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Selachian posted:Stephen Collins So it's not just me, then! Fantastic. Vargo posted:Most of these comments are about people having to look up "VSCO" girls, and then there's this loving gross person: loving Ziggy perverts Luann  So she is a natural woman after all! Thank heavens. Can you imagine if she was relieved? How could we still think of her as a Good character then??? Gil Thorp  Home Free 
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The Family Upstairs/The Dingbat Family(September 16, 1910) Baron Bean(March 17, 1916)  Polly and Her Pals(February 14, 1913)  Gasoline Alley(November 7, 1919)  Us Boys(March 15, 1912)  The Gumps(April 13, 1917) 
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Esa Ahto  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake The Magician 
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Phew! That was a close one. We almost had a plot.
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Julet Esqu posted:So it's not just me, then! Fantastic. She’s already mothering two manchildren. Do you really need a baby too?
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann "The thrill of urinating on this stick has awakened my maternal instinct! I need to get pregnant NOW!" kidcoelacanth posted:i am furious that this post forced me to remember working daze All I recall of Working Daze is that it's one of those comics that feels like the creative team sat down and said "We're gonna do an office comic, because if you make something relatable that people pin to the wall of their cubicle, you've got it made." The strip itself had nothing to say about office life beyond, like, "Bosses! Meetings! COFFEE! These are all things that exist!" You knew that the Boss was the Boss because...she...always had a water bottle? CLASSIC Boss behavior! Contrast with Retail, where any given strip lets you know that Norm Feuti worked in that world for years, internalized every moment of it and had something to say about the experience - and he managed to do it in way that's entertaining enough on its own, but extra resonant with actual retail employees.
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JethroMcB posted:"The thrill of urinating on this stick has awakened my maternal instinct! I need to get pregnant NOW!" awful office comic on the fastrack has the vague concept of working in an office even if his concept of it is 30 years out of date working daze feels like someone explained the concept of an office job to an alien
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The best part (relatively speaking) of Working Daze is how the strip and writer both treat the thing as if it's a time-honored, much-loved, top-tier comic with years of lore that everybody remembers and loves. It does have years of lore, but the comic itself feels like it's been dropped here from a distant reality where it is hugely popular and the characters firmly entrenched in pop culture. When it used to be posted here the vibe I got most from the fondly-presented "Throwback Thursdaze" was the vibe from one of Ruben Bolling's Fun-Paks, the comic strip that ends every day.
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my "favorite" part of working daze is when they have a picture of outside and it's just a photo of something like they couldn't be bothered to draw a parking lot or w/e
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The Rabbit Ethnostate In: [checks notes] no okay I don't think they need to have those things this storyline already blows why do they have to have the terrible secrets of life and existence        cognitive decline funnies 
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Wow, I completely forgot about Working Daze and how horrible it was. Bring it back.
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Doomykins posted:Aegia lucky she's wearing a full face mask and hood as she tries to hide the flopsweat associated with casually explaining to her new leader about the secret prison hellworld that "one" bad actor threw Flash into, lmao. Double lmao at Aura being the only one who didn't know. Man, Dan gets so much done with a few panels.
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Powered Descent posted:That whole thing was so useless. Oh no, we've gone from yellow to orange. So I guess we should all... uhhhh... do what again, now? I think the only lasting cultural legacy of the terror alert system has been the fridge magnet on American Dad.
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We Are Reproducingquote:Drimble Wedge posted:You can tell this is fiction because a gynecologist actually cares whether something hurt. (what, me traumatized?!)   And wait ‘til we get to the chapter about her ectopic pregnancy! The central conflict of that one is “get a load of this one rear end in a top hat gynecologist.” We won't get to it for a while, but an actual quote: "You've had a baby, right? This won't hurt at all... compared to that."
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Zereth posted:Painting wood does more than just change its color, *squint* I can't make out the creator's name. It protects it from the environment. Radebaugh. And heck, maybe you just need to mix a little liquid plastic into that injector tank to grow pre-coated wood! That is how trees work, right? Kazinsal posted:Scary Go Round (October 13-17, 2005) Esther being a trained boxer plays a role in one of the first Giant Days stories. Julet Esqu posted:loving Ziggy perverts Ziggy's pervier than you think. Guy's been walking around with no pants on since the 70s. Pogo 7/21-23/52    The Democratic convention was also in Chicago that year, so Pogo filed another set of reports:  7/21 7/22 7/23Archie 11/7-9/49    The Virtue of Vera Valiant 4/14-16/77  No one's going to look up and risk making eye contact in an adult bookstore. This was the era when midtown Manhattan, and especially Times Square, was jammed with adult bookstores, peep shows, porn theaters, and -- when the VCR was widely adopted -- video stores. They wouldn't be cleared out until the 1990s, when they met the twin scourges of Rudy Giuliani and broadband streaming video.  
