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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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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Oh GOD I hope you're right.
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Apr 23, 2022 17:22
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Rhymes with Orange I guess the "Out, damned Spot!" joke was too obvious. Get Repeats 4/22/02  It's interesting -- Bucky looks pretty much the same but Rob has gotten a lot less dorky-looking over the last couple of years. Stephen Collins  Brenda Starr 8/8/48   Smokey Stover 6/29/47  Everyday Movies 1/26/35  "There goes Princess Sdznski. Why, you know her -- last year she was Mrs. Phiff de St. Phifft and the year before that Mrs. J. Jepthcott Wenworth." Bonus Headline That Reads Very Differently When You Don't Know It's About Horses! 
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Apr 23, 2022 17:25
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Mutts Sally Forth  Peanuts (April 26, 1975)  The Funky Retrobean Conclusion (as the chorus sings "Will The Circle Be Unbroken")  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (November 23, 1938)  Out Our Way (August 29-31, 1938)   
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Apr 23, 2022 17:52
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EasyEW posted:
If I'm reading that right, that's a grim chuckle.
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Apr 23, 2022 18:07
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft I'll say it again: Why don't they just put Marmaduke to sleep?
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Apr 23, 2022 19:02
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Nov. 26, 1950) That last panel. Lovely. Cowslips Warren posted:gently caress that FOOB parents. "Oh we kicked you out and realized an hour later that was bad form. We won't apologize though, you're still a deviant!" Let's be real though. If Lawrence went to the Safe Havens lab those psychos would keep him quiet by turning him into an anteater and forcing him to have babies with a homophobic raccoon because Holbrook is all about the mismatched pairings. 
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Apr 23, 2022 19:12
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Apr 23, 2022 19:42
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Murdstone posted:Olivia Jaimes at least seems to care about Nancy. Wow, that's a heck of a contrast. I can see why I didn't notice it until you pointed it out, since the cartoony style naturally lends itself to sloppiness. But even before then I definitely noticed how "Mark Trail - Nature Guy on Social Media" was a much clearer aspect of the premise early on while now it's just...I have no idea what Mark or anyone else even does for an actual job anymore.
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Apr 23, 2022 19:47
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Even the dialogue has deteriorated along with the art, it's a full sequence of lines that build on each other and serve a purpose in the first strip and almost entirely filler in the recent one, complete with text boxes so panel 3 has at least something, and it's very easy to suspect that the lettering has become larger in order for less text to cover up the same amount of panel.
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Apr 23, 2022 19:53
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Hostile V posted:Everybody's A God drat Parent Now Now granted, the only sports I ever did in high school were individual sports, not team sports. But I find the whole idea of thinking of your coaches were your parents to be uh...odd. This even in the context where the coaches were old enough to be your parents and, in some cases, actually were your parents, since the coaches had kids too.
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Apr 23, 2022 19:56
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Julet Esqu posted:That last panel. Lovely. No I clearly said he got that place shut the gently caress down. And why not, Samantha is forced to flee and become DETHANY FROM ON THE FASTRACK. I don't get why Holbrook didn't make the trapeze people marry/have kids with the dude in the wheelchair. I mean it seems right up his alley.
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I appreciate, EasyEW, that you're doing multiple posts a day now. More comics are great, but I often read or skip a whole page at a time and the longer the page is the more likely I am to skip in the middle of it.EasyEW posted:
I really like Our Boarding House in a way that surprises me. The style is super similar to Out Our Way, but the premise is much more condensed. So, no abrupt transitions between the children and the dude ranch with my trying to guess whether I'm dealing with an obscure one shot cultural reference or an ongoing storyline I missed a comic or two from. quote:Little Lefty gives us "Hey, comrade kids! Let's put on a show!" (June 1-3, 1936) I enjoyed this silly tomboy joke way too much. quote:Blondie (From Zero), in which love conquers all, except a heroine who's open to bribery. (December 7-9, 1931) I really liked Blondie and Dagwood going to college, because their parents bought the college, since it's a genuinely interesting setting we don't see in comics very often that gives everyone some much needed variety in their motivation. So I am naturally just as irritated that the writing has jumped right back to Dagwood's parents trying to break them up. It's an incredibly boring and one-note premise and I can see why the comic's popularity improved dramatically when it was just gotten rid of once and for all.
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Apr 23, 2022 20:49
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Julet Esqu posted:That last panel. Lovely. That's a stupid idea and you know it, Holbrook would never do that. Now, a homophobic ant, that I would buy.
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riderchop posted:Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon Rae the Doe is, for the moment, my favorite hip new millennial comic because Olive may have a limited repertoire of competency in terms of nonsensical puns but by golly, as long as she sticks to that brand, she does it right.
