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Surgeon's Tales We've now reached the last part of the last book, which is pretty wild considering that we still have 230 strips left (the first 2/3rds of the last book was 113 strips). That seems to suggest that we will again start following the book much closer like in the first two books which were almost 1:1.  Joonas Perttilä hasn't appeared in the comic, but has been the main character in few of the book's chapters. He is honest and a bit naive young man, who is shocked when he realizes how corrupt the politicians (including his relatives) are. Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Haifisch posted:I came back because I was informed in Discord that there was a strip missing from MW and ...No? Glass is remarkably tough when it's cut and shaped into tiny pieces, such as those needed to simulate diamonds. It's not as tough as diamond, sure, but there's a pretty good chance glass fake diamonds will not break even when smacked against the floor.
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Haifisch posted:I came back because I was informed in Discord that there was a strip missing from MW and One thing I learned from reading all the entries in the Encyclopedia Brown Encyclopedia, it's that "If an Encyclopedia Brown story ever mentions that a stolen object was insured, the answer is almost invariably that the theft was faked for insurance fraud." This seems poorly thought out, though. Wouldn't the Insurance Company take the shattered necklace (I mean, even shattered diamonds would still be diamonds and worth something) for appraisal, and immediately discover that it was glass?
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (December 6, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (December 6, 1999)  Garfield Classic (December 6, 1989) 
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Jucika "212 - Jucika's Shakedown Cruise" "213 - Jucika Is Jealous" 
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Johnny Walker posted:Pooch Cafe I like this one mostly for reminding me about Pyton.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Steeple: Clotted Crime Part 1 - Brassic John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad Site Steeple Website
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And He Did! August 29, 1918  Outbursts of Everett True October 6, 1918  Gay and Her Gang October 7, 1929  Oaky Doaks March 9, 1936  Mopsy May 8, 1937  Up Front June 20, 1944  Dark Laughter April 24, 1948  Those Were the Days December 9, 1953  Wee Pals November 27, 1965  Dogbert April 9, 1966 
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days December 9, 1953 Who will save the poor Husbands who have to do things by themselves Q_Q
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Kavak posted:Joking aside, I'm not sure if I should appreciate Holbrook for understanding that Transgenderism wasn't a punchline in 2003 or stop trying to think out his metaphor car crash before it hurts. In a way it's impressive that he started out with a clumsy but clearly well-meaning transgender metaphor and has since moved on to two other ones that are considerably worse in every possible way. I'm not one hundred percent sure he even knew what transgenderism was in 2003 or if the parallel is just accidental.
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Dec 10, 1952)  Calvin and Hobbes (Nov 14-15, 1989)  
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft
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Haifisch posted:Friday 1979 comics maltesh posted:One thing I learned from reading all the entries in the Encyclopedia Brown Encyclopedia, it's that "If an Encyclopedia Brown story ever mentions that a stolen object was insured, the answer is almost invariably that the theft was faked for insurance fraud." That's the deception -- he wants the insurance people to think the real diamonds walked out the door and all he has left is a worthless decoy. And if the insurance people wanted to examine it, that's where the second fake comes in -- presumably he would have made the switch before presenting it as the one the robbers had recognized as a fake and thrown on the floor. Of course that doesn't answer why he hadn't already made that switch before showing it to the chief of police and his genius kid. Or, even easier, why he didn't just use both fakes when staging the actual burglary: one to be brought out first and rejected, one to sit in the safe and be stolen, with the real one already safely hidden away somewhere, perhaps long beforehand. Come to think of it, who are the robbers, anyway? There are a couple of conspirators in this plot that you have yet to catch, kid. Well, whoever they are, the owner is clearly in kahoots with them, so why not just have them "steal" the actual diamonds and remove the need for an elaborate ruse with glass fakes in the first place? Getting mad about Encyclopedia Brown ITT. Bizarro  The Family Circus 
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics The phrasing here makes it sound like the air itself is gone! Encyclopedia Brown And The Case of The Vanished Atmosphere Followed By The Mass Suffocation of All Life on Earth. Classic Zits  Sylvia 
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Powered Descent posted:Getting mad about Encyclopedia Brown ITT. AND ANOTHER THING There's nothing but Encyclopedia's say-so for the existence of this second fake, or for what he intended to do with it. All the guy has to say now is "Let me look at that necklace with my magnifier... oh my god, you're right, these ARE the real diamonds! There must have been a mixup in all the chaos of the robbery! I guess those criminals weren't so clever after all, eh? Thank you, THANK you, little boy, my precious diamonds are safe and I didn't even know it." His insurance fraud scheme is ruined, but at least he isn't going to jail. Folks, I'm starting to think this mystery story wasn't very well thought out.
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In today's MiniSec Ecocide Museum, duelling portraits of a relationship. 2007 gives us "Love means telling each other off to your faces." (October 29-November 2)      The thing that makes me sad about MiniSec today: Muppet Baby Nikko's criticism of the early anti-war protests (that is, "pick a topic and stick to it") was basically my criticism of the anti-war protests. The second Iraq war triggered one of the largest days of protest in American history, and you could watch a feed of it on C-SPAN, but if you tuned in, instead of a united front, the picture it gave the world was the post-millennium left pulling in all directions at once, dozens of causes fighting for attention...and also "stop the war". Even without two decades of hindsight, all that scattered energy was kind of sad to watch. And result was that the war ended when it drat well felt like it. But that's just my memory. I've been wrong before. Speaking of sad things to watch, 2010 goes back to a recurring theme of interpersonal relationships: telling brazen lies to the people who trust us most. (November 29-December 3)     
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Doomykins posted:Jucika "212 - Jucika's Shakedown Cruise" Jucika has the needle-work of a goddamn riviter.
