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Kennel posted:Dustin Wow, what a bitch.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis  loving... when did that happen, Billingsley? Certainly no time you'd actually SHOWN it.
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  "...and I'm glad I did give up on Wilbur." The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  I cannot stress enough how dangerous and stupid what this man is doing is. Andertoons 
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Pogo 8/13/50 Drimble Wedge posted:Hotel doorman? Good guess but not quite... Archie 3/20-22/47   The joke is that Betty is a total doormat, you see.  Genuine lol for this one.
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Bongo Bill posted:This is just a Something Positive strip. yeah I generally like Milholland's "Popeye," even if it lacks in the madcap antics of the old stuff, but this one just isn't even trying to be anything but S*P
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Usually Mark Trail can be made fun of for being obviously stupid and having rushed, lazy art but I gotta say that the plotting and dialogue is ridiculously bad too. Mark just spent 3 days reciting exposition aloud to himself alone at night in the woods to remind us of what the stakes that he and the author forgot for a month are. So just like the Tiger arc where Mark literally walked into somebody who just showed him everything he wanted to know immediately with no resistance, Mark immediately finds the guy who was missing, in the woods, for days(weeks?) the second he makes ANY effort to do so? What stops this guy from walking back to the camp/civilization? This is after Mark immediately cracked the case of the bear attacks too. "Hmm gee have you tried the most basic element of wildlife deterrence?????????????" I could rant like a mad man and make a Son of Stuck Funky blog about Trail, it's not like I'd ever want for material. Also Mark you had a thought bubble yesterday showing you knows what this guy looks like before meeting him but hey I guess the thought bubble tic being stupid since its introduction is the most solid bit of consistency in the strip. quote:quote:
I need Mud to jump in next to save both of them.  Selachian posted:
My favorite comedy in this strip is the casual cartoon violence. God drat, Archie!
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What Is This "Your Culture" Horseshit, Is She An Immigrant? I Thought She Was Just An American Citizen Race-Faking Cat.       
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Kit + The Wolf John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:The Reaver with the high hairline is one who I think was kind of a fill-in background character drawn by Marc Silvestri. I don’t think he had a name or was ever intended to be anything other than fodder to be chopped up by Wolverine. But in this story, I drew him several times, and really got to enjoy his murdery widow’s peak.
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Ghostlight posted:lmao we're all so old I had to zoom in to read that front page article. 
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Our Boarding House, in which the Major flips a bird. (November 26-28, 1923)   Toonerville Folks (January 27-29, 1921)    Dok's "Somebody's Idea of a Neutral Party" Duck (September 18, 1914)  Little Lefty (June 6-8, 1938)    Just a tiny bit suspicious of del writing a child who doesn't instinctively know which breakable item in her own household would provoke maximum drama, but I'm still rolling with it.
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Murdstone posted:Andertoons I like this one. Simple joke, good delivery.
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD That must be some really good beard glue Rene is using. Luann  Gil Thorp  Home Free 
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Giant Ethicist posted:Cthulhu and Girl 1980 comics       Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns   Computoon: Origins  Legends in the Heights 
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Intelligent Life crossover week!   Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (May 25, 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 serves up some delicious homonyms again.  So there's a Finnish expression "to go to by the meat cauldrons", which basically means to go eat well, like you would when you go home to your parents' place and they feed you like parents do. In Finnish that is "lihapatojen ääreen", which breaks down to liha (meat) + patojen (the plural possessive of pata, cauldron or pot). But "lihapatojen ääreen" can ALSO be liha (meat) + patojen (the plural possessive of pato, dam). And here we are.
