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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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spookygonk posted:Who's going to feed his fish now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall
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riderchop posted:WHERE THERE'S A WILBUR Literally an unflushable poo poo.
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Jan 17, 2022 07:09
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CommonShore posted:For all of the translators: I agree. The explanations were half the fun of reading Fingerpori.
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Jan 30, 2022 05:43
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Murdstone posted:That's not a melon, it's melon bread. It's clearly a melon. Edit: And I was just wondering what happened to Professor Fat Lincoln and there he is!
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Feb 7, 2022 06:39
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Alhazred posted:I don't really see why the Phantom can't just walk up to them and tell them where it's safe to go and where it isn't. There no need for this "invisible protector" bullshit. If there's one thing that teenagers rebelling from being told what to do by authority figures love, it's being told what to do by authority figures.
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Feb 7, 2022 14:01
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Twelve by Pies posted:In the comic before this one Liz says that that girl is wearing a see-through top and that everyone can see her bra. So it's supposed to be a bra and skirt, I just don't know if Lynn Johnston thought she wouldn't be able to get it past the editors if it looked more like a bra, if she didn't want to draw a middle (high?) school girl in just a bra and skirt, or if it's just lazy art. You don't need a lawyer for any of that stuff. An hour on the Internet will give you enough boilerplate to send all sorts of legal threats to people and even file complaints in court. You *ought* to get a lawyer if you don't want to make a fool of yourself, of course. I don't think Belluso was serious about actually taking it to court, though. The plot seems to be implying that he just wanted to pressure Rex into settling out of court and just brought in the actor to apply a little extra pressure when he thought he had the upper hand.
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Mar 3, 2022 22:14
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Twelve by Pies posted:Welp, I genuinely didn't know that you didn't need a lawyer to sue someone. I was going to say that if he was going to spend money anyway he might as well hire an actual lawyer, but I guess he didn't end up paying the guy he pretended to be a lawyer, which a real lawyer wouldn't have let him get away with. It's still an incredibly stupid plan because, well, of what just happened. The guy didn't get paid and so he confessed that he wasn't a lawyer. Every antagonist in Rex has a backup plan and they all have the same one: shout "feet don't fail me now!" and exit by the nearest door (or window as Renee Belluso literally did in his first plot in the strip.)
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Mar 4, 2022 06:15
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Powered Descent posted:The Family Circus Why is god telling Jeffy to use the handrail?
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Mar 23, 2022 17:52
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Shugojin posted:wait so the great tragedy is that his son just does phantom things without ever putting on the purple spandex The Phantom is actually a fervent believer in Xi Jinping Thought and is appalled that his son would fight against the PLA. The next plot arc will be about preventing a terroist strike against a Belt and Road project in Bangalla.
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Mar 26, 2022 18:45
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Murdstone posted:
This is a pretty effective plot since there's nothing more chilling to the elderly people who still read newspaper comics than the idea of a child who moves out and never visits.
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Mar 28, 2022 18:18
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Zereth posted:Why is Successful Lawyer Man getting his taxes done there. He's so irritating that he alienated every tax preparer that could afford a roof and four walls.
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Apr 4, 2022 23:29
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Murdstone posted:
Which has been going on longer - Moz's story or Popeye's demon storyline?
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Apr 5, 2022 17:58
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EasyEW posted:
This sounds fun. One of my favorite reads from this thread was the stretch of Thimble Theater when Segar invented Popeye and realized that he struck gold.
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Apr 8, 2022 03:53
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readingatwork posted:
I've decided this comic takes place on the outskirts of The Zone from Stalker. Or maybe in it...
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Apr 9, 2022 06:10
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Powered Descent posted:Somehow I picture Ollie as not walking, but smoothly hovering along behind him, unmoving, unsmiling, unblinking. It has to be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13YlEPwOfmk
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Apr 16, 2022 01:23
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Tiggum posted:This is going to end with Ronnie going back to Ann and her continuing to write for him, and that being treated as a good and happy ending, isn't it? If my theory that almost every character in Brenda Starr is a sociopath holds, then yes.
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May 2, 2022 04:10
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Twelve by Pies posted:Yeah seeing his wife get one over on him is always great. I know it's because of sexist poo poo about Everett being henpecked and whatnot but she's still the only one to consistently give him a taste of what he deserves, so even if the attitude was "This'll make my readers really dislike her" I think it makes her the best character in the comic. I don't think Condo wants anyone to dislike Mrs True. It's just funny to see a character get a taste of his own medicine once in a while and it lets him mine domestic life for material.
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May 3, 2022 19:41
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise: The Mind of Mrs. Drake I like these early Modesties Blaise a lot better than the late ones. The quality didn't drop that badly, but I feel like a 90s one would have spent six pages chatting about throat mics and the blind guy's "vibes" where this one just gets on with the story.
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May 3, 2022 23:30
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Malachite_Dragon posted:At least it doesn't actively aggravate me like Safe Havens and Mary Worth. Holy poo poo Mary Worth is bad. She doesn't even meddle anymore! She just hands out muffins while people deal with their problems on their own. Absolutely pointless.
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May 7, 2022 05:58
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Kennel posted:
Olivia Jaimes has been been doing a lot more Bushmiller style gags lately.
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May 15, 2022 21:58
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Kennel posted:Into Ilves Forget the horse - where's Into's little hat? That's my favorite part of the strip.
