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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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Classic Nancy 1947
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Powered Descent posted:The glass box was Snow White's coffin. She was seemingly-dead at that point in the story, thanks to the poisoned apple. If we dare venture into total-bullshit-psychoanalysis territory, we might speculate that I think that strip is okay because I sometimes fantasize about being dead too.  Giant Ethicist posted:Night Visitors I love this riderchop posted:Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon This is incredibly silly and dumb but it got a laugh out of me. Prince Valiant 
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Jun 19, 2022 13:16
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Take It From the Tinkersons 
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Jun 19, 2022 14:18
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manero posted:Classic Nancy 1947 Z̴̟̻̿̏͠ą̶͎̱̞̘̹̘͓͔̓̀͐̾̽̾̑̊͝ļ̸͎͇̝̝̒̄͗̀̿̅͝͝ģ̵̢̢̨̣̦̳̉͋̒̽͐̐͒́͊͘o̶̧̡͉̳̼̓̂̿̈́̀͑̿̔̎̓́̓̈͘͠
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Jun 19, 2022 14:23
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Holbrook still seems be under the idea that being goth is something crazy and unique and not a common enough fashion trend that stores have catered to it for decades. Maybe he himself writes from another dimension where the bird Illuminati figured the humans can stay but Hot Topic cannot exist.
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Jun 19, 2022 14:36
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Bizarro The Family Circus  FoxTrot 
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Jun 19, 2022 14:37
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin 
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Jun 19, 2022 14:42
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise: Top Traitor Hm. It occurs to me this is one of the few hustles that actually requires Modesty be in her twenties. Usually she's just a dumb tourist, which doesn't necessarily track with a certain age.
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Jun 19, 2022 15:29
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Some Guy TT posted:Hm. It occurs to me this is one of the few hustles that actually requires Modesty be in her twenties. Usually she's just a dumb tourist, which doesn't necessarily track with a certain age. Especially in the early stories, she's canonically quite young.
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Jun 19, 2022 15:41
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Yeah, we've just been at it for so long it's easy to forget, since it's not like anyone attaches hard dates to anything in this decades long comic that outlived the Cold War. I don't know if Modesty ever actually ages in any kind of canonical sense like say the Walkers do. The whole idea of her being young just feels increasingly at odds with the premise as times goes by, since her whole deal is being hypercompetent at just about everything.
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Jun 19, 2022 15:47
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Jun 19, 2022 16:12
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Jun 19, 2022 16:18
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I really like the art in Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Jun 19, 2022 16:19
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Jun 19, 2022 16:19
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Safety Dance posted:Especially in the early stories, she's canonically quite young. The first novel has Modesty taking over The Network when she was 18, recruiting Willie when she was 20, and then selling off The Network and "retiring" at 26 or 27. I don't recall her aging much over the stories (except of course for "Cobra Trap," which is set in a future when she and Willie are old and retired for real).
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Jun 19, 2022 17:13
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Mutts Sally Forth  Peanuts (June 15, 1975)  Funky Winkerbean  So the Funkyverse is saddled with an off-brand Facebook, but it gets real Instagram? Crankshaft  They just had to stick a Betamax in that pile, didn't they... Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire And The Curse of Tangaroa!  Popeye 
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Jun 19, 2022 18:04
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EasyEW posted:Popeye F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  This is just weird. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Flash Gordon 
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Jun 19, 2022 18:27
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (June 15, 1975) Jesus Christ, Peanuts, did Charlie Brown kill your dog or something?
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Jun 19, 2022 18:29
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Murdstone posted:
Can you blame her for wanting to upgrade?
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Jun 19, 2022 18:48
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I love early Peanuts but in retrospect can’t believe it became such a cultural touchstone during the long era of just constant Charlie Brown misery. Like it feels even more mean-spirited than Dustin sometimes in terms of the “joke” being “the main character is a loser who sucks and gets shat on by everyone.”
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Jun 19, 2022 18:49
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EasyEW posted:Popeye Takes a while to get there but Hell of a punchline.
