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Bongo Bill posted:The Lockhorns is also way cleverer about it than anything else still doing that bit in the 2020s, and in the fiction of the comic they make it clear that their mutual scorn is exceptional. I've really come around on that strip and it's now one of my favorites. Amusingly, although technically a legacy strip, one of the two cartoonists, Bunny Hoest, is the wife of its original creator. It also helps that it breaks it up with stuff that's them being mutual miserable about something going on (bills are a common one), a laugh at their equal expense (insurance, therapy), or are frequently around other normal people that do not exhibit their behaviors. Like how it's ultimately "women be shopping!" or "women can't drive" at its core, but the conceit of the joke is also no really Loretta be shopping crazy while her friends arent and Loretta is coming into the house with just a steering wheel; "men be drinking!" or "men be lazy!" but it's frequently shown that Leroy is the big drunk even at the bar with other people or Leroy is literally shown being lazy even in company of others. Also they literally go to a marriage counselor. It makes no bones about the conceit of itself and focuses it purely in the lens of "those two".
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Our Boarding House (March 17-19, 1924)   Tonight's escapade with the Major is brought to you by the culinary triumph of the electric age: toast! Without flame or kindling! What a time to be alive!  Having said that, the boys at the gas company would like to have a word with you.  Toonerville Folks (May 23-25, 1921)    Dok's Dippy Deelgemeente (October 21, 1914, and yes, I picked a random word from the Wiktionary)  Little Lefty (October 6-8, 1938)   
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Bruceski posted:Usually I grok the dated punchlines pretty well but this one's eluding me. I got to "blocking cookies" but I can't recall how Sony is involved. They had a massive data breach. "On November 24, 2014, a hacker group identifying itself as "Guardians of Peace" leaked a release of confidential data from the film studio Sony Pictures entertainment (SPE). The data included personal information about Sony Pictures employees and their families, emails between employees, information about executive salaries at the company, copies of then-unreleased Sony films, plans for future Sony films, scripts for certain films, and other information"
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Bruceski posted:Usually I grok the dated punchlines pretty well but this one's eluding me. I got to "blocking cookies" but I can't recall how Sony is involved. I think it's a reference to the Sony Pictures Hack that would have became public in November of the previous year, and still have been in the newscycle when the comic was being written.
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So I got that it was a "joke" about the Sony hack, and I know Holbrook is the undisputed master of torturing a visual metaphor, but what the gently caress did the Sony hack have to do with a rabbit blocking...cookies? Hockey pucks? with his ears?? 
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csammis posted:So I got that it was a "joke" about the Sony hack, and I know Holbrook is the undisputed master of torturing a visual metaphor, but what the gently caress did the Sony hack have to do with a rabbit blocking...cookies? Hockey pucks? with his ears?? Cookies because browser cookies, ears because species has trait
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery  Julet Esqu posted:Luann 
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Yak Shaves Dot Com posted:Cookies because browser cookies, ears because species has trait  ...c'mon man make it easier on me winning arguments online. I guess it's both?
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lol the tags even hint that he knew the Sony hack involved malware and had gently caress-all to do with cookies or hockey. Holbrook you loving madman.
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Green Intern posted:Nothing like going down to the reopening of the old majestic and seeing [checks notes] the weepy retelling of a woman slowly dying of cancer. Yeah this is the part that annoys me the most. Tombat's refusal to understand or learn about how anything works strikes again.
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom  "What part of 'gently caress off and escape' did you not understand?" "But I wanna kill people!"
