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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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Powerful Katrinka posted:Welp, people asked for more action It's unavoidable that the authors style and sense of humor is going to be a core part of how the strip feels so the wordplay isn't going to change. The action does help and gives a chance to draw more cartoonish things, the throwaway Bluto knockout is great and things like the troll in the shadows are well done. The knockout shot is good and overall the panel pacing is much better than the Brutus strip. When you get one day a week to tell a story in a strip let's not waste real estate on dragging out dialogue and then denying us the simple minded pleasure of a guy getting socked. I'd say it felt a bit weird to have somebody who clearly respects the material and is eagerly learning as much as he can about it to work references to it's long and ridiculous history in and then do something like remember that Poopdeck Pappy exists to make a very anti-Popeye dark humor joke like "the punchline is my father abandoned me." He DID, but Popeye is such a kind-hearted doofus he thinks well of his pappy. Better to remember that in Thimble Theater that Olive would throw or take a punch same as the fellas. It'd be weird to keep having strips where the punchline involves a punch and cut away before it happens. Popeye doesn't need violence to exist but it's certainly part of what he's best known for: highly entertaining cartoon violence and incredibly goofy and pretty funny dialogue and situations. Even more then that the cartoons popularized the spinach beatdowns but Thimble Theater has plenty of violence for comedy and the occasional extended beatdown. So I was worried with the first several Sundays that Popeye had been inherited by somebody who was clearly a fan but somehow didn't understand half of the appeal. So to see Randy get into the swing of it and have some cartooning fun is wonderful. The tone is going to remain his, Something Positive and all, but if every strip is this good then it's in the upper half of newspaper quality. I hope he can swing in a Whaler Joe + Popeye strip sometime.
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Ballard Street is so good. Nelson living his best life there. Haraiso Days  --  I have to admit I've come to like Tsundere Government Worker. Q-Rais Talks to Himself  #7: Chicken Thighs in White Wine Vinegar  --  (This was Summer 2020.)
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Giant Ethicist posted:I have to admit I've come to like Tsundere Government Worker. she's no Cyber Tentacle Captain Witch
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I think I live on Ballard Street. In every house.
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It was a given that a tiny tweak on one non-punchline from the Winkerbean wedding reception wasn't going to be enough to give me peace. So I did something about it. It...didn't end well. 
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Bobbins John Allison posted:You could cut the tension with a knife.
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (July 27, 2000)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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No Crabgrass on Sundays I guess Big Nate  Old School Peanuts (Aug 15, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Mar 25-26, 1991)   No Blind Alley today
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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TegneHanne L-Innsikt  Zelda 
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Strontium posted:Macanudo Which one's Floyd?
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Giant Ethicist posted:I have to admit I've come to like Tsundere Government Worker.
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Tiggum posted:The Beatles, specifically, are irrelevant to the joke. It was just using the word "bridge" in the musical sense. Thanks, I assumed it had some kind of famous music video where they were on a bridge, but I couldn't find it on youtube.
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Cracki Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 7/3/02  Brenda Starr 1/23/49   1. Hooboy, that crocodile in panel four. 2. "Turtleneck Torgan" is not really a terrifying gangster name. Smokey Stover 11/14/48  Everyday Movies 4/30/35  "By golly, the things women wear nowadays." I'm assuming these guys are clothes peddlers, who used to travel city residential areas in wagons or on foot, buying old clothes to resell. Dick Tracy Contest didn't run on Sundays so it'll be back tomorrow.
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Haifisch posted:
So when does this turn into a Battle Royale situation? riderchop posted:Safe Havens If I recall correctly, they made the toddler a mermaid to counteract the rapid aging brought on by her time spent as a bird (because mermaids age slower). They really truly operate by "The Gorillas Will Freeze In Winter" logic. Green Intern fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Jul 4, 2022 |
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Look at Aleta in that last panel. All according to plan...
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Happy Easter in July, A Better Holiday Than Today       
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  (July 1, 1926, Sanford Tousey) Mutts  Sally Forth, featuring, for the first time in a while, the swarm that Ted emerged from.  Skippy (September 21, 1934)  Peanuts (July 7, 1975)  I never got around to mentioning the reason Sparky was doing the Powder Puff Derby story: his second wife Jean was a licensed pilot who participated in the Derby for several years with her mother. She also used to call him Sweet Baboo, until he borrowed that for Sally's relationship with Linus and she had to come up with another pet name. “You didn’t give Sparky ideas, he took them.” Anyway, on the off chance I amused a few of you with fake Funky Winkerbean last night, it's time for the genuine article again to piss you off again with "Wasn't that COVID the worst? Sure glad that's over with!"  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (February 2, 1939)  Out Our Way (March 30-April 1, 1939)   
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Powered Descent posted:Bizarro I want to see this for real.
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If you do, put it in a holder. A few years back, I took an entire box of sparklers - the small ones - and held them together, and lit them. Found out the painful way that, all bundled together, they don't burn nice & slow & even: they reach critical mass in 1/100th of a second & flare up all at once. Took three weeks for my hand to heal & I had scars for over a year.
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Alhazred posted:Zelda Oh wow, Zelda’s back? 
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Green Intern posted:
It was also revealed about a week before that storyline that they had a working youth serum that is as easy to use, and has as few side effects as water. At least, I assume that's the case, because they use it to routinely rejuvenate their genetics lab test subjects.
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PainterofCrap posted:If you do, put it in a holder. This is a sparkler bomb and they’re a ton of fun when done correctly.
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csammis posted:Oh wow, Zelda’s back?  Also, the characters have five fingers now.
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Solver Autumn Special John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website John Allison posted:Romance is a thorny issue for Lottie. She’s never quite put the pieces together. All in time. Whatever will be will be.
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maltesh posted:Speaking of Mary Worth and Wilbur Weston, the "I Will Fight You" podcast just released an episode on the Mary Worth comic strip today. Thank you for posting this, I listened to it while cooking and it was a lot of fun revisiting the horrors of Wilbur.
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Alhazred posted:
 im glad she ripped the bandaid off the new art looked so weird with 4 fingers
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The_Other posted:Solver Autumn Special As in high school employee? Or whatever they call UK schools.
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As with everything, it has been privatised.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I want to see this for real. Is this enough?
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Modesty Blaise: The Vikings 
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