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BCN Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis  I think I'd also like to introduce the thread to A Problem Like Jamal by Tauhid Bondia. I've been following it since it was added to GoComics back in August, but the backlog goes back a few months. It's a pretty funny strip about a suburban black kid and it addresses race relations and community issues in ways that, say, Baldo is too cowardly to. Here's the first strip I saw, which hooked me:  Here's the first couple of strips from when the comic first started back in June, it was added to GoComics about two months later. It posted a 3-a-week schedule so if I post multiple in a day, it should get us caught up pretty quick. Not a big block like this, but like 2-3 a day:       
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Kennel posted:Wow, an actual superhero who can't escape from Spidey's web? What a wimp! Who the gently caress gave you a Guy Gilchrist red-text avatar, what could you ever have done to deserve that?
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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. Yeah, for me the baby in the snow thing is the least of it, it's more about re-writing her grown son's life to match her fantasy instead of his reality.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Apparently there are still fans dedicated enough to rip apart these strips, day by day. On livejournal, no less! Someone buy them a forums account. Oh, who am I kidding, they're definitely already here.
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I think Jamal's artwork gets a lot better when it switches to color versions permanently, which should be in a few strips.
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The Bloop posted:I'll look forward to it, but even in the color strip with the lemonade stand the kid looks 90. The artist is clearly talented, it's just a very strange and off-putting character design. Honestly, I agree and it's what kept me from posting it when I discovered it six months ago, but there's a storyline coming up that I think is worth getting into, if nothing else but as a good contrast to some other strips in this thread. So maybe I'll just get through that and see what the consensus is.
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Glorified Scrivener posted:So it's still This is a good post! I am definitely looking forward to Ye Olde Foxtrot!
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EasyEW posted:
Please provide more of this wonderful dippy duck.
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I'm pretty excited for nu-Oop, I generally like Joey Allison Sayers and the new art looks nice as well. BCN  BC with special guest and friend of the thread   The Original Title of the Strip  Wallace  Curtis  A Problem Like Jamal    
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BCN Phoebe  Mars, You Say?  Curtis   A Problem Like Jamal    
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CommonShore posted:I think we're getting milkshake ducked here These ducks sure do love segregation, not gonna lie. BCN  (Tommy loving killed me today.) Phoebe  gently caress you, it's Baldo   Wallace  Curtis, there's a difference between a running gag and flat-out making the same joke all week.  A Problem Like Jamal    
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StrixNebulosa posted:Has Holbrook ever brought in any hippo characters? Those are the most vicious "prey" animals I can think of. Enjoy the ever-elusive good Wumo  also enjoy this Wumo that I found while looking for that one. Reading it gave me a stroke. 
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God I hate Close to Home, like looking at it makes me physically ill. Something about those blobs causes a visceral reaction for me. BCN  Phoebe and probably some kinda fetish  BC   Wallace the Brave  Curtis  a particularly cute Mutts  A Problem Like Jamal    
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shortspecialbus posted:I like A Problem Like Jamal We are about to get into the storyline that prompted me to start posting it, mainly in stark contrast to how Baldo fumbled the same subject. EDIT: I've also wondered if the "old man faces" are an intentional artistic decision by Bondia, referencing how often black and brown children are "aged up" by the media and law enforcement, 12-year old children like Tamir Rice being referred to as if they were grown men, and treated like we should fear them like you would an adult, etc. Vargo fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jan 11, 2019 |
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The lovely independent comic company in Funky Winkerbean is going to color their comic with the old zip-a-tone patterns (although it looked like it was all on a tablet?) and their retro-style bullshit is going to be a big hit and make them famous comic writers and possibly land them a movie deal.
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Evil Mastermind posted:One of the things I love about Wallace is how both the parents are dorks in their own, very believable ways. This is also one of the things I like about Phoebe, too. There was a recent strip about Marigold and Phoebe's dad trying to explain to Phoebe the concept of Geocities, and that is amazing to see alongside Curtis' dad, who is apparently a Saturday morning cartoon dad from 1993.
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The Bloop posted:What newspaper is this printed in? I don't think it is, officially, yet. Universal Press uses GoComics as kind of a farm-league system for their syndication arm. The publishers find comics they like, host them on GoComics for a while to expose them to a bigger audience, and then if the response is good, they make the big-league newspaper syndication deal. That's what happened with Wallace, Phoebe, and BCN. Conversely, some poo poo like Pibgorn and Reddick's other comic seems to just languish on GoComics forever.
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Endless Mike posted:Jesus Christ I was really sad to overshadow one of my favorite Wallace strips with that Jamal. Maybe I should have posted them separately.
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Glorified Scrivener posted:Ye Olde Foxtrot 04/22/88 - Siskel and Ebert give "Flesh Eaters from Hell" Two Thumbs Up, but disagreed on "Bondage Zombies from Mars" Holy poo poo, that opening panel throwaway gag.
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Darthemed posted:Adding color to black and white films was seen as an atrocity by some people. Well, that, and the box is thinking "there goes the neighborhood" when that film is put on the shelf because the "coloreds" moved in
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davidspackage posted:All of you self-spoiling fools are missing out on the angst I get from one Jamal a day. I'm probably going to do one a day for about a week because I think this story is best experienced one at a time and then go back to posting them in blocks until we catch up to the present, which shouldn't be too long.
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NRVNQSR posted:Timing is whatever, but why are you putting the strips in spoiler tags? If you're trying to protect people from trauma triggers I'm pretty sure that only really works if you tell them what triggers are present in the spoiler. Honestly, it was just for dramatic effect on these two strips, because they were hotly anticipated and tense. It wasn't intentionally for trauma triggers, but if it served that purpose, that's a bonus. I'll probably stop doing it tomorrow.
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