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Is it too early to start praying for Crankshaft to be cancelled too? That way Batiuk can just gently caress all the way off.
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In today's Blueberry: Oh yeah - late 1800s America loving sucked socially, politically and morally, or Trouble brewing..., or Campbell gets thrown a bone  
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Murdstone posted:
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Nancy 1943 Edit: Look at all this detail! The pattern on Mr. Sputter's tie, the folds in Mrs. Sputter's apron, even the food on the table and the candles. manero fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Jan 7, 2023 |
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Some Guy TT posted:I don't know either, for the record, but my assumption based on my knowledge of RETAILS FROM THE FUTURE is that she has to ditch the whole plan when she finds out she's pregnant and needs her health insurance. Oh yeah, that's the true retail life pain.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis  shut up old man.
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 1/6/03  Stephen Collins  Brenda Starr 2/27 - 3/1/50  Fonzo von Hanky?   Smokey Stover 3/16/52  Everyday Movies 12/20/35  "Shall we take a chance on him, Duke, or shall we make sure of a couple of frankfurters?" Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 6/24-26/40   
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Selachian posted:Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 6/26/40 Ah ha. I was wondering how being invisible was going to be useful in helping these people out of poverty. I'm enjoying this strip so far, thanks for posting it.  Vintage Valiant (Feb. 27, 1955) 
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Whew I got really behind on the previous thread and this one but now I'm caught up. My unsolicited thoughts on a random bunch of comics: I'm still not a fan of OOW, no offense to those who love it. I still find it fairly inscrutable at times and even at its "best" it just feels like old timey Family Circus where it isn't actually funny, just meant to invoke feelings of nostalgia or twee. On the other hand, I have grown to absolutely love OBH. I don't know if the Major is particularly responsible for it, but he at least helped. If this is the case, I guess I understand why he became the strip's breakout character. I'm really enjoying the Archie comics. They're well drawn and interesting, and Jughead rules. Invisible Scarlet is interesting but didn't it start out with her being a suspect in a murder or something? And then it just jumped to a guy wanting to win a baseball game. I'm liking it so far, at least. Demons of Baseball is also fantastic now that the jumping around through time and new character introductions seem to have stopped and is mostly focusing on the team. I mean, it was fantastic before, but it's really hit its stride now I feel. I'm glad Funky Winkerbean is dead even if it went out in the dumbest loving way possible. And although I should repeat to myself "It's just a comic, I should really just relax," I can't help but be confused and annoyed by the whole "timelines merging" poo poo. Like (and someone pointed this out in the leadup to the end) what about those twins who are still in high school in Crankshaft but adults in Funky Winkerbean? What happened to their adult selves? Did they just fade out of existence? Somehow merge with the younger clones? Do both actually simultaneously exist and now there's two sets of identical identical twins at different ages in the world? God I hate TomBat. This latest strip also doesn't have a loving punchline. "Let's use the TV cameras to see who might have the ball at the bottom of the pile." That's what every loving airing of an NFL game does! That isn't a joke! It's just saying what happens during a football game! gently caress you! JethroMcB posted:Perhaps the most beloved annual tradition of Curtis: The Kwanzaa story kind of petering out to a "Wha...huh?" moral that doesn't line up with anything we just read over the last two weeks. My favorite Kwanzaa story is the one of the village that was having a drought and people were dying of starvation and thirst, but one woman had a beautiful green garden, because she had a magic jug that produced water, and didn't share it with anyone else in the village. When some women went "Hey where is that woman getting water from, we need water to live, let's follow her and find out," they stole her jug because they loving need water to live but were punished by vomiting out spiders and tadpoles and poo poo. Just "The end! No moral!"
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Twelve by Pies posted:Invisible Scarlet is interesting but didn't it start out with her being a suspect in a murder or something? And then it just jumped to a guy wanting to win a baseball game. I'm liking it so far, at least. You mean the sample strips I posted in the last thread? No, those were from 1944, a few years later in the strip's run.
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In which Val discovers standoff armor
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Feb. 27, 1955) oh i love this panel, such a great face on the dude with the leather shield
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Selachian posted:You mean the sample strips I posted in the last thread? No, those were from 1944, a few years later in the strip's run. Ah! My reading comprehension is bad, I didn't realize they were only samples. Anyway like I said, it's good.
