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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
| I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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tbh knowing the Oscar selection process, Cancerwife Begins wildly underperforming and still ending up sniping an Oscar win in a major category due to an aggressive campaign by a distributing platform is pretty realistic.
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Alhazred posted:[b]M[(b] I have no idea what the joke is supposed to be here and I thought only the SO had asterisk eyes, is it all women?
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Mar 8, 2022 21:07
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Samovar posted:Yes... Yes it is - I'm sorry. I can understand if these kind of dumb choices of phrasing gets tiresome - if people would prefer me not to, I can reign them in.  F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  "You ever heard of 'pegging,' Ms. C?" The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Mar 8, 2022 21:15
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:I really like vater and sohn me too
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Mar 8, 2022 21:16
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  I hope we'll get a deep dive into whatever Kelley thinks D&D is. Mandrake 
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Mar 8, 2022 22:26
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Bad Machinery
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Mar 8, 2022 22:44
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EasyEW posted:Sorry, I just saw this first thing and it can't wait any longer. This really was a Catch-22 for us all. Baituk has her winning here, so we'll get a week or so of smug "Lisa's Story is the most important thing to ever happen in the universe, grovel you mortals", but if he had her lose instead, it'd be a week or so of smug "decadent Hollywood don't care about true art and can't comprehend the genius of Lisa's Story". I'm honestly surprised he didn't drag out the whole reveal to her win over a week but I'm assuming her speech (which will be all about Les Moore ofc) will cover that stretch instead. Ugghhhh what tripe.
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Mar 8, 2022 22:49
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LOL@ Dustin looking down on NERDS
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Mar 8, 2022 23:03
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comic strip writers at the beach, kicking sand in the tabletop gamers' faces & stealing their girls
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Mar 8, 2022 23:05
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Hwurmp posted:comic strip writers at the beach, kicking sand in the tabletop gamers' faces & stealing their girls Never understood why you'd even miss a girl who could be "stolen" by acting like a complete rear end in a top hat but it's such a common trope
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Mar 8, 2022 23:08
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The Bloop posted:Never understood why you'd even miss a girl who could be "stolen" by acting like a complete rear end in a top hat but it's such a common trope Men feel entitled to the things they want. And they think of women as things. And do not care how the women in this situation feel.
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Mar 8, 2022 23:15
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Batiuk has an Al Bundy-like obsession with wringing every last drop from his
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Mar 8, 2022 23:17
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Potsticker posted:Men feel entitled to the things they want. And they think of women as things. And do not care how the women in this situation feel. I guess but my point is that if my gf was impressed by an rear end in a top hat being an rear end in a top hat and left with him she'd be doing me a favor
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Mar 8, 2022 23:18
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Hwurmp posted:comic strip writers at the beach, kicking sand in the tabletop gamers' faces & stealing their girls judging by ed, kelly and parker would get winded just walking onto the beach
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Mar 8, 2022 23:19
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Batiuk has an Al Bundy-like obsession with wringing every last drop from his Bundy aged more gracefully and was overall a more tasteful person.
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Mar 8, 2022 23:38
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The Bloop posted:I guess but my point is that if my gf was impressed by an rear end in a top hat being an rear end in a top hat and left with him she'd be doing me a favor Ah, but you see, Manliness is the key element of being a Man and in this situation the woman is correct when she discards the unmanly loser. Sure, you could pick a kind-hearted girl*, who doesn't appreciate Manliness, but then you would betray yourself and your gender. *) she would cheat you anyway
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Mar 8, 2022 23:50
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Kennel posted:Dustin Chick tracts, mostly.
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Mar 8, 2022 23:54
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The only way this is redeemable would be if, "Then they wake up because it was all a dream."
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Mar 9, 2022 00:04
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Speaking of nerd poo poo. Fremen Of Arrakis 
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Mar 9, 2022 00:11
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Kavak posted:Bundy aged more gracefully and was overall a more tasteful person. Shoe salesman might be a more dignified job than 'professional cancermonger' also.
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Mar 9, 2022 01:07
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BigglesSWE posted:This really was a Catch-22 for us all. Baituk has her winning here, so we'll get a week or so of smug "Lisa's Story is the most important thing to ever happen in the universe, grovel you mortals", but if he had her lose instead, it'd be a week or so of smug "decadent Hollywood don't care about true art and can't comprehend the genius of Lisa's Story". Draw it out? And delay the praising of Les Moore? F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Batiuk has an Al Bundy-like obsession with wringing every last drop from his Which award did he win? He was nominated for the Pulitzer, but he didn't win.
