Transmodiar posted:

Probably the same rear end in a top hat who turned me into Mordock.

Modesty Blaise needs no introduction. If you'd like to read past adventures (and see some loving incredible pictures of Luke Perry), go here: https://transmodiar.imgur.com/

CannonFodder posted:

I first starting reading this thread thanks to the SLUGGO IS LIT banner, and it took me a while to follow Modesty Blaise. At first it looked like some T&A cheesecake stuff with scratchy old art and too much talking, but then I discovered the real fan service: Modesty cracking skulls and wrecking fools.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Heathcliff

... You want old dollar store Garfield? I'll give it a go for a week, but no promises, it's... well, okay. It's better than modern Garfield but not by much.

January 1, 2002 (I can't find any older at the mo)

Digamma-F-Wau posted:

Actually Gately died/Gallagher took over back in 2001; in other words, this is Modern Heathcliff: The Early Years

StrixNebulosa posted:

That's weird, because the comic is signed Gately and the humor is absolutely different from Gallagher's stuff. Maybe he had a lot of backlog?

Haifisch posted:

Dick Tracy

Zerilan posted:

Don't think I've ever really heard much about all the supposed drama surrounding FooB's writer beyond that it's been mentioned that a lot of the comic is dragging in stuff from her own life, but every strip I've bothered to read of the comic makes it feel like FooB's writer is the sort of person who feels that having kids and starting a family is what women are supposed to do but also loathes children and raising kids probably made both her and the kids miserable.

Zerilan posted:

Don't think I've ever really heard much about all the supposed drama surrounding FooB's writer beyond that it's been mentioned that a lot of the comic is dragging in stuff from her own life, but every strip I've bothered to read of the comic makes it feel like FooB's writer is the sort of person who feels that having kids and starting a family is what women are supposed to do but also loathes children and raising kids probably made both her and the kids miserable.

Zerilan posted:

Don't think I've ever really heard much about all the supposed drama surrounding FooB's writer beyond that it's been mentioned that a lot of the comic is dragging in stuff from her own life, but every strip I've bothered to read of the comic makes it feel like FooB's writer is the sort of person who feels that having kids and starting a family is what women are supposed to do but also loathes children and raising kids probably made both her and the kids miserable.

Lynn posted:

Johnston: Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn’t know how to raise a child. And I wasn’t close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn’t want a baby. I wanted the stability that a family was supposed to represent. And a baby can’t say, “Thanks, Mom, for feeding me and keeping me warm and dry even though I screamed my lungs out all night last night.” And they want and they want and they want and they want. The only satisfaction you have is that they’re fed and they’re warm and they’re safe and they’re thriving, and they smile at you every once in a while. They’re not going to thank you until they’re 45 [laughter].

I remember once when he was very unhappy and he was screaming and screaming, and I threw him out into a snow bank in his pajamas. This was in Ontario, and it was not warm here. And he put his hands against the window of the front door, pleading to be let in. And I was inside, screaming at him, “If you don’t want to sleep all night, you can friggin’ sleep outside!” And this was a teeny baby. And I don’t know what it was—it was almost like at that moment, my guardian angel put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Open the door.”

The next morning, I called a very good friend of mine who was working at the hospital. I had also been doing some work for this hospital on a freelance basis. And I said to my friend, “I need some help. I don’t known how to parent.” Now, you say to yourself, “I’m a mature adult—I should know how to parent.” But raising a child is not like training a dog. [laughter] I was not a sensible mother. I just didn’t know what I was supposed to do. I didn’t know about time out. I didn’t know to say, “OK, we’re both out of control, let’s have time out for five minutes and calm down.”

StrixNebulosa posted:

She once put a child out into the freezing Canadian winter and was going to leave them there until their guardian angel told them to let the child in.

Haifisch posted:

I guess it's time to post this in the new thread.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

And re-wrote her own son's life in-strip to fulfill her own fantasies of him 1) being straight and 2) marrying his (invented) high school sweet-heart.

Manuel Calavera posted:

Dilbert

Huxley posted:

I mean, that's pretty clearly PPD.

quote:

We've not seen Sonny's mum and dad for a while, but there they are. Sonny is "of money", but he's nice with it.

NRVNQSR posted:

Yeah. We joke about it because she's a spectacularly lovely person to her family in so many other ways, but the baby thing could legitimately happen to anyone. Honestly she deserves some kudos for recognizing that she had a problem and seeking help with it.

NRVNQSR posted:

Yeah. We joke about it because she's a spectacularly lovely person to her family in so many other ways, but the baby thing could legitimately happen to anyone. Honestly she deserves some kudos for recognizing that she had a problem and seeking help with it.

Alhazred posted:

SubNat posted:

This is cute.
Norwegian, swedish, or danish?

Alhazred posted:

FrumpleOrz posted:

Kevin & Kell

CannonFodder posted:

"That awful Grote girl"

Them's fightin words

Tiggum posted:

Mary Worth is fun to edit.

Powered Descent posted:

Isn't that exactly why they stopped using the skull and crossbones as a poison symbol decades ago, and moved to things like Mr. Yuk?

Tunicate posted:

"nanotechnology trackers" is such a lame line anyway

like holbrook just say "we planted a bug", then you get an actual panel that resembles a joke