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BigglesSWE posted:Ballard Street EasyEW posted:Elsewhere in the issues: Another fun time with Fred G. Cooper... Slammy posted:Dark Laughter (June 23, 1945) Doomykins posted:Jucika "39 - Jucika's Good Will" Very clever! fondue posted:B Kliban Haifisch posted:2017 GRONNNK riderchop posted:Compu-toon Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 5/23-25/46 Very stupid! (But I love them very much please do not insult my beautiful stupid children) It just occurred to me that Scarelli never told Brenda his first name, so she must have independently decided to call him a turkey face.
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Given the normal structure of this strip, I don't know how to interpret this other than "grown man upset he is no longer allowed to mock a child mercilessly".
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Author Unknown? A Wild Grote Appears! John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website My Author Unknown? intro guide password is TheOther
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics There's no time to waste! Bake a cake! quote:Footrot Flats I know this is just a super common old 'kids being kids' trope but this sucks and I'm so tired of seeing it in comics and in real life.
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"Leg make-up"? Is it that stuff people used to create a stocking-like effect on their legs during World War II when stockings were impossible to find?
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manero posted:Nancy 1946 This is the kind of comic that makes me wonder if "leg make-up" was a thing people called something else in the 40s, if it was an actual product that just disappeared as pants became more acceptable/fashionable or if Bushmiller made it up entirely for the gag.
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 https://mashable.com/2015/05/18/nylon-stocking-shortage/?europe=true
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Classic (August 22, 1999) Those facial expressions.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä (April 16, 1992) There is no escape from Mämmilä.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Vargo posted:Phoebe and Her Unicorn
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In my final years of public school they stopped offering bus service to the high school students. I would have been poo poo out of luck in Jeremy's position.
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Schwarzwald posted:In my final years of public school they stopped offering bus service to the high school students. I would have been poo poo out of luck in Jeremy's position. haha what the gently caress where? There were still plenty of people without cars in my high school
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The Bloop posted:haha what the gently caress A suburb north of Cincinnati. The district had no money, so when a local school budget bill failed to pass the district announced that they were forced to cut the bus route. It was commonly accepted that the measure was actually to punish the parents for not voting it through. I ended up dropping out early my junior year (and finishing online). The place was a hell hole.
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Mikl posted:Classic Kevin & Kell (February 5-11, 2001) I admit it, I laughed. Moomin and the Comet  Little My immediately gravitates towards the most dangerous object in the vicinity.
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Aren't you supposed to hole up during the day, and travel by night, for desert travel?
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Huxley posted:This is the kind of comic that makes me wonder if "leg make-up" was a thing people called something else in the 40s, if it was an actual product that just disappeared as pants became more acceptable/fashionable or if Bushmiller made it up entirely for the gag. I think it was actually a thing. There was a nylon shortage due to the war (parachutes etc)
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SubNat posted:Moomin and the Comet Funny that this is pretty much the only scene they kept intact.   Minus Swedish puns. Kennel fucked around with this message at 17:21 on May 3, 2021 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:Aren't you supposed to hole up during the day, and travel by night, for desert travel? Travelling by night if you're not good at stellar navigation is a hell of a risk.
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The Bloop posted:haha what the gently caress It was like that for the school my sister went to, your school id let you ride the city bus for free and you had to hope the schedule and routes worked out.
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise lmao, those poor bastards 
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Since there are no humans, he should have made the blimp look like a huge manatee.
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goatface posted:Travelling by night if you're not good at stellar navigation is a hell of a risk. It's a desert. you pick a direction and just go, and hope you stumble across civilization before you die.
