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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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naturally the colorist didn't even bother about the hole in the bowl
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Hmmmm... The sensible guess at what he's trying to do here is make a highly-detailed model of the drawing, suitable for making a mold so that they can melt down the murder weapon and cast it into a child's toy. It's an involved process, and definitely not something that can be accomplished in a single all-nighter, but a suitable fantasy from a writer whose solution to an ICE storyline is BILL CLINTON TO THE RESCUE! Anyway, that's the sensible guess. So let's see what Batty comes up with instead. Crankshaft  Every once in awhile, Mutts reminds me of why I haven't given up on Mutts.  Sally Forth  Skippy (December 3, 1934)  Peanuts (October 1, 1975)  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (April 29, 1939)  Out Our Way (December 14-16, 1939)    The first Yuletide-themed panel of the 1939 season. I only point this out because, thanks to those goddamn Claritin ads making "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" a year-round thing, Christmas creep has felt especially bad this year. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Sep 28, 2022 |
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Sep 28, 2022 16:09
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EasyEW posted:Hmmmm... If my dad had been gunned down, I would not want to have anything to do with the murder weapon. I would not want to see it or be anywhere near it. The cheery way that they're treating this gun is among the more bizarre choices Batiuk has made in his storytelling (at least to me).
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Sep 28, 2022 16:12
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (October 1, 1975) At first I thought that was Peppermint Patty and was a bit confused, since it's well-established she doesn't have a mom. (I think the long-after-the-fact colorist DID think it was her, and so gave her the usual Peppermint Patty hair and shirt colors.) Bizarro  The Family Circus 
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Sep 28, 2022 16:41
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus "drat Millennials not knowing about manual transmission  "
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Sep 28, 2022 16:47
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The shock reveal of Angel Face! Who was, er, already revealed several updates ago. On a sidenote, I was reading the Wikipedia entry for the series, and following the recent death of Francois Corteggiani, who took charge following Giraud's own death, it's been updated with a lot of behind-the-scenes politics that I suspect wouldn't have been put online earlier (especially about Colin Wilson's departure from Young Blueberry). Don't know how much is true and how much is axe-grinding, but it's an interesting read.
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Sep 28, 2022 16:50
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:"drat Millennials not knowing about manual transmission I believe the foreveryoung family circus children are zoomers now.
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Sep 28, 2022 16:51
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Steeple: The Silvery Moon John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple Website
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Sep 28, 2022 16:58
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Mr. Squishy posted:I believe the foreveryoung family circus children are zoomers now. They're about five years old, so they'd be whatever generation comes after Z, the one that's being born now. e: Apparently it's being provisionally called Alpha, I guess we're just doing it like when the list of hurricane names runs out.
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Sep 28, 2022 17:01
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Oh, I know. I was poking fun at Boomers who think that people under 40 are mystified by driving a stick.
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Sep 28, 2022 17:04
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Sep 28, 2022 17:46
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Green Intern posted:I had to double check that this wasn't an edit, and that there is actually a Gil Thorp character named Kaz who wears sunglasses and has a blonde mullet. Hell, I even knew Kaz was a Gil Thorp character (thanks, Comics Curmudgeon) and I still wasn't sure it wasn't an edit.
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Sep 28, 2022 17:57
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Powered Descent posted:Bizarro
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Sep 28, 2022 18:07
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EasyEW posted:Hmmmm... I'm impressed that What's-his-name can make out whatever the hell that drawing is well enough to sculpt it.
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Sep 28, 2022 18:14
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake  How can you hypnotize them unseen??
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Sep 28, 2022 18:32
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I think what bugs me about Batiuk's stuff, even more than the loving awful plots, is that the only face he's capable of drawing is "punchable smugness."
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Sep 28, 2022 18:33
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TegneHanne L-Innsikt 
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Sep 28, 2022 18:42
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Yeah "lets use my father's murder weapon as raw material for a childs gift" is some peak Batiuk insanity. Jucika "484 - Jucika And The Train"  "485 - Jucika And The Guard" 
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Sep 28, 2022 18:48
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Kennel posted:Mandrake It could be the voice...
