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quote:Dorothy would say “Monya, your house doesn’t have a sofa! You’ve got to get one!” and then Monya would say “Well then, I have to get a sofa license” because in Oz for some reason you have to take an exam and get a license to have a sofa. Release the Sofa License Cut. Thank you for posting Monya. It was incredibly good, one of my favorite things that's been posted in any of these threads. As I said before, it started out just seeming like a silly Wizard of Oz parody and that would have been fine on its own, but what it turned into was something truly special.
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Vargo posted:Sinatra's team actually fails in the original Ocean's. The money accidentally gets put into an incinerator or something like that? It gets hidden in a coffin with the idea of digging it up after the funeral (iirc) and then the entire coffin gets conveyor belted into a crematorium as they watch helplessly.
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qrais saved himself from an rear end-beating... this time.....
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Don Bluth Online Animals Once Again It's All About Eating        
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery I'm getting Chuck Jones vibes from that second panel. And thank you for posting Monya! It was way better than I was expecting when it began.
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (November 17-19, 1938) I'm more invested in this than any financial news.
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And now, the moment of truth, when Our Boarding House meets its destiny. (January 26-28, 1922) It was one hundred years ago this past January that one of the defining characters of the 20th century newspaper comics was brought onto the stage. From humble beginnings, he became so dominant that in the mid-1930s his creator was hired away by King Features to make a knock-off version that looked and acted almost exactly like the original. Hearst had a reason for that investment, because for the American comics page, our newcomer would define a bloviator of Munchausenesque dimensions.  HE IS...MAJOR AMOS HOOPLE.  AND HE IS...a lot shorter than I remember him. I dunno, buddy, you tell me...maybe he started wearing lifts just before the Depression kicked in.   Anyway, stick around for the journey, because from this point we get to watch another cartoonist figure out that he's created a star. Toonerville Folks (April 14-16, 1919)    Dok's Scuttled Duck (February 25, 1914)  Little Lefty (August 31-September 2, 1936)    Blondie From Zero (February 22-24, 1932) 
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Haifisch posted:And by I was more interested in Annie personally. But it's OK, I'm two days behind on the thread and missed my chance to ask for a birthday present 
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Outbursts of Everett True May 23, 1919 And He Did! June 3, 1919  Cat Tales May 5, 1925  Oaky Doaks October 31, 1936  Mopsy January 10, 1938  Up Front April 30, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems July 22, 1952  Those Were the Days September 15, 1960  Wee Pals July 25, 1966  Dogbert April 26, 1967 
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Didn’t this character end up being gay later in the comic? Or bisexual? Maybe a confusing stage?
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days September 15, 1960 Did 1950s children really love school? Stephen King taught me that the did not.
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Giant Ethicist posted:
Thank you for bringing us Monya, and thank you for not posting that first comic on its own, separate from the other two because i think that would have incited a riot. It was a really enjoyable series and I kind of wish QRais had done the sofa side quest lol. I respect his decision to keep things brief, though. Also in general, thank you very much for bringing us so much QRais, his style of art & writing is so nice
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ryde posted:Didn’t this character end up being gay later in the comic? Or bisexual? Maybe a confusing stage? they showed him briefly with a guy much much later on but i think it was towards the end of the comic so there was never any real follow up on it, "he likes guys and also girls" or "he turned out to just like guys" or otherwise
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ryde posted:Didn’t this character end up being gay later in the comic? Or bisexual? Maybe a confusing stage? I'm actually really interested in if Allison already intended Sonny to be gay at this point, because that adds another layer to the storyline quite neatly.
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Giant Ethicist posted:
It probably goes without saying by now, but thanks for posting Monya! I loved it.
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2018 Spiderman 1979 comics Due to semi-popular demand, I'm also going to be posting Annie.        Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Mandrake  Johnny Hazard  Computoon: Origins 
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (June 13, 2000)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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EasyEW posted:HE IS...MAJOR AMOS HOOPLE.
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In today's Blueberry: Say, this O'Bannion fellow seems like a nice fellow..., or Vittorio has no respect for personal property, or REVENGE FOR PROMETHEUS!  
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Rhymes with Orange That's a daring first-panel gag for the comics page. Get Fuzzy 5/20/02  We've got a couple weeks of this coming up. Stephen Collins  Brenda Starr 10/11-13/48    Man, Mr. A. Natural sure went from faintly amusing weirdo to creepy stalker in the blink of an eye, didn't he? Smokey Stover 1/11/48  Wonder if the hand in the last panel is related to the superstition of saying "rabbit rabbit rabbit" at the start of a year for good luck. Everyday Movies 3/4/35  "-- and don't stay out all day with that umbrella, Duke, I might need it myself."
