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64 | 26.02% |
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| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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Hattie Masters posted:We talk a lot about favourite comics and what we love about them, but what are people's Least Favourites? Which ones do you wish were scoured from the face of the earth? I definitely wouldn't say hate, but I genuinely cannot bring myself to read any comic that might even hint at being wordy. You get about a full sentence, 10-15 words, per panel or you lose me. I will read absolutely any garbage in the thread, so long as it reads fast. But what is probably the best comic in the thread (Val) I just can't latch onto for longer than a day or so. I don't know if I've ever actually made it to the end of a Sally Forth. e: for example Tiggum posted:If anyone says anything other than 9 Chickweed Lane, there's something wrong with them. I read 9CL every day. Objectively the worst thing ever posted here, but most days it read fast so down the hatch it went. e2: read as in past tense. I certainly didn't seek it out after it got thread-banned. Huxley fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Aug 17, 2022 |
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Tiggum posted:If anyone says anything other than 9 Chickweed Lane, there's something wrong with them. I dunno man Safe Havens tries real hard
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:what happened to whoever was posting overboard from the beginning? I really want to see when the sickness set in there was also delta, the name of who i'm sad to realize i remember, who was immediately sent to the shadow realm when the characters went to college
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Aug 17, 2022 19:48
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I dunno, there's a lot of things I just fly by and don't bother to read. The things I think I actively wish didn't exist got thread-banned (9CL, Dilbert), and the rest of things are just bad that I ignore or bad in a fun hate-read kind of way.
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Aug 17, 2022 20:00
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Tiggum posted:If anyone says anything other than 9 Chickweed Lane, there's something wrong with them. Pretend I went though the effort and suffering to find an Oh Baby panel.
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Aug 17, 2022 20:04
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Haifisch posted:Definitely Tillicum. Good chance that at some point Boltar will go full berserkergang, possibly under order of his wife.
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:what happened to whoever was posting overboard from the beginning? I really want to see when the sickness set in I think at one point I skimmed ahead to see when it started turning into the same vibe as modern overboard and it took several years. Hattie Masters posted:I asked this a couple years ago now, but I am interested to see how things have changed: I can't even put Holbrook that high because my eyes instinctively slide off his comics and Luann doesn't give me that mercy.
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Aug 17, 2022 20:08
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That awful Bill comic is offensive to my eyes.
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Aug 17, 2022 20:09
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (October 29, 1934)  Peanuts (August 20, 1975)  A Series Of Curses Said Under My Breath While I'm Reading "Funky Winkerbean"  On the one hand, this is a borderline retcon. On the other hand, are we erasing Les Moore from the timeline? Because I could totally get behind that. Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff gets the stereotyping shame curtain, because whoever is curating this random collection of old strips stopped paying attention.  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (March 18, 1939)  Out Our Way (August 10-12, 1939)   
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Jucika "404 - Jucika And The Ceremonious Announcement Of Results" "405 -Jucika And The Rush Hour Interview"   Still love this dude, ridiculous power and energy.Powered Descent posted:Classic Arlo and Janis (September 09, 2000) I love Arlo so much.  quote:Safe Havens So this is just unironic hellish torture.  Payndz posted:I very nearly had a gig as a daily cartoonist for the London newspaper Metro (they commissioned me before it launched in 1999, but about a week before the first issue they changed their minds and dropped me - don't know what they went with instead as I don't live in London, so never saw the paper), and had built up 9 or 10 weeks of strips in advance. Ah, interesting. Thanks for the response! I really have no idea why so many Trails look like they were absolutely slammed out the door in a total flop sweat. Hattie Masters posted:We talk a lot about favourite comics and what we love about them, but what are people's Least Favourites? Which ones do you wish were scoured from the face of the earth? I don't read every strip but only mentioning those that deserve a bit of notice or explanation. Not Reading That: The Holbrook 3 - Boring, insane yet boring or insultingly stupid. 