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

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everyone wear hats now: Jul 29, 2010

The Creeps

# ? Mar 2, 2023 13:04

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# ? May 31, 2024 00:12

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

catlord posted:

Ok Reddick, take a cold shower.

The last strip is full of references to other webcomics and I can't place all of them, but there's Zii from Menage A 3, Agatha Heterodyne of GG, Sister Claire from self titled, and I think the demoness may be Jennie Breeden from The Devil's Panties.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 13:22

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

riderchop posted:

Heathcliff

# ? Mar 2, 2023 13:25

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

The more I think about it the more I am weirded out by seeing the Foglio character and clothing design put on a boring skinny stick girl because it's just so indistinct and bland and boring and calls to attention just how much detail the Foglios commit to.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 13:47

manero: Jan 30, 2006

Jesus Christ, Legend of Bill is garbage

Nancy 1943

# ? Mar 2, 2023 13:53

Drakyn: Dec 26, 2012

readingatwork posted:

Calvin and Hobbes (Feb 12-15, 1993)

It's been a long time since I've reread this one in full and I'd forgotten just how much pure and real joy Hobbes takes in his trolling. This is what separates some rear end in a top hat on the internet from an expert.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Fingerpori

I respect anyone that quits while they're ahead.

Selachian posted:

Brenda Starr 7/3-5/50

Spoilered for still more stereotypical Native American.

Jesus christ, even if this was considered acceptable by the audience how were they at least not sick of the one joke of 'HAW FUNNY WEIRD GUY AIN'T LIKE US' by now?
Oh wait the katzenjammer kids lasted for like 50 years. Man, maybe old people aren't kidding when they complain about kids having short attention spans these days if that's how long they could be entertained off've 'heheheheh, funny voices.'

Drakyn fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Mar 2, 2023

# ? Mar 2, 2023 14:52

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

Bizarro

The Family Circus

Slylock Fox

# ? Mar 2, 2023 15:52

tiercel: Apr 22, 2008

Chuck Tingle has weighed in on Scott Adams and it's as magical as you'd expect. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BX3YMQBR

# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:36

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

LvK posted:

sorry, that was mean. I'm still entertained by this Crabgrass arc because Bondia is clearly having fun drawing it, and there's goodwill from tons of good gags and characterization in the relatively short time the strip has been running. Even when the storylines kind of falter and stray, the pace is decent and the day-to-day jokes are charming even if they're not gutbusters.

I feel like Bondia gets to write one extremely weird arc every year, and we have to respect that.

quote:

Holbrook can take two good tugs off a dead dog's dick and eat the discharge on his toast.

Holbrook would like that though

# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:44

CzarChasm: Mar 14, 2009; I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

Yvonmukluk posted:

Bad Machinery

"Up the stick" is really odd slang for pregnant, even for British slang. I can't find any origin behind it.

Transmodiar posted:

Modesty Blaise: The Green Eyed Monster

These are really sharp looking. Is this a new source?

# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:52

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Childrens' slang is always evolving faster than adults'.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:57

PainterofCrap: Oct 17, 2002; hey bebe

EasyEW posted:

Toonerville Folks (October 14-16, 1920)

I am old enough to remember using these poles to open & close the extremely large windows in my elementary school building in the 60s. The high school also had these windows but they were upgraded in 1980.

The windows were cantilevered - pulling on the latch at the top of the lower pane caused it to tilt in. And the bottom of the upper pane to tilt out, after which they could be swung out & parallel to one another; as the lower raised & the upper lowered they ultimately would hang stacked, with a large opening above & below.

The cartoon is pretty accurate about the size. The window openings were 8-10 feet tall and easily three feet wide.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 17:58

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

Retail

Popcom

# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:03

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Hostile V posted:

The last strip is full of references to other webcomics and I can't place all of them, but there's Zii from Menage A 3, Agatha Heterodyne of GG, Sister Claire from self titled, and I think the demoness may be Jennie Breeden from The Devil's Panties.

First strip has Pipgorn character and the second one has Zintiel from Flaky Pastry.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:28

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

goatface posted:

Childrens' slang is always evolving faster than adults'.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:50

Yvonmukluk: Oct 10, 2012; Everything is Sinister

Bad Machinery

# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:57

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

What kind of foob would write that dialog?

# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:58

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

Kennel posted:

I appreciate this classic which Only Real Fans will understand

# ? Mar 2, 2023 18:58

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 (April 11, 1935)

Peanuts (March 4, 1976)

Miss Peach (August 17, 1989)

Crankshaft settles into its new place as Funky Lite by streaking back to comic books as quickly as possible.

Mutt and Jeff

Rip Haywire

Thimble Theater (October 2, 1939)

Out Our Way (March 17-19, 1941)

# ? Mar 2, 2023 19:19

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Betting one or more of Ted's brothers are there with moving boxes.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 19:32

Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

Crankshaft wasn't particularly great or anything but it was actually a comic strip and I'd laugh like when Cranky was looking at a gardening tools catalogue under the covers like it was a porno, why did Funky "end" if Batiuk is just going to move over to the other strip and ruin what little it had going for it? I never want to see those insanely lame old guy comic hacks again but we're dangerously adjacent to them now.

Never thought I'd be arguing the loving sanctity of Crankshaft. Did the editors just cut half of the space Batiuk wastes in the paper and he got upset and snuck Funky over to keep writing it? Like drat dude just host a website. Even Gary Larson figured that out only 30 years later.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 19:53

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

More likely he wanted to halve his work without limiting his options for "plot".

