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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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Modesty Blaise: The Gabriel Set-Up 
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New Trail has appeal as a general comedy-adventure strip but can't really stick the landing, or the general story telling, or holy poo poo that 4th panel. New Nancy, do that! That was great! More of that, please. And come on Phantom, do it!
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Mar 29, 2022 19:13
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Holy poo poo Make a storyline where Kit jr. becomes a ruthless vigilante and his Phantom sister must take him down
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Mar 29, 2022 19:21
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Tiggum posted:What is the target audience for new Mark Trail? Who is this for? Does it just exist to piss people off? Because it's not good, but it's also not bad in a fun way. And it's thrown out almost everything that anyone liked about the old version (whether genuinely or ironically). I don't think the problem with new Mark Trail is that it's inherently bad. Rivera has good ideas and intentions, just with really sloppy executions. She has interesting cinematic layouts, but then doesn't put in the effort to make consistent models for the characters. I think the ideas for the plots are good, but then she botches her research (like with zebra mussels, where the problem is ballast water, not hull hitch-hikers) and leaves big plot holes and lame resolutions. I think the problem is that she needs an editor to say "hey, can you redo this" but in this day a comic writer must be their own editor and judging by her Twitter feed she's too arrogant to be her own editor. Edit: and jeez, those 4th panel dialogue boxes! Can't she see they're almost always bad? Everybody else does! curtadams fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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Mar 29, 2022 20:21
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Very goony quibble, but I hate how thick the linework is in Mark Trail; it makes everything seem that much cruder when the art is already shaky.
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Mar 29, 2022 21:57
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Drimble Wedge posted:Very goony quibble, but I hate how thick the linework is in Mark Trail; it makes everything seem that much cruder when the art is already shaky. this! it genuinely has the feeling of modern mandrake the linework is so smudged and thick
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Mar 29, 2022 22:11
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davidspackage posted:Holy poo poo This will just lead to Kit jr. being jailed and the Phantom going to save him, only for an even older Mozz to appear and say she can't do it cause it will affect the fate of her child leading to another what if storyline trapping us all in a loop for eternity.
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Mar 29, 2022 22:14
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Vise the Stompy posted:This will just lead to Kit jr. being jailed and the Phantom going to save him, only for an even older Mozz to appear and say she can't do it cause it will affect the fate of her child leading to another what if storyline trapping us all in a loop for eternity. Mozz is actually a spirit who comes to each phantom and tries to make their children as boring as possible. Maybe Mr. Thirty-whatever will be the one to finally break the curse.
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Mar 29, 2022 23:00
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Drimble Wedge posted:Very goony quibble, but I hate how thick the linework is in Mark Trail; it makes everything seem that much cruder when the art is already shaky. I think this is what my biggest issue with it is, yeah. Even when the storytelling is clever it's kinda offset by the thick linework preventing much in the way of detail. It's still a better strip than Jam Esallen Trail (if only because it's not 90% clipart) but drat Jules, decrease your brush size by like, 20% and do a bit of hatching on your backgrounds and shadowed areas.
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Mar 29, 2022 23:05
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Drimble Wedge posted:Very goony quibble, but I hate how thick the linework is in Mark Trail; it makes everything seem that much cruder when the art is already shaky.
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Mar 29, 2022 23:43
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Drimble Wedge posted:Very goony quibble, but I hate how thick the linework is in Mark Trail; it makes everything seem that much cruder when the art is already shaky. Like the cartoon Archer, if it was drawn by an 87 year old
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Mar 30, 2022 00:01
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Kennel posted:Dustin this isn't a joke, this is just a normal annoying thing that happens when your internet goes down! why are you acting like it's a punchline!!! why am i still getting mad about dustin in 2022!!!!!
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Mar 30, 2022 00:34
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I will say, about FOOB: while we know Lynn is not a good mom or person and there is so much to loving unpack in her comic when it comes to her living family, her portrayal of Lawrence was pretty drat amazing for something in the 90s. As posted above, Ellen wasn't out yet, the only gay person I had ever heard of (and I wasn't raised in a religious household) was Elton John. I do remember people freaking out about The Birdcage movie, which came out later. Lawrence isn't shown as a sissy or creepy, as most people implied or said outright that gay people were. He's a normal kid who just wants his friend to still be his friend. poo poo, I was almost a teenager in the 90s and I remember the worst thing you could be called was gay or lesbian, and once someone said you were, the name stuck. If you were a girl, no girl would talk to you, and likewise with the boys if someone indicated you were gay. Now of course if she made Lawrence gay in the comic when her own son was out, and she just wanted to look progressive/have Lawrence be a peace offering while she maintained the FOOB family perfection of her mind, that's another thing. But the story is cringe today, but nowhere near as bad as it could have been. gently caress, there's still kids being disowned for being gay, and those loving conversion camps still exist. it would be loving nice to live in a world where you telling someone you're gay doesn't result in them treating you different. I don't know if we're entirely there yet. And at the time of this comic, we certainly were not.
