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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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goatface posted:They might only kill a few of them in the immediate vicinity, but King dad might also follow up again. Well, the last time a member of Valliant's family was kidnapped, Valiant pursued them across an ocean and knocked the perpetrator off a waterfall, while his dad seized the perpetrator's father's kingdom, and had the perpetrator's father and retainers executed as traitors. So, nothing to worry about.
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Kavak posted:It was a more innocent time... I think... I hope. Please just say it was and move on. I’d rather not have half of Calvin and Hobbes timg’ed because he’s in the bathtub. It’s only been in the past ten or twenty years that they stopped showing bare-bottomed kids in the occasional comic. Nobody cared then. It’s depressing we have to care now.
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don Jaime posted:Please just say it was and move on. I’d rather not have half of Calvin and Hobbes timg’ed because he’s in the bathtub. It’s only been in the past ten or twenty years that they stopped showing bare-bottomed kids in the occasional comic. Nobody cared then. It’s depressing we have to care now. I feel like it's more the grown shirtless man looking down on them and smiling. But yeah, I agree this is one of those things that was just something nobody thought twice of at the time, that seems uncomfortable to us in the modern day. Like in one of the Our Boarding Houses when one character called another "gay boy," which wasn't even really an insult. It looks bad to our modern culture because that's just how the word has changed, but it wasn't weird or out of place then. I'd like to say this is also different from the depictions of black characters in comics, which actually were rooted in racism and weren't just innocent relics from a different age.
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I always appreciate how aware Cooper is of soft company scams.Huxley posted:A+J Laffo. This one is good and subtle. Alhazred posted:L-Innsikt Why does the bigger L-Innsikt not just eat the weaker ones?
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Embrace the wobbly flesh parade.
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I'm so glad we're past the days of PEOPLE ON WIRELESS HEADSETS LOOK LIKE THEY'RE TALKING TO THEMSELVES, AMIRITE? jokes.
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Haifisch posted:I'm so glad we're past the days of PEOPLE ON WIRELESS HEADSETS LOOK LIKE THEY'RE TALKING TO THEMSELVES, AMIRITE? jokes.
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (November 2, 1934)  Peanuts (August 26, 1975)  Bullshit Sentimentality  Dude. Your alcoholism cost you your first wife. Your business expansion failed. Your cousin was a prisoner of war who came home with severe PTSD and face blindness for everyone except the woman who remarried after thinking he was dead. Your best friend lost the love of his life to cancer, and decades later he's still very clearly failing to adjust to life without her. One of your former classmates killed himself rather than have his concussion-related dementia become a burden on his loved ones. And one of your employees almost got deported by ICE because someone got lazy with their paperwork. And those are just the ones off the top of my head. It doesn't matter if we're talking about Funky Winkerbean the character or Funky Winkerbean the comic strip, that last line isn't even remotely true. Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (March 24, 1939)  It's an all-mother Tuesday in today's Out Our Way! (August 28-30, 1939)    e: because the Washington Post published a piece on Tom Batiuk to celebrate 50 years of Funky (potentially paywalled). https://twitter.com/SonofStuckFunky/status/1561877062805241858 There are a few details worth noting (like how he negotiated with the syndicate for editorial control (which might explain a few things in recent years) and how Lisa's teen pregnancy arc was a real "road to Damascus moment" in the development of the strip into its current form), but holy schlamoley one line just jumps me in a dark alley and asks me for my wallet at gunpoint: "Shortly after Lisa’s death, Batiuk decided to reboot “Funky” again because he didn’t want to dwell on Les’s mourning."  BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO DWELL ON LES'S MOURNING. Excuse me while I stick my head in a bucket of cold water. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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Alhazred posted:Zelda I may need a refresher on Zelda. Here's what I remember: Zelda was hanging out in New York (maybe) with her rich and talented friend Nova, who Zelda sorta resents for being rich and talented even though Nova's very nice to Zelda. Then Zelda met Nova's brother Ariel, who was also very nice to her, and started dating him. At that point the comic skipped forward a few years (maybe) and Zelda had a kid. It was strongly implied that Ariel was the kid's father based on Zelda's interactions with Nova and Nova's mom, but Ariel himself hasn't been seen or mentioned by name in the strip since the time skip. Am I up to date, or did I miss some important parts of the comic?
