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MinSec felt almost as key to the early comics threads as Foob was, to the point that it was grandfathered into new threads despite breaking No Webcomic rules. And then McMillan changed the format to single panels rather than an ongoing story and it instantly became far less interesting and finally dropped from the thread. Amazing that we have gotten so much distance from those threads that MinSec is now just a dim memory. Truly, all of us have become old. Darthemed posted:Retail You absolutely meant it, Marla, and he knows it. You were completely in the right as well, but come on, let's not pretend.  Tiff! You're just getting the backs of their heads! So Bets' propensity to livestream every key event in her life is often thrown out by the GC commentariat as evidence of her being Bad, but if Gunther wasn't cool with it he should have said something a loooooooooong time ago. Even today he's showing no sign of being annoyed about the filming of this intimate moment.
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goatface posted:Minimum security. Selachian posted:Stephanie McMillan? Powered Descent posted:THANK you, trying to remember that was driving me bonkers. Aw poo poo, I knew I was forgetting something. Now that Sylvia's back in circulation, I have to hold up my end of the bargain. For those of you who haven't lived in thread reality for the past ten years: Over the course of the early 21st century, Stephanie McMillan's Minimum Security had evolved from a alt-weekly-style editorial cartoon into something which, from a certain angle, resembled a gag-a-day strip, with recurring characters, running gags, but still heavily leftist and heavily, heavily ecological.   So basically a save-the-Earth Little Lefty. You see why I started thinking about MiniSec again? Those strips, from early 2010, came out on both GoComics and McMillan's MiniSec blog, the latter under the heading of "A grim, depressing, preachy comic about the (probably doomed) struggle to prevent global ecocide. Enjoy!" That was possibly the only advance hint of what she had up her sleeve, because on Earth Day 2010, the anthropomorphic one-eyed rabbit/munitions expert Bunnista blew up the power grid.    And then, without any prior warning or explanation, McMillan blew up MiniSec, or at least the version she had developed through the Bush 43 years. In the hardest of hard reboots, the strip was suddenly thrust into a longform narrative, presenting itself as "The thrilling story of revolutionaries saving the world from ecocidal maniacs!" And longtime central characters Kranti and Bananabelle, now with slightly more realistic character designs, were suddenly thrust into the center of a street protest.       (April 23, 27-May 1, 2010) "My favorite direction is contrary" might serve as the best explanation for how we ended up with this. Anyway, for the purposes of MiniSec in the comic strip threads, this is roughly where I came in. Whoever was posting it before kind of wandered off early on, but when I see a creative person digging an interesting hole for themselves, I want to see how much they're willing to shovel. At the same time, ten years is a loooooong time, the last four years in particular have felt like twenty, and the west coast is cooking after the hottest June on record. The text hasn't changed in the past decade, so what about us? Unfortunately, the further you go into the old threads, the more likely you are to hit long stretches of...um...these.  The Waffle files came back to us, but Imgur is the way it's always been; if you don't use a jpeg, you lose a jpeg. Which doesn't really do a longform narrative any favors at all. Nevertheless, I've set myself to revisiting this, and fortunately(?) the whole storyline was collected in print (minus the news channel-style "Nag Tickers", which only lived on the MiniSec blog version). That means money may have to change hands to do it correctly. Or to put it another way, money has changed hands so that I can do it correctly. So once more down the rabbit hole, dear friends.  (Literally everything else later....I hope.)
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EasyEW posted:Or to put it another way, money has changed hands so that I can do it correctly.  Seriously, thank you for doing this. My brain's been broken over the many iterations of this thread but I recall Minimum Security being a hoot at the time. It brought us the Adventures of Bird and Coconut!
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EasyEW posted:So once more down the rabbit hole, dear friends. Holy poo poo, thank you for the detailed recap, and for taking on the job of posting this again! Really looking forward to it!
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One of my mom's favorite ways to demonstrate how insect populations are crashing (due to climate change) is by pointing out how this doesn't happen nearly as much anymore.
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It's funny how in the last 10-12 years how my personal politics have gotten more in line with MiniSec. I mean, in a general sense. Not in a " Eat a ground mango that a rat gnawed on" and " abandon all civilization, tech and knowledge and return to a hunter-gather system" that she espoused.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I mean, in a general sense. Not in a " Eat a ground mango that a rat gnawed on" and " abandon all civilization, tech and knowledge and return to a hunter-gather system" that she espoused. That's her whole deal though. You could be a card-carrying Communist and still be farther from her than you are from the average American liberal. I still remember she went completely berserk when someone pointed out her ideology was basically identical to the Khmer Rouge.
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Kavak posted:That's her whole deal though. You could be a card-carrying Communist and still be farther from her than you are from the average American liberal. I still remember she went completely berserk when someone pointed out her ideology was basically identical to the Khmer Rouge. I...know? I was around in the threads when it was still being posted. TO anyone who doesn't know, she, literally, ate a mango off the ground, that had been chewed on by a rat.
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The rest of your irregularly scheduled comics: 2018 Spiderman  1979 comics      Bonus ow:  Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats 
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was MinSec one where some dude fell in love with the main girl, and he somehow ended up half animal so she felt obliged to like him now? I swear this isn't Holbrook for once.
