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Julet Esqu posted:Luann But... this is the Before video. You WANT her to be unfocused, right? Like, that's your whole thing? Finding her a new brand? Murdstone posted:Mark Trail  Did the helicopter do that? Like, by bumping the screen into the electrical box? I guess it's just about the only thing that could have, but the art completely fails to communicate the action, and it's also hard to imagine a scenario where that happened and the aircraft would still be flying along completely undamaged.
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Nostalgamus posted:I only remembered "Does this dress make me look fat?" "Sadly, no." which was at least somewhat amusing. These are just horrible. Yeah, it's easy to remember the more subtle ones and think that's the worst of it.
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Thinking about it Allison is pretty much relying on dumb luck to expand his audience at this point. You can read BM and Solver(undercooked BM+) online. Anything else you've got to be told about by an existing fan or see in a digital/physical comic shop. Most of the printed comics are more BM for superfans of BM. Even people who remember his older work can only hope to find it in esoteric pockets of Allison fans passing pdfs around or sharing the comics to small groups. Worse still his luck can be bad too. Ending Steeple with a fart had to cut off a few of those people who randomly gave it a try. His fanworks can't expand the audience. It'd be pure luck that a significant number of readers from say the Batman fandom saw a fanwork that was online for the 3 weeks it ran before vanishing forever. That's hoping for a miracle viraling... and Allison cut the second half of it short anyway. The only way forward is a full story with a fresh idea/setting. He can appeal to people who love BM but he already has them on lockdown. Playing chicken with copyright lawyers and popular IPs has failed him three times already. And it'd be nice if you could read Scary Go Round in full on the website named after it, or if his next work limited itself to a single panel Shelly cameo.
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Doomykins posted:And it'd be nice if you could read Scary Go Round in full on the website named after it, or if his next work limited itself to a single panel Shelly cameo.
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Yeah, we got a solid 20 years out of Tackleford. It's time to move on to something else. Wales, maybe.
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It should've been Zebus' time to shine as I foretold when he posited this idea years ago.
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom   Nice to see the return of The Dinette Set!
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Kyle is going to turn out to be a dick Also those out our way Indians didn't need to be spoiled but it's whatever.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Man Mary Worth tries to make Wilbur likeable, right? Like, is that what they are going for? Or is he a proto-Dustin where we should hate him? It's really unclear to me. Wilbur is consistently written as overtly selfish and unkind, but then never faces any comeuppance, and most of the characters laugh away his shittiness or give a wry smile and an "oh, Wilbur" as if it's not possible for him to change, so why try. Like, Moy seems to be aware that Wilbur gets tongues wagging, and so carefully avoids him doing anything but continue to be the same piece of poo poo.
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How long has Wilbur been in the strip anyway? Will he be showing up in the Classic Mary Worth strips any time soon?
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Breadmaster posted:How long has Wilbur been in the strip anyway? Will he be showing up in the Classic Mary Worth strips any time soon? Early-mid 90's I believe. EDIT: 1993 https://joshreads.com/2022/08/wilbur-origins/
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kidcoelacanth posted:i think john allison makes some good comics and also has his head unfathomably far up his own rear end  Also agreeing with the people saying he should probably try something without Tackleford/any of his previous characters in it. To his credit he does keep individual stories parseable even if you're not aware of Obscure Character From 20 Years Ago In Scary Go Round, but it's hard to deny that recycling his own characters this much is swallowing up creative space. Like, I like Lottie's character, but is there any good reason the rogue in this had to be Conanverse Lottie? I won't pretend I didn't enjoy what we got, but if he wants to get out of a rut, he needs to, y'know, stop doing the same things over and over. 1981 comics     Nancy spoilered for anti-Roma slur.  Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns  Computoon: Origins  Mexikid Stories 
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G.D., Pedro's dad keeps being the worst.Transmodiar posted:I'm a huge fan of Bad Machinery and even posted "Wen-TACK" and "The Great Unboxing" but I have not found his recent material anywhere near as engaging. Didn't like Solver, didn't like the post-print run of Steeple, and just started scrolling when it got to the Batman and Conan stuff. Allison feels like he's spinning his wheels. I agree with you on not liking both Allison and Sally Forth. Solvers could've been something, but Lottie's boy band nonsense derailed the entire thing. And the sudden non-ending of Steeple has made Allison's comics lose its shine for me so I never even read the Conan comic. Sally Forth sucks. The verbosity tricks you into thinking it might be good, but the actual content has so little to say. You can trim 50% off the dialogue and lose nothing of value. Not to mention that due to the speech balloons taking up so much space, Sally Forth is practically a talking heads webcomic at times. It also tries to do some serious plot beats but either they keep rehashing the same thing over and over to the point you just want them to get on with it (i.e. Sally's mom being a piece of poo poo bully) or it just outright forgets it's a thing and never gets resolved (i.e. One of Hil's friends having anxiety attacks because her parents seem to be getting a divorce but they're not telling the kid anything).
