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

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Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Every strip of Intelligent Life summed up:

# ? Mar 3, 2023 21:14

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# ? May 28, 2024 07:38

Huxley: Oct 10, 2012; Grimey Drawer

A+J

# ? Mar 3, 2023 21:53

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

EasyEW posted:

Am I the only one who counted seven?

Well I only counted 6 because I stopped there, but your comment made me look at the solution and found one I hadn't gotten so yes, there are 7.

F Minus

Mark Trail

Mary Worth

The Phantom

Rex Morgan MD

I think Terry Beatty has a thing for diners.

Andertoons

# ? Mar 3, 2023 22:57

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Into Ilves

Nancy

Dustin

Mandrake

Theron, you geek!

# ? Mar 3, 2023 23:07

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Strontium posted:

Daddy Daze

This used to be a thing.
https://www.history.com/news/mailing-children-post-office

# ? Mar 3, 2023 23:13

rannum: Nov 3, 2012

EasyEW posted:

Sally Forth

yes....haha yes!!

# ? Mar 3, 2023 23:16

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

Retail

Popcom

# ? Mar 3, 2023 23:52

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 3, 2023 23:53

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Ah, the person who becomes a vet because it means they get to play with animals all day. I'm sure something will make me hate this guy later, but that's a classic.

# ? Mar 4, 2023 00:37

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

This is cool. They also have a toddler they let roll around the place with no supervision at all. Cool cool cool.

Luann

I don't know if Piro is supposed to be a "good" character or a "bad" character, but one indication might be that the only person in this strip who has ever given a poo poo about his privacy is a "bad" character.

Gil Thorp

Home Free

# ? Mar 4, 2023 00:52

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

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Bruceski posted:

Ah, the person who becomes a vet because it means they get to play with animals all day. I'm sure something will make me hate this guy later, but that's a classic.

"...I signed up to put down 10 animals a week, minimum! To satisfy my Dark Passenger!"

# ? Mar 4, 2023 01:09

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Pogo 4/6-8/50

Archie 9/9-11/46

Ah yes, the days when you could keep a drum of gas in your garage without the fire marshal coming.

# ? Mar 4, 2023 01:45

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

Selachian posted:

You come at the king you best not miss.

# ? Mar 4, 2023 02:05

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.

Jughead should get his own spinoff strip.

# ? Mar 4, 2023 02:13

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Julet Esqu posted:

Gil Thorp

I don't always know what's going on in Gil Thorp, but I am here for this man's incredibly petty obession with Gil.

# ? Mar 4, 2023 02:18

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

The Demons of Baseball

# ? Mar 4, 2023 02:21

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

"nope, definitely going out to be tortured with thoughts of this. sorry"

# ? Mar 4, 2023 02:23

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Huxley posted:

A+J

I love this

# ? Mar 4, 2023 02:39

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

Why on Earth do I care so much about this got dang baseball game? Let's see some action!

# ? Mar 4, 2023 02:54

Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

I don't know how to feel about Demons anymore. Planck done hosed up with her but we're supposed to think she should have waited for him?

# ? Mar 4, 2023 02:57

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

THAT'S POLITICS!

# ? Mar 4, 2023 04:20

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, featuring the affectionate torture of friends. (August 13-15, 1923)

Prohibition didn't exactly make all the brewers go away, but the ones who rode it out didn't exactly make beer anymore either.

The History Channel website (which actually has some history on it, who knew) posted:

At the start of Prohibition, many brewers pinned their hopes on non-intoxicating beers that were legal under Prohibition as long as they had less than 0.5% alcohol content. But it turned out that near beers weren�t near enough for many consumers. They wanted the real thing, and when the proliferation of bootlegging and speakeasies made real beer easy to come by, the near beer market tanked.

(Maureen Ogle, author of Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer,) says not many brewers expected Prohibition to last as long as it did: 13 years in total. �They thought they would be fine if they could hang on for two or three years. But by 1925, it�s clear the near beer industry was a total bust, and more and more brewers shifted into bottling other beverages.� Brewing companies even reconfigured their production lines for dyes, which were in short supply after World War I.

The sale of malt syrup and yeast also helped brewers stay afloat. Prohibition banned the sale of beer, but not the ingredients for making it. Although malt syrup was advertised as a baking ingredient, many buyers used the extract to make beer. An in-store cardboard sign display for a Budweiser-brand barley malt syrup even featured a grocer winking knowingly at customers.

Toonerville Folks (October 18-20, 1920)

Whenever the Skipper knows he will be passing the Onion Hill School about the time it is "letting out" he always provides himself with a long stick to whack the youngsters off the rear end.

The Professor's wife always puts a Football Head Protector on him when she sends him down to look at the furnace.

Dok's Domme Eend (11 augustus, 1914)

Little Lefty (February 17-19, 1938)

EasyEW fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Mar 4, 2023

# ? Mar 4, 2023 04:23

Hempuli: Nov 16, 2011

B. Virtanen

ANSU

Fingerpori

Urho Puuma is the male porn star who lives in Fingerpori; the name translates to something like "Brave Cougar" or "Hero Cougar", although I think 'Urho' can also mean a very handsome/virile male person.
The Finnish word for tools used for e.g. playing sports ('peliv�line', playing implement) works well as a word for sex stuff, especially since 'peli' (game) is also euphemism for a penis; I guess the word could even be read as "penis implement".

