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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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riderchop posted:gently caress off I always feel like Anthony's watching me
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Oct 15, 2022 17:05
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Stultus Maximus posted:It's Blandthony. Selachian posted:That's Blandthony, who an adult Elizabeth will eventually dump her career and far more interesting boyfriends to move home and marry at the very end of the strip. Ah..thanks. "Some things are not worth marrying for".
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Oct 15, 2022 17:10
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom
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Oct 15, 2022 17:15
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The_Other posted:Steeple: The Silvery Moon What is that gesture she's making in panel 2? It's as long as her forearm? Pantomiming cranking it? Can't be moving hand and tongue in cheek, tongue's clearly sticking out.
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Oct 15, 2022 17:17
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thisusedyet posted:What is that gesture she's making in panel 2? You hold your elbow/lower upper arm with one hand and stick the other up with a fist and go whaayy and it means big erect dick. It can also mean gently caress off and/or go gently caress yourself if directed at a person. I hope this helps edit: haha holy poo poo it has a name. TyrsHTML fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Oct 15, 2022 |
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Oct 15, 2022 17:20
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thisusedyet posted:What is that gesture she's making in panel 2? I believe that's the bras d'honneur, here used to demonstrate how stiff that unconcealable lupine stiffy was.
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Oct 15, 2022 17:20
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Selachian posted:That's Blandthony, who an adult Elizabeth will eventually dump her career and far more interesting boyfriends to move home and marry at the very end of the strip. And the most profoundly nothing marriage proposal in entertainment history. Mutts  Sally Forth  Peanuts (October 18, 1975)  I Was Promised An Old Man Getting Snapped In Half, You Son Of A Bitch  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (May 17, 1939)  Out Our Way (February 5-7, 1940)   
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Oct 15, 2022 17:31
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FOOB bad. 2018 Spiderman  1980 comics       New in the paper: This thing. It doesn't seem like it'll be interesting enough to post regularly.  Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Oct 15, 2022 17:32
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Oct 15, 2022 17:39
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thisusedyet posted:What is that gesture she's making in panel 2? the military salute of the Spaceball Empire
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Oct 15, 2022 17:56
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Oct. 11, 1953) But…Sussex is named for the (Southern) Saxons.
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Oct 15, 2022 18:11
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The Creeps 
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Oct 15, 2022 18:20
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Arnold (January 7-12, 1985)      Bullwinkle 
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Oct 15, 2022 18:21
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Vargo posted:Curtis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jYyYl3RdjI F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  See? The scary skeleton just wants to help. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons 
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Oct 15, 2022 18:22
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD
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Oct 15, 2022 18:31
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Selachian posted:That's Blandthony, who an adult Elizabeth will eventually dump her career and far more interesting boyfriends to move home and marry at the very end of the strip
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Oct 15, 2022 18:37
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth "I really wanted to put a ring on that tiny, tiny finger." Murdstone posted:The Phantom drat. drat that's metal.
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Oct 15, 2022 18:47
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quote:Mark Trail  Drakyn posted:No you don't understand, Anthony was so mature by then: he'd grown an ugly moustache and married some cold harpy BITCH named Therese who wanted a CAREER UGH and was INDIFFERENT TO THE BABY he whined at her to have and he was separated from her so Elizabeth had to RESCUE THE MAN because he was such a fuckin' catch. Thanks I hate it.
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Oct 15, 2022 18:47
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Selachian posted:Smokey Stover 8/27/50 That's called a Woodie and, yes, at that time they were made of actual wood.
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Oct 15, 2022 19:07
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Drakyn posted:No you don't understand, Anthony was so mature by then: he'd grown an ugly moustache and married some cold harpy BITCH named Therese who wanted a CAREER UGH and was INDIFFERENT TO THE BABY he whined at her to have and he was separated from her so Elizabeth had to RESCUE THE MAN because he was such a fuckin' catch.
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Oct 15, 2022 19:17
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Chako   Register Cat  Cthulhu and Girl  Self-Propelled Public Bath   Much could be (and has been) written about the decline of the no-frills “mom and pop” public bath in postwar and late-20th-century Japan as more and more houses and apartments were built with baths in them, leading to the transition to larger, flashier, let’s-be-honest-cleaner, and usually more expensive “corporate” public baths with fancy names like “health centers” or “super sentos” that are a leisure destination rather than a necessity (and how working-class and poor people still living in bathless housing were / are the last to stop using traditional public baths), but that tension is part of what this comic is going to be playing with.
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Oct 15, 2022 19:38
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Oct. 11, 1953) Val, in Ireland: those silly Irish clinging to their pagan religions, unlike the good Christian knight I am Val, the moment he's back in England:
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Oct 15, 2022 19:49
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For those who did not experience the Saga of Elizabeth giving up on life and settling for her boring-rear end childhood friend, here is a good writeup of why Anthony sucks: https://shaenon.livejournal.com/29475.html Be warned that it is Livejournal and is formatted accordingly.  AMBULANCE, shitheads! 
