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I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. | 64 | 26.02% | |
I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. | 42 | 17.07% | |
I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. | 88 | 35.77% | |
I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. | 52 | 21.14% | |
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Also we have big Crabgrass news! quote:What does this mean to you? Old School Peanuts (Apr 10, 1953) Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 16-17, 1990) No Blind Alley today
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 19:03 |
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One last thing about Wilbur falling overboard is that despite what a lot of fiction would have you believe, water is not soft and is not safe to fall into from a great height. I learned this from, of all things, the old Real Ghostbusters cartoon from the 80s, where the Ghostbusters were falling from a portal over the ocean and Peter says "Well, at least we'll hit the water," and Ray replies "Actually, due to the surface tension, from this height hitting the water would be like hitting concrete." I'm not sure how far it is from the deck of a cruise ship to the waterline, but it's probably a few stories at least, and on top of that Wilbur is very drunk and as such isn't going to think to do anything that would help lessen the impact of hitting the water. This means he has the potential to get a few broken bones, or even a head/spinal injury if he hits the water wrong. I mean, it's a comic strip so he'll survive with a few bruises (maybe a broken bone or two), but yeah, as has been said many times before, Wilbur has essentially no chance of surviving if this scenario happened in real life. Darthemed posted:Retail Always a true classic:
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 19:07 |
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Wilbur's coffin will be carved and painted to resemble a giant sandwich. Bizarro [The Family Circus FoxTrot
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Selachian posted:Comics Kingdom is down, probably due to crazed Wilbur fans, so today's Rhymes with Dustin is courtesy of Arcamax. If you want a plan B, I figured out by accident that it's the front end that's borked, not the image server. So you can Google image search by domain, like <Insert Comic Name Here> site:comicskingdom.com, click the tools button, limit time to "past 24 hours". The one you're looking for is probably be the first one, so click on that, then right click on the big image in the sidebar that pops up and select "open image in new tab". And that's how we end up with today's Mutts. Sally Forth Ces on Medium Large: "This may be one of my favorite Sally Forth Sundays of all time (and that may include when we had Godzilla whip a train full of the characters at King Ghidorah’s head)." Pearls Before Swine Peanuts (January 12, 1975) Funky Winkerbean Crankshaft Mutt and Jeff Life (With All The Cartoonists Who Aren't Drawing Skippy For The Magazine Every Week Anymore) (January 7, 1926) Percy Crosby: Alice Harvey: John Held Jr. Al Frueh:
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 19:28 |
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 19:35 |
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EasyEW posted:Sally Forth I agree with Ces, this one's amazing. (Be sure to click through to the Medium Large entry to see all the classic panels this was based on.)
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 19:37 |
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Vargo posted:I keep getting 404 errors every time I try to access any page on Comics Kingdom, I can only assume that all the extra traffic from goons trying to see if Wilbur really fell overboard is crashing the site. Edit: This one too F Minus Mark Trail The Phantom Well how did this setup begin then? Pooch Cafe Rex Morgan MD It appears Rene may have a legit argument right now, but I bet it won't end up that way. Andertoons Flash Gordon Murdstone fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Jan 9, 2022 |
# ? Jan 9, 2022 19:52 |
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Murdstone posted:300+ comments on today's Mary Worth. I guarantee you tomorrow some marketing guy is going to be very excitedly talking about 'engagement.' Wilbur is money.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:04 |
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I know the big news is the Mary Worth thing ("Oh, Wilbur! When you were missing and I thought you were dead, I realized how much I care for you! Please forgive me for arguing with you earlier! Yes, I will marry you!"), I gotta comment on thisStrontium posted:Daddy Daze It's bad enough that the baby's babbling in an actual baby language that the dad can understand, but if the mom can understand it too, THEN WHAT IS THE loving POINT OF THIS STRIP. He might as well be the Rose Is Rose baby at this point. Kennel posted:I hope Wilbur is FTFY Darthemed posted:Retail Everything old is new again Love it
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:06 |
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Please please please stop posting Mary Worth. They're going to have some half-assed cop out to explain how Wilbur survived and the final strip being his death is just the perfect ending.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:35 |
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I hope he washes up on a beach and becomes the new Phantom.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:37 |
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail Aww geez, Mark Trail. There's Wilburs flying all over the place.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:39 |
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goatface posted:I hope he washes up on a beach and becomes the new Phantom. The Ghost Who Gets poo poo-Faced!* (*in the Bandar tongue)
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:41 |
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Odonata posted:Please please please stop posting Mary Worth. They're going to have some half-assed cop out to explain how Wilbur survived and the final strip being his death is just the perfect ending. Mary Worth isn't about perfect endings, it's about suffering as a reader.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:44 |
