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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Classic (August 20, 1999) I have similar opinions about the term "Human Resources". Vespene gas is a resource, a person is a person. Bizarro  The Family Circus  It's for consumers. Or perhaps resources.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jan. 07, 1945) Val, you walked into the palace and CARRIED OFF the princess in sight of EVERYONE and didn't eat a dozen arrows, get dogpiled by guards (maybe they're all guarding the beach), or get stabbed by her 20 suitors. SOMETHING is protecting you. (Yeah, it's plot magic, but I like the idea of Aleta staging/working the whole thing. "Oh dear, this BRUTAL man is carrying me away from the arranged marriage I hate! What SHALL I do?")
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Cobalt-60 posted:Val, you walked into the palace and CARRIED OFF the princess in sight of EVERYONE and didn't eat a dozen arrows, get dogpiled by guards (maybe they're all guarding the beach), or get stabbed by her 20 suitors. SOMETHING is protecting you. EDIT: I think that's what makes this charming to me. Val isn't trying to do a romantic abduction, but Aleta is going to make it that whether he likes it or not.
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Elly: "I want you to learn how to drive safely!" Also Elly: "Grrr, I'm mad you've learned how to drive safely!"
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Moomin and the Comet Now won't you be dears and help granny do a murder-by-sofa? SubNat fucked around with this message at 17:40 on May 1, 2021 |
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I loving love Prince Val. I wish this would be a great movie, not the poo poo we know it would be. Because Aleta kicks rear end.
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PetraCore posted:She's definitely working it - I think she probably could have just walked away quite easily when he was asleep, but she's fascinated with him, so she's deliberately prolonging their time together to try to win him over and figure him out. She warned him when she saw her own men coming, for god's sake! Modern Val women more openly hold power and--at least between the main characters--there is mutual respect and equality, which I guess is why there isn't much of this stuff. It is charmingly old-fashioned though. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The answer is "Yes," idiot. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Apartment 3-G  Andertoons ain't done updated yet.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail SubNat posted:Moomin and the Comet edit: good LORD Santanen.
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Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom This had better be the start of Heloise becoming the new Phantom! Classic Zits 
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth If anything, Cory should tell her to get lost. He doesn't know anything about her while she seems to know a bit about him from his social media account. Their entire conversation is her trying to butter him up, and now she's asking him to do some pro bono work when he only takes photos during his days off? This is like if you're an artist who does commissions and some rando is trying to score a free drawing off of you.
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Deathless Deer 1/14-16/43   Hey, you know what would really up the suspense in this kidnapping? A several-weeks-long and completely unconnected flashback!
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Deathless Deer is such a weird strip. I still haven't decided how I feel about it.amigolupus posted:If anything, Cory should tell her to get lost. He doesn't know anything about her while she seems to know a bit about him from his social media account. Their entire conversation is her trying to butter him up, and now she's asking him to do some pro bono work when he only takes photos during his days off? This is like if you're an artist who does commissions and some rando is trying to score a free drawing off of you. Yeah, the actual answer should be, "I can't pay rent with 'exposure'." He's a doctor and I'm sure he's doing just fine financially, but it's the principle. Pay your talent.  I never thought it could happen. A Gunther strip I don't hate.
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Selachian posted:Deathless Deer 1/14-16/43
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Julet Esqu posted:Deathless Deer is such a weird strip. I still haven't decided how I feel about it. That's because Les is a fun character who doesn't totally suck.
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Bobbins The_Other posted:Second, John Allison announced on his Patreon that his original Scary-Go-Round site down and he doesn't know when or if it will be back up. This means that the original Bad Machinery and New Bobbins strips will be unavailable (he had already taken down the classic Bobbins and Scary-Go-Round comics back in 2020). He is going to release collections of the New Bobbins strips on his Gumroad store store, as well as on his Patreon for the $3 and up supporters.
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Sep 8-9, 1952)   Calvin and Hobbes (May 10-13, 1989)     Robbie and Bobby     Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here.
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That third panel has always been a favorite.
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Maybe Calvin's mom and dad couldn't sleep because they were on the wrong side of the bed, and after they swapped everything was better.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I loving love Prince Val. I wish this would be a great movie, not the poo poo we know it would be. Because Aleta kicks rear end. In fact there were two Prince Valiant movies, one in 1954 and one in 1997. I have no idea if either of them is any good. It also had a 65-episode cartoon.
