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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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EasyEW posted:Anyway, today is the day we've been dreading for years, because... AAAHHHHGH
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Mar 12, 2022 17:52
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LES MOORE GETS HIS UNDESERVED VICTORY LAP 
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Mar 12, 2022 18:01
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EasyEW posted:Oooo, that's one of the ones from Life. And that's from Carl Anderson, the guy who created Henry. there needs to be a better word for mawkish
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Mar 12, 2022 18:02
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EasyEW posted:
Oh for gently caress's sake. Bizarro  The Family Circus  The 1945 on the back of the picture confirms that yes, these are still reruns from something like 40 or 50 years ago.
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Mar 12, 2022 18:02
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Mawkish would be talking about cancerwife, what we have there is just masturbatory.
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Mar 12, 2022 18:04
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EBB posted:Garbage made by a hack  A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
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Mar 12, 2022 18:16
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Darthemed posted:drat, that's some beautiful contour shading. I really have to say, I liked Dark Laughter more in concept than the actual comic, mostly because I could never make out what the hell was happening. But whether it's because of improved scans or a deliberate art shift Dark Laughter (or is it actually called Bootsie's Big 50's now?) has rapidly come into contention with Prince Valiant for best art in the thread.
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Mar 12, 2022 18:42
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There's a similarity between Les Moore and Wilbur in a way: they're both failures that inexplicably keep succeeding - Les because he's a masturbatory self-insert, and Wilbur because everyone in MW keeps making excuses for him. Of the two, Wilbur is probably more infuriating in the sense that Mary's gaslighting to keep Wilbur and Estelle together is abusive as gently caress. Les is mostly just an annoying sadsack nobody who has coasted off of "my wife had cancer and lived with dignity before she died!" for, like, 22 years.
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Mar 12, 2022 18:48
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I bet the Best Actor and Best Movie nominees are all really thrilled about this actress throwing it in their faces that actually her co-star and movie were the good ones, and so is her agent.
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Mar 12, 2022 18:49
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How many self-insert characters does Batiuk have at this point? At least two? Les Moore, the cancerwife prophet, and -sigh- Batton Thomas, the comics author.
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Mar 12, 2022 19:04
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One-arm newspaper guy?
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Mar 12, 2022 19:07
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One Arm is more of a masturbatory story than a self insert. It was a genuine idiot trying to tell a story of a little guy standing up to a big corporation and loving it up.F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:There's a similarity between Les Moore and Wilbur in a way: they're both failures that inexplicably keep succeeding - Les because he's a masturbatory self-insert, and Wilbur because everyone in MW keeps making excuses for him. Of the two, Wilbur is probably more infuriating in the sense that Mary's gaslighting to keep Wilbur and Estelle together is abusive as gently caress. Les is mostly just an annoying sadsack nobody who has coasted off of "my wife had cancer and lived with dignity before she died!" for, like, 22 years. I dunno, bad things happen to Wilbur and the moment to moment can be pretty funny. Falling off the boat, being outsmarted by a cat. At least the Mary Worth team is having some fun with it. Les is played 100% straight every time in the most boring way possible. He has unironically had his life enhanced by his wife dying young of a preventable cancer.
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Mar 12, 2022 19:10
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Green Intern posted:
I'm betting it's her rear end in a top hat boss who's making her work late while he goes home on time.
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Mar 12, 2022 19:26
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Some Guy TT posted:I really have to say, I liked Dark Laughter more in concept than the actual comic, mostly because I could never make out what the hell was happening. But whether it's because of improved scans or a deliberate art shift Dark Laughter (or is it actually called Bootsie's Big 50's now?) has rapidly come into contention with Prince Valiant for best art in the thread. Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus
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Mar 12, 2022 19:29
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Pickles Zits 
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Mar 12, 2022 19:32
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My Lovely Horse posted:I bet the Best Actor and Best Movie nominees are all really thrilled about this actress throwing it in their faces that actually her co-star and movie were the good ones, and so is her agent. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Mar 12, 2022 19:35
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readingatwork posted:So apparently there's been some Crabgrass news: I think good call. Crabgrass is great and I love having it posted here so people can read it, but Tauhid deserves a great launch and posting ahead of it might dampen that. manero posted:Nancy 1947 But, Nancy! Captive birds sometimes do need their beaks filed down! In the wild they do this automatically by foraging and rubbing their beaks on whatever surfaces they happen to be sitting on. In captivity, this is harder for them to accomplish. Ideally you would give them a selection of toys to destroy over time and a cuttle bone to keep the beak down. I don't know how likely people were back then to worry about enrichment for their bird, but even today you might end up with a contrarian little poo poo like mine who refuses to play with any toy ever and ignores her cuttle bone, so she gets to go to the vet from time to time to get her beak dremmeled. Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD Yeah, thank God he didn't deliver the baby in the conference room. That might have been interesting to see. 
