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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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Powered Descent posted:I officially have NO idea what is going on in Gil Thorp. At first I thought it was because we were coming in in the middle of a story and I didn't know who the characters were, but it's more than that. Every strip is just a random fragment. It might fit into a larger picture, but it makes no sense on its own. And there's no larger picture. Occasionally a run of these fragments will appear to come from the same event, like the school shooting rehearsal (I think?) or a particular football game, but even then, nothing hangs together and I'm just lost. I actually went back over the past few weeks of strips to see if they make more sense when read back-to-back, but nope. right now gil thorp is doing a special training with his football team by voluntelling them to work in a soup kitchen to get them working as a team in a fresh way to open up new thinking; he is doing this because the next game coming up is against a team that absolutely demolished Thorp a while ago but the coach holds a grudge because the newspaper painted that season end as Thorp holding strong, which is complicated by the fact that the rival coach's son (who is the quarterback for that team) has a crush on Keri, gil thorp's kid who is nonbinary and plays for the volleyball team (and seems to have a budding crush on tobias, the trans kid) keri is currently showing fairly strong symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder from the school shooting drill where they panicked so hard their dad (coach thorp) had to take them home; they went to a concert with their friends to try and relax and had a panic attack from the drums because it reminded them of the gunshots, they've been having trouble sleeping (even falling asleep in class), and when a bunch of kids mocked them for being a crybaby and having to go home early they straight up decked one of them in front of a memorial for a student who died of drug overdose so they've been grounded and told to see a counselor; immediately following this keri also twisted their ankle during a game, so they've being benched from the volleyball team and given a prescription for painkillers which im sure is just fine and not gonna exacerbate her situation its honestly really really straightforward whats tripping us up here is that this is being drip-fed one day at a time with a lot of cutting between locations with only a small text box mentioning this on the first day, cutting to a montage that has a flashback inside it, and then cutting to a week earlier to follow a different character for a bit, and also having to fit a couple of major holidays and sparkyday into the schedule, and then having a pseudoflashback to the flashback that was in the montage a few weeks prior by actually playing a tape of the game that thorp lost back in the day ellie the beep fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Dec 2, 2022 |
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Dec 2, 2022 22:20
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F Minus Mark Trail  OK I definitely want the elephant to end the next storyline. Mary Worth  She is absolutely going to look just like Iris. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  YOU'LL WILL RUE THE DAY Andertoons  Apartment 3=G 
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Dec 2, 2022 22:42
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Haraiso Days That’s the end of the book, so here’s a little Uramachi Sakaba Cinematic Universe post-credits scene:   (The stuff at the bottom of the second page is “thanks for reading, Uramachi Sakaba e-book now on sale,” that kind of thing.) I’m not quite sure what Maruoka is working on at the moment, but I have some Uramachi Sakaba zine stuff and a short about the antique collector to keep us busy while we wait.  Register Cat  Cthulhu and Girl 
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Dec 2, 2022 22:58
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Dec 2, 2022 23:06
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ellie the beep posted:right now gil thorp is doing a special training with his football team by voluntelling them to work in a soup kitchen to get them working as a team in a fresh way to open up new thinking; he is doing this because the next game coming up is against a team that absolutely demolished Thorp a while ago but the coach holds a grudge because the newspaper painted that season end as Thorp holding strong, which is complicated by the fact that the rival coach's son (who is the quarterback for that team) has a crush on Keri, gil thorp's kid who is nonbinary and plays for the volleyball team (and seems to have a budding crush on tobias, the trans kid) That... actually clears it up pretty well. There are still a few pieces that don't seem to fit anywhere (like that one strip where some people are playing D&D?) but I think I at least get the basic framework now. Thanks. ellie the beep posted:whats tripping us up here is that this is being drip-fed one day at a time with a lot of cutting between locations with only a small text box mentioning this on the first day, cutting to a montage that has a flashback inside it, and then cutting to a week earlier to follow a different character for a bit, and also having to fit a couple of major holidays and sparkyday into the schedule, and then having a pseudoflashback to the flashback that was in the montage a few weeks prior by actually playing a tape of the game that thorp lost back in the day  Is it always structured like that or did we happen to pick up the strip at a particularly weird time?
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Dec 2, 2022 23:10
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Powered Descent posted:That... actually clears it up pretty well. There are still a few pieces that don't seem to fit anywhere (like that one strip where some people are playing D&D?) but I think I at least get the basic framework now. Thanks. no idea! ive always skipped over it; i just caught up on the last eight weeks because i was annoyed by your complaining  tho tbf now that ive caught up im kind of looking forward to it from now on also the d&d night was at the rival coach's house, part of a sequence showing where everyone was that night (keri at the concert, the other kid over at d&d night, thorp and his wife having a quiet confrontation about the fragile status of their marriage)
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Dec 2, 2022 23:57
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Years ago in an earlier thread I made a joke about an inscrutable post-human society reviving Les Moore from the dead in order to enshrine him as a beloved icon for writing Lisa's Story and he's the last baseline human in a patient and understanding world that's moved on and I'm amazed that I threw that out there as a joke and it turns out I kind of hit a dart board with it. Undercover Boss Is A loving Horrible Show That's Just Corporate Propaganda But What If We Added Race-Faking To The Mix?        
