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Wanamingo posted:Hey, Pluggers. I haven't thought about that comic in a while, I wonder what it's up to. Julet Esqu posted:Phantom Classic is currently dealing with a fellow who wrestles professionally as the Masked Marvel. He's been disgruntled lately because nobody recognizes him due to the mask. His desire for attention has caused him to act out inappropriately multiple times in public, prompting Kit "The Phantom" Walker to punch him out twice in as many days. The Marvel's manager now wants Walker to wrestle in Marvel's place. F Minus is a gag-a-day one panel that I think is good for a chuckle more often than not. I think it is usually pretty clever at least, and the art is simple but really effective at conveying what he wants, especially facial expressions. Mary Worth is a wish-fulfillment strip for old ladies who think young people's problems would all be solved if they just respected and listened to their elders. The current storyline is Mary has traveled across the country to visit a little girl that she is not related to and barely knows but with whom she has some kind of weird and creepy relationship. The girl's parents were apparently fine with having this virtual stranger come and stay with them for an indeterminate amount of time that has lasted throughout the busy holiday season. Also the little girl is psychic, and will one day save the world or something thanks to Mary's support, which is better than the support she gets from her parents, who are horndogs that are constantly loving and don't understand their daughter's potential. Rex Morgan MD is a strip about a little girl named Sarah who is all-powerful and holds her family hostage with her powers. Recently, a male sibling was sired (Micheal), and it is unknown what kind of competition this will bring to her. The Morgan clan is fairly wealthy despite Rex seeing perhaps 2 patients a day and June doing God knows what she does, but that doesn't matter, because they get everything for free from rich friends whose paths they frequently cross and who fall under the spell of Sarah. They are just starting a storyline about Sarah visiting the headmaster of her new school, who will be so impressed with the brilliant and talented Sarah that she will be skipping 2 grades and be allowed to take only the classes she wants. Secret Agent X-9 is about a secret agent, code named X-9. It's a vintage strip from the 30s they started posting on CK about 7-8 months ago because it won some March Madness-style tournament with other strips for fan votes to be re-run, or something like that. Right now we're at July 1936. While it hasn't had a storyline so far that has knocked me out of my socks, it occasionally has some well-drawn action, and the pace isn't bad most of the time. Right now he's undercover in Florida (I think?) as a shady beach bum, looking into a ring that smuggles Asians in for cheap/slave labor. Apartment 3-G was cancelled a couple months back, and then a little while later they started running the vintage strips, starting with 1970 (we are now in February of that year). It's about 3 young women, Margo, LuAnn, and Tommie, living together in NYC. Right now if I have this right there is some drunk girl who their friend Web has gotten mixed up with and she is annoying him but won't leave him alone. She's now conned her way into his apartment by telling the superintendent she's his sister, because in the 70s you could do that easily. Web is also somehow screwing over Margo's boss in some kind of merger of their agencies or something, and he's also moving on LuAnn even though Margo was interested in him. I think that's what's happening anyways. I could be mixing up some characters. They kind of just threw us into the middle of this storyline. Murdstone fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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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 |
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger Selachian posted:And since I rather liked it when it was posted here... Yesterday I read the comics out loud to a 4 year old. It's been a long time since I read the comics from the paper all the way through them like that, and I was struck by how truly boring they really were. This thread is pretty entertaining, but I guess that's because we skip a lot of the crap like Sherman's Lagoon and Blondie and all those strips that are really no more than filler. Like 75% of them (of the ones that are supposed to be funny, at least) were New Year's resolutions "jokes," FYI. F Minus Mary Worth George Micheal has hit hard times. Rex Morgan MD Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G Look it was a mutual thing, OK?
