Comic Strips 2024: Just Act Cool and Flex a Little

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Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

Okay monkey paw says new Mandrake will be done by Randy or Jules or Guy Gilchrist.

# ? Feb 25, 2024 17:27

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# ? May 26, 2024 00:45

Professor Wayne: Aug 27, 2008; So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

Pickles

I'm too lazy to look, but I think I posted Friday's Hagar the Horrible twice

Zits

# ? Feb 25, 2024 17:32

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

You Are Really Doing A poo poo Job At Making Me Like The Independent Rabbit Free State

Mandatory 18% Tip Added To The Bill

# ? Feb 25, 2024 18:35

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

THORN, April 11-16, 1984

# ? Feb 25, 2024 18:51

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Hostile V posted:

You Are Really Doing A poo poo Job At Making Me Like The Independent Rabbit Free State

The portrayal of Rabbits as complete cultural/historical annihilators is a choice alright.

# ? Feb 25, 2024 19:56

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻

Powered Descent posted:

Flash Gordon

Schkade's grasp and utilization of negative space is SO GOOD, YOU GUYS!

# ? Feb 25, 2024 20:12

Mercury Hat: May 28, 2006; SharkTales!
Woo-oo!

Dana Simpson posted this article on bluesky that with recent cuts by syndicate Gannett, nearly everything in the line up are penned by men and though FBoFW survived the chop, it's a zombie rerun strip (along with a good number of other strips in the group).

Dismal state for published strips these days.

# ? Feb 25, 2024 20:38

Poil: Mar 17, 2007

Hostile V posted:

You Are Really Doing A poo poo Job At Making Me Like The Independent Rabbit Free State

Is there anyone in that poo poo world who isn't a thief and/or murderer?

# ? Feb 25, 2024 20:44

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

Mary Worth Presents: Big Keef Dribin'

Another work sketch of the thread's favourite leg of ham/sociopath, but I worked it up into a 'real' drawing this time.

(Slightly larger version)

Also I just peeked at today's Sunday strip and ohhhhhhh boy.

Gorgeous

# ? Feb 25, 2024 21:04

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Samovar posted:

Schkade's grasp and utilization of negative space is SO GOOD, YOU GUYS!

Flash Gordon is as good as I had hoped Mara Llava would be.

F Minus

Mark Trail

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

Mary Worth Presents: Big Keef Dribin'

Another work sketch of the thread's favourite leg of ham/sociopath, but I worked it up into a 'real' drawing this time.

(Slightly larger version)

Also I just peeked at today's Sunday strip and ohhhhhhh boy.

Beautiful.

And speaking if Sunday's strip:

Mary Worth

Yeah, I think this is literally the happy ending for this story arc.

The Phantom

Pooch Cafe

Rex Morgan MD

Andertoons

Flash Gordon

# ? Feb 25, 2024 21:23

Guy Fawkes: Aug 1, 2014; Lvl 62, +5 meadow defense

Hostile V posted:

Well, IMHO, had Holbrook left out all pretense of social metaphoras and made the strip only about the shenanigans of predator and preys, it'd have worked much better.

# ? Feb 25, 2024 21:28

Ravenson: Feb 23, 2024; Likes writing desks but isn't like one.

Mercury Hat posted:

Dana Simpson posted this article on bluesky that with recent cuts by syndicate Gannett, nearly everything in the line up are penned by men and though FBoFW survived the chop, it's a zombie rerun strip (along with a good number of other strips in the group).

Dismal state for published strips these days.

God forbid newspaper readers be exposed to comics that are actually funny. Let's just rerun the same old dude's comics forever!

Ravenson fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Feb 25, 2024

# ? Feb 25, 2024 21:45

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD

Never ever? I think I gotta call bullshit on this guy's credentials.

# ? Feb 25, 2024 21:59

Mercury Hat: May 28, 2006; SharkTales!
Woo-oo!

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Yeah, I think this is literally the happy ending for this story arc.

incredible when you consider he pissed his pants after learning kitty kept knowledge of her pregnancy and daughter from him

and was presented as noble for running off some other man who was lying to them for his own gain

these poor women

# ? Feb 25, 2024 22:00

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Ravenson posted:

God forbid newspaper readers be exposed to comics that are actually funny. Let's just rerun the same old dude's comics forever!

Depressing isn't it, the grip that old white Boomer men still have on society in unexpected ways....I'm not saying all the cartoonists are old white Boomer men, but the intended audience definitely is.

# ? Feb 25, 2024 22:03

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Ravenson posted:

God forbid newspaper readers be exposed to comics that are actually funny. Let's just rerun the same old dude's comics forever!

It's cheap!

# ? Feb 25, 2024 22:04

Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

It's a shame about the misogyny and the cuts but a bit of a morbid chuckle at cutting clunkers like New Trail and Nancy. I guess it's the stopped clock rule. lmao at Jules adding herself to an 80 year track record of "good" comic. Has Mark Trail ever had a good storyline that wasn't done by the first artist?

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

Mary Worth Presents: Big Keef Dribin'

Another work sketch of the thread's favourite leg of ham/sociopath, but I worked it up into a 'real' drawing this time.

