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Ground floor with my comics av back I got terminally behind last year but I'm here from the start this year - perhaps I shall repost The Bus and The Creeps
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I forgot what an S-tier cartoonist Walt Kelly was. I'm one of those who has trouble sometimes parsing the way the characters talk and the nature of the jokes, but there is no doubting the incredible illustration. the bus  I own the bus and the bus 2 and will, with time, post it all. It's been, uh, three years? Since it last graced the thread.
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Darthemed posted:I love The Bus, but could you please white-balance or use the automatic contrast leveling on your scans before posting? Here's a comparison image of how it looks with that step applied. It may not look like a big change, but for folks with bad eyes like me, it really makes a difference. Sure thing, this will be a chance for me to learn something at all about image editing. When I reach the bus 2 I'll try and create new, better scans also to replace the phone-camera images I uploaded last go round. Here's the first one. How's this look to you? the bus  It's still not so sharp as it is in my book...I might need to learn how to scan. SuperKlaus fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Jan 5, 2023 |
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Jan 18, 2023 17:57
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Samovar, do you have an album of all the Blueberrys you've posted over time? I don't want to have to comb old threads 4 ur posts
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^part of what makes Footrot Flats an A-rank comic to me is the absolutely honest, no-punches-pulled approach to farming life the bus 
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Jan 23, 2023 19:12
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Jan 24, 2023 17:20
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Beetle Bailey made me think of something I don't know about the Army. It uses civilian employees sometimes right? Is Miss Buxley never seen in uniform A) because it wouldn't be sexy B) because she's a civilian employee or C) both?
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Jan 24, 2023 17:54
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Jeremy's action figure reminds me of Ookla the Mok. Not two comics here, just one scanned as two images because the original format was different, I believe. the bus  
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Jan 31, 2023 03:48
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Feb 3, 2023 18:50
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everyone wear hats now posted:The Creeps This one kills me every time. the bus 
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Feb 7, 2023 18:00
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Hello, ANSU is good. I loved the one with the fisherman unraveling himself. Tegne Hanne is good. I loved the one with the poop in the spa joke. I have never read a Holbrook comic and I never will no matter how many times you gluttons for punishment post that trash. the bus 
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Feb 15, 2023 22:26
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When does Archie pivot to pivoting between Betty and Veronica? That 50s parody strip was mocking him for having a hard time choosing (because it called them identical) but in this early stuff he almost totally disregards Betty. the bus 
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I'm just saying the Archie products I knew about were decades of "Betty or Veronica? They're both so swell!" and the comic strip here is "Betty gtfo." the bus 
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Feb 16, 2023 17:46
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Feb 21, 2023 01:32
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Feb 21, 2023 17:09
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I like Demons of Baseball, but I don't really understand more than the broad strokes. the bus 
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Feb 22, 2023 20:59
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Feb 24, 2023 18:09
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I tell you what, folks - scram gravy ain't wavey! the bus 
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Feb 28, 2023 23:02
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Is there a meaning behind "1506 Nix Nix?" the bus 
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Mar 1, 2023 18:30
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Don't miss "l'expresso" on The Bus mug either.
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Mar 1, 2023 19:42
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Mar 9, 2023 01:17
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Arn 'n' Garm, Arn 'n' Garm the bus 
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Mar 9, 2023 17:15
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get you a girl who'll be blown up by a bottle of nitro for you the bus 
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Dolly nooooo I thought the guy just captured her too
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Mar 14, 2023 20:31
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Also, I completely forgot to chime in on the Crabgrass X-Men homage debate, but "Red-Eye: what happens when pinkeye goes untreated!" was funny.
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EasyEW posted:The whole "It's printed! How can it be a lie?" exchange in the first strip is painfully ironic in retrospect, since the Daily Worker had dedicated multiple pages to printing the full confessions from the Stalinist show trials in each of these recent issues...which were not only attended by Roosevelt's ambassador to the USSR, Joseph E. Davies, but earned his enthusiastic approval. And then in 1943 Warner Bros. turned Davies' book into Mission to Moscow, a piece of pro-Stalin wartime propaganda that at least one modern critic says "now seems an evil distortion, as if it were produced by Stalin himself", and that its favorable, approving depiction of the show trials is where "the film goes completely insane". Is there something in the strips that makes this actually relevant to the thread? Smug support for McCarthyism is some poo poo. the bus originally ran in Heavy Metal from 1979-1985, which is painfully ironic in retrospect, because heavy metal music is well-known for turning kids into disrespectful devil worshippers who would not be interested in commuting to a job on a bus instead of taking drugs. the bus 
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