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Mar 30, 2022 01:40
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And He Did! April 10, 1919 Outbursts of Everett True April 11, 1919  Cat Tales March 16, 1925  Oaky Doaks September 19, 1936  Mopsy November 27, 1937  Up Front February 26, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems June 9, 1952  Those Were the Days September 10, 1959  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biVZ7snUGfI Wee Pals June 11, 1966  Dogbert February 16, 1967 
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Mar 30, 2022 02:30
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Big Nate Year 1 (Feb 10-11, 1991)  Old School Peanuts (Jun 14, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Nov 23-24, 1990)   No Blind Alley today
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Mar 30, 2022 02:36
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Rootless Market  Night Visitors  Monya the Grey  
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Mar 30, 2022 02:50
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Slammy posted:
Well that wasn't LT Riley
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Mar 30, 2022 02:55
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Mutts  Sally Forth   Pearls Before Swine   Skippy (June 30 and July 2, 1934)   Peanuts (March 31-April 1, 1975)   Funky Winkerbean   Crankshaft   Mutt and Jeff   Rip Haywire   Thimble Theater (October 27-28, 1938)   Out Our Way (June 20-22, 1938)    Toonerville Folks (November 25-27, 1918)    Dok's "Our Hero's Going Up In The World" Duck (January 9, 1914; spoilered for a tableful of racial stereotypes.)  Little Lefty (April 2-4, 1936)    And this is where Sunday would go if that section of the paper hadn't gone missing from the scans...  And once again, Blondie takes the hit for expediency's sake.
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Mar 30, 2022 03:31
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Nekonaughey [Napolitan is a ketchup-based spaghetti dish]
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Mar 30, 2022 03:34
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Funny Online Anxiety
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Mar 30, 2022 04:12
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (March 31-April 1, 1975) what's wrong with your faaaaace
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Mar 30, 2022 04:22
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Mar 30, 2022 04:22
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Ghostlight posted:Nekonaughey One of the rare times I am glad that misfortune came upon Nekonaughey. And in today's truncated Blueberry: Blueberry continues to be upset at Vigo, or ...I don't think the band's coming back together from this 'un, or Blueberry gets upsset at MacPherson   ...and so ends the adventure of Chihuahua Pearl! Everything was for naught, and our hero is jailed, effectively for life! But if you think Blueberry is the kind of man who assumes that because something is law it is ethical, then you have another thing coming (or you are a centrist). So join me next time, won't you? For a more regularly updated schedule and our new adventure, Outlaw! 
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Mar 30, 2022 05:20
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean
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Mar 30, 2022 05:34
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Pickles Zits 
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Mar 30, 2022 05:37
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Darthemed posted:Retail Oh, this is brilliant.
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Mar 30, 2022 05:38
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Murdstone posted:What is this? https://www.noovie.com/arcade It's, y'know, a lovely and cheap gimmick to give people something to do while waiting for a film in the age of phones to get them to watch ads instead of doing literally anything else on your phone.
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Mar 30, 2022 05:56
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Mar 30, 2022 06:51
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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  Classic Arlo and Janis (April 22, 2000) 
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Mar 30, 2022 07:41
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Drimble Wedge posted:Very goony quibble, but I hate how thick the linework is in Mark Trail; it makes everything seem that much cruder when the art is already shaky.
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Mar 30, 2022 09:44
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Giant Ethicist posted:Rootless Market 
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Mar 30, 2022 10:26
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No new Buni today. Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 3/29/02  Brenda Starr 6/13/48   Smokey Stover 1/12/47  Everyday Movies 12/28/34  "I hope Santa Claus doesn't come and take my doll away like the furniture man did with the furniture." Depression-era funnies, everyone!
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Mar 30, 2022 12:25
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riderchop posted:Safe Havens Yeah but wait. So the guy became a mouse and looks like a man-shaped mouse, but a snake has become a mouse and has no snake-like physical qualities. And I think when he was a man, he kinda looked like a snake-man as well? How the hell does this work?
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Mar 30, 2022 12:29
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I don't remember the FOOB Lawrence storyline from back when, so I'm curious to see how it goes. For sure the unavoidable issue is that what made sense in 1993 doesn't thirty years later, so the strip pretending to take place now makes Michael seem like a huge rear end in a top hat.Murdstone posted:The Phantom  Drimble Wedge posted:Very goony quibble, but I hate how thick the linework is in Mark Trail; it makes everything seem that much cruder when the art is already shaky. I've had the same thought. Thick lines, and used for almost everything. It makes the art look like it was done in MS Paint. I want to like New Trail but it really needs some polishing. sweetguts posted:this isn't a joke, this is just a normal annoying thing that happens when your internet goes down! why are you acting like it's a punchline!!! why am i still getting mad about dustin in 2022!!!!! The solution is to disconnect your phone from the wifi network so it'll load the website with the cell signal instead.  Vintage Valiant (Jul. 02, 1950)    Being kind of unfair to Aleta there, Hal.
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Mar 30, 2022 12:37
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Yeah but wait. So the guy became a mouse and looks like a man-shaped mouse, but a snake has become a mouse and has no snake-like physical qualities. And I think when he was a man, he kinda looked like a snake-man as well? How the hell does this work?
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Mar 30, 2022 12:42
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Luann Thank goodness he has his "DAD" mug to drink out of, otherwise he might forget who he is (Not to mention the reader)
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Mar 30, 2022 13:01
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Yeah but wait. So the guy became a mouse and looks like a man-shaped mouse, but a snake has become a mouse and has no snake-like physical qualities. And I think when he was a man, he kinda looked like a snake-man as well? How the hell does this work? The snake mouse has a snake tongue that he sticks all the way down the mongoose mouse's throat which is why she likes making out with him and I am not making this up
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Mar 30, 2022 13:21
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Mar 30, 2022 13:24
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JethroMcB posted:Luann "Oh, he sent me a picture!"
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Mar 30, 2022 14:03
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Calaveron posted:The snake mouse has a snake tongue that he sticks all the way down the mongoose mouse's throat which is why she likes making out with him and I am not making this up I am glad Holbrook knows one or two, max, traits about these animals. Otherwise his snakemouse would have two penises, as that is what snakes have.
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