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I was browsing a second-hand shop a while back and I found a storybook from the... 60s? 70s? called Walt Disney's America. I opened it up to a random page and got this: 
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Nov 27, 2018 22:17
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As a general rule, police departments do not rely on young teenage girls to solve crimes.
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Nov 27, 2018 22:32
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RaySmuckles posted:coraline is just a naked rip off of the thief of always
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Nov 27, 2018 22:34
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The Kins posted:I was browsing a second-hand shop a while back and I found a storybook from the... 60s? 70s? called Walt Disney's America. I opened it up to a random page and got this: What the superfudge? So many questions: Why is he lynching a pig?
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Nov 28, 2018 00:13
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Either he tried to brush a wild hog's teeth, or it's about encountering rabies
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Nov 28, 2018 00:35
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Enticing the hogs to kill the rabid dog? 
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Nov 28, 2018 00:45
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Khazar-khum posted:As a general rule, police departments do not rely on young teenage girls to solve crimes. is it any wonder? if ya novels are any indication the police would be out of a job
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Nov 28, 2018 01:10
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The early Hardy Boys books were overtly super cynical about cops and portrayed them as a bunch of lazy donut eating bastards basically. Apparently in the 50s they went back through and rewrote them to be more pro pig
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Nov 28, 2018 01:11
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The Kins posted:I was browsing a second-hand shop a while back and I found a storybook from the... 60s? 70s? called Walt Disney's America. I opened it up to a random page and got this: Mike Huckabee must have read this one to his kids.
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Nov 28, 2018 04:52
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The most ridiculous thing is how Dick Tracy, hard-boiled crime fighting square jawed Dick Tracy, acquired a space ship, and he and his adopted son Junior used it to fly to the Moon, which was full of moon people who were mostly just like us, and Junior fell in love with the daughter of the Governor of the Moon, Moon Maid, and married her, and brought her back to Earth, and they had a daughter named Honeymoon, and Dick Tracy and Junior made all sorts of regular trips to visit their friends the Moon people. Then after control of Dick Tracy was wrested away from its obviously senile original creator the first thing its new writers did was blow Moon Maid the gently caress up with a car bomb.
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Nov 28, 2018 05:02
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The Kins posted:I was browsing a second-hand shop a while back and I found a storybook from the... 60s? 70s? called Walt Disney's America. I opened it up to a random page and got this: They're talking about rabies you know.
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Nov 28, 2018 05:05
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Drunk Nerds posted:What the superfudge? Did Old Yeller have pig-lynching? Because apparently this book has that story. GoodReads posted:Stories included:
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Nov 28, 2018 05:06
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I didn't make it past page three so forgive me but the Eagles could have easily carried Frodo all the way to Mordor but they would have been spotted hundreds of miles away and a million orcs would have plugged the gaps of Mt Doom waiting for them.
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Nov 28, 2018 05:11
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Oz is interesting in how it was a fairly popular and well known series and now all anyone knows or cares about is the film.
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Nov 28, 2018 14:40
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The most ridiculous thing is how Dick Tracy, hard-boiled crime fighting square jawed Dick Tracy, acquired a space ship, and he and his adopted son Junior used it to fly to the Moon, which was full of moon people who were mostly just like us, and Junior fell in love with the daughter of the Governor of the Moon, Moon Maid, and married her, and brought her back to Earth, and they had a daughter named Honeymoon, and Dick Tracy and Junior made all sorts of regular trips to visit their friends the Moon people. Now this is art.
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Nov 28, 2018 15:24
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Khazar-khum posted:As a general rule, police departments do not rely on young teenage girls to solve crimes. Right. They have no interest in solving crimes.
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Nov 28, 2018 16:27
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Holy gently caress, I thought that Dick Tracy thing was just a drug fuelled joke. I mean by Teriyaki Hairpiece, specifically.
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Nov 28, 2018 18:58
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Holy gently caress, I thought that Dick Tracy thing was just a drug fuelled joke. You wanna see drug fueled, look up the strip from a few years ago, before the current artist. LAUGH CLOWN LAUGH HA HA HEE HOO Hee hee ha
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Nov 28, 2018 19:02
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The moon people had powers, too. They could make things hot or cold or immobilize living things or shoot magnetic rays out of the antennae on their head. Dick Tracy had moon adventures in hundreds of newspapers for years. Years. Teriyaki Hairpiece fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Nov 28, 2018 |
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Nov 28, 2018 22:04
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The moon people had powers, too. They could make things hot or cold or immobilize living things or shoot magnetic rays out of the antennae on their head. quote:During this period, Dick Tracy himself had many adventures on the Moon, notably solving a murder case involving a man named Purdy Fallar who kept two of his fingernails extra-long, claiming they were for harvesting the meat of Giant Escargot: a species of gigantic Moon snails, prized on Earth as delicacies.
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Nov 28, 2018 23:31
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Why, how do you eat your giant snail?
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Nov 29, 2018 02:12
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Holy poo poo I can't believe I forgot the giant snails. Those moon people loving loved their giant snails. Just another normal fact about a comic strip that stars a tough crimebusting plainclothes police detective from not-Chicago.
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Nov 29, 2018 02:27
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Funny thing, The Phantom is still crazy popular in Australia and routinely outsells Marvel and DC's combined output last I checked.
