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I’m struggling to think of another instance of a currently running strip that is both 100% reruns and so clearly the product of a bygone century. There must be any number of long-running but defunct strips that are less dated and better remembered. Why go with something that was old hat before the boomers started reading comics? It’s not even fun to look at — the art is rote at best and the image quality sucks. It just seems like such a weird outlier even in the context of whatever benighted low-circulation funny pages I imagine it runs in.
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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 There's not a big  enough for Holbrook painting Angelique as evil for cheating when Kell's ex-husband also did the exact same thing.This is just meanspirited. The reason Ralph can't hunt is not because of incompetence, it was because he was the first person in Hellworld who had developed a sense of empathy by talking to a prey species and seeing all of them as people, not meals to murder. Cowslips Warren posted:i mean this is the strip where a wolf becoming a sheep was used as a comparison to a transgender kid so probably. and then he got into a relationship with his sheepskin living diploma. The FOOB vibes is right. When she and Kevin were looking for a kid to adopt, she thought Lindesfarne was a porcupine and a plant eater. But once Kevin told her Lindesfarne was a hedgehog, Angelique had her misgivings about going through with the adoption. And she was right. There's a strip where Angelique was stressed out because she doesn't have the hunting instincts or skills needed to find Lindesfarne something to eat, implying that Kevin doesn't help her at all. Then both of them decided to raise Lindesfarne as a plant eater, because Holbrook thinks telling a hedgehog that they're a porcupine would magically alter your dietary requirements. Yeah, the last part's lovely but Kevin went along with it willingly, and kept up the ruse even when Angelique left the picture. Holbrook likes to come up with new ways to paint her as evil incarnate, but the good guys pull off some terrible things on the reg anyway. Like that time they kidnapped Angelique and made her think they dumped her in the free-for-all murderwoods so that the entire rabbit population can scare her back into being a rabbit.
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amigolupus posted:There's not a big Kell's husband was absolved of his sins when he died and became a kindly ghost watching over his former family.
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Doomykins posted:New Popeye: Heavily divided, mostly competent but often misses the mark in spirit. The IP holder was likely treading water for years by letting any artist interested toss up a Sunday strip until only Milholland was willing to actually submit on time weekly. Treading water's a pretty spot-on assessment. Before Randy passed the audition, The main Popeye Sundays were drawn by Hy Eisman, a syndicate longtimer who just turned 96 years old this spring. He was also tapped for the Katzenjammer Kids until it went into reruns in 2006. They were okay strips, but they didn't exactly pop. It still beats what happened to the dailies, which have been been Bud Sagendorf reruns since they fired Bobby London 30 years ago. Bimmi posted:I’m struggling to think of another instance of a currently running strip that is both 100% reruns and so clearly the product of a bygone century. There must be any number of long-running but defunct strips that are less dated and better remembered. Why go with something that was old hat before the boomers started reading comics? It’s not even fun to look at — the art is rote at best and the image quality sucks. It just seems like such a weird outlier even in the context of whatever benighted low-circulation funny pages I imagine it runs in. That's not the only reason Mutt and Jeff is the ultimate zombie IP. The copyright that appears on every single M&J reprint is in the name of Brookstone founder Pierre de Beaumont, and as far as I can tell he never touched pen to paper in the fine art sense. His only claim to the strip is his mother was married to Bud Fisher for four weeks in 1925, but because they never got legally divorced she inherited the strip when Fisher died twenty-seven years later, and then she passed the rights on to her son. Mutts  The Curse of Sally Forth  Peanuts (August 1, 1976)  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire and the Curse of Tangaroa!  Popeye  Skippy's Own Book of Comics  
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Nancy 1943 catch-up  Spoiler for domestic violence I guess 
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EasyEW posted:Popeye Wow, Daria's certainly pissed off at Olive Oyl. And drawn in a different style. And has her hair both up and down. It's a free country I guess.
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EasyEW posted:Mutts good job
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Bizarro The Family Circus  Jeffy has already begun to internalize the need to mask his neurodiversity at all times.  Slylock Fox  FoxTrot 
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I'd kind of like to see Piraro take a stab at drawing a serious Prince Valiant comic
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I have to admit, I quite like Mutt and Jeff because somehow it manages to deliver its old jokes well, and the fact that they're not only rerunning strips older than my grandparents but trying to update the jokes (to 1990s level) when they are obviously taken from somewhat grainy old newspapers that, again, are older than my grandparents, gives them a somewhat surreal appeal.
