|
ChairMaster posted:Wait is that new art? I haven't followed the thread for a while cause it moves so fast but... Mark Trail has new art now? Is it not just an unending parade of clip art rearranged and pasted together in slightly different ways to make it into different stories? It got a new artist a while ago and he seems to actually draw the strips instead of compiling them.
|
#
?
Jan 2, 2016 23:40
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 20:27 |
|
|
Senior Woodchuck posted:I picture Delta looking her old friends up on Facebook and thinking "Thank God I got the hell out of that town." And the worst part is they still subject us to loving Gunther.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 00:12
|
|
|
Manuel Calavera posted:Tina's Groove by Rina Piccolo in 2002 (who is one of the contributors of Six Chix), follows the staff of Pepper's Restaurant. Particularly Tina, the title character. It's relatively realistic about restaurant life. There's a reason Tina has the haunted look of a Vietnam vet. Not an edit. Seriously. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 00:28
|
|
|
There are certain Christian theologians who take Eve and the apple at face value and believe that knowledge of sin is a prerequisite to being an actual sinner, that it involves full consent of the will to actually do something to send you to to Hell. Under that theory, evangelism could easily be read as a Heaven gentrification project. You didn't know about the lake of fire? Sorry chump, we posted a notice and everything... Somehow this ties into today's Pogo, which is about whether superstitions exist without people believing in them. (January 4, 1958)  Peanuts: Year Four (December 21-23, 1953)   
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 01:15
|
|
|
Monty   Mike du Jour    Scary Gary    Intelligent Life    Retail   
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 02:06
|
|
|
Intelligent Life is a crime against human proportion.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 02:35
|
|
|
Because of course he can't just wave hi like a normal human being. I'm amazed one of them isn't wearing one of those huge stripey Fourth Doctor scarves just to make it absolutely, positively clear that these are geeks, not mere mortals....
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 02:50
|
|
|
Odonata posted:Gasoline Alley is leaving us hanging. What shocking thing did mom and dad have to say to the Big Boog? Can we stand the suspense for just one more day? I wish 2015 a fond farewell as he moves on to his shift as the grim specter of death.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 02:56
|
|
|
SomeMathGuy posted:Did the Evanses even bother to cook up an excuse for where the other characters who have inexplicably vanished went? I remember the Delta thing smacking of deliberately writing off the black character, but a couple of other former regulars just dropped off the face of the strip entirely. There was an excuse. Delta went away to college. It still comes off as deliberately getting rid of the woman of color, though, especially since the second biggest cast member to get get the boot was Gunther's spicy Latina girlfriend, Rosa. She decided to give up a Harvard education in order to stay in South America and But at least now Gunther is free to date a white! Phantom Classic  Radio Patrol  Rip Kirby  Big Ben Bolt 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 03:31
|
|
|
Julet Esqu posted:Radio Patrol This is blatantly illegal.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 03:50
|
|
|
RandomFerret posted:This is blatantly illegal. Yeah, I don't know what differences there might have been in search and seizure laws between 1945 and today, but I have the same feeling.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 03:57
|
|
|
kidcoelacanth posted:Intelligent Life is a crime against human proportion. It also looks like he's trying to copy certain styles, or just has a weird selection of references. Like the one dude is straight up Peter Griffin.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 04:04
|
|
|
 A Tin Of Beans posted:I'm sure this is well-trod ground for the comics thread, but my god, the number of rerun strips in the newspaper is depressing. There's loads of cartoonists out there, so I'm assuming it's an audience issue, as only old people and children visiting their grandparents' house that doesn't have wi-fi read newspaper comics anymore. Still, good lord. Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus created by Bill(y) Keane in 1960, now authored by his son, Jeff(y) Keane. Manuel Calavera posted:Foob, better known as For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston, ran from 1979 to 2008, and rebooted in 2010 as new "reruns", wherein Lynn is redrawing parts of the story and rewriting some things. Indolent Bastard posted:Retail
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 04:36
|
|
|
It's the same reason so many strips make golf jokes. Newspaper comic strip writers are some of the most boring people alive.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 04:41
|
|
|
Mister Kingdom posted:Did they rip the store out of the ground and drop it in that neighborhood? 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 05:57
|
|
|
Manuel Calavera posted:Foob, better known as For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston, ran from 1979 to 2008, and rebooted in 2010 as new "reruns", wherein Lynn is redrawing parts of the story and rewriting some things. Not that it's helping, she's still kind of nutty. Foob was a perjorative used in one of the later strips, and the name stuck. Mister Kingdom posted:Did they rip the store out of the ground and drop it in that neighborhood? F Minus  The downfall of America. Mary Worth  Old, alone, and living vicariously through the lives of others? Rex Morgan MD  Secret Agent X-9  Apartment 3-G  "Don't drink, don't smoke. What do you do?" Edit: Have a Red and Rover because I got beat twice. 