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Oct 15, 2022 19:58
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davidspackage posted:I always feel like Worse than that. He marries a career woman so I guess when Elizabeth moves/goes to college? he takes a silver medal, but always wants Liz. But he is a Good Man Nice Guy, even where he pretty much forces his wife to have a baby (which she does, on the condition she doesn't do the parent poo poo because she wants her career) and then is shocked she doesn't turn into a Perfect Mommy. Then he again goes after Liz after she's nearly raped, and begs her to wait for him while he starts a divorce with his Evil Child Hating Wife. And he doesn't even propose to Liz. But no worries, she has an Instant Family and no more adventures for her!
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Oct 15, 2022 19:59
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Julet Esqu posted:For those who did not experience the Saga of Elizabeth giving up on life and settling for her boring-rear end childhood friend, here is a good writeup of why Anthony sucks: quote:I hate Anthony. I hate him more than I’ve ever hated a cartoon character, and, yes, I’m including both Scrappy-Doo and Ted Rall. 
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Oct 15, 2022 20:15
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davidspackage posted:drat. drat that's metal. Phantom is really frustrating when it slows down because when it works it WORKS. The art in the action shots is great and, some quibbles aside, the story for those parts usually backs it up well. Then it decides to twiddle its thumbs for a month and undercut the momentum.
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Oct 15, 2022 20:55
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Julet Esqu posted:For those who did not experience the Saga of Elizabeth giving up on life and settling for her boring-rear end childhood friend, here is a good writeup of why Anthony sucks: This is always a good read, but I wish there was a way for people to go through every relevant Anthony strip in chronological order because it's an amazing study of an author failing to grasp how completely unappealing a character is.
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Oct 15, 2022 21:05
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I love this comment from GoRaina (Raina Telgemeier, who is now a successful graphic novel cartoonist): "ANTHONY IS LYNN JOHNSTON---YA' DARN RIGHT SHE FEELS SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS HIM."
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Oct 15, 2022 21:11
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I must be forgetting (or not be aware of) lore regarding this love interest in Foob. Is he a jerk or just a non-entity? It is time - "Why I Hate Anthony" by Shaenon Garrity: https://shaenon.livejournal.com/29475.html Edit: drat, beaten! Modesty Blaise: The Galley Slaves  
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Oct 15, 2022 21:26
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Selachian posted:I believe that's the bras d'honneur, here used to demonstrate how stiff that unconcealable lupine stiffy was. I'll be damned, my (Italian) grandfather always used to call that the italian salute. Thanks to all 3 of you on that
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Oct 15, 2022 21:49
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Too many to quote but yeah, Anthony was an amazing slow-motion trainwreck of a storyline and watching the narrative move around Liz to get her back with him was awful. Her cool helicopter pilot boyfriend cheated on her and then she quit her fulfilling job teaching children to move back within a mile of her parents' home to ultimately end up with this man who'd carried a torch with her since high school (including the time when, as detailed above, he brow-beat his current wife into carrying a child she didn't want and then whined about how she wasn't emotionally invested in the child). I think the lowest single strip was the one where not even an hour after he saves Liz from being sexually assaulted or worse, he cries at her how his wife is leaving him and poor poor Anthony. What a catch.
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Oct 15, 2022 21:57
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Oct 15, 2022 22:08
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Nancy 1947
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Oct 15, 2022 23:03
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Julet Esqu posted:
The burglars probably left? They aren't really known for sticking around.
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Oct 15, 2022 23:18
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Julet Esqu posted:For those who did not experience the Saga of Elizabeth giving up on life and settling for her boring-rear end childhood friend, here is a good writeup of why Anthony sucks:
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Oct 15, 2022 23:40
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ˇAragones! Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Oct 16, 2022 00:05
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Selachian posted:I believe that's the bras d'honneur, here used to demonstrate how stiff that unconcealable lupine stiffy was. Oh neat, I read the article about how it's a positive gesture in Japan and often gets censored when it's used in Japanese media, and suddenly I was reminded that it's what Bowser does in his victory pose in Super Mario RPG in the original Japanese version. Which was changed to Bowser just holding up his fists in other countries.
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Oct 16, 2022 01:11
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Nov 15, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Jun 19-20, 1992)   Big Nate 
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Oct 16, 2022 01:20
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"Getting Railed By Your Heat-Influenced Husband While One Of Your Legs Is Broken" Comics       
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What's the matter, Kell? Can't murder a fellow creature unless you can chase them down, feel the fear off them? Just isn't fun when you know they're not desperately trying to survive? I mean you can't be morally opposed to it, far too loving late for that, so I can only assume it's because killing a fellow sapient creature that has accepted its fate takes all the joy out of it for you. God, gently caress Holbrook.
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