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Mar 12, 2022 19:45
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Doomykins posted:I dunno, bad things happen to Wilbur and the moment to moment can be pretty funny. Falling off the boat, being outsmarted by a cat. At least the Mary Worth team is having some fun with it. That's true. Wilbur is at least funny when he fails, even if Estelle crawling back to him every time is not funny at all. Les is just insufferable. F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Mar 12, 2022 |
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Mar 12, 2022 19:52
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Hwurmp posted:there needs to be a better word for mawkish
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Mar 12, 2022 20:38
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EasyEW posted:Oooo, that's one of the ones from Life. And that's from Carl Anderson, the guy who created Henry. I expected her to mention Les, of course, but giving him the award, yikes. Murdstone posted:The Phantom This would be a cool tense moment if it were actually happening. Unfortunately this is still just Mozz's prediction, right?
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Mar 12, 2022 21:10
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I thought she was going to say that Lisa deserved the award since Lisa was the one who, you know, actually loving had the cancer and the movie was (supposedly) about, but no. Hey remember when Tom Batuik had a story arc about how women were being marginalized in the comics industry before the woman it was about got shoved into the background so that some old dead guy could come back to life and talk to another old guy about making a new comic? Anyway, I'm not sure why I thought about that when this comic is about a woman saying that a man actually deserves the Best Actress award, probably just something wrong with my brain.
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Mar 12, 2022 21:30
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Medenmath posted:This would be a cool tense moment if it were actually happening. Unfortunately this is still just Mozz's prediction, right? It's not actually happening; it's just a comic in a newspaper.
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Mar 12, 2022 21:31
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Modesty Blaise: The Gabriel Set-Up 
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Mar 12, 2022 21:35
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Twelve by Pies posted:I thought she was going to say that Lisa deserved the award since Lisa was the one who, you know, actually loving had the cancer and the movie was (supposedly) about, but no.
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Mar 12, 2022 22:12
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EasyEW posted:Oooo, that's one of the ones from Life. And that's from Carl Anderson, the guy who created Henry. Lisa's greatest legacy was dying so her hack husband could milk her tragic life in the real life and in this made up fanfiction nonsense. It's abysmal.
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Mar 12, 2022 22:25
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Twelve by Pies posted:I thought she was going to say that Lisa deserved the award since Lisa was the one who, you know, actually loving had the cancer and the movie was (supposedly) about, but no. Great point. Dedicating the Oscar to Lisa would have made a certain amount of sense; it was her struggle that inspired the movie. All Les did was capitalize on his wife's misery and, as I said, coast on that and his own misery for over 20 years.
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Mar 12, 2022 22:28
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Julet Esqu posted:I think good call. Crabgrass is great and I love having it posted here so people can read it, but Tauhid deserves a great launch and posting ahead of it might dampen that. I agree with this very much so.
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Mar 12, 2022 22:34
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Bobbins John Allison posted:Another comic. The first line is a tribute to Chris Claremont. It feels like the sort of thing he’d have written once per X-Men issue circa 1985.
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Mar 12, 2022 22:50
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Potsticker posted:Ok, Boomer. Hwurmp posted:there needs to be a better word for mawkish Doomykins posted:Les is played 100% straight every time in the most boring way possible. He has unironically had his life enhanced by his wife dying young of a preventable cancer. F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Great point. Dedicating the Oscar to Lisa would have made a certain amount of sense; it was her struggle that inspired the movie. All Les did was capitalize on his wife's misery and, as I said, coast on that and his own misery for over 20 years.
