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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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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Darthemed posted:Docks  
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Jun 10, 2022 19:41
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Now break that down by population density. e: Stultus Maximus posted:I'm referring specifically to Huey calling out St Louis.  EasyEW fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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Jun 10, 2022 19:45
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EasyEW posted:Now break that down by population density. I'm referring specifically to Huey calling out St Louis.
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Jun 10, 2022 20:05
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ˇAragones! Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Jun 10, 2022 20:56
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Some Guy TT posted:Wait, Bets is supposed to have a million followers on Instagram? Posting selfies of herself with confused surprised people? Have the Evans ever actually looked at Instagram? She posts selfies AND steps on things barefoot
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Jun 10, 2022 21:09
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Aragones really likes shadow gags huh.
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Jun 10, 2022 21:51
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I'm pretty sure those are all from the same MAD double page centered specifically around the shadow gag.
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Jun 10, 2022 21:56
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Haraiso Days  Q-Rais Talks to Himself  
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Jun 10, 2022 22:23
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics        Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Jun 10, 2022 22:58
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'm pretty sure those are all from the same MAD double page centered specifically around the shadow gag. Yeah, and the set before this was martial arts gags.
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Jun 11, 2022 00:00
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Haifisch posted:I've never seen a gas stove(or any stove, for that matter) with that feature, although it makes sense(assuming its thresholds for "nothing on it" and "over a certain temperature" aren't annoyingly tight, as shown by Qrais That's not exactly the same as a weight sensor but I really like that the burner turns off shortly after you remove a pan so there is little danger of leaving a burner on. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Jun 11, 2022 00:03
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom And Katie kills herself! Do you mean Kadia? Her too!
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Jun 11, 2022 00:14
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WE KNOW MOZ YOU TOLD US ALREADY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
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Jun 11, 2022 00:28
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Bibliotechno Music posted:
this is the one. i have to get the Maryls collection now.
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Jun 11, 2022 00:28
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rannum posted:WE KNOW MOZ You know how sometimes a series is cut short, so they have to rush the rest? It feels like that happened, but then the storyline got uncanceled somehow and the writer decided to go back and tell it again, but this time in full.
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Jun 11, 2022 00:40
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Wooof what a week. It's late, but it's always very present, it's Ballard Street         
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Jun 11, 2022 01:17
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Hooray For Tax-Deductible Business Nepotism!       
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Jun 11, 2022 02:07
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Some Guy TT posted:I'm having trouble believing anyone working at a grocery store ever dressed like that. I had to wear a regular tie when I worked at one grocery store. These guys look like they should be parking cars at a fancy restaurant.
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Jun 11, 2022 02:12
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Some Guy TT posted:I seem to be the only person who likes Big Nate, and this is why. I don't think we're supposed to see him sympathetically. I think we're supposed to see him as kind of a dick who's always getting what's coming to him. But my sense of nostalgia might be tinted. I'm too young to have read Calvin and Hobbes in actual newspapers, and Big Nate was the closest equivalent. I don't think it's unclear that we're supposed to see him as a dick, it's just that Peirce forgot to include any of the endearing or redeeming qualities that (e.g.) Calvin has. There's no sense that he's got a strong imagination or a curious mind, no flashes of love for the people he does care for, nothing--he's just an abrasive jerk who mocks everyone around him, and is also an incompetent oaf on his own merits. Then later in the run Peirce gives him this awful, smug take-to-camera face that just makes things worse!
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Jun 11, 2022 03:35
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^^^C&H actually suffers from the same problem a bit I'd argue. Calvin is a selfish little jerk to everybody in his life, including the one friend willing to spend any time at all with him and it can make him hard to like at times. I just think Watterson's artistic chops and clever/insightful writing help people overlook these issues where it's harder to do with BN. It's also helped by the adults reacting more appropriately to Calvin's actions whereas in Big Nate people just kind of roll their eyes and let whatever Nate did slide. And yeah, those little flashes of good traits (like that time he lost Hobbes at the zoo and freaked out over it) really help Calvin stay endearing and relatable rather than obnoxious. Big Nate Year 1 (May 17-18, 1991)   Old School Peanuts (Aug 2, 1953)  Solid gag. I approve. Calvin and Hobbes (Feb 27-28, 1991)   Blind Alley  Support Adam's Patreon here. readingatwork fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jun 11, 2022 |
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Jun 11, 2022 04:13
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In today's Blueberry: Plans get set in motion, or O'Bannion gets upset at Hickok, or Pearl works the room  
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Jun 11, 2022 07:08
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Bad Machinery
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Hostile V posted:Hooray For Tax-Deductible Business Nepotism!
