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Man I sure do fuckin' love lovely manufactured conflict brought about when Rudy The Oblivious talks about literally anything else than the proposal she's expecting and I'm gonna guess has not talked to him about wanting to get married at all at any point. Wait, no, the opposite, I want a time machine to find the person responsible for the concept to beat them with a tire iron Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Nov 19, 2023 |
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Drakyn posted:What I think about sometimes when Kevin and Kell gets like this is Sherman's Lagoon, which is also a strip about talking animals constantly eating each other - hell, the titular character is a great white shark that's basically a milder-mannered Homer Simpson, appetite included - and it has never once ever had these sorts of issues entirely because of one thing: the strip has zero interest in establishing the characters as moral paragons. Every single member of the cast is ultimately some kind of selfish or deficient jerk to one degree or another, because those elements lend themselves easily to comedy, and that also means you don't have this insane omnipresent tension where characters are killing and eating people while simultaneously being portrayed as the best people ever whose suffering is totally unwarranted and unjust and whose triumphs are righteous and deserved. 
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Drakyn posted:What I think about sometimes when Kevin and Kell gets like this is Sherman's Lagoon, which is also a strip about talking animals constantly eating each other - hell, the titular character is a great white shark that's basically a milder-mannered Homer Simpson, appetite included - and it has never once ever had these sorts of issues entirely because of one thing: the strip has zero interest in establishing the characters as moral paragons. Every single member of the cast is ultimately some kind of selfish or deficient jerk to one degree or another, because those elements lend themselves easily to comedy, and that also means you don't have this insane omnipresent tension where characters are killing and eating people while simultaneously being portrayed as the best people ever whose suffering is totally unwarranted and unjust and whose triumphs are righteous and deserved. Also, very importantly, it hasn't had Serious Storylines that want you to take the world seriously. It's a gag strip and it stayed a gag strip. If Kevin and Kell had stuck to gags or humorous wacky storylines like "what if: caveanimal times" it wouldn't have this issue either.
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Bruceski posted:"Instead of firing you I'm going to have you babysit my niece." "Okay, but I'm not putting my life on hold for this. It's an alternative to unemployment." Seems pretty reasonable. Oh, absolutely look for that new job. Just don't tell the boss you're doing so. You don't want him pushing you out before you're ready. I'm sure there's some other news station that would love to poach that guy.
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readingatwork posted:Blind Alley 
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Oh thank God! The story continues on Monday! I thought this ongoing narrative was just going to be forget a story was happening!
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Giant Ethicist posted:Bardiche Hotel Oh no, I've seen enough Gordon Ramsey to know that someone's going to do a poo poo on the floor to spice things up! 
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (December 16, 2001)  Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  No Safe Havens on Sundays! Zippy The Pinhead 
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This new Nancy spinoff strip is on fire.
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Hostile V posted:The Security State As A Good Thing For as much as Holbrook loves to poo poo on her, I appreciate how Angelique is honest with being a terrible person. The Good Guys are self-righteous hypocrites who pretend they don't murder on the reg, but at least Angelique knows she's planning a bunch of murders here. Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave Just wanted to say thanks for posting Wallace ITT. Really helps balance out all the lovely strips with something genuinely good and funny.  Malachite_Dragon posted:Man I sure do fuckin' love lovely manufactured conflict brought about when Rudy The Oblivious talks about literally anything else than the proposal she's expecting and I'm gonna guess has not talked to him about wanting to get married at all at any point. Rudy's plenty terrible in his own way, but poo poo like this also hammers home just how exhausting Fiona can be as a girlfriend. She keeps using her super hearing to spy on Rudy's physical state to tell whether he's hiding something or finding some other woman attractive. Rudy literally can't keep a single thought to himself and she gets pissed off when he does.
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Stultus Maximus posted:This was a few months after 9/11, when W Bush said that the most patriotic thing you could do was consume. Yeah I'd hate the mall even more if that shitbucket had said that recently.
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EasyEW posted:Little Lefty (June 13-14, 1939; 12th was another "technical difficulties" day) None of these words are in
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riderchop posted:No Safe Havens on Sundays! the best five words to be posted in the thread, every week
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Those are some fine cats in Sunday Valiant. Jucika "392 - Jucika And The Modern Samson"  Cruel, Jucika! "393 - Jucika Arrives At Lunchtime" NSFW Nudity  "Női Napozó = Women Sunbathing"
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you broke my grill posted:mary worth is boring Um excuse me The man moved to a town? And it has a variety of terrain?
