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Kazinsal posted:College Arlo has certifiable Doonesbury energy. I think that's just how people looked in the seventies.
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Selachian posted:Deathless Deer 12/28-30/42 Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Dec. 10, 1944) B Kliban  
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 fondue posted:The art and story are just so good. Also, doesn't he end up marrying her? he do
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fondue posted:Is it just me or does the art look like it's done by an artist and not a cartoonist? I mean, cartoonists are artists but I think there are common conventions they all use and this strip really throws me a "I usually do paintings or scenery sketches" and not three-panel daily stories. I haven't been paying attention to this one since I fell behind on the thread by about a week, but iirc one of its many issues is that the artist was a commercial illustrator and had a hard time keeping up with the schedule.
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I would like to purchase Spiff's device.
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Same, my life would be improved by a degree of protection as well as some atmospheric stability. We can't all be as daring and carefree as Aaron
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fondue posted:Is it just me or does the art look like it's done by an artist and not a cartoonist? I mean, cartoonists are artists but I think there are common conventions they all use and this strip really throws me a "I usually do paintings or scenery sketches" and not three-panel daily stories. Yes, McMein was a Real Artist who was best known for doing magazine cover portraits. Her magazine cover work was drying up in 1942 because new printing techniques made it easier and cheaper for magazines to use photographs instead. So Deathless Deer was her trying something new, but as LvK says above, she had a tough time keeping up with a six-strip-a-week schedule. Seriously, take a few minutes and glance over her biography. She sounds like she was a hell of a lot of fun.   Anyway, on that note: Deathless Deer 12/31/42 - 1/2/43  Now wait just a loving minute, Narrator. When Deer picked up Bruce at the party, you said he was "a young engineer." Hell, just a few days ago Bruce was telling Prof Hoot they had to "bring the case to the chief" without indicating that he was the chief.  Frappy New Year!  Gratuitous Heroine-in-Her-Underwear scene, 1943 style. Selachian fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Dinky Dinketon, Flyin' Jenny, and The Red Knight Nov. 1st, 1940   amigolupus posted:Seriously, why did Galen turn into an agitator/saboteur? He arrived in a place where he doesn't know what the citizens' values are, how things work or what their laws are like. He's an arrogant rear end for thinking he has any right to tell people how to live. I have no idea what his deal is, based on the first story I assumed he was a bit of an rear end in a top hat but also, I assume the pun was intended by Romero and Avenell, the more grounded of the two leader types. He's just gone full-on moustache twirling for some reason. Axa   Jorge and... Jarge. Yeah, ok.
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I'm going to pronounce Jorge as 'hor-hey' and make Jarge rhyme with large.
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RandomPauI posted:[quote="Pastry of the Year" post="514301519"] It's amazing how many Mo's I've met on Twitter, not like disparagingly but like in a "I have a huge amount of anxiety and all I want to do is scream and worry" way.
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Hostile V posted:It's amazing how many Mo's I've met on Twitter, not like disparagingly but like in a "I have a huge amount of anxiety and all I want to do is scream and worry" way. That's just kind of the human condition right now though.
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Hel posted:I really want the bottom left panel as a poster. I'd settle for a desktop background personally. It also looks pretty close to avatar sized, but that image seems far too badass to work as an avatar unless you're like, trying to make fun of someone.
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Kavak posted:That's just kind of the human condition right now though.
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave 
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And He Did! (April 30, 1918) Outbursts of Everett True (June 29, 1918)  Banana Oil! (March 3, 1924)  Gay and Her Gang (June 14, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (November 14, 1935)  Mopsy (January 14, 1937)  Dark Laughter (May 19, 1945)  Those Were the Days (January 15, 1953)  Dinky Fellas (August 4, 1965)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Place_(TV_series) Wee Pals (August 4, 1965) 
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And now, as a reward for those of you who waited, a terrible comic:
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Julet Esqu posted:And now, as a reward for those of you who waited, a terrible comic: Do what now
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Slammy posted:Dark Laughter (May 19, 1945)
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Fighting Trousers posted:Do what now Bets is being written out I bet. I didn't look ahead or anything.
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Julet Esqu posted:And now, as a reward for those of you who waited, a terrible comic: sorry what? God if Gunther does "realize" that he's in love with Tiffany I will lose my loving mind. Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Bets is being written out I bet. The Dinette Set knows what's more important.  Working Daze realizes that nobody cares.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix could at least buy me dinner first.  Cul De Sac plays the long game. 
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I believe Bernice is misinterpreting Gunther, and that's the punchline, and also god Luann sucks so much
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Yeah but it's through her misinterpretation that Gunther will realise he's in love with Tiffany - even Bets has realised it! - because that's the worst possible storyline.
