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64 | 26.02% |
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| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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Happy new year, thread! I feel like my comics were already pretty well described, but I'll add some more inf here and there. Also re: Boondocks, I'd like to reiterate my point that part of what makes this strip age poorly is that it claims to have revolution in mind, but at least 60% of the output is complaining about a celebrity doing an annoying thing. In this regard, it is the perfect leftist strip. Breaking Cat News   BCN is one of my favorited but it also overthinks its own premise a ton, and never really got over being a webcomic. By that I mean, the concept is funny on its own, but the strip insists on doing ~*worldbuilding*~ storylines and constantly adding new characters that the art style is too simple to handle. (There are two unrelated orange cats that look exactly alike, there's an in-universe soap opera with one character that looks just like Puck, etc.) Phoebe and Her Unicorn   On the other hand, Phoebe's world-building and new characters are almost always fun and interesting, and the daily gag strips are the ones that can get lazy. Wallace the Brave   Everyone loves Wallace the Brave and I think with the introduction of Rose "the smart one" rounding out the cast, it's really hit its stride. Visit Will Henry's wine and chesses shop if you're ever in Newport, RI. Curtis   Curtis is Curtis. Cartooning is usually good, writing is almost always terrible, frequently forgets to tell jokes and/or resolve stories. Regularly drops into reruns lately, causing some (me) to speculate about the artists' health. Right now the daily strips are in the middle of the annual Kwanzaa storyline, which is an original out-of-canon story that has nothing to do with the rest of Curtis (and probably should not be the example Curtis strip in the OP, but I don't think anyone really cares.)
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LvK posted:afaik it got optioned, which could turn out as nothing but does mean that it's on the table for getting a cartoon. Nickelodeon bought the rights and as far as I know, debut is set for fall of this year
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail Murdstone posted:Mary Worth I still think Moy and Brigman are playing the long game but it's too goddamn long at this point. Damage is well done. Whoever it was that said just because Moy/Brigman know exactly what they're doing doesn't mean we'll get any narrative satisfaction was exactly right. Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD This is a civil suit at best! Why would this have a major press conference? Why does anyone give a poo poo?! Alhazred posted:Zofie's World I wasn't sold on Zofie's World at first but this one got me. Do you have any more of The Good Invader? I really liked that strip. Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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I didn't vote in the thread poll because the answer is E: All of the Above.
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Calaveron posted:Plus he's hanging out with that child because he's in the Big Brother program, it's literally volunteer work Was this ever actually confirmed as an official, in-canon thing, or was it just an excuse that we all made up that got colloquially adopted? And if it is the in-universe explanation, is it "like" a Big Brother, or was Dustin actually assigned this kid by the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization? As far as I know, there's no official agency relationship or even like, babysitting money. He just hangs out with this kid.
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Jan 5, 2022 15:56
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Honestly it feels like the Mary Worth team has backed themselves into a corner. They get a lot of attention from Wilbur being lovely, they know everyone loves to hate Wilbur, but if they show Wilbur getting his comeuppance or facing permanent consequences, that well dries up. (And "a lot of attention" is relative here - we're still talking about Mary Worth.) Come to think of it, it really feels like the last storyline was heading for a different ending, and then abruptly changed so it could be extended into this one. Seems like it wasn't planned.
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Jan 5, 2022 22:26
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis  Wait.... what?
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Jan 6, 2022 14:49
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Still just mind-boggled at how dumb that Billingsley story is, I'm not sure why he insists on doing these stories every year with the arbitrary time limit of "must fit into Kwanzaa" and then just sort of... gets bored and wanders off halfway through.
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Jan 6, 2022 16:54
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis is I guess just lying about copyright dates now.  If I was in charge of the comics, I think I'd find Curtis a new writer, it needs a fresh voice. I'd say Tauhid, and he'd be good because he can write realistic children voices, but also I'd worry I'm just saying Tauhid because he's like the only young black person on the comics page right now.
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Jan 7, 2022 14:37
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coronatae posted:This strip ran til 1983. I cannot wait for Beeman in the late 1960s I was wondering the other day if it was still new strips until the 80s or if it went into reruns at some point. Slammy, any idea?
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I keep getting 404 errors every time I try to access any page on Comics Kingdom, I can only assume that all the extra traffic from goons trying to see if Wilbur really fell overboard is crashing the site. Breaking Cat News   Phoebe and Her Unicorn   Wallace the Brave   Curtis 
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Jan 10, 2022 16:17
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Just sitting here crying over a cat I did not know who inspired a newspaper comic they I post on these dead gay forums.
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Lupin is a good kitten Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Jan 12, 2022 15:59
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Comics Kingdom now has an RIP WILBUR section in their store where you can buy Wilbur merch and framed copies of the death strips: https://shop.comicskingdom.com/collections/rip-wilbur-weston?s=09
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Jan 12, 2022 17:00
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis  Honestly, Billingsley's thing against horror movies makes even less sense than his thing against rap.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Comic Kingdom is borked again so no Curtis right now
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https://twitter.com/iamsteranko/status/1482937594451312643 https://twitter.com/iamsteranko/status/1482938892047335428
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Hidden somewhere in that Twitter thread between Jules, Teaberry, and David Willis is something close to an admission that I really was Dr Camel
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis  "lack of long-term focus" is a real glass-houses situation here, Billingsley
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Tinkersons and A&J both made me laugh really drat hard today Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis  For people who use Powered Descent's imgur upload script, have you noticed that it isn't working for Comics Kingdom lately (starting from when CK had all that downtime)?
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Jan 20, 2022 19:56
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riderchop posted:yeah i've been using it the whole time just fine Powered Descent posted:That's odd, it's been working just fine for me. Okay, maybe I should just rest the parameters for Curtis and see if it works again
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MariusLecter posted:Oh, it's like the difference between 'flirting and sexual harassment' comic. Seeing "Modern Jucika" has made me appreciate even more just what a perfect line the original Jucika walked between cute/lewd but never (okay rarely) outright misogynistic. Breaking Cat News   Phoebe and Her Unicorn   Wallace the Brave   Curtis  There's a good 30-40 years between the popularity of either of those groups, but whatever.
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readingatwork posted:OPEN YOUR EYES SHEEPLE! I thought Death Ray was banned?
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MariusLecter posted:I think you guys are overthinking the Pearls Before Swine. Pastis has been slowly turning more and more conservative over the years as he gets older, in the sense of "everyone is so offended, why can't I say things I wanna say?" so I'm not really willing to give him the benefit of the doubt when he says "far left is just like far right." He's exactly the kind of dipshit who would believe in horseshoe theory and swear he's a liberal. FBI-mily Circus was funny though Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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I really do not understand what happened in Mark Trail at all.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis  Curtis has been even more nonsense than normal this week
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Yeah, it's important to recognize that Dr Foobdad is less mad about Michael driving around as much as he is mad that Michael went driving in his precious midlife crisis mobile, the one everyone told him was a stupid and irresponsible purchase. Michael hasn't yet earned the right to be as dumb and careless as his dad (according to his dad). Breaking Cat News is in reruns this week while Georgia Dunn takes some time off. She posted on Twitter that her editor decided this week would be a "Lupin's Greatest Hits" week instead of the normal straight-through week of reruns we normally would get. So enjoy this RIP Lupin week!  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis  Are we still loving doing this? And didn't Curtis basically poo poo all over Michelle for being a "likes addict" in this strip like six months ago?
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