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Vargo posted:AP did a writeup today on McDonnell's decision to let Guard Dog free with this storyline: https://apnews.com/article/mutts-guard-dog-free-comics-d831d5fe301ca92bb4e0e45631dda8b0 She’s your son after all.
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Mutts was my grandmother's favorite comic strip, and one of the last Christmas presents I got her was a couple of collected editions.
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Selachian posted:
A Dahir Insaat origin story.
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave This is my dog's spirit human
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Man, I know Holbrook is the "sly about kink (furry)" comic artist. I know this. This one still caught me off guard. readingatwork posted:And that's it for Blind Alley year 2. The strip is currently on hiatus until spring but in the meantime Adam has a new short comic called Brambles running on Patreon which is pretty cute imo. I'm going to have to go back and do a straight read through all of Blind Alley. The artwork is gorgeous and a few strips have really affected me, but it keeps so many balls in the air that's it's easy to lose the plot when you only read it one page every so often.
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Schwarzwald posted:Man, I know Holbrook is the "sly about kink (furry)" comic artist. I know this. There’s a plot?
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CommonShore posted:I don't really enjoy defending For Better or for Worse but I have the urge to keep the hate readers honest now and again - Sure, I just think it still ties into this myth that businesses with whom you have no prior connection will leap to hire someone who shows initiative (and offers themself up as a volunteer because surely a paycheck will be forthcoming). I'm sure the lesson is nothing deeper than "it's easier to keep a job than find a job once someone sees the work you can do" but the set-up still makes me wrinkle my nose. Like, I can accept the scenario as being part of a narrative while also thinking it's built on some -- at best -- outdated or at least very niche reasoning that makes it a fanciful scenario from the start  .
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Mercury Hat posted:Like, I can accept the scenario as being part of a narrative while also thinking it's built on some -- at best -- outdated or at least very niche reasoning that makes it a fanciful scenario from the start
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This Hour Has 22 Minutes was the title of a television comedy program on CBC.
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Safety Dance posted:This Hour Has 22 Minutes was the title of a television comedy program on CBC. It's still around, and is IMHO vastly superior to Royal Canadian Air Farce (the latter seemed to think actors bugging their eyes out was the peak of comedy). Scary Gary   
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Alterian posted:When did you start doing this? We have to be crossing over into you posting strips that were new while you were posting the backlog.
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Zereth posted:I mean, these are reruns from the... 70s or 80s, I think, that are occasionally touched up to remove blatant references to the year. Mid-1990s. Foob launched in 1979. And yeah, I think "just walk into a place that needs help and ask for a job" was still workable back then, at least for retail/customer service jobs -- but not for much longer. I remember making the rounds of stores in 2002 looking for openings and being told "go apply online" at each one.
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom You've clearly just taken pictures of real plants and slapped on a colour overlay for the first panel, so why are you doing that dot shading on the two characters, and ONLY on the two characters?
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail Dumb tried to frame Dumber for vandalism to get around asking her to go on a hike. Dumb and Dumber have agreed to go on a hike until Jules goes back to Mark asking the men's nature club if they'd like to open a men's nature club for men. Mark Trail has given up on everything else, I wonder how far Jules will go in not even bothering to write stories at all. We're up to panel to panel disassociation, lol. Draws a statue. Draws it off model from the first panel. Draws it off model from the previous two panels. Draws thought bubble depicting the bizarre foreign creature Bee. Then draws some bees in the last panel anyway.
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We Are Reproducing Spoilered for what’s almost-surprisingly not depicting a fetish but would totally look like it if someone was reading over your shoulder. 
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I think what I find interesting about freeing Guard Dog is that it's not caused by some moralistic activism, people standing up against the status quo. It's because of one last act of cruel neglect from the former owner, only when truly and totally abandoned can the heroes step in to do something. I don't think presenting it one way or the other would be "better", but I find my mind lingering on it.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I've been rewatching MST3K and this Invention Exchange seems extremely relevant to this thread: I resent that I initially thought you posted this because of Sally Forth.
