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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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Huxley posted:The whole comic is Arlo imagining how things might have turned out with the brilliant and successful artist Janis if this chance meeting with Cassandra hadn't ended up with them bitterly married for 50 years instead. Fade out on Gene looking into a snowglobe.
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Haraiso Days  Everyone pretty much called everything! If there's one thing Maruoka has proved time and again he's good at, it's leaning in to a trope and making a solid story out of it. Night Visitors  Monya the Grey  
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Apr 11, 2022 22:53
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*angrily banging on keyboard while smiling* i love this comic so much oh my god if monya and dorothy dont talk about staying friends forever im gonna go apeshit
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Apr 11, 2022 22:57
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Doomykins posted:*angrily banging on keyboard while smiling* i love this comic so much oh my god if monya and dorothy dont talk about staying friends forever im gonna go apeshit open up a portal so everyone can come & go as they please
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Apr 11, 2022 23:17
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Murdstone posted:Even if they weren't a thing, the term "comic book store" is pretty self-explanatory. Exactly. Teenage Harry's response should have been "A store that just sells comic books? Sounds great!" instead of "what is this co-mic-book-store of which you speak?" Christ, Batiuk has gone back only 40 years with this story, he hasn't sent Crazy Harry to the Bronze Age or anything.
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Apr 11, 2022 23:19
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Howard Beale posted:Exactly. Teenage Harry's response should have been "A store that just sells comic books? Sounds great!" instead of "what is this co-mic-book-store of which you speak?" Christ, Batiuk has gone back only 40 years with this story, he hasn't sent Crazy Harry to the Bronze Age or anything. 
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Apr 11, 2022 23:50
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One of the early direct market comic book distributors was in Columbus. You'd think an Ohio kid would've at least had a passing familiarity with the concept. Our Boarding House (September 29-October 1, 1921)    Toonerville Folks (December 26-28, 1918)    Dok's "Bagging A Bullmoose" Duck (January 19, 1914)  Little Lefty (April 30-May 3, 1936)     That parade was on May Day, just in case you'd forgotten for a moment that this was a Communist strip. Blondie (From Zero) (November 9-11, 1931) 
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Apr 11, 2022 23:52
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Pickles and Raw Meat Comics        
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Apr 11, 2022 23:53
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Apr 12, 2022 00:29
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Since I screwed up this morning, here's Rhymes with Orange.
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Apr 12, 2022 01:13
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So much for equality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramercy_Park
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Apr 12, 2022 01:18
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Outbursts of Everett True April 21, 1919 And He Did! April 22, 1919  Cat Tales April 1, 1925  Oaky Doaks October 1, 1936  Mopsy December 9, 1937  Up Front March 14, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems June 20, 1952  Those Were the Days December 10, 1959  Wee Pals June 23, 1966  Dogbert March 8, 1967 
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Apr 12, 2022 02:05
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days December 10, 1959 Another year of Those Were the Days almost in the books, we're probably 5-7 updates away from the "Antiques?! We called it JUNK!" strip for January 1960.
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Apr 12, 2022 03:18
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Big Nate Year 1 (Mar 4-5, 1991)  Old School Peanuts (Jun 25, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 15-16, 1990)   Blind Alley  Support Adam's Patreon here.
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Apr 12, 2022 03:54
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readingatwork posted:Big Nate Year 1 (Mar 4-5, 1991) So the number one thing I'm learning from the first year of Big Nate strips is that Nate is a huge rear end in a top hat.
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Apr 12, 2022 04:11
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Luann ain't loading for me today. The Featured Comment indicates that Bernice makes an appearance in this one, so all y'all better count your blessings.Giant Ethicist posted:Haraiso Days We haven't been introduced to the handsome and capable, yet shy regular customer yet, but whenever this hat-wearing mofo shows up, they better kiss. JethroMcB posted:Another year of Those Were the Days almost in the books, we're probably 5-7 updates away from the "Antiques?! We called it JUNK!" strip for January 1960. "B-b-but, Boss! What with all these taxes, I can't afford for you to give me a raise!!"
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Apr 12, 2022 04:21
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Yeah Big Nate is going back to eye slide status for me. Terrible art, no real jokes, just a classic "got the job and stuck with it by sheer inertia" comic.
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Apr 12, 2022 04:24
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Twelve by Pies posted:So the number one thing I'm learning from the first year of Big Nate strips is that Nate is a huge rear end in a top hat. Same, lol. Doomykins posted:Yeah Big Nate is going back to eye slide status for me. Terrible art, no real jokes, just a classic "got the job and stuck with it by sheer inertia" comic. So far it's getting a solid "C" grade from me. Perfectly readable and largely inoffensive but also not really something you'd actively seek if you weren't posting it on a dead gay forum for that sweet, sweet internet clout. Also on the subject of the art I skipped ahead a bit to see how quickly it improves and lmao it's like watching the cast age in reverse. 
