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So we've gone straight from "Why try anything new?" to "Those young people and their gizmos!" If we're playing Boomer Bingo, the next strip will probably be Mary lamenting the lack of Perry Como in the jukebox.
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Our Boarding House (December 31, 1923   Toonerville Folks (March 3-5, 1921)    Dok's Dippy Eddie Rickenbacker Wannabe (September 28, 1914)  The Kid got pushed off the front page for a teaser ad for the Sunday edition which doubles as a case history of what a difference a couple of years makes.  Little Lefty (July 14-16, 1938)    (Discord backup because imgur hates you) (e: cos I goofed on the dates again.) EasyEW fucked around with this message at 03:25 on May 19, 2023 |
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Fingerpori Polypores (Finnish "kääpä", plural "käävät") are a category of fungi that often grow on tree trunks and that gain nutrients by eating away at the wood matter. The word "kääpä" is also used to describe cranky old people who're set in their ways and complain a lot. I suppose it has to do with the way polypores live a long time in the same place, are usually inedible and tough and generally prefer old, rotten trees as living surfaces. As you can guess, their health/whether they survive at all can tell a lot about the health of a forest.  Since Finland is a big foraging country, our mushroom naming conventions have the interesting quality of being quite systematic (compared to e.g. English colloquial mushroom names) while also being less scientific/dry than just latin names. So "kääpä" works both as a fairly accurate term for a specific family of fungi, while also being short & Finnish enough to have a slang meaning. (Looks like the bottom of the strip was cut off, sorry!) ANSU is back!  
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Haifisch posted:1980 comics Why didn't you tell him about the grease beforehand, Cathy Lee Crosby? Why didn't you tell him about the grease!? 
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (June 14, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Hempuli posted:Polypores (Finnish "kääpä", plural "käävät") are a category of fungi that often grow on tree trunks and that gain nutrients by eating away at the wood matter. The word "kääpä" is also used to describe cranky old people who're set in their ways and complain a lot. I suppose it has to do with the way polypores live a long time in the same place, are usually inedible and tough and generally prefer old, rotten trees as living surfaces. As you can guess, their health/whether they survive at all can tell a lot about the health of a forest.
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I've been meaning to ask, but Vin? Is it just a coincidence that Rudy named his car's AI after his half-brother that disappeared from the strip ages ago? Because I can also see Holbrook writing something insane like having Vin return only to nearly kill him in a way that he had to get his mind transplanted into a car to survive. riderchop posted:On The Fastrack riderchop posted:On The Fastrack Christ, Holbrook doesn't realize how he wrote Dethany as a textbook case of someone being abused. "She's not manipulating me, I'm just letting her manipulate bootlicker-me, teehee" and "I bet my abuser is totally grateful for what I do~" sure is something, huh?
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amigolupus posted:I've been meaning to ask, but Vin? Is it just a coincidence that Rudy named his car's AI after his half-brother that disappeared from the strip ages ago? Because I can also see Holbrook writing something insane like having Vin return only to nearly kill him in a way that he had to get his mind transplanted into a car to survive. I think it's just meant to be short for Vehicle Identification Number. But I wouldn't put it past Holbrook having it turn out to be something like that, it's right up his alley. Vintage Valiant (Apr. 21, 1957) 
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I know it's a long running strip that cycles through a few good reliable stories but man, all of Val's tales together make him the greatest saboteur in history. 
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Selachian posted:Smokey Stover 9/19/54 Holy hell, that panel 5 gag is dark.
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manero posted:Nancy 1943 That hobo's gonna die
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I was expecting the executioner to rationalize scarlet’s invisible hand as his own conscience (like we saw with the awful hillbilly arc), but no, she just destroys the controls. Scarlett rules.
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The hillbilly arc was really funny and stupid, at least. Jucika "23 -Jucika had Dinner" NSFW Nudity  "számla = bill." Our first topless Jucika. "24 - Jucika at an Open-Air Show"  "felvonás = act" Doomykins fucked around with this message at 19:44 on May 19, 2023 |
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Mutts Sally Forth, with another reminder that Ted could build a cult if he really wanted to. His People just seem to gravitate in his direction.  Skippy (June 14, 1935)  Peanuts (May 20, 1976)  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  This story turned out to be a real corker once it got going. Thimble Theater (December 18, 1939)  Olive & Popeye  Out Our Way (October 30-November 1, 1941)    (Break glass in case of image hosting dickishness.)
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Technowolf posted:Holy hell, that panel 5 gag is dark. Up until like, the 80s everyone agreed that suicide was hilarious.
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Haraiso Days End of chapter! Moral: The myth that “whatever you say when drinking in Japan is forgiven and forgotten” is, indeed, a myth. Cthulhu and Girl  Bardiche Hotel 
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Pogo 10/1/50 The Brewers were still a minor-league team at this point. Archie 5/26-28/47   
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Mr. Squishy posted:Up until like, the 80s everyone agreed that suicide was hilarious. BUT NOW... WOW! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi1KSXGhCOE
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Here's a neat article on the coloring process for comic strips.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:The only people who have ever insisted that it's a thing are the kind of people who want to be assholes, whether drunk or not. Generally, yes, although the observation is a staple in some sorts of outsiders-in-Japan media like Mr. Baseball and such.
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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:If anyone accuses me of leaning into a trope here, I ma(r)y sue.
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Our Boarding House (January 1, 4-5, 1924, cos I goofed on the dates yesterday)   Toonerville Folks (March 7-9, 1921)    One particular member of the Scorpions is going to be the next breakout star. But we'll get to him eventually. Dok's "Too Much Medalling" Duck (September 29, 1914)  Little Lefty (July 18-20, 1938)    (If imgur is trying to drive you off the road, Discord is the ditch it's running you into.)
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft It's hilarious how Batiuk fails at even the most basic storytelling. We're meant to go "oh, Crankshaft wasn't an rear end in a top hat all along for helping the kid, despite him looking murderous the past two strips." Except the kid's reason for not getting picked up isn't something that warrants legitimate concern: like the kid's parents being dead, or going through a rough patch in their marriage, or too busy with their jobs. No, it's just that the kid's family doesn't have a car yet Batiuk's boomer brain is treating it as a huge tragedy. Like, that's literally the point of kids riding a school bus. And as someone else pointed out, no parent would want the school's bus driver to take their child out for ice cream. The guy's a complete stranger. They want the driver to do their loving job, not befriend the child like a peer.
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