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Hello new thread. Rhymes with Orange is another gag-a-day strip written by two women, Hilary Price and Rina Piccolo.  Pros and Cons used to be a thread favorite. It's about three professionals: a police detective, a defense lawyer, and a psychiatrist. (There used to be other characters in the strip, including a judge, a prosecuting attorney, and a server, but they've been appearing less and less.) However, over the last year it's been swerving back and forth between "still actually funny" and "Fox News style grousing about snowflakes." You never quite know what you're going to get each day.  Retail is a strip about how much fun it is to work in a mall department store.  I also post: Buni (Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays), a wordless strip about a happy cartoon rabbit. Edge of Adventure (Mondays), which really wants to be a throwback to the days of Captain Easy, Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon, and other classic adventure strips. Unfortunately, the creators of those strips knew how to write and plot and draw and keep a story moving, and Edge's creators don't. Despite that, it's almost up to its third year of publication. Stephen Collins (Saturdays) is a British cartoonist, occasionally political, who I post here because he's usually quite funny and the people who don't want to wade into the political cartoon thread should get to enjoy him too.
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Molti Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons  Retail 
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Jan 2, 2019 23:42
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Alterian posted:Pretty much how I quit my job at Target in college. I called them up and said "I'm not coming in....ever" I actually gave two weeks notice when I left Target for a better job, and my boss (sorry, Team Leader) seemed rather confused by the concept.
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Jan 3, 2019 01:53
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Rhymes with Orange Pros and Cons  Retail  And as a special Retail supplement, let's look back at the history of the Annoying Blond Kid with the Glasses!      So long, Annoying Blond Kid! You were another seasonal worker whose name no one ever bothered to learn!
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Jan 4, 2019 00:08
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No new Buni today. Rhymes with Orange  First lovely Pros and Cons of the New Year  Retail 
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Jan 4, 2019 12:26
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Bobulus posted:She's also the mother of Leonardo Da Vinci, right? So we'll inevitably get a comic where Sam is attributed with the genes that made him brilliant. No, she was Leonardo's nanny, not his mom. (At least currently. Who knows what other revelations Holbrook might have up his sleeve.) RoboRodent posted:Replicants don't say beep beep. Also, if this is really a nerdy geeky strip for nerds, you wouldn't have to throw in a goddamn footnote to make sure everyone got your movie reference.
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Jan 4, 2019 18:59
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Glorified Scrivener posted:I wanted to pick up one more strip and I settled on Tarzan. I know it will have some problematic content, but I love the old adventure strips. The GoComics archives starts in media res with a 1971 story called "Cult of the Mahar" and I just can't get enough of these goofy looking evil psychic Pterosaurs from hollow earth. I mean, look at that face: Definitely looks better than the movie version.  Rhymes with Orange  Bravely Beating Up That Straw Man  Retail  No Stephen Collins today, sorry.
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Jan 5, 2019 19:34
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Jan 7, 2019 03:09
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Glorified Scrivener posted:Tarzan: Beware All Humans with Friendly Vibrations You know, it says something that the apes can express the concept of "Beware all humans!" in a single word.
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Jan 7, 2019 18:51
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons  Retail  Edge of loving   Jam "Mordock" Esallen.
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Jan 8, 2019 00:17
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Johnny Walker posted:The Phantom Is it just me, or does the shading on the plane at right make it look like a butt? Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons  Retail 
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Jan 9, 2019 00:51
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Guest Author Bruce Tinsley  Retail 
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Rhymes with Orange Still Bruce Tinsley  Retail  RandomPauI posted:I'll appreciate the twist if Holbrook has the guts to kill the mouse villain off for good. I feel like he'd try a fake-out. As big as Holbrook's casts get, he rarely if ever kills characters off -- he just phases them out. At the most, I think we'll get an inconclusive "death" that leaves the door open for him to bring Angelique back if he feels like it.
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Jan 11, 2019 00:31
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Jan 12, 2019 00:10
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail *sigh* Oh look. It's a Sal Buscema punch. Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons  Retail  Stephen Collins is political today. 