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Strontium posted:Daddy Daze mad as heck that daddy daze got a laugh out of me
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Classic Nancy 1947
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kidcoelacanth posted:mad as heck that daddy daze got a laugh out of me there's no "ba ba" so it's one of the best by default
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise: Uncle Happy The part of every Modesty Blaise story where she and Willie finally get the chance to get going and everything falls apart for the villains is always so much fun to read. Vargo posted:Heart of the City What exactly is an EMF reader anyway? Is it basically just a radio? Doomykins posted:Jucika "228 - Jucika Meets Gagarin" I'd be excited to meet Yuri too. Aside from being the first person in space, he was super cute.  Giant Ethicist posted:
Thank you for posting Monya, it was a delight. Like others, I would love to see the sofa saga some day... They're together again now, so maybe he can do some one-off slice of life strips as a side thing. Only if he wants to, of course.  Also I have to say I appreciate the idea of just magic-ing through the time paradox problem. The whole point of magic is that it lets characters do impossible things, so why not?Slammy posted:Bootsie’s Big ‘50s Stupid sexy [Bootsie's friend whose name I don't know]! PetraCore posted:(Bad Machinery spoilers) rannum has it right, but also, note that a lot of this storyline is about Sonny feeling like his experience of puberty and attraction is disconnected from people he's growing up with. My read of it and later stuff as someone queer is that he's both a bit of a late bloomer in terms of feeling sexual attraction but he's also noticing that things aren't quite matching up with how things are 'supposed to be'. There's that earlier strip where his parents are teasing him about girlfriends and his little sister is marrying her teddy bear and the thing about that isn't just that it's pushing romance on him but heteronormative romance. And that's an easy period in life to go along with having a 'crush' on someone of the opposite sex because that's what everyone is talking about and how things are 'supposed' to work, a thing I also did when I was about his age instead of admitting I'm a lesbian. Here comes 'Ellen', a lovely, beautiful girl that depends on him and they have a literally magical connection, except the entire storyline is about that not being a good thing and Sonny never actually ends up as anything but platonic with her. As soon as he's feeling out the idea of 'am I attracted to her?' he notices she's illiterate and his nascent attraction just immediately flips to concern for her. I read this story the first time having heard that Sonny is gay but hasn't figured it out yet, and I feel like it works. Vintage Valiant (May 13, 1951)    I wasn't aware of the papacy having ever resided in Ravenna, and I did some quick searching just in case and didn't find anything, so I think this is just something Hal is making up. Unless the idea is that the pope is on a trip, rather than having moved permanently.
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Giant Ethicist posted:
Thanks for posting this! It might be my favorite thing that's been posted in these threads so far
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days September 15, 1960
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N-thing the Monya love. Thanks for posting and translating it~
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Zerilan posted:Thanks for posting this! It might be my favorite thing that's been posted in these threads so far People keep saying this. I'm going to go back and read it.
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Bizarro The Family Circus 
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Selachian posted:Smokey Stover 1/11/48 Medenmath posted:What exactly is an EMF reader anyway? Is it basically just a radio? F Minus  Mark Trail  Why does Rusty have all that cricket powder? Mary Worth  It may appear to be a reused panel, but Mary changed the curtains.  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail I assume as part of the travel for the story they're staying at a house Happy or the Bros own and the Bros would have it or they'd gift it to Happy. quote:Rex Morgan MD I choose to believe that the Sweeper is either about to get these guys to trip and pratfall on some floor waxer or he's going to bluff them out by threatening to mix ammonia and bleach or something else wonderfully stupid that only a crime-fighting janitor would pull.  I wonder how it feels as a long term story strip(like Trail) to be getting beaten out by modern Rex Morgan?
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons What a clever way to avoid taking the trouble of drawing identifiable vegetables. I see why goons fall all over themselves praising this strip. Here's Bettwy's other work of genius, Sales:  Still love him? Anyway, here's Sunday Apartment 3-g 
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Murdstone posted:F Minus It took getting banned from the bowling alley for life for me to learn this but the holes in a bowling ball are only for your fingers/thumb
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (May 13, 1951) Hal may be talking about the Exarchate of Ravenna and the Byzantine Papacy, which when the Byzantine Emporer appointed the Pope, but I don't think the Pope ever resided in Ravenna.
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Darthemed posted:You can’t fool me, that’s Sydney and the Hat.  Don't blow my cover, Dark Medic. The mob wants to break my kneecaps. Mutts  Sally Forth  Peanuts (May 24, 1975)  And the payoff for this week's Funky Winkerbean nonsense: old age incontinence.  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater, in which Wimpy knows a bad deal when he sees one. (December 21, 1938)  Out Our Way (November 21-23, 1938; timg'd for the usual reasons.)   
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