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May 18, 2022 23:45
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goatface posted:The strip recently confirmed this is the 5th century, and it mentioned the sack was by the Vandals, so ~455ish (in theory). Maybe he was confusing it with the shift of the Western Roman capital to Ravenna? But that would have been like that the last time he passed through, so it wouldn't have been a surprise. He also did a bunch of strips where Val met some Muslims about a hundred years before the birth of Muhammad so I wouldn't sweat the strip's historicity too much.
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May 21, 2022 16:57
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The Bloop posted:Is Daddy wearing sock garters? A lot of Family Circus strips are re-works of old strips. You can tell every now and then when it's clear that they edited out a corded phone or changed console TV into a flat screen sitting on the floor for some reason.
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May 25, 2022 18:18
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MockingQuantum posted:I'd agree that Lottie being in this weird limbo in terms of character development is an issue. I'm as big a Lottie fan as anyone, but I do think part of the problem is she worked best as a single (main) character in a larger cast. Allison is generally good at writing sassy, eccentric young women, but they function best when they have other strong personalities to help drive the story forward. I liked Wicked Things well enough, and was pretty lukewarm on Circus Windows and Solver, despite really liking Lottie as a character. I think she (and all of the Bad Machinery kids) really shine as a whole, rather than as individual characters. I can see why he focused on Lottie, given that she's one of the more interesting and memorable (and I assume popular) characters in the Bobbinsverse, but I think pulling her out of the larger cast also kind of made the potential storylines stale. As much as I like Little Claire as a character, she also feels like she worked better in a larger ensemble. One of the reason I like the old Bobbins and Scary-Go-Round cast better overall is that Allison is way too precious and protective about his Mystery Kids. They're good characters and he's gotten some good stories out of them, but it's clear that he's never going to put them in any real peril or non-positive life changes. The other crews will get divorced, have bitter breakups, die and go to hell, or become time cops but Lottie will always be handled with kid gloves.
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May 25, 2022 18:28
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Does anyone know anything about Qrais exhibitions? I've been following him on twitter for a while and he keeps coming out with installation art projects like this one: https://twitter.com/hobo_nichiyobi/status/1530164702416113666?s=20&t=uP84UKio3RGWesvvbcqYMw quote:Tomorrow, we are ready to welcome you to the "Qrais Noe Exhibition" starting on Saturday, May 28th.
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May 27, 2022 14:19
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EasyEW posted:
It's "Out Our Way" not "And He Did". Every one of the characters in that strip lived long lives and died in bed of old age surrounded by their loving families and a dorg. Also, when Williams does a sad strip he always does a little poem to drive it home.
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May 31, 2022 15:41
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Selachian posted:I know I've seen articles about regional variations in these; for instance, when I was growing up, it was "... the Batmobile lost a wheel, and the Joker got away." And there are like a dozen versions of "Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts." I think that's the version they used in an early Simpsons episode.
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May 31, 2022 15:42
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Bibliotechno Music posted:ˇAragones! The guy on the right took off his jacket to fight in shirtsleeves and the guy on the left took off his whole suit to fight in a karate outfit implying that he's a bit more serious about fighting.
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Jun 3, 2022 22:20
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Some Guy TT posted:Is it just me or does Arlo seem uncharacteristically prudish today? They are both well into the age where you start caring a lot about skin cancer. The artist is too, for that matter. I wouldn't be surprised if he wrote that strip after a visit to his dermatologist.
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Jun 10, 2022 17:57
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom And Katie kills herself! Do you mean Kadia? Her too!
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Jun 11, 2022 00:14
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We need a version of the Arn POV strip in the modern series where he's regent of Camelot except it turns out that his inner monolog is still in a toddler's voice.
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Jun 18, 2022 17:38
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Green Intern posted:What the gently caress is happening? This whole arc feels so gross. It's creepy as hell and doesn't even make sense. Why would you want to own half a leg paint factory when you knew that the very thing that was making leg paint valuable was going away?
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Jul 12, 2022 14:36
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Alhazred posted:Zelda Keep that woman away from peaches.
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Aug 9, 2022 20:57
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Do any of you regular posters have any tips for a cheap and easy way of scanning cartoons out of a book? I think I have something for the thread but it's all in print form.
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Aug 22, 2022 01:39
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Giant Ethicist posted:Cthulhu and Girl You're telling me an octopus fried this rice?
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Aug 22, 2022 22:42
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Murdstone posted:
...and I put it in your salad! Tell me - and remember, this is for posterity, so be honest - how do you feel? Edit: And speaking of poisonings - is there a tutorial out there for uploading and posting multiple items to imgur?
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Aug 24, 2022 00:09
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Mister Beeg posted:While we're on Bullwinkle, the book contained a bunch of promo arts the syndicate sent to papers to promote the strip. One of the said arts is this one Just in case anyone is missing the wow part of this one, it's a reference to this: 
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Sep 17, 2022 05:24
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Stultus Maximus posted:He's leaving out an important part in order to pretend that The Man is cancelling him. Wow - Crabgrass got through right as the door was slamming shut. Good for him!
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Sep 20, 2022 23:31
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Green Intern posted:What!? poo poo like that happens more often than you think! The gun that Jack Ruby used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald is in private hands, for example.
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Sep 21, 2022 15:42
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CzarChasm posted:What does that phrase "Niggly as an all black front row". It sounds racist, but I can't parse it. The All Blacks are the New Zealand national rugby team.
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Sep 23, 2022 17:23
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