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Catching up with yesterday's comics, will do today's later on. Bizarro  The Family Circus  FoxTrot 
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus Apparently Jeffy chews cloth as much as my cat does.
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Jun 7, 2021 15:56
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El Spamo posted:Dude in the red scarf there is ready to gently caress some poo poo UP Prince Valiant and the Bisexual Murder Brigade: Here for vengeance and well accessorized.
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Jun 7, 2021 16:05
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Docks  Retail   Popular Comics  
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Jun 7, 2021 16:39
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Powered Descent posted:FoxTrot You are doing it entirely wrong. The job of a game master is to create a fun story and environment for the players to enjoy. It's a cooperative game, you tell a tale and your players live it. You are not your players' enemy. If they're afraid of taking an action because they're afraid you're going to spring a mean and unfair trap on them (rightly, as it turns out), you're doing it wrong.
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Jun 7, 2021 16:54
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Mikl posted:You are doing it entirely wrong. I take it you're not familiar with Jason's personality.
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Jun 7, 2021 16:56
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Mikl posted:You are doing it entirely wrong.
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Jun 7, 2021 16:59
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PetraCore posted:This is true but also some players prefer a player vs dm style where everything is a puzzle and you're expected to gently caress around and find out, then go back and figure out what to do from there. That's where Tomb of Horrors comes from. Obviously the joke is he's doing even that style wrong, but the idea that tabletop can be adversarial doesn't come from nowhere. Granted, but you don't build an entire campaign out of that. It's a single module, one or two sessions at most, before switching it up.
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Jun 7, 2021 17:03
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Mämmilä (September 4, 1993)
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Jun 7, 2021 17:18
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Mikl posted:You are doing it entirely wrong. I 100% agree with you, in general But if Jason and his friends all want to play that way, then it sounds like they are doing it very, very correctly
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Jun 7, 2021 17:39
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The Bloop posted:I 100% agree with you, in general Sometimes you just want to bring back The Old Laws and run Tomb of Horrors.
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Jun 7, 2021 17:42
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Mikl posted:You are doing it entirely wrong. Isn' this like reading Beetle Bailey and thinking "wait a minute...this isn't how a military camp is supposed to be run".
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Jun 7, 2021 17:42
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The Bloop posted:I 100% agree with you, in general Sounds like they would be better off playing Paranoia.
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Jun 7, 2021 17:58
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Fantasy-themed Paranoia is a hoot btw
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Jun 7, 2021 18:09
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Vargo posted:I really don't understand the point of these "Flash Forward" strips. catlord posted:I like some of them, in fact there's a lot I'd have loved to see go to full production, but I don't really either? I thought it was supposed to be a thing where they'd gauge reactions to find someone to reboot it, but they just... haven't? How long has it been going on now? I always figured it was a way to try out new artists to set up a reboot or just try out new talent, and when Randy Milholland did all those Popeyes I thought that might be the case, but nothing came of that. I wonder if it has to do with copyrights—like you have to use the character in new ways to extend it. Anyways, I think I've said it before but Popeye lends itself to this experiment far better than Flash Gordon. I'll probably keep on posting them though because I do like seeing different artists do their thing. I just wish there was a consistent underlying story to these. F Minus  Mark Trail  Later that night, Rusty calls Cherry to come take him home as he has trouble sleeping after Robert's USS Indianapolis story. Mary Worth  "You're right! I can!" The End. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  No pressure or anything. Just asking you to marry me in front of everyone we know.
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Jun 7, 2021 18:20
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An rpg-podcast with a murderous rear end in a top hat DM sounds like a fresh alternative for popular options that are narrative and character focused, but lack suspense, because you know that they don't want to kill those beloved characters.
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Jun 7, 2021 18:21
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I feel like the Foxtrot joke would have worked a lot better if, instead of it being twelve hours of the players debating whether to enter the dungeon, it was twelve hours of them preparing buffs and rolling spot checks for traps. And then the same ending.
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Jun 7, 2021 18:27
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä (September 4, 1993) If this story arc doesn't end with Rauno dead in a ditch because he pissed off his mob connections then I don't know what's even the point of giving this little fucker so much focus.
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Jun 7, 2021 18:44
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Bad Machinery
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Jun 7, 2021 18:56
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics      Historical news corner: So so there's been some problems with gasoline supply around this time that a modern reader may have heard of.    Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  The Lockhorns  Footrot Flats  Mandrake  Apparently old Mandrake actually cared about avoiding the 'if it's just hypnosis, why would people who weren't in the room at the time be affected by it?' plot holes someone was complaining about. Johnny Hazard 
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Jun 7, 2021 18:58
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amigolupus posted:If this story arc doesn't end with Rauno dead in a ditch because he pissed off his mob connections then I don't know what's even the point of giving this little fucker so much focus. I was thinking he could get it with the same axe he threw in a lake, that piece of poo poo, it was a real Billnäs.
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Jun 7, 2021 19:42
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Johnny Walker posted:
I gotta say, I was pretty excited about Jules taking over (or maybe just Jam leaving), but I’m not super into how they’ve been structuring it. There have been some excellent individual strips here and there, but (God forgive me) it’s a lot of Luannish dropping-the-storyline-abruptly. (Jules, I’m so sorry, no one deserves to be compared to the Evanses!) quote:
Savarna  [/b]Classic Zits[/b] 
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Jun 7, 2021 19:45
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Bibliotechno Music posted:I gotta say, I was pretty excited about Jules taking over (or maybe just Jam leaving), but I’m not super into how they’ve been structuring it. There have been some excellent individual strips here and there, but (God forgive me) it’s a lot of Luannish dropping-the-storyline-abruptly.
