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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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42 | 17.07% |
| 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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Nancy 1947
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Jucika "156 - Jucika Is Late" "157 - Jucika's Beaus" 
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Apr 16, 2022 14:30
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Apr 16, 2022 14:58
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Mutts Sally Forth  Peanuts (April 19, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (November 16, 1938)  Out Our Way (August 8-10, 1938, timg'd because Ick is back)   
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Apr 16, 2022 15:10
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EasyEW posted:Mutt and Jeff F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  I hope this story ends right here. This is a nice ending. Overexplaining would kind of ruin it.
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Apr 16, 2022 15:35
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A+J
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Apr 16, 2022 15:35
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 4/15/02  Double Collins, both political and on the same topic   Brenda Starr 7/22-24/48    Smokey Stover 5/11/47  Everyday Movies 1/18/35  "I've got so I can do my hair in two hours and the curls stay in for days. The only trouble is you got to sleep on your face every night or you'll spoil them." Bonus Ad! Buy a new car or your kid will die! 
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Apr 16, 2022 15:40
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Huxley posted:A+J  Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City 
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Apr 16, 2022 15:54
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail How the hell does someone use a narration box with an explanation of what is happening in a visual medium in this day and age and not immediately think of that Nedroid comic about "Show don't tell"? How do they not immediately feel like a goddamn hack fraud?
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Apr 16, 2022 16:00
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"So, we're going to have to kill my sisters' husbands, my sisters' children if they have any by then, and possibly my sisters. Be ready."
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Apr 16, 2022 16:13
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Apr 16, 2022 16:27
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth How has Toby stayed married for so long if this is how she responds to a minor crisis? Is Ian secretly some horrible abuser who belittles her behind closed doors? This level of anxiety seems beyond the scope of the friendly neighbor to help with.
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Apr 16, 2022 16:28
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons I grew up with dogs. Laughed out loud at this one, then felt guilty for laughing, then laughed again at my own reaction. Bizarro  The Family Circus 
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Apr 16, 2022 16:35
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Twelve by Pies posted:How the hell does someone use a narration box with an explanation of what is happening in a visual medium in this day and age and not immediately think of that Nedroid comic about "Show don't tell"? How do they not immediately feel like a goddamn hack fraud? Holy Hell that Panel 3, lmfao. I can't do it. I can't be polite about the art anymore. At this point Jules had Mark decide that the two entrepreneurial tech-bro millionaire/billionaires must be abusing their funds somehow to afford *gasp* a single SUV, which any average income or low income person with a loan could afford, let alone two spoiled stereotypes of rich upbringing brats. So he decides that they're doing it through lumber(legal but mean), NFTs(legal but mean/stupid) or filching Mark's Dad(the only real stakes we'd have, actually shady.) Of course Mark's Dad is a big business owner himself and would just have an accountant immediately notice money vanishing or going to anything not outlined in a contract but... whatever, all the new Mark Trail storylines started at average at best(the first) and rapidly fell into a dumpster from there. If one had to read this strip(or was hate-reading/doing it out of habit) then at least "Mark has to show his Dad that he can't trust these Tech Bros" is a story with a clear goal and motivations. Then todays In the 2nd storyline Mark and Cricket hated each other. 20 years of it. We also had a money burning silicon valley computer office with the money for laptop docking stations rigged to overnight alarms to hinge an entire plot point on whether or not two goons could take a camera pic of Mark and his idiot thief friends with their personal phones.. instead of Cricket just having cameras installed in his office and siccing the police on Mark. Then in the 3rd storyline Cricket forgot he hates Mark(and hates him even more with a recent reminder of Mark having just bamboozled him) because he was so desperate for a NFTs partner(???) and now in the 4th storyline Cricket and Other Bro want to.. befriend the Trails, but they still hate and mock Mark, but they look to him for help? "Do you know anything about lumber mill fires?" What? Why? Call the fire department. There. Done. These guys are wealthy. They have resources. They don't ask these questions in the first place. And it's a lumber mill. It's not Moe's Tavern and letting smuggled pandas out of the back because the feds are having a drink. gently caress. Seriously. I know I go on the ol' insane rant about new Trail pretty often as is but I've been sitting on this disbelief for about a month now because it just gets worse with every story and I'm fascinated just to see how bad it'll get. Since the art is now matching the writing I have to assume each Trail strip is hastily thrown out the door minutes before deadline.
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Apr 16, 2022 17:02
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Yeah, I've pretty much given up on NuTrail because I find it nearly impossible to keep the storyline or any of the non-Mark/Cherry/Rusty characters straight -- they're all so thinly drawn and their motivations and personalities seem to change on the fly.
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Apr 16, 2022 17:16
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Selachian posted:Everyday Movies 1/18/35 Heh Mercury Hat posted:How has Toby stayed married for so long if this is how she responds to a minor crisis? Is Ian secretly some horrible abuser who belittles her behind closed doors? This level of anxiety seems beyond the scope of the friendly neighbor to help with. It has been many years, but I feel like there was a plot where she got her identity stolen and her biggest reaction there was also, "Ian can't find out! He's going to think I'm such a goddamned idiot!"  Bernice is the horniest person in this comic and also the judgiest prude. Accurate.