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Slammy posted:Bootsie’s Big ‘50s This one's fun trying to read the guy's voice as either "doesn't realize they pulled a racism on him" or "knows exactly what they were doing and is mocking them with dark sarcasm" (I mean the character's perspective, the author/reader's is pretty clear). I'm inclined toward the latter, and it's having me rethink some other Bootie strips where I read characters as clueless.
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Apr 23, 2022 21:13
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Kennel posted:Unfortunately that thread is still in Far Side prison, so I can't check. This reminded me that we haven't heard from the mods on this in quite some time. And I'm pretty sure none of them read this thread anyway. So I made a QCS thread if anyone wants to quietly, calmly, and sincerely ask for it to be reopened. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4000322
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Apr 23, 2022 21:21
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis 
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Apr 23, 2022 21:31
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Here's a Tom Gauld comic I saw recently that amused me.
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Apr 23, 2022 21:49
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Taking quality time to catch up on the thread, in case you couldn't tell, and just noticed to my sadness while updating the OP that Bibliotechno Music hasn't posted since January. They seem to be OK, having posted in other forums since then. Just feeling kind of down realizing we haven't seen outsider stuff like Aragones, Life in Hell, Marlys, and Sylvia for a while.
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Apr 23, 2022 21:53
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Haraiso Days  Night Visitors  Monya the Grey  
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Apr 23, 2022 22:30
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Vargo posted:Curtis Felt that reaction in the last panel on a visceral level.
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Apr 23, 2022 22:35
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EasyEW posted:The Funky Retrobean Conclusion (as the chorus sings "Will The Circle Be Unbroken") Is this the comic shop owner? Also, way to touch that Rare and Valuable comic with your bare greasy nerd hands.
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Apr 23, 2022 22:36
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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life Just wanted to add as a (very late) addition to Mark Trail chat that even at its very worst, I don't think the new Mark Trail is as lazy as Intelligent Life. Now here's a comic taking laziness to such extreme levels it managed to get canned from newspapers.
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Apr 23, 2022 22:37
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Green Intern posted:Is this the comic shop owner? Also, way to touch that Rare and Valuable comic with your bare greasy nerd hands. It's in pre-boom history, it's not as valuable yet.
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Apr 23, 2022 22:40
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Jan 4-5, 1991) So, am I the only one who doesn't remember this storyline even slightly? I was surprised when it kept going after the first one.
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Apr 23, 2022 22:46
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Some Guy TT posted:So, am I the only one who doesn't remember this storyline even slightly? I was surprised when it kept going after the first one. It has a whole collection named after it. 
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Apr 23, 2022 22:52
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave Spud is the best character in the entire thread. This is not up for debate. Some Guy TT posted:So, am I the only one who doesn't remember this storyline even slightly? I was surprised when it kept going after the first one. I sure didn’t but for some reason I remember the hell out of that book cover. readingatwork fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Apr 23, 2022 |
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Apr 23, 2022 23:07
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Vargo posted:Heart of the City Just want to note that when I added Heart of the City to the OP I described it as "almost interesting" and I think that's a pretty good way to sum this comic up.
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Apr 23, 2022 23:26
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I had a lot of the Calvin and Hobbes collections but I do not remember that one somehow.
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Apr 23, 2022 23:34
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Not sorry
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Kennel posted:Not sorry You shouldn't be.
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Apr 23, 2022 23:47
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Good Listener posted:I had a lot of the Calvin and Hobbes collections but I do not remember that one somehow. It was the only one I owned! My brother left it in the rain 
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Apr 23, 2022 23:48
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Big Nate Year 1 (Mar 26-27, 1991)  Old School Peanuts (Jul 6, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Jan 6-7, 1991)   No Blind Alley today
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Apr 24, 2022 00:00
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readingatwork posted:Big Nate Year 1 (Mar 26-27, 1991) "What the hay do these kids today see in Bob Ross?" in 1991 is a real "old man yells at cloud" take.
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Apr 24, 2022 00:13
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Is the joke here a pun on rei (幽霊 and 冷酒)? (It still works on the level that ghosts and cold go together.)
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Apr 24, 2022 00:35
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Some Guy TT posted:Now granted, the only sports I ever did in high school were individual sports, not team sports. But I find the whole idea of thinking of your coaches were your parents to be uh...odd. This even in the context where the coaches were old enough to be your parents and, in some cases, actually were your parents, since the coaches had kids too. Bipartisan Childbirth Adventures        
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Apr 24, 2022 00:40
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Caphi posted:Is the joke here a pun on rei (幽霊 and 冷酒)? (It still works on the level that ghosts and cold go together.) No, it's the simple reason I'm pretty sure. Ghost stories give you chills! (Not that your reading couldn't be right though - but he calls himself "obake" rather than "yuurei", which would obfuscate the "rei" pun a bit.)
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NRVNQSR posted:"What the hay do these kids today see in Bob Ross?" in 1991 is a real "old man yells at cloud" take. I think Peirce himself is the one who likes Bob Ross. This feels like him poking fun at himself more than anything else.
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