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Ballard Street  Holy poo poo I've never felt more doxxed in my life     
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Splint Chesthair posted:I think the only lasting cultural legacy of the terror alert system has been the fridge magnet on American Dad. My wife & I were antiquing (mostly 'collectible" or 'vintage' stuff) in Adamstown, PA three weeks ago when I found a display cabinet that contained a Skittles Alert System card (complete with slider to indicate today's fear & distraction level); about 2-feet square. Not sure who or how it was supposed to be displayed, but dustbin of history, indeed.
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Splint Chesthair posted:I think the only lasting cultural legacy of the terror alert system has been the fridge magnet on American Dad. And of course the spoopy skeleton alert.  Selachian posted:The Virtue of Vera Valiant 3/14-16/77 "Never! Herbert would rather die!" is probably the funniest thing I've read all week. (Unfortunately Herbert's response is unnecessary and blunts the joke a little, but only a little.)
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Powered Descent posted:"Never! Herbert would rather die!" is probably the funniest thing I've read all week. (Unfortunately Herbert's response is unnecessary and blunts the joke a little, but only a little.) 
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Splint Chesthair posted:I think the only lasting cultural legacy of the terror alert system has been the fridge magnet on American Dad. It breaks my heart that people have forgotten about Blackwatch Plaid(!!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foJwQMT7t1c Our Boarding House (May 7-9, 1925)    Out Our Way: Cowboys Revisited (May 8, 1925)  Toonerville Folks (July 24-26, 1922)    Dok's Dippy Delivery Service (February 21, 1915)  Little Lefty (December 11 and 13, 1939 (the 12th was just 11 a second time))  
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EasyEW posted:
A used car (particularly one as worn out as this one is presented as) in 1925 that could reach 55 or 60 MPH would be a prodigy. The Ford Model A wouldn't be released for another couple of years, and was considered a reasonably powerful car with a top speed of 65.
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PetraCore posted:I hope Toni gets an abortion. I hope Gunther gits hit by a truck. Just while we're hoping for things that will never happen.
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Tiggum posted:I hope Gunther gits hit by a truck. Just while we're hoping for things that will never happen. I hope Greg and Karen learn how to finish a storyline instead of just abandoning it 80% of the way through.
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Daddy Daze is spoiler'd due to bereavement arc. Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse 
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Strontium posted:Dark Side Of The Horse Spiders Georg, who lives in cave...
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (April 13, 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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Hah. I was looking for other comics to try translating from Swedish into English (and may have found an ideal candidate, another Western), but there is one comic that is so alike to Johnny Quest that it must SURELY be a rip-off of it (except it doesn't have either of the Quests). A Belgian adventure comic strip by the name of Bernard Prince. Don't think I shall try translating that (it is a bit too 60s re. representations of people of certain ethnicities), but it is very notable re. the similarities I just mentioned.
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drat Gord you've got it goin on my man
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I like how Aura calls Ming II 'Junior' rather than his actual name. It's just one word, but it helps sell how she doesn't respect the little poo poo.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Fingerpori You missed the pun (Tukeva kumppani = Supporting/sturdy/bulky partner)
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Kennel posted:You missed the pun (Tukeva kumppani = Supporting/sturdy/bulky partner) Yeah I completely missed it. I thought the joke was "he says he has a partner who listens and she's not listening at all".
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readingatwork posted:Big Nate Hey popping in without context of any prior strips but that's always the risk with newspaper comic strips! Anyway: Wow! What lovely friends and people! Kennel posted:Mandrake The Magician We need to assassinate a guy, do you have a fire bomb and an 18 wheeler? Why is Mandrake so delightfully insane?
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Vintage Valiant (Apr. 08, 1962) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roncesvalles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Roncevaux_Pass
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Kennel posted:Nancy Oh no, the Mark Trail thought bubble picture of what people are talking about is spreading! Frank and Ernest  (4/8/1994)  (4/9/1994)  Ziggy  (10/9/1971) 
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Always interesting to get reminded how plane hijackings used to be a reasonably popular setup for gags until 20 years ago.
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