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Manuel Calavera posted:Dilbert Two thoughts: 1. I hate CinemaSins but they're right that characters who eat apples are assholes 2. ...hasn't there been a bunch of strips where Dilbert complains about his coworkers being loud and making him lose his concentration?
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Powered Descent posted:Five. Lucy charges five cents for psychiatric help. Zakour obviously has an inflation fetish.
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I appreciated this.Vargo posted:
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*checks thread to see if the next Jamal has been poste--*Mycroft Holmes posted:i don't want to sound like a huge rear end in a top hat, but it kind of takes away from the social commentary when the dude who got shot full body tackled a cop. 
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NRVNQSR posted:It may be a lovely opinion but at least it's an opinion. The gently caress is there to discuss? asecondduck fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Jan 21, 2019 |
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For what it's worth, the rules have stopped me from tracking down and and posting Jeff Smith's old college newspaper comic "Thorn", which was the beta version of his comic book series Bone. Which is probably for the best.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I dunno, that sounds cool. I actually just remembered that Mister Beeg posted at least some of it in a previous version of the thread, so it's been done anyway, no point in doing it again. Also, it's not very good, mostly gag-a-day stuff. More of a curiosity for fans of Bone.
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Alterian posted:I gotta be honest. I have no freaking idea what order the Cheer Up Boss Dharma comic panels are suppose to be read in. It's easy. You read the left one, then the right one, then you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. It's actually: 1 4 2 5 3 6 7 10 8 11 9 12 Imagine that they're a grid of manga pages, though the speed bubbles are still read left->right (I think?).
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Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze is comedically bankrupt. Did I get that right?
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Helicity posted:I understand the confusion since we've gone deep into 9CL, Gilchrist, Rose is Rose, Dana Simpson, etc., but sometimes a long-running comic about predators and prey is just a comic about predators and prey. There will never be a discovery of Holbrook fetish porn exposing him as a creeper, because I honestly believe he's not a creeper. I put him on the Charles Boyce end of the spectrum - harmless, if not strange. Y'all are looking for something that isn't there. There's absolutely elements of Holbrook's fetishes present in his comics. I don't think a week has passed in the previous two years without a pregnant woman in one of his strips--I think it's pretty obvious Holbrook likes drawing and thinking about pregnant women. And then there's whatever the gently caress is going on with Kevin & Kell--like X-Men before it, he uses a binary dichotomy to stand in for a variety of social issues (with mixed results) but then inside of that "metaphor" there's a bunch of common fetish stuff, like sub/dom and transformation and vore present on the sidelines that might be accidental or completely intentional. Basically Holbrook presents a bunch of fetish poo poo in a non-sexual context, which has been a thing in comic books/comic strips for... ages. And yeah, it normalizes it, but wether or not that sort of stuff should be normalized is a discussion for not this thread, I think. I will say, as someone who is friends with someone who was VERY deep into the furry art scene in the 90's/early 00's (though you'd never guess it by looking at her) that there are way more fetish/furry artists working in newspaper comics today than you would think. Most of them keep it out of their strips, of course, or do it subtly--for instance, there's a long-running strip that is currently written and drawn by former fetish artists that you'd never guess in a million years.
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While I initially had mixed feelings about the reveal in Jamal the way that he's handled it since has been great. He got some pretty good jokes in while discussing a very serious topic, and of course this strip: Actually made me laugh out loud. The Bloop posted:Some peoples fetish is trying to identify other peoples fetishes from limited and ambiguous evidence, apparently Don't make me ask my friend about Holbrook because I have a feeling she'll end up pulling out a signed naked print of Kell and I don't want/need to see that.
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The Bloop posted:I think you owe it to the thread, frankly. This research must be completed. We're gonna be watching the Super Bowl together, I'll ask her then so she's too distracted by the Pats to go hunting though her archives.
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Alterian posted:Holbrook definately has a pregnancy fetish. Pizza crusts are also awesome when dipped in BBQ sauce, the comparison checks out
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CommonShore posted:did buddy just explode his blood everywhere like some kind of frightened lizard? I think he fainted and cracked his head on a desk on the way down, causing the guy who knocked the door down to freak out and run away. I think.
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I think it's a combination of the humor of the strip and the translation, and then like most comics the sound effects and such generally provide extra context that we don't get because they're not being translated. Most of the time I can figure it out, though the last two panels of the most recent one have me stumped. When that happens I just assume it's nonsensical or the punchline was flubbed in Korean too. 
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Some Guy TT posted:Cheer Up Boss Dharma Maybe "But that's nothing. The enconomy is even more depressing!"? Or maybe "more unfathomable", I don't speak Korean so I'm not sure which is intended by the original punchline. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Feb 2, 2019 |
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So I asked my furry-culture knowledgeable friend about Holbrook and she confirmed that Kevin & Kell came first, then it became popular with the furry fandom because they like any and everything with anthropomorphic animals. Holbrook makes regular appearances at furry cons that he gets invited to, but doesn't do anything besides sign books and interact with fans. He apparently doesn't do custom prints or pinups or anything--that one image that popped up as part of a fundraiser for the Usagi Yojimbo writer appears to be a one-off. She also agrees that it's impressive he's managed to run three comics for so long but doesn't think his art or writing is particularly good, and hasn't read any of his strips recently. She doesn't think that he added or changed anything about the comic to appeal to the fandom (again, furries really only care about humanoid animals and not much else), and after I described some of the more recent plot threads to her she also agreed that he doesn't think through his metaphors at all. So there we go!
