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Endless Mike posted:It's what's her name, the hippie roommate. Des? I was unsure of this at first but her crying about “badmouthing people you’ve never even met! The very thought!” clinched it for sure. It’s Des.
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maybeadracula posted:I can never tell who's being completely serious but there's a lot of very weird a man and a woman can't be seen together unless they're on a romantic date vibes in this thread right now Evanses seem to think that’s the case. I think it’s really ludicrous that whatever reaction Bets ended up having is in response to the most bland cookie-cutter “we’re friends at a party, let’s have our picture taken!”
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Mar. 13, 1960) Hippocrass posted:Krazy Kat(May 5, 1918) It doesn't particularly come up in this strip, but one thing I really enjoy about Krazy Kat is that Ignatz fits the by-now overdone comic strip archetype of the physically small, obnoxious, selfish, loudmouth who dishes out physical and verbal abuse but is - unlike many of his modern counterparts - absolutely not even a little bit shielded from karma, konsequences, or cirkumstantial bad luck. ellie the beep posted:yesterdays strip had me going 'wait a minute, if barin escaped, that means ming could have too!' - i hadnt considered that she might have just been lying Powered Descent posted:We've had a few creators turn up in the thread -- most gloriously, over a decade ago, Richard Thompson of Cul de Sac briefly appeared. It's plausible there are a few more of them lurking, maybe even undercover posting. After all, there aren't that many places on the Interwebs dedicated to this particular art form, so if they want to take the pulse of their readership, we're one of the few options. Drakyn fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann I'll admit I don't follow this comic closely but right up until Bets was planning to surprise Gunther like this I didn't realize they hadn't actually broken up. maybeadracula posted:I can never tell who's being completely serious but there's a lot of very weird a man and a woman can't be seen together unless they're on a romantic date vibes in this thread right now Them showing up holding hands like they did is kinda odd if they're not on a date, though.
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Bad Machinery  EasyEW posted:Rip Haywire
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Powered Descent posted:We've had a few creators turn up in the thread -- most gloriously, over a decade ago, Richard Thompson of Cul de Sac briefly appeared. It's plausible there are a few more of them lurking, maybe even undercover posting. After all, there aren't that many places on the Interwebs dedicated to this particular art form, so if they want to take the pulse of their readership, we're one of the few options. Edit: There are a few I would be surprised if they haven’t found their way to this thread. Again, though, not the Evans clan. Murdstone fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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Murdstone posted:Oh sure I’d buy almost any other comic strip writer or artist finding this thread and seeing what we’re saying on here. But not Greg or Karen Evans.
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Medenmath posted:I like the whole setup a lot more when you put it that way, haha Cheddar Lion Rock is marked out on Google Maps with a few decent photos. I like to look up locations mentioned in Prince Valiant from time to time.
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Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon We Are Reproducing   There was a famous case of one of the big cola concerns, I forget whether it was Coke or Pepsi, trying to launch a what-was-typical-in-the-States-at-the-time ad campaign here in Japan that directly talked smack about the competition, and the backlash was such that it actually hurt their sales.
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Nthing the love for Flash Gordon. Neat art style, well written, interesting twist on a classic. Scary Go Round (February 13-17, 2004)    
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Jucika "374 - Jucika Wakes Him Up" I love the high energy contained train wreck Jucika and Husband's relationship is. You get the feeling things get really high passion when they argue and then things get really high passion. "375 - Jucika's Morning Rush"  Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon The pacing and set up this strip does is downright heroic compared to the rest of the funny pages. Whenever I think of a scale of how you'd rate comics I put Foster's Prince Valiant at the top, where it'd be 6/5. Just not fair to compare anyone else to that but this Gordon is swinging in that weight class in many ways. It's a rare strip where I'm desperate to see each new day now. Other strips... speaking of the other end of the scale I'm reminded reading Crankshaft that this old fart was supposed to be a speaks truth to power journalist who told Evil Corporation that the press can bring them to their knees. Anyway after he made an idiot of himself in that storyline here he is struggling to justify his existence to a bunch of bored people who don't care. Enormous shouting gently caress YOU to Dustin today. Ah yes, a boomer telling me that young people in the middle of a depression would judge each other severely over still living with family.