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Again it's wild to me the Luann writers don't even seem to sense how racist they made Gunter's mom come off by being so friendly with Tiffany and so hostile to Bets. The scene where they all had dinner was really egregious. Edit: I've caught up and maybe they did actually notice and are trying to walk it back lol mycatscrimes fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Bruceski posted:Usually I grok the dated punchlines pretty well but this one's eluding me. I got to "blocking cookies" but I can't recall how Sony is involved. i thought they were hockey pucks and my brain ground to a halt trying to figure out the metaphor i still don't understand it, but at least now i don't understand the correct thing e: lmao to posting that before reading this page hexwren fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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Hostile V posted:Hellworld Presents: An Argument for Trains The way Holbrook's idea of peaceful co-existence involves the vulnerable class of people endangering their lives by being forced to spend time with people who can just murder them for a free meal is one of the worst parts of this comic. Murdstone posted:Mark Trail So their idea to help is to... run toward the danger like a couple of dumbasses and film the entire thing like how some ghoulish Youtubers post videos of people who are caught in/dead from accidents? mycatscrimes posted:Again it's wild to me the Luann writers don't even seem to sense how racist they made Gunter's mom come off by being so friendly with Tiffany and so hostile to Bets. The scene where they all had dinner was really egregious. Yeah, I agree that they're trying to walk it back. Considering that the comic has done its best over the years to remove every PoC or queer character in the comic, it's impossible to give Team Evans the benefit of the doubt with how they're treating Bets.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:
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Hwurmp posted:cr-runch I guess he got so horny he clenched his jaw hard enough to crush his teeth. We've all been teens, we get it.
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail To think that three days ago the strip had effort art, suggesting the start of a new batch and... Nope! The sheer laziness of panel 3, look at that panel 4. Lol, lmao. You can hear Jules drop her tablet pen and say "good enough, nobody likes this piece of poo poo strip anyway."
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The neck in panel 3 is just wonderful. "Hmmm, do I show Mark looking through his phone camera, or have him face the reader? Why not both?"
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I guess he got so horny he clenched his jaw hard enough to crush his teeth. So it's like this story, then?  riderchop posted:Safe Havens I wanna know what someone completely blind to the comic would make of the insanity in this strip? What kind of premise would they think this comic has? Doomykins posted:To think that three days ago the strip had effort art, suggesting the start of a new batch and... Nope! The sheer laziness of panel 3, look at that panel 4. Lol, lmao. You can hear Jules drop her tablet pen and say "good enough, nobody likes this piece of poo poo strip anyway." The art's one thing, but what really bothers me is should these two even be approaching a disaster site? Like, maybe if the train exploded then you should leave this to trained ( ) professionals? And it's not like they're looking for injured people that need helping, they're just filming the drat thing.
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Twist! These tired, feeble elderlies are easily captured by the baddie and used as bait in place of the kidnapped pets. It's blood and screams all next week in the funny pages. Also, the big bad turns out to be Wilbur (obviously). quote:The Phantom Some Maeby Fünke vibes from that smile, there.
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Bizarro I was under the impression ChatGPT and the like could already do that. The Family Circus  Slylock Fox 
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (July 19, 1935)  Peanuts (July 1, 1976)  Crankshaft  Syphilis can be a shared experience, too. Not one that a lot of people would recommend, though. Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (February 1, 1940)  Olive & Popeye  Out Our Way (March 5-7, 1942; spoilers for the usual reasons)   
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I dunno what Hardy is up to but it's leaning pretty heavily into creepin'. Just tell her off and move on! Jucika "108 - Jucika Is Cleaning"  "109 - Jucika Wants To Go To Rome" 
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I just got caught up with this thread after falling off for like two weeks. Not sure which was worse, Rex Morgan's "Well, now that we've graduated, we teenagers should sit down and have a dry discussion about our sensible futures" date or the fact that NOTHING has happened in Mary Worth other than teasing "Wow, these small dogs are dead, for sure!" day after day. Oh wait, I forgot about Luann's "I hope our HOUR LONG video goes viral; alright, now that that's done, let's not have any physical intimacy" installment. I've said it before in these threads, but The Lockhorns is great because Leroy and Loretta are cranky about everything. They commiserate about shared annoyances just as much as they snipe at one another, and we routinely see that they both have their own foibles. It's not the 50's "Wife is a blank slate and/or harpy; husband gripes about his ball-and-chain" crap. riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse I went to prom more than once. The girls look slightly more glammed up than usual, the guys still look like awkward dorks in too-big formalwear and they've slathered on more hair product than usual. (Also, the strip with Daddy Horny for his son's girlfriend sure was...something.) 
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JethroMcB posted:Oh wait, I forgot about Luann's "I hope our HOUR LONG video goes viral; alright, now that that's done, let's not have any physical intimacy" installment. you misunderstand - they spent at least an hour doing reshoots for the equivalent of an insta reel or tiktok
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Doomykins posted:Jucika "108 - Jucika Is Cleaning" I think this is my favorite Jucika.
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