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holy poo poo Demons of Baseball rules. 
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Aug 10, 2023 20:48
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Weber writing Hagar is just a factoid that I picked up from somewhere. Either some past iteration of this thread or JoshReads mentioned it and it lodged in my head. I can't readily find verification, so my apologies for passing on misinformation/leaking classified secrets of the King Syndicate.
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Aug 10, 2023 21:46
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Aug 10, 2023 22:15
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Mr. Squishy posted:Weber writing Hagar is just a factoid that I picked up from somewhere. Either some past iteration of this thread or JoshReads mentioned it and it lodged in my head. I can't readily find verification, so my apologies for passing on misinformation/leaking classified secrets of the King Syndicate. Okay, I see where that came from. My apologies if it sounded like I was questioning your integrity; it's probably just a sign of the increasing irrelevance of newspaper comics in general that the only up-to-date information I could find about the creative side of the Hagar strip was Chris Browne's eulogy. But at the same time all of this is more ammo for what could easily grow into a dandy Hagar the Horrible conspiracy theory, since Josh fill-in Uncle Lumpy's source link dropped irretrievably dead at some point in the past ten years. Does the Hagar-Hi and Lois consortium make creatives sign a non-disclosure agreement? Are you in any danger, Bob Weber? Make Cassandra Cat blink twice if the answer's yes. Preferably while striking a saucy pose that would double the eBay value of the original art.
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Aug 10, 2023 22:49
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Yeah, I've been enjoying Hagar. It's not top-tier newspaper funnies, but it's solid mid-tier.
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Aug 10, 2023 23:03
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Darthemed posted:Popcom I'm sorry, but as far as doomsday supervillain weapons go "I can kill people but then easily bring them back to life" doesn't exactly rate that highly on the evil scale, at least not to the point that I can really root for Ace Brady just killing them all permanently.
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Aug 10, 2023 23:09
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catlord posted:Yeah, I've been enjoying Hagar. It's not top-tier newspaper funnies, but it's solid mid-tier. It's one of the few legacy strips in my opinion that can still tell a serviceable joke
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Aug 10, 2023 23:12
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Hagar is an immortal. It's why some strips are set in the 1700s.
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin - We ran out of tattoo jokes  Mandrake  We can only sit and wait until they starve to death. Kennel fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Aug 10, 2023 23:47
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Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball Check the last panel, did they intentionally make the owner a dickhead?
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Aug 10, 2023 23:51
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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:There’s not a lot to say about this page, apart from the fact that I turned Photoshop’s AI loose on the top panel a couple of months ago and the result was a real treat.
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Aug 11, 2023 00:06
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Goddamn Demons of Baseball is insane hardcore whether it is about dating, asking someone out, or baseball. Aha! I do know this info about Transformers: overall the flight capable were seen as better than ground vehicles (there's a great jab in the Transformers Prime show where Starscream, notable always jet, quips "Oh, right, you're one of THOSE" to a rather prettyboy sportscar who was complaining about bugs in his grill.) and yeah yeah in the G1 cartoon, the Autobots could fly, and then never again, where the Cons almost always could, even as bots.
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Aug 11, 2023 00:33
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Charles Boyce seems like a real nice guy and I'm convinced he's an outsider art genius. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  BUM BOAT MUTHAFUCKAS The Phantom  Devil's doing a "Eh, it's a living." Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  amigolupus posted:This arc of Apartment 3-G is quickly taking a turning for the worse. Why is she even meeting with this stalker? Tell this loser to take a hike and go back to your plan of shagging Papagoras.
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Aug 11, 2023 00:55
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom YOU HAVE KILLED OR LOCKED UP EVERYONE IN THE PRISON WHO IS LEFT TO KILL YOU MOTHERFUCKER
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Aug 11, 2023 00:57
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Kennel posted:Dustin - We ran out of tattoo jokes Comparing the "science" of economics to a seer is actually a decent burn. It's likely not what Kelley intended, of course.
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Aug 11, 2023 01:21
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth drat didn't know Mary Worth was an rear end-eatin' Millennial
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Aug 11, 2023 01:41
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Pogo 3/19-21/51  Groan.  Archie 11/17-19/47  "The condensed version in the pocket size magazine" is a reference to Reader's Digest, which did pretty good business selling cut-down versions of bestsellers as "Condensed Books" for those who didn't have the time or inclination to read the whole thing.   MOCK frog?! We use no artificial additives or preservatives of any kind! Anyway, yes, it's Old Lady Head Trauma week in Archie. Enjoy!
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Aug 11, 2023 01:46
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Mr. Squishy posted:The Slylock Fox guy took it over a few years ago, I think he's doing a great job. Now known as "Congressional Military Industrial Complex"
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Aug 11, 2023 01:48
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Comparing the "science" of economics to a seer is actually a decent burn. It's likely not what Kelley intended, of course. What else could the intention be? It's a pretty simple joke without a lot of wiggle room for interpretation.
