Comic Strips 2024: Just Act Cool and Flex a Little

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plainswalker75: Feb 22, 2003; Pigs are smarter than Bears, but they can't ride motorcycles; Hair Elf

Kammat posted:

Hold up a sec here. Something just hit me that's really sticking in my craw.

So much like merpeople, Pam has to spend oh so long as human, then hits a point where she has to go as a cat to balance it out as such. This also implies that Pam may have a stable cat/human hybrid form which I'm just gonna go right on past now thankyouverymuch. But just last week we were transforming mice permanently into flowers which is stable.

Why can't DNA wizard offer Pam a stable form? Is it a given that anyone who can shift has to follow a schedule? How does the family that summers with the merpeople stay stable for their trip?

OW MY BRAIN.

# ? Apr 13, 2024 17:46

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# ? May 25, 2024 04:15

Saoshyant: Oct 26, 2010

Selachian posted:

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 7/4/43

Thank you for this important PSA, Scarlet. Perfectly delivered, no notes.

# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:02

Saoshyant: Oct 26, 2010

Powered Descent posted:

Flash Gordon

Would certainly like real life leaders to be this dedicated especially when it comes to protect their nation's forests and seas.

Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Apr 13, 2024

# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:04

PainterofCrap: Oct 17, 2002; hey bebe

Kammat posted:

Hold up a sec here. Something just hit me that's really sticking in my craw.

So much like merpeople, Pam has to spend oh so long as human, then hits a point where she has to go as a cat to balance it out as such. This also implies that Pam may have a stable cat/human hybrid form which I'm just gonna go right on past now thankyouverymuch. But just last week we were transforming mice permanently into flowers which is stable.

Why can't DNA wizard offer Pam a stable form? Is it a given that anyone who can shift has to follow a schedule? How does the family that summers with the merpeople stay stable for their trip?

OW MY BRAIN.

Pam wanted to be able to stay a cat.

Pam also likes money. This was her choice. She wanted to stay a cat forever, but: reasons.

Hwurmp posted:

Why do all the conniving types in Prince Valiant have names like Sleath or Slivens or Slutt

Because these names perfectly encapsulate the personalities of those characters.

# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:08

CannonFodder: Jan 26, 2001; Passion’s Wrench

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Sure, learn guitar with a song originally written for piano, that will work well. And is popular with Boomers, don't want anything written after 1980 of course.

SKelly, gently caress you.

# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:16

Hippocrass: Aug 18, 2015; That third panel of the first comic just makes it. It's still funny if you remove it, but that panel included just makes it top tier.

Powered Descent posted:

Flash Gordon

Next: The Reckoning

The Family Upstairs/The Dingbat Family(October 15, 1910)

Baron Bean(April 15, 1916)

Polly and Her Pals(March 15, 1913)

Gasoline Alley(December 6, 1919)

Us Boys(April 13, 1912)

The Gumps(May 12, 1917)

$6 in 1917 is $158.66 today

# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:19

EndOfTheWorld: Jul 22, 2004; I'm an excellent critic! I automatically know when someone's done a bad job. Before you ask, yes it's a mixed blessing.; Cybernetic Crumb

Kennel posted:

The Uchida household appears to consume almost exclusively Western children's media.

Worth pointing out that Thomas The Tank Engine is really popular in Japan. The universal love of trains is the track to world peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkuvIg_CMqE

# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:36

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

EndOfTheWorld posted:

Worth pointing out that Thomas The Tank Engine is really popular in Japan. The universal love of trains is the track to world peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkuvIg_CMqE

even organized crime in Japan has links to Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0AAiv75kfQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h9Xdu0O_Fw

# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:49

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Haifisch posted:

Mexikid Stories

Literal

on this one.

F Minus

Mark Trail

Mary Worth

Sounds like an Animal Planet show.

The Phantom

Pooch Cafe

Rex Morgan MD

Andertoons

Apartment 3-G

# ? Apr 13, 2024 18:55

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

Scary Go Round (February 16-17, 2006)

Two strips today because we're at the end of the arc. Starting tomorrow: Your Taxes At Work!

Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Apr 14, 2024

# ? Apr 13, 2024 19:06

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻

Corto Maltese (spoiler'd for term for Roma peoples)

Blueberry

# ? Apr 13, 2024 20:03

F_Shit_Fitzgerald: Feb 2, 2017

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Her boyfriend's alter ego is Captain Vegetable.

# ? Apr 13, 2024 20:24

Julet Esqu: May 6, 2007

Luann

1. Having a personality trait is not the same as having a brand. Of the four examples listed, only Dez has a "brand" that could be easily monetized. I guess Les might be able to go for a Jackson Galaxy thing, but then he'd actually have to know about cats and not just like them. The other two are variants of "nice" and that is not a brand.

2. LOL at anyone finding that grown-rear end poopy diaper baby to be "perfectly sweet"

Gil Thorp

# ? Apr 13, 2024 20:36

The_Other: Dec 28, 2012; Welcome Back, Galaxy Geek.

Re: Mark Trail. In the hands of a better writer, you could use the fact that horses existed in North America about 10,000 years ago (a short time on a geological scale) to explore their status as an "invasive species", as well as the concept of invasive species in general. Instead we're getting the tech-bro plots again.

Haifisch posted:

Mexikid Stories

This was another story that Martin incorporated into his Mexikid graphic novel. There, however, the border cops not only get the homemade tapes, but also Pedro's Green Arrow Mego action figure! The family actually has less trouble getting back into the US at the end of the book due to Pedro's Fonzie impression.

# ? Apr 13, 2024 23:28

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Esa Ahto

Nancy

Dustin

Mandrake The Magician

The Deleter apparently appeared in a story a couple of years ago starting from here:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3953606&userid=135823&perpage=40&pagenumber=5#post513404079

(I have completely forgotten it, despite being the one who posted it)

Kennel fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Apr 14, 2024

# ? Apr 13, 2024 23:58

Giant Ethicist: Jun 9, 2013; Looks like she got on a loaf of bread instead of a bus again...

We Are Reproducing

quote:

I'll do my best, but the next page is super text-dense so it may be coming a bit late.

# ? Apr 14, 2024 00:03

Professor Wayne: Aug 27, 2008; So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?

They actually let him keep it.

Pickles

Hagar the Horrible

Zits

# ? Apr 14, 2024 01:51

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Pogo 9/28/52

Archie 2/13-15/50

The Virtue of Vera Valiant 6/20-22/77

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, of course, as played by Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in All the President's Men.

Selachian fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Apr 14, 2024

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you broke my grill: Jul 11, 2019

Zits

# ? Apr 14, 2024 03:09

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Oh gently caress off, Zits.

# ? Apr 14, 2024 04:33

Hippocrass: Aug 18, 2015; That third panel of the first comic just makes it. It's still funny if you remove it, but that panel included just makes it top tier.

Zits continuing it's slow transformation into Dustin.

# ? Apr 14, 2024 04:56

Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

Cat in WAR is perfect.

loving love Bok too. "Royals who like to fight? drat. Not sure about needing clothes thing but this place is kinda cool."

# ? Apr 14, 2024 04:57

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Huxley posted:

A+J

idgi

Schwarzwald posted:

Up until this story arc I had no idea the Foob Family had two dogs.

They just got the second one relatively recently.

Forum accident posted:

Frank and Ernest
(6/10/1994)

I don't get this one either. :confused:

EasyEW posted:

Crankshaft

What the gently caress are you talking about Crankshaft there are cash registers in every shop. :confused:

Zereth posted:

The kid was watching Thomas the Tank Engine on TV too.

And Pingu.

Vargo posted:

Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Maybe it's me, because this is the third comic today I just don't understand. :confused:

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Ah yes, proper grammar is truly a sign of respect among young people, especially when texting.

# ? Apr 14, 2024 05:29

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

Professor Wayne posted:

Zits

Everyone else has already said it, but yeah, this sucks

Cowslips Warren posted:

Cat in WAR is perfect.

