Comic Strips 2022: Girls Are People!

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Powerful Katrinka: Oct 11, 2021; an admin fat fingered a permaban and all i got was this lousy av

Transmodiar posted:

From February 24

Buckle up - we're maybe at the halfway point!

Literally said "What the gently caress" to myself out loud when I read that. What the gently caress‽

# ? Jul 16, 2022 04:08

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# ? May 30, 2024 19:43

rannum: Nov 3, 2012

Transmodiar posted:

From February 24

Buckle up - we're maybe at the halfway point!

i'm going to beat tony depaul with my shoe

# ? Jul 16, 2022 04:09

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Maybe he's including "and then the Phantom, having heard Mozz's entire story, actually does stuff in real life" as part of "the story we're telling"

because the Phantom is about to die, Mozz's story is finally going to end.

right?

right????

# ? Jul 16, 2022 04:44

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

right???????

# ? Jul 16, 2022 04:45

Twelve by Pies: May 4, 2012; Again a very likpatous story

I'm willing to forgive everything if Mozz makes it so Kit Jr. kills his dad.

Well, okay, not everything, but a lot.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 05:40

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

Julet Esqu posted:

This comic always has good fashion

Yeah, popular streamers are always giving heartfelt looks into their painful private life, not presenting a superficial version of how fun and great their life is at all

# ? Jul 16, 2022 05:44

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Macanudo

Dark Side of the Horse

# ? Jul 16, 2022 06:06

Yvonmukluk: Oct 10, 2012; Everything is Sinister

Bad Machinery

# ? Jul 16, 2022 06:08

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Transmodiar posted:

Buckle up - we're maybe at the halfway point!

Fuuuuuuuuuuck.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 06:51

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Are we the outliers here? Are other people enjoying this?

# ? Jul 16, 2022 06:51

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

Transmodiar posted:

From February 24

Buckle up - we're maybe at the halfway point!

lmao at Phantom forever.

2018 Spiderman

1980 comics

Locher Tracy

Footrot Flats

The Lockhorns

Computoon: Origins

# ? Jul 16, 2022 06:57

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

Tiggum posted:

Are we the outliers here? Are other people enjoying this?

Next to Mark Trail, I would.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 08:22

Raskolnikov38: Mar 3, 2007; We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Tiggum posted:

Are we the outliers here? Are other people enjoying this?

given the popularity of utterly poo poo movies, probably yes

# ? Jul 16, 2022 11:18

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

Doesn't help that DePaul is so eager to explain in such great detail, and entirely unprompted, how he's the second coming of Alan Moore.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 11:54

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Tiffany is going to reveal enough info about the house to get it burgled and lose a bunch of stuff belonging to her, her dad, and the people whose stuff she's storing.

The moral of this story will be "get hosed, Tiffany, you do not deserve happiness".

# ? Jul 16, 2022 12:02

manero: Jan 30, 2006

Nancy 1947

# ? Jul 16, 2022 12:24

Pigsfeet on Rye: Oct 22, 2008; I'm meat on the hoof

goatface posted:

That background guy looks like he'd be a good time.

His codename is Ruff Trade

# ? Jul 16, 2022 13:28

Drakyn: Dec 26, 2012

Tiggum posted:

Are we the outliers here? Are other people enjoying this?

I think what frustrates me most about this is that it feels like the basic concept of 'Old Man Mozz tells you a story of WHAT IF THE PHANTOM'S STATUS QUO WAS WILDLY ALTERED?!?' is actually a pretty easy route to tell neat stories the strip wouldn't otherwise have. But the presentation - especially the damned pacing - is just smothering the damned thing.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 14:37

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

Vintage Valiant (Apr. 13, 1952)

# ? Jul 16, 2022 14:41

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Drakyn posted:

I think what frustrates me most about this is that it feels like the basic concept of 'Old Man Mozz tells you a story of WHAT IF THE PHANTOM'S STATUS QUO WAS WILDLY ALTERED?!?' is actually a pretty easy route to tell neat stories the strip wouldn't otherwise have. But the presentation - especially the damned pacing - is just smothering the damned thing.

Yeah, and ideally you wouldn't undercut every moment of drama by telling us in advance what's about to happen. Like, in this current section, no one's wondering what's going to happen because Mozz started it by saying "btw, phantom, this is the bit where you die."

Also, I'm wondering if that bit where Phantom told Diana how to find Kit was a mistake. That definitely happened, right? And it completely invalidates all of Mozz's concerns?

# ? Jul 16, 2022 14:44

Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

Phantom should get up and clock Mozz across the face.

Hey rear end in a top hat, did you see this coming?

Goddamn Val. I like how he keeps digging up with his shovel.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 14:48

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Val's going to starve

# ? Jul 16, 2022 14:59

Mercury Hat: May 28, 2006; SharkTales!
Woo-oo!

I will never get tired of stuff from the 30s using "making love" in a more chaste way :allears:

. Also, classic Blondie still rules.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 15:03

Vargo: Dec 27, 2008; 'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Breaking Cat News

Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Wallace the Brave

I have a new favorite Wallace.