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Doomykins posted:Usually Mark Trail can be made fun of for being obviously stupid and having rushed, lazy art but I gotta say that the plotting and dialogue is ridiculously bad too. Mark just spent 3 days reciting exposition aloud to himself alone at night in the woods to remind us of what the stakes that he and the author forgot for a month are. So just like the Tiger arc where Mark literally walked into somebody who just showed him everything he wanted to know immediately with no resistance, Mark immediately finds the guy who was missing, in the woods, for days(weeks?) the second he makes ANY effort to do so? What stops this guy from walking back to the camp/civilization? This is after Mark immediately cracked the case of the bear attacks too. "Hmm gee have you tried the most basic element of wildlife deterrence?????????????" riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'm starting to legitimately wonder if Jules isn't maybe writing it for like, 6-7-year-olds, and is just bad at communicating that. I look back fondly at the fourteen seconds after Jules took over when the thread was excited for the change. 
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Why was that? I'm only familiar with this incarnation of Mark Trail.
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Apparently the Intelligent Life author thinks that Dethany (from on the Fastrack) is a witch. And also likes animal parts in her veggie burgers. Also correct me if I'm wrong, but Popeye isn't known to be eating exclusively spinach, is he?
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was mark trail ever good? the only thing i tend to remember about it is the "spiders! mankind's friend in the war against insects!" edit
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hexwren posted:was mark trail ever good? I don't think so. There have been some interesting moments like trail just killing a bunch of divers, Dr "Vargo" Camel the delusional yet hunter etc. Someone did post the originals a few years ago and while I found them interesting I would not classify them as good, because they were still a 40's comic strip and as we've seen with the rest of them in the thread, they usually have some issues.
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Breadmaster posted:Why was that? I'm only familiar with this incarnation of Mark Trail. Jules Rivera is bad at drawing, bad at pacing and bad at scripting either long-term or panel-to-panel dialogue. But she ticks all the right boxes to make the comics page a bit more outwardly diverse and progressive. I'll take Rivera over Allen 100% of the time if the choice is between those two. But the choice should be between someone who makes a good comic and someone who doesn't. Not to the exclusion of all else: if the choice was between Rivera and a hypothetical creator who did a great job but was vocally right-wing, I'd rather Rivera did it. The point is more that what Allen churned out was already bad enough to take him off the job without him being a shithead on top of it and I feel like they could have found someone who knew how to do a nature-themed adventure strip without either going "kids these days with their genders!" or turning the whole thing into an influencer farce. It's hard to avoid the impression that in the case of Mark Trail, the craft of the comic strip takes a very distant secondary role to the identity of the creator. Though I will say that Rivera does a very decent Sunday strip that's well executed, informative and gets an environmental message across.
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Haifisch posted:Dick Tracy CONTAINERS of SCHOOL. SUPPLIES. sailing in on the SS Afghanistan is a very funny image. hexwren posted:was mark trail ever good? I've not ever seen it. The general rule of thumb for these strips that it was competent-to-good at the start, but eventually fell exhausted as the uncredited assistant of the grandson of the original artist shuffles clip-art around. Has anyone ever posted Mark Trail from the start in this thread? It might be really good!
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Giant Ethicist posted:Cthulhu and Girl Excellent readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (May 6, 1993) I love that Watterson bothered to make the tiny text actually say something. Vintage Valiant (Dec. 23, 1956) 
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Just in time. Also, I recall the Jack Elrod era being entertainingly bad but not having a lovely rear end in a top hat doing it (as far as we know, anyway) like James Allen.
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The early Ed Dodd authored Mark Trails that were posted here were pretty standard 40s adventure comics. Slightly more competent, but less silly than Brenda Starr, which made them not all that interesting. The late Jack Elrod strips were typical octogenarian adventure comics like late Mandrake, pretty stupid, but endearing. The early James Allen wasn't anything special, but had some fun moments and sometimes he put more effort to the art. Eventually the quality started slipping more and more and he turned out to be an utterly unlikable person. Jules Rivera started pretty strong, but art quality started dropping dramatically after just one or two weeks and while the first story was a fun trainwreck, the overall writing quality turned out to be disappointing as well. Kennel fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 4/27/03  Brenda Starr 11/13-16/50    Smokey Stover 5/2/54  Everyday Movies 5/9/36  "But do ya think it could stand the strong medicine smell in her bedroom?" Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 5/12-14/41   
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