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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 7/26/01 More Than You Wanted to Know About Women's Footwear in the 1940s 12/5-7/46 As silly as this story is, any plot that involves Pesky getting smacked in the face can't be all bad. Smokey Stover 6/21/42 Richard's Poor Almanac Selachian fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Jul 27, 2021 |
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Vintage Valiant (Jun. 09, 1946)
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 12:45 |
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Haifisch posted:Have fun with your less potent medicines with inconsistent doses of the active ingredient, I guess. It's not like anyone ever fell ill or died young before the industrial revolution, I'm sure you'd be fine. Also have fun not having things like vaccines to keep poo poo like polio/measles/covid from wrecking people's lives. Oh yeah, she also believes that green power is bad. Like solar panels cooking wildlife and birds being chopped up by windmills. To her there was no good green option.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 12:53 |
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jun. 09, 1946) There is approximately a 0% chance Val doesn't know Puny is Aleta. I absolutely adore these two dorks.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 13:23 |
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Not an edit, wow!
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 14:34 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Classic (November 11, 1999) Okay, so Arlos , in the modern strip, looks pretty good for someone in their mid to late 80s.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 14:42 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:Okay, so Arlos , in the modern strip, looks pretty good for someone in their mid to late 80s. Eh, my grandfather fought in WW2, my dad is 64, I'm 37. I think that lines up pretty well with Arlo's dad, Arlo, and Gene. It's a little more complicated because the college stories have Arlo getting kicked out of frat parties for yelling about Nixon, which would make him a few years older than my dad (who graduated HS in ... 76, I think). But maybe Arlo was the kind of guy still getting kicked out of frat parties for yelling about Nixon deep into the 70s.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 14:52 |
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Nancy 1946 is ripe for edits
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Crab Dad posted:There’s a reason farmers beat out hunter-gathers. And that's if we're going waaaaaay back. If you look at it more recently, just around where I live my farmer ancestors benefitted from other farmers Huxley posted:Eh, my grandfather fought in WW2, my dad is 64, I'm 37. I think that lines up pretty well with Arlo's dad, Arlo, and Gene. Could be worse. Could be marvel comics dealing with tony stark making his armour in vietnam. Or reed richards, early cold warrior spaceflight scientist.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 14:56 |
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Huxley posted:Eh, my grandfather fought in WW2, my dad is 64, I'm 37. I think that lines up pretty well with Arlo's dad, Arlo, and Gene. Jimmy Johnson mentioned on his blog that Arlo and Janis are in a sliding scale of late 50s - early 60s, so on the verge of retirement.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 15:24 |
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Arlo and Janis started in '85, and was pretty clearly about two people in their late twenties / early thirties starting married life, which fits for someone born in the '50's - which wouldn't be too unusual for someone whose father fought in World War II. Johnson himself was born in '52, and it seems like he sees the characters as his contemporaries.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 15:25 |
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Bruceski posted:He does this gag every year but as a gardener I can't help but cackle. Haha, same. I got a bumper crop of squashes this year including a LOT of zucchini. Thing is, for all the jokes about nobody wanting the darn things, the truth of the matter is that a lot of people don't have the time or space to garden squashes and would love to have a fresh picked squash for dinner. At least, that's how its been this year, my neighbors have been more than happy to take the extra fruit off my hands.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 15:35 |
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Huxley posted:Eh, my grandfather fought in WW2, my dad is 64, I'm 37. I think that lines up pretty well with Arlo's dad, Arlo, and Gene. Well, the way the strips have been written, it heavily implies that Arlos childhood is during or right after WW2. Well, Okay nevermind. It wasn't like there was therapy back then, wasn't like the "Specter of Death" that people brought back with them was just gonna vanish on it's own. If Arlo was born mid 50s, then that timeline would work (except as you said, about Nixon) My grandfather is in his mid 80s and served in Korea. My Great-grandfather did WW2, and died before I was born. He was one of those types where once he was home, he would not say a word about where he went or what he did, during the war. I keep meaning to put in the forms to get his military service records. I kind of want to look up who was in his unit, contact the families and see if they have letters that were sent home that possibly talked about him. Even if not, it would give an idea of what he went through in that same unit. I am 37 also. Hell yeah, 1983 was a fine, fine vintage of a year.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 15:58 |
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Classic Zits Sylvia
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 16:10 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:Well, the way the strips have been written, it heavily implies that Arlos childhood is during or right after WW2. Well, Okay nevermind. It wasn't like there was therapy back then, wasn't like the "Specter of Death" that people brought back with them was just gonna vanish on it's own. If Arlo was born mid 50s, then that timeline would work (except as you said, about Nixon) To be fair, the numbers are a little weird on dad, because my grandparents did the, "keep trying until you get a boy" thing. He was the last of 5, born I think 19 years after his oldest sister. I'll never forget for their 50th anniversary the kids did an interview video thing for them where they talked about "trying one more time ... and ending up with my 4th aunt. Then trying ONE MORE time and finally 'lucking out' and having dad." Suddenly it made a lot of sense why that aunt smoked a lot of pot and lived on the other side of the country.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 16:13 |
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EasyEW posted:Sally Forth Calling it now: "Thank goodness we found you, now let's all get back to the cabin, it's right over... um... where is it again?" Bizarro The Family Circus
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Huxley posted:To be fair, the numbers are a little weird on dad, because my grandparents did the, "keep trying until you get a boy" thing. He was the last of 5, born I think 19 years after his oldest sister. I'll never forget for their 50th anniversary the kids did an interview video thing for them where they talked about "trying one more time ... and ending up with my 4th aunt. Then trying ONE MORE time and finally 'lucking out' and having dad." Suddenly it made a lot of sense why that aunt smoked a lot of pot and lived on the other side of the country. One of my "Aunts" is actually a Great-Aunt. I think she is around, or a few years older than my mother? I guess my Great-grandparents also decided to have another late on.
