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Selachian posted:US communists bit pretty hard on the notion that the Soviet Union was the workers' paradise of their dreams, and therefore anything that opposed the Soviets must be bad. It caused a lot of friction and splintering in the US communist movement later on, when some of them saw Stalin for what he was and others kept on believing. Gonna be fun watching the party line turn on a dime summer of next year. Also I should clarify when I took communion I was a grown adult, not a kid. I just spaced out hard.
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Medenmath posted:Yeah, Little Lefty was a lot more pleasant when it was about kids organizing for a school lunch program and dunking on rich bankers and stuff. Even Marmaduke was better in Lefty’s context as a fantastic creature that could share a conversation with the kids. By himself, he’s an insufferable Mary Sue-type.
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Kennel posted:Dustin "Dustin wants a nebulous 'management' job from his temp agent" is maybe my most-hated runner in this stupid strip. Its sins are twofold: It's a "Dustin is entitled" gag (and it goes without saying, but: not funny), but it also feels like the authors have no connection to the modern American workplace and have settled on "Management" as "The best thing you can be" Cul de Sac  FoxTrot Classix  Tiggum posted:The child (Danae) isn't always in it. Sometimes it's got a plot, sometimes it's one-off jokes, sometimes it's just the author's political opinions. Well, it seems I picked up Non Sequitur on a whimsical Goth Child and Horse week  Rose is Rose is Just a Cat Comic Now 
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Alhazred posted:Their army did hang onto the swastika longer than was strictly needed. No it didn't. The Finnish Defence Forces used the swastika during the Continuation War (1941 to 1944) as a vehicle identification symbol because by then we were in a loose alliance with the Germans, and they had some German troops fighting over here in addition to the material support we got from them, so I guess it made sense during the war, lovely as it is. But that poo poo was dumped immediately after the Continuation War, and we had to then fight a second, more different war to kick the nazis out of Lapland. At the time this comic went into print, we were either fighting the Winter War or had just come out of it (November 1939 - March 1940) against the Soviets, who -- and I stress this -- were still literally allied with the nazis under the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and happily dividing up Europe between the two of them. You're probably thinking of the the Finnish Air Force who definitely did do that, for stupid historical reasons. It didn't have anything to do with the nazis (although hang on to that thought for a bit) and instead was painted on the first Finnish Air Force plane ever, received as a gift in 1918 from the Swedish count Von Rosen who used the swastika as his own personal good luck symbol or some poo poo. And then it became the symbol for the air forces and that was that. That's all very reasonable but after Hitler did his poo poo, they really should have changed it instead of explaining this to everyone for ~50 years until they finally changed it. Except still not completely, because the FAF flying academy STILL uses the god drat thing today. But about that "didn't have anything to do with the nazis" thing? Let's do a quick search on this von Rosen guy. quote:Count Carl Gustaf Bloomfield Eric von Rosen (2 June 1879 in Stockholm – 25 April 1948 Skeppsholmen, Stockholm) was a Swedish honorary doctor, patron, explorer, ethnographer, prominent figure in the Swedish upper class and a leading figure in Sweden's own national socialist movement in the 1930s. Oh... quote:Von Rosen became brother-in-law to Hermann Göring when his wife's sister, Carin von Kantzow, married Göring Oooohhh... So yeah, we super double secret triple should've replaced the loving swastika on our roundels decades before we finally did, because at best it was a really bad look, and at worst the guy was actually a secret Swedish nazi and duped us into painting a nazi insignia on our planes for ~80 years.
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Yeah picking a precocious goth child week is a really bad time to start Non Sequitur. It has a wide variety of characters and themes, but most of the time it's one-off gags with like a week or two of plot in between. The best time to post Non Seq would be during a week with the cranky new england fishing captain, or any time Wiley draws bears, best bears on the comics page:    Breaking Cat News  Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City  Alley Oop 
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JethroMcB posted:"Dustin wants a nebulous 'management' job from his temp agent" is maybe my most-hated runner in this stupid strip. Its sins are twofold: It's a "Dustin is entitled" gag (and it goes without saying, but: not funny), but it also feels like the authors have no connection to the modern American workplace and have settled on "Management" as "The best thing you can be" I'm not an expert but I also get the feeling they have absolutely no idea how a temp agency actually works
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JethroMcB posted:it also feels like the authors have no connection to the modern American workplace and have settled on "Management" as "The best thing you can be" they would, the loving bootlicks
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Alhazred posted:There's zero percent chance that Disney, a company that banned a children's hospital to use their characters on a mural, did not contact him. i used to work in a copy store, and the copyright poo poo with Disney was insanely strict, and with good reason. but somehow corporate no longer cares, and i see a ton of Disney stuff being printed. the idea, I was told, is that the customer takes the blame if Disney sues. I don't know if they sign a release form or what, but I was told it had something to do with Etsy and poo poo with third parties going nuts using their images. years ago, didn't the writer of Dustin say people were lazy cause grocery store stockers made $20 an hour? but couldn't prove it, of course, just said that was proof people these days are lazy.
