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Mikl posted:there are no humans Isn't this technically not true? From what I recall one of the...rabbits? is actually a human who went there from our world and decided to stay because her counterpart in that world was already dead, or something. And then wasn't there a baby human at some point that all the animals got freaked out about because it was some weird hairless freak to them? Or did it end up turning out to be an ape or something? Parahexavoctal posted:to reiterate my guess from last thread, I think the question Popeye needs to ask is "is the man who claims to be Mr Brown, actually Mr Brown". At first I thought maybe there was some sort of "If she stays here she will be in terrible danger so I must kick her out for her own safety" situation but after this strip yeah I think you're spot on. quote:Axa Oh my god this is like the third loving time she's escaped from a place only to almost immediately be captured and brought back to that same place.
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Evil Mastermind posted:For ages I can't hear the word "manatee" without thinking of this page. For whatever reason the voice in my head for Sam defaults to the Saturday morning cartoon version, rather than the voice from any of the games.
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Axa almost immediately forgot about the handsome boatman when she met Jason, and now she's almost immediately forgotten about Jason after meeting fish people. Maybe it's a side effect of being an emotionless drone in the dome.
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Jan 5, 2021 22:43
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I thought the first one was just some weird "ha ha boy they drew that awkwardly" thing but no, this dude is definitely trying to get Luann to look at his dick.
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Wait, was the letter Axa had really for the underwater dome people? I thought it was for some country across the sea, not under it. Or did she just decide to dump the letter off at the first dome she came to? I'm also noticing a pattern of Axa constantly needing to be rescued by guys...
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catlord posted:And Axa That isn't a bulldozer! It looks like it might be a backhoe, but tough to tell.
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catlord posted:And Axa I understand Axa is upset because this dude is just a slave who has no actual interest in her and is just being ordered to do so. That there's no love or feeling to it and thus it's reprehensible to her. But I still can't help but laugh over her "Oh no, sex with a hot guy! How awful!"
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I really hope McEldowney doesn't have any kids.
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Gnoman posted:In 1901 phrenology had been almost wholly discredited for six decades. There was attempted revival around the turn of the century, which this strip is treating as the laughingstock it was. Well of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter! catlord posted:And of course, Axa So Axa got immediately captured again after escaping from being captured, but at least this time it was a different place instead of the exact same place. Progress...?
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FrumpleOrz posted:The Lockhorns There are no universes in which missing a Jets game is tragic.
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amigolupus posted:I figured Holbrook realized that Rudy's team cheated yet again, so he made the others eat the elk to retcon the legitimacy of their win. Shows what I know. The problem with that theory is it relies on the idea that the protagonists could ever do anything wrong, or need to legitimize their actions, when we have already seen that as far as Holbrook is concerned anything the protagonists do is good, because they are the protagonists.
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Jan 17, 2021 21:12
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft At first I read this and went "What the hell is the joke?" Then I realized that it said "flavor" in the last panel, and I went "What the hell is the joke?"
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Kavak posted:The rally-'round-the-flag effect in WWI was psychotic. Although there was a rather uncomfortable comic after one of Jack Johnson's big fights, so... Do you mean the one where he beats a black waiter and accuses him of being "uppity" because Jack Johnson won, or is there another one?
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Jan 19, 2021 10:20
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I know she's going to turn out to be correct about the statue being of that bird woman but I still can't get over the ridiculous leap in logic. If I saw a guy who looked like Abraham Lincoln walking down the street, I shouldn't immediately jump to "Abraham Lincoln never actually died in the theater and also he's immortal!"
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Jan 22, 2021 22:11
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catlord posted:poo poo like this is why I'm digging this stupid comic. Man's ancestors didn't hunt dinosaurs! How did nuclear warfare cause dinosaurs to be reborn anyway? This story arc is already great. There hasn't even been a handsome young man in the caveman tribe for Axa to swoon over (yet).
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Manuel Calavera posted:Rose is Rose I refuse to attempt to interpret the stupid baby talk, I hate this strip so much. Haifisch posted:The meatless thing was a suggestion and not a law, by the way: As far as Everett True is concerned a suggestion to help the war effort is as good as a law.
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Darthemed posted:Docks I guess I can't argue with this, Geordi wasn't exactly a bad character but you had story arcs like the one where he fell in love with a computer simulation (and then got reamed by the woman he based it on in a later season). In fact most Geordi stories are either "really bad at trying to date the ladies" or "Data's sidekick."
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Yeah now I'm even more confused as to whether or not that whole sequence was a dream or not because if it was it seems like he should be in jail now, not in a hotel. And it seems like he would be talking about how he blew up like three boats and a helicopter, not just "I got in a fistfight with my dad."somepartsareme posted:That was a police helicopter he blew up right? Mark Trail is a cop killer now? Look, I can see their parachutes! They're okay!
