Medenmath posted:

(I don't like the thread poll because it won't let me pick all four options. )

Murdstone posted:

The current storyline is a story being told to the Phantom of why he should not go rescue an old ally of his from prison. Somehow this rescue is supposed to lead to the end of the Phantom line, but they're taking their time getting to how that happens. It's kind of annoying, since none of this is actually happening but the strip reads like it is and eventually Phantom is just going to go rescue her anyways.

readingatwork posted:

Old School Peanuts:


It's Peanuts but back when it was actually funny.

EasyEW posted:

Crankshaft

EBB posted:

My Lovely Horse posted:

To be honest it's almost entirely a dunk on Mark Trail, which sucks

but also I do think if your chosen format is irreverent gag-a-day, visual metaphor for your emotional state or pop culture reference, that doesn't exactly qualify you for the kind of basically serious, straight-faced, storyarc-based adventure strip I personally have in mind.

Calaveron posted:

...oh my god you're right, Wilbur is the only interesting character in this stupid comic. Moy can't kill him off because then what's left? The fat old guy professor who thought the college girl actually wanted to get with him? His stupid, stupid wife? Wilbur's daughter, Wilburina?

Julet Esqu posted:

Same thing happened to Harry Dinkle. Started out as a regular band leader with foibles.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

rannum posted:

Seeing Inari with ChaCha reminds me: didn't chako send him to chacha in one of the first chacha chakos

how'd that work out if she's in another dimension

Bimmi posted:

Just the dumbest way to tell a story. What's the endgame supposed to be, here? Phantom reads the whole thing and goes "welp, guess I won't," rendering this entire arc pointless? Or forges ahead anyway with a two-panel "And He Did" anticlimax? Or some SHOCKING TWIST only made possible by this ridiculous, straight-rear end-seeing-the-future deus ex machina poo poo? I'm just invested enough in the outcome to be really loving annoyed with how they've chosen to get there.

JethroMcB posted:

Wilbur washed ashore on an island like 12 hours after falling off the boat
Wilbur almost immediately realized it was a resort island
Wilbur apparently has not attempted to contact anybody in the last week

This plot was painstakingly workshopped to be a dumb as possible.

Medenmath posted:

If the social media accounts can be managed by two employees on a part time basis, why do you need a separate LLC for this? Is this some kind of weird tax dodge or something?

Haifisch posted:

2018 Spiderman

Also, y'know, HIPAA?

Mr. Squishy posted:

As this continues, I'm still struggling to think what the kid did wrong.

My Lovely Horse posted:

Christmas is coming!

The title is a reference to a 19th century poem about four generations of women musing on the following day's holiday and their lot in life - child and mother are looking forward to tomorrow, for grandmother it's a day of work like any other, and great-grandmother feels on death's door. Then lightning strikes and kills them all.

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

were funky or les even in the band when the strip was still about bull cramming them into lockers? some terrible part of me wants to hunt down the collections and start posting funky day one just to see how much he has retconned about everyones personalities. but they are hundreds of dollars on ebay so gently caress that

also don't let the smugness of funky cover his crimes in crankshaft, like how he inserted crankshafts son-in-law into the kent state shootings

Green Intern posted:

I think Funky was a student when Dinkle was band director?

CzarChasm posted:

You left out the part where said villain was a Bigfoot/Yeti conspiracy nut, who claimed that said cryptid took his leg, but it was actually juvenile diabetes. Also, dude died in an avalanche. Alone. It was a fuckin trip.

Slammy posted:

Those Were the Days July 31, 1958

Selachian posted:

Beeman is old enough to remember when "breach of promise" lawsuits were a big deal (at least in the media).

Giant Ethicist posted:

No, she's basically looking for something to distract Chako so she stops inadvertently destroying the world out of boredom.

Giant Ethicist posted:

ChaCha Chako

End chapter 12! (Of 15 - we're coming in to the home stretch.)

Murdstone posted:

Mark Trail

Ardeem posted:

As awesome as this interspersed flashback is... how the hell did Moz write it down?

Synthbuttrange posted:

oh jesus what the gently caress is wrong with that dog's muzzle

Mikl posted:

And over two hundred grandchildren, according to a previous strip.

Please pay no mind to the implication as to the effects of a population of human-sized creatures growing hundred-fold in numbers over two generations would have on ecology, society, politics, and pretty much everything else.

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Twelve by Pies posted:

Fuckin' tabloids, my granddaughter only murdered 75% as many people as they say she did!

Hwurmp posted:

Calvin's classmates yelling at him in unison but instead of "BATS AREN'T BUGS" it's "RABBITS ARE RODENTS"

Zamboni Rodeo posted:

LOL at that fancy cigarette holder, wow. I had somehow managed to forget the detail about how she was just trying to butter him up for a good grade.

Twelve by Pies posted:

Absolutely. I'm just not sure if it'll be her long lost twin that died, or if it'll be something even crazier.

Okay normally I have this strip's back on customers being unreasonable, and admittedly getting upset with the worker isn't helpful, but what's wrong with what this woman's saying? It feels like it's being presented as inherently wrong somehow but it isn't. She doesn't want to kill a tree, so she wants to get a fake one that biodegrades so it also won't harm the planet. That's a completely consistent and logical desire. There's nothing contradictory about it.

e: I guess manufacturing/packaging even a biodegradable tree would still create a lot of carbon emissions so it's kind of contradictory to an extent, and I guess the joke is supposed to mostly be "but an actual tree is the most biodegradable thing of all" but eh, I dunno.

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Feb. 05, 1950)

Vargo posted:

Phoebe and Her Unicorn

Giant Ethicist posted:

Mokke's Calamity

Giant Ethicist posted:

He's saying "hai" ("yes") - the original panel is this:

And I thought the strange unreality of it was important.

Giant Ethicist posted:

Uramachi Sakaba
Those of you who were making predictions can be forgiven, as Maruoka Kuzo clearly has no idea how drug dealers work.

gleebster posted:

And on Sunday:


A skateboard is in a closet, but these two kids have never heard of skateboards? What the hell is up with this thing? I can get a slow reveal, but this is just too much.

Alhazred posted:

TegneHanne

This is how I eat sushi, I had no idea that it was wrong

MagpieConcept posted:

I think (and food nerds correct me if I'm wrong) this is because ginger is supposed to be a palate cleanser when going from one type of sushi to another.