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Doomykins posted:Dumb tried to frame Dumber for vandalism to get around asking her to go on a hike. Dumb and Dumber have agreed to go on a hike until Jules goes back to Mark asking the men's nature club if they'd like to open a men's nature club for men. Mark Trail has given up on everything else, I wonder how far Jules will go in not even bothering to write stories at all. We're up to panel to panel disassociation, lol. Actually, it looks like 'Draws thought bubble depicting the bizarre foreign creature Bee. Then copy pastes those bees in the last panel anyway.'
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Kennel posted:Dustin I know we are thoroughly "gently caress you, Ed"ed out as a thread but gently caress you, Ed, for publishing this as a fun relatable thing after everything Dustin has ever not done in his life.
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Steeple 19: Maggie's Party Part 2 John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website Billie's referring to a conversation from Steeple #5 (one of the print issues). 
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just loving get on with it. you are such a slow writer and plotter.        I'll Be Real, My Man: I Never Know What You're Gonna Do Next And I Don't Think You Do Either 
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Pogo 11/26-28/51   Archie 11/18-20/48    Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 11/12-14/51   
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Scary Go Round (June 15-18, 2004)    Oh, hey Ralph.
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Caphi posted:I know we are thoroughly "gently caress you, Ed"ed out as a thread but gently caress you, Ed, for publishing this as a fun relatable thing after everything Dustin has ever not done in his life. Dustin makes that blonde kid's life a little better by being a big brother to him and presumably has done some solid work as a public school sub. Ed, meanwhile, eats, expands, and bitches about everything.
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I'm catching up with the thread and had to do a double take of that beach battle scene in Val. My brain interpreted the waves and the white horse as one, massive Cronenberg-esque worm horse.
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Selachian posted:
That piglet became radicalized and formed the Swine Liberation Front
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Trash Goblin posted:I'm catching up with the thread and had to do a double take of that beach battle scene in Val. My brain interpreted the waves and the white horse as one, massive Cronenberg-esque worm horse. I took it as a cartoon fight cloud 
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Selachian posted:Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 11/12-14/51 Ok, I’ve mostly been skipping this strip but I do appreciate that last one.
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Mister Olympus posted:everything has to talk in holbrook land. animals talk, trees talk, houses talk, computers talk, the individual programs on those computers talk to each other. mars, the planet, the pile of rock in space, talks and has an identity. you could make a bigger deal out of it like you could with the constant rolling marriages and pregnancies, though i'm inclined to err on the side of that's just how soap operas work. not sure how to explain "everything talks" in a convenient narrative way though Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 3/3-5/52
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Archie is really good. I know this has been said, but I have to repeat it. It's just really, really good!
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Endless Mike posted:Archie is really good. I know this has been said, but I have to repeat it. It's just really, really good! It has been a bit of whiplash to realize that the 60s 70s 80s Archie that I grew up on (garage sale digests gogogo) could reasonably, if pessimistically, be described as Zombie Archie
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CommonShore posted:It has been a bit of whiplash to realize that the 60s 70s 80s Archie that I grew up on (garage sale digests gogogo) could reasonably, if pessimistically, be described as Zombie Archie Considering they're still making the dang things (which at this point, from what I understand, are about a quarter new stories and the rest microwaved stuff going back as far as the 70s) I can't imagine what you could describe an Archie digest from 2023 to be. Also there's an alternate serialized modern timeline or something where all sorts of dark and wacky poo poo happens. Not quite Riverdale dark and wacky, though.
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CommonShore posted:It has been a bit of whiplash to realize that the 60s 70s 80s Archie that I grew up on (garage sale digests gogogo) could reasonably, if pessimistically, be described as Zombie Archie I grew up reading Archie comic books from the same era. My girlfriend, on the other hand, had no such experiences, and so she didn't understand my utter horror at the "Riverdale" TV series she was watching. The very idea of Archie having sex with Miss Grundy in the back seat of a Volkswagen still gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies.
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