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Darthemed posted:Here's the previous use of that one. Dang it - he didn't repeat it, I did. Sorry folks, with Beeman, once is more than enough.
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The 2007 wing of The MiniSec Ecocide Museum discovers the magical world of COLOR CARTOONING! (December 10-14)     Meanwhile, 2011 gets to the interesting part. (January 10-14)      Which brings us to this...   
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Mikl posted:
Wait, why the gently caress would anyone care about The Lion King in a world full of anthropomorphic animals? Why would anyone even make that movie/musical? Isn't it just Hamlet in their world? How has Hollbrook never once thought about the world he's been building for most of my lifetime?
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Time to go drink, Wilbur!
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Endless Mike posted:Time to go drink, Wilbur! I'm praying for another trippy dream sequence now.
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Vargo posted:Wait, why the gently caress would anyone care about The Lion King in a world full of anthropomorphic animals? Why would anyone even make that movie/musical? Isn't it just Hamlet in their world? How has Hollbrook never once thought about the world he's been building for most of my lifetime?
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Johnny Walker posted:
oh poo poo somebody is getting muffins! or murdered
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Frankly, Wilbur, I figured I could do better. A lot better. *Zak emerges from behind a tree*
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Go back home and be a family man Wilbur Oh wait
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Johnny Walker posted:
Wilbur got loving owned by Libby. Too bad the boom box is all out of tunes for Wilbur.
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FOR SALE: FUNNY ANIMALS, NEVER ONLINE
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Darthemed posted:Retail I think you could probably write a dissertation at this point about all the nerdy references in Retail that made sense in 2009 but which sound considerably less nerdy in the present day because of the way in which nerd culture has consumed everything between then and now.
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So I’m gonna add a new strip/artist to the thread, and she deserves her own post. …Introducing Lynda Barry! Best known for Ernie Pook’s Comeek, I’m going to start with One! Hundred! Demons! her semi-autobiographical…not really a graphic novel? You’ll see, it’s really cool. Lynda Barry is, imo, an unparalleled comics artist of the modern era. Her childlike drawing belies the emotional intensity of her work — but perhaps that’s the point. Her comics are intensely personal and sensitive, while maintaining enough editorial distance to make some really good jokes. One! Hundred! Demons! is quite different from her Ernie Pook/Marlys, but it shares the element of deep insight into the emotional lives of children — which is much more complicated than any of us remember. Once I’ve posted all of this book, I’ll start with her more standard comic strip, and that’ll come with more biographical commentary from me. Since this book is more narrative, I’ve divided the chapters according to the “beats” of her storytelling, so as not to be overwhelming and to let us enjoy watching her vignettes unfold. So now, let’s dive into the introduction!          
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Johnny Walker posted:F Minus I appreciate how this particular quicksand gag only makes sense if quicksand moves very slowly. Which it does, because it has a very counterintuitive name that's been misinterpreted in pop culture basically forever.
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Bibliotechno Music posted:So I’m gonna add a new strip/artist to the thread, and she deserves her own post.
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For all of Jules’s storytelling growing pains, I love that she’s kept the key elements of Weird Circle Signature and Foreground Animals. Johnny Walker posted:
But Moy, I crave violence! And it’s my pleasure, Hostile V! I started reading Ernie Pook as soon as I was old enough to start taking public transit around the city on my own, picking up the new issues of the Chicago Reader as fast as they came out. Lynda Barry was the perfect artist for a weirdo tween to come across — I discovered her before either of my parents did, so I always felt like she was my own personal underground artist, writing just for me. I’m incredibly jazzed to start posting her work and to finally have a good excuse to buy her compendium
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Vargo posted:Wait, why the gently caress would anyone care about The Lion King in a world full of anthropomorphic animals? Why would anyone even make that movie/musical? Isn't it just Hamlet in their world? How has Hollbrook never once thought about the world he's been building for most of my lifetime? It's not even close to Hamlet. All the characters occupy completely different positions in the plot. Lion King is built up as a hero's journey while Hamlet plays out like a tragic comedy of errors. There's no Laertes analog, let alone a convoluted fake duel with real poison that defines the entire climax, among other massive differences. The similarities begin and end with both stories featuring a brotherly usurper and a ghost who talks to the dead king's son, neither of which are particularly unique elements. The entire Hamlet analogy exists largely to detract from the Lion King actually ripping off Kimba the White Lion, a story that not only uses similar narrative devices and an identical setting but even reproduces much of the same imagery. ...But to answer your question no, it's unclear what kind of appeal the Lion King would have in a universe where all animals are intelligent. Maybe it's just a dramatization of life in The Wild?
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Bibliotechno Music posted:So I’m gonna add a new strip/artist to the thread, and she deserves her own post. It's off to a good start!
