|
Calvin and Hobbes Outland Ripley's Dick Tracy
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 17:49 |
|
|
# ? May 30, 2024 13:41 |
|
Flash Gordon And with this, we're officially caught up! Since this is a once-a-week strip, I'm going to start posting older Gordon strips to keep the content flowing. 1999 Spider-Man Kennel posted:Dustin
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 17:55 |
|
Tina's Groove Family Circus Rose is Rose One Big Happy Foob Compu-Toon Bizarro Dilbert Foxtrot
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 17:58 |
|
Crimestoppers textbook: If a wedding guest get murdered, it's the groom's responsibility to catch the culprit.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 18:03 |
|
Dr. Dos posted:I forget if there's any talk with the family when Calvin sends the car into a ditch. iirc basically he tells hobbes his parents were just glad nobody was hurt and that he should ask for permission
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 18:09 |
|
Hel posted:This is pretty much what I mean, I get that the strip did some cool things and I like a lot of the strips(the dad polling stuff is great). Re-reading Calvin and Hobbes made me realize how much of the strip (especially in later years) was just Watterson's superficial complaints about TV and the modern world. I also realized Calvin's dad is a jerk for dragging his family on vacations that only he enjoys. It's still a cute and well-drawn comic, and in its best years Calvin and Hobbes pulled off some neat insights and humor (the trip to Mars, the Transmogrifier, Calvin playing baseball) but it gets unappealing when it runs out of good ideas. Locking the babysitter out of the house is a perfect example. There's no imagination in it. At least the arc where he dressed up as a superhero and fought her was funny.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 18:31 |
|
There must be something about becoming a parent that sucks out any capacity for humor and fun out of you. Glad I'm not going down that road. Between this and the "not bringing food into movie theaters is our civic duty!" guy, y'all goons have become a bunch of Pluggers.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 18:41 |
|
Several years on it's comforting to know it's still Comic Strip Megathread tradition to declare the courageous and unique opinion that despite being very well written and having some of if not the best art ever seen on a comic page, Calvin and Hobbes isn't actually very good you guys!Kid Fenris posted:I also realized Calvin's dad is a jerk for dragging his family on vacations that only he enjoys.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 18:43 |
|
The only good comic is Prince Valiant
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 19:19 |
|
Simian_Prime posted:Confession time: When I was 8 I did this to my babysitter after reading the comic. Kids don't change. I babysat a group of hellions that did this to me over a decade before Watterson started writing C&H. Another pair of little jerks locked themselves in their parents' bedroom and took the extension phone off the hook so that I couldn't call for help. Of course there were a lot of kids who were no problem and actually nice to sit for, but the point is, some kids just don't have impulse control or any idea what the results of their behavior could be; they just think pranking the babysitter is funny. In that regard I think C&H hits the mark pretty well.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 19:22 |
|
My nephew did that to his mom at some point, without having read c& h. Some kids are just sorta naughty!
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 19:32 |
|
Main Street by Gus Mager, July 8, 1923.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 19:35 |
|
Chin posted:Several years on it's comforting to know it's still Comic Strip Megathread tradition to declare the courageous and unique opinion that despite being very well written and having some of if not the best art ever seen on a comic page, Calvin and Hobbes isn't actually very good you guys! Like, this is a good comic, and has good art(even using the title panel for a random dino drawing because why not, it's more interesting than leaving it blank), but but there's not much to say about it other than variations on "this is a good comic". Haifisch fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Mar 26, 2017 |
# ? Mar 26, 2017 20:26 |
|
I'm pretty sure the dinos panel is what Calvin was thinking about before he was rudely interrupted by his parent.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 20:36 |
|
Chin posted:I agree characters in comics should not have flaws. It makes them unrealistic and uninteresting. Simian_Prime posted:There must be something about becoming a parent that sucks out any capacity for humor and fun out of you. Glad I'm not going down that road. It's amazing how allergic some people are to criticism. But I guess that makes things easier. I have decided that The Grizzwells is the best thing on the comics page and all naysayers are just humorless and ignorant. They probably have children, too. Seriously, it's OK to criticize something you like. Fun, too!