9CLane - Insane yet interesting bad like a train wreck, but it left the thread and I sure can't be hosed to look for it myself. Intelligent Life/Bill The Barbarian - Trash. The aggressively lazy copy and pasting tips it over into the realm of insulting the author. Rip Haywire - The same joke, told well, recycled for a human eyeball forever. Sometimes I stop and look if the art is stylish that day. It's actually competent overall. New Nancy - I've beaten this horse to death and respectfully it's just not for me. Phoebe And Her Unicorn - To add to the above, I understand fully why this strip is good. I've gradually grown numb to and my eyes slide right off it. If I had to think about it critically it exists in a gap within my sense of humor. Sally Forth - Same as the last two. Just bounces me right off. Just Bad: New Mark Trail - Objectively making mistakes constantly in writing and art. At least an entertaining tire fire for reasons no creator wants to hear. Always seems to botch the story telling in a way that suggests the author has somehow never actually read and understood a story from start to finish. Luann - Master class in swerving away from interesting outcomes almost every time. Only sympathetic character is Tiff. Dustin - Actually tells good jokes occasionally, consistent good art, bafflingly hateful. I think people read into Ed a bit too hard(most of the boomerisms are merely lame) but he and the strip are still pretty vile from time to time. Monty(Rich Kid) - Even if you could set the politics aside these strips always suck out loud. Daddy Daze - So I understand a lot of newspaper comics are going to recycle jokes and have their old reliables they pull from. The good ones spread them out and use them to pass time between their story arcs, or at least a new set of jokes for a week or two. Daddy Daze does almost the same joke virtually every day and after a certain point your tolerance breaks and it is insufferable. It's not offensively bad and is competently done and even thoughtful and touching at times(a positive divorce portrayal???) but once the ba ba gets to you you can't go back. Take It From the Tinkersons - Close to genuinely bad, mostly painfully bland. Only spikes and gets better on average when it does one of the wild workplace murder gags. All the workplace gags tend to be better than the lovely family gags that are recycled with Paws Inc worthy shamelessness. Phantom(Current Arc) - A usually good strip currently ruined by beating a dead horse until the bones are starting to become dust. The Batiuk Two - Dictionary example of the term pig-headed. Aggressively, pig-headedly stupid and wrong with stunning, wholly unique idiot takes on situations. Rae the Doe(about 1/3 of the time) - Sometimes Rae just absolutely murders any humor in the strip, particularly the Little Women/Jojo months. Funny Online Animals(about 1/2 of the time) - Remember how Gunshow was actually really hit or miss and everybody just remembers the great strips? FOA continues the tradition and is utterly unashamed to vomit KC Green's stream of consciousness out for better or worse. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Aug 18, 2022 |
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Most of that list is accurate but I’d argue that Tinkersons is pretty decent. The art is simplistic but decently expressive and the humor can be pretty solid when it lands. I also enjoy the absolutely bananas turns it will take with a completely straight face.
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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EasyEW posted:Sally Forth we're close enough to halloween that we can have a "Alice becomes a slasher villain" arc
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In the worst comic competition I was going to say that while there are definitely bad ones in here, other than the comics that have already (rightfully) been banned from this thread, I can't really decide. But then...EasyEW posted:A Series Of Curses Said Under My Breath While I'm Reading "Funky Winkerbean" gently caress this. gently caress it straight to hell. Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:Does she? In high school her friends were Bernice and Gunther who were both huge losers and now gunther has a girlfriend and hangs out with tiffany I meant Bernice. How the hell does Bernice have even one single solitary friend. Julet Esqu fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Aug 17, 2022 |
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Aug 17, 2022 20:57
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Modesty Blaise: The Magnified Man 
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I don't... I don't understand, why would a 13 year old in, and let's be charitable here, 2017 be recording things on a device that's almost three times her age instead of any of the myriad of devices she would not doubt have access to?
