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Hostile V posted:Crisis on Infinite Frogs "Quit gettin' mad at video games" is still solid advice, I feel.
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Heathcliff Compu-toon Garfield Overboard Monty For Better or For Worse Classic Arlo and Janis (March 14, 2001) Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon On The Fastrack Safe Havens
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Fingerpori
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons Macanudo Dark Side of the Horse
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Traveling this week, posting might be a little spotty. Or not. Nancy 1943
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Wilbur needs to have multiple restraining orders put on him. riderchop posted:Safe Havens This is pure body horror and I'm amazed Holbrook has yet to pick up on it.
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# ? Feb 15, 2023 10:25 |
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Vintage Valiant (Oct. 16, 1955)
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Beeni Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 2/14/03 Brenda Starr 5/29-31/50 Smokey Stover 12/14/52 Everyday Movies 2/10/36 "After all, my dear, one cannot very well divorce a broker husband on a rising market." Gas, Grass, or Invisible rear end 11/7-9/40
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Haifisch posted:The Lockhorns Shouldn't the logo be mirrored?
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I have never seen a doctor wear one of those little head mirrors, but I know it is shorthand for doctor.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Oct. 16, 1955)
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# ? Feb 15, 2023 13:24 |
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curtadams posted:Allison's talent IMO is writing the interactions of a large ensemble cast of weird characters. His plot and character points are rather surrealistic and the wild interactions from throwing all the different crazinesses together makes them all go by more smoothly, plus provides enough material to fill out a story. The big weakness with Solver has been that the cast is too small. I liked the previous story because with Lottie, Glemm, and the 2 siblings, plus kinda Claire, there was enough interaction. This story is looking like two separate pairs, and that's not enough for how he writes. I think it would work better if Lottie were trying to do both the Solving and the managing at the same time, and developed a mad caffeine interaction trying to keep up, with the other three playing persecutor/rescuer/patsy. Great points. It felt pretty good when Shauna was back. There just really needs to be a bit more importance on, well, anything in the plot at this point, or at least the Solving! I know, I know, Allison setting and all, but it was supposed to be meaningful that Charlotte was avoiding answering Solver requests and that Glenn is left hanging and quits, but it feels more like "Oh Lottie will just be a dynamite barista and help her wacky boyfriend. Reasonable enough." I like Dean and Nero so maybe if the Solvers crew gelled together with them for 4-5 people to bounce off of and a Solver storyline ran a bit longer to build itself up? The Batman crossover had the issue of resolving when it felt like it was getting started and I was pleased recently to reread the Bad Machinery storyline of the hope eater and how long it was, I'd forgotten as much and it has been really solid again!
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davidspackage posted:"Quit gettin' mad at video games" is still solid advice, I feel. Advice I need to follow way more often but fighting game brain
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Selachian posted:Gas, Grass, or Invisible rear end 11/7-9/40 YOU CAN TURN INVISIBLE!
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That wouldn't be honest!
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Great news about the new Watterson book, it must really be some project if it got him to crawl out of his hermit cave. If it gets him to do an actual interview, just give it the Pulitzer today. Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn I could have sworn this rerun story ran only a few weeks ago, but the copyright says 2020. Wallace the Brave Heart of the City Those japanese marble sodas are really fun but this is a reference that is going to confuse a lot of the audience Curtis
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Fingerpori
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I appreciate the signpost joke. Bizarro The Family Circus Slylock Fox
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Doomykins posted:I heard there was a reason in a comics story but Lottie not being a detective feels really weird and pointless, especially since she just... became detective adjacent anyway. Solver is spinning its wheels.
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Retail Popcom
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Payndz posted:Have to admit, while I like Allison's art style, having multiple separate-but-related strips in apparently different time periods running at once has put me off spending the effort to get involved in any of them. The only character I recognise on sight is detective Lottie, except now she isn't one any more? 'Kay... It works a lot better when you've been reading his stuff since the beginning. The characters were introduced in waves and a reader had plenty of time to get used to them before a new wave was introduced. But he's been publishing since '98 and has memory holed a lot of his earlier work, so I can see how it can be frustrating to try to figure it all out.