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Apr 16, 2022 17:42
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maltesh posted:"So, we're going to have to kill my sisters' husbands, my sisters' children if they have any by then, and possibly my sisters. Be ready." Arf: 
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Apr 16, 2022 17:48
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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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Apr 16, 2022 18:15
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Docks  Retail   Popcom (double Annie edition)  
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Apr 16, 2022 18:17
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Doomykins posted:We also had a money burning silicon valley computer office with the money for laptop docking stations rigged to overnight alarms to hinge an entire plot point on whether or not two goons could take a camera pic of Mark and his idiot thief friends with their personal phones Oh man you writing this caused me to remember something even loving dumber about that storyline, and further proves your point that Jules has no idea how to write a story. I went in last year's thread to look it up:    The woman in the dinosaur hoodie shows up while Mark and Cricket Bro are fighting and says "I will upload the source code for this app I created to the internet, ruining your plans to make money off it!" Then she throws the laptop at his face, saying "I don't need this anymore," and her and Mark Trail run off together. Then, later on, Mark Trail comes running up to Dinosaur Hoodie woman and Glasses Guy as if they were somewhere else not with him. Then he asks if they got the laptop, and Dinosaur Hoodie woman says she had to give it back. Then Mark Trail is like "Wait the heist failed?" But it succeeded! They got the loving source code uploaded to the internet! And Mark was with the Dinosaur Hoodie woman when it happened! He should know she doesn't have the laptop because he saw her loving throw it at Cricket Bro's face! And he should also know she uploaded the source code and therefore doesn't need the laptop anymore because he watched her do it!
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Apr 16, 2022 18:28
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave quote:Heart of the City
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Apr 16, 2022 18:53
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Twelve by Pies posted:Oh man you writing this caused me to remember something even loving dumber about that storyline, and further proves your point that Jules has no idea how to write a story. I went in last year's thread to look it up: Don't forget the completely incoherent car chase in that storyline either. riderchop posted:Safe Havens 
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Apr 16, 2022 19:18
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Boy, did that set of Docks strips age poorly.
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Apr 16, 2022 19:25
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Every Docks strip has aged poorly, just in different awful ways.
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Apr 16, 2022 19:35
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Zereth posted:Don't forget the completely incoherent car chase in that storyline either. Oh you mean the one where they're chasing Mark Trail and then stop him by magically teleporting in front of him? NRVNQSR posted:Every Docks strip has aged poorly, just in different awful ways. Nah a few of them have aged pretty well, just that the ones that aged poorly are the vast majority.
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Apr 16, 2022 20:05
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Twelve by Pies posted:Oh you mean the one where they're chasing Mark Trail and then stop him by magically teleporting in front of him? Yeah that one.
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Apr 16, 2022 20:53
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Oct. 15, 1950) Frankly, Ollie seems to have her poo poo together and I fully expect her to be running things with or without Arf. Twelve by Pies posted:Nah a few of them have aged pretty well, just that the ones that aged poorly are the vast majority. It is astonishingly early-2000s in every single way. I'm still enjoying it, but it's also wild just how much things have changed since then. And then you get the ones like this series which... oof. Dinky and Jenny Sunday Jan. 19, 1941 The Sundays for Dinky and Jenny are separate from the dailies, Dinky is standalone gags and Jenny has a different story. Currently she's the nanny and pilot for just the loving worst little rich snot. A lucky rabbit's foot with a metal core set too close the the compass put them off course and they had to stop and get directions.  
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Apr 16, 2022 21:33
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Jenny's being straight-up negligent here and it's 100% her fault if they all die. This was not simple human error (like a bad weight estimate) which would at least be understandable; she outright stated that this would overload the plane to the point that they might not even be able to take off. But then she went ahead anyway, with a "welp, not my fault". No, Jenny, it IS your fault. Assuming this fuckup doesn't kill you, it's severe enough that you should lose your drat pilot's license over it. Edited to add: I've crossposted this to the Aeronautical Insanity thread. I'm curious to see what actual pilots have to say about it... Powered Descent fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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Apr 16, 2022 21:50
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Bad Machinery Bobbins  John Allison posted:I drew today’s comic in the grip of a great sickness, but God willing, as it runs 19 days on, the poisons have passed me.
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Apr 16, 2022 22:06
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Vater und Sohn: The palace ghost (16/1937)
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Apr 16, 2022 22:28
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Murdstone posted:Apartment 3-G 
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Apr 16, 2022 22:35
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Pickles Zits 
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Apr 16, 2022 22:48
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Look, people fall in love every day. But a duck on a skateboard? That's a once in a lifetime event. Jeremy and Pierce know what's up.
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Apr 16, 2022 23:10
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Big Nate Year 1 (Mar 14-15, 1991)  Old School Peanuts (Jun 30, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 25-26, 1990)   No Blind Alley today
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Apr 16, 2022 23:53
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Those Carnivores In Congress, What A Bunch of Vultures!       
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Apr 17, 2022 00:14
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Apr 17, 2022 00:18
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Haraiso Days  Goya champuru really is very good, although it's easy to screw up as there's a very fine line between "nicely bitter balanced by the other flavors in the dish" and "extremely bitter what the gently caress how do you eat this". Night Visitors  Monya the Grey  
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Apr 17, 2022 00:29
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Selachian posted:
This comic is endearingly stupid in a way that surprises me, given that most bad comics in this thread are enragingly stupid. Hm, I guess Computoon and Overboard also qualify, albeit for completely different reasons
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Apr 17, 2022 00:35
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What the gently caress, straw man? (comic is good)
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