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Maigius: Jun 29, 2013

Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD

The Crusher was an actual wrestler from the 60s and 70s, mostly in the AWA territory of Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. There's a statue of him in South Milwaukee.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 03:25

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# ? May 20, 2024 15:17

mycatscrimes: Jan 2, 2020

Crab Dad posted:

I'm so confused did shelly die and get zombiefied again? man his pacing on his older stuff is hard

She didn't, she's living on Evil Island and the evil crew just dropped this zombie Shelly (clone?) on the mainland a few days ago. It has not been made clear how they produced a zombie Shelly yet.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 03:25

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

mycatscrimes posted:

She didn't, she's living on Evil Island and the evil crew just dropped this zombie Shelly (clone?) on the mainland a few days ago. It has not been made clear how they produced a zombie Shelly yet.

they took a sample of Shelley's blood

# ? Feb 26, 2024 03:30

Chicken Parmigiana: Sep 12, 2007

Thanks for liking my drawing, thread! I might just work my prior Keef sketch into a proper one too, and then chuck them up on Redbubble or make a little postcard set for my Ko-fi shop or something.

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

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

This is such a hosed-up, nightmarish "happy ending", and the last line is just rubbing salt into the wound. "Who says you can't choose your family?" Well, apparently you can choose yours, Keith: you can just con your way into stealing one that suits you. But you're not allowing these women to choose theirs � particularly Sonia, whom you only met in the first place because she wanted to meet her biological father.

"Kitty kept some things from me..." Oh she did huh.

Motherfucker.

And the way he just gets out of his blood-soaked vroom-vroom and stands there, while Kitty and Sonia � having been waiting expectantly all day, unable to focus on their cooking and homemaking � rush out of the house to fling themselves into his strong manly arms, as if he's just got back from serving consecutive tours in Afghanistan... If it were any other comic, or movie or book, this would be an obvious fantasy sequence: the audience would realise that Keith crashed his car (the red colour is a subconscious hint, not just a mistake) and is now dying or in a coma, a moment before the scene changes to a hospital room showing exactly that.

Particularly the way Sonia is apparently an eight-year-old who needs her daddy, now, rather than a grown adult.

But this is Mary Worth and so this is actually it. This is what's really happening, and it's good! Keith is a good guy and good things are happening to him and this makes us feel happy.

Jesus christ, it's so thoroughly loving sick. Folks, there's some sick poo poo in the funny pages nowadays.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 05:29

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

The_Other posted:

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

There's no double meaning or anything, I just keep reading it with the obviously wrong pronunciation. I don't even know why. But it amuses me. Sed-geggled.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 05:32

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Sejeagle'd

# ? Feb 26, 2024 05:34

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

Corto Maltese

Blueberry

Samovar fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Feb 26, 2024

# ? Feb 26, 2024 06:15

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

i have to admit im a stupid piece of poo poo and skipped over vera valiant for weeks so i thought you all were talking about some prince valiant author i didnt know about

# ? Feb 26, 2024 06:17

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

it's a really weird one, though. it keeps swerving between parody soap opera and just actual soap opera

# ? Feb 26, 2024 06:25

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From The Tinkersons

Macanudo

Dark Side Of The Horse

# ? Feb 26, 2024 07:13

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

The_Other posted:

Conan: The Blood Egg Part 1

John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store
Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics

I honestly like that his Red Sonja character is based on the Howard the Duck version.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 07:25

Shaman Tank Spec: Dec 26, 2003; *blep*

Fingerpori

# ? Feb 26, 2024 08:00

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

Heathcliff

Compu-toon

Garfield

Overboard

Monty

For Better or For Worse

Classic Arlo and Janis (March 25, 2002)

On The Fastrack

Safe Havens

Zippy The Pinhead

Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon

it's so funny that new foob is mostly greyscale

# ? Feb 26, 2024 08:04

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

Interac appears to be a Canadian payment card interoperation thing. In the 90s, for an independent gas station to start supporting it was probably a big deal.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 08:16

