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ThatGirlAtThatShow posted:And 99% of big-city lez culture was (and this is in my OWN experience, NYC, 1988-95, other people may vary,) just a merry go round of 'processing' and dating and everybody being no more than 3 degrees of separate from everybody else. It was a weird, powerful, wonky time and I think Bechdel captures that pretty well. Yeah I've been digging into a lot of stuff from that era lately (I'm in the middle of reading Lou Sullivan's diaries and Sarah Schulman's new ACT UP book) and it's funny how the more things change the more they stay the same in some ways. I moved to Philly right at the apex of the Reiki Era of queer poets and can still cite chapter and verse who was mad at who and who was having sex with who and who owed who rent money or beer money or who said they'd print whose chapbook and then didn't c. 2012-2015. I remember somebody liquidating her library because she needed cash to found a school of Atlantis yoga that had come to her in a dream, and her holding a permanent grudge against me because I bought her collected poems of Barbara Guest for a fiver. And then deciding to get a PhD because somebody at AWP did my tarot and said it was a really good idea (it was not). I think part of why I love DtWOF so much is because it feels so hyper-specific and timely but I also know each of these characters intimately in various permutations in my own world. I could name my Ginger, my Lois, and so on. Same as it ever was, etc.!
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Calm down, everybody. Gunther is going to be okay now that the psych major is on the scene!
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä (January 11, 1992) Holy poo poo, kid, you're absolutely the worst. Get hosed.
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Julet Esqu posted:Calm down, everybody. Gunther is going to be okay now that the psych major is on the scene! These are the last two people I would want helping me with relationship drama.
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Surgeon's Tales  The comic changes things a bit. In the book he just wanders around looking for the kitchen without seeing anyone. Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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My Lovely Horse posted:I know what will throw everyone off our trail: calling Encyclopedia Brown. He wasn't even calling Encyclopedia Brown in the first place, he was trying to reach Encyclopedia's cop dad. But the kid picked up, said "Oh dad's not here, guess I'll come instead."
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Julet Esqu posted:Calm down, everybody. Gunther is going to be okay now that the psych major is on the scene! e: in the interest of the slightest fairness: "why are you dressed as a pirate" is a valid question at this time. It's just not an important detail right now.
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Julet Esqu posted:Calm down, everybody. Gunther is going to be okay now that the psych major is on the scene! gently caress off Bernice Kennel posted:Dustin gently caress off Dustin's dad for someone who desperately wants his son to move out he sure has a great time destroying his confidence right before what seems to be a promising interview.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Shut the gently caress up, Bernice, you contemptable piece of poo poo. No, it's definitely a legitimate detail right now.
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The Bloop posted:No, it's definitely a legitimate detail right now. Yes, it's a legitimate detail because in the span of however long this shitshow storyline has been running it's been repeatedly harped on that Bets "made" Gunther sew the pirate costumes. We need to really drive home how she's a Bad Person who is only using him and doesn't actually consider his feelings.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Dec. 17, 1944) Good grief he's dragging her caveman style
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JethroMcB posted:Yes, it's a legitimate detail because in the span of however long this shitshow storyline has been running it's been repeatedly harped on that Bets "made" Gunther sew the pirate costumes. We need to really drive home how she's a Bad Person who is only using him and doesn't actually consider his feelings. I mean ok sure but even trying to genuinely figure out what is going on, the fact that he is in that costume is a valid detail about the night and surrounding circumstances. Yes, just ask him what's up and let him tell you in his own words, but if he's just giving short answers and you have to drag it out of him that's probably going to be one of the first questions you'd ask. Not defending the comic, it's bad, but I never understand why people defend certain characters in the comic who have somehow been "done dirty" as if they weren't all equally fictional. The strip's overall treatment of POC is definitely an issue, though
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Johnny Walker posted:Apartment 3-G George Carlin posted:If you fall asleep on a couch in a house where a woman is present, there will be a blanket or a coat covering you when you awaken.
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Mister Kingdom posted:
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curtadams posted:This storyline flopped like a dead fish. The first few turned on rather lame details, but at least they had something of a story. This had no tension, no motivations, and the "villain" is begging to be released from gloves he's had no complaints about earlier. Also, why *would* he have called in a report? On the other hand, this is what I remember reading Encyclopedia Brown mysteries to be like when I was a kid. Maybe I just had a dud book or was a particularly dull child.
