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Samovar posted:Arlo & Janice manages to thread the needle between lovely and pure with horny on main and I love it for it. Yeah it's such a good comic. I can't believe I didn't like it at first.
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This is one of the strips that hits me pretty hard as an adult looking back. Yes, it was absolutely wrong of Calvin to try to get Susie in trouble in his place, and he didn't get his bug collection done on time. But what benefit is he getting from being yelled at over and over and over again? The punchline makes clear that getting read the riot act doesn't make him remember assignments any better- he's a child who needs help, but he's learning that authority figures are much more interested in exerting that authority than in helping him. I know it's just a comic strip, and that Calvin isn't an actual child, but it reminds me of my own childhood enough that it got under my skin.
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I always thought that an Insect collection was a really weird assignment for what, 8 year-olds?
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Green Intern posted:I always thought that an Insect collection was a really weird assignment for what, 8 year-olds? 6. Calvin is six. I had that assignment is high school biology.
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Green Intern posted:I always thought that an Insect collection was a really weird assignment for what, 8 year-olds? Yeah, I always read it as "collect fifty different kinds of bugs" (rather than, say, forty-nine ants and a ladybug) and when I read that storyline as a kid, I remember thinking that I hadn't seen fifty different kinds of bugs in my entire life, much less just hanging around my neighborhood.
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Watterson always gave Calvin weird age-inappropriate assignments. It's just part of the strip.
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Calvin is 6 in the same way that Bart is 10 and Lisa is 8
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I had an insect collection and labeling assignment when I was...maybe 7?
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Jucika "20 - Jucika and the Novelty" "pogácsasajt= Pogácsa Cheese, (kvargli) ismet kapható=(Olomouc Cheese) is also available." Looking it up it Jucika bought the olomouc which is known for its odor. Pogácsa pastries(Hungarian cheese biscuits) look delicious. "Jucika and the Crime Fiction Novel"  I love that Jucika is wholesome enough for cop jokes. This strip is adorable and the third panel doubly so. The furniture morph is so good and clever too. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Mercedes Colomar posted:
Neither of these children are old enough to have armpit hair, let alone have opinions on grooming it, or to know the sterotype of French women not doing it, this feels particularly skeevy god shut the gently caress up Detorie you loving weirdo.
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That's pretty standard "child repeating thing they saw on television without understanding it". Kids are parrots.
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goatface posted:That's pretty standard "child repeating thing they saw on television without understanding it". Kids are parrots. Yeah I've never been to London or France..... never seen any of them underpants but i certainly remember being told about the French and hairy arm pits.
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Classic Zits who the gently caress would ever turn down snickerdoodles what is wrong with you jeremny
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Darthemed posted:Retail gently caress you, Stuart.
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Darthemed posted:Retail The Dinette Set is the victim here.  Working Daze forgot to tell a joke.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is trapped in a cycle of abuse. I think.  Cul De Sac is half-right. 
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Everything in that Ballard Street dump, oh my god. It's as if boomers were actually harmless eccentrics instead of boomers.
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Hal Foster draws the best faces. Do we ever meet any knights of the Round Table besides Gawain? Tristran showed up just long enough to get stabbed, and I think Kay was mentioned, but I don't recall any others. Of course, Val spends most of his time away from Camelot.
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Wallace, no, please don't spread the idea that it's okay to ride in the back of a truck without seatbelts. This no joke made my opinion of this comic go down quite a bit. I can accept it when Wallace is doing something stupid and crazy because he's a kid, but his dad is letting him do this and his mom is joining in on it when it's extremely dangerous. Evil Mastermind posted:The joke is that it's not a joke. This is one of the main reasons why retail places use part-time employees. Yeah that comic is really just an actual conversation that has happened many times in the US work force.
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Mämmilä (August 10, 1991) A small addendum to yesterday's comic. Mikko was born on December of 1985, so on July 1991 he is 5. School in Finland starts the year you turn 7, so Mikko begins first grade in August 1992 at 6 years old.
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Stuart is an rear end in every way but that is almost certainly not even his call Certain store roles are full-time and others are part-time and that isn't his decision But since he sides with corporate and licks their rear end constantly he does deserve to be lumped in
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amigolupus posted:The trunk of a car is actually a pretty dangerous place for a kid to hide. It has poor ventilation and can get to high temperatures which can result in heatstroke, especially with the comic showing us it's a sunny day. The comic's also been published in 1991, so it's not yet a standard feature for vehicles to have a glow-in-the-dark car trunk release. Depending on how long he's been hidden in there, Mikko being asleep in the trunk could be a serious warning sign. Twelve by Pies posted:Wallace, no, please don't spread the idea that it's okay to ride in the back of a truck without seatbelts. This no joke made my opinion of this comic go down quite a bit. I can accept it when Wallace is doing something stupid and crazy because he's a kid, but his dad is letting him do this and his mom is joining in on it when it's extremely dangerous. Says the guy who's been on about Everett True, I know, but still.
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The Bloop posted:Stuart is an rear end in every way but that is almost certainly not even his call I get what you mean about the authority to make that direct switch(PT to FT) but Stuart is store manager and Marla does the schedule and Cooper probably works 34.5 hour weeks(after lunch punches) when the weekly strip arc isn't "Cooper wants more hours."  Stuart could talk to HR and push for Cooper to be full time but never would and it's not really a surprise anymore that by the end of the strip Cooper and Marla would watch Stuart die on the street.
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Doomykins posted:by the end of the strip Cooper and Marla would watch Stuart die on the street. That's really how it ought to have ended.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Maybe not everything needs to be soberly socially responsible and actively serve as a positive example to the reader 100% of the time? Forget it, Horse... it's Comictown.
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Comic Strips 2021: this loving cartoon character is terrible at traffic safety PSAs
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Julet Esqu posted:
So I might be confused here, but is Tiffany saying she paid more out of her pocket than the agreed upon fee from before? Why would she do that? Wouldn’t that mean she’d lose money even if whatshername was happy about it? Why is this comic so criminally poorly written...
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ikanreed posted:6. Calvin is six. We had something like that in HS bio but it was "okay, we've got an hour of class and the woods are right out the back door. Stay within sight of the buildings and let's see what you can find."
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Theoretically since Bets is an ~influencer~ she can get a return on investment via people seeing the experience on social media and making their own reservations. That said, today's strip was exactly what I wanted it to be: stupid as hell
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