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Drakyn posted:McMillan is a genocidal romanticist idiot who either thinks eating plant will cure all ills or that the handicapped deserve death (or both) but this isn't exactly great either. Early farming was often lousy with grim nutritional side effects and backbreaking work compared to foraging and it could become an irreversible choice since the population uptick it produced from a larger baseline food source (fingers crossed you don't have a bad crop this year!) would result in you no longer being able to sustain yourself without it. So, the 'reason' ends up being 'weight of numbers' which isn't exactly morally laudable. I’m not sure what point you are trying to get across but I didn’t include any morality in my comment.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 16:35 |
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Docks Retail Popcom (double LOA edition)
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 16:48 |
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Ashsaber posted:Oh yeah, she also believes that green power is bad. Like solar panels cooking wildlife and birds being chopped up by windmills. I keep wanting to try to be fair to McMillan because of how a lot of modern problems have shaken out but this is genuine idiocy and spite. Ugh. And of course she really does think nuclear power involves pumping radiation directly into rivers and tossing giant cartoon barrels into the woods.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 16:49 |
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Jucika "152 - Jucika Is Feeling Cold" What a nice man. "153 - Jucika In The Cloakroom" Cold weather feels.
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Tiggum posted:How does the eco-terrorist rabbit fit into this interpretation? It's basically an admission that Kranti's ideology can only ever function on loony tunes logic.
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F Minus Mark Trail Mary Worth Geez man just increase your font size or something. The Phantom Pooch Cafe Rex Morgan MD Andertoons Apartment 3-G
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Crab Dad posted:I’m not sure what point you are trying to get across but I didn’t include any morality in my comment. If what you meant was 'agricultural societies historically beat foraging societies because they produce larger populations on average; therefore if MacMillan wants to switch economies so many loving people HAVE to die,' I'm sorry, I missed that and hosed up. I read it (due to the ongoing conversation about how MinSec's ecocidal wet dreams mandate the deaths of the vulnerable) as 'agricultural societies beat foraging societies because vulnerable people suffer and die less because of them,' and so I wrote many poorly-articulated words about how historically this was not necessarily so.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 17:42 |
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EBB posted:Not an edit, wow! I think the authors in general "get" that Luann is boring, Bernice is a prude, etc., they just haven't figured out that it has worn thin and more annoying than endearing even when it's lampshaded.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 17:43 |
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Schwarzwald posted:It's basically an admission that Kranti's ideology can only ever function on loony tunes logic. She's a (wo)manchild. I think it's been mentioned but McMillan was not a college activist or amateur cartoonist when these things were made- she was in her early to mid 40's.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 17:44 |
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Darthemed posted:Retail I'm unironically enjoying this story.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth I'm telling you guys, Drew's eyesight is really bad for a doctor!
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 18:10 |
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On The Fastrack Safe Havens That one strip in black and white is due to that day's Safe Havens upload being a dupe of the 7/20 On the Fastrack strip, Holbrook uploaded the non color version to facebook until they fix it on the Comics Kingdom site. This is also the last full week we missed! Tomorrow is a half day and then I'll spend a good long time thinking about if I want to add them to my dailies. I probably will. riderchop fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Jul 27, 2021 |
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Haifisch posted:Ah yes, how could I forget. And this is Steph so naturally she hates electricity existing at all(with grudging tolerance for the bare minimum needed to store medicine, at least in the later minsec story). I just noticed that one of the things she says are so much trouble about making medicines is "doing studies." What's the alternative to that?
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 18:25 |
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Caphi posted:I just noticed that one of the things she says are so much trouble about making medicines is "doing studies." What's the alternative to that?
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 18:27 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:Garfield Classic (November 11, 1989) Garfield is so happy to have all that food.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 18:36 |
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Kavak posted:She's a (wo)manchild. I think it's been mentioned but McMillan was not a college activist or amateur cartoonist when these things were made- she was in her early to mid 40's. Well, sure.
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riderchop posted:On The Fastrack I have a solution that will help them deal with Ms. Trellis. It was invented in France, near the end of the 1700s.
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quote:Mark Trail Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. As much as Bee Sharp is one of the best things to come out of this arc, I guess this is as mercifully passable an outcome as we can get for this half of the story. Some serious "oh gently caress a deadline" art though lol.
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 19:09 |
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It's very lovely in Safe Havens that it's like "We hired you to make sure no one else does what we can. Only we are the arbiters of good obviously."
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# ? Jul 27, 2021 19:15 |
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skeleton warrior posted:I know is the thread mantra, but I am definitely interested in seeing a mundane, everyday-life strip from Nazi Germany, that seems incredibly fascinating! Vater und Sohn - The interesting Christmas book (51/1934) Meet the mother. Now say goodbye to the mother cause she's never showing up again.
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Bad Machinery
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