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So, one, this was exactly me as a kid if my mom put hydrogen peroxide on my cut, and two, I remember her exclaiming in absolute despair that I should be glad she wasn't using iodine like was used on her when she was a kid!
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And He Did! (July 10, 1918) Outbursts of Everett True (August 19, 1918)  Gay and Her Gang (August 9, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (January 10, 1936)  Mopsy (March 11, 1937)  Up Front (April 22, 1944)  Dark Laughter (July 27, 1946)  Those Were the Days (December 17, 1953)  Wee Pals (September 30, 1965)  Dogbert January 12, 1966 
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Doomykins posted:It has been a fun experiment and better than what was done before but Mark Trail is really beginning to stink. I think Jules needs a writer/editor partner really badly. Just anybody to point out how weird and confusing everything is, or how unsatisfying or impossible it is. Mark Trail now has two non-plots going on that can only end in 100% legal actions where our heroes fail. People keep asserting that there's an HOA involved. I don't think that's ever been said. I think the rich snobby people are busybodies who ripped out Cherry's plants and installed their own. I'm enjoying nu-Trail. Coherent and reasonable plots are overrated.
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean, Starring TomBat's Double Zamboni Rodeo posted:Everything else aside, I'm getting really loving sick and tired of Sarah being portrayed as some sort of child savant who keeps on producing these heartbreaking works of staggering genius.
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Safety Dance posted:People keep asserting that there's an HOA involved. I don't think that's ever been said. I think the rich snobby people are busybodies who ripped out Cherry's plants and installed their own.  
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Haifisch posted:Squinting at the copyright date, this was printed in 1989. Just to provide some of the context time has eroded away: I was a few years out of college in 1989. Cassette decks were available from about 1975 on; the first aftermarket ones were huge and expensive, and would eat a tape if you hit a pothole. Eight-track players were still available, not much larger, and were more robust on lovely roads. Factory cassette decks were hideously expensive - but they always charged a ton. AM/FM radio was a $400 option. (AM was the basic radio. Radio delete was still a thing too: no radio at all. My Mom's first new car, a bare-bones '81 Civic, had no radio. So: in the late 70s to the mid-90s, if you had a factory cassette, you paid a ton for it. A decent aftermarket unit would set you back $300 plus installation. Calvin's Dad is closer to my generation than most of you...and there is no way in hell my dad would spring for a cassette - stereo. He was too cheap to get A/C.
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), but this definitely speaks to something about Calvin's dad.
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RoboRodent posted:So, one, this was exactly me as a kid if my mom put hydrogen peroxide on my cut, and two, I remember her exclaiming in absolute despair that I should be glad she wasn't using iodine like was used on her when she was a kid! THOSE WERE THE DAYS ~
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So TomBat's really going forward with a self-insert arc here? He's finally crawled so far up his own rear end that he's slithered back out of his mouth.
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Zerilan posted:So TomBat's really going forward with a self-insert arc here? He's finally crawled so far up his own rear end that he's slithered back out of his mouth. Compare and contrast: 
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Zerilan posted:So TomBat's really going forward with a self-insert arc here? He's finally crawled so far up his own rear end that he's slithered back out of his mouth. He did one a while ago where he visited the high school and those drat kids just didn't appreciate his genius. It was just some absolutely pathetic whining.
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EasyEW posted:Compare and contrast: This is the face of mediocrity
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Crabgrass  Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Oct 23-24, 1952)   Calvin and Hobbes (Aug 10-13, 1989)     Robbie and Bobby     Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here.
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readingatwork posted:Crabgrass I think if something like that happened at a school here, the main issue would be he forgot his sweater, so they'd probably find him a surplus one to borrow. And that'd be the end of it, a note to the parents likely (make sure your son comes fully clothed).
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Evil Mastermind posted:Cul De Sac is surrounded by philistines. In my headcanon, adult Petey became an extremely succesful conceptual artist. 
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse gently caress you and your woe is me author insert bullshit, Lynn Johnston, you hack.
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riderchop posted:Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon
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Kennel posted:Dustin gently caress you. Classic Kevin & Kell in: blackmail (February 4-10, 2002)        "Fiona I want you to fire the company's founder and CEO and replace him with your stepdad (who doesn't even want the job)." Fiona's mom is a pretty lovely person, actually. (And, please note, Fiona's main objection to Martha's plan is "If I do this, I'll lose my investment." Awesome.) Also time to update this again I guess.  Modern Kevin & Kell 
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RoboRodent posted:So, one, this was exactly me as a kid if my mom put hydrogen peroxide on my cut, and two, I remember her exclaiming in absolute despair that I should be glad she wasn't using iodine like was used on her when she was a kid! I realize this means I'm a full weirdo, but I like my disinfectants to STING. If I don't feel it, I don't trust it's working.
