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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean This is why Funky probably doesn't see his eye doctor that often: he won't shut the gently caress up with obnoxious Boomer humor bullshit. I'm not a medical professional and I'm annoyed by proxy.
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Jan 15, 2021 21:28
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EasyEW posted:Funky WInkerbean After the obnoxiously lame dad jokes you've been cracking while these people have been trying to do their jobs, I think we'd all like this, Funky.
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Jan 22, 2021 03:50
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readingatwork posted:Crabgrass I feel this to my bones. I was a Kevin in middle and high school and got dismal grades in most subjects. My grades didn't necessarily reflect my grasp of the material or intelligence.
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Jan 23, 2021 17:21
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Kennel posted:Dustin This joke is so old and Boomer-y that it should be drawing Medicare checks.
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Jan 28, 2021 18:59
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Vargo posted:Phoebe I despised smug popular kids like that (not Phoebe but the other two girls whose names I can't recall atm) when I was Phoebe's age. quote:Wallace Gotta assert your dominance over the pack.
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Jan 29, 2021 16:52
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EasyEW posted:Funky Reading-signs-erbean Lazy art, lazy joke. This feels like something Batiuk cooked up in MS Paint in five minutes or less.
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Jan 30, 2021 22:49
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD That was my feeling too: that Buck's going to go into a diabetic coma and have a possibly fatal wreck.
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Feb 1, 2021 19:42
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This really doesn't sit well with me (I know about Lynn's problematic history). This kid is terrified of going home and Lynn's just clueless. I get the sense that if Mike told his mom that she still wouldn't give a poo poo.
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Feb 5, 2021 17:39
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Hopefully Gord pulls a Cameron Frye and things get better for him.
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Feb 5, 2021 18:20
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD Speaking of A Very Special...
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Feb 5, 2021 20:30
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Cobalt-60 posted:Is there a guide to the Dark History of FBOW? I know there was something with a RL divorce and a tacked-on happy ending. Always fascinated by sordid details of vanilla worlds. The only pieces of it that I know for sure is something about leaving kids out in the cold “for their good” and that Lynn’s irl kids hate her. I think one of the kids is also LGBT but Lynn made them straight in the strip? Someone else might be able to fill in the details better.
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Feb 5, 2021 23:43
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Potsticker posted:The basics as I remember them are: Thanks. I figured someone was more familiar with the whole bundle of crazy. A lot of it sounds like reveals at the end of the original Roseanne.
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Feb 6, 2021 01:20
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Darthemed posted:Retail This strip has done more to radicalize me to socialism than almost anything else.
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Feb 10, 2021 16:12
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Evil Mastermind posted:I always like seeing non-ex-retail peoples' reactions to this strip. It's one of my favorites ITT, a bit like Office Space in comic strip form. I loathe Black Friday with a passion and thank my lucky stars every day that I've never had to work retail (of Marla's sort) at that time of year.
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Feb 10, 2021 20:45
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sweeperbravo posted:I know this is low hanging fruit but god drat do I hate this stereotype of elementary school aged kids being on their phones all the time. 1) Who gave these fictional kids the loving phone and 2) I forget if these kids are supposed to be in third grade or in like fifth but kids IRl still love to run around and do goofy poo poo with each other, older ones might chill on their phones for a little bit but it's nowhere near the " Knowing the politics of the writer (and/or artist?), it comes across to me like a "some gizmo" straw man. The artist has probably never met a kid below the age of 16 and just assumes they all just gape at their phones all day. F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Feb 14, 2021 |
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Feb 14, 2021 16:06
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The Bloop posted:
The Acme company.
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Feb 14, 2021 18:16
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amigolupus posted:I don't trust Zits writer to handle this cancellation joke in his comic well. Remember that time Jeremy got super jealous of his girlfriend hanging out with other guys and we all thought it might lead to Jeremy growing up from it, only for Zits to drop the whole thing like a hot potato? The same thing's probably gonna happen with this bit. Plus, it's a lazy straw man version of what "cancel culture" (to the extent that it actually exists) is actually about : holding people responsible for their racist, homophobic, transphobic, pro-fash, etc behavior. I'm really disappointed that they chose that particular subject to cover, because Zits used to be one of the better strips on the comics page.
