Comic Strip Thread: WHEN MAN'S CONSCIENCE IS GONE HIS SOUL IS DEAD

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Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Selachian posted:

Retail

Ahhhh....yeah. Yeahhhhh.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 23:46

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:37

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

One day I'll leave. One day.

Also don't forget that April in Foob is A: the only family member not based on a real person from LJ's life and B: ironically the only one who gets away from it all with a happy ending because she's A Bad Daughter Who Dislikes Family And Love And Family And Togetherness And Destiny And Family

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 03:05

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Powered Descent posted:

April killed Farley through her own negligence.

Neglectful parenting is lucky to have resulted in the death of a dog and not the death of a child. Also she was four and they never forgave her for it. :colbert:

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 03:35

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

1: I knew Serra would be the bad guy in NSM because new characters who aren't super are often evil but I'm still holding out hope for her to rip her face off and be Chameleon or Mysterio.
2: thanks holbrook for having an adult woman call her father daddy as part of a time travel reveal. no way to drop that info without showing your power level huh.
3: go figure Not Dave Strider has the time-displaced kid.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 19:08

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Well congrats, you introduced time travel so now Safe Havens is a comic strip about time travel and nothing else.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 17:50

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

howe_sam posted:

Okay, this has been bugging me ever since the first time I read this page lo all those many years ago. Does that sink actually have running water?

Oh probably not but it's all part of the misdirection.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 22:00

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Johnny Walker posted:

Andertoons

Nice.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2019 19:46

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

yessssss, YESSSSSSS, THE TIME TRAVEL BULLSHIT BEGIIIIINS :kheldragar:

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 03:23

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Strontium posted:

random Intelligent Life

Really loving weird to see an IL strip that has perspective changes and angles and...action and poo poo as opposed to two to three people from the waist up all B^U about their costume fetishes.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 17:50

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

In all seriousness Comic Lady has a decent point but hooboy the new week is just gonna be Funky Winkerbean talking about feminism in comic books huh. That's your followup to Funky's dad hangin' dong all over the rest home huh.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 11:04

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

It would be great if BoyLisa and Mopey Pete just...stopped this. Stopped all of this. Just went the hell away and stopped it.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2019 21:53

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Powered Descent posted:

In the Funkyverse, you have to EARN the sweet release of death. You can only embrace oblivion after you've accumulated enough sadness and misery and pain and hopelessness.

Miles to go before you sleep, and all that.

Then get cancer faster, goddamn you!

# ¿ Jan 8, 2019 22:35

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

"NEW YEAR NEW PREGNANCY SUBPLOT" screams Holbrook as he rapidly removes his pants.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2019 02:29

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Today on Dystopian Capitalist Cannibal Hell World: our heroes shoot a snuff film.

Also gently caress that was a real good edit to that Family Circus, god drat, I sincerely believed.

And echoing the sentiment that Jamal is good. Still not a fan of the facial stylings but I'm enjoying the fact that he's telling a story and repeatedly building to a climax as opposed to doing something for a week and then doing something else. He's got a good handle on keeping it all contained under one thread but throwing in good digressions and escalations.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2019 19:03

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Poor Gary, trapped by the crafty wiles of the Fronch...

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 19:06

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Ghostlight posted:

Those were two separate analyses. Yes, I believe she's also blank to function as an archetype.

The comment about towering-over was in regard to placing him down on the curb next to Jamal for the reveal of his face - there's a partial reveal during the argument with the cop but why wasn't that the full reveal? Having him sit on the curb next to his brother while, presumably, his mother argues with the policeman shifts the frame of who he is from a (justifiably) angry black teen to a mother's son by equivocating him and Jamal through attitude, body position, and expression. Revealing his face asks the reader to connect with his character as something other than an abstract - doing it during the conflict with the policeman would inherently also ask the reader to take a side in the conflict, but doing it in a moment of understood vulnerability asks the reader to simply sympathise with the feeling of vulnerability induced by the conflict, which itself has been momentarily abstracted by being moved completely out of frame.

Correct, it's properly personalizing Jermaine and fleshing him out. The longer we see Jermaine, the smaller and more human he gets, going from big fuckoff shoes to sitting on the curb next to his brother absolutely gobsmacked about where things will go next.

I'm really sorry if I just repeated what you said but Jamal is shaping up to have a lot of nice little symbolic tricks and meanings as it unfolds and I seriously can't overstate how this has all taken place over the same period as an overarching story (Jermaine takes Jamal to his girlfriend's house) but doesn't feel like an unnatural shift of the current focus, it flows organically and naturally as poo poo happens.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 23:34

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

catlord posted:

Oh, and what is up with that On The Fastrack?