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Indolent Bastard posted:Intelligent Life Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze forgot to tell a joke. F Minus Mary Worth "Duh! What are you, some kind of moron?" "Look just leave the dollar and go." Rex Morgan MD Secret Agent X-9 "I'm not sure I can trust you." "Come OONNNN, please?" "Oh, all right. Here's a description of our highly illegal operation." At least they're not wearing robes and rice hats with long hair braids down their back. Apartment 3-G
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2016 02:25 |
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Alterian posted:In my head Patrick Warburton as David Puddy does his voice. SomeMathGuy posted:Mark Trail grins in the face of death F Minus Space: The Boring Frontier Mary Worth Probably wrong prediction: Olive's father will get him a job in the cafeteria of his hospital. Rex Morgan MD "Not Michael either. But Fredo--I don't give a gently caress what you do with him." Secret Agent X-9 "NEXT...WHAT" Apartment 3-G
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2016 23:19 |
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy EasyEW posted:Let's not forget that Bushmiller's Nancy existed mostly in a bubble apart from the pop culture of the outside world. Gilchrist, on the other hand, has wasted entire weeks pandering to his Baby Boomer demo by doing nothing but drawing or namechecking people, characters, and other stuff they remember. If a Bushmiller Nancy strip exists where the "punchline" was HERE'S THAT THING YOU USED TO LIKE!, I've never seen it. That alone makes the classic era infinitely less insufferable. Slammy posted:Wee Pals F Minus Mary Worth What the gently caress did they do to give him hope? Rex Morgan MD No one has ever said that. Also, man look at how Irish that guy is. Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G
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LordPants posted:Goddamn if Agent X-9 isn't one of my favorite strips. Of course today being Sunday I don't have one. F minus Mary Worth Rex Morgan MD
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2016 05:21 |
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Selachian posted:eh, Gilchrist didn't do Lemmy. I think Bowie is safe from getting the weepy Fritzi treatment. I feel pretty confident predicting there will be a Bowie tribute in Nancy. Indolent Bastard posted:Intelligent Life F Minus is in denial about aging Mary Worth "Now that we gave that homeless guy a dollar, let's spend hundreds of times that on material things we don't need! Don't worry about him, his faith will help him. We've done our part." Rex Morgan MD "Your former nanny says you're 'smart as the dickens' and that's good enough for me!" You know I've come to really dislike Sarah. Like I'm not sure it's healthy for me to dislike a fictional little girl as much as I do her. Secret Agent X-9 Well she can't be a cop because it's the 1930s, so I'm going to guess these guys somehow killed her father or brother and she's out to bring them down. Apartment 3-G Looks like the claws may come out tomorrow.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Intelligent Life F Minus Is a little on the nose today. Mary Worth Come on, Mary! Let her buy you a decorative Easter egg, or what appears to be an electric fan. These are common items in store windows in NYC. Really gets the crowds in. Rex Morgan MD And now Sarah looks stoned. Secret Agent X-9 Johnny Walker posted:Well she can't be a cop because it's the 1930s, so I'm going to guess these guys somehow killed her father or brother and she's out to bring them down. Apartment 3-G is a bit racy
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# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 18:19 |
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Slammy posted:Sick, Sick, Sick (click for big) Edit: Looks like it lasted 19 days. A couple years later, there was another in 1962-63 that lasted 114 days! Murdstone fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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F Minus Amazon's Minority Report Mary Worth Mary arrived at Olive's front door on the 16th of November, nearly two full months ago. Since then, NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. No conflict, no problems. Nothing. Why hasn't she just gone home yet? How loving long are these people going to let her stay at their apartment? I assume they will do something about this homeless guy but I wish they'd just get to it. Rex Morgan MD And then there's this loving poo poo. God drat I'm mad about comics! Secret Agent X-9 We were talking about voices a while back, and I just realized that I always hear X-9 as the voice of that guy from This Island Earth, or maybe the impersonation of him from MST3K the movie. Apartment 3-G
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Slammy posted:I felt obligated to look this up - the Sick, Sick Sick ran on December 31, 1958. F Minus I know Carrillo's just being silly here, but in a way this is kind of sweet. Mary Worth Rex Morgan MD Peter Parker is happy to have Sarah at his school. Secret Agent X-9 Well that's a left and not a right, and the wallet falling out is a bit silly, but I'll forgive all that because I think we're in for a good fight scene. Apartment 3-G
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# ¿ Jan 14, 2016 18:23 |
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BigDave posted:Wow, Rose is Rose has dramatically improved as of late. treasureplane posted:Nancy (February 5, 1943) F Minus Mary Worth Do corporations pay for product placement in comic strips? Also, while that Olive is goofy: , Mary has gone full He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named: . Rex Morgan MD Oh come on at least give her a test. Secret Agent X-9 it ended a little too quickly for me, but I think those are some nice panels. Apartment 3-G LuAnn's ruined Web's chances of getting with both of them.