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Pogo 2/22-24/51  "Ze competition" is probably the Howdy Doody TV show, immensely popular with the anklebiting set in 1951.  Archie 10/19/47 
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Powered Descent posted:Bizarro
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom
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Powered Descent posted:Slylock Fox  Poil posted:I've never noticed the two guys with arrows in them before. Edit: I think most rare is the use of an actual Olive Oyl instead of 'O2', if you want to count that. F Minus  Oh, we've got plenty of prisons don't worry. Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Hey! It's Mud! Andertoons  Flash Gordon 
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD I hope he plays Muddy Boots.
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Crabgrass Peanuts Through the Ages (Nov 11-12, 1962)   Welcome to 1962. I feel like we've officially reached the visual style everybody thinks of when they picture of the strip. Big Nate 
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Hempuli posted:Fingerpori
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom Elon's going to take a look at that last panel and sue for copyright infringement.
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EasyEW posted: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. I think what's unnerving about Swee' Pea talking is less that he's talking and more that he's talking in the same overly verbose way that all the other characters are talking. It's just another reminder of how the dozen characters we have in nu Popeye are all speaking in largely the same voice with their characters only distinguished by their exact placement on a mostly arbitrary morality scale. In Thimble Theater right now, we have both Popeye and Olive Oyl moping about not being together, but in completely different and distinct ways. Compare that to the nu Popeye strip of their having a couple's spat and being largely indistinguishable from each other.
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Weembles posted:I hope he plays Muddy Boots. 
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Steeple 17: Hell on Wheels Part 2 John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website John Allison posted:Well, that neatly tidies up a number of plot points so you’ll never have to think about them again. Now we can concentrate on more important matters eg what a “croust” is.
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1981 comics      Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns   Computoon: Origins 
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Haifisch posted:1981 comics I am barely able to stay conscious long enough to follow what's happening in this comic. I just know I hope this lady gets divorced and that this guy gets married so his wife can divorce him and that the company goes under and none of these dickweeds ever again experience joy. So typical old Mary Worth plot I guess
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It's A Sketchy Life for July 28, 1927! And in honor of the ongoing Popeye discussion, we lead with Bruce Bairnsfather. And in honor of melting tarmac in Arizona, Ellison Hoover.  And in honor of that slot in the back of my medicine cabinet for double-edged razor blades that probably hasn't been used since the 1970s, here's Don Herold:  John Held Jr.:  LJ Holton: 
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Daddy Daze Take It From The Tinkersons changed format again...  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (August 27, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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readingatwork posted:Crabgrass riderchop posted:Classic Arlo and Janis (August 26, 2001) Doomykins posted:Heart of the City: Good, though caused a lot of reflexive dislike as people adjusted to the art style and that it was in fact written well for its target audience that wasn't them.
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riderchop posted:Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon I feel seen... plus or minus about five or six more cycles of this process.
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readingatwork posted:Blind Alley At first I thought ten was being an rear end in a top hat, but it was kinda over quick and he got better. I feel she has been a lot more consistently mean and an rear end in a top hat towards ten as the series progresses.
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Doomykins posted:"171 - Jucika Causes An Accident" A few years ago at a mall I saw this happen. A huge fat guy on a rascal scooter was so intent on staring at a passing girl in yoga pants that he kept leaning over further and further to stare over his shoulder, while also steering his scooter more and more to one side until he ran into a stand where some young people were trying to sell newspaper subscriptions and knocked the whole thing over. Anyway here's Fingerpori  This is sadly topical. We had our parliamentary elections earlier this year, and due to the difficult times the great Finnish populace elected a right wing government. They've only been in power for a month, and already like five or six ministers and party leaders from one of the government parties have been caught either saying horribly racist poo poo, or having posted small books' worth of racist poo poo on far right message boards. Our prime minister keeps insisting that his government has a zero tolerance policy on racism, yet actually does nothing.
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Krazy Kat(July 15, 1917) Little Nemo(December 9, 1906)  Shaman Tank Spec posted:
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