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amigolupus posted:It's a very minor gripe, but I don't like how Foob spells stupid as 'stoopid'. Ellie gets just as frustrated at completely random poo poo, too! Pot, meet kettle. I've also noticed that kids' dialogue in Foob tends to be written in a way that implies they use poor grammar, 'stoopid', 'hafta' etc, while adults' dialogue is written "properly"
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Ting Jeg Gjorde (Things I Did) by Maren Uthaug: Kristi Himmelfart is the norwegian name for Ascension Day. It is also called the Heavenly Bounce. Now, "fart" in norwegian does not mean what it means in english (we are not celebrating the Heavenly Flatulence) but to travel, that Christ traveled back to heaven. Although I think that it's fair to say that we don't celebrate it but are still glad to get a day off from work.
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Alhazred posted:Ting Jeg Gjorde (Things I Did) by Maren Uthaug: We got a promotional calendar from a German company a few years ago, and my wife drew no end of delight from Christi Himmelfahrt.
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Powered Descent posted:I'm kind of impressed at the speed with which Imgur started circling the drain once zero hour arrived. These uploads took like fifteen seconds each. Well hell, why should Elon have all the fun? And speaking of service enshittification (tm Cory Doctrow), does anyone know if there's a new version of the incredibly old image host thread? The one that I bookmarked... (double checks the bookmarked post) ...oh god, almost two decades ago. Christ, my life... Anyway, serious request getting more serious all of the time. Back to comics. Mutts  Sally Forth  Skippy (June 12, 1935)  Peanuts (May 18, 1976)  Crankshaft  You'd it be more economical for Ed to run the kid home in his car, but yeah, comedy. Mutt and Jeff, in which a fashion choice leads to some cross words.  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater, with a reminder that Wimpy has more than one type of hunger. (December 15, 1939)  Olive & Popeye, with a special guest star: the instinct to not read the comments under the strip.  Out Our Way (October 23-25, 1941)    One of our front-page headlines reminds us that Pearl Harbor didn't just happen out of nowhere.  Right there on the front page, no surprises, posted:WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UP). -- Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that he does not believe Japan intends to abandon its expansionist program and that this program will lead to a "collision" with the United States. One of the three routes for Americans to supply the Soviets arms against the Nazis was a Pacific route to Vladivostok, which the Asian war complicated. A month and some change away from That Date, but it makes you think about certain factors, doesn't it. (Discord alt post for everything above. Crankshaft is segregated into the hall-of-shame folder, but CW: we're still monitoring 9CL in there, so don't say I didn't warn you.) EasyEW fucked around with this message at 18:00 on May 16, 2023 |
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Jun 10-11, 1993) help i'm in this image and i don't like it
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amigolupus posted:It's a very minor gripe, but I don't like how Foob spells stupid as 'stoopid'. Cowslips Warren posted:also i guaran loving tee FOOB Mom has had similar issues with the sewing machine. probably a strip somewhere where she is in her daughter's place with the same dumb expression. Over the course of my life I've known a handful of people who have trouble with teaching other people anything because they just cannot step out of the "well I know how to do this, and it's easy" mindset. I have zero patience for that poo poo now - at that point, just admit that you're not actually interested in teaching/demonstrating anything. 1980 comics       Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns   Computoon: Origins  Legends in the Heights 
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EasyEW posted:One of our front-page headlines reminds us that Pearl Harbor didn't just happen out of nowhere. That's not entirely fair. At that point the far more likely action from a US perspective was a Japanese invasion of Thailand (a minor player already beaten back by Vichy Indochina) and thinly-defended British Malaya (the imperial power being otherwise preoccupied), to which the US may have responded with yet more aid to China and to British possessions, rather than war (much less total war). That headline (and Japanese domestic press coverage of the secretary's remarks at the time) are extrapolating heavily from 'collision' in a very media! way. The US is at this point not going to war to defend the British in Britain. Why would it go to war to defend the British in Malaya? There's a wide panoply of actions short of war. In the event both occurred on the same day as Pearl Harbor, of course. But plenty of observers have highlighted the degree of Japanese decision dysfunction for this to have been so decided.
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft I don't think Batiuk realizes that the way he draws Ed being so pissed off at having to help a poor, lonely kid (who didn't get picked up by either parents, to boot) to get back home only makes him come across as a tremendous rear end in a top hat.
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davidspackage posted:lol, even the front page of imgur doesn't load anything when I have my VPN on. I can't even see the images in my own library. 
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Jucika "19 - Jucika at the Beach" "Napola = Sunblock, ilyen barna lesz = Your tan will be this brown" "20 - Jucika and the Novelty"  "pogácsasajt = Pogácsa Cheese, (kvargli) ismet kapható = (Olomouc Cheese) is also available." Looking it up it Jucika bought the olomouc which is known for its odor. Haifisch posted:Legends in the Heights OK this one really made it stand out that the strip is somehow stalling and spinning its wheels literally in the middle of finally getting the magical creature city payoff. Come on Legends!
