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Tiggum posted:Looking like that? it was like Elvis, where everyone pretended lyrics like "I wanna hug you" were scandalously explicit
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Jan 29, 2023 10:59
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~Coxy posted:Our Boarding House Very good
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Jan 29, 2023 11:08
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I have completely lost track of the emotions in DoB.
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Lunch Pondus  Storefri 
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Jan 29, 2023 12:24
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Nancy 1943Mr. Squishy posted:He must have escaped from his organ grinder.  Yikes on that racist trope though. I honestly don't know whether I should spoiler stuff like this.
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Jan 29, 2023 14:08
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Prince Arn is lucky as gently caress his aunts aren't around. Katwin would slap the poo poo outta him, and Tillicum would be very very angry. Imagine Bolthar!
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Jan 29, 2023 14:20
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Hostile V posted:When Dale Earnhardt Died, Did They Just Eat His Corpse Off The Pavement
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Jan 29, 2023 14:43
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B. Virtanen ANSU   Fingerpori  Peruspäiväraha is a daily payment that unemployed people can file for that's paid for the time they're unemployed. I went for "daily allowance" because that's technically how "päiväraha" translates, but I guess "basic income" could've been more accurate? Perus päivä raha = basic/base day money Perus- = when used as a prefix, indicates that a thing is ordinary, nothing unusual. "Peruspäivä", i.e. ordinary day, is a relatively common term. (Perussuomalaiset, the right-wing party, uses this same prefix so while their official English name is True Finns, a more accurate translation could be Ordinary Finns or Basic Finns.)
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Tiggum posted:Looking like that? It's not the first time, nor was it the last, that a funny-looking musician had crowds lusting after them. Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 1/28/03  Brenda Starr 4/20-22/50   Are we finally getting rid of ...  Dammit. Smokey Stover 8/17/52  Everyday Movies 1/17/36  "All right! If you don't like my meal, here's 15 cents. Go out and buy yourself a good one." (Browsing through the New York Public Library's menu collection, it looks like 15 cents would have gotten you an English muffin back then.) Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 9/9-11/40    I don't know why Stamm keeps mentioning Johnstown when as far as I can tell, there is no Johnstown, NJ. The original seeing eye dog school in the US is in Morristown.
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Jan 29, 2023 16:09
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Invisible "Scarlet" O'Neil is going to utterly destroy the city of Johnstown, New Jersey, and all souls who abide therein
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Bizarro The Family Circus  Slylock Fox  drat that's a fine baby elephant. Also, something something Elon Musk submarine. FoxTrot 
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manero posted:Nancy 1943
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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~Coxy posted:Our Boarding House 
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I think it is cool people can choose not to look at outlandish stereotypes if they don't like to see that.
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Jan 29, 2023 18:43
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Docks  Retail   Popcom  
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Jan 29, 2023 19:54
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this was beyond dated when the strip was made
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goatface posted:I have completely lost track of the emotions in DoB. EVERYBODY IS INCREDIBLY ANGRY Junk Drawer  I think I will start posting Home Free from the beginning. It's a new enough comic that it shouldn't take too long to catch up and by then we should be able to tell if it's any good or not. Here's the first week, timg'd because the panels are so big Home Free   
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Tiggum posted:
Have some contemporary media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc5xEgoAaM0
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Feb 12, 1954)  Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 14-15, 1992)   Big Nate  Blind Alley 
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This went from funny as a kid to hilarious as an adult. 1980 comics       Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns   Computoon: Origins 
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Julet Esqu posted:I think I will start posting Home Free from the beginning. It's a new enough comic that it shouldn't take too long to catch up and by then we should be able to tell if it's any good or not. Here's the first week, timg'd because the panels are so big I like the looks of this. The cartooning looks lively and fun, which honestly my main criteria for a modern strip.
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I think it makes more sense to keep spoiler tags reserved for the most outrageous holy-gently caress-that's-racist material, if that, rather than as a general "better safe than sorry" catch-all measure for anything that could possibly offend. Not as a value judgment, just in practical terms: if 9 times out of 10 the tags hide nothing worse than the phrase "cannibals in Africa" then I'm likely to think oh huh, it's not so shocking what's behind the spoilers, I can have a peek pretty much every time, and then when the 10th time it's a full on golliwog that's gonna be right in my face. e: a while ago I was at a boardgame exhibition and they had games from the time of colonialist Germany themed around travelling the world (i.e. the colonies), and they had content warnings on those too. But some were "just" colonialist in that captions referenced colonies and colonial trade and the illustrations depicted, by and large, relatively innocent-seeming common life scenes, while one was actively super racist with game events and illustrations centered around superstitious natives and their funny dances and what have you. They all had the same kind of warning on them, and I thought that was weird, that one wasn't categorized as worse than the other. My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jan 29, 2023 |
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my BITCH of a WIFE loves to SHOP
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Kennel posted:Dustin Because they're white, the Kudlicks survived this encounter with the police.
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Mutts Sally Forth  Peanuts (February 1, 1976)  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire and the Curse of Tangaroa!  Popeye 
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The Creeps is so good. Controversial opinion, I know.
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EasyEW posted:
Feels like Randy is directly addressing critics here.
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (February 1, 1976) F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Flash Gordon 
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EasyEW posted:
I hope not. "Things change, so don't criticize me" is pretty weak. I even like Randy's Popeye but I realize now that he spent 4-5 weeks telling roughly the same joke(and telling it well, admittedly) plus a few decent accessory jokes about some third-stringers as his first ongoing story. I mentioned awhile ago that Randy was having trouble at first with depicting action, the strip really is mostly SP with a Popeye skin, and considering how often he has played the "I've exhaustively read the Popeye wiki and Thimble Theatre strips" card, well, he's getting there but I think he should really try to take up the mantle of the insane IP they let him have. Come on Randy, give us a full length rambling story with TT action and adventure! He's just shown he can carry a plotline across Sundays! Genuine gut busters today. 
