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amigolupus posted:I really like Take It With the Tinkersons. It's got a good sense of timing to when to switch up the jokes that poo poo never gets old. And the drama whenever the dad's company gets a new sales director is just It's really good and well written.
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Selachian posted:Bonus Ad! The International Harvester Corporation takes out a nearly full-page ad to let you know how much they hate their workers! This attitude towards labor was a fatal flaw for IH. In the 70s the CEO awarded himself large bonuses while demanding huge concessions in contract negotiations. The resulting strike was so expensive that the place went belly-uo a few years later.
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD Goddammit, NO, you idiot! I don't care if he thinks he's okay, you don't just pick him up off the floor like that! There's still a possibility he could have a spinal injury, no matter how remote it might be.
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I gotta assume that up in Maine, it'd have to snow something like 5 feet for schools to even think about closing. Whereas down here in the South, there's a run on eggs, bread and milk if there's even an inch of snow.
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Breadmaster posted:I can't believe no one has said Ballard Street is their favorite! What has this thread come to? Well the assignment was to mention strips that don't often get praise. Ballard Street is a thread favorite, and for good reason. Powered Descent posted:Challenge: everybody pick a comic that you're glad is being posted even though it doesn't get mentioned much! (We ALL have some low-key favorites.) There are several simple gag comics that don't usually warrant discussion but that are just consistently funny and well made. F Minus, Dark Side of the Horse, Andertoons of course. Junk Drawer is good too. I love all of the old and non-US comics. Our Boarding House and Toonerville are particular favorites of mine. Everyday Movies, as everyone is saying, feels like a really good look at everyday life at the time. I like the Life Magazine posts for the same reason. I like those Scandanavian comics that only get posted intermittantly, like the one with the women football players or the strip with the ugly babies. The Lockhorns is usually pretty fun in spite of its incredibly dated premise. Pickles is cute. Hagar is good. The Girls is a kind of hate read of mine. It's just so weird to see a strip where the whole premise is "boy women sure are dumb!" when there were strips like Mopsy decades earlier. It just feels a bit hateful. And for what it's worth, I'm also enjoying the Wandering Culinarian. Vintage Valiant (Oct. 29, 1961) 
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Bizarro The Family Circus  Slylock Fox  I'm certain we had this exact puzzle not very long ago. Flash Gordon  I'm not sure why they need to sneak around to do this. You'd think checking the security cam footage would be the first thing Aura and Barin would have had done.
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Just found out: Enrique Badía Romero, the main artist working on Modesty Blaise over the years (and whose art I really appreciated) died a few days ago. RIP.
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I read Our Boarding House religiously. It's that rare combination of really really old but also understandable And not demolished by chicken scratch lettering and the ravages of time. Plus the characters are great.
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Medenmath posted:I like those Scandanavian comics that only get posted intermittantly, like the one with the women football players[...]
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This chapter intro for Wandering Culinarian is a lot better paced than the first already.Powered Descent posted:I'm not sure why they need to sneak around to do this. You'd think checking the security cam footage would be the first thing Aura and Barin would have had done. Probably don't have permission. Alien world justice system. There's a lot of subtle, sneaky world building going on that paint Mongo as not the best place to be, even pre-Ming. Like how Aura and Barin haven't checked on Flash since he went to jail, how Mongo's primary law system has a sci-fi hellworld space to extrajudicially forget people in, and quite frankly after that imposing Inquisitor got Flash locked up we've not seen them do any other investigating. Maybe they're doing it off camera, maybe not, but I get the feeling everybody would give Dale and the Professor a lot of poo poo for trying to help Flash. Hopefully everybody's just got a lot of misplaced optimism and the corruption isn't down to the bones of this planet. On that note I want to call in advance that Bones story about "an old fashioned death squad came to town" is a tip off a future development. I mean it's a given Ming is alive but New Flash is so drat good it could mean anything in how we get there and what developments occur. I just think that's a big tip off to shenanigans, maybe even from Aura herself? Or whoever else on this planet is up to questionable things. It's a really cool look at the point in a setting where we assume all the good guys casually forge a golden era after the villain is knocked off. I was tickled pink by the ancient evil bastard in charge of the prison that ripped up Flash's order. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Feb 19, 2024 |
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I'll say it: I like Luann being posted. Everyone in it is an idiot and the Evanses are not good at writing people, but it's fun to gawk at. 50% MORE ABSORBENT COMIX/THORN, February 28-March 1, 1984   I.....can't say I expected to see people snorting coke in Thorn.
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Gnoman posted:This attitude towards labor was a fatal flaw for IH. In the 70s the CEO awarded himself large bonuses while demanding huge concessions in contract negotiations. The resulting strike was so expensive that the place went belly-uo a few years later. "The company's downward financial spiral continued. For fiscal year 1980, 1981, and 1982, International Harvester incurred a combined three-year loss of $2.4 billion—the largest such three-year loss for any American company in history at the time.[33] International Harvester sold its farm equipment division to Tenneco in 1985, and changed its name in 1986 to Navistar International.[6] Speaking to a group at Harvard Business School six months after leaving Harvester, McCardell was asked his assessment of his performance; he said that despite some regrets, "I think I rate myself superb."[6] In 1986, McCardell told UPI, "I feel very good about my years at Harvester. We had a few good years. I don’t think we made any one major mistake. In retrospect, I think we could have done some things differently. None of us was smart enough – myself included – to realize the depth of the problem."[34] Discussing his remuneration, he said he thought, in retrospect, that he was "underpaid".[34] "
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davidspackage posted:Hell, do a stupid joke about a man's Google Glass or Apple VR Goggles being left in the living room,
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Strontium posted:Dark Side Of The Horse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmBwqRhGznI Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon It's a weird problem for them to have, but I'm intrigued by what it implies. Ming may be dead (?) but this is still his palace.
