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catlord posted:I am 100% gonna regret asking this, but what on earth was that like? Because this has come up a few times but I don't think we've ever seen those early ones. How did it end up being... this? There is a print collection of the first year available. It's just out of my impulse buy range but maybe the next time I have too much rum it'll end up in my mailbox. EDIT: Another terrible snipe! Have an Archie. 
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No Dinette Set today. Working Daze might want to look for another job.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is probably for the best.  Cul De Sac knows the emotional impact music can have. 
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Hostile V posted:They are gods, gods I tell you! They have cracked the secret of the gene and the atom and the particles between space and time to become more than human, and they insult us by walking among us and pretending to be us still when they could be making the world a better place or doing anything at all! Well remember they also invented time travel and that's why Leonardo da Vinci as a kid is at their day care.
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This installment of The Timid Soul was published November 5, 1928 -- the day before the 1928 Presidential election (Al Smith vs Herbert Hoover). It's interesting to see such an obvious precursor to the bumper sticker being displayed on the windshield instead. I honestly can't tell if Caspar supporting Hoover meant that Webster supported Hoover too, or thought he was a worthless idiot - which was probably intentional. Don't want to piss off readers. Look at all that gorgeous detail on the car. You can even read the license plate. And there's no need to have a tree in the panel, much less a wire cage protecting the tree, but as I've said before: HT Webster absolutely loved to draw. 
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Parahexavoctal posted:This installment of The Timid Soul was published November 5, 1928 -- the day before the 1928 Presidential election (Al Smith vs Herbert Hoover). It's interesting to see such an obvious precursor to the bumper sticker being displayed on the windshield instead. The joke is he has both stickers.
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ikanreed posted:The joke is he has both stickers. He's just now putting the Smith sticker on because he's going to see someone he knows supports Smith. The Hoover sticker has clearly been there for some time.
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PainterofCrap posted:Homebodies - 1951-54 
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (September 27, 1951) The husband in the second panel has undiagnosed depression, and that's sad.
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Green Intern posted:The husband in the second panel has undiagnosed
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In the sagebrush and the cactus I'll watch the fellows practice droppin' bombs through the clean desert breeze. I'll wear my sombrero, and of course I'll wear a pair o Levis over my lead BVDs.
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth This may have been pointed out before, but Labradors are way bigger than that. Even when they're pups, they have big, thick paws and grow really fast. Unless she's negging her own dog. *looks Dalmatian in the eye* you know what's a good type of dog? Borzoi!
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Family Circus Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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Evil Mastermind posted:Untitled Goose Comic It's being escorted under guard to the Federal Reserve = lays golden eggs?
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Classic Kevin & Kell (October 4-8, 1999)    
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Drimble Wedge posted:It's being escorted under guard to the Federal Reserve = lays golden eggs? Yes. e; Could edit the leash to be a handcuff around the gooses neck and the sign to say Court House or something. But that would mean the goose let themselves get taken alive. MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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Twelve by Pies posted:Wait, Mark Ten just saved them from the evil tree, where the hell did he go? He just showed up and then immediately hosed off again? I think Mark Ten's just hanging back because Axa ordered him to, all because Dirk is an rear end in a top hat who wants to control who Axa is friends with. maltesh posted:So I only really started paying attention to Safe Havens halfway through the Mars Trip. I was vaguely aware of the various types of DNA magic going on, and assumed that all that was just one-offs to generate the various main characters, and the public face of the genetics lab was mostly normal. Yes, DNA Wizard regularly violates all laws of science to produce these creatures. It's a real horror show under Holbrook's regular twee poo poo. I think I recall someone saying that the public doesn't fully know the extent of what they do in the lab? Like DNA Wizard found cures for illnesses that plague humankind or even ways to extend your life but didn't release it because something something people can't be trusted, so she acts similar to the wizards in Harry Potter who don't share their cures with the Muggles. But yeah, between the Welcome Sign and how the parents of the plant-child have signed him up for various sports camps, I guess Holbrook forgot all about DNA Wizard is supposed to keep her poo poo under wraps. So basically, it's this:  Hostile V posted:They are gods, gods I tell you! They have cracked the secret of the gene and the atom and the particles between space and time to become more than human, and they insult us by walking among us and pretending to be us still when they could be making the world a better place or doing anything at all!
