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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail That third panel 
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Jan 4, 2021 19:55
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Mikl posted:Axa, I'm not going to blame you for liking boys, but maybe, just maybe, in a world that is doing it utmost to kill you dead, stop for a bit and think instead of going "Oooo cute boys." Please. Axa: "Before I die, I'm gonna gently caress me a fish(man)."
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Jan 5, 2021 22:32
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Luann has just been unrelentingly exxxtra horny lately, huh? It's so weird because I know it's Luann and so absolutely nothing will come of any of it. The_Other posted:Circus Windows in which Mildred makes a prediction. Garfield, Threedom, and Sipowicz: The Holy Trinity. Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons Having just finished my fake sausage, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich, I fully empathize with Tillman here. Yeah the whole "animal welfare and environmental benefits" thing is nice, but veggie sausage just tastes so good, so much better than what you'd expect.
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Jan 6, 2021 15:16
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tfw the 'shroom tea kicks in
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Jan 8, 2021 01:36
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Classic (May 10, 1999) With this thread as my witness I will never become a "White sneakers guy" If I ever become a "White sneakers guy" it will be a sign that I am too far gone, I give you permission to take me out.
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Jan 8, 2021 17:59
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Comic Strips 2021: I'm Fine With Having a Bad Life
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Jan 9, 2021 15:46
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side These are some important loving shoes!
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Jan 14, 2021 17:24
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The_Other posted:Circus Windows Behind the curve on love Just saw this. For everybody else who was blowing up a PNG and squinting to make out the details https://twitter.com/badmachinery/status/1330824837342908417
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Jan 14, 2021 18:30
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I hate 9CL, I hate it with my heartEasyEW posted:Toonerville Folks (January 18, 20-21, 1917) Big laugh at "Them Onions"
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Jan 15, 2021 21:54
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EasyEW posted:Funky WInkerbean "Oh my God, please tell me it's not..." "Mr. Winkerbean, I'm afraid you have Lisa's Disease of the eyes. Yes, my assistant is mildly amused by your suffering."
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Jan 19, 2021 05:22
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Larryb posted:Also I forget, is Bobbins canon to Bad Machinery or is it just another strip by the same author? If the former, how so? It's all canon; Bobbins was the genesis of the whole Tackleford character universe. It was a "young people working in an office" strip about the lives of Ryan and Shelley's generation in the late 90's. After Bobbins came Scary-Go-Round, which was initially centered on Tessa and Rachel, two secondary Bobbins characters. Eventually Amy, Shelley and Ryan came back to the fore of SGR, while Tessa and Rachel became recurring villains, then disappeared from the strip altogether (They made one final return appearance to get killed off.) Through Shelley's younger sister Erin we were introduced to the world of Griswald's Grammar School, where one of her fellow students was Sarah Grote. Ryan briefly dated Sarah while she was in sixth form (kinda gross,) and around that same time that Sarah's younger sister Charlotte discovered that her friend Shauna had Desmond Fishman living in the shed behind her house (her brother Darren had nursed him back to help after he and his lads initially thought they'd killed him while roughing him up - Des had merely spit up ink, as is his habit.) Charlotte and Shauna became central to the last few SGR stories, then Bad Machinery started with them as the leads.
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Jan 20, 2021 00:08
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Slammy posted:And He Did! (January 20, 1918) I bought some Limburger cheese a few months back; it was on clearance at the supermarket (Because it was rapidly approaching its "best by" date, meaning it was extremely potent.) After 3 decades of stereotyping from Looney Tunes and the like I braced myself for the worst. I was shocked to discover that the cheese actually has a very mild flavor; creamy and kind of grassy with only a little funkiness on the finish. The smell, however, is no exaggeration. Dear lord, it is a pungent thing.
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Jan 20, 2021 06:43
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Classic (May 25, 1999) My grandfather had a boat parked in his back yard (nowhere in the vicinity of water) for years, and the one time I saw him mess with it he riled up a wasp/hornet nest inside that he wasn't expecting. I guess this is a universal boat experience.
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Jan 23, 2021 18:00
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riderchop posted:Heathcliff oh my God I laughed at a Heathcliff
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Jan 23, 2021 20:53
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Does this thread need to be reminded of Dustin's "VOTE 45" message from election day The strip is bad at its core. Do not be fooled.
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Jan 24, 2021 17:12
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The other day I drafted a post criticizing Heathcliff, saying that it is a strip you can safely scroll past because, for as "crazy" as it is is, most of the time it's just something like Heathcliff and the kid watching a pug driving a Go-kart with a pug's face on the front, and the kid says "Pug-Kart." And that's it. Then, two weeks later, you'd see the exact same visual gag but now there would be two pugs driving and the caption would be "Go-Pugs." The strip isn't just lazy, it's repetitive. I wound up not posting it because I thought "What do I care, that's a hyperbolic take; it lands a joke every now and then and it's not that derivative." Then, this week: riderchop posted:Heathcliff riderchop posted:Heathcliff To quote Nick Wiger in that article about modern Heathcliff, “I think I am actually mad.”
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Jan 27, 2021 15:56
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Huxley posted:At least when they flipped the artwork, they flipped BACK the diplomas. I did notice that it appeared to be completely redrawn. Which is nice. But it's still the same "joke," two days apart.