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Mar 12, 2022 22:52
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Great point. Dedicating the Oscar to Lisa would have made a certain amount of sense; it was her struggle that inspired the movie. All Les did was capitalize on his wife's misery and, as I said, coast on that and his own misery for over 20 years. I'm not even sure it was her struggle that inspired the movie, honestly. That's why I said "supposedly" because I feel like with how much Les makes everything about him, that Lisa's Story probably isn't even really about her. Like in my mind, Lisa is essentially a background character in the movie and the entire focus is on Les Moore and how sad he is and how he feels about it and how he's dealing with it, and she just pops up every once in a while to say "My cancer is worse" and then she disappears for the next fifteen minutes while we watch Les be sad some more.
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Mar 12, 2022 23:58
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Crabgrass is on break until June so in the meantime have Big Nate Year 1 (Jan 7-8, 1991)  Going into this one completely blind so I have literally no idea if this is going to be any good. I think I'll work my way through 1991 and stop whenever Crabgrass resumes unless we're all particularly enjoying it. Also drat, I did not realize this strip was that old. I would have guessed it started in the mid 00's at the earliest. Old School Peanuts (May 30, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (May 24-25, 1990)   No Blind Alley today
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Mar 13, 2022 00:05
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Murdstone posted:
And on Sunday, it looks like Mama is going to need some talking to:  And about The 'bean, I see someone here has made the same mistake I did. Les Moore did not write the screenplay for this latest movie. He wrote the screenplay for the one he pulled the plug on. Mason Jar the movie actor specifically told Les he was not going to write it this time. So his contribution amounts to having written a book about St Lisa and jerking Mason around Central Park for a few hours.
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Mar 13, 2022 01:30
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus It's weird how despite taking place in the same era as For Better or Worse, Family Circus reruns typically don't age that badly at all. At least in the sense that the intended joke doesn't obviously rely on anachronisms that are no longer relevant to daily life.
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Mar 13, 2022 02:05
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bobbins Did he actually say he wanted either of those things? My exact memory of the breakup is kind of fuzzy, but I was under the impression that what he wanted was a serious relationship. Which is an even less extreme request than I thought the first time I read it if they've been living together for five years. Drakyn posted:It's times like this that reminds me that the first time I ever heard of Pearls Before Swine was Scott Adams giving it a big sloppy blowjob on his blog decades ago, because the only thing I can think those two strips have in common is shown here: an insufferable and rude little character who mouths off to everyone despite being perfectly sized for punting. Ehhh that's a pretty big thing to have in common given that these are daily comic strips and the main appeal for either one of them is the sense of humor. Which actually is pretty similar now that you've called attention to it. readingatwork posted:Crabgrass is on break until June so in the meantime have Big Nate Year 1 (Jan 7-8, 1991) The length of these legs is really weirding me out given that these are actually more realistic proportions than the Big Nate art style we're more generally familiar with. It actually makes him look older than in the recent strips, which is really counter-intuitive. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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Mar 13, 2022 02:51
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Mar 13, 2022 03:01
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Some Guy TT posted:Did he actually say he wanted either of those things? My exact memory of the breakup is kind of fuzzy, but I was under the impression that what he wanted was a serious relationship. Which is an even less extreme request than I thought the first time I read it if they've been living together for five years. Bruno did ask Shelly to marry him, as seen here;   Also, while they had been seeing each other for five years, they weren't living together, as A)Bruno worked on a North Sea oil rig, and B) Shelley avoided living with him specifically because she wasn't ready to get married.
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Mar 13, 2022 03:25
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How can Scary Gary drive if he can't be photographed for a license?  
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Mar 13, 2022 04:16
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Some Guy TT posted:The length of these legs is really weirding me out given that these are actually more realistic proportions than the Big Nate art style we're more generally familiar with. It actually makes him look older than in the recent strips, which is really counter-intuitive. Yeah, comparing the two styles directly is kind of a trip  (Also drat, heads do not bend that way.)
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Mar 13, 2022 04:30
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ACTUAL SEXY GHOST WILL MANIFEST "GUARANTEED"
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Mar 13, 2022 04:36
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Mutts Sally Forth  Pearls Before Swine  Peanuts (March 15, 1975)  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (October 12, 1938)  Out Our Way (May 19-21, 1938)    Toonerville Folks (November 4-6, 1918)    Dok's "Oh, I Guess More International Racism Is On Deck For Today" Duck (January 2, 1914; spoilered because read that line again)  Blondie (From Zero) (September 17-19, 1931)  And Lefty is the strip that suffers from my lovely time management today.
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