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b]And He Did![/b] (April 29, 1918) Everett True Kills a Man (June 28, 1918)  Banana Oil! (February 29, 1924)  Gay and Her Gang (June 12, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (November 12, 1935)  Mopsy (January 12, 1937)  Dark Laughter (May 5, 1945)  Those Were the Days (December 25, 1952)  Dinky Fellas (August 2, 1965)  Wee Pals (August 2, 1965) 
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BigDave posted:VCR's had been commercially available since the mid-80s but they still cost. In 1994 a new VCR would set you back $200 or more. Holy poo poo, there in the center is the exact TV I got in 1994 to take to the college dorms, the GE for $149.88. 
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Ardeem posted:Except for the one Phantom who rebelled against nopants and is wearing jodhpurs. One of my favorite things about comics is the nonsensical bold-texting of words. WOODEN HANGERS!!!
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Selachian posted:
I would like to yet again say how much I love Thompson's hideous cat faces
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Johnny Walker posted:
Finally, Beatty gets down to the business of drawing unmitigated smut!
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Sally Forth Pearls Before Swine  Peanuts (August 28, 1974)  Funky COVIDbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Tight on time again, so LifeSkippy had to be the can I kicked down the road. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Apr 26, 2021 |
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Some Guy TT posted:Cheer Up Boss Dharma Holy poo poo, Boss Dharma.
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Oh gently caress you Batiuk
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So Funky Winkerbean, which was written like a year in advance actually, was written under the assumption that the pandemic...ended, huh. Well.
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Batiuk's head is deep in his colon but you'd think an editor or someone would have send him a note about altering or pulling these strips.
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (December 25, 1952) 1. I don’t know why the women in both panels are confused, but Beeman draws really expressive faces. 2. Get bent, Beeman.
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BigDave posted:VCR's had been commercially available since the mid-80s but they still cost. In 1994 a new VCR would set you back $200 or more. While this is accurate, VCR technology was still improving readily, with each year bringing new features. This meant that a lot of older models were available in places like resale shops and rummage sales. I distinctly remember one kid who didn't have a VCR back then. His parents were very against new-fangled gadgets, and had a "you're lucky we wasted money on a TV set!" attitude. Everyone else thought this was really odd.
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I think my dad bought a top-loading VCR in the early 80s for like $400.
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Johnny Walker posted:
The Ghost Who Is Totally Sane.
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Look at Batiuk trying to be deep with his "I've worn masks all my life" bullshit. And again, this is an AA meeting, why is Funky even bringing up his business here?Evil Mastermind posted:I can't believe I never thought of this before, but...why is the bus doing a three-point turn and knocking over mailboxes? Buses aren't by-house pickup services and it'd be much easier to just go around the block or something. Because Crankshaft is supposed to be a "Lovable rear end in a top hat" and the running gag is that he keeps running over his neighbor's mailbox and other people's stuff. This is supposed to endear Crankshaft to you, definitely not make you think he's a public menace who needs his driver's license revoked.
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kidcoelacanth posted:I moved in January and fell behind on the thread, which has now snowballed to almost 6000 unread posts. Finally starting my catch-up tonight. See you all on the other side o7 i lived bitch
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amigolupus posted:Look at Batiuk trying to be deep with his "I've worn masks all my life" bullshit. And again, this is an AA meeting, why is Funky even bringing up his business here? AA stands for Alcoholic Advertising targets. Actually now I'm curious, how much do they emphasize that whole Anonymous thing? Can people out themselves?
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The purpose of the Anonymous thing is so that you don't refuse to get help because you're afraid of the scandal. "Outing" yourself (in the form of "Hey, buddy, you seem to have a problem. So do I, but I know a place that can help..." is a fairly expected thing. AA isn't the greatest of organizations, but that's as much due to the age of it than anything else. Most of the rules are well-intentioned, they're just based on expectations that didn't wholly mesh with reality.
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Evil Mastermind posted:I can't believe I never thought of this before, but...why is the bus doing a three-point turn and knocking over mailboxes? Buses aren't by-house pickup services and it'd be much easier to just go around the block or something. Yeah I guess I never really picked up on that until you mention it, I don't think that dude has a kid in school (at least I don't recall one ever being mentioned) so why the hell is Crankshaft backing up in his driveway? The bus I rode when I was a kid would turn down a road and back up to turn around, but never in a driveway, not even of the kids they were picking up. amigolupus posted:Because Crankshaft is supposed to be a "Lovable rear end in a top hat" and the running gag is that he keeps running over his neighbor's mailbox and other people's stuff. This is supposed to endear Crankshaft to you, definitely not make you think he's a public menace who needs his driver's license revoked. The worst part of that poo poo is that the guy whose mailbox kept being ran over took Crankshaft to court over it, and it honestly should have been a slam dunk victory for him but Crankshaft won due to some dumbass bullshit I can't even remember, probably something like "He and the judge were buddies and Crankshaft wasn't doing it on purpose so they decided it was fine."
