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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Dec. 04, 1960) I'm just hoping that the next one ends with Valiant pouting because he wanted to be the one to shank Thrasos.
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When they could get the boy to do it as part of his education?
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The women of the palace are going to chuck lawn darts (jarts) at Thrasos until he turns into a human pincushion
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (January 21, 2002)  Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead  Merry Christmas!!
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riderchop posted:Zippy The Pinhead Griffy should never draw his self-insert front-facing.
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Vargo posted:Curtis  This is a very sweet Curtis.
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Giant Ethicist posted:We Are Reproducing: timg for boobs Some very good faces in this one.   
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riderchop posted:Zippy The Pinhead Excerpts from Wikipedia: William Ely Hill (January 17, 1887 – December 9, 1962) was an American cartoonist and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th-century. He is best known for his weekly full-page illustration series "Among Us Mortals" published in the New York Tribune from 1916 to 1922, and for creating the most popular iteration of the optical illusion My Wife and My Mother-in-Law (1915).  Hill began publishing satirical illustrations of everyday people in the New York Tribune on April 9, 1916, with his first small cartoon. Just a few weeks later on April 23 of that year, his work was picked up for a weekly series titled "Among Us Mortals" that ran until an abrupt end six years later on May 14, 1922. Highly successful at the time, the series has been largely forgotten in the decades since. Many Americans living abroad at the end of World War I treasured "Among Us Mortals" for how much it reminded them of home, with countless letters to the editor sent in thanks to the New York Tribune for running the collection. Dozens of "Among Us Mortals" spreads from both The Washington Times and the New York Tribune have been preserved by the Library of Congress's Chronicling America project for online viewing. 
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus Is that a loving Chick Tract next to the cat at the bottom? That "Count your blessings" thing sure has the same dimensions as one!
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That shape isn't uncommon for kid's books, and it looks much larger than a Chick Tract in comparison to the other toys. More importantly, this is probably recycled art from before the things were really common. Chick started making them in the late 60s, but they didn't get hugely common until Evangelism really got rolling in the mid-80s.
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 1995, so it's not as old as all that...
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Yeah Garfield books came in that size but I don’t recall anyone else specifically.
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I'll be working on the new OP over the next week. PMs are open if you have thread title ideas. I also have a blind spot with a) old timey strips and b) foreign strips, so if you post these and have time to send a 1-2 sentence summary, I guarantee it would be better than anything I come up with.
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Crab Dad posted:Yeah Garfield books came in that size but I don’t recall anyone else specifically. Yeah now that you mention it, I also remember those form factor daily comic strip books. Just considering all the general jesus poo poo in the strips I would've bet money on them being religious tracts.
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Mutts Sally Forth  It's progress, I guess. Skippy (December 16, 1935)  Peanuts (December 28, 1976)  Crankshaft, with special guest-star MY FATHER, JOHN DARLING.  Li'l Abner (June 13-15, 1935)    Making both potential guardians the worst is a pretty decent twist, as these things usually go. Thimble Theater (July 30, 1940)  Olive & Popeye  Out Our Way (August 26-28, 1943)   
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I'm glad all was not forgiven and forgotten in Sally Forth. That is progress. Maybe Mom really does need some psychiatric help.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  lol so the boys are going to get in trouble for stealing a selling the test answers, but Heart, who bought them, is gonna be fine because she didn't use them. What a loving rat. KWANZAA CURTIS KWANZAA CURTIS  hey wait a minute, have we seen this one before?
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I'm glad all was not forgiven and forgotten in Sally Forth. That is progress. Maybe Mom really does need some psychiatric help. 
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TegneHanne  Do you have Tom&Jerry crackers in the states? It's basically just sweet crackers that tastes like vanilla and is shaped like Tom and Jerry. Brunost is a type of cheese that's made by boiling milk, cream and whey. This process turns the milk sugars into caramel. This cheese contains a lot of sugar which can be dangerous. In 2013 a truck carrying brown cheese caught on fire in a tunnel. Because the cheese contains so much fat it burned for four days and the tunnel had to be closed for a month after the fire. Zelda  
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Vargo posted:hey wait a minute, have we seen this one before? There was one a couple of years ago about a guy with a talking pet goldfish, I think? But it wasn't this one. Alhazred posted:Do you have Tom&Jerry crackers in the states? It's basically just sweet crackers that tastes like vanilla and is shaped like Tom and Jerry. Sounds like our animal crackers, although they're shaped like various circus/zoo animals rather than cartoon characters. Rhymes with Yuck  Get Fuzzy 12/25/03  Brenda Starr 4/28-30/52    Smokey Stover 10/5/58  Everyday Movies 2/2/37  "No snow shoveling job for us, eh, Duke? They have to work to keep warm." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 10/26-28/42    Jetpack Mailmen! 10/5/58  The Reaction Motors "rocket belt" may have been top-secret military stuff in 1958, but the Smithsonian has one now. Selachian fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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EasyEW posted:Olive & Popeye I am glad that Olive doesn't just have to be Popeye's girlfriend, but god drat Olive & Popeye just isn't great. Selachian posted:
It's kinda weird that this is the poo poo they thought we'd be using in the future. Just jumping directly to "yeah mailmen will just hop around with rocket packs" without bothering to consider the much more realistic and helpful things we've actually developed like self-driving mail carts etc. Just directly to "oh yeah and then the mailman will rocket pack jump from house to house" without bothering to consider if that's useful or even you know ... not potentially extremely deadly. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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Wasn’t last year’s Curtis Kwanza about a talking fish? This is not the same story, but it definitely had a talking pet fish who could grant wishes.
