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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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As someone who is way more familiar with modern webcomics and cartoons than traditional western comic art, it's really funny to see people treat Heart of the City's art as so odd.
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somepartsareme posted:As someone who is way more familiar with modern webcomics and cartoons than traditional western comic art, it's really funny to see people treat Heart of the City's art as so odd. I find the noses off-putting, the artist can only draw like four expressions, and I'm sick to death of comics about pop culture fandom
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Apr 6, 2022 00:42
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Heart of the City just basically looks like a modern webcomic/a lot of kids' cartoons, to me? And I'm enjoying seeing it, even if it's mostly just kinda milquetoast. I probably would have enjoyed it a lot when I was a tween.
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Apr 6, 2022 00:48
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milquetoast comics from 1920 are only more interesting to us, in comparison, because they depict banalities that have been scoured from our lives by the hands of time rae/nancy/heart/trail are fine
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Apr 6, 2022 00:50
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Powerful Katrinka posted:Lol, Taft fat
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Apr 6, 2022 00:52
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Apr 6, 2022 00:55
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Heart is inoffensively generic, if you like it then hey more power to ya. My eyes will continue to glide right over it almost every day.Mister Olympus posted:milquetoast comics from 1920 are only more interesting to us, in comparison, because they depict banalities that have been scoured from our lives by the hands of time There's an art to cartooning and comedy and it really shows that I'd rather read 100 strips about Popeye and Demings and Ptooey Dogs and Babies and Kings and I'll still chuckle frequently and get a belly laugh every other week. That's not even getting into what qualifies as milquetoast old comics... it may not be fair to compare modern duds to the likes of Mopsy, Oaky Doaks, Maudlin and so on but eh, even something I've lost interest in like classic Blondie still has writing and cartooning competency, it just doesn't do much with them or goes in circles to pass the days and pay the bills. Older comics like Mutt and Jeff beat the modern slouches handily. Trail is an interesting tire fire at best, I'm convinced Nancy was a cynical pick up by a Paws Inc intern to pad their bank account for minimal effort and while Rae can be good it is astoundingly bad when it stumbles. All three struggle to be mediocre. If anyone enjoys them then cool but two of these are mildly amusing hate reads to me and only by virtue of convenience and daily routine.
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Apr 6, 2022 01:04
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Nekonaughey hopes you're not afraid of the dark
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Apr 6, 2022 01:10
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Apr 6, 2022 01:14
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Mister Olympus posted:milquetoast comics from 1920 are only more interesting to us, in comparison, because they depict banalities that have been scoured from our lives by the hands of time ~ those were the days ~
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Apr 6, 2022 01:23
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Vargo posted:Everyone seems to hate it for reasons I don't understand, I don't even understand the "boxy art" complaint. hell yeah dude
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Apr 6, 2022 01:31
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Maruoka Kuzo seems to have basically put Uramachi Sakaba on hiatus to work on a new, extremely similar comic, Haraiso Days, which last month got its first collected release. So, I bought it, and will be sharing it! Title and 4 pages to establish setting, then I'll switch to my usual two pages tomorrow.      It's explicitly the same setting as Sakaba - a few regulars turn up here too (you can see lizard dude on the cover page), and there's an extra comic at the end of the collection featuring the other shop's owner. Night Visitors  Is hand sanitizer alcohol all that flammable? Who cares? Monya the Grey  
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Apr 6, 2022 02:07
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Giant Ethicist posted:Night Visitors If it's anything like rubbing alcohol, nope. 30% water is enough to quench any pyrotechnics. To the great disappointment of some of my dormmates freshman year of college who were trying to do something very stupid with my first aid supplies. I say, implying that my only involvement was proximity.
