Comic Strips 2023: It's not a fetish or anything, I swear

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EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Our Boarding House (July 2-4, 1923)

A safe and sane Fourth, 1923 style: lighting a fire under a paper balloon and letting the flaming wreckage drift off into the neighborhood.

Toonerville Folks (September 6-8, 1920; spoilered for one straight out of the minstrel show.)

Dok's "Tempting Fate Once Too Often" Duck (July 28, 1914)

And further up the page, one of the reasons there wasn't a Potlatch in 1915.

And a few months ago it was Mexico they were sweating over. Go figure.

Little Lefty (January 3-5, 1938)

# ? Feb 10, 2023 04:58

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# ? May 30, 2024 00:40

thisusedyet: Feb 14, 2012; My post... it sucks!!!

EasyEW posted:

Out Our Way (January 13-15, 1941)

Holy poo poo! There's no way that kid's not dead, right?
Not from the impact shown here, but he's getting pancaked when that cow touches down.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 05:26

Safety Dance: Sep 10, 2007; Five degrees to starboard!

thisusedyet posted:

Holy poo poo! There's no way that kid's not dead, right?
Not from the impact shown here, but he's getting pancaked when that cow touches down.

Taken 30 years too soon.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 05:30

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

thisusedyet posted:

Holy poo poo! There's no way that kid's not dead, right?
Not from the impact shown here, but he's getting pancaked when that cow touches down.

There's two kids left on that sled, so maybe at least one of them got out with just a crushed pelvis.

EasyEW fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Feb 10, 2023

# ? Feb 10, 2023 05:59

Weembles: Apr 19, 2004

Would Ethan Frome been better or worse with a cow?

# ? Feb 10, 2023 06:02

thisusedyet: Feb 14, 2012; My post... it sucks!!!

Weembles posted:

Would Ethan Frome been better or worse with a cow?

Never heard of Ethan Frome before, looked it up.
Fuckin' depressing as all hell, man.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 06:42

readingatwork: Jan 8, 2009; Hello Fatty!; Fun Shoe

Crabgrass

Old School Peanuts (Feb 23, 1954)

Calvin and Hobbes (Jan 5-6, 1993)

Big Nate

Blind Alley

# ? Feb 10, 2023 06:46

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

References Ergo Humor

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Macanudo

Dark Side of the Horse

# ? Feb 10, 2023 07:20

riderchop: Aug 10, 2010; av by @daikonquest!

Heathcliff

Compu-toon

Garfield

Overboard

Monty

For Better or For Worse

Classic Arlo and Janis (March 09, 2001)

Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon

On The Fastrack

Safe Havens

# ? Feb 10, 2023 07:44

Hempuli: Nov 16, 2011

B. Virtanen

ANSU

Fingerpori

I don't know much about cars, I don't know a saying specifically about cars going cuckoo

# ? Feb 10, 2023 08:20

VKing: Apr 22, 2008

Hempuli posted:

Fingerpori
I don't know much about cars, I don't know a saying specifically about cars going cuckoo

Maybe it's something about running like a Swiss clock?

# ? Feb 10, 2023 09:07

Howard Beale: Feb 22, 2001; It's like this, Peanut

Strontium posted:

References Ergo Humor

We trained an AI on over twenty years of geek culture webcomics, then asked it to create a comic of its own. Here's what it came up with.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 09:14

catlord: Mar 22, 2009; What's on your mind, Axa?

Howard Beale posted:

We trained an AI on over twenty years of geek culture webcomics, then asked it to create a comic of its own. Here's what it came up with.

In 2014, the machines declared war.

Seriously, I thought it was only a few years old but look at the date on that article! July 7th, 2014! I could have sworn it was more recent, it's only been posted for a couple years, right? Anyways, let's take a look at that article:

quote:

For his crew of four main characters, Reddick pulls from himself and those around him growing up in Indianapolis as a sci-fi and comic-book fan surrounded by those who adore Hoosier basketball, Colts football and the Indianapolis 500.

Skip's the kind of guy who knows all the dialogue from episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and he's the polar opposite of his co-worker Barry, the top salesman at Finch Marketing and a super-jock who's ready to drop and do 200 pushups whenever the mood strikes.

Skip's colleague � and crush � Gwen is a well-balanced, strong-willed individual, though her one weakness is cat memes on the Internet. And Mike is Skip's best pal who's excessively vocal about his geekdom for all things video games, comics and galaxies far, far away.

"Skip's a mix between Mike, the extreme, and Gwen, a more balanced voice of reason. That said, Gwen has her own nerdy geeky things that come out," Reddick says. "Barry's actually a lot like Mike. Barry will absolutely take his shirt off, paint his body the color of his favorite team, and go to work that way wearing a beer hat.

"Each character is a different level of fanaticism in some kind of way that I can exercise and play with."

If it was a 1980s movie, Barry would probably come off as the villainous bully, but in a modern culture where The Big Bang Theory and other properties have put geeks at the top of the entertainment food chain, he's a refreshing and sporty balance to the various geekery.

Imagine Sheldon Cooper as buff Peyton Manning super fan, and there's a little bit of what Reddick is trying to capture.

"Barry does not get Skip, he doesn't understand him, yet he's exactly like Skip in his own way. And Skip doesn't get Barry either. There's a foil thing there but they both kinda dig each other in a way," Reddick says.

"Will Skip ever end up going to a baseball game with Barry? Who knows, you'll have to read the comic. Will Barry ever end up going to a comic convention? I doubt it but it'd be funny if he did."

