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It was very rainy in my area today. Very much like Mary's neighbor! You see, there was rain in his life but now the sun has come out because he found a new family!
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Even Musk himself still calls it Twitter. It's got to be one of the worst jobs of rebranding ever. Pogo 7/7-9/52 Pogo was filing daily columns during convention season in Chicago, which got printed in papers that ran the strip. I've appended them for the curious.     7/7 7/8 7/9Archie 10/17-19/49    The Virtue of Vera Valiant 3/28-30/77   I don't think the phrase is used much anymore, but back then a gangster "taking you for a ride" meant they were taking you somewhere remote to knock you off.  Winthrop: Still useless.
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Selachian posted:Winthrop: Still useless. Careful now, that's a CPA you're talking about.
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Ah, yes. Our famously beige California Poppies.
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So loving Creepy And Weird And Manipulative And Invasive But That's Okay It's December And This Is The Crimble Stuff        The Only Good Forrest Gump Content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQwWaWFjd0Y 
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Leaving aside the obvious about how it's not history's biggest tragedy if someone doesn't have your perfect traditional wedding? Don't ship toddlers you weirdo.
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Hostile V posted:So loving Creepy And Weird And Manipulative And Invasive But That's Okay It's December And This Is The Crimble Stuff This lining up with the actual planning of Fiona and Rudy's own wedding is... interesting. Also, future Turvy will be taller than Rudy? Is there an actual in-universe reason Rudy is still the same size he was when he was 14?
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catlord posted:This lining up with the actual planning of Fiona and Rudy's own wedding is... interesting. Also yeah I loving hate time is a flat circle in Hellworld and there's gonna be 3 more years of waffling until they're like "gently caress it let's marry". Caphi posted:Don't ship toddlers you weirdo.
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth God Shut up already! The Family Upstairs/The Dingbat Family(September 10, 1910)  Baron Bean(March 11, 1916)  Polly and Her Pals(February 8, 1913)  Gasoline Alley(November 1, 1919)  Us Boys(March 9, 1912)  The Gumps()
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Turvy's giving me flashbacks of Chelonia, the woman with the sauropod neck from  "We've had this conversation before, Turvy. Please stop bringing it up. Enjoy your reception." maltesh fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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Hippocrass posted:Gasoline Alley(November 1, 1919)  Went immediately to this photo of my grandfather (right) sitting with his future father- and brother-in-law, on the running board of the senior's 1930 Oldsmobile, 9/6/31 PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth If I was writing this strip I'd do another three weeks of victory lap, just because I can.
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They keep almost transitioning into a new story and it’s driving me crazy. Like, I keep waiting for Dr. Jeff to remark on the importance of family and mention how one of his patients is having trouble with their family members or is also a veteran but has ptsd or something like that.
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Ungh, been apartment shopping so posting comics completely fell off the radar. Crabgrass       Welp, guess this is the new normal now. It's a bold move but I support it.
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Oh my god it's so cute and smart to convey a body swap by having them wearing each other's clothes.
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Big Nate    Now hang on, I want to see where this is going.  He's right. This is doubly true at work. 
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Poil posted:Or you could just use a freaking airport bus. But that might be too simple and functional for braindamaged tech bros.  In any case, flight volume became too great for this to really be viable, so they eventually built midfield concourses with regular jetways and now the mobile lounges are: Murdstone posted:They're basically glorified buses, right? I never even heard of them called mobile lounges, I always called them shuttles. 
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Betty would have chosen murder-suicide with Archie, choking against each other's faces. True love.
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Julet Esqu posted:Ah, yes. Our famously beige California Poppies. They wilted at the lich's approach
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Daddy Daze Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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nu Flash Gordon's pacing is a bit confusing, where it's clear the writer is in a hurry to move the plot along and yet it still has to do the weekend special "here's what you missed" recaps in case a reader only reads the Sunday funnies I guess that comes from adhering to a newspaper format for a de facto web audience, where one can always read yesterday's strip by clicking a link. No short term memory loss recaps every day
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (April 07, 2002)  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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Noticed I forgot to post the Gumps earlier. The Gumps(April 7, 1017) 
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riderchop posted:Monty Holy poo poo, I laughed at a Monty.
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ronya posted:nu Flash Gordon's pacing is a bit confusing, where it's clear the writer is in a hurry to move the plot along and yet it still has to do the weekend special "here's what you missed" recaps in case a reader only reads the Sunday funnies
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Dan Schkade's Flash Gordon is fast without being disorienting. Like most competent narrative strips, it advances the story by one step per day, but Schkade takes bigger steps. He gets away with this because (as discussed above) he establishes more narrative detail in a single panel than your average soap manages in three - which means that more elements of the story are "in play" at once, being developed within that step. That, in turn, means that less time elapses between reappearances of background elements that remain relevant. Leveraging the weekly cadence by having a recap every Sunday helps to reinforce the overall flow and context, but it's kept from being just a redundant summary by switching the viewpoint every time, a decision which also justifies the increased use of narration boxes, which help to condense the ideas even further so they fit in just a third as many panels. This kind of narrative economy, habitually cramming in more story per picture and per sentence, is incredibly difficult, but I daresay he's been practicing a lot. The thing about daily format comic strips is that they set a constant tempo. The cartoonist has a rectangle of fixed dimensions, usually subdivided in the same way, and they're tasked with filling each one with an amount of entertainment that's consistent at least in quantity, even if we're inured to variations in quality. It's natural and comfortable to size the strip to the smallest unit you can deliver: setup - elaboration - punchline. There's still a pressure to economize, but usually they approach it in a Bushmillerian way: simplify, clarify, remove extraneous detail. Occasionally, though, you see someone ambitious, who knows that, from the right perspective, four panels is actually a lot, and they economize instead by making maximum use of it. I think that Bob Montana's Archie is another strip in this thread that shares this quality, even though it's a completely different genre.