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Mother Goose and Grimm (12/9/2002)  Frank and Ernest  (7/12/1994)  Ziggy  (12/8/1971) 
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More bear comics, please.  Really curious where Flash is going with this since the last two strips have been pretty straightforwardly "Korro was right." No no, they're supposed to kidnap the queen, we like to have fun here in Frigia! Then again Mongo accommodates the witch queen and her goth sadist officials with a room with a torture circle so maybe Frigia really is a place where a little light bondage and clothes tearing is giant diplomacy.  Which makes the setting cool as hell and a touch alien. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 15:22 on May 1, 2024 |
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Powered Descent posted:Bizarro drat solid gag from Bizarro. Doomykins posted:Really curious where Flash is going with this since the last two strips have been pretty straightforwardly "Korro was right." I really like that, while there are plenty of individually good people, the structure of Mongo is clearly build atop systems of oppression that haven't gone away just because they've killed* the one bad guy.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jan. 06, 1963) Aleta is worried. Val is loving pissed. Nice knowing you, Ethwald. Luann  Gil Thorp  Home Free 
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Medenmath posted:Yeah, Little Lefty was a lot more pleasant when it was about kids organizing for a school lunch program and dunking on rich bankers and stuff. don Jaime posted:Even Marmaduke was better in Lefty’s context as a fantastic creature that could share a conversation with the kids. By himself, he’s an insufferable Mary Sue-type. Never forget the only reason Marmaduke's in the strip is because he hijacked his wife's interest in the surface world. Your sacrifice will not be forgotten, Jitterbug.  Mutts  Sally Forth  Skippy (March 31, 1936)  Peanuts (May 4, 1977)  Harry Dinkleshaft  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (December 4, 1940)  It's the short version today due to other time-sucking nonsense.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Except still not completely, because the FAF flying academy STILL uses the god drat thing today. lol  Incredible propeller placement. No one will piece this one together. EasyEW posted:Mutts The moral of this story better be "Adopt bonded pairs" with a happy ending!!! 
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Forum accident posted:Frank and Ernest
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JethroMcB posted:The moral of this story better be "Adopt bonded pairs" with a happy ending!!! That's what I did. My friend's mum had two kittens from a litter left over, and I didn't have the heart to break the two of them up, so I adopted both. 100% the right move. I love that they have each other for company, and can have fun being cats together. 
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The Family Upstairs/The Dingbat Family(November 2, 1910) Baron Bean(May 3, 1916)  Polly and Her Pals(April 2, 1913)  Gasoline Alley(December 24, 1919)  Us Boys(May 1, 1912)  The Gumps(May 30, 1917)  Bringing up Father(January 28, 1913)  Abie the Agent(February 18, 1914)  $999 in 1914 is $30,643.93 today. $25 is $766.87. "Cap" Stubbs(March 13, 1918)  Jitney in this context means a nickel. $1.12 today
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So, am I extremely unobservant, or do people just not do edits anymore? I'm willing to accept that I might just be really late to this news, since it's been kind of a while since I followed a comic strip megathread.EasyEW posted:Mutts Well, this is depressing. 
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Not often, the thread moves along pretty quickly and we've seen so many dickbutts and pixelated penises. And we're all old and have less brainpower to devote to throwaway photoshop gags.
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YeahTubaMike posted:So, am I extremely unobservant, or do people just not do edits anymore? I'm willing to accept that I might just be really late to this news, since it's been kind of a while since I followed a comic strip megathread. I love doing and reading edits, but I fear the thread moves so fast now, they tend to get buried. I know plenty of times I'll think of an edit I could do in the morning or afternoon, at work, but by the time I get home I'm like "ehh, the thread's moved on."
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There was a dickbutt family circus edit like three pages ago!
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YeahTubaMike posted:So, am I extremely unobservant, or do people just not do edits anymore? I'm willing to accept that I might just be really late to this news, since it's been kind of a while since I followed a comic strip megathread. Anyways, what the hell is going on in Rip Haywire? They’re making all the good guys bad and bad guys good and just running with it huh?
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Murdstone posted:Anyways, what the hell is going on in Rip Haywire? They’re making all the good guys bad and bad guys good and just running with it huh? I can't wait to see RJ's new character design and personality!
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I also love making edits and reading what other people come up with. But I've made some terrible ones that fell quite flat on their face in an embarrassing way (I genuinely cannot tell how one will go until it's too late). Since I can only use Paint which comes with windows I'm kinda limited with what I can do with my meagre skills. And of course I haven't really read anything which made me think of something to edit in quite some time now. Nothing inspires.
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Doomykins posted:Mark Trail: Sincerely worse than a two month Mary Worth victory lap. Mark proudly summarizes a situation in which nothing he did really mattered, couldn't have happened without an rear end pull from the author and the antagonist wasn't doing anything wrong anyway. "He wasn't rounding up wild horses to clear his land! He was rounding up wild horses to clear his land to use his land to do things!" He also got saved by a single horse (who did more in this entire arc than Mark ever did), so presumably the others died in the fire/suffocated from the smoke lmao. So in a roundabout way, Mark did help along Tad's plan to clear the land off horses. It's amazing how Jules' general incompetence and laziness has produced a story where we can't help but think the techbro is the one in the right. Vargo posted:Yeah picking a precocious goth child week is a really bad time to start Non Sequitur. It has a wide variety of characters and themes, but most of the time it's one-off gags with like a week or two of plot in between. These are some excellent bears, thanks for this.
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Bad Machinery JethroMcB posted:Today was the first time I really noticed the Securico sign outside of the prison when Darren was being released a few strips back: Kazinsal posted:Scary Go Round (May 11-15, 2006) Yvonmukluk fucked around with this message at 21:51 on May 1, 2024 |
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Giant Ethicist posted:We Are Reproducing hmm Japanese medical data from 1930s china, well I’m sure this is all above the board 
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Haifisch posted:Mexikid Stories My communionchat: Like Mexikid, I was raised Catholic (Irish / Italian family in NY state), and as others have mentioned the communion wafers were basically like Styrofoam. I cant wrap my head around people using the same stuff as a snack food, no matter what you put on it. Also I don't think the small church I went to ever did the communion wine (I haven't attended Mass regularly for about 20 years).
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