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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
| I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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42 | 17.07% |
| 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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Arnold (December 26, 1983-January 1, 1984)       1984 is when the strip starts to get really funny. Looking forward to posting them here!
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Vargo posted:Heart of the City is in the Negative Zone today! My best guess is that they have an automated process of some kind that tweaks the file and then saves it to a folder that then gets automatically uploaded to the website without any human ever looking at it. If the artist is doing something weird with the inks layer it might get shut off in the file tweaking stage and nobody is ever the wiser.
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Sep 4, 2022 18:02
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Sep 4, 2022 18:17
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Sep 4, 2022 18:23
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Sep 4, 2022 18:35
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Hostile V posted:They do this just as a customer service check to try and keep you in good graces if the management is picky about making sure the customer has a positive image of the restaurant and pushes this/the server is angling for a tip or good review, or you've been there for a minute and they need to clear up a table and it's just a firm but polite nudge of "you may have lost track of the time". Powered Descent posted:It's an extremely common way for a table server to ask if you want the plate cleared away. Fair enough, but never had this experience. I've had the server come by to ask if we're enjoying our meal or want our drinks refreshed, but not more than glances from afar suggesting they think it's time we leave.
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Sep 4, 2022 18:38
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But then you're not Ed Kudlick and presumably don't feel personally and deliberately slighted by common aspects of daily life.
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Sep 4, 2022 18:47
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...at least until he's hit on the head with a frying pan.
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Sep 4, 2022 19:39
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Giant Ethicist posted:Whoops, got my threads mixed up! With the medical capabilities this Earth must have (not only there are full body cyborg, some of them are indistinguishable from fully biological humans), such scars should be easily removed by their cosmetic surgery.
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Sep 4, 2022 19:55
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I'd love to hate that power. 
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Sep 4, 2022 20:11
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Guy Fawkes posted:With the medical capabilities this Earth must have (not only there are full body cyborg, some of them are indistinguishable from fully biological humans), such scars should be easily removed by their cosmetic surgery. No surgeon wants to work on the idiot stupid enough to sleep with his yakuza boss's wife in case he forgets to breathe without a constant reminder and dies on the table (I do not like this man because his misery is entirely self inflicted)
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Sep 4, 2022 20:13
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Hattie Masters posted:(I do not like this man because his misery is entirely self inflicted) I don't buy this, the dude was caught between a rock and a hard place. Offending his yakuza boss's wife could easily have ended just as poorly.
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Sep 4, 2022 20:24
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¡Aragones! (this is a long one)     Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Sep 4, 2022 21:10
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That Aragones is a loving oof.
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Sep 4, 2022 21:29
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Sep 4, 2022 21:53
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Oct 11, 1953)  drat, Shroeder is really laying on the burns today. Calvin and Hobbes (Apr 10-11, 1992)   Big Nate 
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Sep 4, 2022 22:10
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readingatwork posted:Crabgrass the cycle of violence will never break
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Sep 4, 2022 22:12
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I have no doubt in my mind that Tauhid is gonna track Miles' hair growth in a realistic pattern over the next few weeks 
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Sep 4, 2022 22:39
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Haraiso Days: Yeah, he was enjoying his life, but dude was a sex worker paying protection money to the mob, and the mob boss's wife came on to him. Not much room for a good outcome there. I'm not super a fan of the "effete guy is redeemed by getting a haircut and a manual labor job" narrative (you notice his eyelashes and flashy jewelry disappeared the moment we were supposed to really start empathizing with him), but overall I like the chapter. Cthulhu and Girl 
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Sep 4, 2022 22:53
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Giant Ethicist posted:I'm not super a fan of the "effete guy is redeemed by getting a haircut and a manual labor job" narrative (you notice his eyelashes and flashy jewelry disappeared the moment we were supposed to really start empathizing with him), but overall I like the chapter. Drakyn fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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Sep 4, 2022 23:26
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A more charitable interpretation is that you could read him as trying to be more like the giant brick of a woman who he has a crush on now. I don't think she's got a very fashionable haircut. EDIT: The owner being wrong would be funny, though.
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Sep 4, 2022 23:38
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I don't think there's any resolution to this story y'all would've been happy with.
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Sep 4, 2022 23:44
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I don't think there's any resolution to this story y'all would've been happy with. Zereth posted:the giant brick of a woman who he has a crush on now
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Sep 5, 2022 00:09
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Honestly, Haraiso is a little too saccharine and twee for my taste. People don't really have problems, they just have a mistaken perceptions and things mostly work out after they realize this. It's feels more moralistic than Uramachi Sakaba.
Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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Sep 5, 2022 00:21
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I'm not so sure it's really that "he's redeemed by doing a manual labor job" as it is that now that he's not a sex worker, he can be himself instead of constantly trying to woo women. You saw it earlier in the chapter where he was flirting with Haru and Rie, because his job is to try to get women to pay him to go out with him. Same with him losing the eyelashes and jewelry, it makes sense he's not going to dress fancy for a manual labor job and hell, he might have even had to sell all his jewelry and nice clothing now that his income has substantially dropped. So it's just now that he doesn't have to try and seduce women into paying for his services, he can be himself at the bar more often. He mentions he's never talked to Rie this way, as in he's never had a genuine conversation with her, because he always just viewed her (all women, really) as potential revenue sources. This happens before he gets the manual labor job, so it's more just him not doing sex work anymore that's the cause of the change. At worst I think you could read it as anti-sex worker, though I don't think it's necessarily so (I don't know the author's personal views on the subject so it could be). The dude just seemed like kind of a womanizer who was justifying it to himself by going "Well it's my job so not my fault!" I think it's good anyway.
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Sep 5, 2022 00:43
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I like Haraiso. Not everything in here needs to be a hate-read like Holbrook that only keeps getting posted because... ...??
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Sep 5, 2022 00:47
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EasyEW posted:Our Boarding House (September 18-20, 1922) 5,000,000 1922 Soviet Roubles would be worth approximately USD 0.000000000017 today! edit: Beaten. I should really read down the page a bit before breaking out the calculator. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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Sep 5, 2022 00:51
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this is by far my favorite of the Haraiso Days storylines, I liked this guy and his little story was pretty different and interestingTwelve by Pies posted:I'm not so sure it's really that "he's redeemed by doing a manual labor job" as it is that now that he's not a sex worker, he can be himself instead of constantly trying to woo women. You saw it earlier in the chapter where he was flirting with Haru and Rie, because his job is to try to get women to pay him to go out with him. Same with him losing the eyelashes and jewelry, it makes sense he's not going to dress fancy for a manual labor job and hell, he might have even had to sell all his jewelry and nice clothing now that his income has substantially dropped. and yeah i agree with this read, more or less.
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Sep 5, 2022 01:01
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The Demons of Baseball       
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Sep 5, 2022 01:03
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I like Haraiso. Not everything in here needs to be a hate-read like Holbrook that only keeps getting posted because... ...?? I like it.
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Sep 5, 2022 01:08
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Haraiso is good yeah. And I already love this Baseball comic, the art and lines of action are outstanding.
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Sep 5, 2022 01:12
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Drakyn posted:Sure thing: the guy talks his way out of sleeping with his boss's wife by explaining he's lovingly married to I love this idea really. You could even have the bar owner getting harmlessly, but amusingly, wrong reads on the boss and his wife while pretending to swap roles in the business with Rei. Schwarzwald posted:Honestly, Haraiso is a little too saccharine and twee for my taste. People don't really have problems, they just have a mistaken perceptions and things mostly work out after they realize this. It's feels more moralistic than Uramachi Sakaba. Yeah, I was thinking about this. Uramachi Sakaba has a much, much higher hit-to-miss ratio than Haraiso does, and I was struggling to work out why. I like Haraiso well enough, this story excluded, but it always lives in the shadow of Uramachi
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Sep 5, 2022 01:28
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Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball This is great!
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Sep 5, 2022 01:39
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It’s not as good as the other bar series but it does have Zereth posted:the giant brick of a woman so it’s still good too
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Sep 5, 2022 01:47
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That Crabgrass made me laugh out loud pretty good. Also I like Haraiso and Uramichi both. Also Cthulhu idol pal. Also this new baseball comic looks good~
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Sep 5, 2022 02:01
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Hattie Masters posted:I love this idea really. You could even have the bar owner getting harmlessly, but amusingly, wrong reads on the boss and his wife while pretending to swap roles in the business with Rei. He agrees... so long as they make a quick stop first to hit up this cool bar he vaguely recalls someone telling him about. END Anyways, if we're all formally summarizing our opinions re:Haraiso, I think I agree that my only real problem is that I find it a tad too moralizing here and there but Evrart Claire posted:it does have
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Sep 5, 2022 02:14
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baseball comic is giving hella tomorrow's joe vibes, excited
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Sep 5, 2022 03:04
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Stuff.       
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Sep 5, 2022 03:11
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I’m glad people are interested in Haraiso enough to discuss it at least - I do think that this chapter was the best yet. Sadly we’ve only got one more chapter before it runs out, but hopefully he’ll keep publishing it in the magazine it’s in and we’ll get another collection eventually. I think the series has a lot of potential that he’s starting to get the hang of by this point, Miss Haru’s cool omnicompetence notwithstanding. We’ve also only got a couple weeks of Sakaba before we catch up, so I have to think of what else I might bring to the thread.
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Sep 5, 2022 03:23
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EasyEW posted:
quote:Randy Milholland's Popeye answers the magic question "Guess who else was reading 'Spinach Springs' lately?" This is really good. Great timely callback.
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