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Mar 9, 2022 01:32
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gleebster posted:Which award did he win? He was nominated for the Pulitzer, but he didn't win. A quick check of Batiuk's Wikipedia page (he doesn't look like I had pictured him) and I guess you're right. I figured after the praise he initially received for Lisa's Story that he had won some sort of cartoonist award.
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Mar 9, 2022 01:41
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The way Tombat writes the storylines for his smug Hollywood fantasy buddies reminds me of the first act of Birdemic, where everything goes great for the main characters…meeting a hot girl, getting a big sale, selling the company for a billion dollars, girl gets huge modelling gig…everything is just peachy perfect and awesome. Same thing with these dorks. Stupid bland Star Wars ripoff is huge success and elevates characters to superstars and now the circlejerk movie about the Passion of Saint Lisa gets the actress an Oscar, in the least stacked field of competitors in almost a century, somehow.
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Mar 9, 2022 01:47
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The story line will definitely end with Les finding a way to mope, one way or another. "My writing was so great but I've never been recognized for my genius" or something like that.
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Mar 9, 2022 01:51
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I'm surprised Batiuk didn't write himself a best original screenplay win instead.
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Mar 9, 2022 03:07
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Guindon 
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Mar 9, 2022 03:26
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Esplanade posted:Guindon
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Mar 9, 2022 03:50
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And He Did! March 18, 1919 Outbursts of Everett True March 20, 1919  Cat Tales February 27, 1925  Oaky Doaks September 2, 1936  Mopsy November 10, 1937  Up Front January 25, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems May 17, 1952  Those Were the Days May 7, 1959  Wee Pals May 25, 1966  Dogbert January 19, 1967 
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Mar 9, 2022 03:50
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days May 7, 1959 Is the pill speed?
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Mar 9, 2022 04:31
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Mutts  Sally Forth   Pearls Before Swine   Skippy (June 13-14, 1934)   Peanuts (March 10-11, 1975)   Crankshaft   Mutt and Jeff   Rip Haywire   Thimble Theater (October 6-7, 1938)   Out Our Way (May 9-11, 1938)    And that's where things are gonna grind to a halt for the moment.
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Mar 9, 2022 04:33
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Slammy posted:Mopsy November 10, 1937 Good for you, Mopsy  She doesn't need to live here. Why does she still live here?
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Mar 9, 2022 04:43
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Samovar posted:Yes... Yes it is - I'm sorry. I can understand if these kind of dumb choices of phrasing gets tiresome - if people would prefer me not to, I can reign them in. I find that unless it's a recognizable reference nobody can even tell the difference most of the time. Maintaining a consistent, distinct voices for the characters tends to matter more for maintaining continuity than the degree of liberty across individual panels. And I think your translations are excellent when it comes to giving individual characters consistent, distinct voices.
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Mar 9, 2022 04:51
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Speaking of which... Cheer Up Boss Dharma  In translation notes you probably would never have guessed if I didn't tell you, the phrase they're using here is literally "playful kid" and there's no way to use it in English that doesn't sound ridiculous, so I had to rework the sentence structure entirely to make "fooling around" work. Also, I continue the pattern of never referring to Mi-kyung by name, since she's the only regular character with a given name that's not a pun. Which is awkward because I do reference the never-seen character Si-hoon since any alternate versions of those lines that don't use his name feel even more awkward.
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Mar 9, 2022 05:25
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Well, thanks for letting me know! I'm always game to hear critique - but I'm glad I'm not being too obnoxious in my references during the translations. On that note, in today's Blueberry: Tony gets a rude surprise, or ...yeah, this character. I'm pretty sure in the way he was originally translated he was supposed to be insane - his word choice and thinking indicated someone not very stable-of-mind. I did what I could with the translation work, and while it is not as bad as Chang-Li, I can understand if some folk aren't too happy with the representation, or Finlay and Kimball have a bad day. Oh, Trevor also   
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics      Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Mandrake  Johnny Hazard  Computoon: Origins 
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Mar 9, 2022 06:53
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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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Mar 9, 2022 07:28
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I just confirmed that Crabgrass is going live in newspapers on March28th! Not sure which ones though so let us know if you spot it in the wild. Old School Peanuts (May 28, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Oct 20-21, 1990)   No Blind Alley Today
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Mar 9, 2022 08:35
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Classic Kevin & Kell in: Danielle's an accountant, so her missing a period is a pretty big deal (March 27 - April 2, 2006)       It begins. Modern Kevin & Kell 
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Murdstone posted:Cool dad with a coke-spoon necklace. Zeitgeist of the 70s!  ...like polyester shirts. 
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