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Nov 29, 2018 15:40
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Funny thing, The Phantom is still crazy popular in Australia and routinely outsells Marvel and DC's combined output last I checked.
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Nov 29, 2018 16:44
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drat i didnt know dick tracy kicked so much rear end
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Nov 29, 2018 23:46
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The Kins posted:Yep. There's been a comic book version of The Phantom since 1948. It's basically the newspaper comics from the US and various European countries, translated where necessary and reformatted into a comic book form on crappy paper. It continues to sell bizarrely well, probably because it's cheap and sold at newsagents instead of comic shops. * For the Ghost Who Walks -ed
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Nov 30, 2018 07:27
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The most ridiculous thing is how Dick Tracy, hard-boiled crime fighting square jawed Dick Tracy, acquired a space ship, and he and his adopted son Junior used it to fly to the Moon, which was full of moon people who were mostly just like us, and Junior fell in love with the daughter of the Governor of the Moon, Moon Maid, and married her, and brought her back to Earth, and they had a daughter named Honeymoon, and Dick Tracy and Junior made all sorts of regular trips to visit their friends the Moon people. I too, hope one day to be governor of the moon.
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Nov 30, 2018 07:59
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The moon people had powers, too. They could make things hot or cold or immobilize living things or shoot magnetic rays out of the antennae on their head. He had a two-way wrist radio/video, assorted enemies named for their physical deformities, and moon people is the thing you find strange?
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Nov 30, 2018 09:43
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Khazar-khum posted:He had a two-way wrist radio/video, assorted enemies named for their physical deformities, and moon people is the thing you find strange? yeeeesssss? (not sure if trick question)
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Nov 30, 2018 10:12
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I watched a documentary on Henry Darger and honestly if you took out the nudity his insane ramblings and artwork would not be out of place in an Oz book.
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Nov 30, 2018 11:51
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Hm, idk. The really shocking thing about Darger once you get past the heroic nudity, the unusual transsexuality or whatever, and the sheer length of the book, is the violence and militarism and the emphasis on death and suffering. Oz is over-the-top pacifistic most of the time (the response of Ozma to hearing that the Nome King is coming to sack the emerald city in book 6 or so is basically “guess we’ll die, haha not, no one can die in Oz” and when Dorothy complains she lectures her about the futility of meeting violence with violence), the only time it portrays military stuff is to mock it and it never ever does anything gory or seriously warlike.
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Nov 30, 2018 12:58
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I figured Darger probably just genuinely didn't know what was in a girl's pants and only had himself as a reference point. Apparently it's theorised he was pretty far on the spectrum.
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Nov 30, 2018 13:11
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I figured Darger probably just genuinely didn't know what was in a girl's pants and only had himself as a reference point. Apparently it's theorised he was pretty far on the spectrum. same. i think he was just really hosed up from ending up at a child asylum full of molesters because he jerked off at a catholic school. he also went loving nuts when he lost the picture of dead girl and he got angry enough that he started telling god that his weird child army would lose in his massive tome.
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Nov 30, 2018 23:42
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Khazar-khum posted:He had a two-way wrist radio/video, assorted enemies named for their physical deformities, and moon people is the thing you find strange? The moon people gave Dick Tracy a device known as the Air Car. It was like a cylindrical basket of a cherry picker, only with no crane arm. It could fly in the air using magnetism. Dick Tracy and his buddies used air cars during their regular police work on Earth. Listen it was The Jetsons but mixed with a down to earth noir police drama and yes that's weird.
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Dec 1, 2018 00:16
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The Kins posted:I was browsing a second-hand shop a while back and I found a storybook from the... 60s? 70s? called Walt Disney's America. I opened it up to a random page and got this: "America" was one book of a set of four from 1961. My grandmother had the set and used to read me the stories when I was little in the 1970's. The page you happened upon was from "Old Yeller". Travis was having Yeller (the dog) heard a pack of feral pigs so that Travis could trap them and brand them. Travis eventually falls into the heard of pigs and Yeller protects him, however is bitten by one of the pigs (who is rabid) It's basically this scene from the 1957 movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTzwS38GK1s
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Dec 1, 2018 02:24
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The moon people gave Dick Tracy a device known as the Air Car. It was like a cylindrical basket of a cherry picker, only with no crane arm. It could fly in the air using magnetism. Dick Tracy and his buddies used air cars during their regular police work on Earth. What's weird is that George Jetson made enough money working on sprockets to afford his lifestyle.
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Dec 1, 2018 03:43
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Khazar-khum posted:What's weird is that George Jetson made enough money working on sprockets to afford his lifestyle. The 2950s were a time of unprecendented economic growth following Galaxy War 2 and is a lifestyle that thanks to people like George voting to take away those benefits provided them us tri-millenials will never know.
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Dec 1, 2018 03:47
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Whybird posted:Good thing we've moved on since th Except fat people really are like that
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Dec 1, 2018 18:32
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Drunk Nerds posted:The eagles should just be expunged from any future reprints Edited out of the movies Lucas style. Gandalf just jumps off and flys away on nothing
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Dec 1, 2018 18:58
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Vermin do tremendous damage to crops and as such should not be portrayed as the good guys, a la Milne's work.
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Dec 1, 2018 19:19
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