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b]Heathcliff[/b] Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (May 23, 2002)  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon 
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I've been ragging on Tauhid's fantasy stories a lot but he's absolutely nailing the balance with this one.
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Julet Esqu posted:Gil Thorp  What kind of answer could he possibly be expecting here? It's not a magic trick. Cowslips Warren posted:Man Mary Worth tries to make Wilbur likeable, right? Like, is that what they are going for? Or is he a proto-Dustin where we should hate him? JethroMcB posted:Oh my God DO SOMETHING. HAVE SOMETHING HAPPEN. ANYTHING. ANYTHING OTHER THAN HAVE THIS FREAKIN HUMP MOPE AROUND FOR AN ENTIRE G-D WEEK 
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Bruceski posted:This one hit its beats just right for me. Are those other heads the monsters parents heads?
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PetraCore posted:I honestly think it's pretty great that Ronal's deal so far is extremely normal dude who just loves his wife. Seems like a pretty good outcome for what had to be at least partially a political marriage. Anagram of Ronal is Arlo(n)
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Vintage Valiant (Dec. 02, 1962) It looks like imgur is finally messing with my albums or whatever so I may have to find a new host soon. Medenmath fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Haifisch posted:Mexikid Stories  Tiggum posted:He's definitely not meant to be likeable. If he was, he wouldn't keep getting dumped and falling off ships and so forth. You're supposed to enjoy watching him suffer and fail.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Ho ho! Killing animals! A ripping good time IDK he seems to be living in a misery of his own making, so that's something.
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Alley Oop  You know what, Curtis is laying really heavy on the Michelle stuff right now and it grosses me out, so no more Curtis posting for a little bit!
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 4/24/04  Brenda Starr 2/1/53  Smokey Stover 2/19/61  Everyday Movies 6/21/37  "He meets me like he says and he has the nerve to ask me to go to the planetarium with all them fishes." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 8/1/43  I can't find Closer Than We Think! for February 19, 1961, anywhere, but a bit of searching on the "next week" term produced this: 
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Tiggum posted:What kind of answer could he possibly be expecting here? It's not a magic trick. No, there's no real trick to it, but remember your first few cups of black coffee or your first few beers? You try it and it's usually disgusting, and off putting and you think to yourself "People actually drink this on purpose? And not only that, but they get some level of enjoyment out of it? How?" It doesn't make sense, because it's something you have to develop a taste for. But you just kind of assume that there's some trick to it.
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If you say so. I tried drinking it for a week and it never grew on me; it was actively draining my will to live instead. More power to you if you prefer it that way, but I just can't.
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My advice these days to anybody trying to enjoy black coffee: if you've got access to a Chemex and high-quality beans, try it that way. I just started using a Chemex about two years ago and it's a game changer, the first time I used it was the first time in my 20 years of coffee guzzling that I actually tasted all the chocolate and fruit notes that the copy on the bag of coffee beans promised. Embrace the Unicorn  What a Coincidence, I Just Thinking Yesterday About How Kick-rear end X2 Is  It's All Fun and Games Until They Hear Mimi Talk 
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