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The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Endless Mike posted:

So is the solution to this crisis going to be "maybe Atlantis should have some doctors"?

Or drugs.

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The MSJ
May 17, 2010


Please, this is Marvel. Everything revolves around Manhattan.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Wait, I thought Namor don't date redheads?

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

I haven't read The Phantom in a while and is struck by how swole his children are. His daughter looks like someone Aaron Diaz might draw. Living in the jungle must be very healthy.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Scott Adams: scared of smart women.

Re: Spider-Man
I feel this is another story that will be resolved without Spidey actually ending the conflict, in some nutty way. This is probably the first strip since he fell and cannot get up that he even acknowledged the scientist's diplomacy possibly helping.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Are the characters in Funky Winkerbean complaining about a female character being popular and getting more merchandise?

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

Hahaha I'm sure dozens of lazy infantile gag comic artists are sprinting headlong to submit Supreme Court Justice obituary hot takes to their syndicates. Dagwood Bumstead shedding a tear over a gargantuan sandwich with a gavel stuck in it. Marigold Heavenly Nostrils looking wistfully at a sparkling, hovering 5-4 decision. Small children everywhere, eyes filling with tears, internalizing the concept of death mere instants before "Pluggers" asserts the constitutionality of the death penalty (again).

Children will celebrate Scalia saying they are allowed to buy Mortal Kombat and Halo.

The MSJ fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Feb 14, 2016

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Speaking of Dilbert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8VPYLmPCpw

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Tiggum posted:

That's a really bad choice of profanity symbols, unless the implication was that the customer was calling her "box" for some reason.

Maybe he's actually calling her a oval office.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Presto posted:

Everett, my friend, you might not want to piss off the guy holding a straight razor against your throat. Just sayin'.

On the other hand, that's probably not the guy you want eyeing babes when shaving you either.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Reading Mark Trail these past few days, I expect it to end in porn.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Poil posted:

Poor Gil is in for such a disappointment, Darth Dork throwing tantrums like a child and then when he takes off his mask for the first time. :cripes: :(

I, on the other hand, was happy that I was right about Kylo being a representation of the Star Wars fandom the same way Nero in Star Trek 2009 was based on Trekkies.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Sometimes I wonder if there is anyone in Finland who have to explain Pearls Before Swine to his firends.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Old school Batman was pretty merciless when it comes to killing criminals.

And during the Silver Age apparently heroes were trolling each other as much as crimefighting.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Johnny Aztec posted:

The new art on Mary Worth is wierding me out bigtime.

The artist gave her a big old lady bust?

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Another thing I love in that Mary Worth Sunday strip is the dramatic way cookies are being held and waved around.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

They had sex between the two final panels, obviously.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Once again, Spider-Man wins because someone else was doing the work for him.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

My landline is just something I got for free with my broadband.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

A more alliterative term would be "shitfaced Sunday".

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

SynthOrange posted:

I thought they were in a river, why's there a goddamn whale!

You must have missed it, but Mark Trail is currently at the start of a flashback.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

WickedHate posted:

:stonk: Jesus Christ. :stonk:

"We should stop endlessly fetishizing the past" is a good message in a Nancy comic compared to the Gilchrist ones.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Beep boop I am Mark Trail the human not a robot at all beep boop

The MSJ
May 17, 2010


From Comics Curmudgeon:

quote:

I’ll say this for today’s Pluggers: it’s managed, without having heard of any of the bands, to put together an actually realistic summer concert series lineup, in the sense that it runs the gamut from relatively popular, relatively current acts (Animal Collective) through jam bands that had a minor mainstream breakthrough years ago but have been touring the festival circuit more or less nonstop both before and since (Rusted Root) to bands that were popular in the early ’90s and subsequently broke up but then a subset of the original members gained legal control of the band’s name and now are cashing in with a bunch of new people (Color Me Badd). We’ve rounded out the list with two separate bands who were apparently mistaken for one (Slightly Stoopid and SOJA, who are touring together this summer) and, apparently, just to stick it to know-it-alls like me, the truly obscure “Kongas,” which as near as I can tell was the name under which Marc Cerrone, an “Italofrench disco drummer, composer, record producer and creator of major concert shows,” released a couple of albums in the late ’70s. I guess it’s probably more likely that this is a mistake for Kongos, a band that’s in that first category with Animal Collective, but I want to believe that we’re talking Italofrench disco drummer here.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Achernar posted:

Please be Clown-9, Please be Clown-9, Please be Clown-9...

