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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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Hostile V posted:[sobbing] oh my god she's cutting off her creature comforts so she'll return home to be with him oh gosh my heart As a rural desert soul whose home is now in the Big City I have a different opinion of the actions here. She made choices based on what she wants from life, it's cruel to take her small comforts away with it.
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Giant Ethicist posted:Monya the Grey  
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Hostile V posted:[sobbing] oh my god she's cutting off her creature comforts so she'll return home to be with him oh gosh my heart I hope not. That seems like a real lovely thing to do.
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readingatwork posted:I continue to be deeply amused by the unanimously negative reaction Big Nate is getting. We're not stopping until the year is complete though! We're committed damnit! Keep posting it. It gets better eventually and nobody ever stops posting objectively garbage "comics" like Dustin so even if it *didn't* get better there's more than enough precedent for posting comics that aren't good.
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Monya  Garfield  davidspackage posted:Now, this is interesting. Does this kick off pug week, or wig week? sorry buddy....... Heathcliff  wtf  Monty  Compu-toon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (May 14, 2000)  riderchop fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Apr 21, 2022 |
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Bruceski posted:As a rural desert soul whose home is now in the Big City I have a different opinion of the actions here. She made choices based on what she wants from life, it's cruel to take her small comforts away with it. I agree. It would be much better flat out talking about what would actually make them happy, as opposed to this Mary Worth-esque meddling. Also, Cannonball Mary as a nom de piratage slaps.
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Apr 21, 2022 07:45
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Murdstone posted:If history is any guide, we need her to get mad at Vargo somehow. e: how to draw, maybe
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Apr 21, 2022 08:11
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I didn't now, a decade from when I started reading this thread, that Prince Valiant would be my favorite comic.
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Apr 21, 2022 08:29
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fondue posted:I didn't now, a decade from when I started reading this thread, that Prince Valiant would be my favorite comic. I had always heard Prince Valiant was good, but when I tried to read it in the paper, I never could wrap my head around it. It seemed very boring and was kind of hard to follow. But being able to experience it in this thread I can now understand. It's a fantastic comic that's well written and is often quite funny with a good cast of characters.
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Potsticker posted:I had always heard Prince Valiant was good, but when I tried to read it in the paper, I never could wrap my head around it. It seemed very boring and was kind of hard to follow. But being able to experience it in this thread I can now understand. It's a fantastic comic that's well written and is often quite funny with a good cast of characters. My newspaper didn't have it, so the only times I saw it was when I went to hang out with a friend after church, since their newspaper had it, but that's no way to read it. Dinky Dinkerton, Flyin' Jenny, and The Shadow Jan. 27-29, 1941         
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catlord posted:My newspaper didn't have it, so the only times I saw it was when I went to hang out with a friend after church, since their newspaper had it, but that's no way to read it. In my local paper it wasn't with the other comics. It and doonsbury and-- something else I think were on some other page that was mostly full of article text continued from the front page. Political cartoons (that weren't Doonsbury) were separate from that and the main comics pages too.
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Apr 21, 2022 08:43
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Guindon  Gahan   Samovar posted:I agree. It would be much better flat out talking about what would actually make them happy, as opposed to this Mary Worth-esque meddling. Hmmm... Cannonball Mary...You might have something there. Cannonball Mary 
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 4/20/02  Brenda Starr 8/2-4/48    Smokey Stover 6/15/47  Everyday Movies 1/24/35  "Come, William, get up. It's time to lie on the beach." Bonus Ad! W(ake)u(p)-tang ain't nothing to gently caress with. 
