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Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon I like how everyone else has a standard hologram profile, but then we have the witch-queen elegantly posed in her case file photo. Corto Maltese    Blueberry   
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Giant Ethicist posted:Yeah, she's judging the other mother for letting stress levels interfere with mothering (if we're going to judge Uchida for anything it should be this - she could be more considerate, like in general, although OTOH she's breastfeeding the woman's baby fer chrissake) for not even offering to watch her own kid while she breastfeeds the other woman's for her, and for just unceremoniously pulling the baby off her tit when she has to leave, not anywhere or at all for using formula in and of itself. Nowhere in the text of the comic is the statement "breast is best" or whatever even close to being uttered, and she's said in the text of the comic that she respects mothers who use formula for the amount of work it takes. Like with the antivax readings (which I somehow imagine will persist even after we get the comics about getting actual vaccinations), TBQH if you take a "breast is best" message out of the comic it's all baggage you brought in with you I think.
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Kennel posted:Dustin 2.88 is what they were going for and the approximately is there so they don't get sued if some pedantic gently caress measures one at 2.86. You're a loving lawyer, dickhead. Cowslips Warren posted:and what kind of mom would our protag be if she didn't judge her because "she didn't even try to watch my baby for me" and "formula takes so long to make?" and "everyone else was breastfeeding?" Like good moms should! Feels like something FOOB Mom would mutter under her breath. I generally really like WAR. I think WAR Mom is a decent person who is doing her best. But, yes, I agree. It was written in a different time, yes, but I think it's valid to point out when you see similar patterns to ones that would later do immeasurable harm. I think it's just as justifiable to criticize these kinds of things in WAR as it is to criticize questionable attitudes or behavior in other classic comics we post. Even the ones we like. Luann  Gil Thorp 
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Luann is going in a weird direction. I sort of like that they're doing the old art style for this flashback but still weird flashback.
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I really enjoy WAR! She isn't a perfect mother but she's not claiming to be. If someone is looking for parenting advice from a comic originally published in "Premature Ejaculation Theater" they've got bigger problems.
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1981 comics      Dick Tracy  Quite the crimestoppers today, huh? Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins  Mexikid Stories 
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Samovar posted:I like how everyone else has a standard hologram profile, but then we have the witch-queen elegantly posed in her case file photo.
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (March 06, 2002)  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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Haifisch posted:1981 comics RocK-K-K? Must be a Ted Nugent album.
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Fingerpori OK so obviously the joke in Finnish wasn't "jesters / there's jest no way", but it was similar. The original use's a Finnish saying, "ei onnistu millään ilveellä" (can't be done with any kind of jest/trick/joke) and of course a jester in Finnish is "ilveilijä", ie. someone who does jokes or tricks. So it actually works pretty well!
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Vintage Valiant (Aug. 20, 1961) Edit: riderchop posted:On The Fastrack This is a strange way to describe law when the person describing it presumably means it as a positive thing. Medenmath fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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Julet Esqu posted:2.88 is what they were going for and the approximately is there so they don't get sued if some pedantic gently caress measures one at 2.86. You're a loving lawyer, dickhead. That said, 2.88 inches circumference (about 0.91 inches diameter) is very small for a hand scrubber. I'd probably have to pinch it with two fingers instead of holding it as depicted.
