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Zamboni Rodeo posted:"Confimistic"??? I had surgery earlier today and I'm on some good drugs right now so I'm stupider than usual, but what the gently caress is this even supposed to mean? At least I can make sense of Crankshaft's aphasic malapropisms.They're not funny, but they're understandable. This is just goddamn nonsense. it's a portmanteau of confident and optimistic it's also terrible, but that's expected from crankshaft
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Comic genius Tom Batiuk will occasionally have the hateful old man(the other one, the bus driver) smash words together or incorrectly substitute a similar word for another. However as a master of his craft he isn't bothered by tying it to jokes or dialogue or anything, he just lets it stand on its own!
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someone awful. posted:it's a portmanteau of confident and optimistic  Thanks! Yeah, you're right. That is just terrible.
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Professor Wayne posted:
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Endless Mike posted:The only indication I can find in any of the book's foreward or back matter is mentioning that it's dropped after Spring 1985 to allow other student artists to have space in the paper. There's also some mention that Jeff dropped out of school, though it's not really clear if those were related. There's no specific mention of editorial having any issues with what he was doing. That’s really interesting—Ohio State and the Ireland Museum at Ohio State sometimes claim him as an Ohio State graduate, although they also say he took five years, so I don’t know if he went back or something.
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 I've updated the Comics Kingdom comics-fetching scripts to work with their new site redesign! General notes:
Mac / Linux / WSL: https://pastebin.com/qawsv4m5 Windows (PowerShell): https://pastebin.com/avwvrBtR Sample output from a test run on each platform:  
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Doomykins posted:Comic genius Tom Batiuk will occasionally have the hateful old man(the other one, the bus driver) smash words together or incorrectly substitute a similar word for another. However as a master of his craft he isn't bothered by tying it to jokes or dialogue or anything, he just lets it stand on its own! That strip is also annoyingly smug because newspapers haven't even cut off his lovely-rear end comic out of circulation, while better strips are the ones that got hit. So it comes across less as a commentary on the state of newspaper strips, and more blowing hot air about how cool and special Batiuk is for still making comics. Julet Esqu posted:Gil Thorp It's a long shot, but it'd be interesting if Gil dated that coach who hated the hell out of him, add some spice between them now that the one-sided rivalry's over. JethroMcB posted:Rose is Rose And here we go with this malarkey again. It certainly took long enough for her to start pretending she's a badass for doing basic poo poo.
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Pogo 6/16-18/52 Chicago was the site of the 1952 Republican convention.   Archie 9/19-21/49    The Virtue of Vera Valiant 3/10-12/77   
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Selachian posted:Archie 9/19-21/49 Delicious, delicious carbon tet 
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Kennel posted:Dustin Phone?! Ed Kudlick doesn't need Some Gizmo to be entertained, unlike kids these days....
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I AM GRANDO posted:That’s really interesting—Ohio State and the Ireland Museum at Ohio State sometimes claim him as an Ohio State graduate, although they also say he took five years, so I don’t know if he went back or something. Yeah no clue. In the interview with him in the book, the interviewer mentions he "finished writing Thorn and stopped attending OSU" then Jeff's response is that his now-wife had graduated, and then a following esasy by his longtime friend (literally from childhood) Jim Kammerud says "neither of us graduated." So maybe he went back, but he definitely left at one point.
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Our Boarding House (April 16-18, 1925)   Out Our Way: Cowboys Revisited (April 14, 1925)  Toonerville Folks, in which Mr. Fox wishes you a safe and sane Fourth. (July 3-5, 1922)    Dok's Dippy Duck (February 13, 1915; spoilers for the Usual Reasons)  Little Lefty (November 20-21, 1939; no strip for the 22nd)   Olive & Popeye 
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IT'S MARCH BABEY TIME FOR A NEW GENERATION TO GET TO FUCKIN'!!!!!!!!!        yeah alright you've earned your chuckle today. 
