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Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Endless Mike posted:

It's not like Nona can even lie. Their friend telepathy would reveal that immediately.
what if she can lie because the lie means they're no longer friends

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Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit
You forgot the bit about how the Spy Lady who literally white knighted every rotten awful things the NSA has done, and who is now some gone rogue super villian

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Can someone explain to me what the gently caress 9 Chickweed Lane is about?

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Kazinsal posted:

Can someone explain to me what the gently caress 9 Chickweed Lane is about?

It's basically the author's weird fetish porn that he somehow convinced newspapers to print.

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Kazinsal posted:

Can someone explain to me what the gently caress 9 Chickweed Lane is about?

Probably not. Like everything involving Brooke McEldowney, 9CL defies explanation.

Anyway, because it's still Monday somewhere, here's the night schedule.

Bloom County: The biggest content bomb of 2015 was when Berke Breathed suddenly and with only one day's warning decided to bring back the quintessential 80s comic strip as a Facebook exclusive. He dropped strong hints at the time that it had something to do with the Trump candidacy, which means we'll be slogging through the next four years together. Posted whenever BB feels up to it.



Peanuts: Year Six is a secondary post from earlier in the Schulz timeline designed to satisfy those who believe the older Charlie Brown strips were better and less forehead-smacking ridiculous, and not (I REPEAT, NOT) as a dirty trick to indoctrinate the forum into my way of thinking. And you didn't read any of this. (October 6-9, 1955)







Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
Intelligent Life - this is the second all-bold strip in a row. What's going on?


Take It From the Tinkersons is actually kind of clever, except going back to school on January 2nd does not make for a long Christmas break.


Dark Side of the Horse

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Some Fingerpori.













Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice

Kazinsal posted:

Can someone explain to me what the gently caress 9 Chickweed Lane is about?
Imagine a romantic comedy told with absolute disdain for the audience, characters with the most feeble attempts at defining qualities, and sexual/cultural mores far out of sync with the American average. Now manage to tell that in a way that stretches out uninteresting storylines for months on end, yet fails to substantially develop anything about the characters in that time, and then discards them for basically the same story told with another disposable set of characters, while the main characters occasionally interject. Sometimes Nazis, sometimes a fundamental misunderstanding of homosexuality, sometimes wankery over superficialities of classical music and its performers.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
9CL got started as a slightly more highbrow Luann. Now it's the author's less NSFW wank material with Pibgorn featuring the worse stuff.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

Say Nothing posted:

Some Fingerpori.



Amazing.

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



Peanuts Year Six is so good, but newer Peanuts is such lazy poo poo. It's kinda hard to even believe it slid down so fast and so steep from an insightful, funny and real-feeling comic to "Snoopy does anachronistic thing and mugs at the camera".

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Der Shovel posted:

Peanuts Year Six is so good, but newer Peanuts is such lazy poo poo. It's kinda hard to even believe it slid down so fast and so steep from an insightful, funny and real-feeling comic to "Snoopy does anachronistic thing and mugs at the camera".
Could be worse. At least it never became a legacy comic.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Arlo and Janis



Arlo and Janis Classic (Oct. 28, 1994)

Pastry of the Year fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Jan 3, 2017

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
Peanuts by Guy Gilchrist coming soon! In which Charlie Brown will start dating the Little Red-Haired Buxom Girl and Snoopy's background story is updated so he's not just WW1 but also Korean, Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars veteran.

Nenonen fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Jan 3, 2017

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

The End of the Story

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Ghostlight posted:

what if she can lie because the lie means they're no longer friends
:ohdear:

Kazinsal posted:

Can someone explain to me what the gently caress 9 Chickweed Lane is about?
Currently it's about a couple idiots trying to gently caress but refuse to until they're married.

Usually* it's about a couple idiots trying to gently caress but running up against the limitations of what can be printed in a newspaper.

*Well, ostensibly. I don't think it's *actually* been about in like three years.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

Strontium posted:

Take It From the Tinkersons is actually kind of clever, except going back to school on January 2nd does not make for a long Christmas break.


Well, my brother's kids in rural Virginia had a two-week Christmas break (Dec 17-Jan 1). I'm not sure how parents retain their sanity down there.

Also: I was slightly amused by "My Dear Watson Elementary."

Rhymes with Orange



Looks much like her earlier piece, "Lower Right Corner of the Back Door."

Pros and Cons

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Nancy


Today's Dogg™

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Dustin

bean_shadow
Sep 27, 2005

If men had uteruses they'd be called duderuses.

Aardmania posted:

9 Chickweed Lane


Shouldn't he have known this before marrying her? Even if they were still dating, I think the fact that she has a company would come up.

