Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Murdstone posted:

It does look like it's his tongue sticking out within his protruding lip, which is really weird if you try to do it yourself.

This is making me try to think of how many comic strips have changed their premise. Like Barney Google and Snuffy Smith is now basically just Snuffy Smith. Fritzi Ritz became Nancy. On the Fastrack has always been about office stuff but the focus has changed. The Robotman strip has already been mentioned.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

"gently caress all those other dogs; we got back the one we care about, and that's all that matters. Dog-fighting ring? Never heard about it. Get off my lawn."

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

don Jaime posted:

I doubt anyone who thinks homelessness is a cutesy premise for a comic strip is capable of telling any kind of story well.

I AM GRANDO posted:

Or what? He’s cranking hog on Lake Ontario?

emSparkly posted:

So, I'm only barely initiated on Kevin & Kell, but when the hell did a little human boy come into it? That really seems to throw a spanner in the works of the whole "predators and prey animals as a metaphor for racism" concept that has never worked as an appropriate parallel for real life race relations any time it's been done.

emSparkly posted:

So, I'm only barely initiated on Kevin & Kell, but when the hell did a little human boy come into it? That really seems to throw a spanner in the works of the whole "predators and prey animals as a metaphor for racism" concept that has never worked as an appropriate parallel for real life race relations any time it's been done.

Ghostlight posted:

i hope this teaches you not to ask questions about kevin & kell, but here you go :

Kevin & Kell is set in an alternate timeline to our universe, where after destroying the world and ourselves all humanity has gone extinct. In our wake, birds are the next species to gain sapience and using the remnants of our civilisation they determine that humanity was a mistake, so they build a time machine and go back before humans ever evolved in order to ascend and manage the sapience of all other animal species.

However, multiverse rules mean that this alternate timeline runs parallel to our timeline at the same space, and a weakening barrier allows the idea of a fictional race of "humans" to arise in the Killverse, which creates a further weakening of the barrier leading to a 'hole' near the Bermuda Triangle (I think?) that allows passage between the two.

This 'hole' "corrects" things between it, so animals travelling from the Killverse to the Humanverse transform to humans and vice-versa (since despite being a radically different timeline, all the same people still exist between the worlds), and Danielle HumanPerson accidentally finds her way into the hole where she is transformed into a Rabbit since Danielle in Killverse was a rabbit - but she died years earlier, so Danielle HumanPerson takes her identity until she can figure out a way home.

Then she decides she doesn't want to go home and has a baby, who because Holbrook has human DNA due to one of his parents being a secret human who is not really a rabbit. So he's just a fulltime mythical animal nobody ever questions who in canon should also be passively destroying the universe due to his lack of 'instincts' weakening the barrier separating the timelines.

catlord posted:

I'm pretty sure in the blurb about the comic when it started that the kid talking to animals was going to be the main thing, so I was also assuming that the renovation would be wrapping up after that ability was established. Maybe the primary setting is going to be this uncle's house?

Murdstone posted:

This is making me try to think of how many comic strips have changed their premise. Like Barney Google and Snuffy Smith is now basically just Snuffy Smith. Fritzi Ritz became Nancy. On the Fastrack has always been about office stuff but the focus has changed. The Robotman strip has already been mentioned.

Murdstone posted:

This is making me try to think of how many comic strips have changed their premise... Fritzi Ritz became Nancy.

Vargo posted:

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Wallace the Brave

Tiggum posted:

I don't know how or why this unremarkable comic is breaking people's minds like this. The premise is that a family is camping in their backyard while their house is renovated, and one of the kids talks to animals.

EasyEW posted:

Thimble Theater (February 6, 1940)

riderchop posted:

Heathcliff

riderchop posted:

Classic Arlo and Janis (August 02, 2001)

Murdstone posted:

Selachian posted:

He thrusts his fists against the post and still insists he sees the ghosts.

Haifisch posted:

I'm not a sports guy but I guess Too Many Bowl Games was a thing at this time? I saw a filler comic in the TV section on the same topic:

manero posted:

Nancy 1943

Murdstone posted:

Andertoons

Tiggum posted:

If you wanted a Holbrook comic as an example, you should have gone with Safe Havens. It used to be about a daycare centre. Later it was about a university. For a while it was about a trip to Mars. Now it's about merfolk.

Vargo posted:

Curtis


I'm tempted to stop posting Curtis until the turtles resume.

Mr. Squishy posted:

Just as he's about to get horribly scarred?

Selachian posted:

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 10/22/41

Ghostlight posted:

Then she decides she doesn't want to go home and has a baby, who because Holbrook has human DNA due to one of his parents being a secret human who is not really a rabbit. So he's just a fulltime mythical animal nobody ever questions who in canon should also be passively destroying the universe due to his lack of 'instincts' weakening the barrier separating the timelines.