# ? Mar 4, 2023 05:13

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

EasyEW posted:

The Professor's wife always puts a Football Head Protector on him when she sends him down to look at the furnace.

loving hell, called out from nearly 103 years in the past

# ? Mar 4, 2023 06:06

mycatscrimes: Jan 2, 2020

Cowslips Warren posted:

I don't know how to feel about Demons anymore. Planck done hosed up with her but we're supposed to think she should have waited for him?

I don't think we're supposed to think that, I think this strip is presenting melodrama for it's own sake. Planck didn't contact her because it's dramatic, she can't move on because it's dramatic, it's not about the narrative punishing her or trying to make us think she was in the wrong, and more about keeping the trainwreck moving.

Also her dramatic tears thing was grating at first but the harder the strip commits to it over smaller and smaller things the better it is. I love her reacting to 'her ex is playing in a televised baseball game' exactly as if she's learned she has to kill her own firstborn.

# ? Mar 4, 2023 07:00

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Bruceski posted:

Ah, the person who becomes a vet because it means they get to play with animals all day. I'm sure something will make me hate this guy later, but that's a classic.

Yeah, that was my sister for a stint with our local vet. We told her it wasn't gonna as fun as she was thinking, but she insisted she could handle it. To her credit, she lasted a whole two years at that job before she couldn't handle it anymore- that's more than I can say I could've.

# ? Mar 4, 2023 07:25

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

They actually let him keep it.

Pickles

Hagar the Horrible

Zits

# ? Mar 4, 2023 08:00

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

Huxley posted:

A+J

EasyEW posted:

Toonerville Folks (October 18-20, 1920)

Get his rear end. :sickos:

(incidentally I'm out of town so no comics until Monday)

# ? Mar 4, 2023 08:43

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

Heathcliff

Compu-toon

Garfield

Overboard

Monty

For Better or For Worse

Classic Arlo and Janis (March 31, 2001)

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

On The Fastrack

Safe Havens

# ? Mar 4, 2023 08:53

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

Daddy Daze

Take It From the Tinkersons

Macanudo

Dark Side of the Horse

# ? Mar 4, 2023 09:04

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

riderchop posted:

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

That's one of my favourite Rae the Does, I love that Saturn's son is just a drumstick :allears:

Fingerpori

A double ("kaksio") is a Finnish term for a flat or house with two livable rooms (ie. not bathrooms or storage closets), a triangle ("kolmio") is the same with three rooms and a square ("neli�") is with four rooms. They are also the geometric terms for a triangle and a square. A bouillon cube is just a bouillon cube.

# ? Mar 4, 2023 09:41

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Murdstone posted:

The Phantom

# ? Mar 4, 2023 10:59

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Fingerpori

(works actually better in English, because the Finnish word means only flying and not fleeing)

# ? Mar 4, 2023 11:38

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻

In today's Blueberry: Virgil gets caught up, or Virgil has doubts, or Strawfield gets upset at Clark

# ? Mar 4, 2023 11:58

manero: Jan 30, 2006

Nancy 1943

# ? Mar 4, 2023 14:00

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange

Get Fuzzy 3/3/03

Stephen Collins

Brenda Starr 7/9/50

Three more weeks or so of this.

Smokey Stover 4/12/53

Everyday Movies 3/5/36

"Just a singe."

(Some barbers back then would offer to singe the ends of your hair with a small flame after cutting it; folks believed doing so would keep the hair from losing moisture through the cut end and drying out.)

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 1/5/41

Look who's working Sundays now!

# ? Mar 4, 2023 14:34

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

EasyEW posted:

Toonerville Folks (October 18, 1920)

Vintage Valiant (Jan. 29, 1956)

Medenmath fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Mar 4, 2023

# ? Mar 4, 2023 14:52

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

riderchop posted:

On The Fastrack

They call themselves a consulting firm, but they were created by Ms. Trellis and only have Ms. Trellis as a client afaik. The lack of awareness here continues to astonish me.

Selachian posted:

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 1/5/41

Look who's working Sundays now!

And the next day all these people are going to be furious their toys don't talk.

Green Intern fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Mar 4, 2023

# ? Mar 4, 2023 14:54

F_Shit_Fitzgerald: Feb 2, 2017

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

Ah, so now we know the origin story of Lynn's kids being left out in the snow: they messed up her kitchen.

# ? Mar 4, 2023 15:18

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# ? May 28, 2024 07:38

maltesh: May 20, 2004; Uncle Ben: Still Dead.

Green Intern posted:

And the next day all these people are going to be furious their toys don't talk.

I believe the writers have end-run around it by saying that the buyers think it's ventriloquism. The kid's the only one who thinks they actually talk, and the only disappointment will come from people who show up tomorrow having been told about this kid's amazing ventriloquism to find out he can't do it anymore.

# ? Mar 4, 2023 16:35

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