# ? Mar 2, 2023 20:02

JethroMcB: Jan 23, 2004; We're normal now.
We love your family.

EasyEW posted:

Crankshaft settles into its new place as Funky Lite by streaking back to comic books as quickly as possible.

Finally: A strong, talented and successful man can do the job that a woman repeatedly fails to accomplish. Funky is BACK, baby!

Get hit by a truck.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 20:15

Huxley: Oct 10, 2012; Grimey Drawer

A+J

# ? Mar 2, 2023 20:31

manero: Jan 30, 2006

Kennel posted:

# ? Mar 2, 2023 21:01

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.

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Jan. 15, 1956)

I should have said something yesterday, but of course Trondheimsfjord is a real place, so we can pin down pretty accurately where Thule is supposed to be.

That viking doll in panel 1 is good.
Also, I can hardly wait for Arn's very first time crashing a horse into a Kings throne room while being chased by the guards.

tiercel posted:

Chuck Tingle has weighed in on Scott Adams and it's as magical as you'd expect. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BX3YMQBR

Author of such classics as 'The Physical Manifestation Of Twiddor�s Rapid Descent Into Chaos Thanks To Inept Management From A Manbaby Edgelord Pounds Me In The Butt', 'Not Pounded By The Physical Manifestation Of Someone Else's Doubt In My Place On The Autism Spectrum Because Denying Someone's Personal Journey And Identity Like That Is Incredibly Rude So No Thanks', 'Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt' and 'Dr. Chuck Tingle's Complete Guide To Film'

# ? Mar 2, 2023 21:32

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

Hostile V posted:

The last strip is full of references to other webcomics and I can't place all of them, but there's Zii from Menage A 3, Agatha Heterodyne of GG, Sister Claire from self titled, and I think the demoness may be Jennie Breeden from The Devil's Panties.

Oh, I know that, or at least I figured as much when I recognised some of them, but that mostly just elicits a groan and a bit of an eye-roll. But that first one?

# ? Mar 2, 2023 21:37

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

LvK posted:

sorry, that was mean. I'm still entertained by this Crabgrass arc because Bondia is clearly having fun drawing it, and there's goodwill from tons of good gags and characterization in the relatively short time the strip has been running. Even when the storylines kind of falter and stray, the pace is decent and the day-to-day jokes are charming even if they're not gutbusters.

I am just enjoying the current Crabgrass. It has taken a nice silly detour and I don't even think it's terribly out of the comic's usual feel anyways. The dad went to that land of mascots, remember.

goatface posted:

More likely he wanted to halve his work without limiting his options for "plot".

He both ended Funky and moved to a new syndicate, so I personally suspect he was about to get dropped and the new place wouldn't support two strips.

F Minus

Mark Trail

Mary Worth

The Phantom

Pooch Cafe

Rex Morgan MD

Andertoons

Murdstone fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Mar 2, 2023

# ? Mar 2, 2023 21:48

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

They had motherfucking elephants and they chose not to use them to crush fash?

# ? Mar 2, 2023 21:51

Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

"Jules wouldn't be so much of a hack as to-"

Jules would in fact be that much of a hack. So Mark Trail is a pure comedy world where you can dodge criminal charges by stepping off camera.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 21:51

someone awful.: Sep 7, 2007

Murdstone posted:

The Phantom

drat, that's a fine elephant

# ? Mar 2, 2023 21:55

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

someone awful. posted:

drat, that's a fine elephant

# ? Mar 2, 2023 22:01

Professor Wayne: Aug 27, 2008; So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

riderchop posted:

On The Fastrack

This is wild to be considered an acceptable thing to do, even by Fastrack standards

Pickles

Hagar the Horrible

Zits

# ? Mar 2, 2023 22:35

kidcoelacanth: Sep 23, 2009

my mark trail hot take is that i think the bloodthirst that this thread has over a mediocre legacy comic author is way more annoying than the comic itself

# ? Mar 2, 2023 22:42

Giant Ethicist: Jun 9, 2013; Looks like she got on a loaf of bread instead of a bus again...

Uramachi Sakaba

Cthulhu and Girl

# ? Mar 2, 2023 22:53

somepartsareme: Mar 10, 2012; Diggle Hell is a Real
(Swingin') Place

kidcoelacanth posted:

my mark trail hot take is that i think the bloodthirst that this thread has over a mediocre legacy comic author is way more annoying than the comic itself

of all the comics in this thread, it's an interesting one for multiple people to nitpick to death on a daily basis (although it is pretty bad)

# ? Mar 2, 2023 22:55

JethroMcB: Jan 23, 2004; We're normal now.
We love your family.

kidcoelacanth posted:

my mark trail hot take is that i think the bloodthirst that this thread has over a mediocre legacy comic author is way more annoying than the comic itself

This is the hottest take, and also the most correct one. The strip ranges from "heh, kinda clever" to "whatever" for me, Rivera's linework might be sloppy and struggle with size and perspective but it never enters the "What the hell is wrong with the person writing this" territory that all 3 of Holbrook's strips do on a daily basis.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 23:02

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

Yeah, I don't hate Mark Trail, though I also cannot deny it is sloppy as Hell. I'm also enjoying this Crabgrass story, every once in a while that comic gets weird and I like that.

# ? Mar 2, 2023 23:09