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i was reading the nostrils as eyes and the gum as a nose for way too long
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Dec 28, 2021 20:43
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kidcoelacanth posted:i was reading the nostrils as eyes and the gum as a nose for way too long It's honestly a better design that way
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Compu-toon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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Hostile V posted:Realtalk if Mary Worth has a loving cruise ship nightmare scenario (doesn't have to be COVID) storyline I'm back in this annoying, meandering, saccharine strip's corner. Poseidon Adventure 2: Norovirus Powerpuke
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Dec 28, 2021 21:48
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Julet Esqu posted:"Don't worry, Rex. We won't let anything interesting happen to you." Is that supposed to be the British Dennis the Menace? The Far Side      Pickles  Zits 
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side One of my favorites.
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riderchop posted:Heathcliff Meanwhile, in Kevin and Kell the punchline would be "we murdered thousands of sapient fleas without a thought to a ethical or moral solution at all. Huzzah!"
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Wasn't there also a Mary Worth cruise ship story where a woman's fiance kissed some other woman and one of them almost died falling overboard. Two for two on exciting cruise ship storylines from the Worth team, at least.
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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riderchop posted:Garfield
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Mutts  Sally Forth   Pearls Before Swine   Skippy (April 16-17, 1934)   Peanuts (December 26-27, 1974)   Harry Dinkle, The God Of Public School Music Directors   Crankshaft   Mutt and Jeff   Rip Haywire   Thimble Theater (July 28-29, 1938)   Out Our Way, featuring the hit character of 1937. "Hit" as in "preferably with a blunt instrument". (December 13-15, 1937)    Toonerville Folks (June 27-29, 1918)    (Get A Piece of The) Dok's Duck (November 26, 1913)  Little Lefty (October 28-30, 1935)    It's a little late and a half, so Blondie will be ready next time. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Dec 29, 2021 05:12
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Jucika "468 - Jucika, The Eternal Curious" "469 - Jucika Can't Get A Taxi"  Impossibly stylish.
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Medenmath posted:
I can't help reading the text for next week's strip as a scream of terror. In today's Blueberry: Pokemontheme.mp3, or I like to think that Charlier had only ever heard the NAME of quicksand, and so this is what he thought it meant. Certainly makes more sense then actual quicksand in the desert!, or Indiana Jones looks on Luckner and Blount with sympathy   
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics      Elsewhere: Hey, it IS still the 70s.  Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Mandrake  Johnny Hazard  90s Overboard 
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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EasyEW posted:
what's gonna happen in 30 years here, he's gonna get swole? Garfield  Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Compu-toon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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riderchop posted:what's gonna happen in 30 years here, he's gonna get swole? (I'm being unfair here, Williams is rather a lot more charitable than Beeman et al.) Vater und Sohn: You have to be a problem solver (24/1936) 
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riderchop posted:
Well, isn't it convenient that you cracked the secret of immortality and showed it to us a week or so ago.
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  And Hilary gets someone whizzing out the back of the Trojan horse onto the comics page. Get Fuzzy 12/28/01  Brenda Starr 11/16/47  Smokey Stover 4/22/45 
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Darthemed posted:
you'd be treated somehow even worse if you did that job, coop
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riderchop posted:what's gonna happen in 30 years here, he's gonna get swole? More like low body fat hadn't been invented yet, except for the poors. But eating steak for breakfast will do that to you.
