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Fresh year. fresh comics! I'm too tired and hung over to write any descriptions right now but the ones in the OP seem very fitting anyway. Thanks for that! The Lockhorns  Brewster Rockit Space GUy  On THe Fastrack  Safe Havens  Kevin & Kell  Mother GOose & Grimm  Hagar THe Horrible  Sherman's Lagoon  Ella Cinders  Zorro 
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LvK posted:And They Did! lol
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I will start posting Nancy dailies 1946 with a proper into starting tomorrow since Nancy Likes Christmas starts on Jan 2nd. In the meantime, have this: 
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rannum posted:This is a joke, right I double checked in case I was remembering it wrong, and I stand corrected, because Funky and Crankshaft have only been a year ahead of publication date for a long, long time. TomBat claims that gives him better flexibility for planning and plotting his big events, but only that means he really, really doesn't have any excuse for how the ICE story sputtered out like a wet fart.
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rannum posted:This is a joke, right I think it's actually a one-year buffer, which is still certifiably insane but slightly less so. Also, happy 2021 comics people!
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FrumpleOrz posted:Ella Cinders What Ella Cinders has taught me is that, no matter how predictable or contrived the storyline, when it looks like someone is about to get comeuppance I will get hyped.
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Mmm, new thread smell. By the way, the last thread had 52 titles all told, meaning an average of on per week. If we're going to have more title changes, we're going to have to up our game here. ANYWAY. My first comics of the new year! The Dinette Set by Julie Larson is a window into the lives of the whitest suburbianest trashiest of white suburban trash. The focus is mainly on Burl and Joy Penny (who are abrasive and clueless, respectively) but also includes their neighbors Marlene and Dale, Joy's mother, and the oddly haired Jerry. They go through life obliviously generating the kind of low-grade stupidity that just makes everyone around them sadder. It ended 2010 but is in repeats.  Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts is one of the most hated comics in the history of these threads. Set at a terrible tech company, WD attempts to cover both office and nerd humor and manages to do both horribly and with too many words. Most of the punchlines are sub-Big Bang Theory level gags where the punchline is just "nerd thing". The punchlines that aren't direct references are about the terrible work culture of the company. Oh, and multiple characters have the ability to alter reality for some reason.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix started as a parody of the newspaper comics page by Pulitzer finalist Ruben Bolling. The original version of Super-Fun-Pak Comix appeared occasionally in Ruben's main comic Tom the Dancing Bug, but was eventually split up into a daily strip. It's also in repeats even though Ruben is still creating new content for his main strip. I think some of the comics on this feed are ghost written, but I have no proof one way or the other.  Cul De Sac is by the late, lamented Richard Thompson, who passed away in 2010. Cul De Sac is about the Otterloop family: four-year-old Alice (who is a little hyperactive) and her older brother Petey (a total stick in the mud, professional fussy eater, and my spirit animal), and their parents Madeline and Peter. The Otterloops are practically unique in comic strips in that they all love and care about each other in a very realistic way. Also featuring prominently are the childrens' various friends like Alice's classmates Dill, Beni, and Kevin (and his stupid bucket head), Petey's crush Viola, and Petey's maybe-imaginary "friend" Earnesto.  Cul De Sac is also responsible for one of my favorite comic strips of all time: 
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Evil Mastermind posted:Cul De Sac is also responsible for one of my favorite comic strips of all time: I should also note that Rob McLaren wrote a song based on this phrase. You can buy it from Bandcamp.
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The Boondocks ran from 1996 (picked up by Universal Press Syndicate in 1999) to 2006 (with an Instagram revival in 2019, apparently). We're currently in January of 2002. Two young black kids and their grandfather move from Chicago to the suburbs. Hijinx ensue.  Retail ran from 2006 to 2020. It is about people who are in Hell. We're in September 2007.   Popular Comics ran from 1936 to 1948. It was published as a magazine, which collected newspaper comic strips (mostly Sundays) of the time. We just finished up issue #1 in the last thread, and are now starting issue #2.  
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Parahexavoctal posted:Hm, that's true. Twins. It's got to be twins. And the real Mr Brown is locked up somewhere, hence the moaning and refusing to call the cops
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Samovar posted:Happy new year you filthy animals. Hopefully I should be uploading some new comics soon. I think Corto Maltese may have been posted by me enough times to justify against me doing it again. Is Corto Maltese available online? I'd read it.
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kidcoelacanth posted:Time to take care of some unfinished business. I've been following Mr. Boop after it left the thread, and even though it was always off the rails, it really kinda just keeps going somehow. It seriously should have ended after the first meta layer reveal Green Intern fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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me, i like the switch in direction to diary comic lotta untapped ground to tread there, as a comic concept
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FrumpleOrz posted:
WTF is this comic saying?
