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Powered Descent posted:
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Murdstone posted:[ This would've been tense if we hadn't known from the sunday strip that he survives.
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Alhazred posted:This would've been tense if we hadn't known from the sunday strip that he survives. The Sunday and weekday strips have always been separate storylines (though regardless I still doubt they're actually going to kill the current Phantom off, this isn't the first time they've faked us out after all)
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis 
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Aug 12, 2023 21:09
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Am I stupid for not understanding that Hagar? I understood Cow Tools as a kid.
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Aug 12, 2023 21:14
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I AM GRANDO posted:Am I stupid for not understanding that Hagar? I understood Cow Tools as a kid. Nah, took me a moment too. I think Helga can't get past reading 'Chapter One' because of all the hunks on the beach she's ogling.
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Aug 12, 2023 21:17
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I AM GRANDO posted:Am I stupid for not understanding that Hagar? I understood Cow Tools as a kid. Helga burns with insatiable lust
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Aug 12, 2023 21:33
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Larryb posted:The Sunday and weekday strips have always been separate storylines (though regardless I still doubt they're actually going to kill the current Phantom off, this isn't the first time they've faked us out after all) The characters in the Sunday strip mentioned the breakout from the prison because they believe that "John X" is the one who led it.
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Aug 12, 2023 21:39
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Pogo 3/25/51 Archie 11/23/47 
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I AM GRANDO posted:Am I stupid for not understanding that Hagar? I understood Cow Tools as a kid. Their companions in the distant longboat helpless to save them, Hägar and Helga have become unknowing prisoners of Incoherent Time gently caress Island. Helga is trapped in a three-second loop while Hägar sleeps eternally, a jumble of anachronistic hunks wandering in aimlessly around them. The camera zooms out to slowly reveal the sandy island is surrounded by a forcefield, like a dome of glass... No, not a dome. We zoom out further. Impossibly large carved wooden pillars appear, surrounding the... the sphere? The sand beneath them goes down forever, the glass becomes a funnel. No, it's curving outwards again. Zooming out, zooming out... It's an hourglass.
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Aug 12, 2023 21:54
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riderchop posted:On The Fastrack Is it possible to be buried alive??? Get a shovel! riderchop posted:Safe Havens Of course there's mpreg in these loving things. Luann  Gil Thorp 
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[quote="Julet Esqu" post=""533850222"] Gil Thorp [/quote] BSS: Bisexual Super Spouse - The original Gil Thorpe containment zone.
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Green Intern posted:Val, you just killed retreating enemies in a blind rage like a week ago. Yeah and now that he's had his fun the rest of the killing is just busywork.
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Haraiso Days
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Since some folks seemed interested and nobody told me it sucks, say hello to John Allison's second comic set in weird and wonderful Tackleford, Scary Go Round! Set between the original Bobbins run and Bad Machinery (with a bit of overlap in characters, as we'll eventually see), SGR has shorter arcs than Bad Machinery, a wider cast of characters, and an art style that changes dramatically several times over its run. I'm going to be posting multiple pages at a time because we have seven years' worth to get through, and fter the first arc, Allison pretty much locks into a steady schedule of four days a week, so it'll take us a while to go through the whole story. I'll slow down the number of pages per post after the first arc or two probably, since the pacing improves at that point. First appearances of important characters will be noted for those following along for the first time. Scary Go Round (June 4-13, 2002)  First appearances: Rachel Dukakis-Monteforte and Len Pickering. Rachel is one of the early protagonists of SGR, and Len was originally introduced in Bobbins as the editor of a local magazine (now a university professor) and father of Amy Chilton.   First appearance: Tessa Davies, another early protagonist of SGR and Rachel's best friend. 
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Jucika "196 - Jucika's Discreet Phone" "197 - Jucika Is Friend Of The Animals" 
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Weembles posted:The characters in the Sunday strip mentioned the breakout from the prison because they believe that "John X" is the one who led it. Oh yeah, forgot about that
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Doomykins posted:"197 - Jucika Is Friend Of The Animals" owned
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You and your family shall starve, huntsman. Thus decrees Jucika.
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I Wonder Why They've Never Really Addressed Rudy's Learning Disabilities As A Family And Just Continue To Let It Rock If It Even Affects Written Material.       
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Larryb posted:The Sunday and weekday strips have always been separate storylines (though regardless I still doubt they're actually going to kill the current Phantom off, this isn't the first time they've faked us out after all) Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Malachite_Dragon posted:You and your family shall starve, huntsman. Thus decrees Jucika. He looks more like the "hunts for sport" type, his target was bound for the hunter's mantle, not the dinner table.
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Crabgrass Peanuts Through the Ages (Dec 11-14, 1963)    ...fear of that insane girl in class who randomly assaults you.  I think I missed a couple a few days ago so have a couple extra. Big Nate  Do you ever get the feeling that Nate's friends secretly hate him?
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readingatwork posted:Do you ever get the feeling that Nate's friends secretly hate him? Secretly?
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Not gonna lie: I did a double-take at the Scary Go Round art because it looked a lot like Day By Day for a second, and I couldn't imagine what precipitated DBD being allowed in here. No knock on Allison; that art style just reminds me of "Roosevelts".
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Doomykins posted:"197 - Jucika Is Friend Of The Animals" Ahem.  Jucika Hunting Prey Also Re: Scary-Go-Round, here's the introduction Allison wrote for the third edition of the ebook that collects this story. quote:I usually start the introduction for a reprint by saying how weird the pages look to me and how strange they are to read again. Well, I've said it now and I'm never going to say it again. And the introduction for this story, Gas. quote:Reviews of Scary Go Round would often remark that the comic started as the adventures of Tessa and Rachel, before many of the characters from my previous comic, "Bobbins" were introduced. But there was a good reason for this.
