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Angular Cyrus: May 29, 2007; everything is so much harder than it looks

Underworld LA Weekly 02/13�20/1997

# ? Jul 29, 2023 04:07

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# ? May 28, 2024 03:08

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

The Demons of Baseball

# ? Jul 29, 2023 04:15

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ? Jul 29, 2023 04:20

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

Angular Cyrus posted:

Underworld LA Weekly 02/20/1997

Sounds pretty accurate to me.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 04:26

Hempuli: Nov 16, 2011

Fingerpori

# ? Jul 29, 2023 04:31

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

I don't think Milholland's Popeye is a very good representation of the brand as it was, but I do kinda like it anyway.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 04:51

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

Some Guy TT posted:

The Demons of Baseball

I like that Driver's friends are being supportive even though his dad can't be 100% perfect :gbsmith:

Also break Copper down enough so he joins the Demons

# ? Jul 29, 2023 06:14

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

I'm largely okay with Something Popeye. I used to read his webcomic but I fell off of it years ago.
I do agree with the whole Swee'Pea Talks Now being bad though. Feels like he's just Stewie from family guy with a smaller head.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 06:22

Maxwell Lord: Dec 12, 2008; I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.; Grimey Drawer

It's uneven but I think it does have its moments.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 06:31

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

# ? Jul 29, 2023 06:33

Gnoman: Feb 12, 2014; Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme

Green Intern posted:

I don't think Milholland's Popeye is a very good representation of the brand as it was, but I do kinda like it anyway.

I feel like a good way to put it is that his strips are generally competently executed, tell a reasonably good joke, and (except for his difficulties portraying quick action) well-enough drawn. Where it falls flat is that he doesn't really get the characters right, and it comes off as just his normal webcomic work with different art.

Meanwhile the current version of Mark Trail, for comparison, doesn't get the characters even close to their long-standing voices, and is also plotted lazily, drawn badly, and executed worsely.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 06:35

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

1981 comics

Dick Tracy

Footrot Flats

The Lockhorns

Computoon: Origins

Legends in the Heights

Gnoman posted:

I feel like a good way to put it is that his strips are generally competently executed, tell a reasonably good joke, and (except for his difficulties portraying quick action) well-enough drawn. Where it falls flat is that he doesn't really get the characters right, and it comes off as just his normal webcomic work with different art.

Honestly I'm not sure i'd even agree with the "reasonably good joke" part a lot of the time. Before I said it's extremely nothing other than the occasional good joke, but on reflection I can't actually remember the last time it had a joke I found funny at all(and last comic was a real stinker). It's not generally actively bad(at worst it's usually just getting up its own rear end with the Everybody's Extended Families stuff), it's just too :geno:

to be good.

It's better than NuTrail but that's not a high bar to clear, and it's definitely worse than NuNancy.

Haifisch fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Jul 29, 2023

# ? Jul 29, 2023 06:37

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

Heathcliff

Compu-toon

Garfield

Overboard

Monty

For Better or For Worse

Classic Arlo and Janis (August 25, 2001)

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

On The Fastrack

Safe Havens

# ? Jul 29, 2023 06:50

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

current-day valiant is the prime example of a successor artist who understands the assignment. 1939 popeye has shown me that the primary things i want out of popeye are dream-logic segues into another nonsensical gag that somehow comprises an entire adventure

# ? Jul 29, 2023 07:17

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Malachite_Dragon posted:

I'm largely okay with Something Popeye. I used to read his webcomic but I fell off of it years ago.
I do agree with the whole Swee'Pea Talks Now being bad though. Feels like he's just Stewie from family guy with a smaller head.

I agree with all of this, it's pretty much Popeye with his prior works voices. I stopped reading Something Positive years ago when it became so much talking, talking, talking.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 08:15

Shaman Tank Spec: Dec 26, 2003; *blep*

Fingerpori

I don't know if this plays in English.

The Finnish word used for developing photographs is the same you'd use for bulking up your muscles or... other parts of your anatomy. Like a penis pump might be advertised as "developing your manhood" or something.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 11:02

Hippocrass: Aug 18, 2015; That third panel of the first comic just makes it. It's still funny if you remove it, but that panel included just makes it top tier.

Krazy Kat(July 8, 1917)

Little Nemo(December 2, 1906)

# ? Jul 29, 2023 11:32

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 29, 1958)

# ? Jul 29, 2023 12:43

maybeadracula: Sep 9, 2022; by sebmojo

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 29, 1958)

Gay nonsense and lovemaking in one strip! Wow

My grandpa wanted me to read Prince Valiant in the Sunday paper when I was little but it seemed old and boring. I was just young and boring. Val is great

# ? Jul 29, 2023 12:50

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

At this point gay as homo had already been in Oxford Dictionary for seven years.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 12:52

Huxley: Oct 10, 2012; Grimey Drawer

A+J

# ? Jul 29, 2023 14:22

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Fingerpori

I don't know if this plays in English.