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Jun 19, 2022 18:54
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Zerilan posted:I love early Peanuts but in retrospect can’t believe it became such a cultural touchstone during the long era of just constant Charlie Brown misery. Like it feels even more mean-spirited than Dustin sometimes in terms of the “joke” being “the main character is a loser who sucks and gets shat on by everyone.” Not saying I like this era of Peanuts, mind you, but it's aiming this disdain at a specific, fictional character.
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Jun 19, 2022 18:57
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davidspackage posted:I think I have not understood Phantom's continuity for at least a year. This kind of storytelling does not fit the newspaper strip format. What's happening, what isn't? I have no clue. Phantom found out Sarvana was caputred and wants to go free her he then encounters the storyteller Moz is who is like "you better not or it will END THE PHANTOM'S LINE" and so, mozz begins his endless story which briefly summarized is -Phantom frees her, but gets shot -She takes him to the closest place to get cleaned up which in this case is a vet -She gets hot for Phantom -Phantom is in a near death state and tells her details about his family -Leaves the premises after making sure the phantom lives a brief interlude happens, phantom makes some quips throughout, then the next part of the story -finds where Kit is and it just so happens that Jampa, who absued her as a child, was there and she just shoots him dead and rides off -He was a really high ranking officer so this results in the entire town being bombed in retaliation -You'd think Kit would die here but no he basically becomes a mercenary bad rear end (this is bad, because he is no longer set to become The Phantom, you see) Mozz insinuates briefly that because Phantom never told Dana about where Kit was that this leads to it. Somehow. I cant remember. So Phantom just tells her and then doesnt tell mozz this. The Phantom also says okay well Kit is alive but its fine, I still have Heloise, she'll be a great Phantom which leads to a rapid fire Mozz story where we find out: -Heloise's friend (Katia?) obviously had a crush on Kit and once she finds out he's never coming home just kills herself (?!?!?) -Heloise becomes so tramatised by both the brother thing and the friend killing herself thing that she swears off the Phantom and eventually just starts her own happy family in her future -Dana separates from the Phantom and lives elsewhere, because all this sucks, until Phantom can at least bring Kit home. -Phantom being his final mission! to go find Kit, the one that he will NEVER RETURN FROM or something. I actually forget if we even hear the resolution to this More interludes with Phantom wondering this and that but it sounds like he (1) is still going to rescue Sarvana and (2) has plans this time to avoid all this [such as telling Dana about Kit earlier] but NEVERTHELESS he agress to let Mozz finish his story and place it in the archives of the Phantom. I think there's a strip that implies there's some weird Mozz Machinations about this? And then he smugly lets Mozz tell the story wHICH FOR SOME REASON RESTARTED giving more extraneous details about Kit during the bombing raid, the immediate aftermath and Phantom trying to search him out. Which leads us to the Saturday strip where mozz says phantom says he was a big stupid idiot for not listening to mozz. Honestly there legitimately could have been a THIRD restart in this mess that I overlooked but this is the gist as I remember it.
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Jun 19, 2022 19:04
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rannum posted:Phantom found out Sarvana was caputred and wants to go free her
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Jun 19, 2022 19:22
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Jun 19, 2022 19:43
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Darthemed posted:Popcom A well-timed flashback to the earlier version of Goldie, given how he appears to have literally taken over the comic in the more regular version posted here.
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Jun 19, 2022 19:57
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Oh, yeah. Definitely what she needs right now is to jump into another relationship. Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD Ixnay on the "I like playing superhero"-ay! rannum posted:The Phantom also says okay well Kit is alive but its fine, I still have Heloise, she'll be a great Phantom which leads to a rapid fire Mozz story where we find out: Of course, we have since seen that Kit got himself a girlfriend over where he is, so Katia's never getting in his pants anyway...  That's some dog. Also, whoopsie-doodle. Typo.
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Jun 19, 2022 20:17
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howe_sam posted:The Malice at the Palace was loving wild. I mean, Tim Donaghy was one of the refs in the game, and that's just a curiosity! This was a very informative post about a reference in The Boondocks I would not have understood at all even slightly had you not brought it up. Thank you. It's a pity the quality of The Boondocks right now isn't at the point to really warrant these annotations, given how impenetrable the comic has become if you're not familiar with the references.
