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If you want to trawl the archives for Gene and Mary Lou's whole deal, I'm digging through now to pin down some dates (instead of doing my actual work job): Earliest batch on GoComics: June 13th - June 28th, 1994: https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1994/06/13 June 9th - July 5th, 1997: https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1997/06/09 August 11th - September 6th, 2008: https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2008/08/11 May 28th - June 27th, 2009: https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2009/05/28 June 17th - July 7th, 2010: https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2010/06/17 July 25th - August 13th, 2011: https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2011/07/25 May 5th - June 30th, 2012: https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2012/05/07 August 20th - September 29th, 2012https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2012/08/20 That last batch is the wedding, there's plenty more after but I only have so much time.
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kidcoelacanth posted:If you want to trawl the archives for Gene and Mary Lou's whole deal, I'm digging through now to pin down some dates (instead of doing my actual work job): Thanks for digging all these up in one place, it had been a while since I read them, and you're right about Gene finishing school (obviously). I love Gene so much, my favorite comics character by a mile.
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Drimble Wedge posted:Edit: I'm probably alone in this, but I prefer the boarding house strips where it's the lodgers saying wonderfully inventive things to each other, and none of the major's lying and bullshit. F Minus  Mark Trail  "Your user seconds are through the roof!" Mary Worth  The Phantom  He should know this. If Phantom died he'd probably do all he could to bring his corpse back. Pooch Cafe   Rex Morgan MD  I gotta admit I kinda like Mud going around making amends. The Buck visit took too long to get to the point but otherwise it's solid. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  Also a couple days ago we missed the two month-iversary of this: 
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holy poo poo Mark is shooting a speaking to the camera in his car selfie vid and it's going viral. He doesn't even have new info, he's spontaneously generating amazing views on a recap. HOW DO YOU DO FELLOW KIDS Doomykins fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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kidcoelacanth posted:If you want to trawl the archives for Gene and Mary Lou's whole deal, I'm digging through now to pin down some dates (instead of doing my actual work job): God,the difference between Gene and Mary Lou and any of the million similar stories Holbrook tells, theyre night and day
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readingatwork posted:If people want I can re-post Blind Alley from the beginning a few pages a day so that new people/people who are lost can catch up. I find that it reads a lot better in a continuous sitting than in bits and pieces anyways. A synopsis would be helpful. A character list with brief descriptions and a picture, plus a short summary of the plot would be nice. I don’t want to read Blind Alley, though I often do by accident. I would like to know what’s going on and why anyone likes it. I think I gave up paying regular attention after the third or fourth time a kid discovered the birds were cameras, and nothing came as a follow-up. I’m not even sure how many kids there are, let alone their names or personalities. The author puts an incredible amount of work into this strip that just doesn’t register as existing.
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Honestly I quite like that his arc has involved him realizing that he can be a good person and also do fun loud songs.
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I feel this 100%, I like Bad Machinery and the newer comics but it is hard to read these old ones. I am not saying don't post them though cuz I definitely believe in "just post" haha.
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What I like about SGR, more than Bobbins, is it gets weird quickly in that same way that Bad Machinery and is weird. The characters are fun, the stories are fun, the monsters are fun, Shelly Winters dies (twice?). You can draw a direct line of continuity from some of the earliest SGRs to the end of Bad Machinery, and I respect that.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery Missing page between these two;  Also regarding Scary-Go-Round, what makes the series most interesting to me is you see Allison's evolution as an author and artist. He occasionally shifts back and forth from the Adobe Illustrator style to hand drawn comics, and the series ends in the hand drawn style. I'm guessing that towards the end of SGR is when drawing tablets became more common, thus blurring the line between "pen and ink" and digital. You also see Allison progress, and on occasion regress, as a storyteller. While I find the stories in SGR get better as the series goes on, there are a few stories were Allison crams too many characters into too much plot and he ends up having to bring the story to an abrupt anticlimax. By the time he started writing Bad Machinery, Allison learned to focus on a few characters with just one or two plot lines (that often connect anyway). Shugojin posted:Honestly I quite like that his arc has involved him realizing that he can be a good person and also do fun loud songs. Ditto for me.
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Haraiso Days Yeah, this chapter is on the wrong side of a not-very-fine line*, I think – guy’s an rear end in a top hat, full stop, no matter how heroic he ends up being. It's my least favorite chapter of this volume by a pretty wide margin. *The line being, he’s an rear end in a top hat, but he’s got reasons, ok? Bardiche Hotel 
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did i post? e:nope! Heathcliff  Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (September 13, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Scary Go Round (August 13-22, 2002)    And that concludes the first arc of Scary Go Round, "The Gas". Only 50 more to go! The format of the panels changes after this from 6 to 4 per page for a while, but the pacing of the story is better established at this point so I won't necessarily need to post more walls of early 2000s webcomic every day unless it's desparately requested. Once we get back to 6 per page I'll probably slow down to 3 pages per day. Time to go get banned from imgur for uploading the next arc all in one go 
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It couldn't have been worded as a generic worry about drugs and partying too much, it had to imply that terrible things(which things? uh, things that
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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:I have nothing to add about the Morphulators but back in the day I think we all knew a few.
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LvK posted:he posted a very short video of his workflow on Facebook one time and it makes a LOT of sense that he uses software that has layers functionality and does not use layers. lmfao. That desktop is about what I'd expect.
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Hostile V posted:I Don't Miss Comics About gently caress And All But I Also Don't Give A poo poo About Rudy & Fiona's College Comix As someone with many turtles and tortoises, THEY DO NOT loving DAWDLE, THEY CAN loving MOVE. especially when they see a mate or food. They don't run like dogs, but they can in fact loving trot.
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catlord posted:I find Pogo a little difficult to get into, it's very dense I guess, but it's really actually great. If you go in for the Fantagraphics books, they come with endnotes for the references in the strip, which at least gives you a fighting chance. Today was a little too interesting, so I'm taking the night off. For once I have an excuse.
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