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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
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| 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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Vargo posted:Heart of the City Yeah, this is incoherent. It's not a pyramid scheme at all, because it actually provided physical products that people bought and sold and were satisfied with. There was no reason to refund money to anyone, since no one other than Charlotte was shown having a problem with what Heart was doing, and no one actually wanted a refund until they created and spread an elaborate lie.
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Haraiso Days Cthulhu and Girl 
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Aug 2, 2022 23:07
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Arnold (January 24-30, 1983)      
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Aug 2, 2022 23:42
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readingatwork posted:Old School Peanuts (Sep 10, 1953) 
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Giant Ethicist posted:Haraiso Days I'd buy that old dude a round for the good story
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Aug 3, 2022 00:55
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F Minus Those are as easy to ignore as the emails. Mark Trail  Mary Worth  OK, so, 1.) Wilbur hosed up again (lol); and 2.) SHE TOOK HIM BACK AFTER THE SHIP THING The Phantom  Uh oh: death hallucinations Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Still nothing for the 31st, but I have not given up! Apartment 3-G 
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Aug 3, 2022 01:34
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How does a Phantom* date, anyway? *for the Ghost Who Likes Long Walks! Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Outbursts of Everett True July 8, 1919 And He Did! July 22, 1919  Cat Tales June 23, 1925  Oaky Doaks December 16, 1936  Mopsy February 25, 1938  Sweatin’ It Out July 9, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems September 5, 1952  Those Were the Days September 14, 1961  Wee Pals September 8, 1966  Dogbert July 6, 1967 
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Aug 3, 2022 02:31
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Slammy posted:So It Seems September 5, 1952 Gotta say, the Red Herring is a pretty slick name for a boat.
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Aug 3, 2022 02:52
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Sep 11, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Feb 10-11, 1992)   Big Nate 
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Feb 10-11, 1992) Watterson was a prophet who had visions of the 2010s and 20s and expressed them in comic form.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Watterson was a prophet who had visions of the 2010s and 20s and expressed them in comic form. Or more likely we got a head start in building Hellworld that is only apparent in retrospect. Our Boarding House (July 13-15, 1922)    Toonerville Folks (September 29-October 1, 1919)    Little Lefty (February 11-14, 1937)     So we're just going to ignore the whole extortion thing from yesterday? Okay, if you say so. Blondie From Zero (August 1-3, 1932)  Ran out of gas before I got to the ducks, sorry. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Aug 3, 2022 03:23
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Slammy posted:
The composition on this one is a bit odd. There's no automatic way to read the signs in the "correct" order. Feels like they should have the America Phooy sign being first into the plane, or else Down With Capitalism being last out. Then they'd read the same way.2
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Aug 3, 2022 03:51
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...man, Cat Tales makes me feel sad.
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EasyEW posted:
My mother's parents were both physicians that practiced out of their home on Verree Road in Fox Chase, PA (now a suburb of Philadelphia). Mom told many stories of trading care for food during the Depression.
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (August 26, 2000)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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This was probably the Bad Machinery storyline I enjoyed the most and it's great to see it again.
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I mean...so what if he's getting a ton of food? He has to sleep sometime. And the rabbit council can sleep in shifts so they can outlast him. Once he falls asleep, he's no longer chewing, no longer has the floor, and they can move on to new business. Though I suppose the rabbit council are just going to become idiots so that the protagonist can win. Mister Beeg posted:Arnold (January 24-30, 1983) So the first like, two or three posts of this comic, I thought it was pretty bad. I didn't really say anything because I didn't want to be overly negative since this comic doesn't really deserve it (it was mostly just bland and the jokes didn't land well), but I did want to say the last couple of posts it feels like McCormick really got into the groove and the jokes have gotten a lot better. So I'm enjoying it quite a bit now. Arnold is definitely a little poo poo, worse than Nate (as much as I hate to admit it) but not quite as bad as Calvin. I'm starting to see why Richard Thompson praised it. Murdstone posted:OK, so, 1.) Wilbur hosed up again (lol); and 2.) SHE TOOK HIM BACK AFTER THE SHIP THING Honestly I can't even feel pity or anger at Stella. If she's loving stupid enough to take Wilbur back after all that, she deserves everything she gets.