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You know what I kind of liked doing at the beginning of this year, but rushed too much? Writing all those pithy reviews. So I'm gonna try doing it again now, until I get tired of it anyway.Kennel posted:Nancy Modern Nancy uses this gag a lot. And I think the reason it rankles the thread so much is because its so minimalist on the visuals you could just use clip art for it. Whereas any Modern Nancy that uses any kind of visual sight gag at all is always received much better, because Olivia Jaimes isn't bad at comics, the overly wordy stuff just makes her seem lazy. quote:Dustin You know, nothing I could write will top the Dustin Wikipedia page. Yes, it still hasn't been changed after all these years.. quote:Mandrake I have completely lost track of what's going on in Modern Mandrake, which is funny because I can remember offhand pretty quickly that Classic Mandrake is about a convoluted jewel heist involving mummy impersonation and that Mandrake is currently trolling a dude with lots of tattoos by making the tattoos move. riderchop posted:Garfield Modern Garfield isn't bad. It's not great. But it's not as awful as you'd expect a zombie strip to be. quote:Heathcliff Briefly surreal but not terribly memorable to be entirely honest. quote:Overboard Surreal in a fairly memorable way is why I like this comic more than I probably should. quote:Monty I like Monty. His pathetic bachelor lifestyle is something I can relate to. quote:For Better or For Worse I read somewhere that teenagers these days don't actually drive anymore. Part of this is COVID keeping them from driving anywhere, but also everything being online has reduced the need for it. So being able to drive isn't the rite of passage it used to be. I bring this up, not to critique this individual comic, but to emphasize how despite pretending to be a modern comic strip nearly every single For Better or For Worse has some really subtle cultural element that doesn't at all track to life as how we know it today. quote:Compu-toon Compu-toon is almost the exact same kind of novelty as Heathcliff, come to think of it, just not intentionally and with a very different topic. quote:On The Fastrack All of the metaphors in this comic are very disturbing. I mean sure, that's true for any Holbrook cartoon, but this is the only one that purports to take place in something approximating the real world and depicting characters like you and me. quote:Safe Havens Currently on Safe Havens, a mouse and a bird (?) have been turned into humans, have had a human baby, and now apparently that baby is talking much faster than she should. That's it. That's the comment. Any given day the Safe Havens storyline is based on premises equally bizarre. quote:Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon I find this comic about as tiresome as Modern Nancy any time it's not using the deliberately nonsensically convoluted puns. Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side The Far Side is great! I'm glad Gary Larson decided the Internet doesn't have cooties. quote:Pickles Pickles depicts the kind of old person I want to be some day. quote:Zits This Zits is kind of unrepresentative. In general I find it to be surprisingly prescient about the modern generation gap. edit: damnable quote tags! Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Funny you posted that Nancy observation before today's strip which is a decent gag but really leaning into "can't be hosed to draw" territory. I can forgive minimalist art even if Modern Nancy is erring on the side of B^U levels of copy paste. What really sucks about it is that it has been beating the same joke to death for about two years now in 90% of the strips. It introduced a bunch of nearly identical and terrible redundant characters who are vehicles for the same identical cynical wordplay gags making them all seem like the same boring jaded character. Here's Angry Girl, Nancy's other best friend, who is angry and bitter and jaded and cynical. Here's Boy Nancy Wronged, he likes movies and is sarcastic and bitter and jaded and cynical. The Artistic Twins almost seem like they're not the same character because they have personalities beyond being bitter but they're just there to insure we get the anxious and self-doubting wordplay jokes in if for some reason Nancy's Aunt can't give us enough anxious adult jokes for the week. Nancy's a ridiculously egotistical little poo poo and Sluggo is an almost completely empty straight man for these terrible wordplay jokes, practically a stranger in the strip. But we got Sluggo Is Lit(and nothing remotely close to it since) and Nancy Is A Vampire jokes twice a year so woooooahhhhh what a daring and innovative take on an old classic IP. Seriously a 2/5 strip, at least its better than actively hateful trash like Dustin but Modern Nancy has managed to be worse at joke recycling than Modern Garfield and did it without 30 years of warm up. I know a lot of strips have recurring gags but they need to be good gags or good twists or at least air things out between reposts(Modern Heathcliff) and I'm posting Jucika which is 500+ strips of drat WOMEN ARE HOT jokes but 400+ of them are excellent. Maybe  reviews of strips would be fun for the end of the year.Jucika "470 - Jucika Buys A Present"  Jucika's Husband nooooooooooo "471 - Jucika And Gambling"  
