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nishi koichi
Feb 16, 2007

everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.
Please stop, Pastis

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Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Luann


It's bowling.


The Amazing Spider-Man



Sally Forth



The Heart of Juliet Jones

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

The only remotely suspenseful aspect of this Phantom business is how are they going to :smug: their way out of their own setup. It's like those old Superman covers.

e: do you think Bernice wrote the labels first and then picked out appropriate outfits or the other way around

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit
def labels first.
Also, it's bowling. Fun n' Flirty would be loving terrible. look at those shoes!
Casual Classy is even worse!. Either Sporty or Neutral works/

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
Flash Gordon


2000 Spiderman








Yes, the flames broke his webbing last week. Yes, his webbing worked fine this week. Why do you ask?

Mea Culpa
Oct 23, 2005

Bizarro


Ok, I don't like Bizarro anyway, but PENGUINS DO NOT HAVE BELLY BUTTONS. THEY ARE BIRDS. THEY ARE BORN FROM EGGS. THEY ARE NOT MAMMALIAN.

Although, I do appreciate the touch of the eyeball eyeballing the nudie penguins.

Mea Culpa fucked around with this message at 18:14 on May 11, 2017

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Pros and Cons





Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.

Julet Esqu posted:

The Heart of Juliet Jones


This storyline is unbearable.

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Huzzah!

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Mea Culpa posted:

Bizarro


Ok, I don't like Bizarro anyway, but PENGUINS DO NOT HAVE BELLY BUTTONS. THEY ARE BIRDS. THEY ARE BORN FROM EGGS. THEY ARE NOT MAMMALIAN.

Although, I do appreciate the touch of the eyeball eyeballing the nudie penguins.

I suspect the issue is that Piraro needs to find a way to signal "nude penguin," but is not allowed to draw genitals. It kind of just leaves belly buttons and nipples (and nipples are out not because penguins don't have nipples, but because one or more of those penguins might be a lady penguin).

This is not a defense of the comic. It doesn't even really count as a joke even if penguins did have belly buttons and nipples.



Edit: On reflection, the joke might be kind of funny if Piraro did draw a bunch of big floppy dongs and boobers on the penguins. Or it might just veer into Wumo territory. It's impossible to know.

Aardmania
Jan 1, 2007

Ruining newspapers since 1993.

Shredded Hen
Heathcliff


Piranha Club


Dick Tracy


Judge Parker


9 Chickweed Lane

Mea Culpa
Oct 23, 2005

Julet Esqu posted:

I suspect the issue is that Piraro needs to find a way to signal "nude penguin," but is not allowed to draw genitals. It kind of just leaves belly buttons and nipples (and nipples are out not because penguins don't have nipples, but because one or more of those penguins might be a lady penguin).

This is not a defense of the comic. It doesn't even really count as a joke even if penguins did have belly buttons and nipples.



Edit: On reflection, the joke might be kind of funny if Piraro did draw a bunch of big floppy dongs and boobers on the penguins. Or it might just veer into Wumo territory. It's impossible to know.

Yeah, I agree, if he'd been allowed to draw floppy dongs and boobies it would have been pretty funny, actually. But this just leaves me with the perennial Bizarro question: if you have to stretch the joke that far, is it even worth it? I find Piraro's humor something like Pastis on a deep sedative.

Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:
Just shut the gently caress up Pastis

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice

Aardmania posted:

Judge Parker

This would be the Judge Parker strip in a nut-shell, if it had someone slipping money into their pockets.

Calaveron posted:

Just shut the gently caress up Pastis
If you recognize that your shtick isn't that funny, maybe try to mix it up instead of keeping it steady for years on end?

Slammy
Mar 30, 2011

Great speech.
PPHPFT!!
Dream of the Rarebit Fiend Midsummer Day Dreams (click for huge)


And He Did. (August, 1916)


Outbursts of Everett True (October, 1916)


Doings of the Duffs. (September, 1918, click for big)


The Gay Thirties (August, 1935, click for big))


They'll Do It Every Time (August, 1940, click for big)


Mopsy (January, 1941)


Archie (January, 1956, click for big)


Tweedy (April, 1956, click for big)


Feiffer (1973, click for big)


Andy Capp (October, 1971, click for big)


Wee Pals (November, 1971, click for big)


Dick Tracy (August, 2001, click for big)

mastersord
Feb 15, 2001

Gold Card Putty Fan Club
Member Since 2017!
Soiled Meat

Cricken_Nigfops posted:

Buck on it being cancer patient quagmire.

The odds are higher on it being not Peter Griffin.

Aardmania posted:


9 Chickweed Lane


1) She has the cleavage of a 60-year old or a weird double mastectomy.
2) So Nazi-loving Gam-gam is dead?

mastersord fucked around with this message at 02:15 on May 12, 2017

Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:

mastersord posted:

The odds are higher on it being not Peter Griffin.


