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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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I really like how a lot of the narrative describing young Arn is from the perspective of Arn himself; the great-and-mighty style is amazing and funny.
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Kennel posted:Too bad Val was away for 18 months.
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Jun 17, 2022 13:07
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Hempuli posted:I really like how a lot of the narrative describing young Arn is from the perspective of Arn himself; the great-and-mighty style is amazing and funny. It's extremely good at deflating the 'epic prose' used in the very comic itself. It's tres good.
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Jun 17, 2022 13:21
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BigglesSWE posted:You peeps better behave or I’ll balance my Ballard Street posts with some Cringechrist Nancy content. You’d never want to hear Beach Boys ever again. Why not post Oh Baby and really slam the brakes on the thread
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Jun 17, 2022 14:00
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Kennel posted:Too bad Val was away for 18 months. shes a powerful sorcerer if she wanted it to happen it'll happen ok
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Jun 17, 2022 14:12
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Giant Ethicist posted:Rubbers / galoshes are light rubber boots that you pull over your regular shoes to keep them dry. Ever since I read Ramona when I was a kid I wondered what the hell kind of gumboots you can drag on over your shoes, apparently without ruining them, and still walk around without them coming off.
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Jun 17, 2022 14:32
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Bizarro I'm enjoying Minimalist Nancy and Sluggo on the wall there. The Family Circus 
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Jun 17, 2022 15:49
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (September 8, 1934)  Peanuts (June 20, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean gives us the one thing we absolutely never asked for.  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff gives us some practical advice.  Rip Haywire  Comics Kingdom didn't post the next Thimble Theater yet, but here it is anyway. (January 17, 1939)  Out Our Way (February 9-11, 1939)   
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Jun 17, 2022 16:23
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Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Jun 17, 2022 16:28
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A+J Also, low-hanging fruit. Or ... was this the actual joke? I've got a cold and can't tell anymore. 
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Jun 17, 2022 16:31
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Solver Autumn Special John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website John Allison posted:We all need a friend like Hazeema, willing to push us into a lift shaft. Edit: I just noticed the "Two Weeks Later" in clouds after posting!
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Jun 17, 2022 16:39
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Docks  Retail   Popcom  
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Jun 17, 2022 17:21
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis 
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Jun 17, 2022 17:29
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Vargo posted:Heart of the City Is there a reason that she hasn't gone to a nurse's office, and that nobody is helping her?
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Jun 17, 2022 17:56
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Narrative stupidity.
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Jun 17, 2022 17:58
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Comic Strips 2022: Narrative Stupidity
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Jun 17, 2022 18:07
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Darthemed posted:Docks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4REWM99_JSI
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Jun 17, 2022 18:18
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Bongo Bill posted:I have wondered this myself. I still don't know the answer. Serious answer: Break / cut up the can.
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Jun 17, 2022 18:21
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Intelligent Life   Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Jun 17, 2022 18:28
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Doomykins posted:Well I hope anyone enjoyed my ranting as much as I did. I dunno if it's rude or insane or entertaining to try some longer form analysis of these silly stories we've read for years. I could do positive ones about weird strips I love like Thimble Theater, Jucika, Prince Val or anything Q-Rai puts out, among others. I've wondered if the thread might enjoy regulars posting some summaries on strips they read regularly, maybe rating them and a justification for why... I say all this because I actually love reading obsessive over-analysis of my hobbies. And it'd be fun to sing the praises of the good strips and kick the bad strips while they're down. I actually explicitly asked for these when I was brainstorming this year's OP! Maybe not quite this long, since I if had essays that length for every comic I'd start hitting the character limit. Actually no, scratch that, I definitely want essays this long for every single comic because then I could spread the OP out over multiple posts 
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Jun 17, 2022 18:56
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The_Other posted:Solver Autumn Special I never knew Paternosters were still in use anywhere. (The first time I saw one was in the extended cut of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and I actually thought it was some kind of elaborate mechanical special effect.)
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Jun 17, 2022 18:56
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  That was anticlimactic. Pooch Cafe  Don't blame you, Poncho. Rex Morgan MD  Yeah? Well so's your perspective. Andertoons  A3G didn't update for today.
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Jun 17, 2022 19:08
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave 
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Jun 17, 2022 19:21
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Murdstone posted:Andertoons This is Andertoons quality but not so funny to me!
