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Manuel Calavera posted:One Big Happy, created by Rick Detorie and launced late in 1988. It's a bit more realistic family life, althought Detorie has started to show his aging boomer side, and tut-tutting "outlandish" looks and views. It was good, but it's started to slip by thread standards.
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It's definitely a style of its own and I always feel like someone's pasting heads from one comic into a very different one. What genuinely irrititates me about it is how the timing of the dialogue doesn't go with that of the panels.
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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.
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Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom Me: if you insist, what a shame though, now you'll never get commended by... Donald Trump Guard: (thinking) holy poo poo this guy knows who our president is why don't you take a seat, sir, I do apologize
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StrixNebulosa posted:At the very least it sometimes lands a funny joke, unlike loving Intelligent Life
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EasyEW posted:You ever see a sparrow smoking an unfiltered cigarette? Didn't think so.
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Tiggum posted:Alley Oop Also the mother of all cold opens. These are really the first two strips? Do they come right off a previous run where we actually, like, could have seen the time travel bit?
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Huh, fair enough! I thought it was one of those strips that had been lying dormant for a while. Making 80 years of time travel into "it was just a dream" seems bold but new authors can do whatever they want as far as I'm concerned.
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Glorified Scrivener posted:Sam's Strip
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Put me down as another one who likes Jamal and I'm not even seriously complaining about the art, it's just well-meaning ribbing, although you'd think he'd realize that giving the kid a stache in that Sunday strip just draws attention to it.
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Yeah it's pretty bad. Jokes are without exception structured badly and wouldn't be very good if they weren't. I feel like I'm reading a ca. 2008 webcomic.Tunicate posted:Kids of a certain age like things that are gross or messy.
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Resident Idiot posted:https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/opinion/columns/4555054-generations-evan-hazard-multi-talented-cartoonist-brooke-mceldowneys-comics Kennel posted:Surgeon's Tales
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Nevermind something needs to start happening, the jokes are ancient, flat and told stiffly.
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Tiggum posted:Holbrook never thinks about the implications of anything. He literally has a thought and then draws it. like it's probably possible to be clever about your shared universe and craft a compelling narrative with consistent metaphors while also keeping a strict schedule but for every comics artist who could pull that off there's gotta be hundreds to whom it's just not given.
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Samovar posted:please red and rover me.
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Tiggum posted:The Argyle Sweater
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Edge of Adventure is structured and written better than Alley Oop. e: Oop is actually getting worse day to day. Like three times in a row the joke was Panel 1: "We look for IMPORTANT THING" Panel 2: "IMPORTANT THING?" Panel 3: "It's actually MUNDANE THING" Now we've reverse graduated to "We look for MUNDANE THING" "MUNDANE THING?" "yes" My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Jan 19, 2019 |
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BigglesSWE posted:If Ed found the fountain of youth he’d complain about the taste. ED, in a SAFARI HELMET, enters the house. He's SWEATING and SMILING AT A FLASK THOUGHT BUBBLE: I can't believe I found it. Water from the fountain of youth! I can be young again! Panel 2 ED LOOKS on DUSTIN, CONTORTED and SNORING on the couch, and MEG, TEXTING Panel 3 ED, looking RESIGNATED, is POURING the contents of the FLASK DOWN THE SINK
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RandomPauI posted:I need you to give me a reason to like you, Alley Reboop. You're obviously trying but... So how about we look at how lovely the art is, with everyone's arm proportions in particular completely out of any kind of human alignment even accounting for Alley Oop's cartoony style, Oop himself changing size and character model on a per-panel basis, and the clothes' main features like buckles and shoulder flaps being rendered awkwardly at best, which all isn't even going into the unevenly proportioned backgrounds.
