ikanreed posted:

I can't even tell what's going on in this one.

EasyEW posted:

Funky Winkerbean

The_Other posted:

Yeah, I keep wondering if Allison will bring that up in this story (I'm a supporter on his Patreon so I got the full comic as a pdf, but I want to read it at same pace of the rest of this thread). I've always wondered if Allison still thinks of the Wen-Tack stories as cannon, given that they are not even mentioned on the old Scary Go Round site. Lottie sort of makes a reference to it in Wicked Things:

John Allison posted:

I just didn’t have anywhere to put it on the site and didn’t think it was very good. Picture a clock with no hands and no face and that’s how much time I spend thinking about whether something I have done is “canon” or not. All the Wen Tack events happened. They just weren’t any good.

Evil Mastermind posted:

As bad as all that is (and it's pretty bad), I also hate the loving super-exaggerated "physically pained" expressions when someone says something dumb. Like they don't trust the reader to realize what the person said was really dumb.

Mikl posted:

Also also: Modesty and Willie didn't have to bail Guido out of trouble! This is a first I think!

Professor Wayne posted:

Because faces get reused so much in about any comic, I had no idea she was supposed to look exactly like another character but with different hair. I thought Cooper was just cursing at a barista for no reason. It's like if Krillin ran up to Goku and told him that most guys they know look exactly like him except for their hair and/or scars.

Julet Esqu posted:

amigolupus posted:

I know Tove wrote Snorkmaiden getting jealous when someone else shows an interest in Moomin, but that usually happens after she's ditched him once or twice. It's a minor nitpick, but Lars writes Snorkmaiden a bit OOC.

fondue posted:

I don't get this

Meaty Ore posted:

He dropped a quarter in the water, and it sank.

Gatto Grigio posted:

It’s so unearned. Genre switches and meta-humor exist only to try to hide that this cast is so flat and boring.

Reminds me of a high school essay written by a kid who has nothing to say about the subject, so he just writes a paper about how lame and pointless college essays are and thinks he’s the first to do so.

Pistol_Pete posted:

This new Mark Trail art sure is... variable.

Powered Descent posted:

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!

The Bloop posted:

Why is Lottie's orange shaped like a lemon? OR why is she peeling an orange lemon? Is this a British fruit? I learn so much from this comic

Medenmath posted:

Tristram certainly has been the second most important so far. Aside from the quick treatment of his and Isolde's story, Val jousted with him early on. As far as other knights of the Round Table, the strip on May 8, 1937 gave us a quick look at Lancelot:



And this strip from January 8, 1938 briefly introduced Bedivere, Kay, Mordred, and Ector (plus Ulfius and Brastias, who I am not sure are from older Arthurian stories or not):



I'm not sure if others play any significant part, but over decades of strips I wouldn't be surprised if there's a storyline with Lancelot or someone along the way. None of the canonical knights play as big a part as Gawain though, for sure.

I expect that Foster didn't want to lean on the famous Arthurian characters too much to prevent them taking focus away from Val.

goatface posted:

Deathless Deer is reminding me of Fletcher Hanks.

Schwarzwald posted:

what if I substituted sugar in place of flour in my roux

Julet Esqu posted:

Yeah, the actual answer should be, "I can't pay rent with 'exposure'."

He's a doctor and I'm sure he's doing just fine financially, but it's the principle. Pay your talent.

The Bloop posted:

You've never seen her tits

amigolupus posted:

Regardless of their wealth, you can't just get paid an 'IOU' here. She's not just asking him to do an impromptu shoot, she's also asking him to use up a day when he's not busy at the hospital to do yet more work.

SubNat posted:

Alright, thanks for clearing it up a bit for me.

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

I think it was a euphemism for "Bullshit"
ed:
AMERICAN, INFORMAL. If you call what someone says banana oil, you mean that it is only said to gain an advantage and is not sincere. "All the things he said about her qualities of leadership were just banana oil". Complete English Grammar Rules.

The Bloop posted:

Boston Cream Pie is cake

Kennel posted:

What's on your mind, Axa?

Some Guy TT posted:

I'm still stuck on the black guy's wife apparently cucking him for another man...while he himself was cucking that other guy's wife into a twin pregnancy? There's way too much cucking in this comic, especially given how hard it can be to tell characters apart sometimes.

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

EasyEW posted:

A lot of homemade ice cream makers have been run by electric motors for as long as I've been alive, and I am horribly, horribly old, so I'm willing to accept that people could conceivably have seen one without knowing that in the olden days they used to be powered by child labor.

Gatto Grigio posted:

Did they really name him “Willrow Hood”?

BigDave posted:

Late to FOOB chat, but I think one reason why it's so bad to us now is because in the 80s, misery=drama in terms of family oriented dramas. Think back to "very special episodes" of 80s sitcoms. I'd argue that FOOB's bad writing is bad to us now, but was considered top notch at the time. Sitcom drama story at the time was "junior borrowed the car and broke a mirror" or "sister cheated on a test". Today, family drama is multiple layers of causes interlinked with itself, but in the 80s the mom and dad were fountains of wisdom and the kids were always wrong.

I'm sure in the 80s FOOB was groundbreaking, but today we look at it and say "gently caress thats hosed up"

Johnny Aztec posted:

If those are supposed to be childhood mortality, then there needs to be a lot more.


.....a fuken LOT more.

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth



OK I did not see this twist coming.

quote:

The Phantom

Haifisch posted:

I love that everyone in Toonerville keeps being surprised at the powerful Katrinka lifting things with ease.

Evil Mastermind posted:

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth



"It was fake anyways. I couldn't hock it for more than $20. Theoretically."

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth



She found that couch put out to the curb for garbage and thought "SCORE!"

Julet Esqu posted:

Silverware also points down to reduce the chance of stabbing yourself while emptying the silverware basket.

Except in my dishwasher, where the basket is designed with little holes to put the handles through so it's impossible to put forks in with the tines down.

The Bloop posted:

Backwards hand mistake is uncharacteristic of this strip

Darthemed posted:

Popcom

quote:

"At first I declared it the Crater of an Ancient Volcano. The Water occupying its hollow center is fathomless, and about 200 feet in diameter in a perfect circle! It is always brimming full and running over on all sides ... The hills about it were as sacred to the Indians as those about Jerusalem."

quote:

In the end, the developers won. Construction on Glen Elder Dam began in 1964 and was completed by the end of 1968. Engineers bulldozed the hotel and health spa then, adding insult to injury, dumped the debris into the pool of Waconda Spring. Water from the Solomon River began filling up the valley, and by 1970 it was full. The irreplaceable Waconda Spring was lost beneath the waters of the reservoir that now bears its name.

EasyEW posted:

Meanwhile on the front page, Adventures in Transliterating Foreign Names. Oh well, just a couple of rabble rousers, anyway. A hundred years from now, who's gonna know the difference?

Selachian posted:

Modern parents mystified by the concept of kids "coming out and playing"?