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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
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| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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Fingerpori Back when I was in the army, I had some moles cut off my head by the trainee medics, and it was fine except they had never heard of bedside manner or doctorly conduct and used their scalpels with the enthusiasm normally found in 80s slasher movies. But I guess it could've been worse. 
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Nancy 1947
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Slammy posted:
Life before automobile safety glass was grim: "As more and more cars took to the roads, a rise in accidents was inevitable. When one of these early cars was involved in an accident, it was not uncommon for the driver at a minimum to be injured by flying shards of glass or, far worse, lose his life after going headfirst through the windshield. The latter event was known as wearing a glass necklace. In the teens motorists filed a number of lawsuits against car manufacturers, asserting the car makers were the cause of their windshield-related injuries." http://www.secondchancegarage.com/public/windshield-history.cfm
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Jan 6, 2022 13:10
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Vintage Valiant (Feb. 20, 1949)   Val is a master trickster himself and has absolutely seen real magic work right in front of him by now, so this lesson feels both unnecessary and basically wrong.
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Jan 6, 2022 13:30
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Yeah so how did he pull off the moustache thing then, James Randi?
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Jan 6, 2022 13:36
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Zits 
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Jan 6, 2022 13:40
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Feb. 20, 1949) Merlin does say that there's also The Real poo poo beyond science and trickery. It's still a really weird thing that Merlin immediately dives into a Penn and Teller routine.
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Jan 6, 2022 13:45
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Jesus, I guess the single mum with 4 kids really did spring for the Lynx. (although the multiplayer is perhaps incongruous with that)
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Jan 6, 2022 13:54
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~Coxy posted:Jesus, I guess the single mum with 4 kids really did spring for the Lynx. I was thinking Sega Gamegear
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Jan 6, 2022 14:13
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis  Wait.... what?
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Jan 6, 2022 14:49
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Vargo posted:Curtis Everyone else died. The end.
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Jan 6, 2022 14:52
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riderchop posted:riderchop@Athena:/mnt/c/Users/Ariel$ bash ck.sh I just keep different stickers on my work laptop vs my personal laptop, but you do you Deathany from On the Fastrack
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Jan 6, 2022 15:10
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Classic Kevin & Kell in: roommates (April 25 - May 1, 2005)       Modern Kevin & Kell  Last year these two had sex for the first time in the history of the strip -- you know, despite being twenty-something years old by this point, and being together since they were 13, but details -- which concluded with "yeah, sex is nice, but we're not ready for marriage." Are we getting a wedding arc now?
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Jan 6, 2022 15:40
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Vargo posted:Breaking Cat News I think maybe the last panel would work better if ... everything around the two huts wasn't green also.
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Jan 6, 2022 15:53
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an anonymous Secret Santa gave me COVID for the holidays so I haven't done a lot of posting, especially image posting. let me get you caught up with ... Arlo and Janis     if I miss a few days, I generally just post current A&J and then resume posting classics when I'm back to a regular posting schedule; otherwise, it's just too many comics.
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Jan 6, 2022 15:56
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Still just mind-boggled at how dumb that Billingsley story is, I'm not sure why he insists on doing these stories every year with the arbitrary time limit of "must fit into Kwanzaa" and then just sort of... gets bored and wanders off halfway through.
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Jan 6, 2022 16:54
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Vargo posted:Curtis I mean, you have to admit this is the best "exchanging cheese with a haunted stump" story you've read lately. Bizarro  Snow looks like she needs to cut down on the caffeine. The Family Circus 
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Jan 6, 2022 16:57
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Powered Descent posted:
Very clever, yes that is literally the common usage 
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Jan 6, 2022 17:08
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JFC, Bernice, just shut the gently caress up already.Hostile V posted:I'll be real, it's better than the original Zofie's World. ZW isn't a bad idea but it's also incredibly one-note and hasn't really done much to execute its concept well. Zamboni Rodeo fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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Jan 6, 2022 17:22
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I genuinely don't know why I hate the term "Jill of all trades" but I do, so.
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Jan 6, 2022 17:28
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Into Ilves  I guess it should be noted that many farms/rural houses used to have a name that was same/similar than the last name of the people living there. So "Routavaara" refers both the place and Tatu's last name. The original text doesn't technically use it as a pure last name, but calls him "Routavaara's Tatu", which is still somewhat common in Finnish language, but (at least to me) feels unnatural in English, so I go with strict <first name> <last name>. Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Jan 6, 2022 17:34
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RoboRodent posted:I genuinely don't know why I hate the term "Jill of all trades" but I do, so. It's clearly a derivative term and it doesn't roll of the tongue well at all, but I understand why it exists
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Jan 6, 2022 17:37
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Herman the Heathen  Zofie's World  
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Jan 6, 2022 19:31
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I like the kwanzaa story. It's dumb and nonsensical, but the point he's trying to make is that sometimes all you need to do is ask politely, and that it's generous to share if you can when people ask. The actual facts of the story are nonsense, and there really needed to be time to explain why she wasn't just sharing all the water (maybe the wood spirit wanted offerings from each person using the water?), but I get what he's going for.