I love how the kid's saying "cats say meow!" and it looks like the cat's offended at his pronunciation or something

Prince Valiant

# ? Apr 14, 2024 05:33

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

Tiggum posted:

idgi

My take on the A&J strip is that Arlo made a list of all the sex stuff they have to do in bed, but then when Janis acts like she's going to do it for serious, he has to back down and they just go to sleep (or he doesn't make it past item 1). Sex, at least. Sex. :heysexy:

# ? Apr 14, 2024 06:12

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From The Tinkersons

Macanudo

Dark Side Of The Horse

# ? Apr 14, 2024 06:21

ukonvasara: Aug 16, 2012; a mixture of gravity and waggery

Tiggum posted:

I don't get this one either.

A goofy rhyme; not much more than that to get.

Tiggum posted:

What the gently caress are you talking about Crankshaft there are cash registers in every shop.

Presumably he means old-school mechanical cash registers like the one pictured, though it is of course unclear why in particular they are to be valued other than "that's how things used to be".

Tiggum posted:

Maybe it's me, because this is the third comic today I just don't understand.

It does tend to be you, but I think the idea here is that you will continue to age and thus grow (especially if you are a child) even while time traveling, so if you spend too long between leaving the present moment and returning to it, you will have visibly changed.

# ? Apr 14, 2024 06:26

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

1981 comics

Dick Tracy

Footrot Flats

The Lockhorns

Computoon: Origins

Mexikid Stories

# ? Apr 14, 2024 06:57

Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

Haifisch posted:

Mexikid Stories

The tragedy is Spam no longer needs a key.

However they do have like 20 flavors now compared to like 1 back in the 70s.

# ? Apr 14, 2024 07:19

fondue: Jul 14, 2002

plainswalker75 posted:

# ? Apr 14, 2024 07:29

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

The Mexikid character design is the bomb.

# ? Apr 14, 2024 07:58

Aces High: Mar 26, 2010; Nah! A little chocolate will do

Haifisch posted:

Mexikid Stories

as soon as he mentioned the key I started singing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdpsfBsN_Dg

# ? Apr 14, 2024 08:25

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

Aces High posted:

as soon as he mentioned the key I started singing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdpsfBsN_Dg

Well goddammit now I need to rewatch UHF.

Thanks a lot, pal.

# ? Apr 14, 2024 08:33

Larryb: Oct 5, 2010

Also I might be remembering wrong but didn't the strip already do an arc a while ago where Phoebe traveled back in time and met her dad as a kid?

# ? Apr 14, 2024 13:18

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

Larryb posted:

Also I might be remembering wrong but didn't the strip already do an arc a while ago where Phoebe traveled back in time and met her dad as a kid?

I was thinking that as well, but then I thought maybe I was confusing it with the time that happened in Sally Forth.

# ? Apr 14, 2024 13:21

Forum accident: Jun 15, 2006; All hail Thor...the THUNDER GOD!

Frank and Ernest

(6/15/1994)

(6/16/1994)

Ziggy

(11/18/1971)

# ? Apr 14, 2024 13:47

Pancho Jueves: Aug 20, 2007; BEST FRIENDS!!

Haifisch posted:

Computoon: Origins

I can usually vaguely get what Boyce is going for even when he makes no sense, but I legit have no idea what a "Y2K meeting" could possibly mean in the year 2006.

Pluggers

Dog grandma reading to dog kid about a pet dog.

# ? Apr 14, 2024 13:52

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Mutts

Sally Forth: Black and White

(the "proper" one)

Peanuts (April 17, 1977)

Crankshaft reminds us that the people who gave you the hippie movement think the current generation is too silly to live.

Thimble Theater (November 17, 1940)

Popeye

# ? Apr 14, 2024 13:55

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Pancho Jueves posted:

I can usually vaguely get what Boyce is going for even when he makes no sense, but I legit have no idea what a "Y2K meeting" could possibly mean in the year 2006.

It's a fairly safe guess that it's referring to stocking up on supplies in case the Y2K computer crash threw the world into chaos, hence the character having all the canned food. I'm not sure where the "meeting" part comes in though. Maybe Boyce went to some kind of neighborhood informational meeting about emergency preparedness and thought that was a universal experience?

Bizarro