Selachian posted:

Get Fuzzy 4/9/04

Giant Ethicist posted:

We Are Reproducing

Caphi posted:

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.

Endless Mike posted:

This is what they ended up being, more or less. The actual original idea was that the mobile lounge would take you directly from the main terminal to your plane - you'd board directly from the mobile lounge. I'm unclear how long this actually lasted, or even if it was ever actually used that way, though there's definitely photos of it having been used that way:

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:

Mobile lounge is definitely the official name for what it's worth. Eero Saarinen included them in his original concept for the airport, and they were supposed to be a new, innovative concept to move people onto planes (as the comic says!). As it is, they're pretty dumpy and I think the plan is that once the new concourse D is built, they'll extend the AeroTrain to that and eliminate them entirely.

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

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

ronya posted:

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

Powered Descent posted:

Almost forgot that it's Sunday. Here's FoxTrot.

Hoover Dam posted:

Speaking of context, it's taken as given Corto Maltese is a mixture of "hey, that's accurate" and "hey, that's...hoo-leee poo poo, man" right?

EasyEW posted:

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...



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.

Powered Descent posted:

Almost forgot that it's Sunday. Here's FoxTrot.

Hostile V posted:

bug death holiday comix

Samovar posted:

...could you expand upon this? I'm not sure I fully understand, sorry.

Hoover Dam posted:

Not the most, uh, culturally sensitive depiction of Bahians/Afro-Brazilians. Did we go over this last time it was posted? I can't remember. Anyway, take Sureshot; dude is definitely dressed as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangaco but not drawn like one. Which goes along with the depictions in this comic of, well, everyone else who's not European.


if this is your translation, note capoeirista is the name for the practitioner; capoeira is the martial art; this line just makes it sound like they're being supervised by sexy dance fighting itself

Hostile V posted:

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Powered Descent posted:

Flash Gordon

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

John Allison posted:

We assume that Glenn is referring to two Swiss balls. One to sit on while resting one’s thews during a quest, the other to trade for food, weapons, or information. Though the Swiss ball does not exist in the New Hyborian Age because Switzerland also does not exist. I cannot speak to the existence of yoga.

Murdstone posted:

I think I'm gonna like Bok.

Rand Brittain posted:

A lot of bad legacy scrips can be summarized by saying "it's a story about how good and interesting the main character is, except the main character is actually bad and dull." Mary Worth, the Phantom, probably ten others, it works for all of them.

Vargo posted:

Wallace the Brave

EasyEW posted:

Something worth remembering about comic strips is that the business model still presumably prioritizes newsprint--otherwise, nobody would've batted an eye when newspaper groups decided to drop their curated comics pages for a "one size fits all" solution across all their papers--and not all papers carry all seven days of a strip. In a lot of markets the Sunday recap strips are often the only point of contact, and I appreciate how Dan's upholding the industry standard in an original way.

By contrast, my local carried only the Sunday Funky Winkerbean in the strip's last few years, which (considering the way TomBat wrote his storylines) had to look like gibberish for people who weren't following the dailies somewhere else.

Doomykins posted:

I don't think any comic encompasses wasted potential and talent as much as the Phantom. Always competent art when a guest artist isn't phoning it in, has hung on for nearly a century despite being the textbook definition of a generic pulp hero, takes its own ironclad lore seriously, clearly overthinks the writing of the plot to the point of grave fault.

And for what? Possibly the worst pacing in the entire medium, an action serial that avoids action religiously, lore in service of the most ridiculously tame and subdued "man of danger" imaginable who will spend literal decades avoiding meaningful change and now months of The Phantom, an alter ego, sucking off his imaginary alter ego for the sake of impressing his extrajudicial private army with the knowledge that that's right, he reads philosophy!!! How worldly, there's a globe and vintage nautical maps on his wall! My God, we are in service of a man who rivals the mightiest college seniors!

I just can't believe how impossibly dense and opposed to being entertaining this legacy IP is. How many people have labored in service of preserving the legacy? Has it ever been good? We all liked it when Sarvana was headlining but poo poo, that just goes to show how suffocating Phantom usually is, that somebody with a pulse and the willingness to shoot some guns is easily the best character you can see in the strip for years.

... Yeah, this Sunday strip framed something I've thought passively for years. For Gods sake, surely there has to be something to this character to not let him die off back in the 30s? We get 90 years of the Phantom but we can't find the Scarlet O'Neil reboot in any stores?

Doomykins posted:

I just can't believe how impossibly dense and opposed to being entertaining this legacy IP is. How many people have labored in service of preserving the legacy? Has it ever been good? We all liked it when Sarvana was headlining but poo poo, that just goes to show how suffocating Phantom usually is, that somebody with a pulse and the willingness to shoot some guns is easily the best character you can see in the strip for years.

Selachian posted:

And back to the regular sequence ...

Alhazred posted:

One of the writers of the scandinavian version of the Phantom, Eirik Ildahl, felt the same way. He thought the character was a boring racist and that he was selling his soul a bit writing the character.

Tiggum posted:

The current writer had a really good run with the entire multi-story arc in which Savarna was introduced, but hasn't done anything worthwhile since. Much like how the current Dick Tracy team had one good story at the beginning of their run, and Jules Rivera showed some potential when she took over Mark Trail. It remains to be seen whether Flash Gordon will still be viewed positively in a year's time.