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

Powered Descent posted:

Interac appears to be a Canadian payment card interoperation thing. In the 90s, for an independent gas station to start supporting it was probably a big deal.

lol every time my wife and i would watch canadian top chef we made fun of the constant Interac sponsorship when they do the shopping segments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDr6gGZUNfc&t=1154s

# ? Feb 26, 2024 08:28

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

Kennel posted:

Nancy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpAZ1_lepw

# ? Feb 26, 2024 08:59

mycatscrimes: Jan 2, 2020

Hwurmp posted:

they took a sample of Shelley's blood

I forgot that! Ty

# ? Feb 26, 2024 10:51

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

riderchop posted:

Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon

So what does frying rice mean in a romance context?

# ? Feb 26, 2024 11:01

Gnoman: Feb 12, 2014; Come, all you fair and tender maids
Who flourish in your pri-ime
Beware, take care, keep your garden fair
Let Gnoman steal your thy-y-me
Le-et Gnoman steal your thyme

The joke is that the cook is a "chicken" because he's too afraid to make the romantic move.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 11:04

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

Ah, yes.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 11:12

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

Samovar posted:

I feel like I've been holding my breath for this entire storyline. :ohdear:

# ? Feb 26, 2024 12:43

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

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)

This rules, pity about the actual ending to this story

Green Intern posted:

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

I'm enjoying seeing it right alongside the storyline about how most gophers really are just thieves, but this one guy is okay because he's one of the good ones

Vintage Valiant (Dec. 10, 1961)

# ? Feb 26, 2024 12:46

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Friendli

Rhymes with Orange

Get Fuzzy 2/25/04

Brenda Recap 9/5-7/52

Smokey Stover 1/3/60

Smokey rolls into the Swinging 60s! And promptly gets spoilered for a Native American stereotype.

Everyday Movies 4/13/37

"I wouldn't mind gettin' a job, Duke, if I could be sure of being a sit-down striker, but I'd hate to have to picket."

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 3/15-17/43

Closer Than We Think! 1/3/60

Flamethrower trucks to clear snow? Why not?

Note that the "Esso Research and Engineering Company" is a branch of the company that would later become Exxon. Esso in turn was one of the companies split off from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly. (Standard Oil -- SO -- Esso.) So it's not surprising an oil company would propose oil-heated water troughs and flamethrowers that drag multiple fuel tanks behind them.

Selachian fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Feb 26, 2024

# ? Feb 26, 2024 13:41

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

Selachian posted:

Closer Than We Think! 1/3/60

Flamethrower trucks to clear snow? Why not?

They did that on Top Gear.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 13:45

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

Mr. Squishy posted:

So what does frying rice mean in a romance context?

the chicken is trapped in the friedzone

# ? Feb 26, 2024 13:48

amigolupus: Aug 25, 2017

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.

Thanks for drawing this. It's the only bright spot in this turd of a story.

That said, a heart gently caress you to Moy for not only writing a story about a shithead cop tricking his way into being part of these poor women's lives, but also for subjecting us to this poo poo for half a year.

Hostile V posted:

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

It's been ages since Holbrook decided to fill in details about how Hellworld works, right? IIRC, the past few years of K&K have just been about the children and the stupid camp, everyone in Lindesfarne and Rudy's group making babies/adopting and the occasional reminder that Kevin and Kell still gently caress, yeah? It's just fascinating in a trainwreck sort of way watching Holbrook's handiwork in action.

In theory, the rabbits living underground to protect themselves from being eaten by various predator companies is a sensible move. But every single detail Holbrook has added about them paints them as this rancid nation of assholes. Some people had misgivings about how Mutants in the Krakoa Era became an ethnostate due to questionable decisions like putting Mr. Sinister in their council, but they've never actively destroyed priceless fossils or drank from the remains of their enemies.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 14:12

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.

