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Mikl posted:I am wholly prepared for this to be some bullshit that will make me mad. My guess is it's related to the King of Hearts being the only king without a moustache, but I feel there're a lot of intermediate steps we're missing here. Are these cases adapted from books? How long were they before they were trimmed down into five daily strips?
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My guess is that it's Fred. All four kings in an English Pattern Deck of playing cards have moustaches. Edit: Of course this apparently is not universally the case, that's the kind of crap I've come to expect from Encyclopedia Brown.
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Mikl posted:I am wholly prepared for this to be some bullshit that will make me mad. It's behind one of the large King posters on the wall. In a traditional deck of cards, all of the kings have moustaches except for one (The "Suicide King") maltesh posted:My guess is that it's Fred. All four kings in an English Pattern Deck of playing cards have moustaches. Hahaha gently caress yes.
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Presto posted:Isn't this basically the entirety of Mary Worth? Dogs, muffins, and borderline personality disorders. The Comic Strip Megathread: Dogs, Muffins, and Borderline Personality Disorders
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I like the new stuff Allison is doing but when Bad Machinery is knocking it out of the park like with that strip there's just no comparison.  Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze is a threat and a menace. As an actual fan of Spider-Man I wanna belt out a giant gently caress you to Working Daze. JJJ is one of the most popular and high quality characters, a gold standard in supporting cast. "Ah but the joke wouldn't work if it was accurate." Luckily all jokes in WD don't work so no need to be concerned there. A nerd strip written by nerds that doesn't have much interest in even cursory research or fandom in nerd culture? Reminds me of another train wreck strip.
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Doomykins posted:Jucika "48 - Jucika and Patient Visitors" For the popular question of "what things that were just part of life growing up will people look back on as barbaric" I'm a bit surprised chicken pox parties never occurred to me. It should've. Vaccines can really change things.
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NRVNQSR posted:Are these cases adapted from books? How long were they before they were trimmed down into five daily strips? Yes, they're adapted from the EB books. As I recall, the stories weren't terribly long in print form -- five or six pages each, plus one page for the solution.
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NRVNQSR posted:Are these cases adapted from books? How long were they before they were trimmed down into five daily strips? 2-3 pages if I recall. Just enough framework to set the scene and hide a gotcha, then on to the next one. In my head some are just a paragraph while others clearly needed more setup, but there were others in the genre that were actually just a page each so It all blurs too much to say definitively. Edit: okay, EB were longer, about ten pages with more worldbuilding. I got it mixed up with Two-Minute Mysteries, other books Donald J Sobol wrote in the same style with Dr Haledjian. Those cut out the worldbuilding and just had the facts on one page and answer on the next. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 22:18 on May 12, 2021 |
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Powered Descent posted:Oh, come on, it's obvious. Giant Robot Kitty Cop. It's an evil twin story AND a giant robot story! It was good enough for Godzilla and it's good enough for you. Sarah Morgan is definitely going to give this dude his idea for his next big book! You're a hero, honey! A genius! Haifisch posted:1979 comics I'm guessing exactly what everyone else is thinking
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Nekonaughey Also, here's an album for Nekonaughey comics from 2014 + 2015! https://imgur.com/a/Wfjuk08
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Selachian posted:The thing is, when Zits first started running, I remember quite a few pissy letters to the editor about what a nasty, unpleasant kid Jeremy was. When your point of comparison for comic strip teens is Archie, or Blondie and Dagwood's kids, or even, God save us, Michael Patterson, Jeremy's sighing and eye-rolling at his parents looks like a shocking act of rebellion. Zits started when I was 16 and my mom though it was perfect. nishi koichi posted:but pumpkin pie doesn't have a top crust Custard pies are a category of pie which do not have a top crust. ...now how about Gedeckter Apfelkuchen?
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Language that makes sense is too lojban. Embrace irregularities.
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Ghostlight posted:Also, here's an album for Nekonaughey comics from 2014 + 2015! Nice!!!!!!!!!!!
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I feel like the book might have said that the father loved playing cards or something and that was supposed to clue the reader in "It has something to do with playing cards" but none of this was mentioned in the comic strip so right before the answer is revealed they just draw the guy with giant playing card posters all over his house. And none of this changes the fact that it isn't a job for the police and in fact nobody should solve this case so that the money can go to charity.
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Dinky Dinkerton, Flyin' Jenny, and The Red Knight Nov. 12th, 1940   Axa   I mean, it's a touch hypocritical, Axa. Remember the fish-men who nearly drowned you because you couldn't stop going on about how handsome they were? Or that time you couldn't bring yourself to watch a gladiatorial match until a hot guy showed up?
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Twelve by Pies posted:
Come to think of it, why is the thief even hanging around, if he believes the note? If the will isn't found, he gets nothing. If the will is found, he gets nothing. Maybe none of the King sons actually stole anything, and George only thinks one of them did.
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You know Robot Mark is, half the time, sighing as he goes to save Axa again. And again. And again. Damnit Axa, just find a tree and live with Mark!
