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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Luann is a teenage girl. This seems like just the sort of boneheaded mistake a teenager would make in her first long-term relationship. Second. There was the other just-foreign-enough-to-seem-nonthreatening guy who vanished.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Luann is a teenage girl. This seems like just the sort of boneheaded mistake a teenager would make in her first long-term relationship. True, and if there were some sign that we are supposed to be reading this as Luann making a big mistake or as her being immature, I'd be with you on that. It wouldn't have to be heavy handed (as is the Evans tradition); one panel of her mom or Bernice saying, "Maybe you should talk to Quill about this," would have covered it. As it is, the comments at GoComics are usually an accurate barometer of how we're supposed to read these things and they seem to be siding with Luann.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Luann is a teenage girl. This seems like just the sort of boneheaded mistake a teenager would make in her first long-term relationship.
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Johnny Walker posted:I would be good with 2016 being the Year of the Mary Worth Crossovers. In this case, I am curious what Luann would look like drawn by the MW artist. All the characters would look a few decades older, suspiciously like Mary, and their faces would be in danger of sliding off.
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Broom Hilda - For those of you who are lucky enough to not be familiar with this comic, the big-nosed thing with glasses is named “Gaylord.” That should hint at how old this comic is. Also, I’m pretty sure his name is never mentioned anymore in-panel. Gasoline Alley - This reads like one of those shill comics put out by Marvel or DC as a paid promotion for Office Max or whatever. “Only by buying a ball of rubber bands ($.99, sales tax may apply. Check your local & state laws.) can we stop Dr. Doom!” The ol’ Alley sold out to Big Scrapbook is what I’m saying.  Heavenly Nostrils  Big Nate  Ziggy  Ye Olde Fox Trot  Cul de Sac Every time I see Alice and her mom interacting I can only imagine the horror if this was Foob- eye rolling, whispered hateful thoughts about how horrible her child is, etc. But look, instead we get parents who actually engage their children in a positive way! Freaky. 
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"All love will soon be dead," said the small boy as he happily played with his dog
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Really Pants posted:"All love will soon be dead," said the small boy as he happily played with his dog Thank you for the inspiration! 
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Indolent Bastard posted:Intelligent Life
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Pogo (January 1, 1958) Peanuts: Year Four (December 10-13, 1953)     Out Our Way (July 2-3, 1928)  
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Indolent Bastard posted:
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Indolent Bastard posted:Scary Gary F Minus  Looks more likely to be a 1960 than a 1988. Perhaps even a 1932. Mary Worth  Rex Morgan MD  "That does not answer the question I asked you, father." Secret Agent X-9  Dude just loving loves "finger-prints." Apartment 3-G  Margo's hitting the town in her majorette hat.
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Luann.... you stupid idiot moron hellfucker. Goddamn this strip is poo poo.
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Skippy (November 1, 1928) Peanuts still speaks to me. (December 31, 1968)  Funky Winkerbean  Yeah, I know this looks like I wrote it, but just shut up, okay? Owwww, headache. Where the hell did this nosebleed come from?  Meanwhile, Rip Haywire tries the "good boyfriend" thing on for size.  Thimble Theater (July 19, 1929) 
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Is there any reason we stopped making a new thread every year? This one's two years old today, it really oughta be put out to pasture. Six Chix  Zippy the Pinhead  Checks out Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons 
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Wanamingo posted:Is there any reason we stopped making a new thread every year? This one's two years old today, it really oughta be put out to pasture. No one probably has the time and effort to collect up all the best edits and strips for a new OP. Anyway, didn't have time to post comix yesterday so double dose now: Moomin   Classic Dilbert    
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Wanamingo posted:Is there any reason we stopped making a new thread every year? This one's two years old today, it really oughta be put out to pasture. Darkest Auer posted:No one probably has the time and effort to collect up all the best edits and strips for a new OP.
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Comic Strip Megathread XVII: Here's To The Death Of Hope
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Wanamingo posted:
Loooooks like someone forgot it's a leap year!