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus I think I hate these family circuseseses the most (maybe aside from the "grandma sagely drops some loving Jesus poo poo on the kids" ones). It's like the world's lowest effort "what a comic drawn by a kid looks like" poo poo. At least loving colour outside the lines.
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As far as comics I feel like I can count on for something enjoyable every day, I'm gonna go with Arlo & Janis, Wallace, Phoebe and Her Unicorn, Out Our Way, Invisible Scarlet O'Neil, Pooch Cafe, and Andertoons. In the newer corner, getting a lot of deserved props, there's also Mexikid Stories and Vera Valiant. Thanks to everyone who posts those, and the posters of everything else making this such a rich thread.
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I'll admit that I enjoy hate-reading Retail and Dustin, for different reasons. Retail is a well-written strip that perfectly captures what it's like to be a retail wage slave. Dustin is a badly written strip (with good art, in fairness) that's about as Boomer as Boomer can get. I've also gained a massive appreciation for Arlo and Janis. It used to run in my hometown paper when I was a kid, but I was too young to 'get it' at that time.
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Doomykins posted:This chapter intro for Wandering Culinarian is a lot better paced than the first already.
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Haifisch posted:This comic was from 2005, so Boyce referencing stuff that came out 8+ years in the future would raise entirely different concerns from usual. Of course, now I understand. Boyce is a time traveler trying to subtly warn us from the encroaching technology that will overwhelm us in his time! He simply got his history mixed up, bionic glasses didn't exist yet in 2005, we don't get them until 2029!
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Cul de Sac Don't worry, Petey, all that crazy crap on the walls is permanently lacquered in place. FoxTrot Classix  Amend really captured the Boys' essence here. Rose is Rose 
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From the Breaking Cat News Instagram Georgia Dunn posted:Happy President’s Day! Recently I learned that Abraham Lincoln was over the moon for cats! Did you know? (I didn’t!) He’s even believed to be the first president to live with cats at the White House! 🎩🇺🇸   
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Saoshyant posted:Just found out: Enrique Badía Romero, the main artist working on Modesty Blaise over the years (and whose art I really appreciated) died a few days ago. RIP. drat. His work on Modesty Blaise and AXA was good.
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Kammat posted:drat. His work on Modesty Blaise and AXA was good. Never heard of AXA before. At a glance, looks kind of bootleg Conan/Red Sonja, but it was a newspaper strip in the UK? Could be interesting to run some of it here.
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The whole thing was run in previous editions of the thread. It needed quite a few NSFW flags, she was not overly concerned with retaining her top.
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Saoshyant posted:Never heard of AXA before. At a glance, looks kind of bootleg Conan/Red Sonja, but it was a newspaper strip in the UK? Could be interesting to run some of it here. Axa actually was posted in a prior iteration of this thread. Like you said it was sort of a Red Sonja style comic, but set in a post-apocalyptic world (ala Mad Max) and a lot more nudity than Modesty Blaise. I remember that it was the concenious in this thread that Axa should give up on the various men she meets in her travels and instead date the robot Mark-10. Also, here's a NSWF "self-portrait" of Romero, with Axa and Modesty:  Edit: FB, posting anyway.
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goatface posted:It needed quite a few NSFW flags, she was not overly concerned with retaining her top. The_Other posted:Also, here's a NSWF "self-portrait" of Romero, with Axa and Modesty: Blegh. No, thanks.
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Selachian posted:Scarlet, I don't think anyone would blame you if you just let this guy die. But that would demoralize our boys overseas and hurt the war effort! Zamboni Rodeo posted:I... don't really hate this? Say what you want about Bernice, but at least she isn't hanging all over him and trying to tell him goofy jokes or drag him on some adventure he clearly isn't interested in. Also, it's totally weird and creepy that the Evanses seem to be trying to make Luann and his cousin vie for his affections. Bernice is the most toxic person in this strip and that's saying something. I don't remember all of Piro's backstory, but when he was introduced he was this mysterious couchsurfing hot dude who hung out in Bernice's dorm a lot when she was an RA. She did, in fact, obsessively stalk him a bit. Notably she used her power as an RA and her credentials as a first semester psych major and future therapist to look into his personal records and find out how often he goes to therapy. The frequency was high and her reaction was, "Ew." She eventually (falsely) accused him of stealing a TV from the common room. I don't remember if that got him kicked out of the university, but he is here at the community college with Luann and the actual TV thief now. Saoshyant posted:Just found out: Enrique Badía Romero, the main artist working on Modesty Blaise over the years (and whose art I really appreciated) died a few days ago. RIP. RIP dude. You blessed us with cheesecake and beefcake alike, and for that I thank you. Luann  Gil Thorp  Home Free  Never thought I'd use the phrase "Family Circus did it better," but here we are.
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Julet Esqu posted:Bernice is the most toxic person in this strip and that's saying something. I don't remember all of Piro's backstory, but when he was introduced he was this mysterious couchsurfing hot dude who hung out in Bernice's dorm a lot when she was an RA. She did, in fact, obsessively stalk him a bit. Notably she used her power as an RA and her credentials as a first semester psych major and future therapist to look into his personal records and find out how often he goes to therapy. The frequency was high and her reaction was, "Ew."  Yeah, okay, I retract my previous statement. *dril tweet about "you do not, in fact gotta hand it to them" goes here*
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