It's bad.

Which? Yes.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2019 03:51

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Strontium posted:

Dark Side of the Horse

God drat it, wasn't expecting that from you, DSOTH.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2019 07:39

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Haifisch posted:

Aww, dang it. I figured if anyone would pull that trick it'd be Horse. Ah well.

And hell yeah Retail is back. On the downside, Holbrook's ????phobia continues to rear its ugly head, where our heroes trick someone into reverting to their old self to "teach them a lesson". I'd call it transphobia but that implies he went into this with a metaphor in mind as opposed to a mind full of fetishes.

Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jan 22, 2019

# ¿ Jan 22, 2019 18:28

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

StrixNebulosa posted:

That Foob

Not an emptyquote because I also want to say hell yeah Shauna.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2019 20:39

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Man that's an unexpectedly dark Bizarro.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2019 17:20

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Alright so what the gently caress was this entire Mark Trail story arc.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2019 03:00

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Thank you for your help. Maybe it would have made more sense if it was capable of pacing itself reasonably and not just having uncomfortable tight shots of half-melted people in a monochromatic void mumbling about danger.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2019 06:10

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

bad posts ahead!!! posted:

but enough about funky winkerbean

Ayyyyy.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2019 06:35

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Savidudeosoo posted:

I honestly don't know what I'd do if someone yelled "Stop it! You're being Vulgar!" at me.

Swear more and get creative with it?

# ¿ Feb 1, 2019 20:47

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

FrumpleOrz posted:

9 Chickweed Lane

Dude bi. So what?

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 16:35

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Julet Esqu posted:

Remember that this is the strip where GHulk destroyed a man's marriage because he noticed the dude had a bunch of kids and realized that any man who could successfully impregnate a woman on so many occasions must be gay.

Bi does not exist.

Secure enough in your sexuality that you can appreciate another man's form without it being a big deal does not exist.

Falling in love with a woman's "art" and having sex with her but still being fully homosexual and not bi at all does exist.

I'm gonna continue to exist as a bi man to spite some weird cartoonist with an overinflated sense of self and I hope others join me in this endeavor of staying the course and being true to ourselves. I'm not limiting this to dudes or dude-presenting individuals. All is welcome to spite Brooke McEldowney.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 06:18

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Rex Morgan really should have saved all of this action for a Sunday strip because this is just ploddingly stupid.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2019 00:58

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Darthemed posted:

NOT
ENOUGH
LABELS

Yeah, how am I supposed to know that's Dethany From On The Fast Track? That could be *any* newspaper goth named Dethany.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2019 08:56

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Awww, Shawna and Dan.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2019 22:16

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Poor Nekonaughey's been doodnapped.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2019 00:14

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Julet Esqu posted:

I've seen this theme a lot in Foob. "There, you see? The children don't even LIKE misbehaving! They only do it because they're assholes! Because all children, without exception, are assholes!"

I'm just hung up on "let's see if we can watch two of our classmates gently caress under the bleachers WAIT THEY'RE DRINKING WHAT THE THAT'S TERRIBLE".

# ¿ Feb 16, 2019 19:13

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

God Ian from Mary Worth really has to shave that stupid beard, it just does not fit with his facial structure and hair and couldn't be solved with the addition of a mustache.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2019 08:25

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Johnny Walker posted:

I think it's Amos in his brown socks, but I'll accept the cuck fetish theory.

Yeah that guy is clearly the type to wear big ol' dark socks like those.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2019 23:43

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Dammit Luann don't get my hopes up with someone like Pru existing.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2019 10:12

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Daddy Daze is coming in strong for latest surprisingly endearing strip with a good parent/kid relationship.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2019 07:57

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Wait, what?

She found some poor people money.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2019 12:59

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Good: further pregnancy avoided for the time being.
Bad: now they're going to be all mopey about it.
Better: they kidnap a child and raise it.
Worse: pregnancy happens anyway because accidents and also love.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2019 01:11

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Angular Cyrus posted:

That's a trashcan.

To be fair it's where all of these inane pregnancy plotlines belong. Open-palm slam your cyberchild into the digital shredder.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2019 22:58

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:37

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

nerdman42 posted:

Its kind of wild how more on-point Mary Worth seems with modern culture/online dating than Luann, considering who they're marketed to.

Yeah it's amazing, that and this is like legitimately entertaining. That cat was an rear end in a top hat to Mary, a lady just smoked dramatically a whole bunch for an ill-considered plan, this whole thing...have the Mary Worth creators rediscovered what fun and excitement is and started to bring it back into the strip?

# ¿ Mar 1, 2019 00:46

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