1) She has the cleavage of a 60-year old or a weird double mastectomy.
2) So Nazi-loving Gam-gam is dead?

She got married to the nazi and went to live in his lovely villa in Argentina I think

treasureplane
Jul 12, 2008

throwing darts in lovers' eyes, &c.
King Aroo (February 21, 1952)


Nancy (April 10, 1944)


Wash Tubbs (December 7, 1929)


Gasoline Alley (January 5, 1924)


Lil' Abner (September 4, 1937)


Barney Google (January 6, 1923)


Alley Oop (April 7, 1934)

computer angel
Sep 9, 2008

Make it a double.
Middle 2 Bernice outfits came straight outta my gran's closet!

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Zits

Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005

I'm feeling Jimmy


As the writer and artist of the strip, Jame Sallen can choose to depict character's faces in any way he wants, which means he intentionally and with forethought chose to depict this.



Why? No one can say.

My Lovely Horse posted:

The only remotely suspenseful aspect of this Phantom business is how are they going to :smug: their way out of their own setup. It's like those old Superman covers.
i think it's possible they're going to follow through on this to a degree. The current Phantom is seriously injured or has to fake his death, and one or both kids have to take on the part for a while.

Or yeah it could be a set up to have him get out of it at the last minute through some bullshit or Mozz hasn't seen the whole picture of what really happened or something, but I'm hoping for something more like what I said above.

F Minus



Mary Worth



Rex Morgan MD



Gee I hope Niki's girlfriend doesn't happen to see him driving around with this other girl or otherwise find out about this and get the wrong idea.

Secret Agent X-9



Apartment 3-G



Well that was an exciting story!

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

The Classic Dinette Set are big spenders.


Working Daze drags along some dead weight.


Super-Fun-Pak-Comix is directed by Zach Snyder.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Phantom Classic





Radio Patrol





Rip Kirby





Big Ben Bolt


Esplanade
Jan 6, 2005


I'd love to see a newspaper Spider-Man videogame, but it would probably just be a re-skin of QWOP.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



1995-era Jimmy Johnson took the week of March 26 through April 2 off, so we resume with

Arlo and Janis Classic (Apr. 3, 1995)



Garfield Classic (Mar. 31 - Apr. 3, 1985)









The sheer resignation and indignity in that last panel still cracks me up.

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Intelligent Life


Take It From the Tinkersons


random Dark Side of the Horse


Viivi & Wagner

Cricken_Nigfops
Oct 25, 2011

CROM!

Strontium posted:

Intelligent Life




RUN HE WANTS TO CHOKE YOU

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Buni



You'd think Buni's dad wouldn't be averse to booze in his coffee.

Rhymes with Piccolo



Pros and Cons

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Cricken_Nigfops posted:

RUN HE WANTS TO CHOKE YOU

:heysexy:

Aardmania
Jan 1, 2007

Ruining newspapers since 1993.

Shredded Hen
Heathcliff


Piranha Club


Dick Tracy


Judge Parker


9 Chickweed Lane

bean_shadow
Sep 27, 2005

If men had uteruses they'd be called duderuses.
Why do some strips like Mary Worth bold seemingly random words? Is it for emphasis?

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Strontium posted:

Intelligent Life


[dick pic edit]

Nancy


Dustin

Christ, what an rear end in a top hat!

Mandrake



Nice recap!

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Oh good, it's the Medium Cup Saga revisited

Mr. Squishy
Mar 22, 2010

A country where you can always get richer.

bean_shadow posted:

Why do some strips like Mary Worth bold seemingly random words? Is it for emphasis?

What the gently caress is going on in Dick Tracy. 2 weeks into their fun cosplay storyline they turn on the radio and hear about these antisemitic threats?

SomeMathGuy
Oct 4, 2014

The people were ASTONISHED at his doctrine.

Mark Trail

"They used the rental car to drive away! Wild!"

Pearls Before Swine


The Phantom


Pooch Café


Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids


Understanding Chaos

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

someone awful. posted:

Oh good, it's the Medium Cup Saga revisited

For me it's a callback to the time Ed got huffy with a McBurger counterperson because they were using *~brioche~*, which everyone knows is a super classy French bread, to serve measly hamburgers on.

Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:
Shut the gently caress up Reddick

Haifisch
Nov 13, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender
Flash Gordon


2000 Spiderman







Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Tina's Groove


Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro


Dilbert

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




Luann


So we're acknowledging that this relationship, at least as far as Jock is concerned, is not exclusive. Does Luann know this? I can't imagine even Luann is that dumb, but I don't see her being jazzed about having a boyfriend who dates other chicks either. We don't know anything about the title character's new relationship because we had to spend so much time watching Bernice invade Piro and Tiff's privacy.

Also, other Luann commentators may get more attention, but this guy flies under the radar to deliver a consistent quality of crazy that can't be denied:




The Amazing Spider-Man



Sally Forth



The Heart of Juliet Jones

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someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Comic Strip Megathread XVII: My Other Luann Theorem

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