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Mister Kingdom posted:Did they rip the store out of the ground and drop it in that neighborhood?
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# ¿ Jan 3, 2016 05:57 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 14:11 |
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Milotic posted:Wahoo Terminal is pretty funny most days. If it was from anyone else, I reckon the thread would give it more of a pass. But I am interested in Flash Gordon, so by all means, continue atoning!
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2016 01:32 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Inspector Danger seems like a very petty and jealous man.
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2016 06:58 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth
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# ¿ Jan 8, 2016 01:17 |
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Rand Brittain posted:Sarah is just an extension of the strip's general principle of handing the main characters anything they want and a bunch of things they didn't think to ask for without needing to lift a finger. It's just creepier because she's a child, so her attitude of limitless entitlement seems off. Also, when Rex and June receive their share of unearned and unbounded praise (which they do), it's not really for any particular quality they have or anything unusually great that they've done. Mostly it's for doing things that are fairly basic, like being a doctor who performs CPR on a dying guy, or showing some vague degree of sympathy to one of their friends. We don't see any reason why Rex and June are supposed to be so wonderful, so it just blends in with the general background of inexplicably expensive gifts and unwarranted confidences. With Sarah, though, we have metrics to compare her to. Everyone's constantly emphasizing how much more special she is than anyone else in the whole world. She's smarter than other kids! She's more talented than other kids! She's wiser than other kids! She's going to be god-emperor of the world! Everyone shall dedicate their very lives to adoring and serving her, forever! Which just reeks of bullshit, naturally, triggering a visceral dislike of her. The thing is, I suspect that the writer is just accidentally making all of these stories about Sarah the Great and her Sense of All-Encompassing Entitlement. Most likely what he meant to be writing was how Sarah is just another wonderful reward for Rex and June. They're rich white professionals, of course their child is the best, they deserve the best child. She's their trophy for being amazing upper-middle-class suburban heroes: only bad people have ordinary kids. Weirdly, this might be one of the places where "Tell, don't show" would've been the better course to take -- having Rex and/or June blather on about their (unseen and unheard) darling daughter and how gifted she is and how proud they are would seem less off-putting than trying to actually convince us that Sarah is so fuckin' amazing. I mean, at least then nobody would feel weird about how much hate they feel, right?
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# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 00:28 |
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Julet Esqu posted:Speaking of which, I don't know if I'm more terrified that Gilchrist will do a Bowie tribute, or hopeful that Gilchrist will do a Bowie tribute. I know it would be horrific, but I kind of have a sick desire to see it... (Not that I think Gilchrist would ever do that. I mean, it's David Bowie, he wasn't a Grand Ol' Opry star or anything. That'll get him a single limp, smarmy eulogy, not a whole week.)
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# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 06:42 |
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Julet Esqu posted:Big Ben Bolt
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2016 23:55 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2016 09:49 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Jesus christ, we had like a solid month and a half of lead up to the meddle of getting the homeless baker a job right? Basically, what I'm getting at here is that I'm going to be angry at this comic when the homeless guy magically is revealed as a baker and the stalker mysteriously gets the authority (and budget) to hire him and Mary gets to take a three-week victory lap for making it all happen by putting a dollar in a cup.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2016 23:33 |
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Tiggum posted:Did they just walk into each other? Is that the joke? It's...sort of a joke, I guess, if you're feeling very, very charitable. (Imagine reading it after Funky Winkerbean, 9 Chickweed Lane, and Gilchrist's Nancy, and it's not bad. Not funny or interesting, mind you, just not bad.)
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 08:52 |
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SomeMathGuy posted:Mark Trail Featuring Popeye the Sailor Man I'm not complaining, it's just weird. I mean, back in the days when the wild Jackelrod roamed free, we usually got a steady stream of Mark going on vacation and running into poachers, or hillbillies with shotguns, or wife-beating deer-haters, with occasional detours for Rusty to befriend a small animal before getting his head stuck in a window or something.