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Twelve by Pies posted:So the first like, two or three posts of this comic, I thought it was pretty bad. I didn't really say anything because I didn't want to be overly negative since this comic doesn't really deserve it (it was mostly just bland and the jokes didn't land well), but I did want to say the last couple of posts it feels like McCormick really got into the groove and the jokes have gotten a lot better. So I'm enjoying it quite a bit now. Arnold is definitely a little poo poo, worse than Nate (as much as I hate to admit it) but not quite as bad as Calvin. I'm starting to see why Richard Thompson praised it. Yeah, within the first year McCormick really got a hang of the strip, especially once the humor got more and more surreal and bizarre. And gross; a lot of later strips have gross-out humor (abet tame by modern standards) Also, if you think Arnold is a little poo poo NOW, oh ho ho. You ain't seeing nothing yet. Mister Beeg fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Aug 3, 2022 07:18
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Powered Descent posted:Bizarro I think a World War II era military motif would be better for this than a generic medieval kingdom.
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riderchop posted:Compu-toon Are these just written by an algorithm now?
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Aug 3, 2022 07:37
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Aug 3, 2022 07:57
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Yeah most of the Arnold strips have been meh for me, but this:Mister Beeg posted:Arnold (January 24-30, 1983) This has potential.
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Kennel posted:Dustin "Steve, we've been told Dustin reads differently from what we think, try to ease up on Ed giving him poo poo" "Can do, boss!"
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Aug 3, 2022 08:18
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Vintage Valiant (Jul. 27, 1952)  
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Aug 3, 2022 10:12
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Wow, the art in L-Innsikt is steadily improving.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Watterson was a prophet who had visions of the 2010s and 20s and expressed them in comic form. He was a Baby Boomer who'd be complaining about kids these days getting participation trophies had he kept his comic running longer.
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Aug 3, 2022 12:17
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Well, I was half right that dad is who breaks this up, but I guess I didn't give the Evanses credit that dad might use the internet.
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Kid Fenris posted:He was a Baby Boomer who'd be complaining about kids these days getting participation trophies had he kept his comic running longer. Yeah, I still like the C&H strips and I can see how you can read them (especially the first one) as making fun of conservative anti-intellectualism, but he was almost certainly doing a mockery of "we want kids to feel special and good about themselves" which was a particular spot of conservative ire at the time and led directly into "participation trophy" discourse. People sometimes take all the well-deserved praise for C&H and ignore Watterson's whole deal was being a weird little crank. Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis 
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riderchop posted:Compu-toon "Don't only" "Unwanted friends wannabe" This is gibberish; This man had a stroke and nobody's helping him.
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Vargo posted:People sometimes take all the well-deserved praise for C&H and ignore Watterson's whole deal was being a weird little crank. Also I'm still trying hard to read Arnold, I really am, but the inertia of the character art keeps stalling me and my eyes slide right off it. I've never seen characters more allergic to expression of motion, emotion, or anything - I think you could replace them with talking rocks and they'd look more lively.
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Aug 3, 2022 14:03
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It's like Riddick's work but with lumpy trianglepeople.
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Aug 3, 2022 14:05
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Aug 3, 2022 14:07
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Aug 3, 2022 14:09
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yeah my brain wants to hate Arnold because of the art but I'm actually enjoying the writing, it's even gotten a few actual laughs out of me
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Aug 3, 2022 14:52
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We joke about Boyce, but that's the first one to really raise my eyebrows. A+J  I'm not usually a comments-reader, but this out-of-context trifecta got me: 
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Aug 3, 2022 14:56
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Aww, that last comment was very sweet.
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Potsticker posted:This was probably the Bad Machinery storyline I enjoyed the most and it's great to see it again. Allison is frequently quite good, but even so this might be his best work.
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