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Jan 27, 2021 16:14
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail Thanks for meeting me here at Wowee, y'know it's Howgeefest this month
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Jan 27, 2021 21:05
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garfield hentai posted:Jeremy wanting to name the cat Clapton is giving the same vibes as 16-year-old Peter in Foxtrot being super into Bruce Springsteen To be fair, when it was originally established that Peter was super into Springsteen, it was 1988. Kavak posted:Sometimes teens are into classic rock, I was obsessed with The Doors in high school. I live in a college town and let me tell you, when frat boys are out on their lawns on weekend afternoons tossing a ball around and sipping out of red cups, they are bumping Dad Rock. Nothing like hearing "Jack & Diane" from two blocks away.
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Jan 27, 2021 23:56
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth "I was at Geno's, and I ordered a Cheesesteak...I don't know what came over me, I said "Gruyere wit'"...they got so angry, they accused me of not Backing the Blue and ran me out of town! I can never return!" riderchop posted:Heathcliff, sorry to the guy mad about repeating jokes lol 
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Jan 29, 2021 20:15
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This is a home run strip.
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Jan 30, 2021 21:38
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Between the pose and the fact that he looks like he has cat eyes a la the end of the "Thriller" video, I'm howling at this one. No joke, every time I look at it, full-throated laugh.
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Feb 1, 2021 20:24
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The answer to "Why isn't the boat explosion immediately catching up with Mark Trail" is "It is a newspaper comic strip, I should really just relax." Also, it's Florida, that was like the 8th boat chase ending in an explosion that the cops were involved in that day.
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Feb 2, 2021 19:56
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Hostile V posted:Catholic Ants. Bogor, Bogor; What hast thou donest?
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Feb 3, 2021 22:56
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Slammy posted:Dinky Fellas (April 28, 1965) There was a crossover event in the BSS Comics Thread today...but not the good kind, like you want.
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Feb 4, 2021 03:28
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I think about this one from time to time. I like the gag, but I love the expression in panel 3.
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Feb 5, 2021 00:41
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I, too, thank an Angel for that time I didn't kill my son. But now, well, now we can laugh about it.
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Feb 6, 2021 02:43
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My Lovely Horse posted:Tomorrow on Rex Morgan MD: "Now that I've had some exercise I sure deserve a snack" Since tomorrow is Sunday we'll get a recap of everything Buck did this week. MAYBE in the final panel we'll get a mention of Buck thinking about considering a snack. Monday: Buck continues to think about food. By Friday, he might even take action.
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Feb 6, 2021 23:41
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (June 7, 1951) A timeless comedic conceit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER5qwu8nTtc
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Feb 7, 2021 03:21
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Hostile V posted:lmao those titles on the kid comics in that Peanuts. I originally misread "Ruin Funnies" was "Ruin Enemies" and greatly preferred that one
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Feb 7, 2021 04:43
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Vargo posted:This is basically true, though. Walden pond was like a mile from Thoreau's mom's house, and the reason he could hang out there was because she was paying all his financial obligations. Jeremy's got the right idea. Yes. I never cared for Transcendentalist writing and found Walden to be especially lousy. The story of a middle-class guy who play-acts at self-reliance by living in a shed he built, by hand!...on his well-off friend's land, about half an hour's walk from the center of Concord, and he makes trips into town for supplies and socialization multiple times a week. I give Jeremy an A-.
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Feb 10, 2021 19:18
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Calvin's expression here always weirded me out. I...assume he's just pulling his upper lip back to really expose his incisors? But...those are hosed UP incisors.
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Feb 11, 2021 04:23
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EasyEW posted:9 "Not Actual Porn, But It Makes Me Feel Dirty" Lane "Sexy bald spot" TUNE IN SOON FOR: "His glassy, liver spotted skin turn me on" "Licking his hearing aid gets me soooooooooo wet" "Old people smell: the ultimate aphrodisiac oh PS I'm still young"
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Feb 13, 2021 06:35
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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 " I was mostly mad at it because the joke is "Free Wi-fi" but those kids 100% do not need to be inside that treehouse to get a signal
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Feb 15, 2021 08:06
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Mr. Squishy posted:Moustache cup? Moustache cup. (I thought it meant a cup for shaving purposes, but...no.)
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Feb 15, 2021 16:33
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My Lovely Horse posted:I think it sucks that Zits seems to be going in hard on the "people get CANCELLED on social media for HARMLESS JOKES" angle but I also emphatically don't think the practice of social media ostracizement is such a force of good in the world that it's self-evidently beyond reproach and even the mildest of lampooning. It's almost like immediate backlash against something divorced from context is the exact same thing that the strip might be making fun of (Now that I've given it my approval, I'm fully expecting today's strip be like "Wow! Ben Shapiro!" "Hi, Kid From Zits, I'm here to back you up on this subject.")
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Feb 16, 2021 14:40
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Holy everloving poo poo, Mary Worth, I can't stop laughing That moment is going to be used in edits for the rest of time
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Feb 16, 2021 19:57
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The Bloop posted:Well it is true that an abused person with PTSD relating the story to a brand new friend may not quite be forthright with everything Even still, I just went back and reread the last two weeks' worth of strips. There has been no build-up or indication in any way that we were approaching "Well, there's...one other thing about my late husband that I...haven't really discussed with anybody..." territory. Nope, out of nowhere, Tuesday strip, "I love my little dog." "Oh yeah! I do love my dog, too, one time when my late husband tried to shoot me, she jumped in front of the gun!"
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Had to spoil Mary Worth for myself today The reveal of the shooting goes completely unaddressed, back to how important the bond with the dog is. My money is definitely on this not being a Very Special Story about internalizing the horrors of abuse or PTSD, just a Very Bad One nishi koichi posted:they’re supposed to be in middle school? After the big dramatic timeskip a while back (more than a year ago by this point, right?) Hil is in 8th grade
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