Murdstone fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jan 3, 2016 |
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 06:05
|
|
|
Moomin Classic Dilbert  
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 08:20
|
|
|
This is gonna be one of those reader vote things, isn't it?
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 09:08
|
|
|
My Lovely Horse posted:This is gonna be one of those reader vote things, isn't it? Nah this is Intelligent Life. The lady will just name it random nerd thing. Which will be funny because nerd reference. Then family guy rip off guy will my googlly eyes at her because she made a nerd reference and she's female. and then the end.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 10:21
|
|
|
Johnny Walker posted:
"Subtle innuendos follow. There must be something inside"
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 13:58
|
|
|
Trilobite posted:The outside looks like an Apple Store, but the interior is a huge open pit so that anyone who actually goes into an Apple Store falls, presumably to their death. This pleases the old people commenting on the situation, who find both Young People and Gizmos to be irritating and worrisome.  I was looking at it like the guys were inside the store and the edge of the hole was the outside. Anyway, Pluggers is all kinds of wrong today: 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 14:40
|
|
|
Mister Kingdom posted:Anyway, Pluggers is all kinds of wrong today: If the woman is also a dog, then what does that mean?
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 14:52
|
|
|
Green Intern posted:If the woman is also a dog, then what does that mean?
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 15:47
|
|
|
Zereth posted:She's just taking her little brother for a walk, nothing weird about it. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 15:55
|
|
|
That reminds me, where did the Creeps reruns go?
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 15:56
|
|
|
Mister Kingdom posted:
LEVEL 1: You read the thought bubble and think, “Wow, a dirt old perv.”- Expected. LEVEL 2: You read the descriptive text and think, “Old pervs prefer poodles?”- Gross. LEVEL 3: You realize the old perv and lady are both dogs. The true horror of what you are seeing dawns on you:  You take a long, hot shower, but you can never feel clean again.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 16:34
|
|
|
And now for something a little more tasteful, but not necessarily good : Broom Hilda  Gasoline Alley -  Heavenly Nostrils  Big Nate  Ziggy  Cul de Sac 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 17:17
|
|
|
Odonata posted:
Jesus that may be one of the worst single steps in the thread. I don't know what about it exactly it's just terrible.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 17:28
|
|
|
Zereth posted:That reminds me, where did the Creeps reruns go? I got bored with them and quit. You're welcome to pick them back up if you want to, I've got my hands full enough with these That Wasn't Supposed to Happen Comix.  Oh come on, Poncho. Uber would have been cheaper and you get a better ride. Lost Side of Suburbia   Some dumb motherfucker always makes fun of Darth Vader.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 17:35
|
|
|
Mark Trail knows that nature is fickle and will undo even the noblest works of man: Pearls Before Swine 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 17:40
|
|
|
RandomFerret posted:Oh come on, Poncho. Uber would have been cheaper and you get a better ride. I guess even poncho has limits.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 17:44
|
|
|
Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Ahh, so that's why the dog is always eating out of the trash. Arlo and Janis  Andertoons 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 18:24
|
|
|
Peanuts (January 5, 1969) Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft approaches the sadness of senility from an unusual angle by making me feel like I don't know the English language.  Pogo: Last week, Owl invented talk radio. This week, Churchy offers some appropriate listener feedback. (October 3, 1965)  Out Our Way (July 11-12, 1928)   And we end with Williams commiserating with the man on the front line. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 18:32
|
|
|
Wanamingo posted:Nancy
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 19:04