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THORN, October 18-21, 1982  This continues to be the same story as Bone, and we're introduced to Phoney Bone and Gran'ma Ben. Gran'ma Ben's design evolves a bit in Bone, but character-wise, she's basically the same.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:It's kinda weird that this is the poo poo they thought we'd be using in the future. Just jumping directly to "yeah mailmen will just hop around with rocket packs" without bothering to consider the much more realistic and helpful things we've actually developed like self-driving mail carts etc. It's always fun to see what these kinds of features guessed correctly and what they didn't. Back then being able to watch foreign TV was just as futuristic and fantastical as jetpack mailmen, and that's neat. Vintage Valiant (Dec. 11, 1960)  If you think it's out of character for Aleta to faint, Foster does provide an after-the-fact explanation of sorts in a few strips.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I am glad that Olive doesn't just have to be Popeye's girlfriend, but god drat Olive & Popeye just isn't great. I think it's hurt a lot by the format. Randy is trying to squeeze one to two different 7-day long storylines into a twice a week comic that's also in a square panel usually associated with gag-a-day strips
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:I am glad that Olive doesn't just have to be Popeye's girlfriend, but god drat Olive & Popeye just isn't great. It's an interesting sort of mental blind spot, a sort of imagination without vision. I'm sure that psychologists have a name for it. It's like seeing old Victorian futurism with, like, servants in clockwork rollerskates so they can light the gas lamps faster or something. Predicting the future by imagining we'll be doing the exact same things as today but with mechanical crap bolted on. Contrast the rocket mailman with the previous one of Von Braun predicting satellite based email. von Braun understood that we'd still be communicating but saw the actual potential of technology to change how we do it.
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quote:Flash Gordon  this Flash strip. Really made me see the difference between this and the other reboot strips, as well as other long format story strips.I was thinking that yeah this Olive and Popeye strip kinda sucks. It's like the author has their heart in the right place but is permanently two seconds off having any of their beats hit, comedy or otherwise. And of course it could be compared to Trail, the bottom of the thread, or other long runners like Phantom(which has spent 3 years on-and-off sucking), or Mary Worth/Rex Morgan. What seems to unify the best strips and the good moments in some of these other strips is classic story telling punctuated by an antagonist, while the bad ones throw a cast(often too many) into a place and don't do much with them. The Phantom is kinda cool when him and Sarvana are kicking the asses of a prison full of fascist thugs but otherwise eternally sniffs it's own farts about the nameless, vague threat of the prophecy. Trail hasn't had a villain it respects since it started. When are Mary and Rex best? When we have a big stupid heel to sink our emotions into. Even Keith is the most entertaining thing in Mary Worth right now! But  , look at that Ming. Dude appears in four strips of the whole run so far and his presence can overshadow anything in the story instantly. I can't wait for his return.For contrast Olive and Popeye is probably going to go meet Charon and he'll be like awwww shuuucckss I'm just worn out from modern living hahaha being alive in the present day sure is emotionally draining hee hee and took a vacation! Randy does the same with his Popeye, only Hag has any teeth and he lets those stories crash and burn. "I pulled a D-lister from the wiki" isn't a hook for a villain(the CEO guy in the alternating weekly strip), it's a cool extra if the villain is any good when you use them or their history! You could say slice of life strips don't need primary antagonists but these strips aren't that good in the first place. Can't really evade tropes if you don't have control of them to begin with and of course Popeye strikes me as a strip where there should be some stakes and somebody to punch. Making it two discount webcomics hasn't been a gain. Maybe it's cheating to compare the other strips to Dan's work, much like comparing anyone to Foster and Valiant. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon Kick his rear end, Ming.
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Jucika "462 - Jucika And The Ship Inauguration" "részeg fráter = drunk bastard" "463 - Jucika Wakes Up" 
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Medenmath posted:It's always fun to see what these kinds of features guessed correctly and what they didn't. Back then being able to watch foreign TV was just as futuristic and fantastical as jetpack mailmen, and that's neat. Yeah, it's always wild. The example I go back to is the pen & paper RPG Shadowrun. It was a cyberpunk game with magic, so they did a lot of really futuristic sci-fi stuff, but couldn't foresee for instance wireless networking.
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Selachian posted:Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 10/26-28/42 You guys... even if the third person you meet turned out to be another horrible woman-hating old crank, you can still get married! It's like when you flip a coin to figure out which option you actually wanted. It's clearly what you want to do! Just get married! Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon I was worried my dude was about to have amnesia. Glad Schkade didn't go cliche! Luann  Gil Thorp 
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Vargo posted:KWANZAA CURTIS KWANZAA CURTIS Its resolution being incredibly tiny would suggest so. Shaman Tank Spec posted:I am glad that Olive doesn't just have to be Popeye's girlfriend, but god drat Olive & Popeye just isn't great. Huxley posted:A+J Mega Holiday Catch-up Post 
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