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ronya posted:That's not entirely fair. At that point the far more likely action from a US perspective was a Japanese invasion of Thailand (a minor player already beaten back by Vichy Indochina) and thinly-defended British Malaya (the imperial power being otherwise preoccupied), to which the US may have responded with yet more aid to China and to British possessions, rather than war (much less total war). That headline (and Japanese domestic press coverage of the secretary's remarks at the time) are extrapolating heavily from 'collision' in a very media! way. The US is at this point not going to war to defend the British in Britain. Why would it go to war to defend the British in Malaya? There's a wide panoply of actions short of war. Yeah, understandable. The biggest flaw here (that is, on my end) is that I'm sticking to what a 1941 newspaper editor would put on the front page. But that was one of three routes Hull laid out for American arms to reach Russia, and a few weeks before Hideki Tojo had told Washington that the Japanese would intercept any attempts to ship to Vladivostok on the Pacific route. What I was assuming up the page was how some rando with a newspaper subscription would define "intercept" if the war was already living in their head rent-free. Of the other two likely choices Hull laid out, one would've been sending supplies through Iran (which was a 12,000 mile sea trip, presumably across an Atlantic that the Nazis were hanging out in), but the one he seemed most hopeful about was the one they ended up doing: sailing from Boston to Archangel (Arkhanhelsk) through the ice fields of the Arctic Ocean. You could write a book about the results. (Full disclosure: definitely not a book I have read yet, but I'm a old geezer, so there's a good possibility I'll get to it.) A hell of a conversation to spin out of boyzendorgs, isn't it? davidspackage posted:lol, even the front page of imgur doesn't load anything when I have my VPN on. I can't even see the images in my own library. The latest report is it's stopped being a random thing and imgur appears to be flat-out blocking all the VPNs (except for the one that's bundled with Google One). That's gotta be awkward in certain regions. Also, this: https://twitter.com/imgur/status/1658206795951661057?s=20
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manero posted:Ellie gets just as frustrated at completely random poo poo, too! Pot, meet kettle. FOOB is such a weird strip because it's about kids and families but written by someone who hates kids and doesn't understand why they can't just be adults already. Will Henry has specified that one of his goals with Wallace is to make sure there are some parents on the comics page that actually like being parents, and I can't help but feel this was what he was referring to. Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City 
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EasyEW posted:The latest report is it's stopped being a random thing and imgur appears to be flat-out blocking all the VPNs (except for the one that's bundled with Google One). That's gotta be awkward in certain regions. Just wanna say, I've had no issue with the images appearing in the last week, but since I started using Mullvad VPN I have been completely unable to upload to Imgur, even with my account logged in. They're just poo poo about VPN on all fronts. Safety Dance posted:I never noticed before that Elaine Winters caused a stir with the mini-skirt. I'm sure I've caught it before but it's a fun Easter Egg. I don't recall ever seeing Grandma Winters in the comic though... (Speaking of, I did not catch the "outlaw" thing in the latest Kit + The Wolf)
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Selachian posted:Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 6/23-25/41  F Minus  Mark Trail  If this story ends in a mauling I'll completely change my mind about Jules. (It's not going to happen.) Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons 
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail That's a great bear.  quote:The Phantom "Y'ALL NEED ANYONE MURDERED AND EATEN!?" "Uhhh, not right now." "WAIT COME BACK"
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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:I saw this page as being a bit like an isometric perspective video game. Have you ever tried to make a citizen’s arrest? Has one ever worked? JethroMcB posted:(Speaking of, I did not catch the "outlaw" thing in the latest Kit + The Wolf) Neither did I! On the comic's webpage some people in the comments said they spotted it, but weren't telling what it was. Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave Not that it really needs it, but this comic had a title panel: 
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth "Being stuck in a rut is the best!  "
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amigolupus posted:It's a very minor gripe, but I don't like how Foob spells stupid as 'stoopid'. Gotta show somehow that her lovely teen talks like a dumb kid, even though they would be pronounced the same so you wouldn't really be able to tell... manero posted:you got me... I didn't even realize it was an edit! In fairness to you, the edit was the more believable telling of the events. Luann  Gil Thorp 
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This one resonated so hard with me -- I had balance issues as a kid, and I lived on top of a long, steep, and winding hill, and my only neutral space to bike in was a gravel turnaround filled with more cars than my family should have owned, soooo.... My fat goon rear end still doesn't know how to ride a bike, after consistently only ever wiping out onto gravel/onto pavement at high speeds/directly into the side of a car where I'd get yelled at for planting my teeth into the wheel-well.
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I’m not quite as enamoured with John Allison’s stuff as many of of you, but I can’t help but love the fake Springsteen and E Street Band he’s got going here.
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