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Feb 16, 2021 20:42
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Kennel posted:Dustin I like to imagine that Ed's picture is hanging in the back of a lot of stores and restaurants in their town with the label, "Beware: Cantankerous old Boomer who never tips". It's a wonder anyone wants to serve him at all.
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Feb 19, 2021 16:42
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Vargo posted:Phoebe Did someone say that Phoebe and Her Unicorn had been picked up to be a Nickelodeon show, or did I dream that? Just curious, since they seem to be going in the "origin story" direction here.
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Feb 26, 2021 16:37
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Bruceski posted:I used to do this, my mom still has the tapes. I think as blackmail material. I did too. As a kid I was fascinated by audio recording and made tapes of myself blathering on about nothing. Thank god social media didn't exist when I was ten.
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Feb 28, 2021 23:34
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PainterofCrap posted:I found one that my sisters and I did, in 1970, when my oldest sister got a portable cassette recorder for Christmas. I actually remember doing it - I was seven; it was a rainy day in Switzerland, we lived in the middle of nowhere, and we were bored out of our skulls.  On a slightly more serious note, I'm actually glad of some recordings I made. My sister had Down syndrome, and she had a tendency to talk to herself, acting out the videos she had seen. As a young teen I thought the things she said were hilarious, so I spent a fair amount of time hiding tape recorders to capture her monologues so that I could laugh at them later. She died in 2002, and I recently found one of the tapes. Listening to that tape was like hearing my sister again  .
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Mar 1, 2021 01:19
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Selachian posted:Get Fuzzy 3/4/01 Judging by the "California Psychics" commercials I occasionally see, there does seem to be a largely untapped market for fleecing gullible people who think they're going to talk to a real psychic on a pay-by-the-minute hotline.
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Mar 5, 2021 16:52
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean: Yesterday was the gag's "big payoff". Now we have two days open to let this sequence fizzle out like a wet fuse. What a terrible loving relationship these two have. Not only does he not bother to tell his (wife/girlfriend/gently caress buddy/whatever) that he needs glasses, but she's so vapid that she thinks "glasses == nerd"? I didn't think it could get dumber than that storyline from a few years ago when Westviewers thought that anyone other than their little community would give a poo poo about someone airing their town's (probably pretty tame) dirty laundry on Youtube.
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Mar 12, 2021 21:30
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Vargo posted:Wallace This is me when I'm playing Stardew Valley, but my motives are far less noble: seeing what I can do to piss off NPCs.
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Mar 19, 2021 20:32
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Top three? That's tough, but I'd probably say (in no particular order): 1. Wallace The Brave 2. Arlo and Janis. This strip was in my paper growing up and I didn't 'get' it as a kid. But it has one of the best and most realistic marriage relationships of all the comics featured here. 3. Retail. It's a love-hate relationship, since it's a pretty good strip but it almost never fails to make me angry on Marla/Stuart's behalf. I have mixed feelings about Everett True and Docks (it's a great strip but can get bogged down in early 2000s pop culture I no longer care about). Dustin is definitely the biggest hate read of the thread for me.
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Mar 30, 2021 21:53
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Powered Descent posted: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. Oh, forgot all about vintage ones. My top three of those would be: 1. 1950s Peanuts (much better than later Peanuts) 2. 1980s Garfield (when there were actual jokes and effort being made) 3. Oaky Doaks It's really hard to pick just three; there are lots of fantastic strips in here that I would have never known about without this thread (Phoebe, Cul De Sac, etc).
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(And if you haven't given your top three yet, please feel free, that door doesn't close here.)
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Hattie Masters posted:A little while back we were listing off our favourite comics currently running, and so I gotta ask: Which do people hate the most? Like, top three. Hmm....I guess I'd say 1. Dustin, for obvious reasons. 2. Rose Is Rose is twee bullshit. 3. Funky, I guess? At least it's (usually) hilariously bad unlike something like Dustin that actively infuriates me. 4. Daddy Daze. I used to think I liked it but it's the same thing every time: "Ba ba ba ba" "Oh, you think the nature of the universe is that it's a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter?". Boring. Shout out also to OBH, which is pretty Boomer-y.