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Mercury Hat posted:nu mary worth lost my trust with the storyline where wilbur lets his loved ones think he's dead while he's at a tropic resort and they just shrug and go "that's our wilbur" instead of throwing him into the nearest tar pit when the jig is up It's actually a pretty similar ethical situation now that you mention it. Being really dismissive of a traumatic emotional event because all's well that ends well. We're already halfway there- amigolupus posted:It's the mother's right to decide whether she wants the father of the child to be part of her life or not. She mentioned breaking it off with Keith when she found out she's pregnant because she was afraid he'd use that as a pretext to pressure her into a wedding. Considering how obsessive Keith was acting on the drive back to his apartment, maybe she had a good reason to be worried. If she truly wanted to, she could have told Keith back then to have him give child support, but the fact she was fine raising the kid all on her own for two decades says a lot. Kitty's actions have already been fundamentally excused by the fact that everything worked out fine as far as the childrearing went, even though nearly any real-life situation comparable to this one would almost certainly be tremendously more complex. The only conflict at this point is Keith's hurt feelings, which the Mary Worth writer seems to be gearing up to solve by having him man up and not be so whiny. The irony of this position is more interesting than anything that's actually going to happen in the comic itself since the most logical way to interpret Keith's character, as most posters ITT are doing, is as an avatar of evil patriarchy.
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Doomykins posted:The pacing and set up this strip does is downright heroic compared to the rest of the funny pages. Whenever I think of a scale of how you'd rate comics I put Foster's Prince Valiant at the top, where it'd be 6/5. Just not fair to compare anyone else to that but this Gordon is swinging in that weight class in many ways. It's a rare strip where I'm desperate to see each new day now. It is a very strong showing so far, though.
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann this picture is supposed to look salacious, yet it evokes the exact same energy as this one: 
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Or alternatively, following my own teenage pattern: I was going to go to this wild party without telling you. Could you give me a lift to the supermarket? I need to buy beer.
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Zereth posted:We might still be in the "stuff made to pitch it to the syndicates" phase like the first monthish of new Trail was. Remember how that had a sudden massive drop in art quality? It's still too early to say how it's going to shake out long term. So many of the IP baton passes are weak. I'd really like to see more than Heart of the City manage the epic heights of "average." Speaking of: No Mark, you didn't make an educated guess! Rusty made a random guess and you followed him! Jules didn't even have the decency to toss on a tacky "Andy smells out the hiker because cartoon dogs are magic plot seeking missiles" justification! It just sucks, everything Mark does has nothing to do with any intentional actions, training or talents!
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Retail  Having trouble uploading Popcom today, it'll be delivered when possible.
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Pogo 10/11-13/51  If these are references to real people, I'm mystified.  Archie 9/9-11/48    Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 9/27-29/51   
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Darthemed posted:Retail Would the General Lee have had an in-cabin trunk release control? I was under the impression those didn't get widespread until sometime in the 80s.
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EasyEW posted:Sally Forth maybeadracula posted:I can never tell who's being completely serious but there's a lot of very weird a man and a woman can't be seen together unless they're on a romantic date vibes in this thread right now You're not wrong but they literally showed up holding hands, and did not stop holding hands for like 4 or 5 straight strips, and have not left each others side for a single second the whole time they've been at the party, while loudly insisting to all and sundry "WE ARE NOT DATING'. They have no one but themselves to blame.
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BigglesSWE posted:Evanses seem to think that’s the case. I think it’s really ludicrous that whatever reaction Bets ended up having is in response to the most bland cookie-cutter “we’re friends at a party, let’s have our picture taken!” Bets is the one who sent the "don't look at the internet" text instead of some sort of gotcha. Looks like she's on Gunth's side of this.
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Zereth posted:I'll admit I don't follow this comic closely but right up until Bets was planning to surprise Gunther like this I didn't realize they hadn't actually broken up. Same. When Gunther ran out on Bets in the middle of their cross-country journey, it seemed pretty final to me. I guess not???
