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Hempuli posted:I probably complained about it last time too, but that last comic there encapsulates why this comic sucks really well. It's a well made comic but it's such a downer to the point that it stops being funny. All I think after every batch is "Virt would be really happy if he got in his car and drove in one direction. Or murdered everyone he knew." Making me miss Mr Milquetoast, who was pretty well meaning while being the butt of the joke almost every time. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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Ralph Crammed In posted:So they just had drifter monkeys back in the 40s? I screwed up the order (sometimes the book puts days out of order when they do a full-page) Here's the strip from the day before: 1/25  And today's Nancy 1943 
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everyone wear hats now posted:The Creeps I appreciate that he's eating cat food
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (March 14, 1935)  Peanuts (January 30, 1976)  Miss Peach (July 14, 1989)  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (August 29, 1939)  Out Our Way (December 5-7, 1940)   
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Doomykins posted:It's a well made comic but it's such a downer to the point that it stops being funny. All I think after every batch is "Virt would be really happy if he got in his car and drove in one direction. Or murdered everyone he knew." There's especially something in the concept of "I hate my family and a divorce would make me happier, but somehow doing that isn't an option so I must wait for my wife to leave me" that annoys me; I'm aware that it plays on traditional views on marriage & divorce, but the way Virtanen talks about it manages to make every person in the equation seem like a jerk and makes it hard to really root for anyone in the strip, even though I *think* we're supposed to root for Virtanen. Or maybe the reader isn't meant to root for anyone?
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I wonder if Maggie is in a wheel chair actually because honestly to me it looks more like just a chair with a wheel on it.
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Good Listener posted:I wonder if Maggie is in a wheel chair actually because honestly to me it looks more like just a chair with a wheel on it. Yeah I thought it was a wheelchair at first but I think it's like a wheeled garden chair, just fancy.
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Esplanade posted:Miss Peach isn't the best thing in this thread by any means, but it's usually good for a sensible chuckle. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons 
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Pogo 1/2-4/50   A dollar for a bottle of water! What an incredible scam, right, folks? Archie 5/9-11/46 But first, I wanted to call out this panel from yesterday:   Bob Montana's alma mater, Haverhill High School, also has a "Thinker" statue out front -- although theirs is copied from Michelangelo, not Rodin.   
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Selachian posted:Archie 5/9-11/46 Having the sculpture that tops the gates to hell in front of the high school is certainly more apropos.
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Selachian posted:But first, I wanted to call out this panel from yesterday: Haverhill High School, also the alma mater of Rob Zombie and Seth Romatelli
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jun. 19, 1955) I'm such a huge fan of the way that the real Prince Valiant (i.e. Hal Foster) incorporates facts into his fantasy historical fiction. One of the biggest of the many problems with chivalric culture (which many historians posit is one of the worst things to happen to western civ.), as Prince Valiant is referring to here, is that the knights were only trained to wage war and didn't know how to do anything else. They had no other skills, and despite being "high class" they were almost all illiterate (and proudly so - whadya need to know to read for if all ya need to do is kick peasant rear end?). More than once Foster has alluded to the illiterate nature of the "knight" class. Of course, then there's the artwork, which perfects the whole thing...
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I can't remember, but does Planck know Maggie moved on and got married and had a kid because he LITERALLY DISAPPEARED FOR YEARS WITHOUT CONTACT?
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"The new car doesn't actively endanger my life and the lives of other people around it." "-nostalgic sobbing-"
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Ballard Street Good for them!      Avid readers of Ballard Street will know that pulley system enthusiasm is a common feature of the neighbourhood.     
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Feb 10, 1954)  Something I've noticed about Schultz is that he's really bad at drawing action and this is a perfect example of it. Need to draw a reaction to a surprise? Just take a standing pose and turn it upside down! Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 10-11, 1992)   Big Nate  Didn't we just recently have an arc where Nate told her he wasn't interested and she agreed to back off? Blind Alley 
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readingatwork posted:Big Nate She's the strip's Pepe Le Pew.
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PainterofCrap posted:She's the strip's Pepe Le Pew. always has to be a rather unattractive girl, doesn't it? This strip, the dog from Poncho, etc.
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I see her as more of a force of nature. An inexorable future. Nate’s opposite.
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1980 comics      Splitting the two comic pages apart in today's poorly formatted scans, DAWRG:   Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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readingatwork posted:Old School Peanuts (Feb 10, 1954) I dunno, I kinda like how his characters hover in surprise, especially upside down. It's not as static-feeling as it could be since it seems right in place with the style. I admit I have a fondness for his on-the-run pose, especially when it's part of a punchline.
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 7/27/03  Modern Satchel fantasizes about visiting the Pearl Milling Company. Stephen Collins, still political.  Brenda Starr 4/17-19/50    Smokey Stover 8/10/52  Everyday Movies 1/16/36  "Oh, Madge, Betty knocked over your goldfish bowl and it nearly frightened the poor child half to death." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 9/5-7/40    Bonus News Story! Further proof that horny teenagers have always been stupid. 
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Green Intern posted:Also the old man was rowing a boat in a full tux? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_P7yWnAAd0&t=12s I think of all the comics currently in the thread I look forward to Prince Valiant and Archie the most. Also, don't forget Scarlet O'Neil is invulnerable; she strolled through a burning building.
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (February 24, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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BigglesSWE posted:Ballard Street I love these all, but especially Harry. In today's Blueberry: OK, I hate to draw in another thread, but THIS Mookie? This is how you do a comic without dialogue, or You're pretty good..., or Will and Simon talk about the future of America   
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