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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail I'm reminded of that goon commenting on the husband and wife's romance from Rose is Rose feeling perfunctory. Mark and Cherry spend so much time away from each other with their own milquetoast adventures that this Valentines strip trying to tell us that they're a loving couple is fake as hell. Julet Esqu posted:Luann I'm not sure why Luann is competing for being better for Piro. One is Piro's cousin so them hanging out and doing fun activities is just normal. Luann's interest in Piro is more romantic in nature, so she comes across as a weirdo for getting jealous here. riderchop posted:On The Fastrack Edit 'your goth soulmate' and replace it with 'a corporate bootlicker' and it'd perfectly describe Dethany.
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Saoshyant posted:Does anyone know if that story was posted in a past iteration of this thread? Doesn't look like anyone was posting Val at the time.
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Saoshyant posted:Does anyone know if that story was posted in a past iteration of this thread? Kennel posted:Doesn't look like anyone was posting Val at the time. I think I have the modern Val strips going back to 2014, so I'll check tonight to see if I've got the 2017 part to this storyline and post it if so.
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riderchop posted:Classic Arlo and Janis (March 13, 2002) I wonder if this is supposed to be an "all interior decorators are gay" joke. Thorni  Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 2/13/04  Brenda Starr 8/18-20/52    Smokey Stover 10/11/59  I am unreasonably annoyed that Holman has arbitrarily changed the mayor's name from Dinkdipper to Zinkdipper. I guess he thought it sounded funnier with the Z. Everyday Movies 3/30/37  "Hello, Momma! We're making history!" CATFIGHT! 2/15-17/43    Closer Than We Think! 10/11/59  I think I first encountered this concept in Neuromancer, with its "Sprawl" running from Boston to Washington. Selachian fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Selachian posted:I wonder if this is supposed to be an "all interior decorators are gay" joke.
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Medenmath posted:I think I have the modern Val strips going back to 2014, so I'll check tonight to see if I've got the 2017 part to this storyline and post it if so. Actually looks like you posted latter half of that story: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3803681&userid=32921
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (January 27, 1936)  Peanuts (February 16, 1977)  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Li'l Abner (November 4-6, 1935)   Thimble Theater (September 18, 1940)  Olive & Popeye  A very unfortunate past-and-present pairing today. Out Our Way (December 30, 1943-January 1, 1944)   
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Selachian posted:Closer Than We Think! 10/11/59 THORN, January 31-February 3, 1983   Note 12: quote:Blank Strip
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Kennel posted:Mandrake I don’t know why I have this, but I’ll never forget to post it: 
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Endless Mike posted:This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities. It is interesting to watch this strip transition from a gag-a-day to a serialized story. It would feel kind of weird to see the characters talking about tv or Richard Nixon, even though it was probably only 5-10 strips ago that they were doing stuff like that. There’s a consistent world developing now.
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The merchant who FAFO in Val is wondering if he can just disappear like the rear end in a top hat who chased the horse girl. Crankshaft: how many weeks can we milk this "old rear end in a top hat destroys someone's sculpture?" Sigh. I loving DESPISE the jokes about female mantids always eating their mates. You know who else has dangerous sex? loving kingsnakes. Hognose snakes. Lots of species of spiders. Praying mantises do not always eat their mates after sex! gently caress, they will eat each other no matter what, they're predators! So will lots of other animals, it's why you separate babies from each other and house adults separate. This "joke" is Holbrook levels of hackery and reminds me of the "it must be free!" poo poo rear end in a top hat customers tell cashiers when something doesn't ring up. edit: is the Charon stand-in in Olive supposed to have Vitiligo or tattoos? I'd think Vitiligo? Cowslips Warren fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:For some reason the phrasing of "here, take one of these with you" cracked me up good. Mexikid Stories owns. My grandmother used to do this with my dad in 1950's Colombia. If she got a notion that her brothers were going out on the town, she'd have my dad bundled in his coat and waiting right at the door when they were about to leave, perfectly excited to spend time with his uncles. ...they still used him to pick up chicks.
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davidspackage posted:lol, that tiny last panel wasn't necessary, but makes it very cute. It's so utterly unnecessary that I wonder if it's a throwaway panel because some newspaper were giving Nancy a little more room than others. I know they are common on sunday strips, but I never heard of any conditions for a daily.
