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maltesh posted:I suppose the preparation make a difference, but, isn't "winged" the default for beetles?
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I assume some species don't have wings as adults. I don't know enough about insects to name any off the top of my head other than the common house cockroach, maybe? Or are roaches not a beetle? Nah they're more related to termites. Most have wings. But it's Holbrook, we can't expect him to know poo poo when it's Animal Has Trait!!!!1!!
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann If you have to constantly deescalate your partner from accusations of cheating, probably find a new partner.
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Green Intern posted:If you have to constantly deescalate your partner from accusations of cheating, probably find a new partner.
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Cowslips Warren posted:But it's Holbrook, we can't expect him to know poo poo when it's Animal Has Trait!!!!1!! Speaking of which: manero posted:Pluggers But he's a dog, and his face is still covered with fur, how could he possibly have been shaving?  I guess Species Having Trait is also sometimes lost upon... um... who writes this strip anyway? Can't read the signature. Bizarro  The Family Circus  Slylock Fox  I appreciate the very subtle "keyboard and mouse" visual pun.
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus Impressive two-tone line work
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (July 9, 1935)  Peanuts (June 18, 1976)  Crankshaft celebrates the eternal retreat from the future!  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (January 19, 1940)  Out Our Way (January 26-28, 1942)   
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davidspackage posted:Jesus Christ, who is this public masturbation for? They thing I find most frustrating about this strip is that I'm almost certain this strip has made this exact joke, with the exact same characters in the exact same position before, if not multiple times then at least once before. I don't know how Intelligent Life does it, but it somehow manages to be the most boring comic strip around despite only running 3 times a week and existing in the same universe as Garfield. It baffles me that anyone could possibly be reading this actively enough that he author/artist feels the need to keep going, because he certainly doesn't give a poo poo so I know it can't be because he wants to. Just the worst.
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann The thing I don't get is why they even made Stef as "Tiffany-but-back-when-she-was-in-high-school" if Team Evans still insists on punishing Tiffany all the time. Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Oct. 13, 1957) Okay, and this plan would save the other stable guys from a whipping, right Val? Right???
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I'm here to see Copper Ma mentally broken, sitting in a wheelchair as an old man and raving at his nurse that Planck Oh is done for this time, just you wait and see. Jucika "82 - Jucika's Sweetheart"  "83 - Jucika In The Circus." 
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Doomykins posted:Jucika "82 - Jucika's Sweetheart" well that's topical
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davidspackage posted:Did not expect the systematic destruction of Copper Ma's hubris to take center stage like this, but I'm loving it. He's just going to volunteer his wife and child to Planck after it's all over. And he, in turn, will be forced to date the 2nd Place Sister until he is able to beat Planck at baseball again. Luann  Gil Thorp 
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Endless Mike posted:Yeah, seriously this is toxic as hell. yeah there are a ton of bad relationships in luann but this is the absolute bottom of the barrel
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Julet Esqu posted:Gil Thorp Love to get all sweaty while listening to my how my rival coach's team is doing on the radio, and then swear vengeance to a large poster of him on the wall. Seriously, what did Gil Thorp even do to this guy to make him go all Demons of Baseball? Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball  I'm guessing the Cowboys' plan is to hold back when dealing with the other players while only playing full force against Copper Ma to make him look like an absolute chump?