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Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message "lol Wilbur Dead," Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:45 |
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How Wonderful! posted:Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Call the maker of big Dagwoods, The muscular one, and bid him stack On kitchen-plates meat between bread. Drunk wanderings, meet the law of averages. The only emperor is the emperor of sandwiches.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:53 |
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How Wonderful! posted:Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead WHY YOU GET THEM BACK TOGETHER (ah ah ah ah, ah ah) I AWAIT A STUPID COPOUT (ah ah ah ah, ah ah) MARY MARY MARY MARY (ah ah ah ah, ah ah) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qObzgUfCl28 (I know you're doing something else but the meter made me think of this song)
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:54 |
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oh wow i haven't thought about the kaiser chiefs in a decade
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 20:59 |
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Darthemed posted:Docks Probably the basis for the most known episode of the animated series.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 21:25 |
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Samovar posted:I would wish to see more of proto-Ballard Street. I too, would love to see more of this proto-Ballard Street. But until then, there's actual Ballard Street! This week: A rare sighting of a Ballard Street child!
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 22:35 |
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Aw, thanks Bruce and Bernice.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 22:52 |
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Has Mary Worth ever killed off a regular character before? I feel like Wilbur has been there since the 70s.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 22:56 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:I feel like Wilbur has been there since the 70s.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 23:21 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:Has Mary Worth ever killed off a regular character before? I feel like Wilbur has been there since the 70s. How quickly we forget Aldo Kelrast
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 23:25 |
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How Wonderful! posted:How quickly we forget Aldo Kelrast Aldo was a character for the Aldomania storyline. Regular characters include Wilbur and Dawn, Professor Ian and Toby, Dr Jeff, and probably Estelle, Tommy, and Iris at this point.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 23:28 |
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I think Aldo was introduced specifically for that storyline.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 23:29 |
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Uramachi Sakaba ChaCha Chako
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 23:33 |
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8/28/2012
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 23:33 |
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Once the sea gets a taste of ya, it's only a matter of time...
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 23:37 |
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How Wonderful! posted:8/28/2012 Wilbur should just use that title for everything he writes
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 23:41 |
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Powered Descent posted:I agree with Ces, this one's amazing. (Be sure to click through to the Medium Large entry to see all the classic panels this was based on.) I got three right, missed the Freak Brothers even though it's obvious in hindsight.
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# ? Jan 9, 2022 23:46 |
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How Wonderful! posted:8/28/2012 I was just thinking about this. Will Wilbur finally fail to cheat his fate? Or will Dawn paging him lead to his prompt rescue so he can write another advice column entry about cruise accidents? Unrelatedly, I want everyone to know that Ballard Street and Uramachi Sakaba are delightful.
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# ? Jan 10, 2022 00:09 |
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TheMadMilkman posted:Watching kids knock down towers is the single reason for building them. Oh no, in the Lynniverse this is more proof that kids just wreck EVERYTHING and are so ungrateful for everything their elders try to do for them. Drimble Wedge fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jan 10, 2022 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:Has Mary Worth ever killed off a regular character before? I feel like Wilbur has been there since the 70s. Wikipedia says he and Dawn were introduced in 1993, so they hardly count as longstanding charactoh god I'm old.
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# ? Jan 10, 2022 00:19 |
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i looked it up, and the first strip mentioning wilbur is march 25, 1993. he buys an apartment in charterstone and gets bullied by Ian Whatshisface for writing an advice column for women. he was every bit as much of a dweeb then as now.
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# ? Jan 10, 2022 00:37 |
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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# ? Jan 10, 2022 01:31 |
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drat, I fell behind and then saw the thread title change and holy poo poo I'm excited for the funeral.
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# ? Jan 10, 2022 01:49 |
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catlord posted:drat, I fell behind and then saw the thread title change and holy poo poo I'm excited for the funeral. How many people expect it to be a dream/fantasy sequence?
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