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Johnny Aztec posted:Oh, you sweet, summer child. Everything is DNA magic. The mouse man ,the bird woman , cat and plant boy have all been presented as characters. So while DNA magic is responsible for their states, it's easier to accept that they're fine with who and what they are, and there was some rudimentary narrative purpose for it happening. The flatworm sign and the broom thing, they haven't been. They read as sentient abominations that the main cast made for their amusement. Things a comic-book supervillain or a horror movies mad scientist might do, with the sentience being a clumsy attempt to end-run any villainous concerns: "It's fine. The broom monster we made says they're happy to be a broom monster, and we pay them to be a broom monster, so it's all fine. Everything's fine. How are you?"
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 2/21/01  Brenda Starr 12/10-12/45    Okay, wait, let's recap. Miss, ahem, Stankie is a model who has ideas for fashion design. Instead of going into business for herself -- it may be 1945, but it's not like female dress designers were unusual even back then -- she asks Madame Igor to be her front man. And Madame Igor, despite having her own career as a prominent musician, as well as hating fashion and models and beauty in general, agrees. She goes so far as to create a male identity, Cedric Modiste, to pose as a fashion designer. This goes on until Stankie is tired of the arrangement, at which point Madame Igor snaps and murders her and disposes of her body in a way that's easily traceable back to her. This certainly makes sense. Smokey Stover 7/23/39  Richard's Poor Almanac  Yes, the Smithsonian has an exhibit of First Lady gowns. Yes, the Washington Monument does change color partway up, but it's because they had to stop building it during the Civil War (not enough workers left in town), and when they started again, they used stone from a different quarry. Fanny Farmer was a cookbook author; the reference here is to Fanne Foxe, a stripper who had an affair with Congressman Wilbur Mills in the 1970s and once famously tried to escape from cops by jumping into the Tidal Basin. None of this had anything to do with Teddy Kennedy and Chappaquiddick, of course.
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Circus Windows part 2 starts today! With a guest cover by Max Sarin! Lottie experiences the wonders of the car wash! I like how Allison has "the next day" written in suds on the car. 
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I love those last two panels. Val making the most childish face at the thought of marriage while his dad strokes his beard in admiring contemplation. Then the next panel they're straight back to the paperwork and king dad is mid shuffling his chair back toward the table. It is such a small action, but so clearly points out that they're just getting on with things having "solved" the minor problem of two potentially difficult courtiers. A big story in Ingrid and Eric's life, a tiny one in Val's.
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Weekend over, back to Cathy posting Cathy March 3+4 1977  
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Nancy 1946 I was looking up Washington's birthday and came across this:  
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Nov. 21, 1943) Some incredible faces in this page.
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How Safe Havens should have ended.
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amigolupus posted:How Safe Havens should have ended. They’d end up averting the crisis by adopting the sun.
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amigolupus posted:How Safe Havens should have ended. First panel: The spaceship plunges into the sun Second panel: A face appears on the sun Third panel: The sun says, "I'm expecting!"
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The_Other posted:Circus Windows part 2 starts today! With a guest cover by Max Sarin! Lottie joins the Clown Corps.
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The_Other posted:Circus Windows part 2 starts today! With a guest cover by Max Sarin! I really hate what Sarin does to the Bad Machinery crew, but the amazing faces in Prince Valiant have evened out my enraged heart. Modesty Blaise   nishi koichi posted:god, the sally forth dialogue gets on my drat nerves Welcome to the club, friend. Welcome to the club.
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (June 22, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (June 22, 1999)  Garfield Classic (June 22, 1989) 
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Quiet acknowledgement of washington as a slaver
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Club life in Moominvalley This raises some interesting questions about how tall the Moomins actually are. You could assume that she's measuring him just to have it on paper that he's notably shorter than 5'8" / 172 cm, but it's more fun to assume that he's close enough to it that people can't just tell at a glance that he is. If that is the case and he's like ~5 foot or whatever, then that would make the Moomins giants, with Moominmamma towering over him at an estimated 250-270cm / 8'3"+. (As Hippos can grow to like 4.5 meters in length, Moomins are over half their length, and dwarfs them standing up.) 
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SubNat posted:This raises some interesting questions about how tall the Moomins actually are. 
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I am on mobile so pretend I posted that “ oh, that is terrifying” gif. Also re:Modesty Blaise: Guido, you loving rat! That’s one of the lowest piece of shot actions you could do! Faking a goddamn wedding 
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