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

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Resident Idiot: May 11, 2007; Maxine13; Grimey Drawer

Giant Ethicist posted:

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!

Thanks for sharing it. Itwas a fun read.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 00:40

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# ? May 30, 2024 10:47

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

Goddamn Mary, are you some kind of Dementor and you really enjoy this old dude's suffering?

Thank you goon for posting the girl idol and Cthulhu comic! It was really cute.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 00:45

I AM GRANDO: Aug 20, 2006

Cowslips Warren posted:

Goddamn Mary, are you some kind of Dementor and you really enjoy this old dude's suffering?

Thank you goon for posting the girl idol and Cthulhu comic! It was really cute.

It�s actually cutting to Mary�s basement in the second panel when we see the dogs.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 00:46

Good Listener: Sep 2, 2006; Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool

I'll also miss Chtupin. It was a good little comic , thanks for sharing it with us!

# ? Jun 17, 2023 00:48

Mister Beeg: Sep 7, 2012; A Certified Jerk

Chinnen and Kyo-chan

# ? Jun 17, 2023 00:55

Presto: Nov 22, 2002; Keep calm and Harry on.

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

"Stick wid me, kid, we're bustin' outta dis joint."

# ? Jun 17, 2023 02:13

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Doomykins posted:

lmfao is Phantom about to botch the prophecy again because he ignored Savarna for a few minutes too long, or did he predict it and let her go? His dialogue implies as much but Savarna is the best chaos elemental.

The issue was him getting himself shot and divulging information to her when he thought he was gonna die. He's nowhere near her.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 02:14

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

EasyEW posted:

Crankshaft celebrates the eternal retreat from the future!

Jesus H Tapdancing Christ it's an old rolltop desk in decent-looking condition, something prime any second-hand dealer would be happy to sell. Batiuk's really swinging at air here but I think he's aiming at Herman Miller or the whole open office concept, which nearly nobody enjoys anyway? This is smug posturing at its utmost.

And it's even money there's something Intriguing in one of those desk drawers or pigeonholes. Probably some goddamn long-forgotten comic art.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 02:43

Shugojin: Sep 6, 2007; THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...

Howard Beale posted:

Jesus H Tapdancing Christ it's an old rolltop desk in decent-looking condition, something prime any second-hand dealer would be happy to sell. Batiuk's really swinging at air here but I think he's aiming at Herman Miller or the whole open office concept, which nearly nobody enjoys anyway? This is smug posturing at its utmost.

And it's even money there's something Intriguing in one of those desk drawers or pigeonholes. Probably some goddamn long-forgotten comic art.

The only people who don't hate open office plans are people who want to creep on the people trying to work in them

# ? Jun 17, 2023 02:46

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

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

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

# ? Jun 17, 2023 02:47

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.

Circumstance got on top of me tonight yet again, but before I go, there's a fella who wants to ask you a few questions.
https://twitter.com/SmoothDunk/status/1669483501194715146

# ? Jun 17, 2023 03:03

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

Howard Beale posted:

Jesus H Tapdancing Christ it's an old rolltop desk in decent-looking condition, something prime any second-hand dealer would be happy to sell. Batiuk's really swinging at air here but I think he's aiming at Herman Miller or the whole open office concept, which nearly nobody enjoys anyway? This is smug posturing at its utmost.

And it's even money there's something Intriguing in one of those desk drawers or pigeonholes. Probably some goddamn long-forgotten comic art.

It probably belonged to Les and Saint Lisa left love notes hidden in it.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 03:53

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009

Giant Ethicist posted:

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!

This is going to make sense to maybe 3-4 other goons, but I keep trying to figure out how Delta Green would work in this universe. I feel like the grizzled near-retirement FBI agents and such the conspiracy would send to Japan would also be massive Elder Weebs who were active in the early fandubbing scene and are continually distracted from investigating the supernaturally-controlled idol scene by Go Nagai autograph events and conventions.

Anyway, thanks a ton for translating and posting Cthulhu and Girl!

# ? Jun 17, 2023 04:07

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

Glassy Haunting Eyes. Like A Possum's Eyes.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 04:53

Good Listener: Sep 2, 2006; Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool

Endless Mike posted:

https://twitter.com/coolmom42069/status/1668656984403623943

From a few days ago but realizing I know exactly where this town is and it makes me laugh.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 05:30

readingatwork: Jan 8, 2009; Hello Fatty!; Fun Shoe

EasyEW posted:

Circumstance got on top of me tonight yet again, but before I go, there's a fella who wants to ask you a few questions.
https://twitter.com/SmoothDunk/status/1669483501194715146

Crabgrass

Peanuts Through the Ages (Mar 24-25, 1955)

Calvin and Hobbes (Aug 7-8, 1993)

Big Nate

Blind Alley

Dunce

# ? Jun 17, 2023 05:36

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

"Maybe they need money for their chronic muffin baking addiction. People have all kinds of reasons! Have you seen the price of eggs lately?"

