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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:I can see it now: Les reads the book and tells her that murder mysteries don't sell, and what she really needs to do is a write a memoir about someone tragically dying of cancer. What if the murderer ...  was CANCER!
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Hempuli posted:Fire Movie Tackleford Trainspotting
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Powered Descent posted:That's a long story, but I want to say it's been a couple of years now. The former Mark Trail artist, James Allen, had thoroughly established himself as a right-wing shithead, but the final straw was when he used the official Mark Trail twitter account to make sexually inappropriate jokes about a congresswoman. He was finally removed by the syndicate, and replaced by a new artist, Jules Rivera, who has introduced such radical ideas as "actually drawing everything instead of endlessly recycling clip art", and "updating the characters to not be quite so 1950s", and even "acknowledging the reality of things like climate change". CzarChasm posted:You left out the part where said villain was a Bigfoot/Yeti conspiracy nut, who claimed that said cryptid took his leg, but it was actually juvenile diabetes. Also, dude died in an avalanche. Alone. It was a fuckin trip. Zereth posted:Technically we don't know that he died, Mark and company did not look for him. At all. They just watched him run off and the avalanche and went "well, sucks to be him" and went home. I was actually invited onto a podcast to explain this whole story recently, the concept is that every guest answers the question "what is the strangest thing that's ever happened to you?" and my answer was.... well, this. https://paranoiahappyhour.buzzsprout.com/1873883/9970409-happy-hour-fourteen-wam-bam-pow-you-re-a-comic-book-villain Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  God this strip rules
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Transmodiar posted:I've been thinking about doing something, and then you go and share this news. So, what the hell! Hell yes Some Guy TT posted:I'm not entirely sure here why the King wants to wear a woman's bathing suit. The queen can wear whatever she wants  Also it's pretty low-key about it but Oaky Doaks has very impressive art. Vintage Valiant (Aug. 07, 1949)   
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Some real loving detail in the panels with The Wall
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Zereth posted:What is with Beeman and his concern over his words being recorded and used against him in court? Why does this keep coming up? This is feeling like how the Onion political cartoons keep having things that are very personal treated as general concerns, but not a joke. Beeman is old enough to remember when "breach of promise" lawsuits were a big deal (at least in the media). v Sorry, I copied the wrong URL. It should work now. Selachian fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Selachian posted:Beeman is old enough to remember when "breach of promise" lawsuits were a big deal (at least in the media). 
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EBB posted:Some real loving detail in the panels with The Wall Don't you mean "The Wall"?
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Steeple: Clotted Crime Part 4 – Jason Concludes! John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website John Allison posted:Here ends Steeple volume three! We’ve reached the end of the material that will be collected next summer by Dark Horse. I have a lot of prospective projects on my slate for 2022 (I’m writing this in early November ’21) so I’m not certain right now when we’ll be back in Tredregyn, but I have plenty more stories to tell from Cornwall, so I’m sure it won’t be too long. So that wraps up Steeple: Clotted Crime, what are the thread's thoughts? I felt a bit awkward posting it here as it's technically not a newspaper comic, but this thread has a lot of fans of Allison and I figured they would enjoy it. Unfortunately, as Allison stated, he will be taking a hiatus from Steeple for a while, so we won't see what Magus Tom has planned for the Jason-creature. Fortunately Allison will be starting another comic next Monday on his Forward Slash Scare site, which hosted the Circus Windows comic staring Lottie and Mildred that I posted in last years thread. That said I don't know exactly what this new comic will be about. I had assumed Allison was going to do another Lottie comic, but now I'm not so sure. It may be another Shelly Winters story, or it might feature another one of his characters, such as Esther De Groot or Mildred Haversham (Allison had talked about doing a Mildred comic in the afterword of the last New Bobbins collection). It might even be something wholly original, who knows (well Allison does, but apart from him...). Also here is the cover, with art by Max Sarin, for the third Steeple collection coming out this summer. This collection includes Christmas with Clovis, Author Unknown (the Lottie/Steeple crossover) and Clotted Crime. 
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The_Other posted:Steeple: Clotted Crime Part 4 – Jason Concludes! I miss Shauna. But apparently Allison doesn't have any more stories for her.
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Fighting Trousers posted:I miss Shauna. But apparently Allison doesn't have any more stories for her. Has he done anything with Jack, Sonny, and Linton since Bad Machinery ended? I can't remember seeing them anywhere.