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Giant Ethicist posted:OK, this has now got me. I've heard about this sort of thing before; Sega's Japanese parent company initially didn't like the American branch's confrontational "Genesis does what Nintendon't" ad campaign. Yet I wasn't sure if that sort of thing was viewed in Japan as a bad business decision (since you're backhandedly giving your competitor free advertising) or as simply mean-spirited in the public eye.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:You're not wrong but they literally showed up holding hands, and did not stop holding hands for like 4 or 5 straight strips, and have not left each others side for a single second the whole time they've been at the party, while loudly insisting to all and sundry "WE ARE NOT DATING'. They have no one but themselves to blame. This. Additionally they spent like a week before the party reminiscing about how cute they are together and how natural they are together and all the times they kissed and Gunther's enormous wormy dong. The Evanses laid it on so thick people were wondering if they were going to up and end the strip with an engagement or some poo poo. Granted, the party-goers weren't privy to that conversation*, but it does set the tone going in for us, the readers, and gives an insight to where their minds were when they decided to go ahead with this date. If they'd just gone to the party together without all the Fooby True Love nonsense ahead of time and without the hand holding I'd agree that it's nonsense to think that a straight man and woman can't just be friends or go to a party. *Just Bernice, but she doesn't get invited to parties
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This is where the full night delivery would go, except Little Lefty turned out to be a little bit more involved than usual. (June 2-3, 1939 (no 1st)) Lefty's Sketch Book posted:* Anyone standing on 39th near 6th Ave. can turn either way and land in a * * * * show! For the Federal Theatre Project, the head-chopper was very much on his way (per wiki): "Although The Federal Theatre project consumed only 0.5% of the allocated budget from the WPA and was widely considered a commercial and critical success, the project became a source of heated political contention. Congress responded to the project's racial integration and accusations of Communist infiltration and cancelled its funding effective June 30, 1939."  Anyway, I owe you a batch of Out Our Way from this morning, so here it is. (April 12-14, 1943)   
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Selachian posted:Rhymes with Orange Once again they inadvertently ruin their own joke. If the capsule has a barbell on it, then it doesn't need to be a capsule. You would just use a barbell. The strength training mum should just be curling the capsule itself.
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Hippocrass posted:$9 trillion in 1907 is $294,691,595,744.68 today did you miss some zeroes or can I not count? is that only 294 billion, or am I hallucinating? Doomykins posted:I love the high energy contained train wreck Jucika and Husband's relationship is. You get the feeling things get really high passion when they argue and then things get really high passion. jucika initially reminded me a lot of a midcentury french comic I found a collection of in my teenage years, clementine cherie. same broad category of comic, cute girl getting into mild misadventures, often partly dressed or not at all (because france), and I'm doubly reminded now: in the introduction to that print collection, it's mentioned that there was an outcry when clementine got married off partway into the comic's run - so I wonder what the readership's reaction was to jucika's wedding? I've considered posting some CC comics (they're single-panel gags, either with the title character or the rest of her family, two extremely lockhorns-esque parents and a younger brother) but like 90% of them would have to get spoilered or hotlinked or whatever for nudity.
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hexwren posted:did you miss some zeroes or can I not count? is that only 294 billion, or am I hallucinating? I say  and keep the images behind links whenever you feel it's necessary; that sounds hilarious.
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hexwren posted:did you miss some zeroes or can I not count? is that only 294 billion, or am I hallucinating? Billion has two meanings. Shortform, used in US and some other areas (UK officially switched a few years before I was born for example): 10^9, 1,000,000,000. The triplet after Million. Longform, used in most of Europe (at least officially, no clue for common usage): 10^12, 1,000,000,000,000, a Bi-Million.
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I'd have to scan the book, there doesn't seem to be a great source online, however, I am seeing a few original panels on a google image search, I'll have to crossreference them against the captions in the book, that might do for a taster. Let me go see where I even left the book, too many bookshelves in this placeBruceski posted:Billion has two meanings. that's...not the point I'm making - the number posted there is 294 billion (US), which is less than 9 trillion by a long shot, and the dollar definitely didn't go the other direction since then my wife tells me I may have mistaken a joke amount of math for a real amount of math hexwren fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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hexwren posted:that's...not the point I'm making - the number posted there is 294 billion (US), which is less than 9 trillion by a long shot, and the dollar definitely didn't go the other direction since then Oh you're right, I misread trillion.
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