Heart of the City

Curtis

# ? Jul 16, 2022 15:09

Fighting Trousers: May 17, 2011; Does this excite you, girl?

lol Val is so easy to bait.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 15:43

Professor Wayne: Aug 27, 2008; So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

Pickles

Hagar the Horrible

Zits

# ? Jul 16, 2022 15:48

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

L-Innsikt

Pondus

# ? Jul 16, 2022 16:06

Shaman Tank Spec: Dec 26, 2003; *blep*

Giant Ethicist posted:

As far as I can tell, these aren't just random creatures but things from Japanese folklore and mythology.

The bald-headed beaked things look like kappas, the two horned brute is probably an oni, the one-eyed thing in the straw hat could be a tofu kozo and that's where my Nioh/Ghostwire Tokyo knowledge ends.

Can someone identify the rest, or correctly identify any I hosed up?

# ? Jul 16, 2022 16:29

Drakyn: Dec 26, 2012

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

As far as I can tell, these aren't just random creatures but things from Japanese folklore and mythology.

The bald-headed beaked things look like kappas, the two horned brute is probably an oni, the one-eyed thing in the straw hat could be a tofu kozo and that's where my Nioh/Ghostwire Tokyo knowledge ends.

Can someone identify the rest, or correctly identify any I hosed up?

fun hater over in the Bad Webcomics Thread did a little tabulation of the guests:

fun hater posted:

i REALLY dont know about the thing with the eva face. it looks like its from something but bearing that i have no idea so i took my next best guess. still not very satisfied with it. im not so sure about dear ratboy or the umibozu either.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 17:22

Professor Wayne: Aug 27, 2008; So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

As far as I can tell, these aren't just random creatures but things from Japanese folklore and mythology.

The bald-headed beaked things look like kappas, the two horned brute is probably an oni, the one-eyed thing in the straw hat could be a tofu kozo and that's where my Nioh/Ghostwire Tokyo knowledge ends.

Can someone identify the rest, or correctly identify any I hosed up?

Is that a Kamaitachi in the bottom left panel? The flying weasel from Ghostwire Tokyo? The one-eyed guy on the bottom right could be a hitotsume-kozō?

# ? Jul 16, 2022 17:23

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Bizarro

The Family Circus

# ? Jul 16, 2022 17:28

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Mutts

Sally Forth

Peanuts (July 19, 1975)

FunkyyyyyOH YOU ROTTEN FUCKER

Get your pitchforks and torches out. We're either getting a Sunday spread or a week of TomBat trying to reconstruct Val and all the rest from memory.

Crankshaft

Mutt and Jeff

Rip Haywire

Thimble Theater (February 15, 1939)

Out Our Way (May 8-10, 1939)

EasyEW fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jul 16, 2022

# ? Jul 16, 2022 17:37

Shaman Tank Spec: Dec 26, 2003; *blep*

Drakyn posted:

fun hater over in the Bad Webcomics Thread did a little tabulation of the guests:

Professor Wayne posted:

Is that a Kamaitachi in the bottom left panel? The flying weasel from Ghostwire Tokyo? The one-eyed guy on the bottom right could be a hitotsume-kozō?

Rad, thanks guys!

# ? Jul 16, 2022 17:37

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

Murdstone posted:

F Minus

This is presented as a joke, but I can assure you I found out I had light sensitivity by going around doing this.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 17:46

Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

Man TomBat is just desperate, isn't he?

LOVE ME.

Is he or Honorable Master worse?

# ? Jul 16, 2022 17:46

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

He's ego wanking rather than physically wanking. They both should be stopped.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 17:48

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

EasyEW posted:

FunkyyyyyOH YOU ROTTEN FUCKER

Get your pitchforks and torches out. We're either getting a Sunday spread or a week of TomBat trying to reconstruct Val and all the rest from memory.

I've fallen for edits before, but you won't get me this time.

# ? Jul 16, 2022 17:50

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

EasyEW posted:

FunkyyyyyOH YOU ROTTEN FUCKER

Get your pitchforks and torches out. We're either getting a Sunday spread or a week of TomBat trying to reconstruct Val and all the rest from memory.

No, not like this...not like this.

F Minus

Mark Trail

Mary Worth

The Phantom

Tiggum posted:

Are we the outliers here? Are other people enjoying this?

Commenters on CK are generally snarky and I don't really follow them much since I get enough (and better) comics commentary here, but looking today they don't seem to be complaining about the same stuff we are here, which is basically that this is going on too long and is pointless because it's a story Mozz is telling that still leaves the problem that Phantom has to rescue Savarna, which he is without a doubt going to do. Don't know what they say other days.

They do think that if Kit is about to kill Phantom it's a stupid and predictable twist (and I agree).

Drakyn posted:

I think what frustrates me most about this is that it feels like the basic concept of 'Old Man Mozz tells you a story of WHAT IF THE PHANTOM'S STATUS QUO WAS WILDLY ALTERED?!?' is actually a pretty easy route to tell neat stories the strip wouldn't otherwise have. But the presentation - especially the damned pacing - is just smothering the damned thing.

I 100% agree with this.

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