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2016 23:51 |
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Achernar posted:So what happens if a scout can't meet quota? Are they drummed out of the Girl Scouts? Julet Esqu posted:Radio Patrol F Minus Mary Worth Rex Morgan MD That's a great Rex face there. Even he doesn't buy this. Secret Agent X-9 "Martian Gang" huh? Might be interesting. We'll find out! Apartment 3-G Do they all like live in the same room?
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Julet Esqu posted:Big Ben Bolt F Minus Monday's not up yet, which is unusual for F Minus. I'll try to remember to post it. Mary Worth NOT creepy. Not at all. Mary and Olive talk as they repair the placemat they compulsively tore apart due to nervous energy. Rex Morgan MD Thank you, Dr. Nigma! This could be the way it is for every family, if only those libs allowed school vouchers. Secret Agent X-9 Well this is a little embarrassing. I seriously misread the "Coming Up" box from the other day to say "Martian Gang" when it is actually the much less interesting plain old "Martin Gang." I apologize for the misunderstanding. Still might be a good story. I guess that's supposed to be J. Edgar Hoover? Apartment 3-G Is it just me or does Web look like a big ole dumb guy?
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# ¿ Jan 18, 2016 08:14 |
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kith_groupie posted:I missed most of the 2015 thread. How long has Mary Worth been just pleasant stories for the heavily sedated? I remember there used to be conflict, even if it was stupid poo poo like her gentleman-friend working in Cambodia for six weeks or pushy ice skater dad. I hope this story ends soon and we get a good one. One on par with that drunk woman from a couple years ago would be awesome. Ms Boods posted:I look forward to the storyline where this imp from hell is bullied by the second graders, and the last panel is Rex sat silent, gazing into the distance, satisfied smile on his mug. She's supposedly advanced enough in her reading and all that, although no one has actually tested her as far as I know. Realistically this skipping a grade thing could cause issues for the kid but in this strip there all gonna love her except maybe one. She will win that one over and they will become bestest buddies in the whole world. I know way too much about the strips I post. Man, you follow this thread for a few years and you eventually know a lot of poo poo about comic strips. RandomFerret posted:Hell with that, it's our new gang tag. F Minus This is a joke I will likely one day make in real life. Mary Worth Some of you might remember the intense cake-moving week a few years back. That was some good MW action. Rex Morgan MD But his eyes are closed...or are they... Secret Agent X-9 "One from DeVry!" Apartment 3-G
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F Minus Mary Worth See that cake decorating? Those kinds of skills are why he's a big time New York City cake decorator. Rex Morgan MD Secret Agent X-9 Ohhhh well well well the "FBI" ooooooo. Apartment 3-G Overnight, Margo killed two rival gang members.
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F Minus Mary Worth Wow. Ew. Ugh. I have so many unpleasant feelings from this I am having trouble expressing them. Edit: Olive's face does a pretty good job. Rex Morgan MD "Ground Coffee" is code for weed. Secret Agent X-9 It's the hydrochloric chemical test. He just said it, narrator. Try to pay better attention. Apartment 3-G BRRRRP
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2016 17:32 |
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I literally laughed out loud at this. F Minus That is a fun fact. Mary Worth I guess they didn't have room for the creepy "Not as much as I love you, Mary!" thought balloon today. Rex Morgan MD Secret Agent X-9 The "answer" is "no." Apartment 3-G "I'm sure it can wait! After all, if it were important, they wouldn't have given the task to a woman!"
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2016 22:18 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:"Poor kids, about to die horribly. Oh well what can you do?" F Minus Mary Worth "Much like I'd like to restrain Mary in my basement! Oh you must be mine, Mary!" Trilobite posted:Man, it really feels like this has been the longest stretch of Rex Morgan, MD strips that we've seen where there hasn't even been so much as a hint of turmoil, conflict, or mild inconvenience for them. And it continues... Rex Morgan MD June begins her transformation into Torgo. Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G Oh, that Web! Don't trust him, Margo! You can do better!
