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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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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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Murdstone posted:He's gonna bring Lisa back isn't he? The end of all this is Lisa is alive and no one remembers the world where she wasn't. With the 100% accurate capture of Lisa's personality and legacy, they can finally resurrect their queen and savior in the future.
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...Wait, there was a post office bombing?
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Dec 6, 2022 22:36
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OneMoreTime posted:...Wait, there was a post office bombing? Yeah, I think Rush Limbaugh caused it. Funky went loving insane in the 90s.
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Dec 6, 2022 23:11
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As opposed to now. gently caress Funky. Can we have Bullwinkle back?
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Dec 6, 2022 23:29
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OneMoreTime posted:...Wait, there was a post office bombing? Yeah, in 1996, a year after Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Dec 6, 2022 23:32
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Dec 6, 2022 23:33
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Nekonohey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvnzY8GZpQ
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Dec 6, 2022 23:36
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No Online Animal Left Unfunny MONETIZE THE ROT         "Why has the last strip been about Kevin wanting to pounce Kell" well it's March so that means it's time for a month-long rut/heat-powered suck-and-gently caress-fest as per...weird "I want to write this" tradition.
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Dec 7, 2022 00:07
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My Lovely Horse posted:This is merely an observation rather than an expression of offense, but I do feel like "Prince Valiant in the land of the Arabs" is being more a product of its time than it usually is. Yeah it comes off as a little bit iffy. Although the main thing to me is how anachronistic it seems. Like I know Prince Valiant isn't meant to be accurate to real history, but we've got Islam and classical Roman legionaries wandering around at the same time. Green Intern posted:With the 100% accurate capture of Lisa's personality and legacy, they can finally resurrect their queen and savior in the future. I mean, pretty much right? This final story thus far is: Lisa dies Les writes a book The success of that book prompts Summer to write her own book That book causes a new social movement that brings about world peace Thus, Lisa's death directly leads to world peace. Lisa's death redeems humanity. Saint Lisa? No, no. Savior Lisa  I'm sure this isn't silly in the actual context of a noh play, but this always makes me laugh.
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Dec 7, 2022 00:24
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EasyEW posted:[ Santa's motivation is quite simple, Ed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OKGUAbpj5k
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Dec 7, 2022 01:22
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Dec 7, 2022 03:16
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Ok, what the hell is happening in Funky right now? I don't know much about it but it never struck me as the kind of comic where some magical contrivance can bring a character back from the dead. Crabgrass  Old School Peanuts (Dec 20, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Aug 28-29, 1992)   Big Nate 
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Dec 7, 2022 03:38
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readingatwork posted:Crabgrass (I know I know I'm being a pedant and a scold but I notice these things because I'm work-poisoned)
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Dec 7, 2022 04:10
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I'm in suspense for what'll happen to the booze sarcophagus in boarding house
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Dec 7, 2022 04:12
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The tv strips really are the biggest thing pinning C&H in a very specific timeframe, huh?
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Dec 7, 2022 04:16
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And sure enough, service by sundown. Olive & Popeye (the corrected version)  Mister Olympus posted:I'm in suspense for what'll happen to the booze sarcophagus in boarding house Whoops, gotta keep the customers satisfied. Welcome back to Our Boarding House, where the usual gang of hecklers and hangers-on try to crack the riddle of the Sphinx. (February 19-21, 1923)    Toonerville Folks (May 6-8, 1920)    Dok's Dippy Natural Disaster (June 21, 1914)  Little Lefty (September 2-4, 1937)   
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Dec 7, 2022 04:51
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Luann Hell if I know why we're getting reruns this week, but I'd like to think that thanks to the lead time a series of strips written 6 months ago turned out to be incredibly offensive today and they had to sub these in at the last minute. Gil Thorp  Recall that Tobias was recruited from the soccer team.
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Dec 7, 2022 05:11
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SO is it becoming regular from here on in boarding house that stories (such as they are) go multiple weeks? I'm surprised at how fast The Major takes over the strip compared to popeye and his
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Dec 7, 2022 05:30
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It does become the standard as things roll along. I haven't read ahead in the 20s, but the 1939-40 ones that tag along with OOW in the newspapers I'm pulling from tend to keep going for awhile.
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Dec 7, 2022 05:34
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Dec 7, 2022 06:44
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Docks  Retail's website has been down all day, so we'll play catch-up once it's back in action. Popcom  
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Dec 7, 2022 07:04
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Ghostlight posted:Nekonaughey The cat is great, but the real star of Nekonaughey is the serious little rich rabbit every time, to me.
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Dec 7, 2022 07:10
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics       It's a legitimate question.  Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins  Legends in the Heights 
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Dec 7, 2022 07:17
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Dec 7, 2022 08:11
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Haifisch posted:1980 comics A mustard... what? 