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Apr 6, 2021 18:06
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sweeperbravo posted:all you had to do for this to be worth of a small smile or grin was make it so the bully kid was the one with the huge backpack at the end. but no, skelley only knows how to write miserable poo poo My first thought reading today's Dustin was that Skelley probably identifies with the bully more than he does the kid with glasses, because he's a humorless asswipe. Hostile V posted:1: Batiuk wants everything in all ways. He wants comedy, he wants drama, he wants to be thought-provoking and poignant, he wants to tip his hat to the arts, he wants slice of life. And he doesn't want to compromise on any of that, he wants a cake with everything and he wants to eat it too. And that just makes the entire thing insufferable. Crankshaft is his release valve of comedy stylings and wry jokes and it just falls flat because every time the joke is "old man is set in his ways/makes a malaproper/running joke" with the knowledge that one day he's gonna be an old man on life support that just lays there. Funky used to be a constant attempt at humor and then it got serious and even with Crankshaft he's constantly oscillating between maudlin and irreverent. The one time he got noticed for being poignant, he's been chasing that high ever since. This is a good summation. One of Funky's biggest problems, aside from not being able to let go of St. Lisa, is that it varies so wildly between lame dad jokes and attempts at pathos, and it never does very good with either. Usually it's only laughably bad, but there are a few times (the 'so my husband cried out my name while he was having sex with you' video that Lisa made comes to mind) where it gets really creepy and gross.
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Apr 7, 2021 00:15
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Zerilan posted:What. Yup. https://sonofstuckfunky.com/2015/09/27/say-my-name/ F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Apr 7, 2021 00:33
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Darthemed posted:Retail gently caress you, Stuart.
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Apr 14, 2021 15:53
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Hostile V posted:"Fun" fact: later on in the comic's run, Cooper not having healthcare becomes a real loving problem. I'm not surprised. I'll never understand the corporate mindset. It'd be so much easier for everyone involved to treat their employees like human beings and ensure that they're healthy and happy, but I guess protecting that almighty bottom line is more important than mere peons like Cooper.
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Apr 15, 2021 02:41
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readingatwork posted:Every single cent of company time/money/property that Cooper has stolen is morally justified. Hell, you're probably a bad person if you don't steal from these assholes. Cooper's the true hero of the strip, more so than even Marla.
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Apr 15, 2021 02:55
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Dad's not really wrong here, but the way he takes delight in smashing Mike's dreams makes me hate him. Yeah, the kid should learn to be responsible, but let him have his teenage fantasy.
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Apr 15, 2021 17:57
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amigolupus posted:Dad saying Michael should get a job is even more of a jerk move because of last summer, when the parents wanted to ship Michael off to a relative's farm without asking him if he still wanted to go. Michael didn't want to do so and leave behind his girlfriend, so the parents said they won't make him go if he could find a job. Then Michael did find a job in his aunt's boyfriend's pub, but the parents didn't let him work there for classist reasons. I had forgotten about that. It also pissed me off, not so much for the classist reasons but because it was so heavy handed and they got mad at him for getting mad at their lovely parenting.
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Apr 15, 2021 21:04
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (April 30-May 1, 1974) Stop perpetuating this loving myth, Schulz! It wasn't all prayer of any kind that was banned; it was mandatory prayer led by your teacher or principal. quote:Funky Winkerbean I don't understand why Batiuk thinks we would care about any of this. You found a CD player. Good job, I guess?
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Apr 29, 2021 02:09
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Captain Kosmos posted:Dustin Ed's a svelte 239 lbs.
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May 4, 2021 19:12
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Professor Wayne posted:Pickles This is a refreshing change from the usual "some gizmo" Boomer comics (and editorial cartoons) you tend to see.
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May 6, 2021 18:19
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Powered Descent posted:
Someone should do a wellness check on this dad; he looks like he's thinking "gently caress my life". e: Beaten, but it's actually sort of funny in a gallows humor way that I doubt Keane intended. The picture is so joyous but the dad looks utterly miserable.
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PetraCore posted:FWIW Thel seems to be having a lovely time and I interpret the dad as just noticing stuff like PJ getting into the chocolates and someone's fly being down, not hating spending time with his kids in general. Yeah, I think it's supposed to be that or the fact that corraling them to sit for the picture was rough. I'm just amused by how defeated he looks.
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