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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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The Bad Suki story may start kinda corny but trust me folks this is going places.
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Samovar posted:I think one of the things which keeps me amused about DSotH is the fact that it repeats set-ups, but gives different punchlines. I remember the start of this strip before, but ending with Horace walking off with the For Sale sign. It's a comedic rug-pull which I very much appreciate. I agree, it does that well and in a way that even things like "elevator gag week" feel refreshing.
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Sep 16, 2022 20:36
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Selachian posted:Everyday Movies 7/29/35 Scans differently in the Covid era.
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Sep 16, 2022 20:38
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I don’t care how modern and topical it is, nobody is going to make me care about Gil Thorp.
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Sep 16, 2022 20:42
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readingatwork posted:Just. Stop. Hiring. Him. Nobody is making you do this. She's the woman in charge of the placement/temp agency. So she's not hiring him so much as pimping him out. And the reason the authors won't allow this train to stop is because then Dustin might be seen as sympathetic, since not even a temp agency will try and staff him anywhere. Let's also keep in mind that (IIRC) Dustin has either an English degree (lousy liberal arts major) or a Teaching degree, in this time of real world teacher shortage. He's even substituted several times, but oh no, can't have real character growth.
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Sep 16, 2022 20:50
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Transmodiar posted:And we're only halfway through. My understanding was that the "halfway through" comment referred to the bigger "Death of the Phantom" storyline, which I think started in 2017? Mozz's Gravelines story is just part of that, so it could end at any time
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Sep 16, 2022 20:53
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Arnold (April 23-29, 1984)       The Fugitive was a crime drama that aired 1963-67 about a man falsely convicted of murdering his wife. He spends the entire series tracking down the real killer to clear his name (notably, he succeeds in the final episode, back when it was rare for TV shows to have a proper conclusion) Bullwinkle  While we're on Bullwinkle, the book contained a bunch of promo arts the syndicate sent to papers to promote the strip. One of the said arts is this one  Gotta say, wow.
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Sep 16, 2022 21:14
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~Coxy posted:That's the one that gets you, not the bananas 9-11 tribute?  Any time a comic I post seems a little too bonkers, too risque, or too funny, be sure to mouse over it to see if it's clickable. 
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Sep 16, 2022 21:17
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Sep 16, 2022 21:26
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~Coxy posted:That's the one that gets you, not the bananas 9-11 tribute? I thought I did link the 9-11…. Tribute? Iphone links his posts oddly. I had to click a bunch but the fact is that comic is so bad I believed the edit. Crab Dad fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Sep 16, 2022 |
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Sep 16, 2022 21:53
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Murdstone posted:I think Mozz said this would be the end of the Walker line of Phantoms. Genetically, obviously that's not true, but as far as training and all I guess it is. The new Phantom line would more be a product of Savarna. Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Just wanted to say that I like Into Ilves, he's always got some wild stuff going on. Murdstone posted:The Phantom 
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Sep 16, 2022 22:49
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Really liking Hagar and Zits right now! ˇAragones!  Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Sep 16, 2022 22:51
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Oh JimJimmyJim, you scamp.Bibliotechno Music posted:Really liking Hagar and Zits right now! Bird is a good new character, but I think I liked Sloth more.
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Sep 16, 2022 22:57
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Kennel posted:Dustin Sounds to me like Dustin needs a better job counselor who isn't a turd.
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Sep 16, 2022 23:05
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I've said it before but I first learned about Lynda Barry through her book "Cruddy" and this is whole stretch of comics is very reminiscent of that book, so if you're in the mood for a story about crime and revenge and hating the world as a teenager and dig her prose style, you will probably like Cruddy. THE NINTENDO WII AND MICROAGGRESSIONS, BABY! YEAH!        
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Sep 16, 2022 23:52
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A bit of a break on Uramachi Sakaba while I prep the next chapter, but here's Cthulhu and Girl!
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Sep 17, 2022 00:27
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NRVNQSR posted:My understanding was that the "halfway through" comment referred to the bigger "Death of the Phantom" storyline, which I think started in 2017? Mozz's Gravelines story is just part of that, so it could end at any time Tony DePaul said in February of 2022 that "the story we’re telling began on May 24 last year and easily has another year to run, likely more." So the absolute earliest this story will wind down in February 2023. Like I said the last time people were grumbling over how long this is, "buckle up!"
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Sep 17, 2022 00:46
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Transmodiar posted:Tony DePaul said in February of 2022 that "the story we’re telling began on May 24 last year and easily has another year to run, likely more." By February, Savarna's twins will be of age, will have killed Kit, Heloise, and Mozz, and have become Phantoms in their own right. Guran will still be around.
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Sep 17, 2022 01:06
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Hostile V posted:THE NINTENDO WII AND MICROAGGRESSIONS, BABY! YEAH!