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Apr 6, 2022 02:45
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Saaaaaaaame, lmao! Big Nate Year 1 (Feb 22-23, 1991)   Old School Peanuts (Jun 20, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 5-6, 1990)   No Blind Alley today
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Apr 6, 2022 02:47
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And He Did! April 17, 1919 Outbursts of Everett True April 16, 1919  Cat Tales March 24, 1925  Oaky Doaks September 26, 1936  Mopsy December 4, 1937  Up Front March 7, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems June 16, 1952  Those Were the Days November 12, 1959  Wee Pals June 18, 1966  Dogbert March 1, 1967 
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Apr 6, 2022 02:56
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Powerful Katrinka posted:She'd have to recognize that Axel was flirting with her. Luann is the dumbest and most chaste teenager ever depicted in a comic, and possibly all media It seemed, momentarily, like she was onto him. But no, it turns out that "What are you doing?" was an actual question and not a rebuke. 
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Apr 6, 2022 03:48
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somepartsareme posted:As someone who is way more familiar with modern webcomics and cartoons than traditional western comic art, it's really funny to see people treat Heart of the City's art as so odd. I don't find it odd, I just find it bad! Powerful Katrinka posted:I find the noses off-putting, the artist can only draw like four expressions, and I'm sick to death of comics about pop culture fandom co-sign all three points, especially the last one
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Apr 6, 2022 04:26
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In today's Blueberry, Now, in the original, the porter makes a quip about it being the Sally army who stopped them - but (according to Wikipedia, anyway) the Salvation Army didn't make it to the U.S. until 1880, a few years after this story is set. So I took the liberty of adjusting the dialogue a bit, or Blueberry, I still don't think you're on well enough terms with that woman to refer to her as Lady Luck - I think she'd still prefer you know her by her more formal name: Ms. Fortune, or Tensions mount...  
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Apr 6, 2022 05:19
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Giant Ethicist posted:Maruoka Kuzo seems to have basically put Uramachi Sakaba on hiatus to work on a new, extremely similar comic, Haraiso Days, which last month got its first collected release. So, I bought it, and will be sharing it! Hmmmmm no disrespect to the Haraiso bar owner, but the previous shop's owner was pretty good......and Emi isn't here.
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Apr 6, 2022 05:23
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Monya  Also I immediately thought the new bar comic was a prequel but I guess your comment at the end nixes that idea
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Apr 6, 2022 05:47
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riderchop posted:Hmmmmm no disrespect to the Haraiso bar owner, but the previous shop's owner was pretty good......and Emi isn't here.
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Apr 6, 2022 06:07
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someone awful. posted:Heart of the City just basically looks like a modern webcomic/a lot of kids' cartoons, to me? And I'm enjoying seeing it, even if it's mostly just kinda milquetoast. I probably would have enjoyed it a lot when I was a tween.  Would I seek it out of my own volition? No. Am I actually reading it here instead of scrolling past it? Yes(so far). 2018 Spiderman  1979 comics      Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Mandrake  Johnny Hazard  Computoon: Origins 
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Apr 6, 2022 06:13
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Ghostlight posted:Nekonaughey hopes you're not afraid of the dark
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Apr 6, 2022 06:15
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Apr 6, 2022 06:34
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70s comic special: The Girls Since we're talking a lot about whether older comics can get away with being boring through the virtues of time/better art/etc, here's the most  comic on the 79 comics page. The Girls, you see, like shopping.   And occassionally yelling at a tree or getting their hair done.    But mostly shopping.  And of course their husbands are paying for it! Haw haw haw! Such a laugh riot!  But Women Be Shopping is always cosmically balanced out by Men Be Golfing.
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Apr 6, 2022 06:50
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Forgive me for forgetting yesterday's post, I lost all track of time with Lego Star Wars and watching TNG S3 for the first time 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 28-29, 2000)  
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Apr 6, 2022 07:28
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Vargo posted:Everyone seems to hate it for reasons I don't understand, I don't even understand the "boxy art" complaint. I was about to comment that I think it's fine. I'd probably appreciate it more were I a 12 year old girl, but that's not the comic's fault. I do find the art kinda boxy, but I've seen weirder styles in this thread before (insert that panel from Mark Trail that was obviously Jams drawing something for the first time in ages).
