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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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Powerful Katrinka posted:Like, I'm sorry, but if Summer Moore is a famous author in this hellscape, how would it escape everyone's attention that her father was a published writer who wrote about the famous Summer Moore's goddamn mother? The book that inspired a loving Oscar-winning film? Was it so bad that it had to be memory-holed, like a Key and Peele sketch? Also this is her granddaughter buying this book.
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Dec 28, 2022 19:07
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EasyEW posted:Sally Forth
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Dec 28, 2022 19:31
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My Lovely Horse posted:Ted buddy you know you can just take the poster though, right? Docks   Retail   Popcom  
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Dec 28, 2022 20:16
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My Lovely Horse posted:Ted buddy you know you can just take the poster though, right? It's not just the poster, and he already went through the room to grab stuff to take back iirc and Sally had to stop him from taking everything because they do not have the room. I am surprised he didn't take the poster specifically, but there should be other stuff
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Dec 28, 2022 20:21
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coronatae posted:A commenter on GoComics found it and Georgia Dunn posted it to the BCN facebook page: EasyEW posted:Sally Forth Edit: I see the thread is in agreement on this issue. EasyEW posted:One Last OH FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU For The Road F Minus   Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Phantom, you loving idiot. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons 
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EasyEW posted:
i'll give him some credit if he remembers enough and they use the time machine to go back and make the don't get on the 9/11 plane les!!! call but he's real hosed at knowing his own continuity so
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Dec 28, 2022 20:37
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Dec 28, 2022 20:39
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Luann Gil Thorp  I thought the dialog was hosed up at first, but it turns out these two just look exactly alike
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Dec 28, 2022 21:02
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Dec. 26, 1954) I love the detail in the second (third?) panel of Aleta covertly wrangling the twins.
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Dec 28, 2022 21:21
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Fighting Trousers posted:second (third?) threcond
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Dec 28, 2022 21:27
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Professor Wayne posted:Pickles  ).
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Dec 28, 2022 21:30
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Murdstone posted:This is yesterday's Pickles (which I guess would technically be Cucumbers Whoops. Thought it looked familiar 
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Dec 28, 2022 21:32
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Murdstone posted:This is yesterday's Pickles (which I guess would technically be Cucumbers that's tomorrow's Pickles
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Dec 28, 2022 21:34
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The end of Funky Winkerbean certainly isn’t as cringe as the Ginchrist Nancy ending but it is very nearly unreadable due to the thick cloud of smugness covering every panel.
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Dec 28, 2022 22:04
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coming back to the comic strip thread for the first time since 2018 to say gently caress funky winkerbean goddamn that said, this is the second time (after social media, which tipped me off to funky going away) I've seen somebody say that time travelers are happening, but I've read over the last week of strips, and they just look like far-future descendents, what about this is time travel? is it something from an earlier plot arc?
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Dec 28, 2022 22:12
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A week or so back some lady had an extended interview with a school janitor who claims to be a time traveler. Dunno what to tell ya. It’s dumb.
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Dec 28, 2022 22:21
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That might have been "just a dream".
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Dec 28, 2022 22:22
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EasyEW posted:One Last OH FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU For The Road im howling laughing
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Dec 28, 2022 22:29
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just cackling
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Dec 28, 2022 22:31
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What emotion is he trying to elicit with this coda?
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Dec 28, 2022 22:36
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goatface posted:What emotion is he trying to elicit with this coda? Gratitude that this garbage strip is finally over? And a shared social commitment to never let it be revived?
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Dec 28, 2022 22:51
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goatface posted:What emotion is he trying to elicit with this coda? The audience is Batiuk, so I'd put my money on self-satisfaction.
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Dec 28, 2022 22:54
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goatface posted:That might have been "just a dream". He literally did, "It was all just a dream... OR WAS IT???" And now that we're watching her grandkid from the future finding her extra special book, that indicates the time travel was real
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Dec 28, 2022 22:59
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Confirming that the time travel is real is pretty messed up as a story teller. Lisa died of preventable cancer. They mixed up her test results for treatment at the hospital, allowing her cancer to progress to irreversible. Now I know we joke about Les being inhumanly weird about it but I bet he would've preferred his wife living another 40-60 years, to say nothing of their daughter. But whatever, the Janitor was apparently simultaneously a magical, insanely persuasive and capable man who could convince entire hospital staffs, communities and even awkward teenagers to move when necessary for minor contrivances instead of delivering info that would prevent major tragedy AND so bizarrely incompetent he let his time travel device be stolen by a child and then vanish from him, never daring to... ask the child, or burglarize her house or something. Batiuk seems completely oblivious to what he's done and wouldn't even imagine an interesting story coming of it(what if Summer started yelling at him about this stuff or we got an actual "the needs of the timeline come before our personal desires", a time-travel story classic), and instead of five weeks of a Funky story that might be pleasing to the fans as a capstone of this setting, we get a crapstone of insanely absurd fart huffing. Of course I guess for those of us looking at Funky from the outside and going from things like One Weird Pizzaria Trick, Ice Agents Hate It! to Les Moore Wins Oscar For Best Actress to Two Old Men Push Woman Out Of The Story In Story About Industry Sexism in the last two years, well, this is just business as normal. You wouldn't expect a dog to not eat an unguarded steak and you can't expect Batiuk to grow some self-awareness now. Goodbye Funky, ask the syndicates to try not to revive an old IP on the way out.