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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And He Did! September 7, 1918  Outbursts of Everett True October 11, 1918  Gay and Her Gang October 14, 1929  Oaky Doaks March 16, 1936  Mopsy May 17, 1937  Up Front June 27, 1944  Dark Laughter June 5, 1948  Those Were the Days January 21, 1954  Wee Pals December 4, 1965  Dogbert April 19, 1966 
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Pearls Before Swine gets a temporary promotion because it looks like we're finally getting that storyline that was temporarily punted in January because...ahem...reasons.  Sally Forth   Skippy (January 6 and 8, 1934)   Peanuts (September 2-3, 1974)   Funky Winkerbean   See, it's funny because neither of those new fears are particularly distant, and thanks to idiot school boards across the country, the one that involves the disease isn't even vaguely hypothetical! Speaking of which, welcome back to COVIDshaft!   Mutt and Jeff   Rip Haywire   Thimble Theater (March 31-April 1, 1938)   Out Our Way (April 12-14, 1937)    I absolutely remember this one, but don't have the date handy. I kinda wish I'd been taking notes, just to see if this really is a redraw. Toonerville Folks (December 27-29, 1917)  Before Herbert Hoover was the Bonus Army-squashing, wish-away-the-Depression President, he was the head of the wartime United States Food Administration. From Wikipedia: " It was established to prevent monopolies and hoarding, and to maintain government control of foods through voluntary agreements and licensing. [...] The agency had broad powers but few mechanisms for enforcement of its policies. It relied largely upon patriotic appeals and voluntary compliance in the formal absence of rationing."   Dok's "Not To Be The Tone Police, Buddy, But Maybe Dial It Down A Notch" Duck (October 1, 1913)  For those of you who remember the Potlatch Riot story, this little dustup lands in the middle of Judge Humphries losing his goddamn mind. Hey, del's back! Time for more Little Lefty! (April 4-6, 1935)    And because it's always interesting to see how thread favorites interact, Bob Ripley pissed off the editorial board enough that they dedicated half of the back page to dragging him. Comrade Name Not Given in the April 6, 1935 Daily Worker posted:The well-known Hearst stooge, "Believe-lt-or-Not" Ripley, who makes a living by inventing fairy tales about a goldfish in the middle of China that talks French, and a bullfrog in the swamps of Florida that presses pants, now crowns his career with equally startling discoveries on the Soviet Union.  Blondie From Zero, in which Mr. Bumstead is about to call Miss Boopadoop's bluff. (January 12-14, 1931) 
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days January 21, 1954 Alright, Beeman, you've used your one allotted "Antiques? We used to call it JUNK!" joke for 1954.
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EasyEW posted:Hey, del's back! Time for more Little Lefty! (April 4-6, 1935) This one really threw me at first because I'd heard of reports of nonexistent record Soviet harvests but this one postdates the Holodomor by two years. The implication being that outlets would lie about the Soviet Union experiencing starvation even if they weren't, which places Walter Duranty's reporting in a context I hadn't previously considered, despite it being perfectly consistent with everything I already knew about the era's journalism.
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Estelle finally dumping Wilbur over him being a dick to her cat would be great, but I'm expecting Mary to intervene here and ask her to give Wilbur another chance and not to let a cat come between her relationship with a person.
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Everett seems to have gone entirely from taking on real pests to just mangling anyone who's the least bit annoying. Was Condo getting up there in years at this point?
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Some Guy TT posted:The entire Hamlet analogy exists largely to detract from the Lion King actually ripping off Kimba the White Lion, a story that not only uses similar narrative devices and an identical setting but even reproduces much of the same imagery. Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Kimba is also very explicitly about the balance between nature and human development and the systems that drive hostility between the two; while humans are entirely absent in the Lion King,. The threat is simply a "bad king" and the movie spends no time on asking if maybe kings were a bad idea. Kimba returns to his ancestral home with a new perspective to share with the animals, and a new way of addressing the issues facing them. Simba returns to his home to depose his uncle and return to the status quo that caused the problem in the first place.
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Maybe it's only in hindsight, knowing that Stalin's Great Purge is looming over the horizon, that extolling the virtues of the Soviet Union kind of works against the generally top notch staunchly antiracist, empower the working class, fight for social justice thing Little Lefty's got going on.
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riderchop posted:Compu-toon We could all learn from Jason.
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riderchop posted:On The Fastrack I'd have left panel 4 as a beat panel without narration, but I actually like this one.
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Samovar posted:In today's delayed Blueberry: A new adventure begins!, or It's a good thing that this story has had a history of extremely well rounded women characters, Mikl, because otherwise, this newcomer might irritate you!, or Danuta Danielsson nods approvingly. I enjoy this lady. I don't say it enough, but I absolutely love the Powerful Katrinka. She's a very good role model. Same with Tomboy Taylor. riderchop posted:Safe Havens No wait. You find the baby's pacifier on the floor, and you give it back to them without even washing it off? What the hell?? Classic Kevin & Kell in: "...And whatever the gently caress Coney is, I guess." (May 12-18, 2003)        Modern Kevin & Kell 
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Kennel posted:Dustin what
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