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F Minus Reminded me of this scene from Roxanne from way back. Mary Worth Getting a little close there, John Dill. Mary looks quite uncomfortable. Rex Morgan MD I guess it's still possible she'll hook up with the chauffeur, but I doubt that's where this is heading. Edit: RandomFerret posted:Lost Side of Suburbia Murdstone fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jan 24, 2016 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:I don't know what it is, but the art in this Mark Trail story is really unsettling. It's probably just me, but it feels like the kind of art you see in an indie self-published horror comic book from the 90's. F Minus Mary Worth Yes. Another time. When you have traveled clear across the country again. To visit a child you are not related to. I suspect one of the reasons Mary flew 3000 miles to visit NYC is to go out of her way to once more shoot down John Dill. Rex Morgan MD I guess Mr Avery's impotent? I look forward to the frank and open fertility discussion that is apparently coming this week in RMMD. Secret Agent X-9 I'm not sure if that's a small adult or a child. Apartment 3-G I bet Web hit on that waitress while Margo was in the bathroom too.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 21:54 |
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Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man But gently caress all that, because the reason I'm quoting this is with the way these two strips lined up I pictured a Sally Forth flashback featuring a love triangle with Ted and Namor battling for Sally in college and drat wouldn't that be awesome? F Minus Mary Worth Rex Morgan MD "Vee haff vays of making you pregnant." Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G Murdstone fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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Wanamingo posted:Pluggers Indolent Bastard posted:Intelligent Life In other words, don't put out candy if you don't want people around you. F Minus Mary Worth "No, I mean he'll be dead." Rex Morgan MD Whew! For a second there I thought none of the Morgans would have anything done for them by someone else this week. Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2016 19:27 |
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F Minus That really only will happen with onions. Potatoes will sprout a little but I don't think they'll grow much without water. Mary Worth NEXT: WHERE! Rex Morgan MD Don't assistants do things like approve refills and stuff? Secret Agent X-9 Women want him! Men vaguely recognize him! Apartment 3-G I don't really know what's going on here, but if he's getting a steak lunch with this guy he's got whatever this business thing he's doing is in the bag. That's the way it was.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2016 07:54 |
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Aardmania posted:Judge Parker F Minus I knew it! Slammy posted:And this is so boring! I miss Angry Mary. Drama! Screaming! Italian-American slang! Mary Worth Well that's a weird-rear end place. Rex Morgan MD "You made me put down my phone for this?" Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2016 03:32 |
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I remembered some of that--the pot farm storyline in particular, but yeah I didn't know anything about the home office. I stopped reading JP for a while there so maybe I missed it. All I remembered was that woman building a factory out of storage containers or something? The dead rat and manure stink didn't fit with that, at least not as far as I could see. Slammy posted:You're wonderful. You really are. F Minus Mary Worth Next week, Mary fondly remembers her stripper days. Rex Morgan MD Oh, who wouldn't love you, princess? Secret Agent X-9 Maybe because creepy guys she just met follow her home and stalk her? Apartment 3-G Is he grabbing Web's rear end? The seduction begins!
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2016 00:32 |
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Slammy posted:Agreed - how many comics made by women do we post, even today? Slammy posted:Rarebit Fiend (click for huge) The second one is kind of disturbing. Dreams of the Huffing Fiend. Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon F Minus And yet, she's still cold. Mary Worth Always remember to cliche your bromides and platitudes! Rex Morgan MD
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2016 21:02 |
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Forktoss posted:Magic Mary XXL F Minus Mary Worth Oh for the love of God how long is this going to go on? Rex Morgan MD Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G
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Allen Wren posted:I seriously think everyone who puts their feet up on the dash is going to die like this eventually. Also, motorcyclists who aren't ATGATT are going to be the worst kind of road pizza. F Minus Mary Worth Why does she hope she doesn't need help skating? That's a weird thing to wish for. Rex Morgan MD Rex hears Sarah, and he tries to resist, but he cannot. He must obey. Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2016 17:14 |
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Then Namor plugs his "Sushimania" restuarant. F Minus At an office I worked in there were little windows between cube walls and the way they were arranged with where the PC went and all you had no choice but to look directly at the person across from your. Luckily you kind of got used to having someone in your line of sight so you sort of tuned them our and my cube neighbor and I got along pretty well also but I would have hated to have had some of my other coworkers there. It would have been hard to try to come up with a solution to blocking that window so you don't have to deal with them without appearing to be saying "gently caress you" passive-aggressively. Mary Worth Oh thank God I don't think I could have taken much more of the tension of the "Can Mary still ice skate" story arc. Rex Morgan MD I'm sure that mural of whales in the basement will be a huge selling point, too. Knowing this strip the guy who painted it is now a famous artist and it's worth a fortune by itself. Secret Agent X-9 "Guilty until prove innocent" is probably a terribly inefficient way of investigating crime anywhere else but in the X-9 world. Apartment 3-G "Eeeeexcellent." "What was that?" "Nothing!"