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Julet Esqu posted:MinSec felt almost as key to the early comics threads as Foob was, to the point that it was grandfathered into new threads despite breaking No Webcomic rules. And then McMillan changed the format to single panels rather than an ongoing story and it instantly became far less interesting and finally dropped from the thread. Amazing that we have gotten so much distance from those threads that MinSec is now just a dim memory. Excuse me, kid, but you may have become old, but I have become very old, thank you.
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Cowslips Warren posted:was MinSec one where some dude fell in love with the main girl, and he somehow ended up half animal so she felt obliged to like him now? That's...remarkably accurate, actually.    (March 17-19, 2010) It's all coming back to you now, isn't it? Goooooooooooooooooooooooood.  gleebster posted:Excuse me, kid, but you may have become old, but I have become very old, thank you. Sure, you're very, very old, but are you horribly, horribly old? Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (November 25, 1933)  Peanuts (July 12, 1974)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (February 8, 1938)  Out Our Way (December 21-23, 1936; spoiler for the usual reason)    Dok's "NEW WEAPON ACQUIRED" Duck (September 5, 1913)  Guessing that the "interurban" is the Puget Sound Electric Railway, which ran from Seattle to Tacoma between 1902-1928. Little Lefty (January 14-16, 1935)    Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor (1862-1951) was a union organizer and women's rights advocate as far back as the late 19th century. She was also the most prominent female leader in the Communist Party of the United States, friend and collaborator with Eugene Debs and Upton Sinclair, and beloved enough by the US Communists that the party celebrated her birthday. And that's where stop for the night... EasyEW fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jul 10, 2021 |
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And He Did! (July 25, 1918) Outbursts of Everett True (September 1, 1918)  Gay and Her Gang (August 27, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (January 28, 1936)  Mopsy (March 29, 1937)  Up Front (May 10, 1944)  Dark Laughter (May 24, 1947)  “And when I say NO, I mean NO … An’ I don’t see what Spring is got to do with it anyhow!” Those Were the Days (April 1, 1953)  Wee Pals (October 18, 1965)  Dogbert February 8, 1966 
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EasyEW posted:Aw poo poo, I knew I was forgetting something. Now that Sylvia's back in circulation, I have to hold up my end of the bargain. Thanks, I hate it (even though I brought this on myself/the thread.) Actually I hate it way less than before. It’s still a bit of an eyeroll, but then again I rolled my eyes at my freegan friends at the time who are now antifa supersoldiers, so I guess it all evens out? It’s much less visually unpleasant than I remember, but the characterizations are still pretty annoying. Thanks for going to all the effort of digging this up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLXs3Np93s quote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDUjeR01wnU And now your daily double dose! Classic Zits   Sylvia  
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Gunther barely seems aware of what is happening. He is turning into corrugated cardboard before our eyes.
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maltesh posted:Back in 1979 There was no "Q" on the 7 of the dial of the typical phone. No "Z" on the 9, either. But that would be a total cheat. Q and Z were used in fake phone numbers for fiction for exactly that reason. If that's the answer, it'd be exactly the same as if a character on a TV show looked at a phone number that's like 555-xxxx and saying "hey, that's not a real number, 555 numbers are the fake phone numbers that they use on TV shows!" even though they're actually on a drat TV show.
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EasyEW posted:
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For those just joining us, on Tuesday, Darin asked the hyper-brachioencephalic guy what caused the break between him and his fellow komix artist. Surprise! He knew all along and was wasting everyone's time!
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Green Intern posted:Gunther barely seems aware of what is happening. He is turning into corrugated cardboard before our eyes. He doesn't care. The only thing that offended him was that Bets was unclear about their relationship status. He needed her to decide where they were. Beep boop.
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riderchop posted:Heathcliff Uhoh, that's twice that Heathcliff has made me laugh this week. It's wearing me down.
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Julet Esqu posted:
loving hell, there are jellyfish with more spine than Gunther. The way Team Evans wants to pin all the blame of the relationship problems on Bets means that they wrote Gunther making absolutely no decisions with regards to their relationship. He's so loving blank and gormless that he's pretty much emotionally distant with everything that's happening. EasyEW posted:Crankshaft Considering it's canon that Crankshaft only uses three squares of toilet paper to clean his rear end, I'm choosing to believe he's rolling in his own poo poo here.
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Classic Kevin & Kell in: sons of the father (May 27 - June 2, 2002)       Welcome to Letsbeshittytovinsville, enjoy your stay! Modern Kevin & Kell 
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 7/9/01  Stephen Collins  Brenda Starr 10/31 - 11/2/46    As you might guess from context, Hoover ratings were the radio equivalent of Nielsen ratings, tracking how many people were listening to a particular program. Smokey Stover 3/15/42  Richard's Poor Almanac 
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Selachian posted:Get Fuzzy 7/9/01 Aww, Satch! I think you’re handsome and mighty. Honestly the faces in this strip are so good. Even Bucky can be adorably vulnerable when he’s with his stuffy, like a little while ago when he was scared of the trolls in Harry Potter  quote:A hat for the ages, imo. Posting early, still trying to find a good rhythm with my ever-changing schedule! Classic Zits   “Honk my folks off”  Sylvia   One of my all time favorite strips and recurring gags right here 
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