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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
| I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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42 | 17.07% |
| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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Our Boarding House (April 9-11, 1923)   Toonerville Folks (June 17-19, 1920; spoiler for "cheeky" skinnydipping humor, timg for angry dad energy)    Dok's "19th Amendment Can't Come Soon Enough" Duck (July 5, 1914)  Little Lefty (October 11-13, 1937)   
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Kennel posted:Dustin
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Dec 30, 2022 04:46
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Jan 12, 1954)  Calvin and Hobbes (Oct 13-14, 1992)    Saving this for D&D Big Nate  E: That's not the right Crabgrass! readingatwork fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 05:55
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Modesty Blaise: Take-Over 
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Dec 30, 2022 06:12
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Pancho Jueves posted:Hey all, I'm working on the OP for next year, but I'll acknowledge I'm not an expert in everything posted in this thread. My blind spots are mainly with foreign comics (i.e. Scandinavian and Japanese) and the older 20's and 30's era selections. Well, since I don't have DMs, and the comic I post is not native to the U.S., despite it's content, I'll provide the summary here (if you want to use it): Blueberry was a long-running serial by Belgian author Jean-Michel Charlier and French artist Jean Henri Gaston Giraud telling the fictional history of the American Wild West primarily through the eyes of the titular character; a roguish but good-hearted soldier. Notable for it's attitudes towards Native American peoples begin more than simply story beats (although it can get a bit Karl-May-y), its complex and twisting adventure stories, a critical attitude towards colonial and capitalist exploitation and frankly ASTOUNDING art, it typically gets updated three pages at a time on Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends; subject to potential delays depending on when translations can be accomplished by yours truly. readingatwork posted:
Oh poo poo, this one is so, so good. Samovar fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Dec 30, 2022 06:35
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Samovar posted:Oh poo poo, this one is so, so good. 2018 Spiderman  1980 comics       Locher Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins 
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Dec 30, 2022 06:57
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Intelligent Life   Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Dec 30, 2022 07:11
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Heathcliff  Compu-toon   Garfield   Overboard   Monty   For Better or For Worse   Classic Arlo and Janis (January 26, 2001)   Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon   On The Fastrack   Safe Havens  
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Dec 30, 2022 07:24
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Strontium posted:Dark Side of the Horse Cheap joke, but a good one nevertheless.
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Dec 30, 2022 10:02
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The Demons of Baseball           
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Dec 30, 2022 10:39
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Why is the tiger America? I thought the pitcher was talking about himself.
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Dec 30, 2022 12:21
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But what if a mongoose were to bite a platypus?
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Dec 30, 2022 12:56
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-Japanese guy says that they're the apex predator -Copper says he disagrees -Japanese says: oh you think you can beat the apex predator? -Copper says: no, but we can beat you 
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Dec 30, 2022 14:05
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Okay credit where it's due, I really like this Luann Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis 
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Dec 30, 2022 14:15
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Vintage Valiant (Jan. 09, 1955) 
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Dec 30, 2022 14:26
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Nancy 1947
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Dec 30, 2022 14:41
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The Creeps 
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Dec 30, 2022 14:45
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No Rhymes today because neither Comics Kingdom nor Arcamax are cooperating. Get Fuzzy 12/29/02  Brenda Starr 2/9-11/50   That's a heck of an expression in the last panel.  Smokey Stover 1/20/52  Because of the bad scan, the background pun in panel two is unreadable but it's obviously "lion's share." Everyday Movies 12/11/35  "Come now, none of that nonsense, you've GOT to see Santa Claus!"
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Dec 30, 2022 15:45
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A+J ]      (JJ said the BW version making it to the web was a blunder somehow or other related to the website getting hacked a while back. He posted the color version on the FB page, but by his own admission we weren't missing much.)  
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Dec 30, 2022 15:50
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everyone wear hats now posted:The Creeps I'm just taking this as proof that Mystery Author is a friend of Chip Zdarsky.
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Dec 30, 2022 16:00
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riderchop posted:Classic Arlo and Janis (January 26, 2001) What'd he rent, Caligula? That'd make for quite a family movie night...
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Dec 30, 2022 16:17
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Bizarro Alt The Family Circus  Alt Neat, they have a Family Circus calendar. The box contains itself.