For the first year or so of Intelligent Life, Reddick wants to develop his characters through stand-alone strips, but down the line wants to have bigger story lines such as Mike having a flight of fancy being on a sci-fi show or taking the whole crew to San Diego Comic-Con.

Reddick wants readers to get to know his nerds and maybe even see themselves in the strip.

"It's like a convention," he says. "You're in a place full of like-minded people, you belong, you see a whole bunch of other kindred spirits. I want IntelligentLife to feel that way."

# ? Feb 10, 2023 09:27

Shaman Tank Spec: Dec 26, 2003; *blep*

Hempuli posted:

Fingerpori

I don't know much about cars, I don't know a saying specifically about cars going cuckoo

It might be a regional thing, but there's an old saying that something "k�y ja kukkuu", "runs and cuckoos", meaning it runs well.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 09:45

Hippocrass: Aug 18, 2015; That third panel of the first comic just makes it. It's still funny if you remove it, but that panel included just makes it top tier.

Murdstone posted:

'Canadian dunkers'?

The only thing google gets me is

quote:

Jordan Kilganon is a 6�1� (185 cm) Canadian slam dunker.[1][2][3][4]

Kilganon was born in Sudbury, Ontario,[5] on April 28, 1992. Jordan Kilganon graduated from Humber College. He is a professional dunker making a living by taking part in dunk competitions and performing at various shows. In 2021, Jordan Kilganon won Dunk League 3, a contest pitting the world's best dunkers against each other for a $50,000 grand prize.

EasyEW posted:

And further up the page, one of the reasons there wasn't a Potlatch in 1915.

And a few months ago it was Mexico they were sweating over. Go figure.

It'll blow over in few months. Everyone will have forgotten about it by Christmas.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 11:45

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

Vintage Valiant (Sep. 18, 1955)

# ? Feb 10, 2023 12:55

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

Oh boy, that On Our Way with the cow and the sled brought back some unhappy memories. Never thought a comic from almost a hundred years could do that.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 13:27

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange

Get Fuzzy 2/9/03

Now wait a moment -- Dude, Where's My Car? came out in 2000. Either Rob is a high school junior, or he has precognitive powers.

Brenda Starr 5/18-20/50

Smokey Stover 10/9/52

Everyday Movies 2/1/36

"If anyone wants me, Duke, I'll be in the Grand Central waiting room until noon, the library till 5 and eating at Cafferty's free lunch counter between then and 7."

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 10/21-23/40

Saved by the Little Rascals' dog!

Selachian fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Feb 10, 2023

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manero: Jan 30, 2006

Nancy 1943

# ? Feb 10, 2023 15:12

NVTrainee: Jan 3, 2020

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

If Anthony's already this dense, I can't wait for what comes later on.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 15:30

CommonShore: Jun 6, 2014; A true renaissance man

Samovar posted:

Oh boy, that On Our Way with the cow and the sled brought back some unhappy memories. Never thought a comic from almost a hundred years could do that.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 16:28

Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

Docks

Retail

Popcom

# ? Feb 10, 2023 16:40

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Bizarro

The Family Circus

Slylock Fox

# ? Feb 10, 2023 16:44

dismas: Jul 31, 2008

readingatwork posted:

Old School Peanuts (Feb 23, 1954)

no wonder shermy disappeared :tinfoil:

# ? Feb 10, 2023 18:34

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Quote is, as always, not edit.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 19:19

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Mutts

Sally Forth

Skippy (March 26, 1935)

Peanuts (February 13, 1976)

Miss Peach (July 28, 1989)

Crankshaft

Mutt and Jeff

Rip Haywire

Thimble Theater (September 12, 1939)

Olive & Popeye (which showed up a little late yesterday)

Out Our Way (January 16-18, 1941; spoiler for an Ick cartoon)

And meanwhile, in the real world...

# ? Feb 10, 2023 19:48

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ? Feb 10, 2023 21:50

Huxley: Oct 10, 2012; Grimey Drawer

A+J

# ? Feb 10, 2023 21:51

everyone wear hats now: Jul 29, 2010

The Creeps

# ? Feb 10, 2023 22:00

ukonvasara: Aug 16, 2012; a mixture of gravity and waggery

everyone wear hats now posted:

The Creeps

Man I missed the Creeps. Thank you for posting!

# ? Feb 10, 2023 22:27

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

F Minus

Mark Trail

Mary Worth

The Phantom

Pooch Cafe

Rex Morgan MD

Andertoons

# ? Feb 10, 2023 22:31

Caphi: Jan 6, 2012; INCREDIBLE

Ah yes, it's finally the part where Mary makes Estelle give Wilbur a fifth chance.

# ? Feb 10, 2023 23:01

Transmodiar: Jul 9, 2005; You're a terrible person, Mildred.

Modesty Blaise: Willy the Djinn

# ? Feb 10, 2023 23:07

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Murdstone posted:

The Phantom

"Excuse me, Mr. Phantom, sir? While you've been standing here ruminating, one of Savarna's grenades bounced into the cell block and killed all the innocent prisoners."

# ? Feb 10, 2023 23:53

SuperKlaus: Oct 20, 2005; Fun Shoe

Hello,

ANSU is good. I loved the one with the fisherman unraveling himself.

Tegne Hanne is good. I loved the one with the poop in the spa joke.

I have never read a Holbrook comic and I never will no matter how many times you gluttons for punishment post that trash.

the bus