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Johnny Walker posted:I think women subtly being in control of men is a theme in these old Val strips. There was that story a while back about the woman who wanted the big blonde guy and manipulated him into falling for her, for example. I love how that arc ended with the king even calling out "well, she is definitely manipulating him into falling for her, but she's also insanely pretty, so good for him."
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Julet Esqu posted:Yeah, the actual answer should be, "I can't pay rent with 'exposure'." For christ's sake. He's an independently wealthy doctor who take photos as a hobby being propositioned by a blond with nice tits to take "modeling photos." Why the hell would he get pissy about it? Have you all turned into characters from Luann?
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How bad does Bernice need to be to make a Gunther and Les strip tolerable? This is valuable data.
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Julet Esqu posted:Deathless Deer is such a weird strip. I still haven't decided how I feel about it. I hate Luann, but I love every strip that has the cat in it. I don't know how they manage it.
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Weembles posted:For christ's sake. He's an independently wealthy doctor who take photos as a hobby being propositioned by a blond with nice tits to take "modeling photos." Why the hell would he get pissy about it? You've never seen her tits
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The Bloop posted:You've never seen her tits I extrapolated.
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Bongo Bill posted:It also had a 65-episode cartoon. I don't know what I was expecting but this wasn't it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBv9y6g6QA
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Bongo Bill posted:In fact there were two Prince Valiant movies, one in 1954 and one in 1997. I have no idea if either of them is any good. And apparently, NES and Game Boy games based on the cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAnd3hYjL-g I do like that music in the first stage.
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse Thank god my newly-minted 16 year old son, who I had been worried about him starting to drive, has turned out to be a conscientious learner of the road rules and seems to be serious about driving safely and obeying all the road rules! E:F;B ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 02:56 on May 2, 2021 |
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KInda-sorta spoilerish evaluation of Deathless Deer so far: Its reputation among comic strip people led me to expect a certain type of creative car crash. Even though we're still in early days, I can already smell the rubber on the road. The part about Deathless Deer I can say out loud: This style isn't exactly what I'd call dynamic. How many characters have shown expressions other than "blank surprise" or "intense concentration"? Anyway, I've got a case of Pfizer second-dose bleahs, so I'm posting the the short list again. Sally Forth   Pearls Before Swine   Skippy (September 28, 1933)  Peanuts (May 3-4, 1974)   Funky Winkerbean delivers a payoff well worth dragging through a whole week.   Crankshaft   Mutt and Jeff   Rip Haywire, in which RJ picks up old threads.   Thimble Theater (November 30-December 1, 1937)   Out Our Way (July 16-18, 1936)   
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Bongo Bill posted:In fact there were two Prince Valiant movies, one in 1954 and one in 1997. I have no idea if either of them is any good. I watched the 1954 movie last year and gave a little review in the comic strip thread The_Other posted:So I watched the 1954 Prince Valiant film this weekend. Pretty good in my opinion! The movie follows the broad strokes of the early comic, with some scenes being taken from specific strips. I also felt that the 50's Technicolor aesthetic fit well with the comic. As for the acting, Robert Wagner is fine as Valiant, but I really liked Sterling Hayden as Sir Gawain, who is clearly having fun with the role.
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Dykes to Watch Out For #142 (1992) I do not want to say how much a cold tallboy of sperm costs in 2021 but it is not $135. It is not $135 at all. Anyway this bit of this arc is very intense and at once scary and reassuring to me at this point in my life so I might be a bit terse with the annotations. Batman (11/22/1989) 
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Well, that Crankshaft saga could've been worse and thank Christ it wasn't, but also what the gently caress is the point of Funky Winkerbean telling this story at AA.
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And He Did! (May 7, 1918) Outbursts of Everett True (July 5, 1918)  Banana Oil! (March 8, 1924)  Gay and Her Gang (June 19, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (November 19, 1935)  Mopsy (January 19, 1937)  b]Dark Laughter[/b] (June 16, 1945)  Those Were the Days (February 12, 1953)  Dinky Fellas (August 9, 1965)  Wee Pals (August 9, 1965) 
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