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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery follows a group of teenage sleuths as they investigate various (usually paranormal) mysteries in the town of Tackleford. That panel of Lottie is prime av material too. And I recommend the linked Christmas story (and its follow up).
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I've always loved Calvin's eyes in that last panel.
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Vargo posted:Apologies to Johnny Walker, but I absolutely had to post today's Mark Trail. Isn't this just the end to The Great Outdoors?
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Jan 15, 2020 19:27
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amigolupus posted:Maybe it's just me, but I'm kind of weirded out that Willie pretty much killed the two here. I'm so used to Modesty and Willie always knocking out enemies that this one threw me for a loop. That, and Willie didn't really have a good reason to do this like avenging Prue or being mad at the Grim Jokers like Modesty was at the start. This whole Grim Jokers arc has just felt icky and a cut below what Modesty is capable of.
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Jan 18, 2020 01:07
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That last panel of Modesty is fantastic.
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Jan 21, 2020 19:40
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery She means Erin right? I'm pretty I see both Winters sisters on that board, but I don't think Shelley has the constitution to write in blood.
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Jan 22, 2020 23:19
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Safety Dance posted:Once again, archive.org has it covered. that's where the Unboxing starts, but the entire Wen-Tack saga starts here. There is at least one very slight spoiler for the end of the current story in the Great Unboxing btw.
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Jan 24, 2020 03:11
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery Hard Yards goes places man. I'm not sure I like all those places, but it goes there.
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Jan 28, 2020 21:47
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EBB posted:Is the time travel stuff canon or no? I liked the mystery kids. It's never said it isn't as far as I know, but it is a little lame that Tim's adult daughter is responsible for almost every bad thing that ever happened to Shelley.
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Jan 29, 2020 17:41
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readingatwork posted:One of the best Calvin and Hobbes (Jan 31-Feb 1, 1987) And lo, from this humble strip a billion dollars in bootleg merch sprung forth. That being said, I have always loved the joke of grooving to classical albums played at high speeds
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Feb 11, 2020 16:38
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise Mrs. Fothergill doesn't gently caress around.
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Feb 15, 2020 22:41
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:Bloom County I choose to believe this is Steve Dallas's vagabond father.
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Feb 18, 2020 02:21
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SubNat posted:I know Holbrook operates on a different plane of logic to us mortals, but this is so dumb. This is 100% a thing that happens in leagues with entry drafts. The thinking goes if you aren't in a position to win the title you might as well be real bad so you're in position to draft the best possible players.
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Feb 20, 2020 06:15
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery  I've been waiting for this one, it's Mildred time.
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Feb 24, 2020 23:16
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Calvin and Hobbes was a pretty good comic strip wasn't it?The_Other posted:Bad Machinery Jack
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Mar 6, 2020 16:09
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Goddamn I love The Far Side.
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Mar 7, 2020 19:05
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How Wonderful! posted:Wow, is that Gurihiru? Looks like it is, thats a good get for a variant cover.
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Mar 9, 2020 15:53
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The Bloop posted:what the hell are you asking? It's Max Sarin on art, so Lottie by way of Giant Days.
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Mar 9, 2020 17:32
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Vargo posted:Wallace There's your gang tag.
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Mar 9, 2020 19:24
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The Sluggo is Lit seagull is clearly the best.
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:Bloom County Is this the first appearance of Binkley? And I mostly use the awful app to read the forums, so I totally missed that I got the seagull tag without even asking, thank-you benevolent mod!
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Professor Wayne posted:
amigolupus posted:This seems like a bit of a cop-out to the whole Jack/Mildred situation. At least let them date for a bit to see if they click together. I think Jack is showing admirable self preservation instincts. Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side Oh man, this one was a favorite in my family for years. Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Mar 18, 2020 15:07
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Yvonmukluk posted:OK, it looks like there was a strip missed from Gocomics' take on Bad Machinery that should have come before yesterday's, but I think it'll fit in fine here as context for today's. So without further ado... Dang, would've been disappointed if I was following the strip on GoComics and we didn't get this one. And Wicked Things is pretty good, although i think Lottie blundered into that frame job a little too easily.
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Doomykins posted:Is the arc where Shauna and Charlotte traded their friendship to a Pixie King still canon or did I miss it being posted in the thread? Allison skipped over that story in the GoComics version of the strip. Probably due to an over abundance of Shelley Winters, and it seems he really wanted to limit the Tackleverse connections for GoComics. Which was a shame because there were some excellent moments for Sonny in there.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (May 29, 1938) This owns so goddamn much. They got in a fight with another dude so they could keep fighting each other.
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Mar 26, 2020 05:29
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amigolupus posted:I'm still curious why John Allison struck this story from canon. I'm looking forward to the rest to hopefully figure out if there's something in it that made him think the story was bad or something. What I can't remember is if this is before or after Hard Yards? I think after?
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Mar 27, 2020 06:23
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All the next generation Mystery Teens are pretty great. Also, I don't think any of the Wen-Tack stuff was ever published under the Bad Machinery name. They were either New Bobbins or Scary-Go-Round stories.
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Mar 27, 2020 20:46
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Transmodiar posted:Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK Hooray, Zebus has arrived, and Georgia too.
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Mar 28, 2020 22:56
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Samovar posted:A stupid meme which I feel is appropriate for this thread to whet people's appetite first: Or really any merchandise at all, can you imagine how much bank Waterson would have made selling Hobbes dolls back in the day?
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Mar 29, 2020 06:34
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Transmodiar posted:Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK Fight pit sounds like something from Modesty Blaise so that some nice confluence.
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Rahonavis posted:This is it. This is the one Far Side comic I never got and nobody I know could explain to me. Now unless it’s as simple as a pun on “Her heart is full of lies”, I still don’t get it. I always figured it was something you'd say metaphorically about a person with a caustic personality, only in this case the old codger is being literal since, y'know, the vat of lye.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Classic (August 28, 1998) The infield fly rule isn't nearly as arcane and obscure as its reputation would have you believe.
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Zereth posted:Isn't there supposed to be a joke? A "kumquat morality lobby" is a fairly absurd concept, and kumquat is a naturally funny word.
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:Yeah, the current storyline is the first real foray into politics (with a special guest in tomorrow's comic!) and Breathed comes back to it fairly consistently. It winds up getting a little more out there, but early Bloom County is very much, uh following in Doonesbury's footsteps to put it nicely.
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Transmodiar posted:Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK I love both these strips so very much.
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Transmodiar posted:Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK  Zebus warrior child is one of my favorite out of left field developments
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (May 15-16, 1987)
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Transmodiar posted:Scary Go Round: WEN-TACK Zebus Dad being some sort of refuge from the Hyborean Age is quite possibly my favorite unexplained little detail in the entire Tackleverse. But let's not sleep on poor little Tom Grendel's  face. Poor little fella, he thought he had friends and now they're ditching him for the movies. 
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Parahexavoctal posted:I'll admit to being surprised that Larson expected his readers to be aware of the 1979 essay collection Broca's Brain, by Carl Sagan, which includes Sagan reminiscing about the time he found Paul Broca's preserved brain in a jar. Larson was not afraid of getting extremely niche with his humor, but I guarantee you some professor cut that strip out and thumbtacked it to the cork board on her office door. I'm pretty sure my parents had a couple Far Side strips on their office doors, but after all this time I couldn't tell you which ones.
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