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Poil posted:Do not be UNPLEATHANT to Claire. Never test Claire when it comes to the topic of burning things.
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EasyEW posted:Portrait Of A Failed Business How much do you want to bet that Mopey Pete saddled her with most of the day-to-day operations while he gets to be all smug doing nothing in the office while claiming he's the general manager keeping the business going? F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Batiuk/whomever is unintentionally funny with this ongoing bit where almost everything the blonde woman has been saying is a variation of, "Let me out of this greasy pizza hell" and everyone around her in the strip thinks it's heartwarming. I guess the residents hear the comments and assume that she'll eventually lose the will to live as she continues to live in Ohio/Westview. If they really wanted her to cease existing, just invite Mindy to be awarded for being the best ~women~ pizza maker or something. Then two old men will rise up and start a huge fight to make the event about themselves and slowly push Mindy out of her own award ceremony lol Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball I'm guessing Copper Ma's "the real fight STARTS NOW" masterplan is to trick Planck to come all the way out to the middle of nowhere so he won't make it in time for their next match? Knowing him, he's probably got Maggie and baby tied up somewhere. Doomykins posted:I don't think I'm ready for how hard Planck is about to be owned. NuTrail and Randy's Popeye are somewhat interesting to me, in that both authors thought that the best way to modernize an old IP was to give their female leads their own adventures. I can get their reasoning, in that they don't just want the characters to be defined as The Girlfriend/Wife, but both Jules and Randy go about it in a way that is somehow more misogynistic. Cherry and Olive don't even feel like they're part of the main cast at all, and this strip where Cherry runs into Mark just highlights how they have nothing to do with each other at all. It's less the women getting their own adventures, and more that they're basically told to stay in their own lane.
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Murdstone posted:
This is a woman who intensely regrets not smuggling the grenade launcher into the country with her.
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I think Copper can tell that Planck would spend an entire day traveling back to his hometown on the mere suggestion that Maggie wants to see him and he just faked the whole thing, asking Maggie's mom to pass along the second part of the meet up after watching Planck spend 5 hours waiting. As fun as it is for Copper Ma to get owned Planck is an insane dim bulb about Maggie.  Kennel posted:Mandrake The last run of Mandrake is questionable often but Lothar thrashing these dudes owns. Did he run ahead of a horse to throw a hook at the rider!? Badass.  amigolupus posted:NuTrail and Randy's Popeye are somewhat interesting to me, in that both authors thought that the best way to modernize an old IP was to give their female leads their own adventures. I can get their reasoning, in that they don't just want the characters to be defined as The Girlfriend/Wife, but both Jules and Randy go about it in a way that is somehow more misogynistic. Cherry and Olive don't even feel like they're part of the main cast at all, and this strip where Cherry runs into Mark just highlights how they have nothing to do with each other at all. I think Randy and the partner artist/author who do Olive & Popeye had their heart in the right place but not the talent or story to pull it off, as well as the awkwardness of forcing their idea for a potentially interesting set of characters in a story onto the unrelated Popeye cast. Running their own independent creative work probably would've gone a lot better for testing the concept and refining it, but hey, how often do you get officially published? Of course now that published work is the final product, RIP. Jules just magically does everything wrong every time, utterly fascinating. Giving Cherry her own stories may have seemed clever but the last few stories for Mark and Cherry have made it clear the author is out of ideas or interest in their work, and Cherry comes off worse since her stories were secondary to begin with. You could probably take most of the forgettable second-stringers out of Mark's story like Daggers and put Cherry in their place, then at least Cherry could enjoy equal footing while getting hit by the laundry list of problems in the main plots.
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rudy. we have to grow.        Cracking Open A One With The Cold Boys 
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Yvonmukluk posted:Never test Claire when it comes to the topic of burning things. Yup, she's got the Inner Firebug to lean upon
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Scary Go Round (November 24-26, 2004)   In retrospect, I should have timed the next set of strips better, as starting tomorrow we're into a heartfelt Christmas tale. Oops! Just pretend I'm good at posting.
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Kazinsal posted:Scary Go Round (November 24-26, 2004) The bit about the shopping cart makes me think of that scene near the end of The Case of the Fire Inside from Bad Machinery.
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Dec 30, 2023 03:24
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so now that the mirakle method lawsuit is dropped Rene can come back and be a legal con man doing the self-help talks and they dropped his murder charges so he no longer needs to be on the run or do crimes
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Dec 30, 2023 03:42
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Our Boarding House (January 15-17, 1925)   Out Our Way: The School Ma'am Saga (January 17, 1925)  Toonerville Folks (March 30-April 1, 1922)  NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS: When sister started out in her up to date blanket cloth skirt with the fringed bottom it was very embarrassing to have Grandma act like that.  PATHETIC FIGURES: The youthful ball tossers whose game is broken up by a truck stalling right in the middle of the diamond.  Dok's Dippy Series of Asterisks (January 20, 1915)  Little Lefty (August 31-September 2, 1939)   
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EasyEW posted:
Oh my gosh it's the forebear of the distressed jeans my generation found so fashionable used to hear horror stories of well-meaning grandmothers patching all the unseemly tears or asking why their grandkids were going around in ripped trousers
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1981 comics      Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Daddy Daze Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball Comic Strips 2024: Hahaha! Giant Ethicist posted:Bardiche Hotel As always, this comic rules. Love the weird assassin killing with magic rocks.