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2016 00:01 |
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Johnny Walker posted:What are they talking about? Anyway, Sam's recently decided that it's easier if he only has one client, Alan Parker, the original Judge Parker in the strip (his son Randy, Sam's old partner, is the new Judge Parker). And he's not wrong about that -- Alan's taken up writing novels, and naturally they're all best-sellers and the movie rights were worth a ton of money and everyone was just so happy to be a part of it that Sam literally did gently caress-all to make any of it possible. I mean, he showed up to a "tough negotiation" for the movie deal with some Hollywood bigwig, and the very first thing that happened was said bigwig just breezily agreeing to a huge amount with absolutely no discussion or hesitation and declaring that he wanted to go fishing with Sam instead. Which ended in some shotgun diplomacy with a pot-growing operation in the back woods that turned into a lucrative solar farm deal (of which Sam also got a cut). And no, that's not actually relevant to this particular storyline, but I feel compelled to mention it, for obvious reasons. But because he's only got one client now, Sam doesn't need his old office anymore, and seeing as his current law partner -- Steve, the Iraqi war veteran with missing legs -- wanted to go off and marry their secretary and never appear in the comic strip again, Abbey's making a 'home office' for him out in the old barn. Which until recently had a dead rat stinking up the place, and which currently still smells of horse manure. Which I guess is tragic, or something? Poor Sam Driver, with his massive wealth and luxurious home and vast portfolio of lucrative properties and his hot wife -- his future home office which he doesn't even need will have to be deep-cleaned and aired out for a little while.
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2016 07:28 |
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Gorilla Salad posted:For someone who is going to spend their life fighting crime until they get brutally murdered in their late 30s, like every Phantom before him, you'd think he'd be less interest in spending half a decade in a monastery hidden in the arse of the world and more interested in say, using his mother's UN credentials and father's Jungle Patrol influence to finagle a place in Quantico learning world leading crime fighting techniques. Now, a solid course of study on appraising and caring for antiques, with additional courses on how to climate-control a jungle cave so that all the priceless relics you're
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# ¿ Feb 1, 2016 23:32 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD It's just weird that "real estate" has come up twice in such quick succession on the Rex Morgan, MD Wheel of Unearned Profits. I really thought after the free scholarship for Sarah, we were due for a free vacation or maybe a free vehicle or something. (I don't count the free car given to Sarah's babysitter, since Sarah's never going to get old enough to drive it.)
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2016 19:20 |
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JaggerMcDagger posted:Didn't the blackhole comic shop owner get something super valuable when the mom was doing the starbucks jones hunt? Or was that another stuck up comic lover?
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2016 00:06 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Apartment 3-G * Well, except for the gas leak that nearly killed LuAnn in her studio. I was rooting so hard for that gas leak to win, I swear.
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# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 08:40 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 04:12 |
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2016 05:57 |
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mastersord posted:I thought that was swans. I'd say it was the British equivalent of those antiquated laws in the US about not letting donkeys wear hats in church or whatever, but apparently a guy got arrested in 2004 for catching and selling a sturgeon, so someone over there is taking it seriously.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2016 19:09 |
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Tunicate posted:Oh hey, the baking hobo prophesy in Mary Worth hasn't come true yet.
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# ¿ Feb 29, 2016 07:00 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD Maybe they'll end up renting their old house to the elderly couple just to tie everything up in a neat bow and poignantly illustrate the problem of senior citizens in our country by almost immediately pretending that they don't exist and never mentioning them ever again, I don't know.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2016 00:05 |
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Green Intern posted:I'm pretty certain that those middle two panels should be swapped. (Also, I think the DEATH TRUCK was loaded with explosives? I seem to remember an earlier strip where one of the cops who parked it across the highway was bragging about it. As any good law enforcement officer would, naturally: setting up a trap that will murder the absolute gently caress out of criminals rather than waste time and money on a trial and prison terms? Even Dick Tracy would be impressed!)
