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Well despite that reveal Happy New Year, thread! Everybody celebrate! The Dinette Set by Julie Larson is about the whitest suburban trash. The characters have names, but they're all so American Psycho-ishly interchangeable it doesn't really matter. The characters are the worst kind of selfish ignorance, and are so well-presented it was a long time before we realized it was supposed to be a laugh-at, not laugh-with.  Working Daze is a garbage comic "written" by John Zakour and drawn by Scott Roberts, and is a long-time contender for "Worst Strip in the Tread". It's a lazy workplace "comedy" mixed with Big-Bang-Theory-level nerd jokes, which is to say they think references are jokes. Spoiler: they are not. In addition, some of the characters have total cosmic powers, and can turn people into objects, turn them to stone, and other stupid poo poo like that.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is from Ruben Bolling, the political cartoonist behind Tom the Dancing Bug. Super-Fun-Pak Comix was originally done as an occasional full page of parodies of newspaper comics, ads, and meta-jokes, and is now split up into a daily comic strip with fillers done by ghost writers. 
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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.
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CommaToes posted:Yeah, these threads spawned from the GBS Foob thread. We realized with dread that we were the largest online Foob fan community. The Dinette Set stays informed.  Working Daze is incapable of change.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix hopes we die, it hopes we both die. 
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The Dinette Set unwinds. Working Daze is fooling itself.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix will have its people call your people. 
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Selachian posted:Retail
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Jan 5, 2019 20:18
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The Dinette Set gets in a good one. Working Daze resolves to be unfunny.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix has heard this one before. 
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The Dinette Set is a microcosm of the American political system. Working Daze is Dilberting again.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is about the might whale, if you know what I mean. 
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Jan 6, 2019 21:24
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The Dinette Set is a health risk. Working Daze makes the first Adam Sandler joke of 2019.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix can't catch a break. 
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Don't forget, the real reason Ed wants Dustin to succeed is so that Dustin can buy him stuff to "make up" for all the money Ed has spent on him. That was an actual comic. Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery 
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Stultus Maximus posted:How is Reddick so drat bad at this? Because it's just "nerd jokes". He knows he doesn't have to be good or funny or anything, because his audience is nerds who'll laugh because Reddick mentioned That Thing They Like.
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Jan 8, 2019 02:53
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The Dinette Set is nine tenths of the law. Working Daze is a bad slapstick routine.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix goes high-concept. 
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gleebster posted:Neither has Tom Batiuk, and it galls him. Dawgstar posted:It's funny because big box stores love to fire the newest employee because it's easiest to show how much money you saved by pointing at a paycheck you no longer have to make.
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EasyEW posted:This is as good a place as any to remind everyone of the excruciating history of Batom Comics he wrote a few years ago. The Dinette Set is asking for trouble.  Working Daze references a comic nobody remembers.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix flew over the cuckoo's nest. 
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Jan 9, 2019 04:27
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The Dinette Set ponders the deeper mysteries. Working Daze is so lame I can't even be bothered to make the obvious joke.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix looks at how the other half lives. 
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Discendo Vox posted:From a ways back but what is it referencing? FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell This one feels pretty gross to me, blech. 
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The Dinette Set only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Working Daze sets realistic goals.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix has trouble relating. 
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goatface posted:Are the "heroes" of the strip about to fake-lynch someone? If by "fake-lynch" you mean "fake-try-to-kill-and-eat", yes. The Dinette Set wants to believe.  Working Daze has actually been in repeats. I hate that I recognize these strips.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is not so different than us, really. 
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Jan 12, 2019 18:51
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The Dinette Set is on a seafood diet. Working Daze kills person, joke.  (Seriously, you don't need any of the word balloons in the last panel for the joke to work.) Super-Fun-Pak Comix is just what they want you to think! 
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Jan 13, 2019 19:19
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The Dinette Set works the system. Working Daze is probably not a coincidence.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is entrenched in symbolism. 
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Jan 14, 2019 04:16
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The Dinette Set budgets. Working Daze has its pulse on the current political climate.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix has it rough during job interviews. 
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howe_sam posted:It's a good reversal from how that joke normally would go.
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Jan 16, 2019 22:17
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The Dinette Set knows the value of versatility. Working Daze ignores the question "why would anyone want to wear that ugly dress in the first place?"  Super-Fun-Pak Comix learns it early. 
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The Dinette Set doesn't use an ad-blocker. Working Daze discovers the transparency tool.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix makes us feel better about ourselves. 
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Jesus this thread's starting out strong this year. I all can offer is this garbage. The Dinette Set should have paid attention.  Working Daze reminds you of other, better comics.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix gives us this year's first appearance of an old friend of the thread. 
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I'd honestly be shocked if it didn't.
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RandomPauI posted:The lines are flat.  Holy loving poo poo
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Jan 20, 2019 00:52
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The Dinette Set doesn't mince words. Working Daze is one step forward, two steps back.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is ugly on the inside. 
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Jan 20, 2019 03:30
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The Dinette Set remembers old Hollywood. Working Daze begs a lot of questions.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix walked right into it. 
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The Dinette Set could use some fresh air. Working Daze, yes, for the love of God!  Super-Fun-Pak Comix hopes you're looking. 
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Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom
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The Dinette Set respects the classics. Working Daze doesn't make sense to anyone under 30.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix needs to wash its mouth out with soap. 
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The Dinette Set knows you can't put a price on quality. Working Daze is actually a new one for the first time in a few weeks.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix should work on its timing. 
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Vargo posted:Wallace quote:And now... Jamal
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ryde posted:My first reaction was the same but I think it’s great after thinking a bit. Once you come to the realization we shared here, you can go one step further and start sympathizing with the characters that this is something they have to think about when dealing with the police. I think it’s pretty hard for white guys like myself to really understand the reality minorities live in, and playing it out this way evokes sympathy and understanding in a way that following through wouldn’t have. It changes it from being an unfortunate incident to a day to day reality. I remember reading articles about how "minority" parents had to have conversations with their children about how to behave around cops; don't be threatening, do what they say, etc., but I don't think it really hit home for me (the white guy) until these strips.
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Some Guy TT posted:Wait, so there isn't a man in the house? Then who was the guy at the funeral? Vargo posted:Y'know, I actually don't know who that is. Maybe a grandfather? Jamal and Jermaine do have a dad that doesn't live with them (we'll meet him in a future arc) but he doesn't look like that. It's the cop who's saying it. I think the idea is that he's just assuming that she's a single mom because racism.
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The Dinette Set is a booster. Working Daze rises to its maximum level of incompetence, and stays there.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix didn't see that coming. 
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