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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
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| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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Pondus Storefri  Yeah, one of the big challenges when you work with kids is finding comfortable chairs when you have a meeting.
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DRESS UP LIKE A SANTAMAN AND DANCE AROUND       
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Oct 2, 2022 18:05
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As everyone knows, it is impossible for a child to jump in a leaf pile that has been blown into existence. Only hand raked will do.
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Oct 2, 2022 18:11
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Well, that's loving horrifying I guess.
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Oct 2, 2022 18:17
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave First comic on this page to give me an actual  .
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics    God, Ian is just the worst.   Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Oct 2, 2022 18:27
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus Big Rugrats All Grown Up energy here.
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Oct 2, 2022 20:06
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Oct 2, 2022 22:00
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Professor Wayne posted:Hagar the Horrible Lmao, is that horse dabbing? quote:Zits As a former theater kid, I love this so much.
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft Crankshaft is, generally, less bad than Funky. I mean, it's loving bad, don't get me wrong, but at least the strip rarely tries to veer into cheap melodrama and realizes it's a gag strip. But this poo poo infuriates me, and it seems to be the "punchline" of a lot of Crankshaft strips, even though it makes no sense. The last panel has nothing to do with anything else in the comic. Jokes build on their setup. This is just "Crankshaft said a phrase wrong." It's not related to any of the setup, he just said words that sound similar to but are not the correct words. It's nonsensical. It's stupid. I hate it. I was going to say then prey species should all dress like Santa every day of the year to dramatically lower the chances of them being eaten, but then I remembered it's literally illegal for prey to protect themselves from predators if it isn't [species has characteristic].
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Oct 2, 2022 22:48
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Missed Sunday for hangover recovery, sorry! Chako    Interestingly, Chako's dad's speech bubble in panel 9 is nearly empty in the original - I think Q-Rais had something more planned for him to say and just forgot to put it in before uploading. Register Cat  Cthulhu and Girl 
Giant Ethicist fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Oct 2, 2022 |
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Oct 2, 2022 23:16
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Giant Ethicist posted:
That's ... definitely a cat.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:28
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Yup, that's a cat all right.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:37
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EasyEW posted:Our Boarding House (November 2-4, 1922) Every time I see this guy I'm left wondering whether he was the inspiration for Joe Biden's "listen fat" moment or whether they're both riffing off of some other thing entirely.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:39
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 Not a huge fan of Pondus but this visual gag works for me.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:43
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Got a thing. Hell Yeah! Curiously, it's a collection of the webcomics, not the updated newspaper versions. Which is cool because that means this will probably be a collector's item someday. Crabgrass  I was always afraid of trying to do this as a kid for this exact reason. Old School Peanuts (Nov 2, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (May 24-25, 1992)   "Smooching is optional if it's your mom" feels like a burn Big Nate  Blind Alley 
readingatwork fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Oct 3, 2022 00:42
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Looking forward to Blind Alley delivering a plot point again in *checks calendar* late 2024.
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Doomykins posted:Looking forward to Blind Alley delivering a plot point again in *checks calendar* late 2024.
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Oct 3, 2022 00:51
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It's A Sketchy Life for September 23, 1926! Featuring a Garrett Price cover. Percy Crosby:  (A list of English Channel swimmers) Alice Harvey:  LJ Holton:  Fred G. Cooper:  And because this magazine comes with words too, this week movie critic/editor-in-chief Robert E. Sherwood just isn't into Battleship Potemkin: "I found the picture as a whole to be so utterly confused, so disorderly, as to be practically incomprehensible. [...] The director here has handled his mobs with unbelievable skill, but when he gets down to individual cases, he is lost."
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Oct 3, 2022 01:37
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PetraCore posted:There have been plot points recently? Has there ever been a plot point? I gave up on Blind Alley because it kept threatening a plot and never delivering. Serious question: what is the plot to Blind Alley? Can anyone summarize it, or does the plot just not exist and this is Lost: The Comic Strip?
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¡Aragones!  Almost nsfw’d for mosquito boobs Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys!, now featuring Marlys! 
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don Jaime posted:Has there ever been a plot point? I gave up on Blind Alley because it kept threatening a plot and never delivering. Blind Alley is slice of life anime. There's no plot, you're in it for the character moments. The author keeps going "There's going to be a plot!" but never follows up on it, so it's best to just ignore it exists like the author does. I like Blind Alley but if you want things to happen in your comic strips it is not for you.