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics i'm not buying it Haifisch posted:1979 comics ... Isn't Idaville a small town out in the middle of nowhere? what the gently caress is somebody who owns something insured for a million dollars doing there
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fondue posted:I didn't now, a decade from when I started reading this thread, that Prince Valiant would be my favorite comic. Potsticker posted:I had always heard Prince Valiant was good, but when I tried to read it in the paper, I never could wrap my head around it. It seemed very boring and was kind of hard to follow. But being able to experience it in this thread I can now understand. It's a fantastic comic that's well written and is often quite funny with a good cast of characters. I'm sure I've said this before, but when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s I always wanted to like Prince Valiant but bounced off the seemingly slow pacing and impenetrable backstory. I think reading it on a daily basis, and from the beginning, helps a lot. The pace of the story isn't actually slow at all, but the weekly nature of the strip gives that illusion. I'm amazed Foster was able to put out artwork of this quality even on a weekly basis though. The man was a very talented machine. Zereth posted:you're telling me somebody who lives in loving idaville owns a diamond necklace that's worth enough that payign the ransom might be a better idea than just letting it get stolen and using the money saved to buy a new one? Hmm, the only reason I can think of why they'd be there is to set up an insurance scam  Vintage Valiant (Nov. 12, 1950)   
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Esplanade posted:Hmmm... Cannonball Mary...You might have something there. Oh no the House of Black got to Mary! Huxley posted:A+J You'd think someone named Da'Dad would be looking for campground and motel deals and pointing out points of interest for their epic road trip, not finding flights.
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Endless Mike posted:You'd think someone named Da'Dad would be looking for campground and motel deals and pointing out points of interest for their epic road trip, not finding flights. It is also very Dad to be as cheap as possible.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Nov. 12, 1950) Relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0mVCFr1qIo
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Endless Mike posted:Oh no the House of Black got to Mary! He a bad dad 
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Oh gently caress yeah Pirate Mary Worth!
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Endless Mike posted:Oh no the House of Black got to Mary! There are two types of driving dads: road trip adventurers and max-efficiency death-marchers.
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Huxley posted:There are two types of driving dads: road trip adventurers and max-efficiency death-marchers. I try very hard to be the first but it's easy to slip into the max-efficiency death-marcher frame of mind. For any naturally max-efficiency dads (or dads at heat) out there, it helps to plan a rough route, look up interesting sites near that route, and then every day pick a handful of sites you want to see. It's okay if it's getting late in the day and you skip such and such waterfall or lighthouse, but make an effort to see at least one interesting thing before lunch and one interesting thing after lunch. DO: plan short days. Just because you can drive 10 hours at a time while listening to a good audio book doesn't mean that will be fun for everyone else. DON'T: plan a several day max-length route with a hard deadline at the end. My wife and I drove past a lot of Sweden because I wildly underestimated how long it would take to drive and we didn't have enough buffer time at the end. DO: consider that everybody has to eat and go to the bathroom, and that might not happen on your schedule. Carry snacks and maybe even piddle packs. DON'T: plan too far ahead. If you have a hotel booked, you'll kill yourself to get there. If possible, pick a rough goal (e.g. "I will get to San Luis Obispo tonight"). Then, around mid afternoon, judge how likely that is and find a hotel near where you're _actually_ going to wind up.
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (July 21, 1934)  Peanuts (April 26, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (November 21, 1938)  Out Our Way (August 22-24, 1938)   
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Potsticker posted:I had always heard Prince Valiant was good, but when I tried to read it in the paper, I never could wrap my head around it. It seemed very boring and was kind of hard to follow. But being able to experience it in this thread I can now understand. It's a fantastic comic that's well written and is often quite funny with a good cast of characters. It was the same for me. I think Valiant's strength, as much as the artwork, is the very realized setting and characters and you don't get the full impact of that from reading a single page out of context every week.
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Esplanade posted:Cannonball Mary Meddle me timbers! I am totally down for the adventures of this pirate lass.  Bizarro  The Family Circus 
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Huxley posted:There are two types of driving dads: road trip adventurers and max-efficiency death-marchers. Mine was the latter. 14 hour days with breaks for gas and meals and that was about it unless there was a very specific site to see. If we were lucky, we'd at least take a scenic route rather than a highway. I played a loooooooot of Game Boy.