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Jan 25, 2021 20:02
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side I've always really liked this one, but I only just now noticed the shadow in the lower corner, and that makes it even better.
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I don't think I've seen anyone get so repeatedly owned in a comic strip as Fowler Hitz.
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Jan 27, 2021 18:47
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Wait is Rerun supposed to be Linus' twin brother or had Schulz just completely given up on attempting to make characters look distinct?
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This is the second time I've seen this joke from Addams. Not criticism, mind you, I'm sure every cartoonist accidentally reuses a gag from time to time especially if they've been going a while (hell, someone just posted a Heathcliff where it happened in the span of two days) but it stuck out to me because they also used it in the Addams Family movie. That's not correcting his spelling, that's just writing something completely different, unless he had a sentence like "i stloe tihs frum crut." Is it even possible to have a private conversation like that in Zoom anyway?
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We're the Donuteers You can be one too Cause eating some donuts is the thing to do I wonder where you sign up to test donut quality.
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Cobalt-60 posted:Were comic strips of the past more surreal, or am I just missing context? It definitely seems like the format wasn't completely worked out and so it seems sort of awkward in some ways. It could also just be evolution of language. I love Dok's Duck but occasionally I'm not actually 100% sure what he's saying, or the sentence feels worded poorly. I have noticed that a lot of cartoonists in the 50s really love drawing women in their underwear, which is weird to me since you wouldn't be able to get away with that in modern comic strips. I think the closest there is is maybe like, Arlo and Janis? quote:Does Axa spend more of her time topless or non-topless? It seems to depend on the story arc, she's definitely spending more time topless in this one than in most of the others.
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I don't know what to do with the fact that I now find the dumb joke character in Kevin and Kell the most tragic and sympathetic character in the strip, and somehow those birds are fawning over these other assholes as the saviors of the world when Ralph is the only one who's developed what's necessary for a functional society.sweeperbravo posted:When I first started following these threads I kinda liked OBH, because I'm a sucker for "wholesome family" kinds of comics like Family Circus (yes, your Nana is a goon, I didn't feel comfortable telling you this at Christmas). The strip was always "child says pretentiously simple observation devoid of adult context, grandpa looks on proudly that She's Being Raised Right," but it feels like over the years a lot more of the gross hateful stuff has started to bubble up in a way that seems innocuous on first pass (as Manuel said- you skim it, you might not even see it) I admit, I read that strip, didn't think much of it, and when someone called it out for transphobia I went "Wait, there's transphobia there?" and went back and immediately noticed it. I think part of it is that it's also sort of subtly presented as "kids say the darndest things" and appears wholesome that made me not even realize it was there. It's not like Pat Cross or Branco who are incapable of hiding or being subtle about their transphobia, even if in their comics they were to present it as a kid saying it it would be immediately noticeable how awful and hateful it was being. That said I do remember goons mostly liking OBH a couple of years ago before I fell out of following the thread, aside from how bad the characters' mouths looked when they were drawn in a side profile, so it does seem like the strip has started to slowly change a bit from just being silly "kids don't understand things" jokes. Also every time I see the Ninja Kitty saying "RARE" my brain tries to make one of Reuben Bolling's Super-Fun-Pak comics about the guy walking into the bar going "I bet you fifty bucks this animal can answer this question." All I can come up with is either a Pokemon/card game rarity joke, or something about steak.
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I've been playing through Dragon Quest Builders 2 lately and this speaks to me since you're often put in a situation where everyone else is living in dirt houses with a rock for a chair and then you get better materials and build one out of brick with curtains and a sofa.
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I think the joke is "Jeremy's mom is going to make some cocoa so she'll have something to drink while Jeremy explains what he's doing, since it will take a long time. Jeremy actually just wanted her to leave him alone, which is why he said it would take a long time to explain."
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Yeah I'm still having a hard time suspending my disbelief on this. Even if Mark Trail is white, he destroyed at least two boats (maybe three?) and a helicopter and I feel like the pilot of the helicopter probably did not jump out just before the explosion. How is Mark not on the run from the police right now? They know it was him, it's not like his identity was hidden. I just really don't see a satisfying explanation for what happened unless the strip comes out and says "Yeah Mark imagined the whole thing, he got beat up by a cop and told 'don't do it again' before he did any real damage." But so far it seems like we're supposed to take the events at face value which I can't do.