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Sep 28, 2022 19:44
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Sep 28, 2022 20:00
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus "...and later, we're all driving up to his Cabin!" Zamboni Rodeo posted:I'm impressed that What's-his-name can make out whatever the hell that drawing is well enough to sculpt it. Yeah for as dumb as this whole "Let's recast a murder weapon into a toy for my child" thing is, it's the ugly blob on the page that keeps making me furrow my brow and rub my temples.
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Sep 28, 2022 20:05
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Payndz posted:The shock reveal of Angel Face! Who was, er, already revealed several updates ago. Well, we the readers got the first shock, now Blueberry needed one as well! As for the behind-the-scenes, thanks for the heads-up. I should give it a peruse myself...
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Sep 28, 2022 20:35
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Guy Fawkes posted:It could be the voice... True Mandrake fans (Mandrakeheads) know that he can't hypnotize people if he's blindfolded or it's dark or whatever is the excuse that week.
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Sep 28, 2022 20:50
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Kennel posted:True Mandrake fans (Mandrakeheads) Fandrakes, surely
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Sep 28, 2022 20:53
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Arnold (August 13-18, 1984)  Bullwinkle 
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Sep 28, 2022 20:58
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One day that child will be Old Enough and then his parents will sit him down and say, "Remember that toy you played with as a kid? The one you loved for years and years and years and built so many beautiful memories around? Your favorite toy in the whole world? THAT TOY KILLED YOUR GRAMPY. YOU WERE PLAYING WITH GRAMPY'S MURDER GUN THE WHOLE TIME AND YOU loving LOVED IT, YOU TWISTED LITTLE FREAK." 
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Sep 28, 2022 21:38
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Sep 28, 2022 22:09
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Jeremy's looking extra fuzzy today.
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Sep 28, 2022 22:38
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Chako is on a roll:   Cthulhu and Girl 
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Sep 28, 2022 23:09
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Oh God drat It Marriage poo poo       
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Sep 28, 2022 23:19
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Haifisch posted:Jeremy's looking extra fuzzy today. Puberty hit us all differently
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Sep 28, 2022 23:21
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Modesty Blaise: Bad Suki 
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Sep 28, 2022 23:26
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EasyEW posted:Hmmmm... Given that Tommy B seems to have internalized TRAGEDY = ATTENTION, I'm really hoping genius over there isn't just molding & painting clay around said murder weapon, so that kiddo starts playing with it and it's now involved in 2 murders (well, murder and manslaughter. Don't think you can charge an 8 year old with murder, especially with lack of intent)
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Sep 29, 2022 00:09
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Holbrook is a hack and a lot of his poo poo is dumb, and that's not how Silkworms woooork, but that bit at least is neat to me.
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Sep 29, 2022 00:10
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the murder gun gets melted down and recast into a metal rocket toy, but somehow the bullet, barrel and firing mechanism are still intact seventeen years later it goes off without warning
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Sep 29, 2022 00:11
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Hwurmp posted:Fandrakes, surely or possibly Magicionados
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Sep 29, 2022 00:16
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Holbrook is a hack and a lot of his poo poo is dumb, and that's not how Silkworms woooork, but that bit at least is neat to me. i think that him establishing that people can't generally be trusted to not eat their tailor as their clothes are being worked on brings into question once more how this society functions at all
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Sep 29, 2022 00:17
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ˇAragones! Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Sep 29, 2022 00:40
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Nekonaughey service resumes [translator's note: the word used for 'stray' here has a specific connotation meaning 'bad' cats who steal food from homes rather than simply being homeless]
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Outbursts of Everett True August 15, 1919 And He Did! September 2, 1919  Cat Tales July 31, 1925  Oaky Doaks January 21, 1937  Mopsy April 7, 1938  Sweatin’ It Out August 30, 1945  Bootsie’s Big ‘50s  So It Seems October 13, 1952  Those Were the Days September 6, 1962  Wee Pals October 14, 1966  Dogbert August 30, 1967 
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