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Wallace owns. 1980 comics Dick Tracy Footrot Flats The Lockhorns Computoon: Origins Legends in the Heights
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# ? Feb 15, 2023 17:50 |
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Bad Machinery is one of my all time favorites, but it's pretty much the only Allison series I actually enjoy. The others have sometimes nice bits, but I don't really care about the characters (including the ones who I loved in BM). It's weird.
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The Creeps
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Mutts Sally Forth Skippy (March 29, 1935) Peanuts (February 18, 1976) Miss Peach (August 2, 1989) Crankshaft Mutt and Jeff Thimble Theater (September 16, 1939) And now, the latest twist in the Out Our Way recruitment drive. (January 3-February 1, 1941)
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# ? Feb 15, 2023 18:21 |
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Someone should buy compu-toon.com and set it to just display a random computer screen from the comic. Also, I love that of all comics compu-toon doesn't control its own URL or have a website. That mixed with the Black History Month comic (from January) where he had a picture of his mom showing that his main female character is 100% just his mom ... he's my webcomics grandpa and I like him quite genuinely. A+J
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B. Virtanen ANSU Fingerpori Pelle Svanslös (Engl. Pelle No-Tail) is a Swedish children's book series by Gösta Knutsson that used to be fairly popular here and in Sweden. A radio series and an animated movie were also made. wikipedia posted:A series of twelve children's books based on the character was published between 1939 and 1972. [...] The books about Pelle are seen as a protest against the ever more overt support seen for Nazism in Sweden during the 1930s, and as such constitute a satire on contemporaneous society. It's a fun children's movie and definitely a part of my childhood, can recommend.
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Hempuli posted:Fingerpori This ran on Nickelodeon waaaaay back in the old time when Nick wasn't even running past 8pm, and was just wrong enough that a 6 year old me got that it wasn't From Here but didn't know how. Also I thought it was kind of a bummer.
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible Zits
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave And it's not that hard: quote:I guess Valentine's day isn't all about spending Payndz posted:Have to admit, while I like Allison's art style, having multiple separate-but-related strips in apparently different time periods running at once has put me off spending the effort to get involved in any of them. The only character I recognise on sight is detective Lottie, except now she isn't one any more? 'Kay... It's telling that Allison himself can't keep track of his own backstory, as he mentioned in an aside about the mind control joke in the Lottie/Shauna meeting - he had forgotten the Bad Machinery crew HAD been under alien mind control! curtadams fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Feb 15, 2023 |
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the bus
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Professor Wayne posted:Pickles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rvVugY-kZc
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Maxwell Lord posted:This is pure body horror and I'm amazed Holbrook has yet to pick up on it. holbrook.txt Weembles posted:It works a lot better when you've been reading his stuff since the beginning. The characters were introduced in waves and a reader had plenty of time to get used to them before a new wave was introduced. Yeah, I've read basically everything JA has published online, save for Original Bobbins (I also haven't read Giant Days,) and I have no issue with his recent stories being kind of loose. I like spending time in his just-whimsical-enough world and letting the characters ping-pong off of one another. Bad Machinery was kind of an outlier in having a central focus and consistent length for the storylines; back in the Scary-Go-Round days plots just ambled wherever and character focus shifted back and forth constantly as he favored writing for one character or another.
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Bad Machinery And that’s The Case of The Unwelcome Visitor!
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Scary Gary
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Into Ilves Nancy Dustin Mandrake
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Pogo 2/27 - 3/1/50 "Attic wit" is highbrow humor of a style associated with the ancient Athenians; here, it's also a pun on the fact that both attics and word balloons are overhead. O tempora! O mores! Archie 7/15-17/46
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Huxley posted:Someone should buy compu-toon.com and set it to just display a random computer screen from the comic. I think he's a very nice man who just wants to do good things and, while I will make fun of his comic because it is insane, I try not to get mean-spirited about it. There is a charm to his work too. I won't deny that. F Minus Mark Trail Mary Worth Later: "Oh hey Stell! You had to go the gynecologist too, huh?" The Phantom Pooch Cafe Rex Morgan MD Andertoons
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Solver 9: Boys Like Fun Part 1 Concludes! John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:Feeling a bit low? Look up ice cream vans on eBay. You’ll feel better. New story starts here Monday, with the whole thing going up on my Patreon then too.
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