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Sep 17, 2022 01:20
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God, Marlys is good.
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Sep 17, 2022 01:22
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Hostile V posted:THE NINTENDO WII AND MICROAGGRESSIONS, BABY! YEAH! The Wii was approaching its 3 year anniversary when these ran. Was Holbrook working off of a Batiuk "Yeah lemme bank like 2 years worth of strips in advance" model or something? Anyhow I continue to hate his work.
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Sep 17, 2022 01:33
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Our Boarding House, in which the sportsmen take home a souvenir. Two of them, depending on how you count 'em. (October 9-11, 1922)   The 1922 World Series, if you're curious. Toonerville Folks (January 5-7, 1920)    A quick sidebar: this was around the time that the Seattle Times started a dedicated daily comics page, and one day when they were running tight on space, some wiseacre thought the typesetter could letter the Trolley panel better than the fabulous Mr. Fox could. It ended as expected.  Dok's Dippy Villa Satire (May 9, 1914; timg'd for (ugh) more period appropriate racism)  Little Lefty (May 13 and 15, 1937 (no strip in the Worker for the 14th))   Blondie From Zero (November 3-5, 1932) 
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Sep 17, 2022 03:13
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https://twitter.com/choochoobear/status/1570537503127670784 saw this today and it reminded me of one reason I enjoy the vintage/translated stuff in this thread.
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Sep 17, 2022 04:12
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft I could believe 1000-year-old Crankshaft not recognizing one of the world's biggest movie stars and his wife, but this is getting ridiculous...albeit completely ordinary for Batiuk strips, where a guy who starred in a massive superhero franchise (and a weird pseudo-successful adaptation of Lisa's Story that somehow both flopped and earned at least one Oscar nomination) regularly just jets out to suburban Ohio and draws absolutely no media attention. Didn't know about this one -- Battling Siki, the Senegalese world light heavyweight champion. ukonvasara fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Sep 17, 2022 |
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Sep 17, 2022 04:34
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Mister Beeg posted:While we're on Bullwinkle, the book contained a bunch of promo arts the syndicate sent to papers to promote the strip. One of the said arts is this one Just in case anyone is missing the wow part of this one, it's a reference to this: 
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Sep 17, 2022 05:24
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Marlys! Holy loving hell, Marlys Bruceski posted:https://twitter.com/choochoobear/status/1570537503127670784 And, on that note, here's today's Blueberry: Blueberry's played enough Ace Attorney to know that simply proving your innocence ain't enough, or Y'know - I don't think we've seen a person leave a train that's pulled into a station like normal in this ENTIRE story, or Jim abuses his medical exemption   
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Sep 17, 2022 06:09
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Sep 17, 2022 06:16
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Mister Beeg posted:Arnold (April 23-29, 1984)
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Sep 17, 2022 07:16
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I gave up because it’s always the same joke.
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Sep 17, 2022 07:36
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I think Arnold is extremely interesting historically so i've been enjoying it a lot, thanks Mister Beeg! The format is also great, i want to read a week's worth of most comics at a time lol Heathcliff  Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (October 10, 2000)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Sep 17, 2022 07:38
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riderchop posted:Compu-toon 
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Sep 17, 2022 10:15
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Drakyn posted:Tigers enjoy water. Why, if your one joke is '[species] SURE HAS [trait], EH? EH? EHHHHHH???', can you not get the actual traits right? Reminder that this dumb motherfucker thought cats wag their tails when they're happy.
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Sep 17, 2022 11:05
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Nancy 1947
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Sep 17, 2022 13:04
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Vintage Valiant (Apr. 26, 1953)  
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Sep 17, 2022 13:19
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Reminder that this dumb motherfucker thought cats wag their tails when they're happy.  Tiggum posted:I've been reading these up till now but I'm giving up - for the same reason I've given up on many of the old strips people post here, which is just that they're posted in batches. I see an entire week of strips (or less, if they're particularly wordy) in a single post and I just have to scroll past because I can't bring myself to read it all at once. riderchop posted:I think Arnold is extremely interesting historically so i've been enjoying it a lot, thanks Mister Beeg! The format is also great, i want to read a week's worth of most comics at a time lo Drakyn fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Sep 17, 2022 |
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Sep 17, 2022 13:58
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Jucika "462 - Jucika And The Ship Inauguration" "részeg fráter = drunk bastard" "463 - Jucika Wakes Up" 
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Sep 17, 2022 14:25
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Arnold has weirdly grown on me and I'm not sure why. I think it's just cuz he's such a weirdly grotesque little guy.
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Sep 17, 2022 14:29
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Sep 17, 2022 15:07
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Bizarro The Family Circus 
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Docks  Retail   Popcom  
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