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Also I'm late to the party on the most hated lists but Luann and Working Daze are 1a and 1b for me. Just absolute dogshit comics
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #138 (1992) Mo is definitely serving as cautionary here. Harriet phrases her complaints as problems that could potentially be solved - to my ear she's leaving openings for Mo to offer to make the relationship more of what Harriet wants. Honest negotiation, basically. Mo, OTOH, even though she desperately wants the relationship to continue (made extra-clear in the last frame) just insults Harriet's complaints and heads off on weird tangents like "why didn't you just go ahead and have an affair". To some extent Sparrow becomes the secondary character heroine as Harriet fades into the background, which is quite a shift from her initial portrayal as a ditz (still sort of going just a few strips back with the out-of-the-blue Star Trek fandom). She's never as nearly flawless as Harriet, though, and perhaps that's why Bechdel chose to backstage Harriet - it's flaws that drive both comedy and drama. In a melodrama, a flawless heroine can be shown overcoming obstacles generated by others, but Bechdel wasn't writing that kind of (IMO shallow) story. curtadams fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Ghostlight posted:This is a dark laugh. It is indeed.
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kidcoelacanth posted:i lived bitch wb, nice av
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Evil Mastermind posted:I mean, we all knew that was going to happen regardless but Jesus to do it like this is bad even for this strip. Dez's gig is in jeopardy. All the Evanses know to do with spicy girls is write them out.
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Sep 4, 1952)  Calvin and Hobbes (May 4-5, 1989)   Robbie and Bobby   Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here.
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Ghostlight posted:Yeah but it's through her misinterpretation that Gunther will realise he's in love with Tiffany - even Bets has realised it! - because that's the worst possible storyline. maybe we'll get the best possible storyline and tiff will just crush gunthers heart even further after having a fun quasi date with ox or since luann and bernice have shown up we'll have another week of them just not shutting up while eating hotdogs/more of gunther's fries
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Julet Esqu posted:And now, as a reward for those of you who waited, a terrible comic: Hey, my friend Gunther looks upset. Well, whatever lol gently caress, in pursuit of a lame punchline both characters look like such assholes. I figure either Bets will continue to "need space" and fade from the comic, or maybe there'll be a saccharine "I needed time but I luv u2".
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curtadams posted:I think I've mentioned this before, but DtWOF employs a protagonist/heroine split much like Cathy does where the protagonist is explicitly and intentionally problematic and a separate heroine/role model is used to model proper behavior and show the flaws of the protagonist. A severely flawed protagonist is pretty common in long-running comic strips; a secondary hero/heroine less so; the only other one that pops to my mind is Blondie, and maybe Pearls. I think that Bechdel wanted to write a comic about believably political people, but not necessarily a political comic, and if she were going to continue to develop Harriet we'd actually eventually have to see what went on at her committee meetings and stuff. Ditto the way that rather than zeroing in on Clarice's environmental law stuff we get, in the very near future, the expanded focus on her and Toni's domestic life. Sparrow is great for Bechdel because her eventual arc forces every other character to come to grips with unexpected and unfamiliar new kinds of situations but allows the story to stay within the sphere of friendship and found family and queer kinship stuff. I don't mean that as a criticism, I really like it, and I think the later stretches of the strip suffer when they dip back into everybody just sitting around talking about politics, because, well, there's only so many jokes you can get out of having to live in a cruelly heterocentric world whereas there are I think probably infinite jokes about loving and arguing and raising kids. I'm really excited for Sydney to come along and to see how people itt react to her because I think she's a great foil to Mo, and such a tremendous pivot from Harriet. She's so eminently suited for a comic that is fundamentally about people sitting around and venting, because she offers such a pointed critique of that while still allowing that structure to unfold unimpeded. She's the kind of great antagonist that sort of digs spurs into the sides of a story to make it gallop faster. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:The thing I love most about this comic is that all the big-talking turbo-patriot Finns flee from the too hot sauna, while Mukku just calmly stays there to carry on the conversation. I think it's too simplistic to say this is patriotism or nationalism. The EU was really scary for farmers back then. We had this decentralized small farmer system in place and with the EUs coming it would open them up to competition from the large corporate farms of continetal europe and a load of other free market reforms that would deconstruct a lot of finlands social democratic ways of doing things and privatize a lot of state owned institutions. One of the most important things Finland negotiated before joining was guarantees that they would get EU subsidies for their agriculture in exchange for joining. At the time of this comic that might still be up in the air. Lauri at this time is probably genuinely afraid of how he will survive in the new EU future. And who knows if he will, tens of thousands of small farms have gone under since then.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I think it's too simplistic to say this is patriotism or nationalism. Oh I wasn't referring to their dialogue in this comic specifically, although you do make a good point. I was more talking of how every time they're around Mukku it's 24/7 Winter War references and comments about how some guy from a "camelshit coast" can't understand Finland or being Finnish. And then he out-saunas them all casually. That's got to sting.
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Classic Kevin & Kell (January 1-7, 2001)       Welcome to the new millennium  If this storyline feels familiar, it's because K&K did a "R.L. is missing, and Angelique is running the company" thing as recently as... A year ago? Two? Something like that. Wrestling has the seven-year rule, K&K goes for about a decade and a half to two decades. Time is a flat circle.
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