Mutts

Sally Forth

Skippy (February 5, 1936)

Peanuts (February 28, 1977)

OH gently caress YOU

Rip Haywire: Ka-FUGITIVE!

Li'l Abner, in which aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand here we go. (December 9-11, 1935)

Thimble Theater (September 30, 1940)

Out Our Way (February 3-5, 1944)

Searching for "garage war producer" butts up against the limitations of Google. That's where a library card comes in handy.

The Sunday Oregonian (Portland, February 7, 1943) posted:

Portland's Little Men are hard at work. Next door, down the block, or around the corner, you'll find them toiling in their basements and garages, utilizing home hobby workshops to further the war effort.

Herb Field's garage looks like many another in Portland--on the outside. Inside it is a most unusual workshop. Starting several years ago with a hobby lathe for woodturning, Field's garage now houses a dozen large, fine, high-precision tooling machines. Half of them he designed and built himself. The other half have been rebuilt by him for special-purpose work.[...]

His first metal work for our armed forces was done in 1940. Learning that the navy was in need of emergency hand lights, Field set to work and produced more than 1000.

He heard that a new type of gear pump for steam generator engines was being sought. He considered the problem. The automobile industry had spent many years and much money experimenting with the gear pump. Field, with wisdom, turned to it for information. Using seven different kinds of automobile gear pumps in his studies, he evolved one for steam generator engines that is now in common use on ships.

In order to produce these pumps, Field had to invent and build his own gigs, and each pump was individually machined for perfection.

(full-page article from the Portland Oregonian)

# ? Feb 26, 2024 14:45

Good Listener: Sep 2, 2006; Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool

Gnoman posted:

The joke is that the cook is a "chicken" because he's too afraid to make the romantic move.

Yea I think actually making the chef an actual chicken didn't help because it took me a couple reads to get the joke too haha

# ? Feb 26, 2024 14:46

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

So at some point in Hellworld, there were dinosaurs, and then instead of humans popping up eons later, evolution stopped with.....poo poo, have we seen primates in Hellworld?

# ? Feb 26, 2024 14:47

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

Cowslips Warren posted:

So at some point in Hellworld, there were dinosaurs, and then instead of humans popping up eons later, evolution stopped with.....poo poo, have we seen primates in Hellworld?

I'm pretty sure one of the things the Bird Illuminati did was use time travel to stop that strain of mammals from evolving so humans couldn't exist and undo their plans.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 14:54

Saoshyant: Oct 26, 2010

The Bird Illuminati

# ? Feb 26, 2024 15:05

Huxley: Oct 10, 2012; Grimey Drawer

A+J

# ? Feb 26, 2024 15:07

amigolupus: Aug 25, 2017

Cowslips Warren posted:

So at some point in Hellworld, there were dinosaurs, and then instead of humans popping up eons later, evolution stopped with.....poo poo, have we seen primates in Hellworld?

Checking the site, there's seven strips that featured monkeys but there hasn't been a character that's been part of the main cast and their extended hangers-on. No apes like gorillas or orangutans, though. So I guess the Birdlluminati managed to prevent them from existing.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 15:26

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

How did Batiuk manage to draw that comic with one hand? Truly astonishing.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 15:38

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

Douglas Got That Kazuma Kiryu Fit

Honestly I've Been Seeing Really Good Results With A Safety Razor On My Face, A Lot More Of A Smooth Shave Than My Old Standard Five-Blade Razor

# ? Feb 26, 2024 15:46

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Why do the hellworld cops give a poo poo? Kevin is a prey animal who thwarted a predator that wasn't a personal acquaintance, by their own fuckin' rules no one cares unless it's trying to hunt someone you know. Be consistent, Holbrook, for gently caress sake!

and yeah that is a Kiryu suit Douglas has on, huh.

# ? Feb 26, 2024 15:51