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october is when you PLANT winter wheat, its called that because it grows through winter! and besides this doesnt change that youll have to wait for it to grow anyway!! this is just a straightforwardly dry factual narrative with no joke!!! gently caress me running as mad as i am about this its making me realise holbrook would be better behind mark trail than rivera
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MockingQuantum posted:It's especially ironic given that (I'm pretty sure) Jim Keefe is from somewhere in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and that Sally Forth is nominally set somewhere around here too. The high was 63 degrees on Monday this week, there's some real cognitive dissonance for me in these recent strips F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Apartment 3-G  Andertoons didn't update.
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail It's uncanny how many times Jules will write a story in which it is taken for granted that the villains are actually doing anything evil. "So these land developers are trying to clear wildlife from a build site but they're not quite as humane as I'd like. Also the BLM is trying to control the wild horse population." Oh... no?
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (March 4, 1977) 
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD ... he's gonna have a heart attack or something in his chair after she goes to bed, isn't he? Either that, or she's going to have a fall or something while she's getting ready for bed.
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Crabgrass  Legit kind of annoyed that there's not going to be a weird supernatural twist for once. Big Nate  
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:... he's gonna have a heart attack or something in his chair after she goes to bed, isn't he? he’s going to try to do something himself without bothering Tilly and break the other leg
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:... he's gonna have a heart attack or something in his chair after she goes to bed, isn't he? Only the finest non-stop action in Rex Morgan MD
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Raskolnikov38 posted:he’s going to try to do something himself without bothering Tilly and break the other leg  This is also a plausible outcome.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Legend of Bill is clearly the strip he's putting effort into (not that it's working, but still, effort) and so Intelligent Life is even more autopilot than it was originally.
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD This is not an old lady face! This is a young lady face with lines on it!! The Rex Morgan artist has trouble with ages. Even the kids in this strip have fucken weird adult mugs.
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (March 30, 2002)  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead Rae The Doe 
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Microwaves come with instruction manuals, Arlo. Read it. Most appliances and electronics these days do, in fact. You should probably keep them instead of using them for grill starter paper. Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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I'm glad there are some folk enjoying Blueberry who didn't catch it first time 'round Corto Maltese    Blueberry   
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EasyEW posted:Cranky McShafterbean Y'know, when Jeff Smith appeared in his own strip, he at least went drinking and coke-hoovering.
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FINGERPORI  So the Finnish linguistic joke here is that grammatically "we have successfully taken a photo of a black hole" and "we have successfully gotten a photo out of a black hole" are the same due to our old friend, the elative case. It answers the question "from what/of what". If you wanted to be proper, you wouldn't say "olemme saaneet kuvan mustasta aukosta" (we have received/taken a photo of/from a black hole", you would say "olemme valokuvanneet mustan aukon", "we have photographed a black hole".
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riderchop posted:
"A built-in radiothermal generator, that is. But don't worry, I'll just use my secret DNA powers to cure any cancer you get."
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Esa Ahto  Nancy  Dustin  A fresh joke. Mandrake The Magician 
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Kennel posted:Dustin In a way you have to respect a guy who's doing in 2024 jokes that would have been regarded as groan-worthy clichéd poo poo by 1950s Catskills circuit comedians. In another way all those of us who bothered getting educations are suckers because we could clearly just be cranking out "women be shopping" and "help my no good son is a lazy bastard who doesn't measure up to me, a middle-aged white lawyer" poo poo by the pound. E: no I can't let it go, this is so loving stupid. It's not a hard concept to understand! When you buy pants that look worn but are new, you get pants with the look of old worn pants but without the negative side effects of having to wear down pants to that point, ie. they will last you longer. I'm not a fashion person and even I understand this, Batiuk! Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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Frank and Ernest (2/28/1994)  (3/1/1994)  Ziggy  (9/23/1971) 
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Howard Beale posted:Y'know, when Jeff Smith appeared in his own strip, he at least went drinking and coke-hoovering. Chicken Parmigiana posted:Tom Batiuk must be pretty lonely, huh. Mmmm, Could Be...   Mutts  Sally Forth  Peanuts (March 5, 1977)  Rip Haywire: Ka-Hold The Phone, Are We Already Wrapping Up?  Li'l Abner (December 26-28, 1935)   Thimble Theater (October 5, 1940)  Out Our Way (February 21-23, 1944)   
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