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Jun 7, 2021 20:05
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In today's Blueberry, Previously, on Blueberry, or Quanah gets upset at Governor Armendariz, or Bad news for Crowe...  
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Jun 7, 2021 20:20
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Haifisch posted:She does seem to be doing a "back and forth between the A and B plots" thing vs Luann's "well we're just stopping this storyline now, hope you weren't interested in what was going to happen", but it doesn't really work that well since the A and B plots aren't connected at all. I don't think this was the best time to switch stories since Mark literally just started a fight, but I don't have much problem with switching between the stories in general. It is not the norm in newspaper comic strips though.
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Jun 7, 2021 20:23
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Bizarro The Family Circus 
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Jun 7, 2021 20:44
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Moominwinter (Just in time to cool you off) Wow the stories in this volume are long. Vol 4 had 5 stories, Vol 5 has 3. These are all written by Lars, drawn by Tove. It is the final such volume, once vol 6 hits, it's supposedly all Lars. Lunch  Anyone who's used NC headsets know they don't do much against voices, but both of these strips showcase something that's always rubbed me the wrong way about Lunch. Nearly every single interaction I've seen with the support staff (receptionists, IT guy, etc) are borderline antagonistic or negative, and they're regularly portrayed as lazy and generally avoiding work etc. I don't think I've ever seen a positive interaction between them and the main staff, though I haven't seen -that- many lunch strips. SubNat fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jun 7, 2021 |
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Jun 7, 2021 20:55
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amigolupus posted:If this story arc doesn't end with Rauno dead in a ditch because he pissed off his mob connections then I don't know what's even the point of giving this little fucker so much focus. I assume it's building up to that. Or maybe the creator just sat bolt upright in bed one night and said "That's it! I'll make the comic all about its most repulsive character!"
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Jun 7, 2021 22:29
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Kid Fenris posted:I assume it's building up to that. Or maybe the creator just sat bolt upright in bed one night and said "That's it! I'll make the comic all about its most repulsive character!" Pretty sure you just described Batiuk there. 
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Jun 7, 2021 23:27
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The Dinette Set will watch it with the commentary later. Working Daze will take that advice into consideration.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is behind the times.  Cul De Sac is like a ninja. 
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Jun 8, 2021 02:02
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Mikl posted:You are doing it entirely wrong. I wish you could slap this around an old friend of mine who DM'd every game we did, but her thing was to never give out any real info, even the smallest details, outside of play. So even asking "hey is this dude with us?" would result in "NO OOC chat!" Her favorite trick was to force your character to use some future-sight mirror (literally, she would make your char walk back to loving pick it up) and then to twist everything the mirror showed, of course. Like a mob scene with one of your allies about to be hung, and she would force the game that way, no matter what we made our chars do. When we complained it was less a game and more her controlling everything, she got snippy and said if we were bored, we could do something else. Comic wise, uh, how old is Rauno supposed to be? I can't keep up with the pacing of this comic.
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Jun 8, 2021 02:02
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Cowslips Warren posted:I wish you could slap this around an old friend of mine who DM'd every game we did, but her thing was to never give out any real info, even the smallest details, outside of play. So even asking "hey is this dude with us?" would result in "NO OOC chat!" Her favorite trick was to force your character to use some future-sight mirror (literally, she would make your char walk back to loving pick it up) and then to twist everything the mirror showed, of course. Like a mob scene with one of your allies about to be hung, and she would force the game that way, no matter what we made our chars do. When we complained it was less a game and more her controlling everything, she got snippy and said if we were bored, we could do something else. I think he's like, early 20s? He might still be in his teens.
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Jun 8, 2021 02:29
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Haifisch posted:She does seem to be doing a "back and forth between the A and B plots" thing vs Luann's "well we're just stopping this storyline now, hope you weren't interested in what was going to happen", but it doesn't really work that well since the A and B plots aren't connected at all. Hey, was anybody remotely interested in Bernice smooching Nil again? Well, gently caress you! 
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Jun 8, 2021 03:03
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Bogor  Nekonaughey  [Taiyaki is a pancake-batter cake with a (usually) sweet filling that's made in the shape of a fish.]
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Jun 8, 2021 03:04
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And He Did! (June 19, 1918) Outbursts of Everett True (August 1, 1918)  Banana Oil! (April 17, 1924)  Gay and Her Gang (July 23, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (December 24, 1935)  Mopsy (February 22, 1937)  Dark Laughter (February 16, 1946)  Those Were the Days (September 3, 1953)  Dinky Fellas (November 11, 1965)  Wee Pals (September 11, 1965) 
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Jun 8, 2021 03:05
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Nancy 1946
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Jun 8, 2021 03:13
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Julet Esqu posted:Hey, was anybody remotely interested in Bernice smooching Nil again? Well, gently caress you! Finally, someone I don't hate in this strip.
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Jun 8, 2021 03:19
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Oct 10-11, 1952)   Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 13-16, 1989)     Robbie and Bobby     Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here.
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Jun 8, 2021 03:47
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Nil received the kiss of death twice. Odds are he’s never seen again.
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Jesus christ Gunther, loving go to her house. It's been weeks. If you want closure, then go get closure!
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