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Payndz posted:Now wondering if I'm the only person in this thread old enough to get the 'Etaoin Shrdlu' joke. I wondered if I should call it out, but I figured anyone who's played Hangman or Wordle would get it.
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It's A Sketchy Life for February 17, 1927, and we might as well start with another Fred G Cooper word blizzard epic. Two from Herb Roth:   Marge:  MB Walker only associates with the highest quality of degenerates.  Two from Frank Hanley, including an idea that didn't catch on...yet.   And speaking of innovations, the part of the magazine where they hide all the words includes this capsule review of a new novelty book.  Just in case you thought those "cross-word" puzzles were the limit, it's a book full of quizzes. Quizzes of trivia. The things people pay good money for in 1927... 
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Selachian posted:I wondered if I should call it out, but I figured anyone who's played Hangman or Wordle would get it. Humanity peaked with the Linotype machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGjFKs9bnU
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (March 19, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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PetraCore posted:How do you pick names for characters? I read that article on the comic that translated the title as Scary Alien Baseball Team and I really like your translation of Demons of Baseball to capture the 'scary intense outsider baseball players' feel, it's a lot less literal but I feel hits the described mood of the Korean title better. And clearly you're picking more western given names while keeping family names of characters, but I'm wondering if part of that is to capture connotations of names? Like, Planck is a reference to Planck's constant, right? How did you pick that name? Does Two Guns use a nickname in Korean, too? I know you made Maggie and May match because they're sisters, but does Copper have a metallic name in Korean, is Hardy's name a reference to him being tough? Sorry, I'm just really curious! I'm really really enjoying The Demons of Baseball and I've been sharing it with a friend off-forum that loves it, too. Since I'm curious about the same, quoting this for the next page. Before reading the article, I just kind of assumed the comic's author had chosen most of the western-type names because they sounded exotic.
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 2/19/03  Brenda Starr 6/11/50   Smokey Stover 1/18/53  Everyday Movies 2/16/36  "On account of Moe's wedding last night I got an awful hangover today. I wish they'd made it Saturday night so this would be Sunday." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 11/25-27/40   
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Scarlet is making already beat-up players convinced they have serious head injuries.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Comics Kingdom is giving me the "you've reached your maximum limit of comics" even in a new browser and even after clearing my cookies, so no Curtis for a while I guess.
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Vargo posted:
If you right click the image in the "Buy A Print!" option, and open it in a new tab, you can get the comic.
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Powered Descent posted:Slylock Fox because he doesn’t understand that all of space isn’t a vacuum https://twitter.com/nasaexoplanets/status/1561442514078314496?s=61&t=TcvrpaMFQGl7tkbwxDLORQ
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Pancho Jueves posted:Crossposting from the meme thread: Oh, hey, I did that first one here a few years ago. Saw it posted on twitter once or twice too. Neat.
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (March 2, 1935)  Peanuts (February 23, 1976)  Miss Peach (August 7, 1989)  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (September 21, 1939)  Out Our Way (February 13-15, 1941)   
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  "I'll have you know I wasn't spying on the yoga studio for you it's just what I do." The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Anderson must have wanted a well-deserved day off.
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I Didn't Want To Post Yesterday So Here's What You Missed: loving Nothing and Kevin Thinking That Failing To Win A Contest Will Automatically Lead To A Crushed Spirit and Dereliction of a Hobby               
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave
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MarxCarl posted:If you right click the image in the "Buy A Print!" option, and open it in a new tab, you can get the comic. I think this is a trick for Gocomics, not ComicsKingdom. The CK "Buy Prints" option links to a mailto link, for some reason. Anyway, it's all too much work to go through for Curtis.
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Vargo posted:I think this is a trick for Gocomics, not ComicsKingdom. The CK "Buy Prints" option links to a mailto link, for some reason. You can also just go to Arcamax when CK isn't cooperating. That's where I got Rhymes with Orange this morning.
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Kennel posted:
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Crab Dad posted:Notable because I laughed. Usually it's a hate read. Once in a very rare occasion, Dustin will have a legitimately funny gag.
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Pogo 3/12/50 Archie 8/1-3/46  Tobacco Road was a popular novel about poor, filthy, degenerate Southern farmers that became a general synonym for rural poverty.  Between this and Scarlet, the Forties were apparently rotten with millionaires falling out of boats.  A millionaire with his own private "boys' paradise." 
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Cowslips Warren posted:Ugh this Crabgrass thing is just dumb now. It feels like a Holbrook poo poo. I’m like 99% sure this arc is a prolonged dream sequence, so unlike Holbrook stuff we won’t be sitting with the long term consequences of this forever. But yeah, I’ve been ready to move on for over a week now.
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