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Green Intern posted:FWIW it's done on twitter/its own website, and there really aren't that many strips left to be posted here. Just skip by it and it will be gone soon enough. Wait, that wasn't the end? The one that ties it back to the beginning and is literally the same as the very first strip?
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SubNat posted:Little Martianposting I've been waiting for this one. That panel you pulled out is probably my favorite panel in the history of comics. 
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EasyEW posted:9 "Oh God, This poo poo Again" Lane So, uh... at what point do we report Brooke to the authorities? 
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PainterofCrap posted:Addams and Evil - 1947 Saving this one. Possibly for the spaceflight thread, possibly for a politics thread.
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catlord posted:Axa Good thing the sterile metal robots lacking hair and breath were all wearing surgical caps and face masks! 
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Green Intern posted:I searched the phrase, and it looks like bIpIv'a' at least would be "How are you?" And "jup" is "friend", so I'm guessing the whole phrase is "How are you, friend?" But I'm not sure if "friend" would count as a subject or object there, and since Klingon uses OVS word ordering oh god kill me now Powered Descent fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Feb 14, 2021 |
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Feb 14, 2021 18:38
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kazz posted:These substitute teacher Funky gags are so goofy because when was the last time anyone got a sub who actually knew how to teach the class? Of all the times my band director had to be away in 4 years of high school, I think we had a sub conduct us only once. The other times we either watched a movie or used it as study hall. During marching season, the drum majors (students who acted as conductors and commanders of a section of the marching band) would generally take over if the band teacher was out that day, and they'd run us through a simple formation practice or something. Amazingly, I can't recall a single time they ever went power-mad on us.
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack Johnny Aztec posted:So, " Fastrack Inc" is just a NSA/CIA front? The Protonmail/ProtonVPN people have exactly that. Their main datacenter in Attinghausen is 1000 meters underground; it was originally built as a fallout shelter for the Swiss Army.
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Feb 19, 2021 19:03
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maltesh posted:So I only really started paying attention to Safe Havens halfway through the Mars Trip. This seems like a good point to remind everyone that Safe Havens began in 1988 as a strip about preschoolers at a day care center.
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Feb 22, 2021 03:27
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catlord posted:I am 100% gonna regret asking this, but what on earth was that like? Because this has come up a few times but I don't think we've ever seen those early ones. How did it end up being... this? I have no recollection of actually reading it, and the only reason I remember it is that Opus mentioned it by name as "the strip that's taking over this space on Monday" a day or two before Bloom County ended. (At least it was the strip named by Opus in my local paper, other markets may have written in whatever comic was actually doing so there.) e: Looks like it was actually my local paper that did the writing in, the official version says Bettle Bailey: Bloom County August 4, 1989 
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean ...what?  I have no idea what's going on here.
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The only reason Liz would expect Mom to do laundry is presumably because Mom usually does the laundry. Yes, this is a one-off load on an odd day at a moment's notice. But instead of just saying "I don't have time for that right now, Liz, how about you go run it through the machines yourself?", Mom immediately goes to full-on triangle-mouth ranting and raving, as if Liz did something deeply wrong here. Fun thought experiment: reverse the roles. Say that Liz usually takes out the trash on garbage day. This week the can has filled up early, and Mom comes into the living room and says "the garbage bag needs to be taken out" to which Liz replies "so take it out". Does this end any other way than a final panel of Liz taking the garbage out and thinking a pithy observation, all under the glowering stare of Mom?
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Mar 3, 2021 16:46
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Haifisch posted:These strips in particular give me strong "there's no consistency in when you're expected to do certain chores, so you only find out when Elly explodes at you for not doing them" vibes. Yup, that's exactly what I meant, but you said it a bit more clearly. Thanks. 
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jan. 16, 1944) Since today I'm apparently on a roll turning situations around, why did YOU never speak of love to HIM, Sigrid, hmmm?
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Mar 4, 2021 03:09
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SubNat posted:Moomin Goes Wild West "Quickly! Turn it back before anyone has time to contemplate the ramifications of snuffing out an family of living, feeling Moomins! Or that there's a 50% chance that we'll be the ones snuffed out! Hurry!"
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Mar 4, 2021 16:16
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fondue posted:B Kliban Feeling both of these today.
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CommonShore posted:Anyone have a link to where the last few Retail strips were posted? I can't remember how long ago it ended or who was posting them. It ended just over a year ago. Here's Selachian's post history from last year's thread, just ctrl-F though it for the word Retail: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3908728&userid=190603&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 The "is the store going under?" arc begins on page one of that link, and the whole thing wraps up on page two.
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I feel like transparent-background versions of Luann and Bernice turning away in terror might come in handy for all kinds of future edits. I might take a stab at it myself, but I have no particular skill at that sort of thing. So if I'm beaten to it by someone in the thread who actually knows what the hell they're doing, then so much the better. 
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Kennel posted:Dustin Hostile V posted:Reminder: Steve Kelley has actually beat his wife and it's kind of a missing stair open secret. This specific accusation about Steve Kelley was debunked a few posts up, but I still want to take a moment to remind everyone that kinky bedroom play (which is clearly what Dustin's folks are both thinking of there) is not at all the same thing as domestic abuse, and equating the two is straight-up slander of the entire kink community. I'm not saying that's what Hostile V is doing -- other topics are in play here, like the movie they're talking about (which I haven't seen and can't really comment on). But I want to state clearly that just because Helen apparently likes to get spanked now and then, that does not automatically mean Ed (or Steve) is an abuser.