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curtadams posted:I was really enjoying nu Mark Trail up to the speedboat chase. The speedboat chase sequence was literally Looney Tunes stuff - an action sequence without much justification ending in enormous amounts of explosive property damage, for a gag, with no meaningful consequences. It's like Daffy blowing up his house, then a 3 second montage of him repairing it, then things just go on. Fine in Brewster Rocket, but very much the wrong tone for something that had been working as a fast-moving soap drama with eco-education on Sundays. Yeah it's what the strip had been and what it still is trying to be that makes me unable to accept the speedboat chase. If we had a series of Pooch Cafe strips where Poncho blew up the cafe and his house and the neighbor's house, and then the next week things were back to normal, nobody would be saying "Wait what happened to Poncho blowing up all those buildings?" because it's a goofy gag strip and we're not meant to be thinking about stuff like that. But Mark Trail is a drama strip and you can't just have as someone else put it a Family Guy-esque sequence where loads of destruction happens and Mark Trial just walks off going "Wow that sure was crazy!" and never mention it again or show any consequences. It doesn't fit. And while I'm aware a couple of people have said "No just wait maybe it'll come up again" I don't have any faith in that. We've already had the "Well I blew up another speedboat" "Ha ha no wonder our insurance is so high!" gag, and Rusty making a joke about video of it, and those just downplay the severity of the situation in a way that it would be really weird to turn around and suddenly treat it as a big serious thing. I'm not saying new Mark Trail is bad or anything, and I'm totally in support of having a gag strip or two to lighten the mood since this is supposed to be a new version of him, but the speedboat chase stands out as extremely bad writing and I just can't get over it, or at least not until a new story arc happens.
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I fell out of this thread for a while so I didn't know this was going to be a recurring thing so I'm curious. What's up with Helen? Did she try to kill the dad before or something?
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I'm enjoying this look back at the Tinkersons so I can understand this storyline. I never actually hated it, even at its worst I still read it and felt it was just one of those bland comic strips you read and immediately forget about afterwards, but yeah it's gotten a lot better. I still hate some things about the art though, like the "bird hair" Mrs. Tinkerson has when she lets her hair down. Also I really, really hope Mark Trail isn't going to do what I think it's going to do, which is "Cherry is going to win a bunch of money from gambling and use it to pay off the damage Mark did and thus keep him out of prison."
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rannum posted:I kind of figured it was her getting a bunch of money from gambling to use it for her Mom, since I thought (I might be wrong, its been a bit) that was the reason the sisters called her down there: they cant help provide/help the mom and need support to get her proper care/home That's probably the actual reason, and I think you're right that that's why they called her down there. I had forgotten about that side of the storyline. Vargo posted:I'm starting to wonder if it's a regional thing, I've always just heard it as a general "early spring" Yeah the BCN strips lately have been weird to me because she's treating it as "If sees shadow, six more weeks of winter, if doesn't, spring comes in six weeks" which would be the same, but I've always heard it as spring will happen earlier than six weeks if he doesn't see the shadow. Then again the cats are pretty bad at understanding how things in the human world work at times so maybe that's part of the joke?
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack Outstanding choice, I know the first person I want everyone to meet from my company is someone with a permanent scowl on their face who acts like an rear end in a top hat to everyone they interact with.
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catlord posted:Axa God drat, gently caress you Jason. "Running a rigged casino to enslave people? I can't wait to get started, this is truly my calling in life!" I hope he gets killed before this arc is over.
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riderchop posted:Garfield Okay, credit where it's due, Odie in the last panel made me laugh a bit. Good job, Garfield artist. quote:Overboard Why does this guy have a thing in front of his face? Is that a feather? Drimble Wedge posted:Wonder if Kelly read this PopSugar article (headline: Duncan Hines Has a New Fruity Pebbles Cake Kit, So Don't Mind If I Yabba Dabba Do!). It was published January 4 which I assume is enough lead time: I was going to say this is an easy enough joke to come up with that I could buy that he thought it up independently, but there's no way he got almost the exact wording of the headline by coincidence. There's no real reason for her to mention Duncan Hines by name otherwise.
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Angry_Ed posted:I think it's supposed to be his breath, showing that it is cold, just judging by what the other guy is wearing. Ah good, I might have thought that it was 90 degrees in that comic, and that guy was just a weirdo wearing a heavy coat and scarf in the heat. Thank god he drew that breath to clue me in that it might be cold in February. catlord posted:As for Axa, I gotta say, this is a very odd storyline. Weird ending too, but we'll get to that. I'm 100% on board with the theory "Baseball is so boring that people started a nuclear war to liven things up."
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(Morbo voice) THAT IS NOT HOW TIME MACHINES WORK
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (July 12, 1951) Why would a family take a ship from California to New York? Were there even passenger ships for that route?
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Okay, this one I don't get. plainswalker75 posted:I mean, there's only two groups of pirates anyways, so if your poo poo gets stolen it's not like the case will be hard to crack. Wait the guys in green are also pirates? I thought they were leprechauns.
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