Medenmath posted:

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

ukonvasara posted:

Happy new year comics thread! My new year's resolution is to make more edits. Let's see if I abruptly abandon it in favor of something else, like a Luann plot line, or stick with it for an excruciatingly long time, like a Rex Morgan plot line.

Vargo posted:

Doesn't this dude hate Mark? Is he the guy Mark stole the laptop from? Or the guy that put him in a livestream boxing match? Or both?

davidspackage posted:

I'm sure that, if Estelle tells Wilbur she doesn't want to get married (yet), he will be mature and rational about it.

Vargo posted:

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.

Professor Wayne posted:

Mary Worth is the best comic in this thread.

Esplanade posted:

I've already mentioned I'd like to put Norm Feuti on Dustin and turn the entire strip on its head. And having written Gil, he could actually do something with the neighbor kid, whose name I can't be arsed to remember.

riderchop posted:

make Randy Milholland the permanent Popeye guy

Vargo posted:

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.

How Wonderful! posted:

Pancho Jueves posted:

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Fingerpori:

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Potsticker posted:

Selachian posted:

This is a dated joke even for 1945:

quote:

Ultimately, however, the President’s recommendations were adopted and thereafter, manufacturers of fraternal fobs listed their charms as being “genuine walrus ivory teeth.”

csammis posted:

lol that someone saw an insane spike in traffic on Mary Worth and figured out that people would genuinely pay money to commemorate Wilber dying

I AM GRANDO posted:

I’m starting to believe there’s a chance the shipwrecked Castaway desert island Wilbur story might actually happen. Then he’d be big again a year later when that story comes around and he’s rescued.

Gnoman posted:

In my experience, it's normal to announce that you're going to bed, or otherwise indicate why you are leaving the room. Because it is useful for the other people you're around to know if you're not coming back (and thus they might want to change the channel or do something else with the TV), or if you're going to be passing the kitchen and can grab a beer or something on the way back.

Tiggum posted:

I AM GRANDO posted:

Why have I been on the edge of my seat for each day's Mary Worth post for days in a row now? I know in my heart that Wilbur is unlikely to be dead, but I have to know.

Tiggum posted:

riderchop posted:

Compu-toon

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

This is going to go one of two ways:

1. Wilbur lives...somehow...and Estelle feels like she has to take care of him so she agrees to marry him.
2. Wilbur doesn't live, and for reasons unknown Estelle feels a sense of obligation because they were fighting before he took a drunken leap.

Powered Descent posted:

Did Sassy get rebooted as a cat? I'm just about certain that she was a dog, back in the days of the jackelrod.

~Coxy posted:

Those Were the Days January 23, 1958

Haifisch posted:

Elsewhere: Disco is starting to get some backlash for reasons that definitely have nothing to do with racism or homophobia, nope

Selachian posted:

Forget '80s Flash Gordon, how many folks in this thread have any idea who Dobie Gillis was, or could recognize Maynard G. Krebs by sight?

(Had a rush this morning, so no comics, alas.)

Strontium posted:

Take It From the Tinkersons

Kennel posted:

Selachian posted:

Stephen Collins

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Twelve by Pies posted:

I really was hoping we'd get at least a few days of Wilbur doing poo poo like trying to build a tent out of leaves to survive, and that he'd just get discovered by someone walking down the beach thinking "What the gently caress is this idiot doing."

Nostalgamus posted:

Storm P
Today's entry featuring an impressive amount of racist stereotypes in a single panel.

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.

Vargo posted:

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.