Some Guy TT posted:

That's right, back by popular demand, from viewers like you! Not literally viewers like you. What I mean is, Dharma comics have been popular on South Korean internet message boards over the last few years. It took me awhile to find a digital source for the new one because most search engine results assume you want the old ones. Sports Dongah probably considers a feature, not a bug, since it incentivizes people to buy their newspaper. Hence why they gave Park Seong-hoon a contract to write a revival last summer.

Three new characters are introduced by name here in Dharma's new office, which is otherwise mostly the same as the old office. The names are all obvious puns, so for the sake of consistency I'm also giving English language pun names to It's All Right Chief Dharma characters too now, even though those puns tended to be a lot more subtle. Dharma is already a pun (it's not a standard Korean name) on account of being a loan word, so that one doesn't need to be changed.

bad posts ahead!!! posted:

i wasn't even aware toby and the professor got married, when did that happen?

Glorified Scrivener posted:

Tarzan

Huxley posted:

I like the implication that Washington, specifically, didn't know about dinosaurs when you could say the same thing about anyone who died before the early 19th century.

goatface posted:

How old is he meant to be? From character body design I'd say ~6-8.

My Lovely Horse posted:

We've all seen Fargo, this can hardly come as a surprise.



Old Greedy Bishop is my favourite 17th century rapper.

StrixNebulosa posted:

I cast thee out, depression!


Outbursts of Everett True

Johnny Walker posted:

The art is horrible and off-putting, but the writing is actually good so it wound up winning me over. I think that's true of a lot of people here.

Sweaty IT Nerd posted:

Where does Grand Moff factor in?

Transmodiar posted:

Don't threaten us with your lovely webcomic unless you want "Oh Baby," "Sylvia," and "Herb and Jamal" brought back for mutually assured destruction.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Chief / Boss Dharma is one of the best comic strip characters of all time and we have our own Some Guy TT to thank for bringing him to English language speakers.

Powered Descent posted:

Perhaps he worked on the F-35 program and hates to see it get savaged in the press.

Synthbuttrange posted:

Its that arrow between 2/5 and 8 11 that messes you up. That led to me trying to read

1 4 2 5 3 6 7 10 8 11 9 12

The Bloop posted:

Does a lady phantom wear a bra on the outside or just the stripey underbritches

Ghostlight posted:

Nekonaughey

Selachian posted:

Edge of Pop Culture Reference



Can't you just feel the labored "Wilhelm scream" gag being hoisted into place?

Ghostlight posted:

Nekonaughey

Coatlicue posted:

This is a literal masterpiece.

Ghostlight posted:

Nekonaughey

Haifisch posted:

Yeah, I'd hope Lowtax would give a "the forums will be dead forever as of this date" warning, but it's good to have backup plans ahead of time.

Tunicate posted:

The Princess Planet

Selachian posted:

Schwedge of Adventure

Ghostlight posted:

Nekonaughey

Lutha Mahtin posted:

did the bunny just knock that guy's lights out?

EasyEW posted:

Sally Forth



Skippy (November 19, 1931)



Peanuts (April 13, 1972)



Funky Winkerbean



Crankshaft



9 Fleshlight Lane



Rip Haywire



Out Our Way (May 26-28, 1932)







Thimble Theater (November 5, 1935)



And now, Dok's Dippy Finale (November 22-24, 1923)







So. Let's talk about Dok Hager for a sec.

Before he was a cartoonist, John Ross Hager (1858-1932) was a dentist, and made a pretty lengthy career before taking up professional cartooning in his middle age. As we mentioned before, his longest running character was the Umbrella Man, a guy who illustrated the daily weather report, and originally the duck was his sidekick before he was spun off into his own strip in 1912. The duck was so popular for awhile that some dude in a duck costume was hired to do comedy routines while people in the public square were waiting for election returns.

We came in on the duck's tail. Dok was 65 years old in 1923, and his eyes were going on him. Presumably it wouldn't be too bad an idea to lighten the load of a guy who had failing vision and two daily strips going, so the Kid retired his star billing and went back to second-banana status on the front page. But even the Umbrella Man's days were numbered, and by 1925, Dok had retired completely.

So that's the end. But if you paid attention to those dates, we never actually got to the beginning. Obviously we gotta do something about that. But that's going to require some prep work, so watch this space.

COMING SOON: THE BEGINNING OF DUCK DIPPINESS AS WE KNOW IT

Ghostlight posted:

Classic Cat

Johnny Walker posted:

Rex Morgan MD



Martina's Mom: Baba Yaga.

Some Guy TT posted:

Cheer Up Boss Dharma

EasyEW posted:

Diamond Dick is a dime novel character, and thus a perverter of morals and uprightness. Mother is consigning it to the flames where it belongs, and later will probably force march him through Pilgrim's Progress again.

Now, of course, Diamond Dick is a Penguin Classic, which only shows how debased we are in the modern world.

TofuDiva posted:

Also this seemed like a thing that should happen

Some Guy TT posted:

Cheer Up Boss Dharma

Some Guy TT posted:

Surprisingly timely reference this, a white woman popping up on the street insisting that foreigners invade to save her presumably non-white-majority homeland from tyranny and give them freedom.

Kennel posted:

Tiggum posted:

Judge Parker





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Why not?

Huxley posted:

Of all the men he's "clearly killed" this one stands out as a man he has CLEARLY killed.