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Jun 19, 2022 20:20
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Zerilan posted:Holbrook still seems be under the idea that being goth is something crazy and unique and not a common enough fashion trend that stores have catered to it for decades.
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Jun 19, 2022 20:34
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Jun 19, 2022 20:54
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Crab Dad posted:Can you blame her for wanting to upgrade? Upgrade? That’s what Luke Skywalker did to his spirituality when he realized that the force is real and all around him!
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Jun 19, 2022 21:00
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Some Guy TT posted:Yeah, we've just been at it for so long it's easy to forget, since it's not like anyone attaches hard dates to anything in this decades long comic that outlived the Cold War. I don't know if Modesty ever actually ages in any kind of canonical sense like say the Walkers do. The whole idea of her being young just feels increasingly at odds with the premise as times goes by, since her whole deal is being hypercompetent at just about everything. Selachian posted:The first novel has Modesty taking over The Network when she was 18, recruiting Willie when she was 20, and then selling off The Network and "retiring" at 26 or 27. I don't recall her aging much over the stories (except of course for "Cobra Trap," which is set in a future when she and Willie are old and retired for real). As mentioned, for most of the stories Modesty is somewhere in her late twenties, while Willie is in his mid-thirties. This is touched on in some of the later prose stories, with Modesty and Willie noting that they’ve aged very gracefully over the decades. It helps that Modesty isn’t sure herself exactly how old she is and guessed, in Cobra Trap the last Modesty Blaise story that she’s in her early fifties. In universe I chalk up her slow aging to a combination of good genetics, an active lifestyle, and the fact that psychic phenomena exists in the Modesty Blaise universe. Zereth posted:Eh, I don't think so. It's because Charlie Brown is, well, Charlie Brown, rather than because he's One Of Those drat Lazy Millennials. Dustin gets shat on because he's a(n inaccurate) representation of a demographic while Chuck is uniquely cursed. Dustin is (attempting to) poo poo on actual real people. One thing to keep in mind with Charlie Brown’s various misfortunes is that we’re meant sympathize with the character of Charlie Brown, as opposed to Dustin where we are supposed to be scornful of the title character.
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Jun 19, 2022 21:05
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rannum posted:For those who came in late! I appreciate you trying to clarify this and also all of this is loving insane and needs to end. Like, maybe this is actually leading up to a shake-up in the comic's continuity and it's not a tease for once, but holding the comic hostage in the form of an old man sharing his meticulous real life erotic friend fiction about his friend's children for three quarters of a year?
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Jun 19, 2022 21:36
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 6/18/02  Brenda Starr 12/19/48   The Penguin is clearly slumming in this strip. Smokey Stover 8/1/48  Everyday Movies 4/12/35  "If you don't want to bargain with me it's a quarter, and if you want to bargain it's thirty-five cents."
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Jun 19, 2022 21:46
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Haraiso Days  Q-Rais Talks to Himself  #5: Rice with Clam Tsukuda-ni  
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Jun 19, 2022 21:52
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The_Other posted:One thing to keep in mind with Charlie Brown’s various misfortunes is that we’re meant sympathize with the character of Charlie Brown, as opposed to Dustin where we are supposed to be scornful of the title character. Contrast with Dustin where you feel the narrative's telling us if only he'd stand up straight and put on a tie he'd make six figures, but my son ooooh he's so lazy.
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Jun 19, 2022 21:57
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Bobbins John Allison posted:Do restaurants have lock-ins? This one does.
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Jun 19, 2022 22:07
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bobbins ryan is going to die but the date gets one hell of a story out of it so really this is a net positive
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Jun 19, 2022 22:16
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Mercury Hat posted:Contrast with Dustin where you feel the narrative's telling us if only he'd stand up straight and put on a tie he'd make six figures, but my son ooooh he's so lazy.
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Jun 19, 2022 22:23
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bobbins This is why this is the best New Bobbins story. The Oldest Wine and the Tape of Sad Songs are such wonderful specifics.
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