The Finnish word used for developing photographs is the same you'd use for bulking up your muscles or... other parts of your anatomy. Like a penis pump might be advertised as "developing your manhood" or something.

I'm consistently amazed by your ability to make the puns work. Your English is surely better than mine.

I don't think this one does come off tho. A rarity.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 14:30

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange

Get Fuzzy 7/28/03

Stephen Collins is political today.

for the curious, Lichen:

Brenda Starr 5/27/51 -- new story starting up!

Smokey Stover 12/4/55

Everyday Movies 8/17/36

"Duke, I'm worried. Do you suppose there might be such a thing as sleeping too hard?"

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 11/23/41

# ? Jul 29, 2023 14:53

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

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 29, 1958)

This Guy Loves ~~His Wife~~ the Ocean

# ? Jul 29, 2023 14:54

Vargo: Dec 27, 2008; 'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Breaking Cat News

Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Wallace the Brave

Heart of the City

Curtis

# ? Jul 29, 2023 15:16

Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

"Chee I ain't going back dere, they beat us." "I'll set them straight." lmao at the loving cat o nine tails and the guard just going to club Scarlet over the head from behind. I'd almost call this a rare loss for her in that she did the wrong thing but eh, here's hoping she gets the entire staff of that hellhole replaced.

Jucika "168 - Jucika Tries On A Swimsuit"

"mosd� = bathroom"

"169 - Jucika Wants To Sleep"

Get wrecked idiot.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 15:38

Huxley: Oct 10, 2012; Grimey Drawer

A couple of times through now, I think Jucika wrecking that radio is my favorite one.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 15:52

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

"Just Let The Snake Audit Remotely" She Thought To Herself Before Posting The Latest Batch, Quietly Resigned To How loving Asinine A Sentence That Is

# ? Jul 29, 2023 16:23

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Malachite_Dragon posted:

I'm largely okay with Something Popeye. I used to read his webcomic but I fell off of it years ago.
I do agree with the whole Swee'Pea Talks Now being bad though. Feels like he's just Stewie from family guy with a smaller head.

I think he's started talking by the point the Classic Popeye posts are up to, he just doesn't show up much.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 16:40

CommonShore: Jun 6, 2014; A true renaissance man

juicika trying out the swimsuit is a top-tier juicika face.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 16:42

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Huxley posted:

A couple of times through now, I think Jucika wrecking that radio is my favorite one.

That's the best expression in the second panel.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 18:14

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

Sweaty IT Nerd posted:

I'm consistently amazed by your ability to make the puns work. Your English is surely better than mine.

I don't think this one does come off tho. A rarity.

Yeah, it doesn't really work, but it should. Develop should work in this context. I think it's a failure of the English language really.

F Minus

Mark Trail

We didn't need a suspension anyways.

Mary Worth

The Phantom

I hope they come around the corner and Savarna is standing there with that grenade launcher looking right at them. FOOOMP

Pooch Cafe

Rex Morgan MD

It doesn't seem like this is a great way to run a hospital.

Andertoons

Apartment 3-G

# ? Jul 29, 2023 18:44

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

Bizarro

The Family Circus

Slylock Fox

# ? Jul 29, 2023 18:50

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Vargo posted:

Curtis

She's back to her old face again.

Luann

Gil Thorp

# ? Jul 29, 2023 19:08

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.

Zereth posted:

I think he's started talking by the point the Classic Popeye posts are up to, he just doesn't show up much.

Summer of 1941, the Sailorpedia says. But that's not the half of it, because by the end of the 1950s he was actually walking and wearing pants.

Sagendorf rolled that back somehow.

And no, I'm not bailing out on Olive & Popeye just yet, but yeah, I get where all the criticism is coming from.

Mutts

Sally Forth

Peanuts runs down the hierarchy of attachments. (July 31, 1976)

Crankshaft

Mutt and Jeff

Rip Haywire

Thimble Theater (March 2, 1940)

Out Our Way (June 4-6, 1942)

# ? Jul 29, 2023 20:09

Hippocrass: Aug 18, 2015; That third panel of the first comic just makes it. It's still funny if you remove it, but that panel included just makes it top tier.

Hostile V posted:

"Just Let The Snake Audit Remotely" She Thought To Herself Before Posting The Latest Batch, Quietly Resigned To How loving Asinine A Sentence That Is

Wait. Isn't she a mouse?

Wait! They were married!?

# ? Jul 29, 2023 21:18

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Powered Descent posted:

The Family Circus

Yes, Billy. They did.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 21:27

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

Hippocrass posted:

Wait. Isn't she a mouse?

Wait! They were married!?

Angelique is a rabbit who racefakes as a rat using pheromones and yes she's Kevin's ex-wife who refused to have kids with him so they adopted Lindesfarne and he kept the kid in the divorce.

# ? Jul 29, 2023 21:41