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Murdstone posted:She needs a writer. These narration boxes are annoying. One thing I've been chewing on for a while: the bassigator is not a very good faux cryptid. They don't tend to be "two animals mashed together". Unless Rusty actually isn't into cryptids but into [/i]folksy tales[/i] like the jackalope or Jersey devil.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I'm still not a fan of OOW, no offense to those who love it. I still find it fairly inscrutable at times and even at its "best" it just feels like old timey Family Circus where it isn't actually funny, just meant to invoke feelings of nostalgia or twee. I can at least understand where you're coming from on OOW, even if I'm obviously in another camp. The writeups usually describe it as the first "stick it on the fridge" strip, and I'm not convinced that would've been everybody's thing even back then.  But as long as Family Circus came up, I ran across this one last year and it felt...eerily familiar.  (School Days (Clare Victor "Dwig" Dwiggins), November 19, 1919) My Lovely Horse posted:One thing I've been chewing on for a while: the bassigator is not a very good faux cryptid. They don't tend to be "two animals mashed together". Unless Rusty actually isn't into cryptids but into folksy tales like the jackalope or Jersey devil. The basselope got to Rusty first.  Mutts  Sally Forth  Peanuts: In case you missed yesterday, Charlie Brown and Sally's school collapsed overnight due to a case of midcentury ennui. (January 10, 1976)  Miss Peach (June 24, 1989)  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (August 9, 1939)  Just in time for the weekend, here's Thursday's Olive & Popeye! (Randy's shift)  Out Our Way (October 7-9, 1940)   
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If you're enough of a do-gooder that you're hunting down a cop to tell them, "Hey, I ran that red light back there", I'll think you're a simpleton too.
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I'm gonna go nuts if I don't get this out there: Comic Strips 2023: More Like Funky Has-bean Anyway, Docks   Retail   Popcom  
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Is it too early to start praying for Crankshaft to be cancelled too? That way Batiuk can just gently caress all the way off. Giant Ethicist posted:Cthulhu and Girl: some great Hastaro faces in this one F Minus   Mark Trail  Hippocrass posted:And an artist. My Lovely Horse posted:And an artist, let's be honest.  Fair, but she's done some good artwork at random points and I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt that if she had split the duties with someone else she could put more effort into the art. Mary Worth  Well she's not with you, Wilbur, so she's like 90% of the way there. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons 
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ellie the beep posted:oh i love this panel, such a great face on the dude with the leather shield The arrow passed underneath his moustache 
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Murdstone posted:There's a special liquid to wash rice? no, she's been washing it with dishsoap
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Technowolf posted:I assume this was 30 years before firearm safety was invented? Remember the constant stream of "And He Did!" where children kill themselves with their father's guns?
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Raskolnikov38 posted:no, she's been washing it with dishsoap
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Comic Strips 2023: You've had a tough time, Les Moore
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Murdstone posted:Is that a thing? I’ve never heard of that. It's a joke. You wash dishes with soap (aka washing up liquid). Washing rice with soap sounds awful.
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Murdstone posted:Is that a thing? I’ve never heard of that. Mr. Squishy posted:It's a joke. You wash dishes with soap (aka washing up liquid). Washing rice with soap sounds awful. Her character is the trope of Sheltered Rich Girl On Her Own For The First Time. She's never had to make her own rice before, so when she was told she had to wash it first she assumed they meant with soap. Luann   Gil Thorp  
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Pogo 10/24-26/49   Archie 2/28 - 3/2/46    So, the "stag line" is the guys who showed up without dates. In some situations, they were allowed to "cut in" during a dance by tapping the guy on the shoulder and then taking a dance with the guy's date. There were fairly elaborate social rules about when you could cut in and with who. (Was there a similar system for women? You know there wasn't. If you were a girl and you didn't get a date, your options were either stay home or go to the dance alone, be a pathetic wallflower, and hope some guy gave you a pity dance.) I'm pretty sure the joke in the second strip is that cutting in is banned at the school dance, and Weatherbee missed all the guys cutting in on Archie but catches him when he's trying to get back to his own date. Also for the It Was Another Time file: high school students leaving prom to go to a nightclub.
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