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Dec 3, 2022 00:17
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Dec 18, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Aug 24-25, 1992)   Big Nate  Blind Alley 
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Dec 3, 2022 02:28
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Powered Descent posted:
We picked it up not long after it got a new writer. I think he wrote for comic books before this, so maybe he's not used to how comic strips need to be paced. As far as I can tell, Gil Thorp has always had weird pacing issues, but I think this everything everywhere all at once approach is unique to Barajas.
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Dec 3, 2022 02:35
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The octopus is milking the cows, who are sentient. In this world, this is their job. They get up in the morning and leave their homes and their families go to a place where they are milked. This is what Holbrook has wrought.
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Dec 3, 2022 02:50
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Crabgrass is so goddamn good.
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Dec 3, 2022 03:50
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Short stack for tonight... Out Our Way (June 24-26, 1940)    Our Boarding House (February 15-17, 1923)    And on the same page with the 16th, one of my favorite early OOWs.  Dok's Dippy Caldera (June 20, 1914) 
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Dec 3, 2022 04:11
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Powered Descent posted:
As mentioned it did just get a new writer but no, I think Gil Thorp has always been really fragmentary like this? For as long as I've been trying and failing to read it its strips have always been structured as flashes, brief moments in time, with little obvious flow from one strip to the next - like you're only seeing one strip out of every five or so. I think it's a really interesting way of writing but it's incredibly difficult to follow unless you're really into the strip.
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Dec 3, 2022 04:21
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EasyEW posted:
Did you edit these, or is it really Prince Bootleg Bourbon in reverse?
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Dec 3, 2022 04:47
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thisusedyet posted:Did you edit these, or is it really Prince Bootleg Bourbon in reverse?
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Dec 3, 2022 05:48
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Guessing it was meant to smuggle a few gallons.
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Dec 3, 2022 06:05
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EasyEW posted:And on the same page with the 16th, one of my favorite early OOWs. I can see why it is! Anyways, in today's Blueberry: Blueberry and Campbell's conversation gets rudely interrupted, or Where's Phoenix Wright when you need him?!, or Watch out, Mike - he's very... slowly... about... to... pull that trigger!   
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Dec 3, 2022 07:30
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins  Legends in the Heights 
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Dec 3, 2022 07:33
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Heathcliff  Compu-toon   Garfield   Overboard   Monty   For Better or For Worse   Classic Arlo and Janis (December 30, 2000)   Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon   On The Fastrack   Safe Havens  
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Dec 3, 2022 07:54
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD 
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Dec 3, 2022 08:11
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The Demons of Baseball         
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Dec 3, 2022 09:02
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Giant Ethicist posted:Haraiso Days I'm putting together a bar.  Have you heard of... the Uramachi Sakaba Initiative?
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Dec 3, 2022 09:26
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Vintage Valiant (Aug. 1, 1954)    1/3 2/3 3/3
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Dec 3, 2022 14:19
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Haifisch posted:Locher Tracy
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Dec 3, 2022 14:41
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Lots of them.
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Dec 3, 2022 14:46
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Look if you didn't want the cat to take your frontman job maybe you shouldn't have named him after Eric Clapton. And also on general principles.
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Dec 3, 2022 15:44
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Dec 3, 2022 15:48
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riderchop posted:
Holbrook needs to start drawing both of them in sunglasses. How do you gently caress up eyes that bad??
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Dec 3, 2022 15:50
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Dec 3, 2022 16:16
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Bizarro Alt ...I don't get the reference. The Family Circus  Alt (Original, Alt-hosted original)
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Dec 3, 2022 17:01
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Strontium posted:Daddy Daze And what about May? Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 12/2/02  Stephen Collins  Brenda Starr 12/12-14/49    Smokey Stover 7/29/51  Everyday Movies 11/5/35  "I tell you guys what -- let's chip in and take some dame down to a movie tomorrow night."
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Dec 3, 2022 17:04
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Powered Descent posted:Bizarro Thank God It's Frida.(y) Late in their marriage, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera had marital issues but reconciled.
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Dec 3, 2022 17:06
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Strontium posted:Daddy Daze This is "the children speak like adults" taken to it's lowest ebb.
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Dec 3, 2022 17:24
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus I did a double-take because it really looked like that guy was flipping the bird to the entire congregation for a split second.
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Dec 3, 2022 17:27
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis 
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Dec 3, 2022 17:48
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Drakyn posted:The isolation of rural communities often attracts big-city criminals. The bigness of big cities produces big-city criminals. Everywhere is big-city criminals. How many of these things were less 'crimestoppers' and more 'quiet but incessant nudge towards paranoia'? F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  I'm seeing double here! Four Irises! The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Mud's heel turn is disturbing. He was a cool laid back dude and now he's all "You'll regret this, loser!" Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Dec 3, 2022 18:20
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Realizing with slowly building horror that we are seeing the same events in Phantom for the 3rd or 4th time.  Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD Truck probably should've led with warning about this side of Mud instead of being passive aggressive. Can only hope Wanda smashes a diner pie in Mud's face for the storyline conclusion.
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Dec 3, 2022 19:27
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Yes... ha ha ha... YES!
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Dec 3, 2022 19:30
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I read "former babysitter" as "forever babysitter" like in the cutesy pet video "forever home"
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Dec 3, 2022 19:34
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