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 20:54 |
|
That said it's also pretty fun to criticize comics you hate. On that note Manuel Calavera posted:Dilbert Adams could literally write this same strip with Dilbert in the green shirted guy's role and we'd be expected to take away that he was smart and correct to waste his coworker's time. Hell he probably has.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 21:52 |
|
It just occurred to me that I have no idea what I'm supposed to make of Dilbert's head/hair situation.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 21:57 |
|
Julet Esqu posted:His dad died recently, which is why we got some Sally Forth strips where Ted was trying to process the reality of his own aging father. If other things are happening as well, I haven't heard about them. F Minus Mary Worth Rex Morgan MD Jungle Jim They wear some weird socks at Yale.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 22:16 |
|
Haifisch posted:It is very good, but it's silly to pretend it's flawless(which the internet is prone to do, because people have real trouble with the idea that things can be good but also have flaws). And discussing flaws makes for more interesting discussion than an endless stream of "holy poo poo, best comic of all time, let's go suck Watterson's dick" posts. To be fair it's not always hipsterish posturing. Some people might prefer to read a Rose is Rose type comic where everyone's high on life and effervescently positive over a strip where a father is sometimes sarcastic or the main character is a realistically self-involved six-year-old. And some people are incapable of discerning the difference between Watterson's brushwork and Garfield's copy/pasting. e: I don't mean for the Rose is Rose comparison to be as derisive as it might read. Rose is Rose is objectively poo poo but I only meant to use it as an example of a strip where everyone's happy and supportive and tripping balls all of the time. Chin fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Mar 26, 2017 |
# ? Mar 26, 2017 22:22 |
|
Baldo Wizard of Id Big Nate double-shot of random Wallace The Brave I don't know who this gordon kid is, but I like his style. Curtis
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 22:37 |
|
Johnny Walker posted:F Minus I feel like this is basically what's been going on at the dealership every time I've bought a car. Which is weird because I'm an absurdly easy mark. Simian_Prime posted:Y'all goons have become a bunch of Pluggers. You shut your drat mouth.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 22:44 |
|
Vargo posted:
Ha! I remember when learning a teacher's first name felt like some sort of forbidden magic. And that Curtis is good, too. I've always liked Curtis and it's cool to see the rare strip in which he's actually having fun with his dad. It's kinda exuberant.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 22:47 |
|
Kid Fenris posted:It's amazing how allergic some people are to criticism. Edit: Never mind Simian_Prime fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Mar 26, 2017 |
# ? Mar 26, 2017 23:02 |
|
Pastry of the Year posted:Ha! I remember when learning a teacher's first name felt like some sort of forbidden magic. Yeah, this Curtis is A+.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 23:05 |
|
Yeah once in a while the kid and his dad just share a moment and it's surprisingly nice to see on the comics page. "That time Dad and I watched dumb Internet videos until our dinner got cold" is just a nice story and I don't know why.
|
# ? Mar 26, 2017 23:13 |
|
Ali's House, August 3, 2016 Back to B.C., February 19, 1958 Lucky Cow, April 23, 2003 Spirit of the Staircase, July 30, 2016 Upside Downs, October 18, 1903
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 00:13 |
|
https://twitter.com/jongraywb/status/846142983024115712 Goddamn even the MLP comic is digging on Dilbert
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 01:41 |
|
Ponies suck, but at least they aren't Trump-supporters.
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 01:50 |
|
Unlike their fans.
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 02:23 |
|
Frog Applause weighs in on the Pearls/Fox Trot thing in typically peculiar fashion: And speaking of rhymes, here's Rhymes with Orange. Pros and Cons
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 02:36 |
|
Heathcliff Piranha Club Dick Tracy Judge Parker 9 Chickweed Lane
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 04:04 |
|
Aardmania posted:
Yay! She hung herself!!
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 04:08 |
|
Working Daze needs some chewables. Working Daze has some bad physics. Super-Fun-Pak-Comix is a rollercoaster of emotions.
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 04:11 |
|
Simian_Prime posted:Between this and the "not bringing food into movie theaters is our civic duty!" guy, y'all goons have become a bunch of Pluggers.
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 05:15 |
|
Boy, I don't know why I love The Epic/Brutal Report so much but it might be one of my favourite bits from Super-Fun-Pak-Comix.
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 05:53 |
|
catlord posted:Boy, I don't know why I love The Epic/Brutal Report so much but it might be one of my favourite bits from Super-Fun-Pak-Comix.
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 05:54 |
|
Mark Trail Pearls Before Swine The Phantom Pooch Café Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids Understanding Chaos
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 06:42 |
|
Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 07:03 |
|
SomeMathGuy posted:Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids Half expected it to be 'because he didn't give it to her'.
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 07:15 |
|
|
# ? May 30, 2024 13:41 |
|
Nancy Today's Dogg Gilchrist really loves his garbage eating doggs. Dustin Mandrake
|
# ? Mar 27, 2017 07:31 |