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Apr 12, 2022 04:43
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Green Intern posted:They shot rice from a gun Indeed they did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGpS6LHeBC0
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Apr 12, 2022 06:22
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Twelve by Pies posted:So the number one thing I'm learning from the first year of Big Nate strips is that Nate is a huge rear end in a top hat. I feel I remember this being true of the strip when it was posted in one of the past threads so I don't think it was just the first year lol
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Apr 12, 2022 06:28
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Murdstone posted:I never saw it, I just read the review on the front page quote:The Phantom
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Apr 12, 2022 06:49
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Julet Esqu posted:We haven't been introduced to the handsome and capable, yet shy regular customer yet, but whenever this hat-wearing mofo shows up, they better kiss. Doomykins posted:Yeah Big Nate is going back to eye slide status for me. Terrible art, no real jokes, just a classic "got the job and stuck with it by sheer inertia" comic. Schwarzwald posted:Rarebit is an excellent comic but honestly the framing narrative holds it back. It'd be on another level if it was just strange things with no explanation. Or if it threw a curveball every once in a while, like this (great) edit.
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Apr 12, 2022 06:50
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I've been thinking about it and I think they should make a Powerful Katrinka movie with a big budget 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 (May 05, 2000) 
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Apr 12, 2022 07:15
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riderchop posted:Garfield Giving me runnies replace vibes
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Giant Ethicist posted:Night Visitors Vater und Sohn: Consider the lobster (13/1937) 
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Apr 12, 2022 10:08
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Apr 12, 2022 11:05
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Arlo and Janice is, I would argue, one of the S-tier strips posted here - sure, there are comics with better art (I know, I post one) but the level of wholesomeness, charm, humour with the flavour of endearing, Jucika-esque horniness makes it not only unique, but very, very good. Also: Alhazred posted:TegneHanne I am very glad Norwegian baby stayed safe.
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Apr 12, 2022 11:35
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Rhymes with Retail Get Fuzzy 4/11/02  Brenda Starr 7/12-14/48    Smokey Stover 4/13/47  Back to recycled gags again. Everyday Movies 1/14/35  "Give me a ring some time, Egbert -- our neighbor's phone is Manhattan 3-4272."
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Apr 12, 2022 11:51
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Nancy 1947
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readingatwork posted:Blind Alley I like that I can't tell now whether this is botched slight of hand or some actual magical power that doesn't work the way she expects it to Haifisch posted:A finger curls on the monkey's paw, and it's the same guy from Uramachi Sakaba. It turns out he spends all his free time flirting with bartenders(but never actually kissing them). This is impossible, everyone knows that the antiques guy made a huge find that set him up for life, so he married the owner, they gifted the bar to Emi, and then they retired to a lovely house in the countryside that is only occasionally menaced but never destroyed by giant radioactive monsters  manero posted:Nancy 1947 Normally I find eye dialect annoying but I appreciate that Sluggo's commitment to it is so strong that he writes that way too Vintage Valiant (Sep. 17, 1950)   
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Huxley posted:A+J If anyone else was curious about that phone  from 1976, apparently. And the top result for "Micky Mouse phone" so I guess not very obscure, but I've never seen one before.
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Apr 12, 2022 12:39
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Jucika "148 - Jucika Is Making A Phone Call" "149 - Jucika's Second Shift" 
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Apr 12, 2022 13:09
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Mr. Squishy posted:from 1976, apparently. And the top result for "Micky Mouse phone" so I guess not very obscure, but I've never seen one before. It can also be seen early on in A Goofy Movie! 
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Apr 12, 2022 13:14
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Samovar posted:Arlo and Janice is, I would argue, one of the S-tier strips posted here - sure, there are comics with better art (I know, I post one) but the level of wholesomeness, charm, humour with the flavour of endearing, Jucika-esque horniness makes it not only unique, but very, very good. It's a nice balance to FOOB, which belongs in the dumpster
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Apr 12, 2022 14:19
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann ain't loading for me today. The Featured Comment indicates that Bernice makes an appearance in this one, so all y'all better count your blessings. Do you have an ad blocker in place? It wasn't loading for me either but then I put AdGuard on pause and suddenly:   Yep we're doing this crap again! quote:"B-b-but, Boss! What with all these taxes, I can't afford for you to give me a raise!!" To be fair to Beeman, that horny old crank, before Regan and Co. started tearing the tax code to shreds there were a lot more tax brackets that scaled to significantly higher rates than anybody pays today. Here's the tax brackets for calendar year 1959 - seems to me that if you were sitting at the high end of a bracket and you got a modest raise, your tax rate could jump enough that it would not only negate the raise itself but eat into your previous take-home amount.
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Apr 12, 2022 15:04
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A young couple kissing while fully clothed? In public! How did this filth get past the editor. I will admit that it's weird that they're both kneeling down. And I believe that tax brackets have always worked that the new taxation applies only to the money earned beyond whatever threshold.
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Apr 12, 2022 15:18
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Mr. Squishy posted:
Yes. It's somewhat common for withholding to be done in a way that looks like you are making less on each paycheck but you will have a larger refund.
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Apr 12, 2022 15:36
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Shugojin posted:Yes. It's somewhat common for withholding to be done in a way that looks like you are making less on each paycheck but you will have a larger refund. I used to argue with people that this was dumb because you obviously aren't saving any money and in fact are giving the government a no-interest loan by letting them hold your money for an entire year before giving back to you (which is true). Then someone pointed out that people know this and aren't stupid, but plan specifically around it because they recognize their spending habits and it might be the only time in a calendar year they see $1k in one place at one time. So I let it go.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I was hoping the last panel would actually be Kirby and the Forgotten Land. This took way too long (most of which was spent on duplicating the Mouthful UI prompt) so hope it's at least mildly amusing. 
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