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Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball It can't happen because you can see the ball in the pitcher's hand, but the way the first baseman's standing in the last panel (is that Planck, by the way?) it would be absolutely goddamn hilarious if they were pulling the hidden ball trick & slapped a tag down as soon as Copper takes a step off the bag. For the non baseball fans - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzloezfHR-U
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Fingerpori This joke doesn't work very well in Finnish, imo - the wording is approximately "koirat alkavat tehdä koronavirustestejä", i.e. "dogs will start doing coronavirus tests", and reading that as "dogs will start to be used for detecting coronavirus", which I assume is the intended double-meaning, doesn't work very gracefully unless I'm missing something. ANSU 
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amigolupus posted:Love to get all sweaty while listening to my how my rival coach's team is doing on the radio, and then swear vengeance to a large poster of him on the wall. coach luke martinez hates gil thorp's guts more than anything else in the world because gil is just a good sport who recognizes that these games are, ultimately, games, and not worth getting worked up over and since luke's apparent only source of self-esteem is from his athletics career he cannot fathom anything but fawning obeisance when he 'proves' how much better he is, and so gil being like 'hey man nice job beating us see ya next year' is a tremendously vile insult   keep in mind also that milford high school (where gil thorp coaches) just had its athletics department budget slashed because of all these losses to coach martinez because they are now 'underperforming' - so there is also a compare and contrast going on as presumably valley tech (martinez' school) is getting the money thorp used to get (which would explain how they could poach a high schooler on the other side of the planet) which is just going to exacerbate the situation
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I really enjoy how their entire strategy appears to be "Take every opportunity to gently caress with Copper Ma."
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Haraiso Days Cthulhu and Girl  The end! The swerve from gag-a-day into narrative for book 3 (basically when Lulu Yeah was formed) changed the tenor of the comic a bit, but taken as a whole, I think that “introducing a plot and ending it more or less neatly” works better than “endlessly milking a rather thin gag-a-day premise”. Thanks for reading! Bardiche Hotel 
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Gill Thorpe got a new writer but kept the artist right? I appreciate the stiff functional art absolutely refusing to change for a new goofier story. At least, I think it's unusually goofy for Gil to have a nemesis, I never followed it much. Reminds me of the end days of Apartment 3G where the pensionable artist was unable to follow along with the writer, so you had a scene being introduced as happening in a street when the clip art was Margo on a setee.
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ellie the beep posted:coach luke martinez hates gil thorp's guts more than anything else in the world because gil is just a good sport who recognizes that these games are, ultimately, games, and not worth getting worked up over This is all true, but Martinez' unhealthy obsession with beating Coach Thorp starts even before this. Here is his first appearance, as far as I can tell:   The bartender tells Martinez to shut the gently caress up before Gil has a chance to accept or decline, so this deal is not legally binding. Martinez shows up here and there to be a douche to Gil for a little while after that. Nothing major. I am including this one only for PLOOP:  But eventually, we get down to business on the backstory of why Martinez hates Gil. And it involves a flashback back to when Martinez was in high school.    Those two strips are all you get of that for a little while, but then Gil pulls out the old VHS tapes:     And that really is it. Martinez beat Gil's team back in the 80's, but the paper still put more attention on how cool Thorp was than on VT's big win. A subtle detail that is completely lost thanks to the pacing of newspaper comics is that in Martinez' flashback we see his coach at the time dressed like it's the 40's or some poo poo, but then you get to Gil's VHS and we see that, no, it was the 80's and people dressed appropriate to the time. Martinez just remembers it that way. That's how I choose to interpret that one-panel flashback anyway. Julet Esqu fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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lol okay that rules that Coach Thorp is happy in his life and teaching the new generation but the badguy of the strip peaked in High School, Winkerbean-style. e: Hempuli posted:Fingerpori "We've trained dogs to detect Coronavirus" maybe? LvK fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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ryde posted:I really enjoy how their entire strategy appears to be "Take every opportunity to gently caress with Copper Ma."  You're right, look at that smug expression on the
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Giant Ethicist posted:Cthulhu and Girl Thanks for your work with this! I had a lot of laughs following along with it, and I wouldn't even have heard about it without you.
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Yes thank you for posting, as with all good things that know how to wrap up at a good pace the hardest part is saying goodbye. Cthulu and Girl was great!
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Giant Ethicist posted:Bardiche Hotel F Minus  Mark Trail  Those thought bubbles are really getting on my nerves. Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons 
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Murdstone posted:I for one am looking forward to Sofa School. I've heard extremely mixed reports of the Sofa King
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