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Folks, let's try and calm down about Jamal. I'm pretty sure there's no one here coming at this from a place of THAT COP WAS RIGHT. Some of you are worried about the day to day development, and rightly so, cause this is one hell of a swerve for the medium of daily syndicated comic strips, and the drama well executed. Some of you are more concerned with the political points it raises and whether it does that effectively, and again, rightly so, cause it's a hugely important issue and it would be a huge disappointment if an artist bungled it, considering the obvious sacrifices they have to make putting it out there in, again, the world of daily syndicated comic strips. I'm sure no one who's giving expression to their worry and tension wants to ignore the finer political and storytelling points, and I'm equally sure no one who's more focused on that is accusing anyone of virtue signalling (if I can be so frank, that's also one hell of an accusation to throw around in the first place). Personally I'm gonna suggest that the storytelling parts of the discussion could just as well wait until we're caught up. It's gonna take no time at all and you may find yourself thinking differently. I've been holding my tongue for days. But then what's been posted already certainly already is one hell of a discussion starter, if you're so inclined. Bondia can be proud of himself, that much is certain.
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Johnny Walker posted:I see that's Freddie Mercury, and I'm thinking the girl is Cyndi Lauper, but who is Oop? Adam Ant maybe?
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I remember an old MAD magazine feature where they'd draw detailed skeletons for comic strip characters using their design as the anatomical basis, and I would please like for someone to do that with a few modern Alley Oop strips and see how many individual ones they have to do.
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Wasn't overly enamored with Princess Planet at first, but the vampire walrus has won me over in a big way.
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I wasn't gonna say anything, but yeah, and I even always really wanted to read Corto Maltese  on the other hand, if you've got these organized in albums I'll happily read complete adventures some day or I can just select all your posts, your effort's not going to waste 
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Haifisch posted:Dick Tracy or is she the daughter of an obscure villain whose gimmick was being printed in all flat shading cause I could honestly see that with these creators
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Gosh, Curtis' dad d'you think it might have been making a big thing out of the  cookbook and impressing upon your kids the importance of not complaining that might have given them the idea
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Samovar posted:Maybe also have Gilchrist Nancy being destroyed by new, better Nancy? David Lynch's Angriest Dog In The World would be good as a detail somewhere. Death Ray, if you're already scraping the bottom, I'm gonna throw some German comics out there: Werner  Not a daily strip, more of a book character, but guaranteed to be recognized by any German readers you may have. Nick Knatterton  1950's parody of private detective pulp and comics in general. Used to be posted here at least two or three threads ago, I think by Hamiltonian Bicycle. The chin was always emphasized in the strips. Ottiphants   The mascot of an extremely famous German comedian turned comic strip. This is one of the few legit daily strips I can think of. Always meant to start posting it, actually, but I can never find an archive. Plus whenever I do find strips I remember it's actually pretty bad. Stulli the Sandwich  Regular feature in Titanic, a well known satirical magazine. The gag is the same in every strip: Stulli desperately wants to be eaten, but people invariably vomit upon hearing he's filled with margarine and Fleischsalat. Didi & Stulle  My personal favourite for inclusion. Used to be a weekly magazine feature, is now cancelled, and is another one I toyed around with the thought of posting until I realized it's utterly intranslatable.
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Oh and here's one from Spain, Mortadelo y Filemon Good opportunity for visual gags; there were always panels where Mortadelo (in black) would appear in "disguise" as something like a fire hydrant or a scooter, but keeping the distinctive head, nose and glasses. Can't find any good examples though. Actually if you're willing to go European you can mine some very rich veins indeed. Smurfs as diminutive blue mutants.
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Tunicate posted:The Princess Planet
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Dick Tracy team, have you ever noticed how Star Wars doesn't just cut to a shot of Darth Vader's unmasked face in the middle of The Empire Strikes Back, or how The Dark Knight avoids simply showing us upfront what Harvey Dent looks like after the fire, or how the Joker in Burton's Batman is revealed during a speech and steps out of the shadows right at the climax?
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The Beau Peep gang seems like a good fit for Weapon Brown too.
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Haifisch posted:Dick Tracy
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It's a coherent setup. Suppose that's worth a mention.
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I didn't know people were really into Mah Jong in the 20s.
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Haifisch posted:Dick Tracy you've already done the reveal, you idiots, stop wasting more time on building up to another one
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Manuel Calavera posted:Bizarro
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snack eater posted:what do you think Ed would do if Helen left for a weekend
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