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2016 21:25 |
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/114933/ A random one from the Jackelrod era. There was a good edit featuring this one but I can't find it. Someone here probably remembers what I'm talking about. And one of my favorite MT edits that I could find. F Minus That clown looked familiar so I looked it up and found this: http://www.spreadthefword.com/2009/08/tea-time-clown-tattoo.html I think we've seen it since but that clown goes way back. Mary Worth Rex Morgan MD You have to be loving kidding me. Secret Agent X-9 "Um, sir? Those are panties." Apartment 3-G
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2016 17:12 |
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This was precisely the first thing I thought of. EasyEW posted:Peanuts: Year Four (March 18-21, 1954) F Minus I imagine the smell isn't so great either. Not sure why they ran a rerun today. Edit: Hey wait these are both reruns. How long have I been posting reruns? Mary Worth Some evil Italian stereotype is amused by Olive's fall. Rex Morgan MD Secret Agent X-9 I worked in a grocery store and it's true: women go crazy for the guys with grocery-related skills. Apartment 3-G At what point in 3-G's run did the men stop treating the women like children? Murdstone fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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It's like she could see into the future and made a comic strip thread edit in advance. SuperKlaus posted:I want to give continued props to most every comic printed before about 1970, but particular thumbs-up for newcomer Gay and her Gang and good ol' Feiffer. Please keep posting them. Gay is well-drawn and funny - this is what 9CL desperately wishes it actually were. Being drawn by a woman probably helps, huh? I can't tell you just how skeeved I felt when I learned "Brooke Eldowney" was a man. And Feiffer shows us (mostly) timeless commentary.
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2016 19:25 |
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F Minus returns with new material, and it's good. Mary Worth Rex Morgan MD "A dose of Rex Morgan" sounds awfully dirty.
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2016 21:51 |
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger F Minus Mary Worth Special guest start Ernest Borgnine as Mary Worth in the second panel. Rex Morgan MD Through the crack in the door, a little girl watches, her face blank until slowly a creepy smile forms. Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G That Web is a cad, I say!
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2016 19:36 |
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F Minus Mary Worth Mary did not expect to have to justify her terrible analogy. Rex Morgan MD Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 16:08 |
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Darkest Auer posted:Moomin F Minus Mary Worth I don't understand why this conversation is happening. She just out of the blue started lecturing Olive about self-control. Olive doesn't do poo poo. Rex Morgan MD "Oh there's the doorbell! Let's see who it is!" "Hello I'm a billionaire and was just passing by and I love this house. This may sound odd but would you like to trade this house for my mansion closer to the center of town? I will pay moving expenses and taxes and all that stuff." "Okay!" "Your daughter sure is special!" ~END~ Secret Agent X-9 It's always thrilling when men in suits look for files. Apartment 3-G
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LordPants posted:Captain Midnight (1943) F Minus Mary Worth "Freedom is bad for people." --Mary Worth Rex Morgan MD Well you could start seeing more than one patient every month or so. Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G
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Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon F Minus Score! My Lovely Horse posted:WHERE THE gently caress, IF ANYWHERE, IS THIS ARC GOING This MW-Olive story goes back to before Thanksgiving, by the way. In that time, nothing has happened. They've seen some sites in NYC, Mary has told Olive some weird platitudes without any real reason provided by the context, Olive's parents can't keep their hands off each other, and they met a homeless guy and visited that baker that's pining for Mary despite no contact for a couple years now. Without further ado, Mary Worth Morbius! Rex Morgan MD AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Secret Agent X-9 Apartment 3-G Web's setting himself up for like 3 comeuppances.
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