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...I can see the similarities in pacing between Montana's Archie and nu-Gordon, too. Good insight.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Personally I'm fine with NuGordon's pacing; it keeps poo poo moving without being the blitzing "wait who is this, what are we doing, TOO LATE WE'RE SOMEWHERE ELSE NOW" pace of Gil Thorpe that I have completely given up on following. I don't think the problem with Gil Thorp is the pacing, exactly. It's more like the focus and lack of information. Comics like Mary Worth get criticised for repeating stuff and having characters say each other's name too frequently and overexplaining in the narration and so on, which does seem odd if you read them in a big chunk, but it means you can easily tell what's happening. Gil Thorp frequently leaves characters unnamed in the text for long stretches, jump forward in time and to different perspectives (without narration), runs concurrent storylines, and has a large and frequently changing cast of characters. It's not too fast, it's just hard to follow. Imagine you just started reading it recently: Feb 23 we're in Gil's house. They're eating dinner. Someone called Mimi is just arriving. Next day the kids are leaving for what appears to be an extended trip, Gil's mother and someone called Robin arrive unexpectedly. In the next strip Gil says "mom's here" which is confusing because his mother just arrived but he's actually referring to his kids' mother. Is this Mimi? I assume so but I don't know and it's not clarified. Gil talks to his mother and I guess Robin is his brother (who is always travelling with their mother)? On the 28th we finally get enough information to make sense of everything that just happened. There's a couple more strips where nothing really happens and then suddenly Gil's at the airport, working on a plane, and a woman approaches and talks to him. They clearly know each other but we don't know how much time has passed or who she is. Their conversation kind of follows on from the one Gil was having with his brother, but that's all the context we have for it. Then Gil's flying a plane and continuing the same conversation as though absolutely no time passed at all. He's literally hearing the answer to the question he asked in the last panel of the previous strip. This is a trick TV shows and movies do a lot that you don't think about because the scenes are cut together so there's no gap, but there's a whole day between these strips and if you're not following closely you've got to go back for the context so you notice the incongruity. The next day we abruptly cut to a bar some unknown time later. We actually get a character's name as they appear here so that's helpful but it's undercut by the first panel being entirely pointless and introducing another unnamed character (who, in this case, is not important at all). Then we time jump again. In TV there would be a slow scene transition but once again this does not work in a daily comic - at least not without some narration. Beth asks Gil if he's seeing anyone, which confused me because I had assumed this was a date but apparently it isn't, because Gil doesn't seem fazed. A couple of days later we've jumped forward again and here are some more characters. You could assume that the basketball players aren't important but two of the four panels are devoted entirely to the game. And the guy Gil is actually talking to is not named or identified in any way. I tried following it when Barajas took over the writing but I find it impossible. Reading one strip a day as it's published, I have absolutely no idea who anyone is or what's going on.
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Bongo Bill posted:Occasionally, though, you see someone ambitious, who knows that, from the right perspective, four panels is actually a lot, and they economize instead by making maximum use of it. specifically the deliberate use of foreground and background to carry secondary threads i want to highlight with flash gordon - he's been playing with them such that four panels can be equivalent to six, half again faster than four and twice as fast as the three-panelers while staying in the same space - compare against our other blisteringly-paced gil thorp which does *not* make good use of panel depth
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Cowslips Warren posted:Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck loving Twitter. I tried to send a message to the guy that does Flash, and because I never use Twitter, it threw a fit and made me take some loving match game to prove I wasn't a bot. Anyone else got a better way to send this author and artist some love? Last things first: because 25-ish years ago, someone told Elon Manbaby he couldn't call PayPal X because all the focus groups hated the name and it reminded them of porn, and he's been nursing a grudge about it ever since. Personally, X without a modifier behind it reminds me of placeholders for unsolved algebra or bad-faith product comparisons in old commercials. Also, Dan Schkade's on Bluesky too, so there's an easier way to get to where you're going. Anyway, Mutts.    Peanuts (March 13, 1977)  Behold, the last mention of Shermy in a Peanuts comic strip. His last in-panel appearance was June 15, 1969 (unless that's supposed to be him in the the November 9, 1975 strip, and I'm not convinced). I'd say we missed him, but...well... EasyEW (eight or nine threads ago) posted:Life's harshest blow: The art that got cut to make this into a tabloid layout was Shermy's last in-panel appearance ever.  He was the only kid with lines in the first strip, but there were three kids in that first strip, and he was the last one of them to be given a name. So it goes. Crankshaft  Thimble Theater (October 12, 1940)  Popeye 
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with newspaper funnies it's a given that the audience is not paying close attention to the medium, and also doesn't have ready access to past strips: hence repeated recaps every day. The larger full-colour Sunday strip summarizing the entire past week, potentially re-using the week's art, is specific to the medium conversely, webcomics have an interested audience who will pick apart each strip before the next I don't think Flash Gordon's pacing is bad, but I thought it remarkable that it's obviously the latter whilst leveraging the appearance of the former for nostalgic effect
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Pluggers If I were in a marriage where I was one of my husband's favorite food groups, I wouldn't sleep easily either.
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Frank and Ernest (3/18/1994)  (3/19/1994)  Ziggy  (10/2/1971) 
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 3/9/04  Brenda Starr 10/16-18/52    Smokey Stover 4/3/60  Everyday Movies 4/28/37  "You'll have to sneak out in the hall and borrow another light bulb." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 4/15-17/43    Closer Than We Think! 4/3/60 
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