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Darthemed posted:Retail I don’t actually recall how this shakes out, so I hope Josh continues to spiral downwards until he hits the center of the earth.
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Darthemed posted:Popcom I have so many questions. 
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Green Intern posted:I don’t actually recall how this shakes out, so I hope Josh continues to spiral downwards until he hits the center of the earth. Like Cricket in it’s always sunny.
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Josh really brings the net value of the world down a little, doesn't he.  What an abhorrent rear end.
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Doomykins posted:I've bounced off Alley Oop multiple times in my life under different authors. You'd think a serial adventure concept like "a scientist time travels and recruits a caveman for adventures" could be carried by just putting a headstrong brawny idiot with a heart of gold in situations(it's almost beat for beat the default shounen setup) but I've never been lucky enough to see it bear fruit. You'd think, but the only version I ever liked was the original. Hamlin had a solid grasp of both action and comedy, and he could draw like a sonofabitch. Someone went through the first half decade of it 3 or 4 threads ago, and I was diggin' it until they abruptly stopped. And early Oop was no fool, and was in fact heroic, which makes the current take even more objectionable.
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Cul de Sac FoxTrot Classix   Rose is Rose  Bad Machinery 
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (February 12, 1936)  Peanuts: Chuck On The Lam (March 8, 1977)  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire, continuing an all-ginger interlude.  Li'l Abner (January 6-8, 1936)   So that story ended pretty rapidly, but we're wasting no time getting back on the horse. Where will Pappy's wanderlust take him in a strange new city? CHINATOWN!  Yeaaaaaaah, spoiler curtains for the next little bit.  Thimble Theater (October 8, 1940)  Out Our Way (February 28-March 1, 1944)   
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The art style in current Alley Oop makes them look like car seats that came to life, what did it originally look like?
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Powered Descent posted:d on Sundays with the new CK formatting.
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theironjef posted:The art style in current Alley Oop makes them look like car seats that came to life, what did it originally look like? Here's a random sample from about five years into the original run. As you can see, the odd proportions -- big chests, no necks, oversized calves and forearms -- are part of the original character design. Alley Oop 3/15/37 
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theironjef posted:The art style in current Alley Oop makes them look like car seats that came to life, what did it originally look like? Here's the earliest strips in GoComics' archive, from the beginning of January, 1939:        Unfortunately GoComics lists them in the same category as nu-Oop so there's no easy way to pick up classic-Oop (unless there's something in Powered Descent's script?). I probably won't add classic-Oop to my posts but if someone's willing to pick it up, it might be a fun contrast a la Popeye. Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Alley Oop  Boy that "watched too much Futurama" critique really sticks out, huh? Curtis  ... huh? Also, last night my wife came into my office almost yelling "DID YOU SEE TODAY'S BALDO?!" so here it is:  Holy poo poo what a poorly executed "kids and their phones?!" Also according to today's strip Gracie doesn't even HAVE a phone? 
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That Baldo is Dustin levels of Boomer. Wallace and the Otterloop strip are how you depict children correctly in a comic strip.
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Selachian posted:Bonus Comic! Spoilered for Native American stereotypes, and presented without comment. goatface posted:Diagonal across the Pyrenees is a choice for a road.
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who loving cares        I don't know dick about poo poo when it comes to wedding planning but seven months seems like not a lot of time because I've heard a lot of people have tried to do, like, 6 months and that was basically breakneck and down to the wire to execute. this is not a haiku. this is a 3/5/3 scheme. that is not a haiku. I have gotten baked and written poetry before and I am so loving offended. 
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Julet Esqu posted:Good lord. It almost never happens, but I liked today's Dustin. Julet Esqu posted:It almost never happens,
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Vargo posted:Also, last night my wife came into my office almost yelling "DID YOU SEE TODAY'S BALDO?!" so here it is: Like father, like son...Think about it.
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Vargo posted:Also, last night my wife came into my office almost yelling "DID YOU SEE TODAY'S BALDO?!" so here it is: What's your problem, she just had a relaxing smoke break from her phone?
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A+J My smoking period was too long ago to overlap with cell phones, but I gotta admit that looks pretty chill.
