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Julet Esqu posted:It really was terrible and weird, but in just the right way to make it fascinating. Remember how, due to one of many drastic retoolings of the comic's basic concept, the last we saw of once-important characters the professor and his assistant was them sitting in jail because the police thought they were drunk?
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Vintage Valiant (Jan. 23, 1955) The classic scans come from the excellent Fantagraphics collections. If you like what you see, please consider buying a few of these books, as they reproduce the strip in a lovely oversized format with stunning color fidelity. Foster's artwork is spectacular and these collections are probably the first time it has been given a format it deserves since first being published in papers. When I was a kid I had trouble getting into Prince Valiant because it had a long backstory and seemed wordy and dense, so I'm including a high level summary of the plot of the classic strips to this point to help those who haven't been following along. You can find that here. As a shorter catch-up, Aleta's business in the Misty Isles has been dealt with, and so we find Val's family preparing to travel through eastern Europe back to Thule. Currently they are in Constantinople looking to hire some of the Varangian Guard to travel with them.
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (January 29, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Powerful Katrinka posted:Hi, thread, I'm celebrating my birthday and the new year in Hawaii, have a couple Hawaiian Kliban cats! I'm incredibly jealous!
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~Coxy posted:drat, this is a deep cut! as if to hide our shame from god
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And when thou eatest thy ortolan, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to eat the ortolan standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. But thou, when thou eatest thy ortolan, crawl beneath thy table cloth, and when thou hast covert thine head, chomp thy ortolan in secret; and thy Aunt Fritzi which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Nancy 6:6
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Kazinsal posted:as if to hide our shame from god But what I don't get is how Nancy can fit the TV under the blanket too. You know, to watch Barbra Streisand sing Celine Dion.
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EasyEW posted:Meanwhile, 2022 was the year Something Positive creator Randy Milholland passed the audition and took over the Sunday Popeye strip upon Hy Eisman's retirement. The results have been described as "Something Positive with Popeye characters", but Milholland's been turning in a nice hangout strip that somehow manages to infuriate certain types of fans.
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So I've been posting Solver by John Allison which, as Pancho Jueves said in the intro follows Lottie from Bad Machinery. Now 18 or 19 years old Lottie, after having been framed for murder in Allison's unfinished print series Wicked Things, has formed a business, Steel City Solvers, dedicated to solving problems people bring to them. Lottie is joined by her friend and Bad Machinery semi-regular Claire Little and new character Glenn Durgan. The series mostly takes place around Sheffield, the setting of Allison Giant Days comic and home of his own Alma Mater. Solver runs M-W-F and Allison usually posts in groups of 22 page “issues”. Also while the badmachinery.com website is mainly used for the Solver series Allison uses it to post any of his side comics, like last years Giant Days x Batman crossover. Solver 9: Boys Like Fun Part 1   John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:Welcome back for a whole new year of comics! What will they be? Beyond the first week of April, I can’t tell you (because I don’t know) but until then, a two-part Solver story. It’s got a small amount of Dean Thompson – I would say, just enough.
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I like that Nancy didn't even frame the shot well. Even if she had set the timer right she'd have been mostly outside the shot.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Curtis  Kwanzaa's nearly over so the only way I can picture this ending tomorrow is "So the fish turned Joe into a normal person and then his life was awesome, the end."
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Powered Descent posted:
It’s my secret shame that almost never do I get all of the differences between the two images. There’s a real art to creating those that Webber really understands. Or I’m a moron.
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Buni Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 1/1/03  Brenda Starr 2/16-18/50    Smokey Stover 2/10/52  Everyday Movies 12/14/35  "It ain't gonna hurt you none to throw on a few extra shovelfuls of coal a day until Christmas." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 6/6-8/40   
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Bizarro The Family Circus  Slylock Fox  And it just occurred to me that I forgot to post yesterday's FoxTrot. This strip, by Bill Amend, began in 1988 and moved to Sundays-only in 2006. It covers the everyday adventures of the Fox family and frequently features nerdy young Jason. 
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Vargo posted:Kwanzaa's nearly over so the only way I can picture this ending tomorrow is "So the fish turned Joe into a normal person and then his life was awesome, the end." I assume the fish gives everyone else in the world rabbit features too. Wouldn't really make the message any better, though.