Thank you for reminding me of the best character ever.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

ikanreed posted:

Dear Greg Evans, please take note, here we have a protagonist who is facing consequences from some of their long-running character-flaws, and while we feel bad for them, they get a chance to learn and grow beyond the confines they existed in before.

Rather than every action of theirs being nothing but praiseworthy, and drama being drawn from a pool of sitcom cliches, and 2d villains, the conflict they face is real and difficult. This is what writers who are not complete hacks do with very similar teen-girl gag-a-day strips.

The sad thing is Luann used to be hailed as a revolutionary comic strip for talking about stuff like the title character having her first period.

Also :

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

I hope someone is keeping a list of all poorly-timed comic strips.

Does anyone remember the Sally Forth one?

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

I'm looking for a Spider-Man edit with the alcoholic sleeping Odin.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Mark Trail have always been all about the wildlife photobombs.

Also the skeleton tribe looks badass.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Green Intern posted:

In 1856, P.T. Barnum was an rear end in a top hat.

Of course in modern Korea there are apparently people making mad cash daily just livestreaming themselves eating food.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

My Lovely Horse posted:

This kid talking like a 50-year-old mobster in a movie twice as old as he is is either the worst or the best writing.

He's one of those kids with nerd parents except they're mobsters.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean



Everything has a price.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Selachian posted:

Edge of Whiteness



Just as a reminder, this was posted on Gocomics when this strip started, five and a half months ago...


So we're finally getting there!

I laughed, but only because it reminded me of the beginning of It's Always Sunny's Lethal Weapon 5.

https://youtu.be/dPQkKD9GKr4

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

That thing that always happens in the Spider-Man strip happens again.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010



For a moment there, I thought Ant-Man is Big-Gay-Logan-ing Spidey.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Poil posted:

I'm not sure that would be appropriate in traffic. :allears:

Well, duh, you drive it to the local make out spot.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010



How soon we forget Iron Jonah...

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Mister Kingdom posted:

Ces posted on FB that he got a nasty comment about the girl behind Faye.

Artist Jim Keefe commented at Comics Kingdom:

quote:

Among the number of emails I’ve received today, some have praised today’s strip with the little girl in the hijab for reflecting "the diversity that is America.” - others have hated it saying “It was wrong and wholly inappropriate!” I’d like to state, as the artist, I currently live in an area that is home to a large number of Somali Americans that have been here for generations and wear the traditional hijab. My drawing is just an everyday classroom scene in my neck of the woods.

For those who were offended that it ran the day after 9/11 I’d also like to add that I lived in New York when the attacks happened and watched the towers go down from across the bay. I abhor the terrorists for what they did. They killed close to 3,000 people that day of ALL faiths and religions.

To strike back against that kind of evil I’m reminded of the words of Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, who survived a bullet to the head by a Taliban gunman for being an advocate for a girls’ right to go to school. Her message is that the key in fighting global terrorism is education. So maybe the image of a little Somali American girl in a classroom getting an education is exactly what we need to see MORE of, not less.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Aardmania posted:



It happened! around the end of July, 2009 and ran for a while after that.

Didn't it last for more than a week?

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The MSJ
May 17, 2010

My Lovely Horse posted:

As homework, where the teacher can totally check if you're still using the calculator.

The difference being if she uses it at home, her teacher can't see her doing it and don't have to care!

Wanamingo posted:

Arlo and Janis


Pluggers


Arlo and Janis is obviously about sex, but Pluggers too?

The MSJ fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Sep 14, 2016

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