Indolent Bastard
Oct 26, 2007

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Oct 26, 2007

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Oct 26, 2007

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Mountaineer
Aug 29, 2008

Imagine a rod breaking on a robot face - forever
Pickles



Phoebe and Her Unicorn


Sounds fun. I hope we get to see the goblin opera.

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Tina's Groove


Family Circus


Rose is Rose


One Big Happy


Foob


Compu-Toon


Bizarro


Dilbert

Potato Jones
Apr 9, 2007

Clever Betty
Mike Lester is a piece of poo poo.

Good Listener
Sep 2, 2006

Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool

bean_shadow posted:

Shouldn't he have known this before marrying her? Even if they were still dating, I think the fact that she has a company would come up.

Also I am the last person to know the nitty gritty of these things but...if she sells her jet to her own company, isn't something illegal there? Like it's not embezzlement but that seems like something you would get in trouble for?

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
Calvin and Hobbes






Ripley's

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

Potato Jones posted:

Mike Lester is a piece of poo poo.

It's not new information, but it's good of him to keep telling us in case we forget.

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

Kazinsal posted:

Can someone explain to me what the gently caress 9 Chickweed Lane is about?
Sadly, yes I can.

bean_shadow posted:

Shouldn't he have known this before marrying her? Even if they were still dating, I think the fact that she has a company would come up.
You'd think that, wouldn't you?

So here's the thing about the current 9CWL storyline:

These two characters were introduced a few months back, which has been like two weeks in comic time. They're both musicians, and when they heard each other play they immediately wanted to gently caressfell in love, because in 9CWL music==sex. HOWEVER, they could not consumate their interest in each other because they're not married, and to engage in carnal relations before marriage is improper or some poo poo. So the guy proposes to the woman so they can have sex.

At this point, they have known each other like two days, and only met because they performed music together on stage as some last-minute thing or something.

HOWEVER, before the sex-enabling marriage can happen, the guy wants to get the woman's father's permission to marry his daughter. Turns out (ha ha!) the woman's family is ridiculously wealthy, and the father does not approve of this man marrying his daughter, and the couple end up playing music with the woman's family's grand piano. (c.f. "music==sex")

Anyway they're doing another music recital after having a spat, and have run offstage in the middle of it to have a totally fake self-administered marriage ceremony with just the two of them so they can finally have carnal relations in some prop room while their friends (who are supposed to be the main characters of the strip) fill in on-stage with presumably non-sexual music.

These two people, ones whose feet we've been seeing for a goddamn week and change, have known each other for about three weeks.

No, I do not know why I remember all that.

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Good Listener posted:

Also I am the last person to know the nitty gritty of these things but...if she sells her jet to her own company, isn't something illegal there? Like it's not embezzlement but that seems like something you would get in trouble for?
Well, it's likely a Hong Kong-based company which is probably not terribly well-regulated, but even ignoring that, provided she sells at market value and it's something the company needs/can use, there's not really any ethical considerations.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
You forgot the weird plane poo poo. I'm still not entirely sure what was going on there.

SomeMathGuy
Oct 4, 2014

The people were ASTONISHED at his doctrine.

Mark Trail Meets 9CL


Pearls Before Swine


The Phantom


Pooch Café

csammis
Aug 26, 2003

Mental Institution
Asaekkiga is surprisingly useful

bean_shadow
Sep 27, 2005

If men had uteruses they'd be called duderuses.

Wasn't Ted the one who was like, "Mid-life crisis eh? Boring life eh? You should cheat on your wife, John. I do!" If so then good on the wife for leaving that POS.

CommaToes
Dec 15, 2006

Ecce Buffo

SomeMathGuy posted:

The Phantom


ok this is good to see

Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

goatface posted:

You forgot the weird plane poo poo. I'm still not entirely sure what was going on there.
I think it was just that the guy couldn't wrap his head around the fact that she had her own private jet.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
No, the thing with the toilet.

Green Intern
Dec 29, 2008

Loon, Crazy and Laughable

bean_shadow posted:

Wasn't Ted the one who was like, "Mid-life crisis eh? Boring life eh? You should cheat on your wife, John. I do!" If so then good on the wife for leaving that POS.

Yep. He was the guy that went on for what appeared to be an entire day about how awesome it was to sleep around on his wife.

SomeMathGuy
Oct 4, 2014

The people were ASTONISHED at his doctrine.

bean_shadow posted:

Wasn't Ted the one who was like, "Mid-life crisis eh? Boring life eh? You should cheat on your wife, John. I do!" If so then good on the wife for leaving that POS.

On the other hand, boy, talk about it being easier to diagnose other peoples' problems rather than your own.

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Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment I'm alive, I pray for death!

bean_shadow posted:

Wasn't Ted the one who was like, "Mid-life crisis eh? Boring life eh? You should cheat on your wife, John. I do!" If so then good on the wife for leaving that POS.

Yeah same guy, I'm pretty sure.

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