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Dec 30, 2022 16:40
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Dec 30, 2022 16:42
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise: Take-Over
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Dec 30, 2022 17:11
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (February 19, 1935)  Peanuts (January 7, 1976)  Fallout: Funky Winkerbean  It was pointed out in the BSS Discord that it's a little weird to end a long-running strip with a guest artist, but it was also pointed out that last week was the actual end of the strip, and we're just running down the clock at this point. Speaking of "the real ending", here's the official annotation key for the final Sunday strip, which, if nothing else, points out that TomBat seated his actual family next to the pizza box golem, which I was completely blind to until just now. I also had a terrible idea for what might go into this slot in the new year. We'll see how that plays out when we get there. Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (August 1, 1939)  Out Our Way (September 12-14, 1940)   
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Dec 30, 2022 17:42
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EasyEW posted:I also had a terrible idea for what might go into this slot in the new year. We'll see how that plays out when we get there. Funky...from the beginning
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Dec 30, 2022 17:56
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I love the subtlety of how much this guy liked his little fish buddy. Behind the blustering sexism rolls a single tear. EBB posted:Funky...from the beginning 
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Dec 30, 2022 18:45
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Huxley posted:A+J 
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Dec 30, 2022 19:09
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EBB posted:Funky...from the beginning John Darling?
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Dec 30, 2022 19:55
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EasyEW posted:It was pointed out in the BSS Discord that it's a little weird to end a long-running strip with a guest artist, but it was also pointed out that last week was the actual end of the strip, and we're just running down the clock at this point. I think the strip should end with her reading Lisa's Story, and then the guest author/artist retelling the entire thing from the reader's perspective for the next five real-life years. The comic can be renamed "Lisa's Legacy" and we'll all just collectively kill ourselves to avoid it.
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Dec 30, 2022 20:04
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Docks  Retail   Popcom  
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Dec 30, 2022 20:13
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Dec 30, 2022 20:44
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Couldn’t you guys post something good? There are too many hate reads as it is. I’m tired of seeing 30 new posts, thinking I’ve got something to look at, and most are replies about kids in the snow or animals eating each other or how rotten working in a shop is, and there’s like two posts with any fresh comics in them.
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Dec 30, 2022 21:13
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^^^ I actually enjoy the majority of the comics I post, and probably most of the ones posted generally. There's only a few hate-reads. Haifisch posted:Computoon: Origins F Minus   Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons 
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Dec 30, 2022 21:29
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom Devil has discovered the fourth wall. He sees us. He knows.  don Jaime posted:Couldn’t you guys post something good? There are too many hate reads as it is. I’m tired of seeing 30 new posts, thinking I’ve got something to look at, and most are replies about kids in the snow or animals eating each other or how rotten working in a shop is, and there’s like two posts with any fresh comics in them. There's a lot of great stuff posted here, and a lot of not-so-great stuff. Discussing and joking about both kinds is the whole point of the thread.
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Dec 30, 2022 21:38
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don Jaime posted:Couldn’t you guys post something good? There are too many hate reads as it is. I’m tired of seeing 30 new posts, thinking I’ve got something to look at, and most are replies about kids in the snow or animals eating each other or how rotten working in a shop is, and there’s like two posts with any fresh comics in them. The thing is that just about all of the stuff I post is stuff I genuinely like for one reason or another, and the other ones--and to be fair, there are less of those every year--are interesting for certain levels of their perceived wrongness. But as much as chilling out with quality (and especially watching people light up when something from a hundred years ago connects with them) has obvious rewards, the poo poo ones have always been the big conversation starters. It's a real "between two stools" situation. 
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Dec 30, 2022 22:11
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What strips aren't being posted anyway? We missing some high quality zombie strips here or something? Dilbert is politely banned, somebody was discussing starting Doonesbury, I can't think offhand of many regulars we're missing that aren't 10+ years in and recycling jokes since that 2nd year. Also the bad strips enhance appreciation of the good and tend to be interesting. Like the trend of letting unvetted webcomic artists onto the pages and seeing how they react to deadlines these last few years has been pretty entertaining. And besides there are dozens of good strips already posted.
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Dec 30, 2022 22:22
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Please don't mind the occasional bit of hateposting. It's generally not that serious and it's such a nice sense of camraderie to seethe at a Funky Stinkerbean or Mary Worthless.
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Dec 30, 2022 22:25
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almost all the old-timey comics are great, and the current-day comics range from interesting to decent to fascinatingly terrible. there's a lot to like. you don't even need to hate-read all the bad ones. i just skip funky and foob but holbrook's nonsense is always too convoluted to not boggle at
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Could be thread regulars are kind of high on the end of Funky coming. I just now realized there's apparently just one last strip? He's really going out on this wet fart post-apocalyptic future bookstore thing?
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