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Apr 6, 2022 07:54
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Slammy posted:Up Front March 7, 1945 If I'm not mistaken, that vertical pole on the front fender is a wire cutter. The Germans had the charming habit of rigging wire across roads and paths at head height, waiting for allied bike messengers or jeeps to drive into them and kill or maim the drivers. E: fixed image link Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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Apr 6, 2022 10:33
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Hattie Masters posted:See, I wouldn't say I hate it, but I do find it very... Not good? Not actively bad, but definitely not good. For me, the best example of this is the strip that could be summed up as "Ha ha, chips sure are salty and kids sure do love that!" Heart seems to be more about being very sweet and cute than funny, and that's fine. You could accuse it of being cloying, I guess? The art and tone remind me Steven Universe.
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Apr 6, 2022 11:11
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The thing about Heart is that it seems to have decided it's gonna be a four panel strip but never uses the fourth panel to add anything interesting to what it's already done in three panels.
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Apr 6, 2022 11:49
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics Took a few minutes staring at a keyboard to solve this one, so here is a hint: Wow, that is a 13 letter long word. That is pretty notable! What word that is used a lot in these silly little mysteries that is that long? The cipher is Reorder the keys on a typewriter in alphabetic order, instead of QWERTY order. The solution, then, is CHECK ENCYCLOPEDIAS GARAGE, TYPEWRITER BEHIND MOWER.
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Apr 6, 2022 11:52
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 4/5/02  Brenda Starr 6/28-30/48    Smokey Stover 3/2/47  Everyday Movies 1/7/35  "My first three husbands were all a woman could ask for."
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Apr 6, 2022 12:34
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Heart of the City seems nice to me so far. It doesn't always have a gag, but I think it's more of a slice of life strip. This story seems to be about Heart making friends with this other girl she's not gotten along with before now, which is cute (as long as it sticks - things constantly reverting to the status quo is always annoying). I don't think it's really about pop culture - its characters just reference it in the way kids would. It's both about and for tween kids, and I assume very few people reading this thread are in the ten to fourteen age range, so that might explain why people here find it boring. And I think the art is good, like someone awful said its style matches a lot of modern cartoons. The artist does seem to have a tendency to put the characters in baggy clothes, maybe as a cheat to avoid having to be particular about the anatomy. On an unrelated note, I'm looking forward to this new cyberpunk bar. Thanks for posting it Giant Ethicist. Vintage Valiant (Aug. 13, 1950)    Reminder that while this is happening Aguar's troops are burning down villages in this guy's homeland.
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Apr 6, 2022 12:37
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Medenmath posted:It's both about and for tween kids, and I assume very few people reading this thread are in the ten to fourteen age range, so that might explain why people here find it boring.
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Apr 6, 2022 12:53
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My Lovely Horse posted:I don't think that can be the only reason, because the same goes for Phoebe, and that's charming and has actual gags and tension. Phoebe is a lot sillier with a bunch of fantastical things happening, which I think helps it. If it were just about Phoebe and Dakota's frenemy relationship or whatever I imagine it would be received less positively. But maybe I'm wrong, I'm no great media critic.  edit: \/ Yeah this Medenmath fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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Apr 6, 2022 13:10
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Phoebe is doing the whimsical thing and Heart is more grounded slice-of-life stuff for young girls, it makes sense that one has more appeal outside the age range than the other to me
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Apr 6, 2022 13:12
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Solver Spring Special John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:You may remember Mike Savage from his Scary Go Round misadventures or his Bad Machinery misadventures. His relationship with Lottie’s mum (forged in the very final pages of The Case of the Severed Alliance) should not be thought of as a misadventure. Here's the scene from Case of the Severed Alliance were Mike met Karen; 
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Apr 6, 2022 13:27
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^^^ I love Shelley's expression in that last panel. Medenmath posted:Reminder that while this is happening Aguar's troops are burning down villages in this guy's homeland. Val would've razed his homeland then murdered this motherfucker, so in that sense a scolding from Aleta is getting off light
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Apr 6, 2022 13:29
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Giant Ethicist posted:Maruoka Kuzo seems to have basically put Uramachi Sakaba on hiatus to work on a new, extremely similar comic, Haraiso Days, which last month got its first collected release. So, I bought it, and will be sharing it! You know how some school cartoons would have a rival school that had duplicates of the main cast but just shifted by about 20% in one direction or another same exact vibes here
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