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Endless Mike posted:Mine was the latter. 14 hour days with breaks for gas and meals and that was about it unless there was a very specific site to see. If we were lucky, we'd at least take a scenic route rather than a highway. I'm very much inclined to that. I tried to enforce a strict "no liquids 1 hour before departure; no drinks in the car" rule but gave up when I caught everyone sneaking behind my back. Three girls, we just pee whenever someone yells and every hour in the car takes 90 minutes. It's torture, but only on me so whatever. My mom's dad took them on a cross-country tour to the west coast full of 10-12 hour days in the car and literally yelled, "the grand canyon is about an hour that way, if we were going!" and just kept on trucking. It's not a happy memory for her, so I try to have some give.
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Murdstone posted:If history is any guide, we need her to get mad at Vargo somehow. My Lovely Horse posted:Vargo go mansplain something on twitter I actually wound up unfollowing/muting Jules on Twitter because she is just insufferably annoying. Strontium posted:
Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  So I guess both these strips are doing "party so we can remind you about the fringe members of the supporting cast" storylines. Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis 
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Huxley posted:I'm very much inclined to that. I tried to enforce a strict "no liquids 1 hour before departure; no drinks in the car" rule but gave up when I caught everyone sneaking behind my back. Three girls, we just pee whenever someone yells and every hour in the car takes 90 minutes. It's torture, but only on me so whatever. Mine wasn't quite that bad, but also I was a grumpy kid and probably wouldn't have appreciated the Grand Canyon had we gone that way. I didn't appreciate the Badlands back then.
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Modesty Blaise: Mister Sun concludes!   Next time:new adventure!
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readingatwork posted:I continue to be deeply amused by the unanimously negative reaction Big Nate is getting. We're not stopping until the year is complete though! We're committed damnit! It's like how in some Calvin and Hobbes strips now I find some things disturbing, like how just plain mean he is to Susie, or how the interactions with his parents go sometimes, except with Big Nate it's every strip. Vargo posted:I actually wound up unfollowing/muting Jules on Twitter because she is just insufferably annoying. F Minus  Mark Trail  Great Scott! Mary Worth  Selachian posted:Apparently she was a NYC street artist who picked up Ian while he was drunk. No, really. Esplanade posted:Hmmm... Cannonball Mary...You might have something there. The Phantom  Even Phantom wants to just get on with it. Pooch Cafe  lol Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  lol Apartment 3-G  I wanted these two to get together, but they don't have to rush into marriage. Well, it's the 70s I guess. Murdstone fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Apr 21, 2022 |
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Vater und Sohn: Practical upbringing (20/1937)
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does Jules think comic book stores are a highly Portland-specific thing and when you go you have to take the opportunity to buy a graphic novel the way you have to try the pizza when you're in NYC and the cheesesteak when you're in Philly? does Jules think Rusty wouldn't know what a comic is or that there aren't any about cryptids? is, not to put too fine a point on it, the only difference between Jules and James Allen that she's got the correct basic political attitude and does that, while a good thing in and of itself, not kind of confirm the right-wing narrative that that's the only thing that counts in getting an artistic job these days, because the selling point of New Mark Trail sure as gently caress isn't her stellar storytelling ability or breathtakingly detailed artwork?
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The new Mark Trail universe is comically small with how often the same characters cycle in. This is the 3rd time with Bee Sharp? ... out of 4? Of course that's true with Cricket too. I can only hope Daggers shows up tomorrow. Kinda sad Phantom has progressed to just sucking. For the love of God make a clean break with the narrative, this is murder. Please always post Cannonball Mary Worth quote:is, not to put too fine a point on it, the only difference between Jules and James Allen that she's got the correct basic political attitude and does that, while a good thing in and of itself, not kind of confirm the right-wing narrative that that's the only thing that counts in getting an artistic job these days, because the selling point of New Mark Trail sure as gently caress isn't her stellar storytelling ability or breathtakingly detailed artwork? For somebody who proudly boasted that "Mark Trail is a handsome man" and we were gonna get loads of dude fan service because Jules is a hip young lady, we haven't actually seen any of that since the jokes in the first week of strips. At this point I think a lot of classic comic IP pick ups by new artists are supremely cynical "I can make some pocket change for half a day of effort a month" side hustles. I know newspaper comics aren't exactly THE BIG MONEY but Trail and Nancy are some pretty egregious trend setters. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Apr 21, 2022 |
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