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Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon This is fundamentally incorrect; everybody knows that after "Bok. Bok." comes "B'gok." Somebody get Dan a Barnyard See 'n Say
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Oct. 01, 1961)
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Cowslips Warren posted:Sigh. I loving DESPISE the jokes about female mantids always eating their mates. You know who else has dangerous sex? loving kingsnakes. Hognose snakes. Lots of species of spiders. Praying mantises do not always eat their mates after sex! gently caress, they will eat each other no matter what, they're predators! So will lots of other animals, it's why you separate babies from each other and house adults separate.
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ronya posted:I hate saurus. edit: Cowslips Warren posted:This "joke" is Holbrook levels of hackery and reminds me of the "it must be free!" poo poo rear end in a top hat customers tell cashiers when something doesn't ring up.
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JethroMcB posted:This is fundamentally incorrect; everybody knows that after "Bok. Bok." comes "B'gok." Somebody get Dan a Barnyard See 'n Say I was just thinking that Bok had better have a chicken’s head when they’re revealed tomorrow.
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Pairing Thimble Theater with modern Popeye is just cruel, especially when TT is at its best. Maybe we could send this months Sea Hag strips to Randy. It's hard to judge Olive and Popeye: Ghost Investigator since something is happening but at the standard incredibly poor pacing.amigolupus posted:I'm reminded of that goon commenting on the husband and wife's romance from Rose is Rose feeling perfunctory. Mark and Cherry spend so much time away from each other with their own milquetoast adventures that this Valentines strip trying to tell us that they're a loving couple is fake as hell. Jules is arguably the worst writer in the thread so no surprise the dialogue sucks. It feels incredibly stilted and fake because of how often people in Mark Trail announce past references repeatedly. Cherry, it's like that time we met when I fought a bear! I love you so much I could fight a bear about it! I'm so horny I could explode like that boat I blew up! I'm reminded of a Married With Children running gag where permanent loser Al Bundy announces ahead of time and often that he once scored 4 touchdowns in a single high school football game as the highlight of his life's accomplishments. Those writers could tell jokes and had a sense of comedic timing and Ed O'Neil is a funny actor so it worked pretty well, especially in a setting where you're laughing at how stupid the cast is. Mark Trail, of course, presents itself sincerely every time it drops these kludges. Selachian posted:Smokey Stover 10/11/59 I assume he was defeated in an election by his similarly named doppelganger, as per cartoon tradition. quote:CATFIGHT! 2/15-17/43 For somebody that could casually snap a neck Hippy sure does love her elaborate drawn out kill schemes. 
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Drakyn posted:Does this extend to skinks, slann, and kroxigors too or are you okay with the rest of the lizardmen?
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Doomykins posted:Pairing Thimble Theater with modern Popeye is just cruel, especially when TT is at its best. Maybe we could send this months Sea Hag strips to Randy. It's hard to judge Olive and Popeye: Ghost Investigator since something is happening but at the standard incredibly poor pacing. he's probably read them, given all the deeplore references. it's just easier to default to your comfort zone when asked to do daily strips, it's a very different kind of challenge
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I AM GRANDO posted:There’s a consistent world developing now. It's kinda funny how Smith never did explain how an apparently modern society like Boneville coexists with a medieval society complete with dragons.
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Mister Olympus posted:he's probably read them, given all the deeplore references. it's just easier to default to your comfort zone when asked to do daily strips, it's a very different kind of challenge I'm losing it at the ridiculous entire upper body angled forward + giant legs stride Sea Hag is doing, as well as ANK ANK for a laugh and her cold blooded eagerness to knife Popeye in the back. She's so wonderfully ridiculous, she deserves much better these days than "Evil, Sarcastic and Banal as a 9-5."
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Mr. Squishy posted:It's so utterly unnecessary that I wonder if it's a throwaway panel because some newspaper were giving Nancy a little more room than others. I know they are common on sunday strips, but I never heard of any conditions for a daily. It seems like they were provided by whatever service packaged the strips for republishing by weekly papers.  The extra panels look to mostly be random pictures of characters from the strips, but they do try to connect them from time to time.  Seen in the process: 
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Angular Cyrus posted:Seen in the process: You know what's definitely going to put a stop to the crank calls? Publishing the strip and the phone number again, alongside their "Dear God please do not call us" plea.
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Darthemed posted:Retail I'm with Cooper here. We had a single (mostly broken) chair in "the back" at Sears when I worked there a million years ago, and when someone asked us to check the back, we'd go in there and sit out of sight of the security camera and just chill for a bit before coming out and being like "Nope, sorry. Looks like we're all out of it!" In The Back is chair time.
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