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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The ending of Mr. Boop is, something. From the quick look I took, I was curious. We've got two and a half months to catch up on, folks. (I scrolled to find where we left off, which was sometime in October.) I should do some summaries I guess. I'm not doing the full backstory, just some notes from memory. Because it's early and  Family Circus began in 1960, written by Bill Keane. He died, and Jeff(y) Keane took over in 2011. It rarely has a storyline, other than the kids aren't bright.  Rose is Rose began in 1984, written by Pat Brady. Drawn by him as well until 2004, and now one Don Wimmer is the artist. Back in the early days, Brady's fat fetish was super obvious in the comic strip. It was toned down a lot though.  One Big Happy, Rick Detore, 1988. It was at one time a thread favorite, but started a downslide when the joke kept turning to "haha poor and/or different people sure are WEIRD aren't they?" Ruthie is the voice for Rick, like Carmen is Stantis/Allie's voice in Prickly City.  For Better or For Worse, or FOOB as it is more commonly known here from some line in the last few years of the strip. Lynn Johnston, 1979-2008 was the original run. New "reruns" (Lynn rewriting and doing some redrawing) began mid 2010. This thread started out as a critique of Foob if memory serves, in the twilight years of the original run. Lynn is an, interesting woman. And not well regarded for a number of reasons.  Compu-Toon, Charles Boyce, 1994 original syndication, 2001 for GoComics. Boyce is horribly inept at art, technology, and sometimes writing. But he's lovable and a genuinely sincere guy by our understanding. So we have a thread underdog.  Bizarro, Dan Piraro, 1985 on. Drawn by Piraro as well until 2018, when a friend of his known only as Wayno took over the daily art. Piraro still draws the Sundays. Surreal gag-a-day comic, Piraro looks like a caricature. Seriously, look at this man and tell me he's to be taken seriously.  I used to post Dilbert as well. But we dropped that during a terribly racist storyline a few years ago. gently caress Scott Adams, he's a dipshit and a Trumpist, high on his own farts.
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Cobalt-60 posted:Is Corto Maltese available online? I'd read it. I, uh, fear it is only through me. Of course, if one wishes to obtain it in a physical method, one can purchase it through Eurocomics.
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Classic Kevin and Kell (October 12-16, 1998)    
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karmicknight posted:This will be the year I successfully follow the comic strip megathread and not give up about a week in.  I think the last time I was up to speed was in about 2013 but I think this year I can do it.
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It just now fully hit me that Kevin is fully alright with his wife going out and murdering and eating other people* like him
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Fingerpori is a Finnish daily web comic by Pertti Jarla. It relies heavily on puns and absurdist humor, which have made it at the same time incomprehensible to non-Finns and a thread favourite.  The original festival was called "Tuli ja leimaus", which basically means "Fire and blaze", but the Finnish word for "leimaus" is also a conjugated form of "leimata", which means "the place where something is stamped". So hopefully this works.
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 1/1/01  Brenda Starr 4/1/45  "You too, Hank?" gently caress off, Pesky. Smokey Stover 3/12/39  Richard's Poor Almanac  Sick burn on Ulysses S. Grant!
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Kennel posted:Dustin Ed Resolutions, 2021 1. Diet 2. Cheat on diet at least once per week at work 3. poo poo on Dustin daily 4. Be smug as hell 5. Complain about ballet Stretch goal: plot
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Happy New Year, everyone! Arlo and Janis   Tina's Groove Classic (May 4, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (May 4, 1999)  Garfield Classic (May 4, 1989) 
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Selachian posted:
#2 could be Leonidas Polk https://www.historynet.com/leonidas-polk-southern-civil-war-general.htm
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Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 4/1/45 Pesky is the worst character in this strip. Also, Marrying Your Boss! Every girl's dream.
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Mämmilä Also, here are the character pages for new thread:  
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Kennel posted:Dustin That Ed carries $50 bills is the most concise personality test for him. Pastry of the Year posted:Tina's Groove Classic (May 4, 2009) I thought this was a passable covid joke until I looked at the date, but this joke was tired already in 2009.
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PainterofCrap posted:I am resurrected. Hey I recognize this even though I've never seen it before. In the Simpson's episode 'Duffless' when Homer is watching car crash footage in a DWI class and everyone else is horrified but he's laughing at it, the showrunners specifically cited this cartoon as the inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P7d5VOQnXI&t=1s
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Nancy Dailies: 1946 Nancy originally started as a character in Ernie Bushmiller's Fritzi Ritz, but quickly came into her own strip after getting popular. Nancy joins her friend Sluggo, along with her aunt Fritzi, as well as other minor characters like Peewee or Mr. Sputter. The strip is generally one-off sight gags or wordplay, and often turns absurdist, or we see the result of Nancy taking her aunt's instructions extremely literally. Bushmiller drew Nancy from 1938 to his death in 1982, and was then drawn by several artists in the meantime. We don't talk about Gilchrist-era Nancy here. Nancy has most recently been picked up by Olivia Jaimes and is also posted in this thread. 
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BigDave posted:Hey I recognize this even though I've never seen it before. In the Simpson's episode 'Duffless' when Homer is watching car crash footage in a DWI class and everyone else is horrified but he's laughing at it, the showrunners specifically cited this cartoon as the inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P7d5VOQnXI&t=1s It's probably Addams' second most famous cartoon after "Downhill Skier".
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