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I mean, we're discussing a guy who went notable levels of insane in the Trump era when he already began at "Big Frozen Pizza is sending agents to grocery stores to hide my burritos so they fail" in the 90s.
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secretly best girl posted:I mean, we're discussing a guy who went notable levels of insane in the Trump era when he already began at "Big Frozen Pizza is sending agents to grocery stores to hide my burritos so they fail" in the 90s. Yeah but Dilbert was funny in the 90s
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Jul 21, 2021 21:17
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He was better at hiding his weird tendencies back in the 90s.
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Jul 21, 2021 21:25
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Social media didn't exist yet.
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I remember around 95 Adams had an email newsletter. Even as a young, dumb rear end in a top hat I found it to be pretty toxic.
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Jul 21, 2021 21:52
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Every Dilbert Comic I’ve Ever Seen: BOSS: I’m asking you to do something stupid. DILBERT: But that will be a huge waste of my time. BOSS: I didn’t hear or understand what you said, because I am dumb and self-absorbed.
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Jul 21, 2021 21:59
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Splint Chesthair posted:Every Dilbert Comic I’ve Ever Seen: Yeah, early Dilbert was a pretty accurate depiction of working in an office.
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secretly best girl posted:I mean, we're discussing a guy who went notable levels of insane in the Trump era when he already began at "Big Frozen Pizza is sending agents to grocery stores to hide my burritos so they fail" in the 90s. I always forget he's vegetarian, since everything else about him screams "performitively talk about how delicious steak is when they realize there's a vegan in the room."
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Jul 21, 2021 22:04
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Isn't he on the Neal Adams 'gravity is a conspiracy because the world is actually constantly expanding' brand of nutty?
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Jul 21, 2021 23:56
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Gaz-L posted:Isn't he on the Neal Adams 'gravity is a conspiracy because the world is actually constantly expanding' brand of nutty? No, more straight forward ultra-right-wing nutjob. I mean even before everyone that was right-wing in the US swung hard for ultra-right-wing nutjob.
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Gaz-L posted:Isn't he on the Neal Adams 'gravity is a conspiracy because the world is actually constantly expanding' brand of nutty? Random Stranger posted:No, more straight forward ultra-right-wing nutjob. I mean even before everyone that was right-wing in the US swung hard for ultra-right-wing nutjob. He's both. Like third of one of his prose books is about the "Earth is constantly expanding" thing.
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He is a Trump fan but thinks of himself as "one of the smart ones". The amount of times he has said something incredibly stupid on Twitter and got called out on it only to go around and say "oh I meant to say something incredibly stupid just to see if you libtards were paying attention" (no exact words but that's the gist of it) is staggering.
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Not dire newspaper strip artist. https://twitter.com/billamend/status/1417997318230396931?s=20 Potentially  for cartoon 🍆.
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drrockso20 posted:Saw some recent Dilbert comics posted on another site and good Lord is it some dire stuff, this might just be the most severe drop in quality for a newspaper comic(by a single creator) from its peak I've ever seen Here comes the cock boat!
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Skwirl posted:He's both. Like third of one of his prose books is about the "Earth is constantly expanding" thing. It's the same book where he talks about how he may have won a Pulitzer because he spent every day writing "I, Scott Adams, will win a Pulitzer Prize" on a piece of paper and reality eventually bent to his whim.
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Argue posted:It's the same book where he talks about how he may have won a Pulitzer because he spent every day writing "I, Scott Adams, will win a Pulitzer Prize" on a piece of paper and reality eventually bent to his whim. It worked for The Invisibles, kind of.
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drrockso20 posted:Saw some recent Dilbert comics posted on another site and good Lord is it some dire stuff, this might just be the most severe drop in quality for a newspaper comic(by a single creator) from its peak I've ever seen Just read Gamer Dilbert, it's way better
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How Wonderful! posted:It worked for The Invisibles, kind of. I can almost believe it really worked because I ended up buying that jerkoff spell issue of The Invisibles under semi-mysterious circumstances after I’d dropped out of buying comics for a while. I stepped out of my house without a jacket in the middle of a snowstorm one evening, and for some reason (because I was a dumb teenager) walked in no particular direction through the snow for an hour before I realized I was near the comic store I used to shop at. I went in and bought that issue of The Invisibles plus The Big Book of Conspiracies. Kind of spooky to me because I had no conscious intention of doing any of that. But then I didn’t buy another issue of The Invisibles for a couple years, because that particular issue was in the middle of a storyline and was full of almost dialogue-free action with no explanation of what was going on. Maybe not the best issue to work that spell on.