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1998 Mary Worth      No, Mary! Never give the cops anything!  He needs a bigger 'fix' to get his 'kicks,' as the kids say.
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Since it's painfully obvious I'm not going to make my regular night-time deposit, here's one of those gorgeous Frank King Gasoline Alley Sunday pages that turned 100 years old today (August 12, 1923, via Comics in The Golden Age, an X-Twitter refugee who is currently doing things you'd probably love on Bluesky)
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Murdstone posted:1998 Mary Worth Jesus, Mary, here, I'll try. THEY THINK DUDLEY FORD IS A COMPUTER CRIMINAL WHO DOES COMPUTER CRIMES. THEY WANT TO CHECK THE COMPUTER HE GAVE YOU IN CASE HE LEFT ANY CRIMES ON IT. Look at this smoothie. Love him.
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There should be a serious dramatic soap opera styled exactly like the visuals in classic Mary Worth, because it's hilarious.
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EasyEW posted:Since it's painfully obvious I'm not going to make my regular night-time deposit, here's one of those gorgeous Frank King Gasoline Alley Sunday pages that turned 100 years old today (August 12, 1923, via Comics in The Golden Age, an X-Twitter refugee who is currently doing things you'd probably love on Bluesky) Neat. I see the Digital Comic Museum has scans up to 1930, though most of them seem to just be dailies. Amazon has two collections of Sundays from 1920 to 25 for $290.
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mycatscrimes posted:There should be a serious dramatic soap opera styled exactly like the visuals in classic Mary Worth, because it's hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbUm4q5Euyk
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Hippocrass posted:Neat. Update: Someone just purchased the last copies of both collections.
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mycatscrimes posted:There should be a serious dramatic soap opera styled exactly like the visuals in classic Mary Worth, because it's hilarious. Mary Worth & the others really are styled after the old radio soaps. In "The Box: An Oral History of Television 1920-1961," the interviewers cover production: The first TV producers were radio producers, so they worked with what they knew. Soap operas were easy (and more importantly, cheap) because almost all scenes are inside, it's mostly a set cast with few new characters, and the straightforward story lines required no more than journeyman writing talent. They were instantly popular, and one of the old radio rules on writing episodes was that the plot development was incremental, so that if a viewer missed a few episodes, they were able to pick it up again without any real loss of continuity. I don't think the pacing suits the comic format, but I'm not a big fan of soaps as it is*. But they remain true to the format: if you skip four days in this thread & read Day 5, you really don't miss anything. *I appreciate the time and effort that goes into collating these strips and posting them, so please don't stop. I do read them! PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Aug 13, 2023 |
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Daddy Daze Take It From The Tinkersons  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 (September 09, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  No Safe Havens on Sundays! i dont like the Rae the Doe sundays!! riderchop fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Aug 13, 2023 |
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I don't like the Rae Sundays either but it's even more confusing that she's doing the same types of gags as the rest of the week (outside of disappearing into month-long Jojo references) but now with vague vegetable shapes
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Vargo posted:Maybe when Jules skims an article about another type of guy that annoys her. Good point, this is what I think has been really off about the writing in NuTrail. Each new storyline is as if Jules skimmed over a news article about something nature-related, didn't put in the effort to research why this is such a big problem and how this affects nature in the long run, and then proceeds to create a story without bothering to plot things ahead of time, all while phoning it in with the art. There's just so much pointless chaff and meandering in all of the NuTrail stories! It's as if Jules doesn't care about the act of making comics other than a way to own boomers online. If I had to change things in this arc, it'd be: - Have Mark and his dad in the train that had the chemical spill. Sets up an immediate sense of danger and also lets Mark help the injured get away from the chemicals. This means Mark and his dad don't look like complete assholes who are only rushing to a scene of an accident to film it for their blog. - Once people have been sent to the hospital and a day has passed, Mark gets a call from Cherry who jokes about the small delay in his train means he'd be stuck with his dad even more. Mark's confused why she's downplaying this and Cherry mentions the news said the train had some engine problems that couldn't be fixed for hours. - Mark sneaks back to the accident site in the middle of the night and sees there's no trace of evidence of the spill left. He almost gets caught by goons in hazmat suits until the race car guy helps him get away. - Race car guy reveals that this whole thing was a cover-up and Mark's outraged because the spill is going to cause some serious problems for the local wildlife. They both agree this needs to be blown wide open so that whoever's responsible will be made to pay. - Plot where they sneak into the corpo's HQ to find evidence, gets confronted by the CEO for their foolishness, and has their phones confiscated. Mark gets to do something satisfying like punching a corrupt CEO in the face and then takes his phone and makes his escape. - Mark and race car guy gets chased outside the building where the CEO's goons catch them and beat them up. The CEO personally takes their phones and stomps on it, ranting about how no one will know what he did. - But surprise! The media's right around the corner and caught everything on camera. The CEO is confused and Mark smugly explains that while he was too focused on getting Mark's phone, he didn't realize Mark already uploaded the evidence online for people to see. - Bam! CEO guy gets arrested and has to pay billions to help fix the effects of the spill. Mark and race car guy get to fade in the background while feeling good about a job well done, yadda yadda. Sorry for the  it's just kind of amazing how we went from having high hopes about NuTrail to thinking it sucks poo poo.
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