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Robert Storm Petersen, or as he was ususally called: Storm P. was a danish cartoonist who did not at any point think about what his pen name would sound like in English.  (Fish balls, for those not familiar.) I'll try to translate and post whichever is on https://stormp.dk/ that day, until they either start looping or I get lazy.
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Weembles posted:You all can't think of anything that happend in the last year or two that would make previously mundane social interactions noteworthy?  That's probably it, yeah. F Minus  Mark Trail  I'm kind of glad these two are forming a friendship. Mary Worth  "You're over that cat bullshit, right?" The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Phantom should have more storylines with his cooler, more dangerous girlfriend.quote:Mary Worth Dear God I don't ask you for much but if the cat could somehow ruin or eat all of Wilbur's BBQ that'd be great, love Doomy Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail Same. It's fun writing. If this story doesn't swerve into a third relationship from Mark's past then the strip will hit a nice stride despite early bumps.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Kind of looks like Ham Shears on the bags there.
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Powered Descent posted:That's the deception -- he wants the insurance people to think the real diamonds walked out the door and all he has left is a worthless decoy. And if the insurance people wanted to examine it, that's where the second fake comes in -- presumably he would have made the switch before presenting it as the one the robbers had recognized as a fake and thrown on the floor. Ah, okay. Guess I misread it. In the books, this is "The Case of the Stolen Diamonds" from Encyclopedia Brown Finds His Clues (1966). Based on info from the Encyclopedia Brown Encyclopedia tumblr, In the original version of the story, the entire mystery is cooked up by Encyclopedia for Chief Brown to stage as a fake crime to liven up the annual meeting of the state's police chiefs. Only four of them were able to solve the mystery, and probably Chief Brown would also have failed if he wasn't in on the whole thing. I think there might be a later book where the mystery is rewritten as something that actually happened, but I might be misremembering, or that the Van Dyne name is used on a different jewelry theft story.
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Vater und Sohn: Going to the tree blossom festival (1935/18) Our first one with a bit of text. It's a rare occasion, I'm thinking I'll probably provide translations below panels.  And now here's a regionalism I know a bit about. To begin with, these appeared in a local Berlin newspaper, and it would have been implied that Vater und Sohn were local characters as well, but this is an explicit confirmation. Any Berlin citizen would have been familiar with the annual Tree Blossom Festival in the town of Werder, some 30 miles from the center of Berlin. Werder is quite famous for its orchards, and the blossom festival, first held in 1879 - as a marketing event - quickly became famous as a destination for the people of Berlin to see the trees blossom and, not least, sample the locally made fruit wines. Which are lovely and sweet and you drink them like water and you only realize they kick like a mule when it's already too late. I used to live in Potsdam, between Berlin and Werder, and you quickly learned to avoid the trains at all cost during the festival because in one direction they were full of rowdy Berliners with all intent to get absolutely braindead plastered on fruit wines, more likely than not already having a few on the way, and in the other direction they were full of Berliners who had done so and were now in various stages of fighting, consciousness, and voiding. It must have been that much worse in Werder itself, a small town with a population of 25.000 that would host hundreds of thousands of people for the festival. You'd think it was such a gentle event, watch some tree blossoms and have a few sips of a nice local tipple, and it really deserves better than being near Berlin. The town seems to agree. They were already planning to radically scale down the festival when Covid hit the scene, and I guess once it's back on we'll see if they come down on the side of sticking with the plan or of "Covid's over, people want somewhere to let loose, and we're absolutely desperate for the tourist cash".
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In today's Blueberry: Blueberry is a very light sleeper, or Red Cloud and Sitting Bull (Maȟpíya Lúta and Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake, respectively) were contemporary leaders of the Lakota peoples, who would have been around at this period of time (so I guess it was actually supposed to be the real Shi-ka-She in the earlier adventures). In fact, I believe this is supposed to be a fictional impetus for Red Cloud's War - which was the greatest defeat for the U.S. government against a Native people's population, at least until Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó) one-upped him at the Battle of Little Bighorn , or Blueberry gets framed  
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EasyEW posted:The thing that makes me sad about MiniSec today: Muppet Baby Nikko's criticism of the early anti-war protests (that is, "pick a topic and stick to it") was basically my criticism of the anti-war protests. Up here in Portland after 9/11 there were some folks trying to rile up hate against local Muslims (rather, asnyone who looked like they thought Muslims looked because that's how bigotry rolls). Fliers being spread around town, stuff like that. So a counter-rally was planned to show support for our community. That was the only message that was going out during prep, don't let the bigots claim the silent on their side, pull together, stand up for our town, stuff like that. Come the actual day war talk had started and it had become an anti-war rally with all the speakers focusing on that. I'm sure my friends and I weren't the only ones there for a different reason but we were lost in the crowd and told "this actually matters" when we tried to bring it up. Last protest I ever attended, I have a lot of respect for people who can still find the passion and purpose but it broke me and I can't just let other people have my voice like that any more.
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Bruceski posted:Up here in Portland after 9/11 there were some folks trying to rile up hate against local Muslims (rather, asnyone who looked like they thought Muslims looked because that's how bigotry rolls). Fliers being spread around town, stuff like that. So a counter-rally was planned to show support for our community. That was the only message that was going out during prep, don't let the bigots claim the silent on their side, pull together, stand up for our town, stuff like that. Yikes, it sounds like you had the rug pulled out from under you. It's not like "stop the war" and the "he looked like one" war at home weren't connected, either. I hope it didn't sound like I was shrugging off the type of experience you ended up having. My couch potato hot take on aiming too wide shouldn't overrule a shoes-on-pavement experience, or disqualify the slap in the face that "we'll get to you later"-ism can be.
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