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Julet Esqu posted:
The important part: Joshreads.com posted:Welcome to Oreintation for the Milford School of Mines. The crew team’s Oarintation is across the hall.
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This Is Boring. I Am Bored.       
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Arnold (December 19-25, 1983)       John 3: 1-21 for those curious
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lol "Oreintation" Modesty Blaise: The Jericho Caper  
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins  e: Julet Esqu posted:In other news, Comics Curmudgeon has alerted me to this development in Gil Thorp: Haifisch fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Sep 3, 2022 |
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Doomykins posted:Batiuk lost me when the most popular queen bee of the class started pretending she "felt left out" without any actual story to it. Wanna show that the person perceived as winning is still having problems? Cool. Just tossed it in and expect anyone to believe it? Nope! A good writer could have used that to reveal a side of that character where her popularity was a front for how insecure she felt throughout high school, and how her meanness (?) to others was trying to make others feel as bad as she did. That's probably a bit trite these days, but it could have worked. Instead, we got Batiuk hamfistedly handling high school reunions.
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Julet Esqu posted:In other news, Comics Curmudgeon has alerted me to this development in Gil Thorp: Thorp me up.
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Julet Esqu posted:
I think it would be cool if Gil got added back to the rotation. The storyline before this one had his wife threatening to leave him because she thought he was hitting on a bartender or something. I didn't really follow the whole thing and I sort of caught snippets on the This Week In Milford blog, but Gil Thorp seems to be a hell of a lot more interesting recently than it was before.
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Julet Esqu posted:In other news, Comics Curmudgeon has alerted me to this development in Gil Thorp:
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¡Aragones! Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Scary Gary   
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Whoops, got my threads mixed up! Haraiso Days  Cthulhu and Girl 
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Oct 10, 1953)  Choosing to interpret that line as Lucy having been literally purchased as a baby and fitting this fact into my elaborate Peanuts headcanon. Calvin and Hobbes (Apr 8-9, 1992)   Big Nate 
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Marlys! Right on, Arnold.
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Professor Wayne posted:Hagar the Horrible Wasn't expecting this kind of gag from Hägar.
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readingatwork posted:Crabgrass Nate the Minion is weirding me out.
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readingatwork posted:Old School Peanuts (Oct 10, 1953) $5 in 1953 = $55.48 in 2022. I don't have kids, but I can feel the parents that I know laughing their asses off at that price. readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Apr 9, 1992) Speaking of parents, just in case anyone could think I might make a good one, I've done more than a few aggravating bicycle repairs and I'm 100% on Dad's side here.
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Our Boarding House (September 18-20, 1922)   Toonerville Folks (December 11-13, 1919)    Dok's Dippy Dog Ate The Beginning Of The Strip (May 2, 1914)  Little Lefty (April 23-24, 1937)    Blondie From Zero, in which we finally, for-real-this-time, get rid of Gil and hit the reset button on our premise. Hoo...ray? (October 10-12, 1932) 
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Marlys! Not the most subtle of revenges, but I can dig it. And, while recovering picking wild blueberries, I can post today's Blueberry: Ah, well... McClure was never getting into heaven anyway, or Public entertainment in Chihuahua sure was grisly back in the day, or Vigo gets the wrong end of the stick   
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Powered Descent posted:$5 in 1953 = $55.48 in 2022. I'll bet it's more than worth the price. EasyEW posted:Our Boarding House (September 18-20, 1922) So. Anyone got any rough estimates on the value of the ruble in 1922?
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Julet Esqu posted:In other news, Comics Curmudgeon has alerted me to this development in Gil Thorp: Trans rights are human rights. Unless you meant an opinion about Gil Thorpe, in which case  Prince Valiant 
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (September 27, 2000)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  No Safe Havens on Sundays!
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EasyEW posted:Our Boarding House (September 18-20, 1922) It's nice to know the Iraqi dinar scam is ages old.
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riderchop posted:
Olive! Are you trying to get EVERYBODY sued!?
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Hippocrass posted:So. Anyone got any rough estimates on the value of the ruble in 1922? This is almost certainly the 1917-1922 Soviet Paper Ruble, so the value would round to $0.000 In 1922, the paper ruble was undergoing incredible inflation compared to the specie ruble (at the time1 gold ruble equaled around 50 US cents), similar to the famous hyperinflation in Germany. In January of 1923, new paper rubles were issued, each worth 1 gold ruble or 1 million 1922 ones - the insane number of zeroes was getting unwieldy. This would value the Major's five million at roughly $2.50. The value did not hold, and continued to freefall. It would not be until after Stalin solidified power that the USSR began to have a stable currency. After 1927 or so, the paper ruble was officially on par with the specie ruble (again, roughly fifty US cents), and was equal to 50 billion of the 1917-1922 issue. This would make each ruble 1 billionth of a cent. Even in 1922 when the comic was published, it would be pretty clear that the Major lost his 7 dollars for good.
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Gnoman posted:This is almost certainly the 1917-1922 Soviet Paper Ruble, so the value would round to $0.000 Yeah, the rate of hyperinflation around then is difficult to really get across. In 1916, just prior to the revolution, 3.5 billion paper rubles were issued. In 1922, 1.9 quadrillion paper rubles were issued.
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Been off my posting game lately - packing for a big trip. I do have scans to last me through the trip though! Nancy 1947  
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riderchop posted:Heathcliff Solid post. That Rae got a literal lol from me, which is very rare!
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Jucika "438 - Jucika Provides First Aid" "439 - Jucika In A Wave" 
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Mutts Sally Forth  Peanuts (September 7, 1975)  Oh no...OH NO.  But seriously, Jess, no. So where were we? Oh, right. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. NONONONONO.  Mutt and Jeff didn't show up for work today! It happens a lot! So instead, more of the tricky bit of Rip Haywire And The Curse Of Tangaroa! (spoilered for sticking too close to "classic" genre tropes)  Randy Milholland's Popeye answers the magic question "Guess who else was reading 'Spinach Springs' lately?" 
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And then he was eaten. Good joke. Everybody laugh.
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Flash Gordon 
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City is in the Negative Zone today!  seriously why does this keep happening. Curtis 
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Kennel posted:Dustin What server is going to come up to your table and ask if you're still eating?
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davidspackage posted:What server is going to come up to your table and ask if you're still eating?
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davidspackage posted:What server is going to come up to your table and ask if you're still eating? It's an extremely common way for a table server to ask if you want the plate cleared away. Bizarro  The drawing has a lot of very accurate details, but that has the side effect of making the anachronism kind of stick out: Klingons didn't have forehead ridges in TOS.  The Family Circus  What's Barfy looking so mad about? FoxTrot 
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