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Rhymes with Pluggers Only seven pieces? Amateur. Get Fuzzy 11/18/03  Brenda Starr 2/7-9/52  This is a couple of years before the Davy Crockett TV show sparked a fad for coonskin caps.   Smokey Stover 2/2/58  Everyday Movies 12/23/36  "The Smiths want us to come over and help trim their tree tomorrow night, but you know what that means -- sit around and talk, and have drinks." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 8/6-8/42   
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Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 2/7-9/52 Curious if the young lady will be reunited with her actual family since it seems the abduction thing is a repeat with this woman. Selachian posted:Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 8/6-8/42
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PainterofCrap posted:That kid absolutely will not want to go home with his parents, not least based on the family dynamic (if you can call it that) we've previously been given. I got the imression that the older girl was her actual daughter, who she didn't want to raise either. Hence her showing up with the boy being met with "What, again?"
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PainterofCrap posted:Guessing his face will melt? Then he'll die violently?
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Darthemed posted:Popcom Knox's second rule, addendum: Actually magic powers are fine, but only the detective is ever allowed to have them. See also Scarlet O'Neil.
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Kennel posted:Into Ilves I love the non-stop weird adventures of Into Ilves, including the little piggy that cries :OE all the way home.
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Zereth posted:Also, very importantly, it hasn't had Serious Storylines that want you to take the world seriously. It's a gag strip and it stayed a gag strip. If Kevin and Kell had stuck to gags or humorous wacky storylines like "what if: caveanimal times" it wouldn't have this issue either. Speaking of, is Sherman's Lagoon still going? I remember enjoying it when I was younger and that someone used to post it in these threads a while back
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Powered Descent posted:[ I like this. Instead of just summing up the story so far it's a nice little character moment.
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Mutts is leaving us hanging for today.  Sally Forth  Peanuts (November 21, 1976)  Crankshaft  Another one of my things wrapped up last Sunday, so more room for Li'l Abner. (February 18-20, 1935)    Thimble Theater (June 23, 1940)  Popeye 
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Darthemed posted:Popcom This is unreasonably funny out of context.
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F Minus Mark Trail  Chicken Parmigiana posted:Um excuse me Here is some more natural dialogue. Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Can't wait for the backstory on this guy starring Tomothée Chalamet. Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Flash Gordon  And finally, they appear to be restarting Mara Leave: Keeper of Time  If anyone's looking for something to pick up for the thread, this one's available, and you only have to post it every 5 months!
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EasyEW posted:Popeye randy milholland vs. the line of action continues unabated
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We Are Reproducing  I’m starting to catch up with my translation queue (two pages a day of a text-dense comic is hard during midterms) so I’ll switch to a page a day for the next chapter I think. As for the essay, it’s a bit of a shame that this feels a little vague and wooly in English, in part because modes of “good” essay writing are so different in the two languages (and in part because my experience translating long-form writing is mostly limited to brochures, technical manuals and the like). It probably doesn’t really need clarifying, but Uchida’s point here about unwed mothers is that the only two “choices” are “mother” and “unwed mother” – the “unwed mother” is defined by her unmarried status, therefore the “mother” is necessarily presumed to be wed, and thus “motherhood” is inexorably tied up with the concept of marriage and in consequence (traditionally, which is the milieu in which she is living in Japan in 1993) to subservience to men. Bardiche Hotel   “Room 301 does not exist” may be my favorite thing in Bardiche Hotel so far.
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I Cannot Express How Little Of A poo poo I Care About This Baby. There Is Other poo poo That Could Be Going On. Edgar And Miranda. Carl And Leona. Angelique Is Back And A Problem. Nope. Low-Hanging Fruit. Baby Time Will Continue Until Morale Improves And Buddy, It Ain't Improving For Me.        Oof. 
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lmao at the Phantom milking his incredibly lovely lie like a melodramatic ham. "I *WISH* I could stop being so awesome, sir!" Glad to see Mara didn't give up. It looks great, it just needs to post. another lmao at that Mary Worth strip. "WHAT!? The most common trial outcome occurred?!"
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Murdstone posted:
Nice Dr Eggman cosplay. It looks cool though jokes aside haha
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Murdstone posted:
Wish they could have shown us all this backstory in the previous several months instead of loving off and relegating it to a paragraph in a splash page. Like, Flash Gordon reboot could get away with that because it was recapping an already vaguely familiar story. Even people who never read the strip or saw the movie likely have SOME idea of the story. I want this to succeed, but the bar for that just got much harder to clear.
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