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Jan 6, 2022 19:46
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F Minus I don't know if this deserves a  or  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  Maybe he'll fall overboard all on his own. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  "Why do people insist on bringing up all my frauds?" Andertoons  They are synonyms but I get the joke. Apartment 3-G 
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Jan 6, 2022 20:18
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Vater und Sohn: Wasp handling (32/1936)
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Jan 6, 2022 20:28
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god please have a drunken wilbur fall overboard and drown
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Jan 6, 2022 20:31
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Dykes to Watch Out For #146 (1992), by Alison Bechdel  They're of course talking about the 1992 US presidential election, between Bill Clinton and incumbent George H.W. Bush, and a number of third party candidates including Ross Perot and yes, Joan Jett Blakk was a performer, comedian, and drag queen who ran under the slogan "Lick Bush in '92" largely as a way of playfully drawing attention to Bush' dismal record on LGBTQ+ issues and the AIDS crisis. Here's a short video documentary from 1992 about Blakk and the Queer Nation Party's whole deal. I don't know what's up with Yoshi's "Gay Girls Make Me Wet" shirt. Many of the shirts people in this strip wear are either gags, or real shirts that one can see in photos of contemporaneous queer culture, but this one is new to me and googling it just led me to a lot of people asking searching questions about themselves. I could be wrong but I think the Grosse Pointe Gazette and the Topeka Lesbian Tribune are made up newspapers. I'd love to be corrected though.
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Jan 6, 2022 20:39
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PetraCore posted:I like the kwanzaa story. It's dumb and nonsensical, but the point he's trying to make is that sometimes all you need to do is ask politely, and that it's generous to share if you can when people ask. The actual facts of the story are nonsense, and there really needed to be time to explain why she wasn't just sharing all the water (maybe the wood spirit wanted offerings from each person using the water?), but I get what he's going for. I usually lose track of the Kwanzaa stories way before they pay off, so yeah, this one gets points for being pretty easy to follow.
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Jan 6, 2022 21:12
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Raskolnikov38 posted:god please have a drunken wilbur fall overboard and drown Oh my god, I just had the best idea. If Aldo Kelrast is Speed, can we please get Wilbur as Speed 2 and have him drunkenly row a lifeboat out in front of this speeding cruise ship?
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Jan 6, 2022 21:44
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Raskolnikov38 posted:god please have a drunken wilbur fall overboard and drown We should be so lucky.
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Jan 6, 2022 21:51
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Uramachi Sakaba  Emi knows the score. ChaCha Chako  
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Jan 6, 2022 21:55
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Ah, so we're going to Mary Worth's second favorite storyline, "Nobody drinks in this strip unless they have a problem, and when they do they deserve what they have coming to them" quote:Rex Morgan MD So the strip artist couldn't put any kind of effort into making these dogs distinct in any way? Maybe that's the joke? But if that IS the joke then it means the previous storyline was about an author who is so dim he couldn't think of the concept of "two dogs" without a child delivering it to him with a bow on top? I have to stop thinking about this or I am going to have a stroke.
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Jan 6, 2022 22:06
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How Wonderful! posted:I don't know what's up with Yoshi's "Gay Girls Make Me Wet" shirt. Many of the shirts people in this strip wear are either gags, or real shirts that one can see in photos of contemporaneous queer culture, but this one is new to me and googling it just led me to a lot of people asking searching questions about themselves. I never recognized a real LGBT newspaper name in DTWOF. Always thought they were made up, and that would be typical of her style.
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Jan 6, 2022 22:15
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JethroMcB posted:But if that IS the joke then it means the previous storyline was about an author who is so dim he couldn't think of the concept of "two dogs" without a child delivering it to him with a bow on top? It's an intentional joke with Rene but I'm 50/50 on Rex Morgan taking the piss out of Vidpa or unironically portraying him as some awww shucks children's book author on hard times. Neither interpretation is charitable. Everything about the "12 year old writes author's next book for him as gushing fanfiction and unironically gets a fat paycheck for it" was unintentionally or not slamming home that dude was a dimwitted hack. Like wondering aloud "I've had Kitty Cop fight a giant robot dog, and a giant robot frog, and gosh darn it I'm just outta idea juice! Wait a second, a fan letter? Two cutes dogs named Doggo? Fighting a giant robot log?! THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!" Jucika "488 - Jucika And The Parachute Jump Target"  "489 - Jucika Signs" 
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Jan 6, 2022 23:13
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD Goddamn ask him for proof. "Can you prove that drawing you just showed us was made years ago instead of, like, ten minutes before the press conference?" loving ASK HIM. Jesus christ this is infuriating.
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Jan 6, 2022 23:26
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Mikl posted:Goddamn ask him for proof. I thought the mafia was going to kill Rene, he escaped through a window. Why would he reveal himself now?
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Bad Machinery
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics     "you're okay with micromanaging the life of a balding abusive alcoholic so he never faces any consequences, right?" Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns   Mandrake   Johnny Hazard   90s Overboard 
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth In my heart, I want Estelle to end this arc by telling Mary she was apocalyptically wrong.
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