Comic Strips 2023: It's not a fetish or anything, I swear

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manero: Jan 30, 2006

Nancy 1943

Pluggers

# ? Aug 5, 2023 12:40

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# ? May 28, 2024 05:53

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

# ? Aug 5, 2023 13:06

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Professor Wayne posted:

Grandpa's World

# ? Aug 5, 2023 13:12

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

seems like Val has parted quite often with his sword; shields, other swords, Saxons, you name it.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 13:22

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

EasyEW posted:

i knew something like this was gonna happen but I still lmao

# ? Aug 5, 2023 13:23

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

My Lovely Horse posted:

seems like Val has parted quite often with his sword; shields, other swords, Saxons, you name it.

clothes

# ? Aug 5, 2023 13:23

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Pondus

# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:01

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

For gently caress's sake Val, Squires aren't free.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:12

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange

Get Fuzzy 8/4/03

Double Collins

Brenda Starr 6/11-13/51

This story is taking its sweet time getting moving.

Smokey Stover 1/22/56

Spoilered for ethnic slur.

Everyday Movies 8/25/36

"I put off marrying Ralph till after my vacation because I'm hoping the boss'll give me another couple of weeks off for my honeymoon."

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 12/8-10/41

# ? Aug 5, 2023 14:28

F_Shit_Fitzgerald: Feb 2, 2017

~Coxy posted:

Grandpa's World

# ? Aug 5, 2023 15:32

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.

Mutts

The Curse of Sally Forth has been broken. Or at least passed back to its original owner.

Peanuts (August 7, 1976)

Crankshaft

Green Lama is a suspiciously specific mistake for a character who allegedly doesn't know collectibles.

Mutt and Jeff

Rip Haywire

Thimble Theater (March 9, 1940)

Out Our Way (June 25-27, 1943, spoiler for implications that we'll get to in a moment)

I am more than a little bit twitchy about this one, and not just for the Usual Reasons. Apart from coming at the beginning of the Japanese-American internment, this is an especially unpleasant analogue to the situation of '42 now that we know where the Nazis got some of their ideas for the Final Solution.

Meanwhile, on the front page, the US military gets down to business in England.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 16:25

Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

Retail

Popcom

# ? Aug 5, 2023 17:24

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Scary Gary

# ? Aug 5, 2023 18:20

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

that Leopold sure is a stinker!!!!!!!

# ? Aug 5, 2023 18:27

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

Bizarro

The Family Circus

Slylock Fox

# ? Aug 5, 2023 18:43

CommonShore: Jun 6, 2014; A true renaissance man

Powered Descent posted:

The Family Circus

It would never occurr to a kid born after 1990 that grapes could even have seeds, let alone one who is, within the logic of hte strip, born in 2016

# ? Aug 5, 2023 18:44

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

CommonShore posted:

It would never occurr to a kid born after 1990 that grapes could even have seeds, let alone one who is, within the logic of hte strip, born in 2016

Hell, I'm in my 40s and I think I've encountered seeded grapes once in my entire life.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 19:06

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Luann

Gil Thorp

# ? Aug 5, 2023 19:19

CommonShore: Jun 6, 2014; A true renaissance man

Powered Descent posted:

Hell, I'm in my 40s and I think I've encountered seeded grapes once in my entire life.

Yeah 40s too and I have foggy memories of my parents cutting grapes and flicking the seeds out with a knife and my dad showing me seedless grapes and he being amazed by them. In roughly 1985.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 19:26

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

Gil is such a good guy he's going to write the most entertaining character out of his strip. Admittedly nothing technically wrong going on here from the author, but :sigh:

Jucika "182 - Jucika And The Olympics"

"183 - Jucika Goes To Night School"

As simple as the artwork in Jucika can be the expression work and cartooning is fantastic. :allears:

# ? Aug 5, 2023 20:40

Howard Beale: Feb 22, 2001; It's like this, Peanut

EasyEW posted:

Crankshaft

What a wonderful rare day it is when the comic book gatekeeper gets to "Actually" a woman twice in one conversation. And then "forgive" her cultural ignorance.

gently caress YOU BATIUK

# ? Aug 5, 2023 20:46

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Into Ilves

Nancy

Dustin

Mandrake

# ? Aug 5, 2023 20:49

Giant Ethicist: Jun 9, 2013; Looks like she got on a loaf of bread instead of a bus again...