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Tiggum posted:If anyone says anything other than 9 Chickweed Lane, there's something wrong with them. Pibgorn
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Uramachi Sakaba Cthulhu and Girl 
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Just Terrible Posts And Content Every Day Forever That I Must Post In Order To Offset Just How God drat Sexy I Am       
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Calaveron posted:I don't... I don't understand, why would a 13 year old in, and let's be charitable here, 2017 be recording things on a device that's almost three times her age instead of any of the myriad of devices she would not doubt have access to? The real reason is that she used it in the 80s, when there was nothing anachronistic about it. They seem to have retconned it so that the tape recorder was a gift, a "hey, look at this old-timey thing" sort of present from an older relative. It's not implausible that she'd use it as a diary for a while, in the same way that my nephew enjoyed playing old-rear end NES games with me for a while.
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Slammy posted:So It Seems September 15, 1952 Did not think I would see a pinup cow today, but here we are! ˇAragones!   Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Aug 17, 2022 23:33
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Arnold (June 20-26, 1983)      
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Powered Descent posted:Safe Havens  that lab is a nightmare
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Hostile V posted:SHOOSH, PAP You thought
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goatface posted:Good chance that at some point Boltar will go full berserkergang, possibly under order of his wife. I'm saying Boltar Kool-Aid Mans into the kidnapper's hold, only to find Tillicum cleaning her knife and a pile of bodies
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somepartsareme posted:You thought
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Our Boarding House (August 17-19, 1922) Starting with 100 years ago today, and hey, my birthday, too!    Toonerville Folks (November 3-5, 1919)    Dok's "It's All About The People That You Know" Duck (April 22, 1914)  Little Lefty (March 22-23, 1937)   And yup, two posts in a row...  Blondie From Zero (September 5-7, 1932; spoiler for the usual reasons.)   
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Aug 18, 2022 02:03
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Hostile V posted:You could have said nothing and kept your dignity intact. I had to spring this trap for the both of us
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Tiggum posted:If anyone says anything other than 9 Chickweed Lane, there's something wrong with them. 9 Chickweed Lane wins my prize for most consistently worthless, but I have to also give a Runner-Up award to
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Sep 23, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes ()   Big Nate  Pierce really enjoying drawing that face this week.
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Into Ilves  note: he (and we) doesn't know how they are. Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake  EEEEEEEE
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Tiggum posted:If anyone says anything other than 9 Chickweed Lane, there's something wrong with them. Currently the worst for me is Reddick's strips. I mean I hate a number of strips, but I enjoy hating them. Not those though. Edit: actually since I still read them I must enjoy hating them on some level, but those are by far the worst currently posted. Bibliotechno Music posted:Marlys! F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  lol Mary's such a bitch The Phantom  I think he's finally actually dying (in the story Mozz is telling). Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Gonna be another wedding. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Kennel posted:Dustin Genuine question: do schoolkids even have paper textbooks anymore? I kind of figured nowadays they'd each have a laptop and maybe a tablet.
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Ardeem posted:Pretend I went though the effort and suffering to find an Oh Baby panel. EasyEW posted:Mutts Doomykins posted:Intelligent Life/Bill The Barbarian - Trash. The aggressively lazy copy and pasting tips it over into the realm of insulting the author. Doomykins posted:Dustin - consistent good art Doomykins posted:Phantom(Current Arc) - A usually good strip currently ruined by beating a dead horse until the bones are starting to become dust. Strontium posted:Macanudo Professor Wayne posted:Pickles Hwurmp posted:Pibgorn Giant Ethicist posted:Cthulhu and Girl Bibliotechno Music posted:Sylvia
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Speaking from experience, when someone opens up to you about their issues and emotions "I knew something was up" is not helpful.
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your loss, Lynda Barry is consistently one of the rawest and best things posted in here the worst stuff is probably Reddick's vomit, Holbrook, and Batiuk
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Aug 18, 2022 04:08
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Y'all working hard to bring content into this thread. I will criticise none. Bring it all.
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Powered Descent posted:Classic Arlo and Janis (September 09, 2000) Doomykins posted:I love Arlo so much. Me too. He's fully being a jerk but somehow it is lovable.
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