Slammy posted:

Those Were the Days (October 30, 1952)

That woman is angry.

Drakyn posted:

You reassure me, but now I'm imagining Bootsie's wake and funeral extended over multiple strips and it's almost worth it. The pallbearers all get broken arms fighting each other over who he owed more money so the coffin has to be dragged to the cemetary; three separate ladies show up who all seem equally convinced they've been Mrs. Bootsie for fifteen years; a general arrives to court martial the deceased for profligate misuse of military supplies; and the priest delivers an unsolicited rant on how that bum always stiffed him at the collection plate.




Then just as they throw the first handful of earth in, Bootsie wakes up with a TERRIBLE hangover.

Doomykins posted:

Me and the boys flicking cherry pits at women in the park.

Shneak posted:

Ghostlight posted:

I read both the clothing and the speech in this as very class-coded, which makes this a weirdly political statement, whereas once we had it all and could laugh at the simple things, but now, wow, we're all working class; mother has to wear the apron and the son is a scruff, and our disaffection is so high we not only don't appreciate but can't tolerate what was once enough to amuse us.

Slammy posted:

Banana Oil! (February 19, 1924)

LazyQ posted:

Should clarify that I meant "ratted out" as a joke. They posted about it in seemingly good faith and couple other people jumped in about how posting Mämmilä here is a copyright violation (which, frankly, it is). The tone was such that I wouldn't have been surprised if they had contacted Koivisto about it. I didn't engage and there was no trouble for me.

fondue posted:

sweeperbravo posted:

it also weirdly looks like it might be the same man and son, but different woman, which also raises some questions for me!

Johnny Walker posted:

Mark Trail

Howard Beale posted:

"How much did you buy the eggs for on Malta, Private Bootsie?"

Sweaty IT Nerd posted:

It seems like Gunther isn't getting lines lately in Luann.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Samovar posted:

That's some catch.

Edit: Also, the art in that Flash Forward reminds me of that new She-Ra cartoon.

Julet Esqu posted:

Johnny Walker posted:

This could be a Ballard Street.

Mikl posted:

Well. It's late October, in 2000. You know what this means. You best believe we doin' an election storyarc. (During which Holbrook's contempt for politics will become very clear.)

"The sheep rioting at the Chicago convention" is a reference to the protests that went down before and during the 1968 DNC in Chicago, which saw the Chicago PD, the National Guard, the US Army, and the FBI, with the explicit support and approval of Democratic leaders, including Noted rear end in a top hat Richard J. Daley, put down pro-peace (these were the Vietnam years) and anti-establishment protests. It resulted in the Chicago Seven being put on trial.

I know there are a few Chicagoans here itt who can probably expand on all this, if they want.

(Personall, I think the strip is a bit tone deaf.)

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Yvonmukluk posted:

Bobbins

BigglesSWE posted:

Monday will likely start the next chapter in the narrative in which he’ll be indignant and pissy towards Bets Les, for a reason even more asinine and stupid than we could predict.

Johnny Walker posted:

Flash Forward

Slammy posted:

Those Were the Days (October 30, 1952)

That woman is angry.

Mercedes Colomar posted:

Foob

Bibliotechno Music posted:

Classic Zits



One of the things I really like about these classic strips is the lettering, the interjections of script are really nice to look at.
It doesn’t seem like modern Zits mentions Hector’s Mexican background anymore, which is a shame. We’ll have a few nice strips about it in this collection, though.

Transmodiar posted:

Modesty Blaise

Johnny Walker posted:

The Phantom

Haifisch posted:

I'm in camp "TWTD isn't always intending to make the modern side of things be 100% bad"(although the "women? wearing PANTS? comic didn't help my case). In this case I'm pretty sure the joke is "people are rolling their eyes at jokes so old their grandparents' parents were telling them".

Breaking news: Being nosy & weird about your kid talking on the phone means your kid won't want to tell you anything about who they're talking to!

Is there some reason you're timg-ing all of these? It makes them slightly annoying to read.

SubNat posted:

Moominposting


And that's the end of 'The Conscientious Moomins', join us next time for a re-adaptation of 'Moomin and the Comet'.
(People might remember that Kennel kindly scanned and posted a 'Moomin and the end of the world' story march, last year. (How prescient, eh?) They bear some similarities, but showing is better than telling.)