Haraiso Days

End chapter!

# ? Aug 5, 2023 21:17

thisusedyet: Feb 14, 2012; My post... it sucks!!!

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Aug. 10, 1958)

Holy poo poo, Val. Dude hulks out and cuts a sword in half that second to last panel

# ? Aug 5, 2023 21:25

BigglesSWE: Dec 2, 2014; How 'bout them hawks news huh!

loving Christ is Dustin a pile of boomer dreck.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 21:49

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.

thisusedyet posted:

Holy poo poo, Val. Dude hulks out and cuts a sword in half that second to last panel

Bitches hosed around, bitches found out.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 22:25

Howard Beale: Feb 22, 2001; It's like this, Peanut

Hippocrass posted:

Bitches hosed around, bitches found out.

FOR EDWIN

# ? Aug 5, 2023 22:31

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

Kennel posted:

Dustin

"What's wrong? I'm not thinking about loving the shoes."

# ? Aug 5, 2023 22:55

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

Sad Bear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyUVT8sas6g

# ? Aug 5, 2023 22:55

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

Busy day yesterday so a wee bit of catching up to do.

F Minus

Mark Trail

Mary Worth

The Phantom

Alhazred posted:

That's some Stormtrooper level aiming. Point blank with machine gun and you don't hit a single target.

Yeah it's bad. I was worried Babudan was going to get shot but now I suspect they're gonna have Savarna get hit instead as a fake-out. (Spoiler for probably wrong prediction because I usually am.)

Pooch Cafe

Rex Morgan MD

Apartment 3-G

# ? Aug 5, 2023 23:15

Mercury Hat: May 28, 2006; SharkTales!
Woo-oo!

riderchop posted:

Classic Arlo and Janis (September 01, 2001)

Eh, give it about a week and a half and you'll have forgotten all about that painting.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 23:35

Professor Wayne: Aug 27, 2008; So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

Pickles

Hagar the Horrible

Zits

# ? Aug 5, 2023 23:46

JethroMcB: Jan 23, 2004; We're normal now.
We love your family.

Julet Esqu posted:

Luann

I was going to say "Tiff should be allowed to be horny and ogle another character's boyfriend. It's fine." But then:

Kennel posted:

Dustin

I was forced to consider that I'm perpetuating a double standard.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 23:48

catlord: Mar 22, 2009; What's on your mind, Axa?

I don't think it's like, top-tier comics, but Hagar the Horrible somehow works ok.

# ? Aug 5, 2023 23:50

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

The Demons of Baseball

# ? Aug 6, 2023 00:01

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

JethroMcB posted:

I was going to say "Tiff should be allowed to be horny and ogle another character's boyfriend. It's fine." But then:

I was forced to consider that I'm perpetuating a double standard.

I think it's both fine for Tiff to look (but not touch) with Stef's boyfriend, and it's also okay for a married man to notice (but not touch) a good rear end. (In neither case should anybody stare like a goon and make the other person uncomfortable.)

I still say Dustin's dad is a jerk, though, because a) he's openly doing it in front of his wife when it clearly bothers her and b) he's equating checking out an rear end to looking at some shoes and this is clearly stupid unless there is some fetish stuff going on in this strip we haven't been told about.

# ? Aug 6, 2023 00:22

Odonata: Nov 5, 2009; Nap Ghost

Mercury Hat posted:

Eh, give it about a week and a half and you'll have forgotten all about that painting.

Plus all you have to do is change out the dialog and those panels will still work perfectly.

# ? Aug 6, 2023 01:26

Ardeem: Sep 16, 2010; There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

JethroMcB posted:

I was going to say "Tiff should be allowed to be horny and ogle another character's boyfriend. It's fine." But then:

I was forced to consider that I'm perpetuating a double standard.

Tiff isn't married.

# ? Aug 6, 2023 01:31

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Pogo 3/8-10/51

Archie 11/3-5/47

Bonus Comic! Sadly, the paper where I was getting my Sunday Archies seems to have dropped it, and I haven't been able to find an alternative. However, while hunting for Archie, I spotted this strip with an interesting take on the Great Long Skirt Controversy of 1947:

Chlorine 11/2/47