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Kid Fenris posted:I may need a refresher on Zelda. Here's what I remember: Zelda was hanging out in New York (maybe) with her rich and talented friend Nova, who Zelda sorta resents for being rich and talented even though Nova's very nice to Zelda. Then Zelda met Nova's brother Ariel, who was also very nice to her, and started dating him. At that point the comic skipped forward a few years (maybe) and Zelda had a kid. It was strongly implied that Ariel was the kid's father based on Zelda's interactions with Nova and Nova's mom, but Ariel himself hasn't been seen or mentioned by name in the strip since the time skip. That's pretty much it.
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Hostile V posted:[takes out my earbuds] What, I couldn't hear you. *helplessly rings bicycle bell at the 463rd straight person walking in the bike lane with a headset on.* I'm seriously thinking about trading in my bell for an airhorn.
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Mar 15-16, 1992)
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Bad Machinery
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I Guess Gex Is Just Here Now. The Thrilling Adventures Of Interspecies Commerce        
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Walt is righter than he knows.
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Hostile V posted:The Thrilling Adventures Of Interspecies Commerce
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Haraiso Days Cthulhu and Girl 
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Poil posted:Their "society" is so segregated that species have their own economies? What about all the other burrowing animals? Why am I thinking about this when the author clearly didn't?
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What slur? They both just said "rabbits." It's a harmful stereotype sure but there wasn't anything that qualifies as a slur in those statements.
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Actually I was wondering why all the beavers look like badgers.
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Into Ilves  I wasn't familiar with the term (in English), so let's clarify that a croft is a piece of land that's taken care by a tenant farmer (who pays rent for the right to live on and farm that land). The Nordic term is torp(pa). e. scratch that, this was 10 years earlier. Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Kennel posted:Dustin Do you now.
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Giant Ethicist posted:Haraiso Days Uh-oh. Is this going to be as depressing as The Great Happiness Space? https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0493420/
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I like Into Ilves a lot and gotta laugh at how often he befriends a new character by saving them from their suddenly antagonistic horse. This is undoubtedly the second time in two stories and likely the third if my memory were better. Love the thick line art, wide expressions and BIG energy of the big guy he's talking to, especially when he was lounging in the cart. Like the artist sat down and had a real critical brainstorming session about "what's the most opulent, successful and balling a rural European farmer can be?" Jucika "416 - Jucika In A Fog"  "417 - Jucika And The Tranquilizer Joke"  "idegcsillapító(is also) = bromide/sedative"
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Aug 23, 2022 23:09
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Kennel posted:Dustin Is "management temp assignment" a thing?
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Zereth posted:Do you now. Skelley is one of those people who probably still believes you can get a job by walking up to the owner, looking him straight in the eye, and saying "Mister, I'm the man for the job."
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Safety Dance posted:Is "management temp assignment" a thing? F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  "Uh, OK, whatever." The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Safety Dance posted:Is "management temp assignment" a thing? consultants
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Mozz also looked particularly handsome when he said it and I remember thinking how great he was when he told me.
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Twelve by Pies posted:What slur? They both just said "rabbits." It's a harmful stereotype sure but there wasn't anything that qualifies as a slur in those statements. I think it's the part about Rabbits Being Good At Fuckin, which in the K&K universe is actually true and is often used as a punchline by Holbrook.
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Murdstone posted:
...and I put it in your salad! Tell me - and remember, this is for posterity, so be honest - how do you feel? Edit: And speaking of poisonings - is there a tutorial out there for uploading and posting multiple items to imgur?
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery Lottie looking really off-model in the last panel
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Alhazred posted:Zelda Kennel posted:Dustin
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Our Boarding House (August 31-September 2, 1922)   Toonerville Folks (November 17-19, 1919)    And while we're in the neighborhood, Clare Victor "Dwig" Dwiggins' School Days gives me a sense of deja vu. (November 19, 1919)  Dok's "Don't Cross The Wartime Underground" Duck (April 26, 1914)  Little Lefty (April 5-7, 1937)    Blondie From Zero, in which we're not done with Gil after all, drat the luck. (September 19-21, 1932; spoilered for stereotype humor.)  
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Outbursts of Everett True July 24, 1919 And He Did! August 7, 1919  Cat Tales July 9, 1925  Oaky Doaks December 31, 1936 Spoilered for offensive racist stereotypes.  Mopsy March 14, 1938  Sweatin’ It Out July 31, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems September 20, 1952  Those Were the Days March 15, 1962  Wee Pals September 23, 1966  Dogbert July 31, 1967 
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¡Aragones! spoilered for the usual reason  Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys!  Right on, Marlys
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