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Last night, I dreamt Gilchrist introduced a new character whose defining characteristic was a name-tag that read "FOREIGN STUDENT". And greatn, your whole A3G run has been great, but Greg's final thoughts were amazing. Calvin and Hobbes  Ripley's 
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mastersord posted:They finally wrote in Brian! That's not a new character, it's clearly Quagnerd polymorphed into the form of a cat. There is a new character joining the strip soon, but it's the wizard that did it, and they won't be revealed for another couple of months. God bless the syndicate colourist for bringing this year to a Crashing End Comix. Pooch Café    Tale as old as time. Every boy falls in love with his first prostitute. Ballard Street    Stevan, Lyle and Chad call themselves the Brudda Bings. They spend a lot of time explaining the name. Lost Side of Suburbia   The comic sure is spending a lot of time emphasizing what happens to Goatsucker's body. If she wasn't 100% confirmed dead as dirt I'd think they were building up to something.
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Good Listener posted:Loooooks like someone forgot it's a leap year! Tiggum posted:Unless there's any great outcry, I'll make a new one tomorrow. I think a new thread every year is a good way to go.
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I don't like new threads. I've never heard a good reason for it. We're posting newspaper comics here, it's not like there are any big plot shifts over time making the thread inaccessible to new readers. The Phantom is still the same Kit Walker, Elly still hates her kids and Luann still has an inexplicably hot boyfriend despite a whitebread womanchild with no social skills or likable characteristics. These strips have gone through multiple writers and in one case literally went back in time 40 years, and nothing's changed. If there's anything you are having trouble following, you can just hit '?' and see all the strips in order for the last couple of years. Can't do that with a new thread. Think of the edits. Sure, there'd be a few saved and reposted here and there, but devoid of context and meaningless. We already lost the cups saga and Mary Worth's traveling face to the senseless grind for new threads, don't take away "Dethany, from On the Fasttrack" too. There are threads on this forum that have stood for nearly ten years, surviving countless server crashes and host transfers. It's nice to look back and see the posts of old users long banned, ghosts of memes half-remembered, tiny motes of culture preserved for the ages. Why would you throw that away? What's to be gained? Change for change's sake, that's all it is. Don't do it.
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Agreed. The proper way to honor works of art such as these is with a single undying thread, never changing, never refreshing or renewing no matter how decrepit it becomes, just stagnating, moldering, and rotting forever.
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So smile, Tiggum, and move on.
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Luann Ugh. She's just the worst. He really should break up with her. And then still not date Pru. The Amazing Spider-Man  Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean The fact that this isn't an edit is terrifying, but weirdly heartening. I wonder if Batiuk has been self-aware this entire time, and Funky Winkerbean has secretly been a huge in-joke. ... Nah, too optimistic.
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no bugger wanted to relaunch it last year and if i'd done it i'd only have filled the ruddy thing with R Ubbish edits (thread misses you, r ubbish) ChickenOfTomorrow fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Dec 31, 2015 |
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Don't you do it, DON'T YOU DO IT!!!
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here's my 27-post a3g eulogy with additional analysis of mandrake in the post-irony marketplace (LINKS TO A TINDECK RECORDING OF A BUILDING SITE)
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Huh, apparently you can say "pissy" in a newspaper comic strip. Gocomics has 164 comments on this strip - hopefully it's all people about to pass out because Quill dared speak potty-mouth against Luann - but I blocked them from showing up years ago and drat if I'm going to change that now
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Yep, some of them are complaining that the language is totally unacceptable (I searched for the word language).
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Oops, forgot yesterday's strips. Who's ready for a double-sot post to end the year? The Classic Dinette Set ends the year lonely and impatient.   Working Daze doesn't resolve to be funnier.   Super-Fun-Pak-Comix is just going to keep on keepin' on.  
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csammis posted:Huh, apparently you can say "pissy" in a newspaper comic strip. Not an edit. Wow.
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csammis posted:Huh, apparently you can say "pissy" in a newspaper comic strip. Also, lately I hear "pissed" in TV cartoons aimed at children, so I guess it's no longer objectionable. I even see characters saying "crap" in newspaper comics. Mister Beeg fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Dec 31, 2015 |
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