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Compu-toon  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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Julet Esqu posted:
To be fair, his mother reacted the same way when he told her that.
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Edit: no, wait. Stupid observation.
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Surgeon's Tales  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_III An earlier comic said that it's year 1950, but the year isn't mentioned in the book and based on the other details, it seems to be 1952, which makes the prince 6 years old. He actually manages to whip Eerikki several times before he breaks the whip. King Fredrik died in 1951 without an heir (bastards don't count). The new king Adolf Fredrik was actually chosen as a part of 1743 peace treaty by demand of Russians. Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Crankshaft makes a point of pride of making kids miss his bus. He is doing it deliberately because he is a dick.
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Classic Kevin & Kell (December 18-24, 2000)      
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Arlo and Janis  Tina's Groove Classic (August 15, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (August 15, 1999)  Garfield Classic (August 15, 1989) 
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Bunlotte Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 4/25/01  Brenda Starr 5/6-8/46  Because it's been too long since Brenda collected another potential boyfriend.   Smokey Stover 10/6/40  Richard's Poor Almanac 
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Batiuk needs to loving retire, holy poo poo Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her hoooooooooobooooy  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Vargo posted:Phoebe and Her hoooooooooobooooy as was foretold by the ancient texts
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Author Unknown? LOOK AT THEIR HANDS! John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website My Author Unknown? intro guide password is TheOther
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Nancy 1946
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Cmon Dana, no no no no.
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Jucika "32 - Jucika and the Petticoat Fashion" NSFW Nudity "Jucika is Understanding"  "The sign says 'Out of order due to Spring'. It's mainly a joke about how Spring makes people a lot more, shall we say, amorous."
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The Bloop posted:Oh... Tread carefully, Dana Ok, well. I mean there is probably nothing wrong with having an innocent childhood crush on an actual sentient intelligent being in a world with magical creatures This would even be sort of cute IF NOT FOR
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Dykes to Watch Out For #137 (1992)  Rodney King was brutally beaten by cops on March 3, 1991 following a car chase. A passerby, George Holiday, caught the beating on video, leading to a widely publicized backlash to the sight of white cops beating a restrained and prone black man (King sustained 11 skull fractures, a broken ankle, broken teeth, kidney failure, a fractured facial bone, and more). Four cops were brought to trial for assault and excessive force, and all four were acquitted on April 29, 1992. Within hours LA responded with widespread unrest and agitation, as the ubiquitous video ignited long-simmering racial tensions and resentment towards the racist LAPD, including. Rioting had largely wound down by May 3rd, but federal troops sent into the city remained until the 9th, and the National Guard was not completely withdrawn until the 27th. Ultimately 63 people were killed and over 6,300 arrested over the five day period. The George H.W. Bush speech Mo is referring to took place on May 6th, after he flew to LA. As much as GHW Bush sucked, from what I can tell Mo or Bechdel are a little confused about the order of events. The infamous "liberal programs of the 60s and 70s" soundbite was delivered by his press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, earlier in the week, and was immediately recognized as a dire misstep, so by his visit on the 6th Bush was already trying to backpedal the sentiment of laying blame on "Great Society" reforms. Indeed, his White House's response to the crisis was thoroughly lambasted in the media as wishy washy, callous, weak, and extremely alienating to non-white voters. A recent book by Kai Linke, Good White Queers? Racism and Whiteness in Queer American Comics singles out this strip in particular for what Linke sees as Bechdel's racial quietude-- her insistence on producing a comic about queerness in which race often pops up, rather than engaging meaningfully and materially with race (Linke, 157). I have not finished Linke's book so I can't entirely weigh in on their argument but I think there is a kernel of truth to it-- in this strip, Rodney King's brutalization is grist for a comic about Mo's neuroses, and an open-ended and still seething sociopolitical and racial issue is winnowed into a pointed punchline about one white lady's emotional difficulties. Still-- even acknowledging contemporary injustices with authentic rage and confusion and grief is way more than most comics do, and Bechdel is certainly a million miles away from whatever Batiuk's thing is. What's more, I think Bechdel is increasingly... hm... honest about this, as her characters age and grow into something like middle-aged security and domesticity in the early 21st century. So I think it's a complicated formal issue and I recommend (again, with the caveat that I am not done with it) Linke's book for more on a prevalent and sensitive issue in queer comics. Anyway speaking of urban violence, na na na na na etc.: Batman (11/17/1989) 
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