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Darthemed posted:drat, that kid is cool
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Hostile V posted:lmao I had the exact same thought followed by "so this is gonna be an arc about smoking huh". I did too but then it wasn't, it was about phones. Not that it would be unlike Baldo to start and stop storylines at random, I think they're still hiding a family of dreamers in their basement Anne-Frank style since 2018.
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Hostile V posted:I don't know dick about poo poo when it comes to wedding planning but seven months seems like not a lot of time because I've heard a lot of people have tried to do, like, 6 months and that was basically breakneck and down to the wire to execute. Depends on what you are doing for the wedding. Popular venue? Might be booked years in advance. High demand baker and caterer? Same. But if you want to have something small and intimate, 6 months is probably plenty of time.
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Esa Ahto  Nancy  pretty good Dustin  Mandrake The Magician 
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Vargo posted:Unfortunately GoComics lists them in the same category as nu-Oop so there's no easy way to pick up classic-Oop (unless there's something in Powered Descent's script?). The script can very easily be tweaked to grab any date you like; it just does "today" by default since that's what most of us need. But the archive on Gocomics looks far from complete -- my impression, just from poking around and spot-checking, is that after that first month of strips in 1939, coverage is spotty at best until well into the 1990s.
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Vargo posted:Also, last night my wife came into my office almost yelling "DID YOU SEE TODAY'S BALDO?!" so here it is: If you showed this to me without any context I would have assumed she was a women in her thirties.
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How old is this Gracie kid in Baldo supposed to be? Wikipedia doesn't mention an age but says she's "remarkably intelligent and enjoys reading." That sounds like the sort of kid that can handle a smartphone.
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I'm guessing 8 -10-years old. Speaking of WTF Baldo one-offs: does anyone remember the strip they ran during the Bush years of ICE coming & arresting the grandmother as an illegal?
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Hostile V posted:
I know im commiting the cardinal Holbrook sin of thinking about plots for more than half a second, but there was a little arc not too long ago about Rudy and Fiona not rushing into getting married, wasn't there? Kinda jarring that they're now just well, date set, out of the blue. Though he can't resist keeping characters off of the sweethearts>married>babies babies babies train for too long i suppose
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See they moved into the rabbit state and now they wanna gently caress like rabbits and you can't gently caress out of wed lock.
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CzarChasm posted:Depends on what you are doing for the wedding. Popular venue? Might be booked years in advance. High demand baker and caterer? Same. But if you want to have something small and intimate, 6 months is probably plenty of time. And also as someone who wants to get married on like Halloween and have a party about it? poo poo's gonna be in demand for people to have a Halloween wedding! That's pretty prime party planning real estate in general!
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Getting married at Halloween means only one thing....BRING IT IN, GUYS!!! *Dethany (From "On the Fastrack") comes in for a HUGE party*
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Vargo posted:Here's the earliest strips in GoComics' archive, from the beginning of January, 1939: yeah actually! since the script defines its own date parameters, you can change it to grab a comic from whenever, thats how i get classic arlo and janis code:code:it might be a pain to do this for multiple alley oops a day, but you could always just do 3 blocks or instances of code for it idk, im no real computer toucher
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is Baituk advocating for single-payer healthcare to get rid of the bureaucratic nightmare of navigating health insurance
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Congratulations to Drabble for 45 years
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jan. 21, 1962) I love how Marcus Severis hears of Val's need to petition the Emperor and tells Arn of course he can help, and does so by talking Val out of it. Cynical and practical, that's a pretty good Roman at the edge of an empirical fall.
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Darthemed posted:Congratulations to Drabble for 45 years  This has been in my 80s paper for a while and I've never seen it tell a halfway decent joke. So of course it's still going.
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Drabble has only ever been noteworthy to me for that Achewood strip where Ray just demolishes Donnie Drabble (the main guy) who wears white Reeboks and jeans he bought at the grocery store. (Belated happy 20th to that Achewood strip)
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The Family Upstairs/The Dingbat Family(September 6, 1910) Baron Bean(March 7, 1016)  Polly and Her Pals(February 4, 1913)  Gasoline Alley(October 28, 1919)  Us Boys(March 5, 1912)  The Gumps(April 3, 1917)  Krazy Kat(December 30, 1913) 
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