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Haifisch posted:Mexikid Stories
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You can buy a nice home from Blu Homes that gets factory-built and unfolded onsite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpwOUndGEEs
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (January 21, 1936)  Peanuts (February 9, 1977)  Another Day At The Sad Old Men Store  Rip Haywire  Li'l Abner (October 14-16, 1935)   Thimble Theater (September 11, 1940)  Out Our Way (December 9-11, 1943)   
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Get hosed, Divorcin' Sam! It took the usual two months of amusing nonsense to get there but Thimble Theater once again showing us a great stupid fight sequence.  This Scarlet storyline, as always, is freaking incredible. I don't know what's better. The Jerk of Jerks. The goofy rear end Scarlet brand character design applied to his goons(6'6" with enormous pot belly and 3 feet tall adult little man as is tradition), the hilarity of Chalmers' set up and his boredom at invincibility, or Scarlet shadowing this guy for weeks! Hostile V posted:Holy gently caress. I really like Mexikids and the no holds barred portrayal of adventurous children trying to accidentally kill themselves is pretty funny. Not good but hey, they survived. Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 8/3/52 My eyes tend to gloss over Brenda Starr as I wait for the conclusion to the Weegee Saga but holy poo poo, lmao Doomykins fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann THORN, November 4-15, 1983  
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Professor Wayne posted:
straight-up giggling at Hagar's lawyer having a law degree which just says "*indecipherable scribble* is a lawyer" Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Alley Oop  Curtis 
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Goddamn Mexikids goes hardcore. But it makes sense! Kids clothes seem way too flimsy for the kid to do much anything fun. Probably why those secondhand kid clothing stores do so much business (but these days it seems cheaper to buy almost anywhere). Cul-de-Sac mom is pretty drat cool too. And good lesson for Petey. Did we ever actually see Viola even see the comic in question and her reaction to it? In regards to WAR, I do like the comic and loving love the expressions and characters; my nanny job had me working somewhat with LaLeche and while most people were chill, so so many more were screaming how formula was bad for the baby and if you didn't breastfeed, you were a bad mother. Didn't help the second baby in question did breastfeed but never gained weight, so his mom was stressed as hell, so baby was stressed, older kid was stressed. Baby not gaining weight, not taking the breast, taking a little formula but not nearly enough. Turned out he was tongue-tied (extra muscle/skin under the tongue) and couldn't get a good grip. Once that was clipped, he put weight on fast because he could actually get a grip on the bottle now. He did get some breastmilk but took formula easier iirc. But I do see how it keep flipping between 'real moms use breast only' and 'formula is best' and how poo poo society treats mothers; gently caress, for ages I've thought new parents should be assigned a night nurse/childcare helper from the hospital or state, whatever works, so for at least a month they get some help with the new kid. Of course we can't even fix the roads or schools or give anyone decent health care here in the states, gently caress giving parents a chance to actually survive. At the least you'd expect a maternity/new baby office to be supplied with poo poo like rockers, much like kid doctor offices have TVs and toys.
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i am going to shine some light on the actual worst thing about holbrook comics: in 90% of strips, the characters are compelled to name each other in the first panel, as if the reader needs an introduction every time, and it's some of the most stilted dialogue in the world when you start paying attention to it
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JethroMcB posted:FoxTrot Classix This one slaps.
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Giant Ethicist posted:A Frog’s Life I'm gonna cry for this frog.
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kidcoelacanth posted:i am going to shine some light on the actual worst thing about holbrook comics: I'm pretty sure it's been shown in flashbacks, but did we ever find out exactly why Kevin married Angelique in the first place? Seeing as Holbrook doesn't do shades of gray characters, just strictly protagonist good and antagonist bad, why on earth did they get together in the first place?
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Steeple 20: Extreme Freaks Now with corrections! John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website John Allison posted:A little shop for Bob? Lovely. So disregard my last post with it's small info dump on Bobbinsverse lore. Turns out Allison just got his names mixed up.
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Bob Crowley couldn't keep his hands off of high school girls so I'm good with him not showing up ever again
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The_Other posted:Steeple 20: Extreme Freaks Now with corrections! That makes a lot more sense. I initially read it and thought Maggie just hadn't assumed her father's last name.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I'm pretty sure it's been shown in flashbacks, but did we ever find out exactly why Kevin married Angelique in the first place? Seeing as Holbrook doesn't do shades of gray characters, just strictly protagonist good and antagonist bad, why on earth did they get together in the first place? It was an arranged marriage iirc. I could be mixing them up with another pair
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kidcoelacanth posted:i am going to shine some light on the actual worst thing about holbrook comics: He is absolutely *terrible* at exposition, all the subtlety of a brick
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Hwurmp posted:Bob Crowley couldn't keep his hands off of high school girls so I'm good with him not showing up ever again
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