# ? Jun 17, 2023 05:38

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

readingatwork posted:

Crabgrass

omg the ab/cd shirt. :3:

# ? Jun 17, 2023 05:57

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

# ? Jun 17, 2023 06:08

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

1980 comics

Dick Tracy

Footrot Flats

The Lockhorns

Computoon: Origins

Legends in the Heights

# ? Jun 17, 2023 06:09

catlord: Mar 22, 2009; What's on your mind, Axa?

Thanks for posting Cthulhu and Girl! It was delightful.

Haifisch posted:

Legends in the Heights

Hell yeah, I didn't expect Blue Demon rep.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 06:15

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

Heathcliff

Compu-toon

Garfield

Overboard

Monty

For Better or For Worse

Classic Arlo and Janis (July 14, 2001)

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

On The Fastrack

Safe Havens

# ? Jun 17, 2023 07:18

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

ronya posted:

well that's topical

...how so?

Also, thanks for posting Cthu'-pin. It was nice, silly fun.

Also, yeah, the ABCD shirt is tres cute.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 07:50

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Into Ilves

Nancy

Dustin

Mandrake

# ? Jun 17, 2023 09:07

ronya: Nov 8, 2010; I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

Samovar posted:

...how so?

In hugseeking pitch invasions: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1013130

# ? Jun 17, 2023 11:22

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

Giant Ethicist posted:

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!

Thank you for posting this comic! It was very silly and I enjoyed it a lot.

Vintage Valiant (Oct. 20, 1957)

# ? Jun 17, 2023 11:50

FastestGunAlive: Apr 7, 2010; Dancing palm tree.

riderchop posted:

Heathcliff

Statue week was pretty good

# ? Jun 17, 2023 12:42

amigolupus: Aug 25, 2017

Julet Esqu posted:

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.

Thank you very much for the explanation on why this guy hates Gil Thorp. I thought they were the same age, but finding out this guy was just some random teen who peaked at high school and got mad at the opposing team's coach makes the whole one-sided rivalry even better. :allears:

Hostile V posted:

Just lol that despite Holbrook making a big deal about predators and prey learning from the Dewclaws to co-exist without killing each other, nothing's changed at all. The kids still need to be firmly segregated to prevent the predator kids from killing the others.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 12:57

manero: Jan 30, 2006

Nancy 1943

Pluggers

# ? Jun 17, 2023 13:48

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

They actually let him keep it.

Pickles

Hagar the Horrible

Zits

# ? Jun 17, 2023 14:17

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Bizarro

The Family Circus

Slylock Fox

# ? Jun 17, 2023 14:57

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange

Get Fuzzy 6/16/03

Stephen Collins is political again this week.

Brenda Starr 3/11/51

Smokey Stover 4/17/55

Everyday Movies 7/9/36

"Wall yes, I did keep radio-bulbs fer a while, but there was so many calls fer 'em that I hid 'em away an' I ferget where I put 'em."

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 9/7/41

Selachian fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jun 17, 2023

# ? Jun 17, 2023 16:07

Fighting Trousers: May 17, 2011; Does this excite you, girl?

Medenmath posted:

Thank you for posting this comic! It was very silly and I enjoyed it a lot.

Vintage Valiant (Oct. 20, 1957)

drat that's some fine fjords.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 16:31

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

*fjine

# ? Jun 17, 2023 16:32

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

Retail

Popcom

# ? Jun 17, 2023 17:27

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.

Mutts

Sally Forth

Peanuts (June 19, 1976)

For whoever was rooting for a demon to haunt that desk in Crankshaft, we're getting a different kind of curse.

Mutt and Jeff

Rip Haywire

Thimble Theater (January 20, 1940)

Out Our Way (January 29-31, 1942)

# ? Jun 17, 2023 17:28

F_Shit_Fitzgerald: Feb 2, 2017

Darthemed posted:

Retail

I half expected the baby to react poorly to being held by an embodiment of evil, but maybe that would have been a bit too cliche.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 17:57

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

Murdstone posted:

Mark Trail

Those thought bubbles are really getting on my nerves.

It's like she knows static panels of just people talking are boring, and she wants to spice it up with including images of the things they talk about, but also feels obligated to somehow make it diegetic i.e. occurring within the scene but at the same time strictly in comic visual language.

# ? Jun 17, 2023 18:42