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I'll be busy the whole day tomorrow, so you get a double dose today. Lucky you. Classic Kevin & Kell (February 12-18, 2001)        Mir was a Soviet/Russian space station, built in the late '80s and '90s: it was the first modular space station, and the first space station that was continuously inhabited for a significant period of time; one cosmonaut, because of the fall of the Soviet Union, ended up spending more than a year in orbit, because in all the turmoil no one could be bothered to have him come down. Designed for a five-year career, Mir would be in space for fifteen: near the end of its life its systems had become obsolete and frequently broke down, contaminating the air inside with dangerous chemicals and putting the life of the cosmonauts and astronauts inhabiting it at risk. At one point, it even caught on fire because of a malfunction in a chemical oxygen generator, filling the station with toxic smoke and forcing the crew to don oxygen masks to be able to breathe properly. Also, at one point a Progress resupply vehicle, on an automatic docking test, crashed into the station, puncturing a module, and causing Mir to lose electrical power; this required several weeks to fix. What spelled the end for Mir, however, was Russia's commitment to the International Space Station program, which left no funds available to manage the older station. The final time someone was aboard was from April to June 2000, as part of a private venture to refurbish the station for commercial use which eventually went nowhere. Because of its size, an uncontrolled re-entry of Mir was deemed to be dangerous, since there was a real possibility that pieces of the station, some of them quite large, could reach the ground and do damage. (Imagine being killed by a falling space toilet.) Therefore, it was decided to properly dispose of the station, by deorbiting it via several controlled burns of a Progress engine: Mir broke apart and crashed into the South Pacific Ocean at around six AM UTC on March 23rd, 2001.
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Surgeon's Tales  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drottningholm_Palace Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Brenda Starr, Angry Bather F Minus  Mark Trail  It's because you're a square, Mark. Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons catchup!    Apartment 3-G 
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Mämmilä (April 30, 1992) Spoilered for some caricatures of Africans.
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä (April 30, 1992) Jesus, Mary and fuckin' Joseph. In today's slightly earlier than usual Blueberry: Blueberry introduces O'Reilly to the thirteenth step, or Quanah gets upset with his band, or Blueberry is not well liked by geologists   
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LazyQ posted:Spoilered for some caricatures of Africans. I'm thinking of Maus, for some reason, but I haven't nailed it down 100%.
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Johnny Aztec posted:It's a desert. you pick a direction and just go, and hope you stumble across civilization before you die. Supposedly, if you try to cross a desert without some kind of navigation aid (either a compass, or a watch and the sun during the day, or the stars at night), most people will walk in a giant circle to the left or the right depending on which of their legs is slightly shorter.
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My Lovely Horse posted:This is the kinda stuff that gets me thinking about our contemporary media culture. We see a comics page that speaks frankly of cruel and gruesome war crimes and unimaginable personal tragedy, that really crams the most staggering amount of violence and human despair into six panels, and that needs to employ an oversimplified art style to soften the blow, because in the regular semi-realistic art style what it depicts would be absolutely and immediately unbearable; and out of the incredible amount of reasons we wouldn't want to look at this page, as the reason to hide it we choose "the oversimplified art style looks racist." I don't think... it's a bad thing to be sensitive to that, and I don't think it's a bad thing to say 'Mukku is a good man and a good character but if he was designed in 2020 I think he'd be designed differently.' So the uncomfortableness with the oversimplified art style isn't that 'Mukku is fine but suddenly this looks racist', but that it's distilling that down, and on top of that the discussion being about very serious and disturbing war crimes explains why it's being distilled down but doesn't make it... not racist. Like, I'd be fine with that page being spoilered anyway because, as you've noting, it's a depressing depiction of absolutely horrific war crimes, but the way you responded feels a little dismissive of the racism inherent in Mukku's design or the fact that sometimes people are okay with a narrative about war crimes but don't want to see racist caricatures on top of that. EDIT: Anyway I'm glad Mukku's wife is alive. PetraCore fucked around with this message at 19:37 on May 3, 2021 |
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Mikl posted:Oh gently caress off, Dick. That's a super flimsy reason for you to go after him. Green Intern posted:I know this is just a super common old 'kids being kids' trope but this sucks and I'm so tired of seeing it in comics and in real life.  LazyQ posted:Mämmilä (April 30, 1992) 
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I don't mean to be dismissive of the racism issues, on the other hand it does seem a bit of a luxury problem to me to be able to say "ooh I don't much like the way they draw those unspeakable atrocities." Or from a slightly different angle, feels like once you've arrived at "my family was killed by people who bet money on which way their guts would fly when ripped apart by jeeps" you've left a few other issues way behind you even if they are objectively serious and worth addressing.
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