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Jun 17, 2022 19:29
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Wallace the Brave is so good. [edit: removed what turned out to be a hoax] Howard Beale fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Jun 17, 2022 |
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Jun 17, 2022 19:31
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Murdstone posted:
It's looks like he drew the mask with a marker.
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Jun 17, 2022 19:35
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TegneHanne L-Innsikt  Pondus 
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Jun 17, 2022 19:37
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Green Intern posted:Is there a reason that she hasn't gone to a nurse's office, and that nobody is helping her? Vargo posted:Heart of the City And I think the rest is supposed to be some cartoony "she's clearly not fine to the viewer but she's somehow hiding it just well enough that nobody in-universe notices" thing.
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Jun 17, 2022 19:51
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Pickles Zits 
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Jun 17, 2022 20:02
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Jucika "282 - Jucika On The Exhibition" "283 - Jucika's And The Crime Mystery"  Some Guy TT posted:I actually explicitly asked for these when I was brainstorming this year's OP! Maybe not quite this long, since I if had essays that length for every comic I'd start hitting the character limit. Actually no, scratch that, I definitely want essays this long for every single comic because then I could spread the OP out over multiple posts Maybe I'll take a crack at a strip by strip one day but it'd be what I think of them instead of OP-worthy unbiased summaries, heh. Murdstone posted:
Speaking of what I think of bad strips: wow. Thank you, narration box, for explaining to me the literal physical action taking place in this visual medium. At this point the only reason to read New Trail is to wait for the point in every story where Jules clearly gives up. I was saying earlier that it's kind of hard to see the Bros as villains. Jerks, sure, at least until the OSHA violations.. I guess murder charges really cross the line. Maybe tomorrow we can see how seriously this is taken before the Sunday strip, though we must remember Mark just off-camera teleported his way out of real poo poo legal consequences in the first story when he blew up the boat. Sometimes I wonder how the dude fist-fighting Mark on the speedboat must've been killed my Mark's Dad or something since he'd be a pretty bulletproof witness. Speaking of teleporting, Mark and Bee are on the stage, physically handing the DJ a USB. Now they're half a mile away from it, it's in the distance, the entire crowd is between them and it. Did Cricket Bro announce his need for his car keys, start his car and wait several minutes for them to get into a more dramatic position? Did he drive around a crowd at a festival concert venue to murder two people in broad daylight in front of a crowd? And not see the one tree in a flat field? I get that you can hand wave some of this. "Time passed and they left the stage", "Cricket Bro is dangerously petty and unhinged and stupid, it's not bad writing that is who he is" but combine that with another elephant in the room: nobody in the crowd is reacting to news that the NFTs are worthless? What? I get that somehow they're not going to riot, whatever, but they aren't even aware at all.
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Jun 17, 2022 20:15
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 help I'm not sure how this sequence of events plays out
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Jun 17, 2022 20:36
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riderchop posted:
An opening a human needs a stepladder to reach, but the mice were getting into it? Also, what's Crawley going to eat now? Snakes are obligate carnivores, and all meat in the setting is as sentient as those mice were.
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Jun 17, 2022 20:36
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My Lovely Horse posted:Well buy 'em an account Do what a teen in my neighborhood did! Go to your neighbor's house hauling a lawn mower and a trash can for the clippings and offer to mow the lawn. Once the price is settled, discover that the mower won't start and take it home saying you'll try again tomorrow. Never come back ever. Trash can still at your neighbor's a year later. DONE. 
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Jun 17, 2022 21:26
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maltesh posted:An opening a human needs a stepladder to reach, but the mice were getting into it? Mice can climb. I have no explanation for the second point though. I'm wondering that myself.
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Jun 17, 2022 21:27
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Bad Machinery
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Jun 17, 2022 21:41
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Modesty Blaise: Top Traitor 
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Jun 17, 2022 21:42
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The stuff with Heart in the City makes sense to me. She doesn't want people to know she's hurt and is putting on false bravado like anyone who is in denial of their medical state. How she's hiding it without anyone going "yea no you're not okay" is the mystery though.
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Jun 17, 2022 22:19
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Powered Descent posted:Bizarro Sluggo is 'list Doomykins posted:"283 - Jucika's And The Crime Mystery" does Jucika just always cook naked or what
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Jun 17, 2022 22:31
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Q-Rais Talk to Himself 
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Maxwell Lord posted:(The first time I saw one was in the extended cut of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and I actually thought it was some kind of elaborate mechanical special effect.)
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