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To be fair, Jucika is routinely hotter than nu-Nancy ever was funny. e: funnier, too. Huxley fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba Greetings, fellow translator goon  This is my favorite weird genre itch in the thread, a near post-apocalyptic environment that's just normal folks hanging out at a bar. No gratuitous sci-fi. Great stuff.quote:ChaCha Chako This made so much more sense when you finally explained the story takes place in a pastiche world based on a children's cartoon with anthropomorphic food and animals. Strangely, this information neither improved the comic nor made it worse. It's still equally great. EasyEW posted:Mutts Extremely inoffensive. Not unpleasant by any means, but it's easy to see why Mutts hasn't been in the thread for years. quote:Sally Forth I find the soap opera aspects of this comic more compelling than the actual soap strips, and the humor aspects less compelling than the actual comedy strips. quote:Pearls Before Swine I used to really dislike Pearls Before Swine because of its sheer smugness, but I find the pandemic has had a very effective humbling impact on Pastis that gives the strip a much more grounded perspective in regards to the uselessness of superiority complexes and how it fuels depression. Also it has better jokes now. quote:Skippy (April 16-17, 1934) It's a weird analogy to make, but I can't help but sea Skippy as being a kind of proto-Peanuts in that the characters, being slightly older, are also much better at being straightforwardly aggressive. Yet at the same time, there's a big generation gap at play because it feels like post World War II kids were expected to have better manners. quote:Peanuts (December 26-27, 1974) Like, see here, the whole idea of writing letters to thank people seems wholly alien to Skippy. Or even something like Out Our Way, which has more polite kids in general. quote:Harry Dinkle, The God Of Public School Music Directors Funky Winkerbean has the bad habit of making me hate the jobs of the characters it depicts despite the fact that I know full well Batiuk does absolutely no research about anything, and certainly not the professional work he dedicates entire plotlines to. quote:Crankshaft I find the smugness of Crankshaft to be every bit as infuriating as Funky Winkerbean these days because it seems like every other strip relies on understanding some arcane internal or external reference that Batiuk doesn't even attempt to explain. quote:Mutt and Jeff I like this comic a lot and am glad you added it to your lineup. I'm assuming these are all older ones? I'm surprised at how easy they read, since it seems like most classic comics have a nearly inscrutable setup structure. quote:Rip Haywire Rip Haywire is like a case study in how constant plot twists in the context of a daily strip just make the whole thing drat near unreadable. quote:Thimble Theater (July 28-29, 1938) It is incredibly weird just how modern and experimental this strip feels given that Popeye is synonymous with cliched damsel in distress cartoons for children. quote:Out Our Way, featuring the hit character of 1937. "Hit" as in "preferably with a blunt instrument". (December 13-15, 1937) This is a better puzzle strip than Encyclopedia Brown as I'm always left wondering, what is this reference supposed to mean? Was life eighty years ago really that different? quote:Toonerville Folks (June 27-29, 1918) Yet Toonerville Folks is always really straightforward, despite taking place further in the past in a more rural community less similar to the ones we live in today. quote:(Get A Piece of The) Dok's Duck (November 26, 1913) I've been wondering whether this duck who's kind of a dick was at least a partial influence on Donald Duck and Daffy Duck. quote:Little Lefty (October 28-30, 1935) Here again. More straightforwardly aggressive children. But they're also Communists. quote:It's a little late and a half, so Blondie will be ready next time. I can see why Blondie had to completely reinvent itself as a domestic strip from your posts. What looked promising at first has become increasingly tired and gimmicky, and I can only imagine how insulting this kind of high society drama must have felt to people during the Great Depression. Doomykins posted:Jucika "468 - Jucika, The Eternal Curious" This nails it actually. Jucika is impossibly stylish.
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Mark Trail is good when Jules is just using the strip for thinly-veiled attacks at stuff that she's mad about in real life. Yes, I am aware of the irony of this statement, especially coming from me.
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Samovar posted:I can't help reading the text for next week's strip as a scream of terror. Greetings, fellow translator goon You do great work. Blueberry is a cool as hell Western adventure strip, and I'm honestly surprised we don't have more of those in American newspaper comic form. The genre was certainly popular enough. I also wouldn't worry too much about racisms or cultural insensitivity if I were you. The story's been quite consistent in portraying the Indians as reasonable people with reasonable motives, which is what really matters.--- Ehhh gonna cut this short here. Thoughtful summations for literally every strip in the thread are quite tiring! Would much appreciate if someone else would take up some of the slack.
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Vargo posted:
I know there’s going to be some sort of good message here but I can’t help but think if you have a surplus of good water splooshing around wastefuly onto the ground and you are basically flaunting it to your neighbors maybe they have a reason to be jealous.
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Doomykins posted:"471 - Jucika And Gambling" drat that's a fine piglet.
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