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (October 10, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (October 10, 1999)  Garfield Classic (October 10, 1989) 
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Mikl posted:Classic Kevin & Kell in: blackmail (February 4-10, 2002) I've been bothered awhile now for just how flippant Kevin and Kell is about Fiona's parents. Abusive parents aren't funny. They can really mess a kid up for the rest of their life. And the worst possible situation for a kid with lovely parents is for them to get access to a lot of money as a guardian. At that point there's very little recourse a kid has to defend themselves short of just getting legally emancipated. It's incredibly weird that for all their manipulative behavior, it's apparently never occurred to Fiona's parents to try to do that. They just tacitly accept that their thirteen year old daughter has the pursestrings.
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 6/23/01  One of the "features" of Rudy Giuliani's mayoralty was a pathological hatred of pet ferrets, including this argument on radio with a ferret lover. Brenda Starr 9/23-25/46    Smokey Stover 11/23/41  Richard's Poor Almanac is the same fireworks gags as before, just lightly rewritten. Deathless Deer 7/22-24/43   
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This comic is much funnier if you read it as "4.5 metres", as I initially did. He's so happy to have run all the way from the front door to the street, and back again!
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Selachian posted:Get Fuzzy 6/23/01 Huh, I finally found something to like about the sleazeball.
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Selachian posted:Deathless Deer 7/22-24/43 "Deer is my best friend who I met about 3 days ago" "I'm terribly lonely"
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BABA is STABBED
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Some Guy TT posted:I've been bothered awhile now for just how flippant Kevin and Kell is about Fiona's parents. Abusive parents aren't funny. They can really mess a kid up for the rest of their life. And the worst possible situation for a kid with lovely parents is for them to get access to a lot of money as a guardian. At that point there's very little recourse a kid has to defend themselves short of just getting legally emancipated. It's incredibly weird that for all their manipulative behavior, it's apparently never occurred to Fiona's parents to try to do that. They just tacitly accept that their thirteen year old daughter has the pursestrings. This comic strip in general has a really poor track record regarding parent-child relationships. Besides Fiona, which you espoused very well above, we have: Kevin: disowned by his parents for marrying Kell, also his dad is a crook and his mom is MIA for the time being. Kell: her dad never really approved of her relationship with Kevin, and died before he could change his mind; her mother, though, has mellowed out. Lindesfarne: has a loving relationship with Kevin, but her other adoptive parent (Angelique) was neglectful and emotionally distant, eventually dropping her like a dead weight when she left Kevin, and has since only cared about Lindesfarne as a prop to get back at Kell. Lindesfarne does have a good relationship with Kell, though. Rudy: good relationship with Kell, but his dad died trying to impress Kell's parents (because they didn't approve of him); has a grudgingly respectful relationship with Kevin. Corrie: mom dead in childbirth, adopted by a bunch of scientists to be used as a test subject. Eventually escaped and lived hidden in her boyfriend's house, until she reunited with her dad Ralph, and they have a loving relationship now. (Note that I can't really blame Ralph for giving Corrie up for adoption, he was sixteen when he had her: he was in no way or shape capable of raising a kid back then.) Mary (Corrie's clone): her parents are extremely controlling. Bruno: this is going into spoiler territory, but they're extremely emotionally distant and also extremely neglectful, doing the very barest minimum of work required to the point that Bruno basically raised himself; failed to notice a girl living hidden in their son's room for nearly a decade, and (in the future) will fail to notice their son being trans and transitioning under their noses. Mikl fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Jun 24, 2021 |
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His Divine Shadow posted:I think if something like that happened at a school here, the main issue would be he forgot his sweater, so they'd probably find him a surplus one to borrow. And that'd be the end of it, a note to the parents likely (make sure your son comes fully clothed). This is basically what happened, isn't it? The principal was concerned about Kevin not having a shirt, but didn't really care about the "tattoo." Kennel posted:Dustin You're supposed to agree with Ed here, and that's nuts. Vintage Valiant (Nov. 25, 1945)   The Medieval Castle (Nov. 25, 1945)  This abruptly concludes The Medieval Castle. It's a strange little strip - I get the impression that Foster felt he couldn't commit to a detailed storyline since he didn't know how long it would last. I think the strip would have been stronger if it focused more clearly on the kids and maybe more of the "slice of life" stuff about what it would have been like to live in this era, although to do that accurately would perhaps have required more research than Foster was willing to do. As it is, the strip felt a little scattered to me. Arn and Guy's father never even got a name! On the plus side, the Allies won the war, paper rationing is over, and Prince Valiant will return to full page size starting tomorrow. 
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Medenmath posted:This is basically what happened, isn't it? The principal was concerned about Kevin not having a shirt, but didn't really care about the "tattoo." Nah the school called in his mom and she had to leave work. That's why she was so mad and what I meant wouldn't have happened here.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Nah the school called in his mom and she had to leave work. That's why she was so mad and what I meant wouldn't have happened here. Ah, I see what you mean! As I recall the rules at my own elementary school were to send a kid home if they weren't dressed "appropriately," but that never happened so I don't know what really would have been done in a situation like this. I also attended a Catholic school with a uniform which probably changes things!
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Medenmath posted:This is basically what happened, isn't it? The principal was concerned about Kevin not having a shirt, but didn't really care about the "tattoo." I admit that I like Donardo's chaise longue, those need to become more popular
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