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Steeple grew on me, it is good. Jucika "11 - Jucika learns to play Tennis"  "12 - Jucika arranges a Big Cleaning" 
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Docks  Retail gets an extra strip today to line it up with Boondocks, because that's been bugging me.    Popcom (double Gas edition)  
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse I guess she'll die. Bizarro  The Family Circus 
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Fighting Trousers posted:I miss Shauna. But apparently Allison doesn't have any more stories for her. Selachian posted:Has he done anything with Jack, Sonny, and Linton since Bad Machinery ended? I can't remember seeing them anywhere. From Allison's afterword to the tenth and last Bad Machinery book: John Allison posted:The most important question, now that the casebook is closed, is what will happen to the mystery kids? Is this really their last case? I think for most of them, it is. But then, they're pretty weird kids. Jack is going to spend a lot of time trying to play his guitar and worrying about his hair. Maybe he'll record some terrible raps and never play them to anyone. Sonny goes with the flow. He deserves a rest from danger. Shauna has a lot of interests and a huge brain, and it's time she got a chance to explore more than what local ne'er do wells are up to. Mildred is a barely-corked bottle of trouble and I think the next few years are going to be quite naughty for her. Let's hope she stays out of jail (she probably will – just). Linton's future is foggy to me. He believes in justice. He believes in truth. I feel like he will be interested in mystery . But he is a handsome lad and and I have the sense that he may soon be distracted by some beautiful eyes. It seems like Jack, Sonny, Linton, and Shauna's adventuring days are over, not that Allison couldn't write more stories with the characters, but they would probably be more slice-of-life style stories, like Giant Days, than the mysteries and adventures they got up to in Bad Machinery. That's probably because the boys and Shauna were, at least towards the end of Bad Machinery, more down-to-earth and practical, while Mildred was always a bit of wild-child and Lottie is still obsessed with mystery. Allison also stated in the afterword for the the last New Bobbins collection that when we was working on Circus Windows he began to realize that he had run out of ideas for stories set in Tackleford and wanted to move on from that setting. The_Other fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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I also kind of feel like Mildred and Jack didn't really have that protagonist quality, while using Shauna, Linton, or Sonny would probably mean going farther into serious issues about class, race, and queerness in modern Britain than Allison really wanted to go into in his comic about funny children solving mysteries.
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The_Other posted:So that wraps up Steeple: Clotted Crime, what are the thread's thoughts? I love these characters and enjoy the comics a lot!
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Vater und Sohn: Pre-holiday secrecy (51/1936) Now with inline translation!
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I liked the Steeple stuff, it was interesting even though I've really only read the stuff from Allison that's been posted in this thread. For that matter, I remember not liking this Bad Machinery arc as much and it's just because of how it affects Shauna and Lottie's relationship going forward.
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EBB posted:I'm hoping they move on from Wilbur for a while honestly From what I hear no one wants to move on from Wilbur more than Karen Moy. F Minus  Mark Trail  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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"A man who enjoys being feared is no man at all" Isn't she a pirate captain? And friend of the Phantom? lol is this a "We don't personally enjoy the fear, it's just necessary for our work" situation
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shes gonna kill that dude and simultaneously cause like 15 different international incidents
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Do syndicated comic strip writers not have the liberty to do what they want with their characters? Could Moy not have legit killed off Wilbur in his richly deserving watery grave?
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Kennel posted:Nancy Nancy as Ted Rall.
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Modesty Blaise: In the Beginning  Next Time: "La Machine"
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Murdstone posted:From what I hear no one wants to move on from Wilbur more than Karen Moy. In that case, she had the perfect opportunity to kill him and she didn't take it. And the strip is much worse off for it.
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:In that case, she had the perfect opportunity to kill him and she didn't take it. And the strip is much worse off for it. I feel like Wilbur being a huge loser is probably more interesting than any of the other Mary Worth stories.
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Calaveron posted:Do syndicated comic strip writers not have the liberty to do what they want with their characters? Could Moy not have legit killed off Wilbur in his richly deserving watery grave?
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The whole thing has made Mary look so much worse as a character too. She's essentially been pressing Estelle to stay in a toxic relationship.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I feel like I know where this is going and I hope it doesn't make her mad at him.  Uramachi Sakaba   ChaCha Chako   Night Visitors 
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The Bloop posted:"A man who enjoys being feared is no man at all" "The fear is just incidental to the things we really enjoy" In the phantom's case, that's actually just wearing purple spandex
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Giant Ethicist posted:Depends on if you thought it was going to get... horny quote:Night Visitors
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can't say I don't like to hang and smoke
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I wish random foods visited my dwelling at night 
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why can't I find somebody to hornily eat rice balls with
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave Oh my god. A single panel, no recurring characters, and you can instantly fill in whole paragraphs about those people.
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