like this were exactly what the buying public was looking for, after almost four years of war and rationing. You will see a similar explosion once the pandemic is on the wane. Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD My guess is he'll experience temporary blindness. It happened to a friend of mine; he worked at the Sunoco refinery in south Philadelphia. One day he was high up in the scaffolding when his eyes just...went dark. He had to be helped down from the catwalk, about 80-feet up. Freaked him out but good. Fortunately, his vision returned. He was quite diligent in his sugar control thereafter. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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I had to dig through the old threads for that strip and I got super bummed out that there wasn't ever a The Creeps collection. I hope the artist is doing well in whatever they're up to now.
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i miss the creeps.
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SubNat posted:Moominposting They contacted a billions of years old alien intelligence and then claimed responsibility over it and didn't ask it any relevant questions. They terraformed the planet while they were there, and no one's quite sure how they did that. They subsequently lost all uncontaminated samples of the pre-terraformed Mars that they took, through their own incompetence. They've awakened the murderous Martian mermaids which probably means that no follow-on missions will be accepted. They did manage to get Mars to save human civilization, though, so that probably balances the scales for now. .
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Nancy 1946 It looks like this is the end of Nancy dunking on Sputter until next February... I thought he came back more often than that, but I guess not! 
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Sputter has been hilariously petty enough to bounce off Nancy perfectly. He should be brought back for modern day Nancy.
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side It's pretty rare to get a far side that doesn't land anymore. But this one doesn't land anymore.
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maltesh posted:They contacted a billions of years old alien intelligence and then claimed responsibility over it and didn't ask it any relevant questions. Surgeon's Tales  (That's Torsten's sister Ebba)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Heinrich_von_G%C3%B6rtz Nancy  Dustin  "My son has aspirations? Time to shoot him down." Mandrake 
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä lmao This is super great, and also congrats in preserving the double meaning through the translation.
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ikanreed posted:It's pretty rare to get a far side that doesn't land anymore. 
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä Long setup but that was great
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Green Intern posted:Don't forget that the Medical Officer and the Granddaughter are the same person, because time travel. Doomykins posted:Sputter has been hilariously petty enough to bounce off Nancy perfectly. He should be brought back for modern day Nancy. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  I don't think I like this narrator-with-personality we get sometimes in this strip. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Feb 2, 2021 19:26
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seriously, what happened with the boat explosion and all that in mark trail, didn’t the cops go after him? or was that a vision/hallucination/fakeout
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Yeah I'm still having a hard time suspending my disbelief on this. Even if Mark Trail is white, he destroyed at least two boats (maybe three?) and a helicopter and I feel like the pilot of the helicopter probably did not jump out just before the explosion. How is Mark not on the run from the police right now? They know it was him, it's not like his identity was hidden. I just really don't see a satisfying explanation for what happened unless the strip comes out and says "Yeah Mark imagined the whole thing, he got beat up by a cop and told 'don't do it again' before he did any real damage." But so far it seems like we're supposed to take the events at face value which I can't do.
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The answer to "Why isn't the boat explosion immediately catching up with Mark Trail" is "It is a newspaper comic strip, I should really just relax." Also, it's Florida, that was like the 8th boat chase ending in an explosion that the cops were involved in that day.
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I actually just really like the idea that Mark Trail is some terrible force of chaos who leaves boat wrecks in his wake.
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD I'm reading it in Boris Karloff's voice and it's been great.
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JethroMcB posted:The answer to "Why isn't the boat explosion immediately catching up with Mark Trail" is "It is a newspaper comic strip, I should really just relax." i’m not sure the mst mantra fits in a thread where we generally don’t just relax about comics. i get you, though, i guess it’s possible we’ll find out soon enough
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Green Intern posted:I'm reading it in Boris Karloff's voice and it's been great. loving pro-tip right here
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I cannot wait to see more of this storyline about ~personal responsibility~ and never have them ever show something like Buck finding out his insurance has changed what insulin they cover and not tell him, again, leading to a heath crisis as he can’t fill his prescriptions or get new ones for weeks. Buck carefully rationing his meds. Buck being told to his face he’s not taking care of himself enough to get an insulin pump. Some real Diabetes problems.
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I don't think new Trail is written with a tone wacky enough to justify 7-8 digits in property damage as a gag. We're reading a serious story about close family fracturing over a father being a crook and a son reporting it for principles of justice and truth. And then, even with the talking animals thing, we're gonna pull a 3 outta 5 on the Family Guy gag scale? Peter walks off screen and everybody forgets it happened? It's not a big deal or worst author ever, it just really sticks out. And yeah that helicopter is dead. Maybe in a week of strips it'll catch up to Mark and everything will make sense in hindsight.
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Feb 2, 2021 20:29
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