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Dec 28, 2022 23:13
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He wants it to be 2007 again so loving bad. Lisa's story arc filled his ego like it was the Hindenburg and he's been trying to reach that high again, except I don't think he understood why it affected people or how to use his characters like that again, especially with the timeskip, so he settled for jacking off about it and Silver Age comics.
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Dec 28, 2022 23:17
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Schwarzwald posted:The audience is Batiuk, so I'd put my money on self-satisfaction. This whole ending has had real strong "masturbating while maintaning eye contact" vibe to it. Selachian posted:Bonus Comic! I know absolutely nothing about this one, other than it looks kinda like a knockoff Nancy, but the final panel caught my eye. I got Perry Bible Fellowship vibes.
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Dec 28, 2022 23:19
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Good Listener posted:Was it illegal for women to turn down baseball related proposals back in the day cuz Maggie you really had no reason to actually marry him if you didn't want to. Other than I guess your pain in the rear end mom? as far as i'm aware, arranged marriages were common practice in korea well into the latter half of last century so the mom might well have forced her hand
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Dec 28, 2022 23:23
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A none-hack with a smudge of self awareness would use this last victory lap before the end to make fun of some of the more insane plotlines of recent years. Remember when token Muslim character got yeeted by ICE in a convoluted trap set up by them, only for her to be released after the main characters call Bill Clinton to pull some strings? Capping it off with the ICE fascists coming over to the pizza place for some totally rockin’ slices.
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Dec 28, 2022 23:44
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Funky Winkerbean is, ultimately, a comic strip occupied with asserting its own importance.
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Dec 28, 2022 23:51
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See Below For Pithy Post Header        If You Guessed That The QR Code Leads To The Kevin & Kell Website, Congrats On Winning Today's No-Prize
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Hopping back a bit, but... If I'm not mistaken, there aren't any branches of the Primates in this setting, except for the otherworldly/fictional/departed Humans, and lemurs (which I think got in because of a subscription OC). There are no apes, thaks to the time fuckery of the Birdluminati. What the hell is Tarzan?
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Dec 29, 2022 00:40
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My Lovely Horse posted:Ted buddy you know you can just take the poster though, right? Darthemed posted:Good grief, this this this, definitely. If he leaves it, he's just making more work for his poor mom. If he takes it, he has a tangible memory of the place he's been whinging about never coming back to again. rannum posted:It's not just the poster, and he already went through the room to grab stuff to take back iirc and Sally had to stop him from taking everything because they do not have the room. Murdstone posted:Ted better take that loving poster. I am 90% sure that poster is glued to the wall and resisted several attempts to remove it the first time Ted went home to visit his parents.
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Dec 29, 2022 02:49
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Our Boarding House, in which (among other things) the Major attempts to pull rank. (April 5-7, 1923)   Toonerville Folks (June 14-16, 1920)    Dok's "Superior Firepower" Duck (July 4, 1914)  Little Lefty (October 7-9, 1937)   
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Dec 29, 2022 03:38
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Goodbye, Funky Winkerbean, and don't let the cancer hit you on the way out. I can only hope Batiuk won't pull a Lynn Johnston nine months down the road and announce a New Reboot. Please let's keep 2023 a good year.
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Dec 29, 2022 04:23
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Crankshaft will slowly get bleaker as the Funky characters filter in and take over, like how Outland shifted back into being Bloom County after eight months.
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Dec 29, 2022 04:25
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Jan 11, 1954)  Calvin and Hobbes (Oct 11-12, 1992)   Big Nate 
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Modesty Blaise: Take-Over 
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Dec 29, 2022 05:07
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Oct 11-12, 1992) I actually did this when I was Calvin's age (although I didn't see the strip until years later). I have a scar on my scalp to prove it.
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2018 Spiderman 1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Digging the Crimestoppers-ified "always cover your rear end" tip. Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins  Legends in the Heights 
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