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Good Listener posted:My biggest weakness: Reading. god gently caress the easter arcs.         please stop jacking Rudy off so much, he's not a legal adult yet.
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ZeeToo posted:Nu-Nancy hits way more often than it misses, for me. It's me, this series is aimed at me in particular, and I greatly look forward to it.  Cowslips Warren posted:ugh Home Free is just disgusting. the art, the plot, everything. I'd swear it was some fetish of the artist like Glorious Master. Julet Esqu posted:I don't know what the hell is going on with Home Free. It's awful, but I can't look away. 
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Tiggum posted:Although I don't particularly like Home Free, I really don't understand why so many people seem to hate it. It seems completely unremarkable to me. The art rubs me the wrong way on a good day. The concept is dumb as hell and a decent comic could stretch it out for a week or two max; Home Free promises to probe the depths of "What would happen if a family remodeled their whole house at once and lived in the back yard??"
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Safety Dance posted:The concept is dumb as hell and a decent comic could stretch it out for a week or two max; Home Free promises to probe the depths of "What would happen if a family remodeled their whole house at once and lived in the back yard??"
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Safety Dance posted:The art rubs me the wrong way on a good day. The concept is dumb as hell and a decent comic could stretch it out for a week or two max; Home Free promises to probe the depths of "What would happen if a family remodeled their whole house at once and lived in the back yard??" Somehow the art hasn't crashed like nu-Trail's did in about as long as Home Free's run has been, and that's the most surprising thing about it to me. It's not good art, imo, but it's clearly had some time and thought put into it. Too bad nothing else about it has.
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Yeah, I don't know if the remodeling is ever supposed to be done, but the premise has been stretched incredibly thin. It feels like a prologue, the sister got a new friend and the brother can talk to animals and we should move on after that but instead the prologue just... keeps going. I also generally like nu-Nancy.
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Nu-Nancy is fine imo. Not great, but doesn't do anything worth complaining about often. This thread has loving Dustin in it, so our bar for comics is pretty low.
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Fingerpori There's no special Finnish pun in this one that I could spot, the guy just gives a cookie notification. Unless there's some hidden meaning in the Finnish word for cookie that I'm not aware of.
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ZeeToo posted:Nu-Nancy hits way more often than it misses, for me. It's me, this series is aimed at me in particular, and I greatly look forward to it. It is, at the very least, fine. The idea that it is bad, with some people comparing it to Gilchrist's run, is divorced from reality. riderchop posted:Classic Arlo and Janis (July 31, 2001) Ok, what's up with this strip here? Surely 2001 is way too early for the term 'trolling' as it is used now? If the joke is Arlo is wanting more than a kiss, shouldn't it be 'trawling'? Samovar fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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Samovar posted:It is, at the very least, fine. The idea that it is bad, with some people comparing it to Gilchrist's run, is divorced from reality. Google gives me this as the first result: quote:troll2
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Samovar posted:Ok, what's up with this strip here? Surely 2001 is way too early for the term 'trolling' as it is used now? If the joke is Arlo is wanting more than a kiss, shouldn't it be 'trawling'?
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Endless Mike posted:Definitely not too early. The first definition of "troll" on Urban Dictionary is from 2002, so it was certainly in reasonably common use online by then and the cartoonist does seem pretty online Trollin' is a totally acceptable version of "trawlin" - particularly in the upper midwest! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1m0NHFtia8
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Hostile V posted:It's Okay, I Understand. Christ, Rudy was disappointed he couldn't get the scholarship he wanted for like 1 second. Just let him have this.  The way Fiona uses her super hearing to constantly get a glimpse of Rudy's innermost thoughts and feelings, all without his consent, makes her an absolute nightmare to be in a relationship with. riderchop posted:cmon man I wonder if this was around the point where Lynn suspected her husband was having an affair and so had comic-dad start being a creep? That, or Lynn just wrote the dad thinking teenage girls are beautiful without putting any thought into how creepy that is.
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amigolupus posted:
I think it's just the dad making a bad joke to embarrass his kids.
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In fishing, at least, trolling is moving slowly across a body of water dragging lines (ie, a trolling motor on your jon boat); trawling is commercial fishing boats dragging nets (literally trawls, pulled by trawlers). Arlo is trolling, because he's moving slowly trying and to catch something. e: In fact, the modern usage of trolling (at least according to the wiki) has its roots in the fishing term, and "someone who habitually trolls" being a troll and "troll" being a mythical creature/rear end in a top hat aren't linked. (At least not outside the term probably catching on in the first place because the coincidence is so good.) quote:The contemporary use of the term is said to have appeared on the Internet in the late 1980s, but the earliest known attestation according to the Oxford English Dictionary is in 1992. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(slang) A+J 
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ALSO We're a few years off from this A+J week of strips, but it's relevant to our foob complaints. https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2004/06/21?fbclid=IwAR3vsC6_B15HvbBJBp6-qUf86659dfQmLc2NAAHkDkUEu4ESHGkq95EimYI Hitting on a better idea, which is "beautiful young women are supposed to make you feel old and it's a middle-aged man's moral responsibility to mind his business." Maybe you think this run is still kind of a gross way to handle it, but at least it's not the main character leering and commenting on their looks to them. Huxley fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis  His eyes were closed! He specifically didn't do that exact thing, Billingsley! This is literally the only way you could have done this wrong!
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Stultus Maximus posted:I think it's just the dad making a bad joke to embarrass his kids. "Joke's on you, I'm only pretending to be creeping on the underage girls!" Bizarro  The Family Circus  Slylock Fox 
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Selachian posted:
I don’t think these two are very good con men if they’re notorious.
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Is this product placement for Nabisco? I was always under the impression that figs were one of the big foods that dogs should never be given. Like raisins.
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Selachian posted:Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 10/16-18/41 And the lesson for today is the only way to get the cops to move is to flat-out lie to them. Mutts  Sally Forth  Skippy (July 23, 1935)  Peanuts (July 6, 1976)  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (February 6, 1940)  Olive & Popeye  I watched the body swap episode of The Prisoner last night, and between that and this it's kind of startling how much modern storytelling owes to mad scientists who knew the route to Gilligan's Island. Out Our Way, featuring a brilliant scheme with no blatantly obvious downsides that should reveal themselves almost immediately! (March 19-21, 1942)   
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God drat holiday weekend messing up my ability to post comics on the internet!  Crabgrass      Peanuts Through the Ages (May 15-18, 1957 and Jun 15-20, 1958)           I love how the phrase "goat" has evolved to mean the exact opposite of what it used to.
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Calvin and Hobbes (Sep 6-15, 1993)          Big Nate      Blind Alley EDIT: Whoops! Thought these were out publicly already. Go to Adam's Patreon if you want to see them. Dunce      Pshew! OK, finally caught up. Happy 4th y'all! readingatwork fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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