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Hostile V posted:Your point is valid and could have been made without quoting me because that was in fact not my intent. I apologize for calling Kelley a spousal abuser because I got him mixed up with Mike Lester. We're cool.  Only quoted you because you were the first one I saw bring up the a-word.
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD Just remember to bring the vacuum cleaner to trade.
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Selachian posted:That's more than I found ... I kept getting steered to information about Glendale. One of the later Sherlock Holmes stories (published 1923) features this phenomenon: it turns out the villain has been taking a particularly powerful gland extract from monkeys in order to restore his youth and vitality, but every time he takes a dose he starts acting very monkey-like, to the point of climbing effortlessly up vines (which is how he got to an upper-story window, thus resolving a piece of the mystery). As you might guess, this is NOT one of Arthur Conan Doyle's better stories.
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise You have to admire Modesty and Willie's devotion to only killing those who are trying to kill them, but I'd also argue that this entire scenario is one big attempt to kill them. Details like "is the bad guy facing me" might have ethical weight in other circumstances, but here it seems all but irrelevant. They're trying to kill you, whichever way they might be facing.
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fondue posted:I don't get this It's the numbers 4 and 5 in French, which are pronounced approximately "cat sank".    e: welp, beaten
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SubNat posted:Snorkmaiden goes Rococo If they don't pay off that setup in the background of the knot in the tree, I'll be very cross.
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Johnny Walker posted:Andertoons Hoo boy, I bet he'll get some letters about this one.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth I went back and checked: the last time anything happened (they found her lost dog) was nineteen days ago. Since then, it's been wall-to-wall talking about how much they love dogs, and there's no sign that it's about to let up.
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EBB posted:Camelot! It's only a model.
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise So many typos and misspellings in this adventure. It started on the very first page of it, when a narration box referred to the bad guys as the "dark angles". Did they contract out the lettering to the lowest bidder they could find?
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Okay everyone, of the currently running strips that are posted in the thread (so no classics from years past), what are your top three favorites? Here are mine. Counting down: 3. Andertoons. I'm a little surprised I rate this one so highly, but it's funny a surprising amount of the time, and it's almost always at least clever. (And I'm amazed that he's still finding new punchlines for "people looking at a graph".) 2. Arlo and Janis. It's honest, endearing, and usually about fuckin'. I never really got this strip as a kid, but now that I'm a bit older, it's awesome. (And it's also kind of a relationship goal for when we reach that age.) ....drumroll.... 1. Wallace the Brave. If any strip is the spiritual successor to Cul de Sac and Calvin and Hobbes, it's this one. Childhood whimsy and imagination, but without ever feeling cloying. If you have a favorite you'd like to name but it isn't being posted in the thread, well then, this is your call to start posting it!
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I just want to say thanks to everyone who's given their top three(-ish). Even if most of you completely missed the whole "currently-running" part of the prompt. So much for doing a "top three vintage strips" followup. (And if you haven't given your top three yet, please feel free, that door doesn't close here.) We gripe and poke fun at plenty of strips in this thread, but there's a lot in this medium that we love, and I sometimes feel like we don't express that enough. I grew up on Peanuts, Family Circus, FoxTrot and Calvin & Hobbes, and at around age 10, despite a total lack of artistic talent, I wanted to be a cartoonist myself when I grew up. That plan didn't come to pass, but I still get a lot of joy out of these little doodles for the daily newsprint. Okay, enough warmth. Back to the snark!
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PainterofCrap posted:I got my second Moderna today I am totally stoked for you becoming immune to the plague, and I hope to join you soon.  PainterofCrap posted:Nightcrawlers - 1957 I once got a puny amount of stock options from the company I was working for. My exact quote upon trying to cash them in: "drat IT stop trying to make me into a Republican!"
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Oh god, it's all starting over again! Over and over and over like Groundhog Day! 
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Medenmath posted:The Medieval Castle (Jul. 23, 1944) As usual, Hal Foster is knocking the art out of the park in The Medieval Castle. But the storyline feels kind of distant, if that's the right word. I guess that's the downside to using a couple of kids as your viewpoint characters: when there are big events like a castle siege, almost everything that actually happens is done by other characters, most of whom don't even have names. Contrast that to Val being involved in (and often instigating) everything that's going on.
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nishi koichi posted:this mary worth arc is some real garbo and it just will not end I'm guessing that it'll take the rest of this week to finish the food court conversation on how the one visit to a therapist solved all her problems. Then next week will be taken up with communicating the good news about therapy to Mary. Then just two or three more weeks of happy scenes with all of them and the dogs, to put a proper denouement onto this thrill-ride of an adventure.
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It's very hard to engage with Luann due to its aggravating tendency to not finish its storylines. It'll get to what feels like about three quarters of the way through a plot, and then... we're off to something else! It's actively punishing the readers who try to follow what's going on. As for Rex Morgan, MD and Mary Worth, they have slightly differing flavors of the same basic problem: nothing ever loving happens. Occasionally it'll look like something might be about to happen, but nope, the situation immediately deflates.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Rose is Rose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180-degree_rule
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BigglesSWE posted:Ballard Street Oof. Strongly empathizing with Molly here. Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side Lots of good mini-jokes in the background.
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Darthemed posted:Retail Everything has a cost.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Yeah see, this is the horseshit that someone else was mentioning. Forgiving your abuser can be helpful to people to overcome their trauma, but pushing "The only way you'll ever know peace is to forgive them!" is really gross and I hate this, I hate this so much, god drat gently caress you Mary Worth. You know, you'll never find peace until you forgive Mary Worth for this. May I suggest seeing a random therapist one time, who will offer you a few empty platitudes which will instantly solve all your problems?
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