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Jan 13, 2019 00:56
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Rhymes with Orange Actual Funny Pros and Cons  Retail 
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Jan 13, 2019 17:17
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons  Retail  Edge of Foreshadowing  ... as well as just plain shadowing. Is she wearing black knee-high socks in the first panel?
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Jan 14, 2019 17:38
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I haven't been posting my comics because a failed hard drive has put my computer in the shop. But here's a bit of a catch-up: Retail         And of course, Edge of Zombies:  Lambarene is best known as the site of Albert Schweitzer's hospital. It is also, as it happens, 1,500 miles away from Fort Lamy/N'Djamena.
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Jan 22, 2019 15:29
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Johnny Walker posted:Do they actually produce this comic on paper and color it with physical ink? That would be neat if they were good at it but it just looks sloppy. Dunno. There's a photo out there of Jam drawing a Mark Trail strip on paper, so it's entirely possible. Remember, Jam was Elrod's assistant for a long time, so maybe he learned to do things the old-fashioned way and that's what he's still comfortable with?
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Jan 22, 2019 21:27
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I'm really not sure what the joke is here. Is it supposed to be that Spock's a Vulcan, not a Vegan? Or is the joke the idea of a character from the future being "ahead of his time" (even if he's from 50-year-old media)? And why is Andy Capp doing jokes that belong in Intelligent Life, anyway? Can we look forward to strips where Skip gets drunk and gets in a fistfight with Gwen?
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Jan 24, 2019 03:46
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Tiggum posted:They're really underselling the horror of this scenario. Especially by consistently using the term "blue movies". This isn't pornography being produced by consenting actors. It's literal rape and murder on film. I don't know if it's because O'Donnell regards all porn as being irredeemably evil and just a short step away from this, or if he was constrained by what he could get away with publishing, but either way he seems to be treating the subject matter absurdly lightly. Having read the novels, I'm gonna guess it's the former. Modesty and Willie may have multiple bed partners as a matter of course, but O'Donnell can be remarkably prudish about anything that's not vanilla boy-girl sex.
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Jan 24, 2019 14:49
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Johnny Walker posted:Well, it's Mark Trail Wait, there are two characters named Jose in this story? Was it too difficult for Jam to look up a list of Latino names online?
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Jan 28, 2019 20:26
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Tiggum posted:Reply All Does she live in one of those uncivilized regions where no one understands the practice of putting a chair in your space?
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Jan 29, 2019 15:39
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howe_sam posted:In the case of football there's actually a lot going on between plays, you just have to really like the sport to find things like formations and pre-snap movement interesting. Also, most people experience pro football on TV, where you can fill the time between plays with replay and analysis of what went right or wrong on the last play. Or, of course, commercials.
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Feb 3, 2019 16:20
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I finally have a functional computer, so let's catch up with a wall o' Retail!       More to come!
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Feb 5, 2019 00:35
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sweeperbravo posted:
Yeah, boxing matches could go on for quite a while in the early days. I wonder if Williams was thinking of the Bowen-Burke match in 1893, which went on for seven hours and 110 rounds and also ended in a no decision. Anyway, here's the rest of my Retail backlog.      Kids, do you like Star Wars jokes? I hope so, because you're going to be hearing them endlessly until we Gen-Xers die. 
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TheMadMilkman posted:Stuart was the store manager when they started dating. There were rules against employees dating. Marla helped hide the relationship from Stuart. Yeah, a lot of companies have rules against employees dating, let alone getting married. (And IIRC, Val's a supervisor, which is another issue.)
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And from one adventure strip, let's catch up with what's "happening" in Edge of Adventure!  Yes, they're apparently planning to do a zombie story, without leaving Africa. Yes, Jam still can't color and misses out on adding color to minor things like people's faces.
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Feb 5, 2019 12:34
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Back to normal schedule! Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons  Retail 
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amishjosh posted:And holy hell, that guy is angry about newspaper comic strips. Aren't we all? Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons  Retail 
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Did You Guys Miss This?  Retail 
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Rhymes with Orange No Seriously  Retail  Stockpile Collins  
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons  Retail  Nganga of Adventure 
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Buni Literally a Peanuts joke. Rhymes with Orange  Pros and Cons  Retail 
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail "Let me tell you about this awesome strip called Edge of Adventure..."
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