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Dec 7, 2022 08:36
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Heathcliff  Compu-toon   Garfield   Overboard  :url: Monty   For Better or For Worse   Classic Arlo and Janis (January 03, 2001)   Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon   On The Fastrack   Safe Havens  
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Dec 7, 2022 08:45
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Ghostlight posted:Nekonaughey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa-Kx5M-8Ak
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Dec 7, 2022 09:26
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Vintage Valiant (Aug. 22, 1954)  This came to mind for me too. This was honestly one of their best host segments. I forget, is this from the Prince of Space episode? I always loved that one. Medenmath fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Dec 7, 2022 |
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Dec 7, 2022 10:54
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Kazinsal posted:A mustard... what? Mustard was a pretty common folk remedy for colds, mostly based on the idea that you can feel it doing something to you so it must be working. That is to say, it feels warm and can make you sweat. Mustard chest plasters / poultices were also used, but either one of them runs the risk of causing chemical burns to the skin if you use too much.
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Dec 7, 2022 11:50
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Murdstone posted:F Minus This is great, but drawing curtains over the window ruins it IMO.
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Mercury Hat posted:Mustard was a pretty common folk remedy for colds, mostly based on the idea that you can feel it doing something to you so it must be working. That is to say, it feels warm and can make you sweat. Mustard chest plasters / poultices were also used, but either one of them runs the risk of causing chemical burns to the skin if you use too much. It should be noted that a "mustard foot bath" would have been dry mustard powder mixed into hot water, not sticking your feet into an actual tub of French's. Bunter Is Coming  Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 12/6/02  Brenda Starr 12/22-24/49    Smokey Stover 8/26/51  Everyday Movies 11/11/35  "You don't think Mae's popular? Why, she has so many dates she hasn't even time to mend her stockings."
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Dec 7, 2022 13:11
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The Creeps 
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Dec 7, 2022 13:45
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Crab Dad posted:Well you always need a bad guy. Nobody complained much when he was beating up the Scots and Irish. He’s basically just fightin’ ‘round the world. What seems off about the Arabs to me compared to the typical exotic foreigner arc in Prince Valiant is that they seem to be portrayed as unusually incompetent compared to their predecessors when strictly speaking, they should probably be among the most dangerous adversaries Prince Valiant has faced given their relative level of technological advancement.
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Dec 7, 2022 14:14
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Some Guy TT posted:What seems off about the Arabs to me compared to the typical exotic foreigner arc in Prince Valiant is that they seem to be portrayed as unusually incompetent compared to their predecessors when strictly speaking, they should probably be among the most dangerous adversaries Prince Valiant has faced given their relative level of technological advancement. We're in a weird limbo where it's both the 5th century and the last bits of Western Rome are falling and somehow the Rashidun/Umayyad Caliphate is also around and ruling up to Syria when that was still East Roman territory?
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Dec 7, 2022 14:48
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Kavak posted:We're in a weird limbo where it's both the 5th century and the last bits of Western Rome are falling and somehow the Rashidun/Umayyad Caliphate is also around and ruling up to Syria when that was still East Roman territory? Much like actual Arthurian legend, Foster tends to mash up a couple centuries of the early medieval period.
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Dec 7, 2022 14:56
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Some Guy TT posted:What seems off about the Arabs to me compared to the typical exotic foreigner arc in Prince Valiant is that they seem to be portrayed as unusually incompetent compared to their predecessors when strictly speaking, they should probably be among the most dangerous adversaries Prince Valiant has faced given their relative level of technological advancement. I wouldn't read too far into it. This storyline is about a couple of merchants and their associated hired thugs, not the full force of their respective civilizations. Plus, this is the comic that has muslims wandering around a full century before the birth of the prophet. It's not exactly meant to be a historical document.
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Dec 7, 2022 15:03
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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riderchop posted:Classic Arlo and Janis (January 03, 2001) When my family got my first Windows machine in the late '90s (we were very late adopters), my dad got a notification that "this operation has performed an illegal operation" and honestly thought that the FBI was going to be knocking on our door. True story.
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Dec 7, 2022 16:07
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (January 30, 1935)  Peanuts (December 10, 1969)  The Funky Winkerbean Farewell Tour, with today's special guest star, an impenetrable wall of words!  The point of all this gibberish is to explain how the "ten years ahead" characters are going to get mainstreamed into Crankshaft once Funky ends... Crankshaft  ...but I kind of feel bad for the twins here. They just graduated high school in Funky, and now they're going to have to go through it all over again. Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire Ka-Reruns  Thimble Theater (July 8, 1939)  Out Our Way (July 8-10, 1940)   
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"Your mind has to remain free of anything I may say or do that could influence what you write. Uhm. Wait. Oh poo poo. Please forget everything I just said and leave."
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