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Jun 11, 2022 09:42
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It was already empty, he's just suctioning it to his face. Everyone does it. Yes, even you, don't lie to me.
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Jun 11, 2022 09:48
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Jun 11, 2022 09:51
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L-Innsikt TegneHanne  Pondus  Yeah, a big part of my job is to stop kids from eating and drinking stuff they shouldn't. It can also be really frustrating. Like, I had spent a morning make tom kha gai for the kids and then had to watch the kids that didn't want to eat it drink muddy waters afterwards.
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Jun 11, 2022 10:32
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD Are we sure Sarah isn't writing this storyline?
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Jun 11, 2022 11:05
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Vater und Sohn: germany.png (44/1937)
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Jun 11, 2022 11:15
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Jun 11, 2022 11:18
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Kennel posted:Mandrake https://i.imgur.com/bq3NTep.mp4
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Jun 11, 2022 12:09
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My Lovely Horse posted:Vater und Sohn: germany.png (44/1937)  Vintage Valiant (Sep. 16, 1951)   
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Jun 11, 2022 12:19
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City 
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Jun 11, 2022 14:14
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Classic Nancy 1947
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Jun 11, 2022 14:37
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery I like Sonny
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Jun 11, 2022 14:59
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Countblanc posted:I like Sonny Secret pinniped spotted
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Jun 11, 2022 15:20
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readingatwork posted:^^^C&H actually suffers from the same problem a bit I'd argue. Calvin is a selfish little jerk to everybody in his life, including the one friend willing to spend any time at all with him and it can make him hard to like at times. I just think Watterson's artistic chops and clever/insightful writing help people overlook these issues where it's harder to do with BN. It's also helped by the adults reacting more appropriately to Calvin's actions whereas in Big Nate people just kind of roll their eyes and let whatever Nate did slide. In general, Calvin is a jerk in a 'six year old that doesn't really know any better' sort of way, like the strips below where he wrecks the house. Nate is middle school age so he just comes off more as self-centered, I think.
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Jun 11, 2022 15:20
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It also probably helps a lot that Hobbes makes fun of Calvin all the time in a way that often genuinely frustrates him, his parents frequently make him do stuff he doesn't want to, Susie outsmarts him a lot, and when he does egregious stuff he usually ends the story punished for it and visibly upset about it. Calvin 'loses' a lot onscreen, in ways beyond people just going 'awww that jerk' or rolling their eyes at him or similar things that he can happily ignore or brush off. Also, of course, I read C&H first and as a child myself and therefore have decades of rose-tinted glasses.
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Jun 11, 2022 15:48
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To make up for skipping last night's drop-off, here's a fistful of vintage Mark Trail in handy radio form.Internet Archive posted:On January 30, 1950, Mutual Broadcasting System launched a radio adaptation, Mark Trail, featuring Matt Crowley in the title role. The 30-minute episodes aired three times weekly, and 174 episodes were produced, running until June 8, 1951. A second radio series, starring Staats Cotsworth, was broadcast on ABC beginning September 18, 1950, with 51 half-hour shows that ran thrice weekly until January, 1952. The series then switched to a 15-minute format, producing 125 episodes that aired weekdays through June 27, 1952. Only a handful of the 15-minute episodes are known to have survived. The sponsor, Kellogg's Pep, was previously in for the long-haul for the Superman radio series, and their reach for a tagline to match "truth, justice and the American way" gets a bit sweaty in the first episode. Their build-up for Trail ends with "a man whose character combines the well-known qualities of J. Edgar Hoover and Robin Hood", which isn't a combination you'd think of after 1968, but there you are. Mutts  Sally Forth  Peanuts (June 14, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean  I am shocked...SHOCKED, I tell you... ...that Not-Lisa's biography is so poorly thought out that she had to reach for her father's generation for stories about racist white people, as if she doesn't have anything comparable in her own experience. Maybe systemic oppression skipped a generation in Ohio? Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (January 11, 1939)  Out Our Way (January 23-25, 1939; timg'd for the usual reasons)   
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Docks  Retail   Popcom (still more Jack Randall edition)  
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