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Twelve by Pies posted:Why would a family take a ship from California to New York? Were there even passenger ships for that route? As of 1848, there were three routes to California: 1. Train to Missouri, then wagon across the plains. Subject to finding a group to travel west with. Shortest and quickest route, but required camping out, fording rivers, dealing with trail hazards, all the things that would make a hilarious game 150 years later. Most people who took this route were settlers; people heading west for gold went by ship. 2. By ship around Cape Horn. Relatively boring, but could take 6+ months if the winds were bad. 3. Sail to Panama, cross the isthmus, then take a ship north. Quickest route, if you're lucky and a ship comes in at the right time...and you don't die of fever/snakebite/whatever killed 5600 workers later on. 4. Northwest Passage; take a ship heading north around Canada, then FREEZE TO DEATH. (Presumably, the transit described in the comic is post-canal construction.) Cobalt-60 fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Feb 12, 2021 |
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Intelligent Life Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons Dark Side of the Horse
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PainterofCrap posted:Absolutely.
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Family Circus Rose is Rose One Big Happy Foob Compu-Toon Bizarro
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (June 28, 1951) Doomykins posted:The black sheep herding black sheep. Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom Kennel posted:Dustin Drimble Wedge posted:Wonder if Kelly read this PopSugar article (headline: Duncan Hines Has a New Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit, So Don't Mind If I Yabba Dabba Do!). It was published January 4 which I assume is enough lead time: catlord posted:As for Axa, I gotta say, this is a very odd storyline. Weird ending too, but we'll get to that.
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Surgeon's Tales Surprise wedding! Well it was pretty obvious, that it would happen eventually for these two, but there wasn't any real courtship before this. Nancy Dustin Mandrake Kennel fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Feb 12, 2021 |
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Tiggum posted:. Fruity Pebbles are a Flintstones-themed cereal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebbles_cereal
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Classic Kevin & Kell (July 26-30, 1999)
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Hedgehogs barely self groom, never mind socially. She is just a pervert who wants to pick at other perverts. I could do with a jumbo Nekonaughey today.
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Evil Mastermind posted:
The OOMABOOGY WOW WOW is such an amazing earworm
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I can't help reading it in tune with the stick song, even though it obviously shouldn't be.
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I was bored. I made a thing. I may update it as the situation evolves, if I don't find it too much of an Mikl fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Feb 12, 2021 |
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Parahexavoctal posted:In this installment of The Timid Soul (February 20, 1933), it's interesting to realize that typewriters were once seen as decadent and modern. I wonder if this is specifically referring to the Technocracy Movement or just technocracy in general. Circus Windows featuring a flashback to the Bad Machinery era From the website John Allison posted:I hope you enjoy the period-accurate flashback in today’s comic, roughly contemporary to The Case of The Good Boy, in which Mildred takes on the fairground-industrial complex. If you read it on GoComics it has a lot of bonus pages. Also I got my copy of the last Bad Machinery story, Case of the Severed Alliance in the mail yesterday! I liked that picture of Mildred on the back cover. Also, Allison gives an afterword in at the end of the book regarding the end of the series and what might happen to the Mystery Teens after their adventures: John Allison posted:When I started Bad Machinery, my idea was that there would be 21 cases, one for every term of the seven years of British secondary education. In the end there were ten, but I think that was enough. I covered such a lot of ground. As time went on I began to feel melancholy at watching the carefree 11-year-olds of the first story vanish, swallowed up by the weird angst, confusion, and adventure of the tween and teen years. Things started so happy-go-lucky, but the more aware one becomes of the world, the more perilous that world becomes. I had to balance the ups and the downs. These were always meant to be fun, silly stories, but there was always a wolf at the door that I never imaged being there until I started writing them. Sorry for the long post. The_Other fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Feb 12, 2021 |
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You made an awesome post, no one needs to apologize for posting awesome. I love the throwback flashback panel with Mildred's bear badge. It's perfect.
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And speaking of flashbacks to The Case of the Good Boy... Bad Machinery
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goatface posted:Hedgehogs barely self groom, never mind socially. She is just a pervert who wants to pick at other perverts. My pygmy African hoggie was always cleaning himself, and me as well. He would preen my hair until he got into a frenzy and start doing that spit-froth bath all over himself. That said I hope he was never hunting for bugs in my hair. Once in a while, if I wasn't careful and he got carried away, he'd find and bite my ear. Never broke the skin but was close!
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BCN Phoebe Wallace Curtis
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As long as that alien doesn't show up again I'd say Rip Haywire is back to decent. The stereotypical sheep herder image is of a gentle, often pristine man watching a herd of similarly stereotypically pure white sheep. Here we see a surly fellow enjoying a smoke, enough shorthand for the time to suggest he's a bit of a lout. The black sheep of the family is a term for someone who gets all the bad will and gossip of that family, deserved or not, often for the sole purpose of giving everyone else in the family a chance to punch down on their least successful member. The black sheep is herding black sheep. Even his cute dog is a bit surly.
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The shepherd, who has a whole flock of black sheep, is himself of nonstandard appearance and bearing. They are of a pair, the shepherd and his flock.
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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life It’s not like anyone needs another reason to hate this comic but gently caress your universe where these two idiots somehow get vaccines in goddamn February.
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Homebodies - 1952 Going to be out of town until Sunday, so here's a big drop another favorite
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readingatwork posted:
For years I could never figure out Calvin's expression in the second panel and I think I finally realized it's because he's shifting his head back and forth erratically so it's motion blur.
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PainterofCrap posted:Homebodies - 1952 These two took me a second to get but they are fabulous.
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PainterofCrap posted:Homebodies - 1952 My grandparents had a copy of this in their upstairs bathroom as you do, so seeing these now is like revisiting old friends or something.
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Parahexavoctal posted:In this installment of The Timid Soul (February 20, 1933), it's interesting to realize that typewriters were once seen as decadent and modern. Caspar almost managed to prevent posting. So close.
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Nancy 1946
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (June 12, 2009) Arlo and Janis Classic (June 12, 1999) Garfield Classic (June 12, 1989)
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Docks Retail Popular Comics
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The Lockhorns Brewster Rockit Space Guy On The Fastrack Safe Havens Kevin & Kell Mother Goose & Grimm Hagar The Horrible Sherman's Lagoon Ella Cinders Zorro Reply All
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FrumpleOrz posted:
I've been enjoying the past week or so of reply all but this one is just really great
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Did one of you get me this avatar? I appreciate it. The old one was on brand but nobody wants to look at weird pictures of Josh Hawley on a regular basis. I used to not even know what he looked like. Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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We hosed after 10 years of dating are we married now?
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Jun 28, 1952) Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 19-20, 1988) Robbie and Bobby (Feb 22, 2019) (Feb 25, 2019) Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell Why is this a thing. Spending a week on "Yep, this long established couple fucks".
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readingatwork posted:
Lynn Johnston nods approvingly.
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EBB posted:Why is this a thing. Spending a week on "Yep, this long established couple fucks". The Far Side Pickles Zits
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