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Dec 30, 2023 07:18
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (January 26, 2002)  Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead 
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excuse me zippy but the word "involved" wouldn't make its way into english until much later that century; and, even when it did, it simply meant to be covered in something. really taking me out of the story here.
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 12/29/03  Stephen Collins  Captain Tom was an elderly veteran who raised money for the NHS during the pandemic lockdown, and apparently after his death, his family started dipping into the charity money for themselves, including building a home spa. Brenda Starr 5/5-7/52 Italian stereotypes ahoy!    Smokey Stover 11/26/58  Everyday Movies 2/5/37  "Miss Palmer, you're wanted on the 'phone and you might as well bring down your rent when you're coming." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 11/2-4/42    Closer Than We Think! 11/26/58  Looks almost like a mini RV.
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Darthemed posted:Popcom What the gently caress?
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I know it’s premature, but: BSS: Bisexual Super Son › Comic Strips 2024: The Weasel of Shattered Dreams Drimble Wedge posted:Scary Gary
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Selachian posted:
Man, Captain Tom’s family really chowed down on the charity, didn’t they? They’re why we can’t have nice things. Also, thanks for “Closer Than We Think”, the visions of the future are always amazing. That proto-RV looks pretty cool.
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Selachian posted:Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 11/2-4/42
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It really enhances that Scarlet to imagine the Three Stooges sound effects. Kennel posted:What the gently caress? Pretty shocking to learn Holbrook was a plagirist all along! Jucika "470 - Jucika Buys A Present"  I know it serves the jokes but drat can't believe Jucika Husband would stray a centimeter from a dame like Jucika. "471 - Jucika And Gambling"  As the black cat symbolizes bad luck the pig symbolizes good luck.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I know it’s premature, but: But anyway, Mutts.  Sally Forth  Peanuts (December 31, 1976)  Crankshaft, featuring a well-deserved Pam Murdoch side-eye.  Rip Haywire  Li'l Abner (June 27-29, 1939)    Thimble Theater (August 3, 1940)  Out Our Way (September 9-11, 1943)   
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Selachian posted:Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 11/2-4/42 Love the implication that Scarlet has been tripping these two rear end over teakettle for 5 minutes straight.
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft, featuring a well-deserved Pam Murdoch side-eye.
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 Tomorrow's my last day of Nancyposting Anyone is welcome to take it up in the new year. I need a break after 3 years of posting dailies! Nancy 1943  Pluggers 
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Darthemed posted:Popcom This title is deeply peculiar. Bizarro  The Family Circus  Slylock Fox  Flash Gordon   Everybody
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft, featuring a well-deserved Pam Murdoch side-eye. I know it's probably meant to come across as parents being proud, but Batiuk's condescension to anyone under the age of 45 makes the dad look like he's taking credit for his kids' accomplishments instead (as financially precarious said business ventures are, that is).
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amigolupus posted:I know it's probably meant to come across as parents being proud, but Batiuk's condescension to anyone under the age of 45 makes the dad look like he's taking credit for his kids' accomplishments instead (as financially precarious said business ventures are, that is). Dad's just smug about getting free movies and pizza. Mom is filled with despair; the only other permissible emotion in the Shaftiverse. Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon Wow, that comic didn't run very long, but it was a lot of fun while it lasted. Luann  Gil Thorp  Julet Esqu fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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Kennel posted:What the gently caress? F Minus  The bees may be leading you to your doom! Mark Trail  The Real World: Santa Royale  The Phantom  Wait, I just remembered: Did she swear not to kill again or was that one of the possible-future stories? Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  He's the old man in disguise! Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  "Well, I drank, then I passed out, then I drank again, and passed out again, then I drank some more, and now I don't feel so great what could be happening here?"
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Murdstone posted:T Knowing that he has a dull and meaningless job is revenge enough.
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Savarna has vowed to never kill again, but that doesn't mean she can't slip one of the local battle monks a few bucks to do it for her. The Chinese get all pissed off and raze the monastery and the rest of the town for good measure. Kit Jr. feels bad about telling Savarna and becomes an accountant instead of Phantoming. Kadia kills herself. Heloise becomes a suburban mom. Diana leaves. Phantom has babies with Chatu. Moz reaches Batiuk levels of smugness.
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