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Aug 11, 2023 02:42
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Comparing the "science" of economics to a seer is actually a decent burn. It's likely not what Kelley intended, of course. As much as I despise treating economics as a science, I think "pundit" or "political cartoonist" completes the sentence even better.
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Aug 11, 2023 02:44
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Luann Gil Thorp 
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Aug 11, 2023 03:19
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Raskolnikov38 posted:YOU HAVE KILLED OR LOCKED UP EVERYONE IN THE PRISON WHO IS LEFT TO KILL YOU MOTHERFUCKER Or, in other words: "If I never go home, I never have to deal with the consequences of my actions  "
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Aug 11, 2023 03:34
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Rudy Immediately Commits A Holiday Microaggression He Didn't Last Week       
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Aug 11, 2023 03:42
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Crabgrass  Peanuts Through the Ages (Dec 7-8, 1963)   Big Nate  
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Aug 11, 2023 04:12
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Aug 11, 2023 04:28
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Yeah good point, guy. It's not like anyone's gonna be making weapons after the war ends in 3 years. Most of the companies that converted to arms making during the war were able to go right back to their civilian product lines, but it didn't go well for the civilian arms companies in the postwar period. Both the military and civilian arms markets were absolutely glutted with WWII surplus, leading to a major contraction in the market. Most of the new weapons that were being built (which wasn't a huge amount for the next decade - Korea was fought almost entirely with WWII small arms, for example, and the Next Generation of rifles (primarily the FN FAL and M14 didn't enter service until the late 1950s) - was done in small batches or by government arsenals. "What are we going to do with this specialized gun-making equipment?" was a real problem once war orders started trailing off in late 1945. Selachian posted:"The condensed version in the pocket size magazine" is a reference to Reader's Digest, which did pretty good business selling cut-down versions of bestsellers as "Condensed Books" for those who didn't have the time or inclination to read the whole thing. Fun fact - if you've ever seen a big wall of books on TV or a movie, they were probably Reader's Digest Condensed Books, somtmes with a paper cover put on to hide that fact. The things were so ubiquitous (and so valueless once the early life cycle of the novels they contained was over) that they were and are an incredibly cheap source for "books by the foot".
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Aug 11, 2023 04:38
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Did I post the latest Blind Alley here yet? Whatever, have it again just in case.
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Aug 11, 2023 04:40
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Aug 11, 2023 04:54
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Scrolling down on my phone and wondering why Ralph Wiggum was in the last panel
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Aug 11, 2023 05:04
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1981 comics      Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns   Computoon: Origins  Legends in the Heights 
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Aug 11, 2023 05:53
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Selachian posted:Archie 11/17-19/47 So what book suitable for required reading could have been adapted into a radio play and a film by or before 1947?
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Aug 11, 2023 06:06
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Intelligent Life   Daddy Daze  Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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Aug 11, 2023 06:21
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (September 07, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Aug 11, 2023 06:28
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Kazinsal posted:Is there anyone interested in more John Allison-verse stuff? I'm tinkering with a script to grab all of Scary-Go-Round off the Internet Archive... albeit very slowly, because the IA is like that. It's got some warts but not so much that Allison has memory holed it like he did with Bobbins, and there are a lot of fun stories. Plus you get a lot of fantastic pre-getting-his-poo poo-together Ryan Beckwith moments. There's about seven years of mostly M-F strips so I'd probably post them a week at a time per post. start with bobbins imo
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Aug 11, 2023 07:01
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riderchop posted:
Is Boyce actually experimenting with story lines?
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Aug 11, 2023 07:10
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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life
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Aug 11, 2023 07:24
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Fingerpori "I won't be leaving except in one kilogram pieces" is a regional saying, I guess.
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Aug 11, 2023 10:35
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Underworld LA Weekly 07/31/1997–08/07/1997 
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Aug 11, 2023 10:42
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Gnome de plume posted:So what book suitable for required reading could have been adapted into a radio play and a film by or before 1947? There were several programs in the 40s which produced radio versions of the big budget adaptations that MGM et al released (often with many of the same stars repeating their roles). After a little bit of looking I've so far found that "Screen Guild Theater" presented The Yearling in 1947 (from the 1946 film), and the "Academy Award" program in 1946 put on The Prisoner of Zenda, but presumably based on the film from a decade previously. On the other hand, David Lean directed a big production of Great Expectations which was released in the US in '47, and that Dickens story had been adapted as a radio play several times over without the context of a big film tie-in, so that's my slightly-educated guess. It certainly was prevalent in American pop culture.
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