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 22:33 |
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Savidudeosoo posted:Pretty sure Doctor Strange there is just as confused as you are.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2016 19:30 |
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SomeMathGuy posted:Mark Trail 85% chance he gets absorbed by a gelatinous cube when he runs down a tunnel to escape an encounter with 2d4 rats.
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 17:00 |
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Calaveron posted:Re, Funky Winkerbean; I don't understand how a person who was already a grown man an entire literal life time ago is still alive, let alone spry enough and conscious enough to live by himself and hold conversations with people. What I don't understand is why: - the star of a movie and his girlfriend would hang around with the two doofuses getting paid to storyboard that movie, - especially since the only connection between them is that the doofuses went to the same high school she did, some ten or so years after she graduated, - and why the gently caress any of the four of them would think they could make casting decisions about a movie (or even recommendations). Basically, none of those assholes had any reason to fly back to the loving midwest to watch an old movie serial together, let alone go on a quest to find the star of that serial and offer him a job that they have absolutely no ability to give him.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2016 06:31 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2016 17:07 |
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's Admittedly, I think that with most Ripley's comics, but this one in particular is crying out for it. Crazy roller suit, girl covered in bees, T-Rex? Just imagine the kind of poo poo that would be going down there.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2016 03:17 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:Oh, I wouldn't worry about the Gilchrist tribute. Whoever wins, we lose.
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2016 09:57 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2016 21:28 |
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Wanamingo posted:Uh, duh? To make Peter look like he's talking to himself.
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2016 06:37 |
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft - First, the old lady wants to donate a bunch of books to the library to get them out of her house - (insert stupid side plot about her thinking some of the books are overdue) - the library doesn't want the books - therefore, she spends a bunch of her own money setting up a used bookstore in her house to sell those unwanted books, and presumably buy/sell other books, too Because if that's the story so far, it is a new level of idiocy even for Batiuk.
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2016 20:29 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:The Classic Dinette Set loves kids. I mean, it's The Dinette Set, so I feel like it would try to get away with pretty much anything.
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# ¿ May 2, 2016 05:40 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:Someone tell me I'm reading this wrong and the police force in Dick Tracy doesn't really tattoo prisoners with numerical IDs as a general rule. As a general rule, suspects die before they even become prisoners.
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# ¿ May 6, 2016 11:12 |
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Aardmania posted:Terry Beatty's blog says that he took over writing starting with the May 2nd comic. The signature box has also changed from Wilson & Beatty to just Terry Beatty. But maybe, just maybe, things will actually start happening in Rex Morgan, MD that actually involve conflict and drama and setbacks. (Psst, Terry Beatty, do you know what's easy to draw? Cardboard boxes!)
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# ¿ May 11, 2016 19:28 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Yeah I'm far from an expert caver but it seems to me they have so far handled nearly every danger and obstacle in this trip through the caves in just about the worst possible way. They should definitely have stopped and got out at that sinkhole with the plane I still don't understand why they didn't. Then again, if they had climbed out, they wouldn't have found the GYPSUM MOTHERLODE or the underground river that I assume leads to a sahuagin temple (or just pours down into the Underdark). If Mark can punch a few more monsters, he'll be a level 4 nature journalist!
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# ¿ May 15, 2016 09:31 |
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Julet Esqu posted:Rip Kirby Woah it came back! I guess they decided the strip didn't end after all!
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# ¿ May 27, 2016 10:05 |
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Aardmania posted:Judge Parker
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# ¿ May 29, 2016 10:06 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD What an rear end in a top hat.
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# ¿ May 30, 2016 00:21 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:e: I've been meaning to ask: was the mother in Crankshaft ever shown to actually be terrible before now? I thought she was always portrayed as a likeable scatterbrain.
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# ¿ Jun 3, 2016 04:22 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 14:11 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD I swear, it's like the guiding principle for this comic is "The least amount of effort possible always produces the greatest reward."
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# ¿ Jun 3, 2016 22:50 |