(Slightly larger version)

Also I just peeked at today's Sunday strip and ohhhhhhh boy.

lmao incredible art for a stupid finish. I guess we should give Keith some credit for not doing the true dumbest tradman thing possible and thundering off to die miserable and alone at the idea of being supportive to a child that isn't his. A shame the road he took to reach all these conclusions sucks and we really are never gonna see that guy he ran off again. Just 100% heroic portrayal, thank you Keif Bigman.

# ? Feb 25, 2024 22:08

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

Scary Go Round (July 25-27, 2005)

# ? Feb 25, 2024 22:10

Giant Ethicist: Jun 9, 2013; Looks like she got on a loaf of bread instead of a bus again...

We Are Reproducing

# ? Feb 25, 2024 22:23

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Doomykins posted:

It's a shame about the misogyny and the cuts but a bit of a morbid chuckle at cutting clunkers like New Trail and Nancy. I guess it's the stopped clock rule. lmao at Jules adding herself to an 80 year track record of "good" comic. Has Mark Trail ever had a good storyline that wasn't done by the first artist?

Remember, past threads were -- at first -- enthusiastic about James Allen's Mark Trail because it had actual action and everything, instead of pointlessly meandering like the Jack Elrod version! And then it eventually became apparent that Allen was an art-copier who had no idea how to pace a story and was generally a lovely person.

Pogo 6/5-7/52

Archie 9/1-3/49

The Virtue of Vera Valiant 2/27/77

# ? Feb 25, 2024 22:29

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Mark Trail is just cursed

# ? Feb 25, 2024 22:36

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

1981 comics

Dick Tracy

Footrot Flats

The Lockhorns

Computoon: Origins

Mexikid Stories

# ? Feb 25, 2024 22:48

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

destroy the church ladies

# ? Feb 25, 2024 22:53

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Not a single funny hat, shameful church ladies.

# ? Feb 25, 2024 23:32

Splint Chesthair: Dec 27, 2004

Selachian posted:

The Virtue of Vera Valiant 2/27/77

Oh poo poo

# ? Feb 25, 2024 23:46

riderchop: Aug 10, 2010; av by @daikonquest!

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

Mary Worth Presents: Big Keef Dribin'

Another work sketch of the thread's favourite leg of ham/sociopath, but I worked it up into a 'real' drawing this time.

(Slightly larger version)

Also I just peeked at today's Sunday strip and ohhhhhhh boy.

# ? Feb 25, 2024 23:47

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Selachian posted:

The Virtue of Vera Valiant 2/27/77

Failthrop

# ? Feb 25, 2024 23:55

Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

Is this behavior fit for a CPA!?

# ? Feb 25, 2024 23:57

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Why can't all soap strips be like Vera Valiant?

A month of Mary Worth or Rex Morgan has less events than VV does in a week.

# ? Feb 25, 2024 23:59

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Selachian posted:

The Virtue of Vera Valiant 2/27/77

That CPA is at the disco in his suit and I love it.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 00:11

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Murdstone posted:

The Phantom

Take this dude to IKEA's lighting section and just blow his mind

# ? Feb 26, 2024 00:18

Hippocrass: Aug 18, 2015; That third panel of the first comic just makes it. It's still funny if you remove it, but that panel included just makes it top tier.

Krazy Kat(November 17, 1918)

Gasoline Alley(October 19, 1919)

Little Nemo(April 12, 1908)

One more strip before we go back to spoilering.
Another batch of mostly unspoilered strips will run from July through August 1908.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 00:33

Pancho Jueves: Aug 20, 2007; BEST FRIENDS!!

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Yeah, I think this is literally the happy ending for this story arc.

This might be the most disgusting end of a story line I've ever seen, and I've read 9 Chickweed Lane.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 00:46

Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

I hope I'm not alone in this but I'm growing to hate these Unknown Commander parts of the Phantom. It's insanely stupid, it's like a little kid describing one of those 1960s-80s shows where a spy gets orders from a phone but it's presented as the Phantom being a master of manipulation over a company of military trained people who are idiots by order of the script.

To say nothing of spending multiple months of Sunday strips on the thrilling ordeal of remodeling an office.

Doomykins fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Feb 26, 2024

# ? Feb 26, 2024 00:46

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

I checked out of reading Sunday Phantoms shortly after this unknown commander poo poo started up again. It's just boring as hell.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 00:51

The_Other: Dec 28, 2012; Welcome Back, Galaxy Geek.

Conan: The Blood Egg Part 1

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John Allison posted:

Who is this EMISSARY? And who are these Serpent Men? Every Conan story I read seemed to involve the manifestation of something snakey. I think Robert E. Howard was dogged by scaly notions.

Tiggum posted:

I figured it out pretty quickly, but I did first read "Sedgegeld" as "sed-geg-eld" rather than "sedge-geld".

You're gonna have to explain this to me, I'm not getting the joke? :confused:

# ? Feb 26, 2024 01:07

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Guy Fawkes posted:

Well, IMHO, had Holbrook left out all pretense of social metaphoras and made the strip only about the shenanigans of predator and preys, it'd have worked much better.

Yeah as a Funy Gag Strip it'd work fine, but the instant you have a Serious Storyline we suddenly need to take the world seriously and hoo boy

# ? Feb 26, 2024 01:10

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Murdstone posted:

F Minus

# ? Feb 26, 2024 02:08

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.