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Servoret posted:I can almost believe it really worked because I ended up buying that jerkoff spell issue of The Invisibles under semi-mysterious circumstances after I’d dropped out of buying comics for a while. I stepped out of my house without a jacket in the middle of a snowstorm one evening, and for some reason (because I was a dumb teenager) walked in no particular direction through the snow for an hour before I realized I was near the comic store I used to shop at. I went in and bought that issue of The Invisibles plus The Big Book of Conspiracies. Kind of spooky to me because I had no conscious intention of doing any of that. The Big Book Of series is very underrated and I would pay good money for them to be rereleased
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drrockso20 posted:The Big Book Of series is very underrated and I would pay good money for them to be rereleased 90% of them you can still get pretty cheap because they were mass market paperbacks and sold pretty well in regular bookstores. They also had an absolutely amazing line up of talent working on them since they could go to pretty much anyone and say, "Wanna do three pages on something you find amusing in this topic?" I keep meaning to pick up more of them.
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Random Stranger posted:90% of them you can still get pretty cheap because they were mass market paperbacks and sold pretty well in regular bookstores. They also had an absolutely amazing line up of talent working on them since they could go to pretty much anyone and say, "Wanna do three pages on something you find amusing in this topic?" I keep meaning to pick up more of them. True, though it would be nice for them to get like one of those premium collections, personal favorites are probably Conspiracies and The 70's
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drrockso20 posted:True, though it would be nice for them to get like one of those premium collections, personal favorites are probably Conspiracies and The 70's Conspiracies is a great one, but I think my favorite is Grimm because it's all of these amazing artists doing adaptations of fairy tales including all their weird stuff. Did you know Charles Vess did a Snow White adaptation? If you didn't, you definitely want it now.
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Oh man, I know what I'm rereading this weekend now. I bet I have the Big Book of Martyrs around somewhere, I actually got it for a Confirmation present because the somewhat obscure saint our local church was named after had a chapter in it, drawn by D'Israeli no less.
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Conspiracies was good but I thought the JFK section relied a little too hard on expecting readers to be familiar with the Garrison theory (which was the basis of the Oliver Stone movie.)
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I just spent 75 minutes grappling with Bandai's servers buckling under the load of scalpers, DBZ fans, and infrastructure not meant for SDCC numbers of eyes on it at once, and let me just say I regret the monkey's paw I wished on for an online system to get con exclusive merch when I waited in line all those years back.
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Gaz-L posted:Isn't he on the Neal Adams 'gravity is a conspiracy because the world is actually constantly expanding' brand of nutty? I love Neal Adams' work but did not know this about him. Truly disappointing
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Happy Hippo posted:what the christ On the scale of "stupid theory" to "openly racist" this is firmly in the former, so don't stress too much.
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Endless Mike posted:On the scale of "stupid theory" to "openly racist" this is firmly in the former, so don't stress too much. It also led to Batman odyssey which every Batman fan has to read
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Skwirl posted:Probably just being a woman writing a comic was enough. I haven't read her Harley Quinn, maybe there's a panel where Harley is wearing sensible shoes, or is full clothed? $10 shipping to the Netherlands, dang. I would love to get one of these if it weren't for that. 
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The Big Book that I liked the most would have to be The Big Book of Bad. Because it is such a wide term they could go all over the place with it.
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This is a weird comment from a publisher whose best selling series for the past decade has been Berserk. https://twitter.com/Polygon/status/1419014709790101505?s=19
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I don''t think Kentaro Miura was white, plus the article discusses various Dark Horse comics not by straight white men, for example Roye Okupe, Devin Grayson, and Faith Erin Hicks, as well as the very famous editor Karen Berger whose imprint the article is really about and which does not publish Berserk.
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How Wonderful! posted:I don''t think Kentaro Miura was white, plus the article discusses various Dark Horse comics not by straight white men, for example Roye Okupe, Devin Grayson, and Faith Erin Hicks, as well as the very famous editor Karen Berger whose imprint the article is really about and which does not publish Berserk. Yeah that was literally my point, it hasn't been just straight white men for a long time at Dark Horse.
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Straight white boys love Berserk and I think that's the point HW! thought you were trying to make. Source: I'm a white boy and I love Berserk. Dark Horse is in a great place right now. Even though their publishing line is pretty sparse I pull more comics from them than any other company except for Marvel. No One Left to Fight and Mazebook are both incredible.
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Everyone loves Berserk. 
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I just read Boys Run The Riot volume 2. It's good. Boys Run The Riot is basically "be trans, do crimes" the manga, I strongly recommend it.
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Comics sure are cool, 'ey folks? I've been digging into comic podcasts lately, any favorites there? I like the Savage fincast, Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, and I was just trying a bunch of other ones like 11 O'Clock Comics and Comic Geek Speak. In general I like that format where a few people riff and talk about a selection of 5 to 10 books or whatever. Seems like if I find a few pods I like I may know more of what comics are hitting. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Jul 29, 2021 |
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I like House to Astonish and Wait, What? HtA’s schedule has become very irregular as of late though, so not really the best way to find out about new books.
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Letters and Lines was great but seems to be done. War Rocket Ajax is good. Comic Books Are Burning in Hell talk about more than just the big 2.
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