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you know what, i like this one. we know the Lockhorns can be annoyed with each other but they really do love each other. unlike like 90% of married couples we see on this page. and Jesus wept that FOOB stare from April in the last panel.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:
Uncompromising. Of course that makes it sound like the Giants just didn't want to pay more in taxes.
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Kell Gets Into Findom        I do not know why Holbrook has decided this has to be the week's theme but whatever it's his comic:  It's Not A Curse, You're Just Imperialists And Death Comes For You 
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Angry_Ed posted:Uncompromising.
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (March 26, 1936)  Peanuts (April 28, 1977)  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Li'l Abner (June 1-3, 1936)  Thimble Theater (November 28, 1936)  Out Our Way (July 17-19, 1944)   
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not only is Korro racist, he's even too stupid to understand that the whole point of racism is to punch down shittiest Avatar ever
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Malachite_Dragon posted:also the Family Circus kids are way too goddamn young to be listening to rap.  Retail   Dinette  Popcom  
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft Oh, my GOD! STOP! e: Not you, EasyEW. You're cool. Zamboni Rodeo fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Allison hinted at a sequel to The Great British Bump-Off last year, didn't he; so I guess he's working mainly on his print stuff for Dark Horse, set in Tackleford still The residual attempts at online webcomickry might just be pure Patreon/promotional fodder, which doesn't necessarily need high circulation but instead a core of dedicated supporters
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Darthemed posted:Dinette Well, that's it. 
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Malachite_Dragon posted: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. Malachite_Dragon posted:also the Family Circus kids are way too goddamn young to be listening to rap. Zamboni Rodeo posted:Oh, my GOD! STOP!
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The first time I was fed cilantro I thought I'd been poisoned. Love that poo poo now. Also developed a taste for potato salad after 40+ years on the no-go list, so it does happen. First sip of beer was definitely weird, but I knew deep down it wasn't gonna be my last. comics edit: I think I've officially run out of patience for Rip Haywire. Who knew constant retcons/reboots could be so loving dull? Bimmi fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Man with all this discourse on Allison's work I feel bad for falling behind on my comics posting. Allow me to correct this oversight. Bad Machinery     
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JethroMcB posted:
Petey and His Unicorn was right there! The Family Upstairs/The Dingbat Family(October 27, 1910)  Baron Bean(April 27, 1916)  Polly and Her Pals(March 27, 1913)  Gasoline Alley(December 18, 1919)  Us Boys(April25, 1912)  The Gumps(May 24, 1917)  Bringing up Father(January 10, 1913)  Abie the Agent(February 12, 1914)  "Cap" Stubbs(March 7, 1918) 
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Yvonmukluk posted:Man with all this discourse on Allison's work I feel bad for falling behind on my comics posting. Allow me to correct this oversight. gently caress the haters, it's moments like this that make Allison's work special. 
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But... no one hates "Bad Machinery"...? Modesty Blaise: The Iron God Spoilered for :nsfw:  
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I feel like Bad Machinery works so well for so many people because you can read it basically ignorant of the rest of the Allison-extended-universe. Steeple had a similar vibe, and was on track to be my favorite work by him until it suddenly crashed and burned. Someday I hope he revisits how it ended and adds a story that is a more satisfying follow-up for the characters. Knowing Allison, odds are good we'll see it again. I grew up with Scary-Go-Round and I generally enjoy Allison's recurring characters, but I agree that he is setting himself up for failure by not moving away from them, and it feels like he's currently spinning his wheels. I don't like that he's dealing with copyright trolling on a story he seemed to be really enjoying, but it also wasn't doing much for me. If Giant Days is his most commercially successful work, and Steeple was recently cancelled, I'm wondering if the message he took from that is that anything he does needs to have his most popular characters in it to succeed. Hence moving away from Tackleford but reusing his cast. Idk. I don't think iterating on characters and not letting them go is always bad. In fact if I hated it, I'd never have read so much of Allison's work in the first place. But right now it doesn't feel like he's having fun doing it, and its not working. Creative slumps happen, and this has all the hallmarks of one.
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD Wow...this makes for some riveting reading. On the edge of my seat here...
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Wow...this makes for some riveting reading. On the edge of my seat here... look, at least Rex Morgan is doing something medical related for once (if veterinary and not human)
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Alright, this is just a psychotic episode now. Institutionalize Wilbur Weston
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LMAO Wilbur rules. Is that poor person stumbling towards oncoming traffic? Yesterday Jules reminded us that she can't draw perspective so she had the helicopter hit and damage two large, person-sized transformers on the ground, colliding with them so hard they dented and folded in half and started a plot fire with no damage to the chopper, so literal magic since it also did this when they were behind it in both panels, lol. I assume the horse read the script. That's new Trail for you, one good day and right back to the endless trash.
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Safety Dance posted:gently caress the haters, it's moments like this that make Allison's work special. I will say, for as much as I like Bad Machinery, and I do a lot, and for as many little bits that hold up well in this story, like this one, I don't particularly care for 'Case of the Missing Piece'. I think a good part of it is that, while I understand and am sympathetic to Blossom, I don't like her. Ever since her first appearance she's been petty, cruel, and manipulative and she just... never stops, even though she's a major focus of the story.
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mycatscrimes posted:If Giant Days is his most commercially successful work, and Steeple was recently cancelled, I'm wondering if the message he took from that is that anything he does needs to have his most popular characters in it to succeed. Hence moving away from Tackleford but reusing his cast. Giant Days was a huge misfire because it was drawn by Max Sarin, who took everything that was charming about Allison's artwork and turned it into a lampoonish mess with overexaggerated facial features, reactions, and movements. When I saw that Solver was also drawn by Sarin, I just knew it wouldn't be as engaging.
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Allison has "joked" before that the original ending for Scary Go Round was supposed to wrap Tackleford up by killing off almost all the characters and destroying most of the city. While I'm glad he didn't -- we wouldn't have gotten Bad Machinery if he did -- it would have been nice had he at some point committed to just finding a new setting and telling stories in it with new characters.
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I really liked The Case of the Fire Inside but I've bounced off almost all of Allison's other works. I had to really focus myself to read the space camp story, and I remember reading the current story with Blossom and just feeling kind of bummed about the way it ends. Fire Inside still owns though. I'd actually buy that one to have as physical media.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:What is it with Allison and setting fire to settings such that he can never, ever revisit them he learned the wrong lessons from FOOB and Funky?
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Apropos of nothing, I've always wondered if Picard had an interesting time writing the report justifying vaporizing an alien whose last words were literally "We mean you no harm. We seek peaceful coexistence." I imagine Picard, frowning over the swivel-laptop on the desk in his ready room, composing the words: "It must be understood that the alien said those words all CREEPY LIKE."
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