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LvK posted: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. Selachian posted: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. Thank you both! B Kliban  
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SubNat posted:Moomin and the Comet This entire section has been wonderful, I love the walk on the ocean floor. Also, we're almost at where Prince Valiant was dropped last time it was posted, ran out of sources if I remember right, I'm looking forward to seeing new stories (even if I've forgotten enough of these ones that they might as well be anyways). Dinky Dinkerton, Flyin' Jenny, and The Red Knight Nov. 2nd, 1940    Axa    drat, I should have used that picture of Murray and Suzi here. But hey, the dream team is back!
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (April 30-May 1, 1974) Stop perpetuating this loving myth, Schulz! It wasn't all prayer of any kind that was banned; it was mandatory prayer led by your teacher or principal. quote:Funky Winkerbean I don't understand why Batiuk thinks we would care about any of this. You found a CD player. Good job, I guess?
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catlord posted:Axa That was a pretty solid Axa story. She found a nice town that wasn't full of evil mutants or weird old people trying to kill them, the guy she fell in love with wasn't a complete dickhead, she got to do stuff to save the day instead of just watching other people do it, and we even got Mark back. The whole thing with Galen turning into a villain trying to destroy Axa was weird but I'll take it. EasyEW posted:Thimble Theater (November 26-27, 1937) Hell yeah I am loving hyped to see Popeye clown on these dudes now that he's recovered.
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catlord posted:This entire section has been wonderful, I love the walk on the ocean floor. Me too. But just in case anyone reading this doesn't know, if in real life you should find the ocean missing one day, don't go exploring the seabed like this! Get inland, get to higher ground, it's a goddamn tsunami and you do NOT want to be there when the ocean comes roaring back, go go go!
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And He Did! (May 1, 1918) Outbursts of Everett True (July 2, 1918)  Banana Oil! (March 4, 1924)  Gay and Her Gang (June 15, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (November 15, 1935)  Mopsy (January 15, 1937)  Dark Laughter (May 26, 1945)  Those Were the Days (January 22, 1953)  Dinky Fellas (August 5, 1965)  Wee Pals (August 5, 1965) 
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Slammy posted:Dark Laughter (May 26, 1945) Also I swear TWTD did this gag already. But with different art.
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (January 22, 1953) Zereth posted:Also I swear TWTD did this gag already. But with different art. Yup, posted a month ago, but looks more like a different scan than different art: Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (June 12, 1952) Rerun? New distribution contract?
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Based on the date it will refer to the Adjusted Service Rating Score, the system that the US used to prioritise demilitarisation after Germany's surrender, where soldiers were assigned points based on how long they'd served, how many medals they got, and how many dependents they needed to support at home which determined their priority for being transported home and discharged.
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Zereth posted:Points? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjusted_Service_Rating_Score Basically as the war in Europe started to wind down the decision was made to start discharging American troops based on time in service, i.e. First In First Out.
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I've been busy moving this week, so here's a catch-up chunk of comics. Popular Comics to follow. Docks         Retail        
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Powered Descent posted:Yup, posted a month ago, but looks more like a different scan than different art: Whoops! That’s on me, I probably pulled them from two different publications. I’ll switch papers if quality declines, and it wasn’t the type of strip that published the same strip in all papers on the same date. Though “bought an ‘antique’ that grandma thought was trash” is a TWTD staple.
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Slammy posted:Whoops! That’s on me, I probably pulled them from two different publications. I’ll switch papers if quality declines, and it wasn’t the type of strip that published the same strip in all papers on the same date. We're all indebted to you for bringing these classic strips to us at all; we certainly wouldn't fault you for having an accidental repeat now and then among your sources. On behalf of all of us, thank you for posting these strips. They're pieces of history that we never would have encountered otherwise.
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Deeply regretting that time Slammy stopped posting and we didn't immediately start asking where's Slammy.
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean I'm...fully lost here. At first I thought that the joke was that Funky was using wireless earbuds and had to string together transmitters to make it work. Then in the second strip, it's clear that his earbuds are wired. I don't know. I shouldn't care about this. I need to go think about my life. Goodnight.
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Presumably, the joke is that his newfangled headphones need a series of adaptors to connect with his "ancient" CD player. Not getting the joke is understandable, as both would be using a standard 1/8" jack. It almost feels like the author repurposed a "they're taking the headphone jack off phones! " joke, but there is no way he would be smart enough for that.
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