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And He Did! (May 20, 1918) Outbursts of Everett True (July 13, 1918)  Banana Oil! (March 21, 1924)  Gay and Her Gang (July 1, 1929)   Oaky Doaks (December 2, 1935)  Mopsy (January 30, 1937)  Dark Laughter (August 25, 1945)  Those Were the Days (April 23, 1953)  Hertha? Wee Pals (August 20, 1965) 
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Selachian posted:Deathless Deer 2/22-24/43 Retconning the bird with a gift of gab definitely feels like a somewhat dubious turning point in the saga. Also, suddenly the art looks more cartoony, instead of the "early draft magazine illustration" style from the beginning. Regardless, for the purposes of making the smash hit of 1943, it's definitely a bad sign when the story behind the scenes is more interesting than what's on the page. Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (October 7, 1933)  Peanuts (May 15, 1974)  Sucks At Crowdfundingbean  COVIDshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (December 11, 1937)  Out Our Way (August 6-8, 1936; spoilered for the usual reasons)    Toonerville Folks (August 2-4, 1917)    Dok's "Diplomatic Breakdown" Duck (August 7, 1913) 
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EasyEW posted:Sucks At Crowdfundingbean Shocking that crowdfunding choir robes for a small town Ohio church isn't what the kids are into these days.
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There's something quietly hateful about Batiuk calling his GoFundMe equivalent "MoneyForNothing". The Dinette Set likes to get close to the action.  Working Daze always brings me down.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix probably should have done a background check or something.  Cul De Sac makes its own fun. 
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Boy. Axa sure gives a poo poo about these ants, huh?
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Hel posted:It's really nice to read Blueberry after only hearing references to it. It's actually pretty good, though I suspect it will soon fall into the same spot as Corto, where is stop reading it in the thread because I want to buy them for myself. Mikl posted:Blueberry is really good. Aww, bless. You'll make me all blushy-blushy. And remember, if you do buy these comics (which unfortunately do have the stereotypical 'Native-American-people-talk-like-cavemen trope), you do get to enjoy all these pages in colour! And I encourage you to do buy these comics, since it makes me feel so much less worse about posting them up here. Re. Dark Laughter - were to Zoot Suit 'riots' before, during or after WW2? And did they take place in New York? I think they occurred in San Francisco... Also: EasyEW posted:
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Evil Mastermind posted:There's something quietly hateful about Batiuk calling his GoFundMe equivalent "MoneyForNothing". I'm guessing the next strip will be "well, lousy modern gizmo doesn't work, we'll have to things the old fashioned way *cue bake sale*" But yeah, there's open loathing there for the idea of peer-to-peer charity.
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Ok so I haven’t read the day’s posts since I put up Zits today but I have AMAZING news: I went to a (fully vaccinated) housewarming party tonight, and unbeknownst to me, the host is the great grand daughter of a former Chicago Tribune writer. Long story short, I got all of the (mediocre) shots of the comics page of the Chicago Tribune 8/2/69, the day they published the Apollo photos. I didn’t dare take more than the most rudimentary shots, because the paper would’ve fallen apart in my hands, and the light was bad, but I’m gonna spend some time optimizing these to the best of my ability for the thread. I may have wasted a night that could’ve been a party, but goddammit I got some history! Can’t see it from my establishing shot, but a Jets victory was above the fold. I’m gonna figure out how to edit these properly and (my mouth to G-D’s ears, get as far into this archival source as I can. Holy poo poo am I excited) and start posting what I have If you ever want to make sure you’ll be left alone at a party, just read my posts for tips, everybody thighs I was super cool.
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons lmao
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Classic Kevin & Kell in: webcomics, am I right? (April 16-22, 2001)       This of course was more than ten years before Patreon. I honestly don't know if "webcomic author" was a viable profession back in the early 'aughts; even now, unless you're super big, making a webcomic usually isn't enough to make a living off of.
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davidspackage posted:I'm guessing the next strip will be "well, lousy modern gizmo doesn't work, we'll have to things the old fashioned way *cue bake sale*" Followed by a week of Young People coming up to the bake sale table completely gobsmacked at this totally new concept ("...and in return, we get... cookies?!") while Dinkle and gang look smugly on I think I said it before, but Batiuk can go get hosed for that contemptible "moneyfornothing" bullshit. (Did the heavenly host descend upon Saint Lisa bearing funding for her chemo treatments, or did Les hold a bake sale? Or did that just not matter?)
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Samovar posted:Re. Dark Laughter - were to Zoot Suit 'riots' before, during or after WW2? And did they take place in New York? I think they occurred in San Francisco... During. The Zoot Suit Riots happened in Los Angeles in 1943, mostly involving white military and cops attacking Mexican-Americans in the Chavez Ravine neighborhood (where Dodger Stadium was later built, but that's another can of worms entirely). In fact, when Harrington drew that particular Dark Laughter, zoot suits had been banned for the rest of the war because they allegedly wasted cloth, and were falling out of style anyway. Busi  Mimes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 5/12/01  ACID Starr 6/17-19/46   \ Smokey Stover 2/2/41  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFVeJ4wHWdQ Richard's Poor Almanac 
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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