|
|
|
The Amazing Spider-Man  Sally Forth  The Sunday Edition of The Heart of Juliet Jones is wrapping up, so I'll just do a brief sum-up: A couple of conmen got into a property deal with Julie's dad in an attempt to steal his life savings and make her look bad as the mayor of Devon. Then Pops found One Weird Trick to Get Out of Bad Land Deals!  drat, that's a fine goat. Prince Valiant and his daughter are on a voyage into Asia to return some kind of magic book or something to its homeland. Prester John might be involved in some way, but he was last mentioned a long time ago and I don't remember what he has to do with anything. Also IRL Prester John just turned out to be Genghis Kahn and lots of people got slaughtered, so we'll see how this turns out for Val and his friends.  In the Sunday Edition of Phantom Classic, Phantom was skinny dipping in a pond and some bird stole his ring off a rock and blah blah blah the ring finally ended up in the hands of some random small-time thug named Fatsy. He quickly noticed that the jungle natives will do anything somebody wearing Phantom's ring tells them to, so he started taking undue advantage of the situation. While Phantom is having a pretty tough time locating his ring, Fatsy's sudden wealth has not gone unnoticed by pretty much anybody else, which leads us to today.  Big Ben Bolt's Sunday story is also wrapping up. We'll just say that Fasso is a jailbird for whom Ben pulled some strings to arrange parole after noticing he's good at boxing. A couple of crooks wanted to derail Fasso's plan to go straight by trying to fix his very first fight. Fasso's conscience and gratitude to Ben prevailed and he did not throw the fight as ordered. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 19:35
|
|
|
Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man I see the Sunday and daily colorists still aren't speaking to each other.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 19:43
|
|
|
Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing J-Man  But the mustache is certainly not doing him any favors on either mug.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 19:55
|
|
|
Thanks for the info/corrections Tiggum and Johnny Walker. Tina's Groove  Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert  Foxtrot we've already seen classics in the thread. A daily from 1988 - 2006, now Sundays only, by artist & author Bill Amend. Follows the life of the Fox family. It's a better nerd comic than Intelligent Life, and better at tech than Compu-Toon by far. Amend seems to actually have some semblance of understanding these things usually. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 20:03
|
|
|
Woof.Odonata posted:Cul de Sac This hits too close to home *smek* *smek* Hey new thread, I post old comics, lovingly culled from Google Newspaper scans (which is why the quality is at times, well, poo poo). These dates may be a year or two off, I haven't really kept track. I'm also including wiki links - which will give more detail for each strip then I ever could (or want to). Rarebit Fiend (click for huge) These are from scans given to me by another SA member - sorry, I forgot who, but thank you! This strip began in 1904, we're on about the 80th strip. By Windsor McCay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Rarebit_Fiend   Outbusts of Everett True ~1910. A thread favorite, I think. By Condo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outbursts_of_Everett_True   Fritzi Ritz ~1938. This strip began with Fritzi (Nancy's Aunt) as the star, but eventually put Nancy front and center. I think someone is already posting old Nancy strips, so when the newspaper changes the name of the strip to "Nancy" I'll stop posting this one. I'll look for a new/old strip to post - suggestions welcome! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzi_Ritz   Sick, Sick, Sick (click for big) ~1958. An oddity from the Village Voice by satirist Jules Feiffer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Feiffer   (yep, I have the whole thing - coming soon) Wee Pals ~1971. Thread favorite and former thread title inspiration by Morrie Turner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Pals  
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 20:04
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 28, 2024 20:27 |
|
|
gently caress you Piraro.
|
|
#
?
Jan 3, 2016 20:06
|
|