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Oct 3, 2022 02:09
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Twelve by Pies posted:Blind Alley is slice of life anime. There's no plot, you're in it for the character moments. The author keeps going "There's going to be a plot!" but never follows up on it, so it's best to just ignore it exists like the author does. Thank you, mate! I felt like there had to be a plot because I had seen things like the robot birds, but I can now permanently wash my hands of Blind Alley.
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Oct 3, 2022 02:31
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I think I've got a different definition of plot because I do feel like the odd stuff is a plot, but one moving at a very gentle, sedate place. That's only not a plot if the author actually has no plan for them. That said, the main draw is slice-of-life character moments.
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Oct 3, 2022 04:12
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i just dont like how it's doing it seems like it'd be sick as a collected edition tho
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Oct 3, 2022 04:57
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It's the common webcomic problem of 'pacing is awful when waiting for updates, but it's fine when reading it all at once as a collection/archive binge', yeah. I'm fine with it but I'm pretty lenient when I have to put zero effort into seeing the comic every day beyond opening the thread.  It's got an Atmosphere and it's not worse than a lot of stuff that gets posted, at the least.
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Oct 3, 2022 06:06
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (October 26, 2000)  Comics Kingdom part of the script is being weird so we'll see if it's fixed tomorrow!! e: oh they just didnt update the site riderchop fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Oct 3, 2022 06:46
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So... people actually rake up leaves and put them in loads and loads of plastic bags?
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Oct 3, 2022 08:10
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Yes that used to be and still is a thing.
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Oct 3, 2022 08:42
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Ecologically untenable is surely a good description then.
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Oct 3, 2022 09:24
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Nancy 1947 Thus concludes FLASHLIGHT WEEK, thank you for visiting Edit: In one of the Nancy books, it talks about how Bushmiller got the idea for various objects in the strip (furniture, etc) from a Sears catalog or something, which maybe explains the fascination with a really nice flashlight. manero fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Powered Descent posted:FoxTrot If you just queued for the dungeon, then you're not put out by cancelling. It would be if you were deep in the queue, or if your queue just popped, that you wouldn't be able to help! 
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 10/2/02  Brenda Starr 7/28-30/49    Smokey Stover 6/11/50  Everyday Movies 8/17/35  "Harry wanted we should all go to the beach this morning, but you couldn't get me in those week-end mobs down there for anything."
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Haifisch posted:It's the common webcomic problem of 'pacing is awful when waiting for updates, but it's fine when reading it all at once as a collection/archive binge', yeah. "Atmosphere" is a good way to put it. It's hard to say if the strip ever really intends to go anywhere, but even if it does, it's more about the vibe. Vintage Valiant (Jul. 26, 1953)   
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His Divine Shadow posted:Ecologically untenable is surely a good description then.
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readingatwork posted:
Has Blind Alley just become the Confusing Child Misery Minute? Hostile V posted:Where I live the change has been to use biodegradable bags that are more or less bigger paper grocery bags but yes it's very stupid when you can just rake leaves into the woods and leave them there to literally rot because that's how nature works. Where I grew up I was lucky enough to have a designated neighborhood dumping spot in the wooded lot next door. Everyone just had a big wagon they’d load up and toss in the mulch pile. I’d lose my mind if I had to just toss plastic bags out into the world like that.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis hasn't uploaded today, so uh.... no Curtis.
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Oct 3, 2022 13:27
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean returns to its usual level of sentimental mediocrity. I hate leaf blowers, or I did until this exact moment when Funky Winkerbean forced me to change my opinion. Y'know Funky, if you're so depressed about it, how about you go outside and rake your own lawn? Instead of paying somebody to blow leaves for you, which seems to be the implication. Unless he's just judgmentally sighing at a neighbor's lawn. This is just good advice dismas posted:ARMY Y'know I never noticed that the shirt changes from BRIDE to WIVES panel to panel, I wonder if this was an edit for the print/GoComics version that wasn't fully implemented readingatwork posted:Me Playing Splatoon Last Night (Nov 1, 1953) A quality-rear end Peanuts right here
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Green Intern posted:Has Blind Alley just become the Confusing Child Misery Minute? The first strip is a kid waking from a nightmare of her parents being beheaded. Blind Alley is the confused child misery minute.
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