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Vargo posted:
Magic Fish: "That's cool. I wish I was in an actual clean and healthy-sized aquarium rather than this tiny stifling fishbowl, choking on my own waste. Perhaps in some magical fantasy world, at least one of our wishes could be granted."
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (February 20, 1935)  Peanuts (January 1, 1976)  This space feels...empty. It feels doubly empty because the Funky Winkerbean page was deleted from Comics Kingdom at some point yesterday. Good excuse for an audition. (flips through what's being offered on the big two websites) Miss Peach (for awhile Ms. Peach) was launched in 1959 by Mell Lazarus, who you might remember as the creator of Momma, a strip that ran long enough that it was part of the early Comics Curmudgeon rotation. His big innovation was the "flounder face" style of head drawing, with both eyes on the side of the nose facing the reader. The strip is set at the Kelly School (named for Walt), and the pupils are (and, unlike Peanuts, always were- giant-headed wisecracking imps. Considering how many of you feel about mid-period Charlie Brown, this may not go over well. (June 19, 1989, because this is the period the rerun machine decided to drop us into.)  Crankshaft has also been erased from Comics Kingdom, which has to be embarrassing, seeing as how Ed and his son-in-law showed up for work anyway.  (e: because Crankshaft changed syndicates and main websites, which was announced a long time ago, but I was too distracted by the collapse of the Funkyverse to notice.) Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (August 3, 1939)  Out Our Way (September 19-21, 1940; spoilered for the usual reasons, and the first reminder of the new year that if a non-Anglo/Western European was looking for fair-minded media representation at the turn of the 1940s, they sure as hell weren't going to get it in the comics section of a mainstream American newspaper.)   
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyBQ0sj-U4 Since Miss Peach is being shared, here's an animated short Chuck Jones executive produced.
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EasyEW posted:Sally Forth Raisin Bran has more sugar than pretty much anything with marshmallows.
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave 
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I AM GRANDO posted:It’s my secret shame that almost never do I get all of the differences between the two images. There’s a real art to creating those that Webber really understands. Or I’m a moron. EasyEW posted:This space feels...empty. It feels doubly empty because the Funky Winkerbean page was deleted from Comics Kingdom at some point yesterday. Good excuse for an audition. (flips through what's being offered on the big two websites) F Minus   Mark Trail  Mary Worth  Edit: Oh it's the girl Tommy proposed to a few years back, Brandy.  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe never updated for yesterday, but here's today's anyways.  Rex Morgan MD  [b]Andertoons 
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Kennel posted:Dustin Counterpoint: He’s a grown man who clearly needs both a hobby and more physical activity. I say let him try.
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manero posted:Nancy 1943 
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Hey, gang! What do you say we start this new year with a masturbation joke? Luann  Normally when an unmarried woman gets hot and bothered in this strip it is a SIN and she is a FALLEN WOMAN and it is PUNISHED. But not right now. I'm not sure what the rules are. Gil Thorp  You can also put a masturbation joke here, if you want to.
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I sometimes wonder how you train for pole vaulting. Seems like something you can't meaningfully work your way up.
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Professor Wayne posted:Hagar the Horrible
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EasyEW posted:
thats really funny
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Classic Managerial Strategies: Use One Weird Trick Called "Racism" To Your Advantage!        So Madelaine is a pre-existing character but not for too long, she's just been one of the generic background cats that've been involved in this whole coup thing.
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Pogo 10/6-8/49   Archie 2/11-13/46  drat, that's a fine Jughead smirk. I'm more familiar with the standardized, simplified Dan DeCarlo style on Archie, and it's amazing how much better Montana is.  Sadly, I can't find a version where the third panel background signs are readable.  Some bits of '40s slang to decipher here: An "all black" in soda fountain parlance was a chocolate soda with chocolate ice cream. "Lindy hopper" refers to the Lindy hop, a popular dance in the prewar era but lame and outdated for a modern 1946 teenager. And "Greetings, Gate, let's percolate!" is indeed how a hepcat would invite someone to dance -- "Greetings, Gate!" was the catchphrase of comedian Jerry Colonna, usually worked into a rhyming phrase, e.g. "Greetings, Gate, let's celebrate!" Selachian fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jan 2, 2023 |
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