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Kennel posted:Dustin
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howe_sam posted:Wales is OK! (except for the devil bears) I'm glad he moved away from putting all his female characters in "sexy" poses constantly.
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Yvonmukluk posted:I didn't realise that Space Is The Place started on Sunday, so treat yourselves to a double feature!  Actually on that note: We're now in the part of the timeline where there's bits of New Bobbins focusing on the Mystery Teens that take place between the Bad Machinery stories, are you planning on peppering them in? I'm not talking about anything the teens are tangentially in (like Into The Woods) but An Election in the World is a Lottie/Claire story, and then there's the Scary-Go-Round and Bobbins stuff that continues stories with the Mystery Teens even after he swore he was done with them... [Edit: Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, there's a solid case to be made for posting Into The Woods, as the teens and their family members are featured pretty heavily, and it really feels quite a bit more like Bad Machinery than SGR... though there's so much focus on SGR/Bobbins characters that it'd probably be more confusing than anything else] asecondduck fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Feb 10, 2019 |
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Ghostlight posted:here was me thinking maybe they didn't get it because they weren't familiar with an almost forty-year old children's movie, but no it's simply that they'd forgotten the exact same reference made four years earlier. Hey, I remember The Last Unicorn, my family borrowed it from our local library multiple times. I went back a year ago and rewatched it out of curiosity and man that's a strange film.
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Really Pants posted:but what order do I read the panels in Uno, dos, tres, catorce
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons
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PetraCore posted:Dangit, Jumbo, stars aren't gas! They're plasma! The sun is a
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Howard Beale posted:"Anything else I can get you?" I started responding with a laugh and saying "If I had a winning lottery ticket I'd keep it for myself!" and that usually catches them off guard.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:I picture a collection of Dustin comics in which each strip is only three panels of Ed silently drinking himself to death after everyone has rightfully abandoned him. Dustin is going to end the same way Cerebus did.
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Vargo posted:Wallace Wallace is the best currently running comic, hands down.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Mother Goose & Grim plainswalker75 posted:My guess is she got spayed
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Strontium posted:Viivi & Wagner Wait, Wagner's an actual pig? He isn't just drawn as a pig because it's funny? ...oh.
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:Man, Amend got real lazy after switching to Sundays-only huh He's been cycling through the same Sunday jokes for nearly a decade at this point with slight variations. It's a shame, old-school Foxtrot was pretty great. Wasn't there a goon that was posting it?
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I don't think the thread is ready for a Funky Winterbean/Mary Worth crossover.
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Selachian posted:Burni ...someone please explain to me why this wouldn't work before I buy a flamethrower for this winter [Edit: I found a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UEfXsu1OVw]
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell I know Holbrook gets pretty much everything wrong but literally no vegetarian would ever eat vegetables that were cooked inside a turkey. Also the turkey wouldn't deflate after the vegetables were removed, they're not meat balloons
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Transmodiar posted:Charlotte Grote is getting her own comic book - even though Allison continues to pawn off the artwork to lesser talent: Aww, I like Max's art! I think they do a really good job of translating Allison's style and characters into something more traditionally "comic book-ey" in Giant Days, if that makes any sense. AND gently caress YEAH MORE LOTTIE Also, I wonder if the announcement of this new Grote series is why I can't find the kinda-sorta-ish Bad Machinery sequel about Linton and Mildred (or maybe Shauna, I can't remember) he was posting as part of Bobbins (I think?) on his website anymore. I actually went looking for it last night because I hadn't finished it and couldn't find it. ...I was actually gonna request it be posted/post it myself after BM ends. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Dec 3, 2019 |
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JethroMcB posted:Allison cryptically posted a while back that The Great Unboxing "Shouldn't have been published" but didn't really elaborate. Which is a bummer, it had some great stuff and I already loved the next generation of Tackleford kids.  Heh, if any webcomic series should have a part of it that mysteriously disappears under suspicious circumstances, it's Scary-Go-Round. And yeah, Mystery Kids: TNG were pretty great. Hopefully they're happily living the suburb of other forgotten characters (or, even better, will appear in the Lottie comic).
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Rand Brittain posted:Where’s that strip where Kate Beaton makes fun of Allison for drawing all women as models? So this sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. It looks like Kate did do a SGR guest strip, but it's not about John's art, and it's been black holed; here's where it was: http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20081007. I was able to find a transcript of it on some strange search engine; you can read the text of the strip here: if you're curious http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.php?s=kate+beaton&Search=Search&comic=257. However, I did find the comic I think you're talking about. Here's a link: http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20081006 And the comic itself:  (I can totally see why you thought it was Kate).
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EasyEW posted:9 Chickweed Lane Huh, these actually got a chuckle out of me. Shame about the art, though. ...also isn't she supposed to be pregnant?
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Tiggum posted:Dogs of C-Kennel Ok, so first of all, this decodes to nothing. Which is disappointing, given how trivially easy it is to encode/decode binary. Secondly, Millenials wouldn't use binary. This joke would maybe work if the blue dog was using emoji. So my reaction to this comic is this: 👌 👴
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