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The Antique Dealer’s Tale  The end! Edit: Oh! Here's the Mangadex link if you want to share / reread / throw it some likes: https://mangadex.org/title/a397c8b4-28c2-4b0e-a8a0-f2a5faadb3ab/the-tale-of-the-antique-dealer-an-uramachi-sakaba-side-story Cthulhu and Girl  Um Bread 
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Pogo 1/9-11/50  Monsieur Reynard.  Archie 5/16-18/46    It's not very readable, but the asterisk at the bottom of the second panel is " * Jughead."
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Giant Ethicist posted:
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 
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Giant Ethicist posted:
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OK so I finally finished the new Peanuts graphic novel. I was curious to see what new artists would do with the material and how it would contrast with the stuff I've been posting from the 50s. I say "graphic novel" but it's really more of a series of short stories split up by a few pages of classic Peanuts strips by Charles Schultz.   Let's do some short thoughts on each entry and then I'll go into overall impressions. First off is "The Beagle Has Landed Charlie Brown!", which takes up about half the length of the book.  This first page made me fairly optimistic. It's leveraging depth and action (something you just never got from Schultz work) and I liked the little moment on page 2 where CB stops playing to grab a muffin. Not earth shattering stuff by any stretch but kind of cute, you know? Unfortunately moments like these are few and far between and what you actually get is pretty boring. It's mostly just Snoopy in the back yard feuding with the neighbor's cat in a way you've seen countless times before but with a space themed dream sequence at the end which is a step up in the visuals but is still pretty bland overall.   It's also peppered with random asides like you'd get with the newspaper strips which kill the pacing of what's already a pretty bare bones plot. I wouldn't mind it so much if they were clever or visually interesting but they are neither so I mostly found myself tempted to skip them.  Overall this chapter is pretty tedious but with a few cute moments sprinkled in. I wasn't expecting a whole lot but considering the space themes of the book I feel like we could have done something a LOT more interesting. The rest of the chapters are pretty short so I'll be brief. Plane and Simple: I'm very annoyed that they had an entire discussion about planes but never bothered to draw one. To it's credit though this artist draws the characters much more expressively than the others.  Food for Fraught: OH MY GOD WHY ARE WE DOING ANOTHER SNOOPY IS FIGHTING WITH THE CAT BECAUSE OF FOOD STORY!? To it's credit though the art feels a bit more solid and polished here than in the other chapters. If I had to pick I'd ditch the first chapter and keep this one.  Have Dish Will Travel: Yet another "Snoopy wants more food than he's allowed" story. Fantastic.The art feels like a step down from the other chapters as well. Not bad necessarily, but simplistic and bland.  Charlie Brown's star: In which the characters discuss which star CB owns so the artist doesn't have to draw backgrounds. To be fair though I don't hate how they draw the characters here. They also make CB slightly more upbeat than usual which I enjoy.  Sunny Disposition: The one in which characters other than the core cast get to appear. Not terribly memorable but points for that panel of CB not giving a gently caress.   Twinkle Thinkle: This is my favorite chapter based solely on the fact that the writer actually remembered that Rerun was a thing.  Kickoff to the moon: Woodstock rides a football to the desert where thinks he's on the moon and meets that dog that I think is Snoopy's brother and finds a rock. Not much happens but points for some decently composed panel work.  Overall, If I were to sum up my feelings for this book I'd call it "aggressively non-controversial". It feels like a professionally made product that has no ambitions beyond putting something out there that looks and feels exactly like what you'd read in the newspaper. Everybody does slightly remixed versions of the stuff they did in the comics and nothing else. it won't make anybody mad, but it's a very bland experience for it. I really, really wish the writers were given the leeway to do something a bit more risky and weird. Maybe reboot the continuity so we can watch people meet and form friendships, or change the setting up so that it's ~actually on the moon~. Bring SOMETHING new to the table God damnit! Or at the very least let your artists do something visually interesting. I pulled a bunch of random Peanuts fanart and most of it looked better than this official graphic novel because they were allowed to go off-model and make interesting artistic choices that might alienate a few people. I mean, compare the pages up there some of this stuff:      It's also interesting to compare this to the 50's stuff I'm posting now because the Old School stuff just looks and feels *so much* better than this. Say what you want about Schulz's weird old art but it was incredibly expressive and had a lot of personality.  There's also a real sense of comedic conflict in the old stuff that's lacking in in Schulz later work (and by extension this book, which draws mainly from his later stuff). Everybody is kind of a huge rear end in a top hat to each other despite being friends and it's great. It actually feels very modern in that sense compared to other strips from this time. It's, if I may be so bold, got a bit of an edge to it. In fact, I'd even go as far as to say that the graphic novel would have felt much more fresh and interesting had it instead aped the 50's style rather than the more modern stuff. But I've wanted more stuff based on the old stuff for years now so I'm biased. Sooo.. yeah. That's the new Peanuts comic. TLDR: It's kind of boring and has lackluster art. It's not the worst thing ever but I wouldn't bother with this one unless a watered down version of the 90's comics/TV specials sounds appealing to you. readingatwork fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Jan 30, 2023 |
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Special Guest Artist Brooke McEldowney.
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Hwurmp posted:goddamnit they never smooched
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