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someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Willo567 posted:

I guess I just ask because, at least in my mind, Calvin hasn't done anything totally heinous. Yes he's a total jerk to Susie and he's locked Rosalyn out of the house, plus I'm probably forgetting some stuff, but the way I've seen some people react on this forum to the comic he may as well have fed Susie her parents.

I know it's just a comic strip, but sometimes I think people forget that Calvin is six and can change.

a few of the ways in which he's a jerk kinda hit different when you're not also a kid/in the modern day/when you can see him as the mouthpiece for Waterson's views, imo

but like... it's a comic strip, so basically everything Sultus Maximus said. viewing Calvin through the lens of "a six year old" at all is sort of approaching it from the wrong angle

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someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


MockingQuantum posted:


edit: actually, two questions, is it "On the Fast Rack" or "On the Fas Track" or does Holbrook just have an extremely tenuous grasp of the English language?


it's "fast rack", i think they're supposed to be a data storage company (so like, server racks or whatever?)

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Crab Dad posted:

We need an edit with just him there, his eyes closed and a clock stating 12 hours later with piss leaking out of him

I am bad at photoshop.

this is an extremely weird thing to want to see, actually

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Giant Ethicist posted:

We Are Reproducing


Comic Strips 2024: Pooping, eh?

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007



keith is that you

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


hasn't heartthrob or whatever that kid's name is always been around?


mycatscrimes posted:

Gunk was a wacky foreigner but he's also a little white blond kid without any racially othering features. Also he was randomly magic. And named 'Gunk'.

the curtis wikipedia article (lol) says that gunk is an initialism for "Gladimus Umfred Nostradamus Klaustauvicke", so that's, a fun fact

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Shaman Tank Spec posted:

What the gently caress is a "bow wow app"

E: I get that a bow wow is a dog, but "bow wow app" is one of the dumbest and clunkiest phrases I have ever heard.

not only is it absolutely nothing, but he keeps using that phrase

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Tiggum posted:

Fourth panel (RT-UT and RT-OU): what does any of this mean? :confused:

American college football stuff

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Strontium posted:

Take It From The Tinkersons


as a person with the misfortune not to have a dishwasher, this is the god drat truth though

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


I don't really get the feeling that WAR mom has any opinions on which is better for other people though? it doesn't give off judgy vibes to me in any way, it just seems observational

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Malachite_Dragon posted:


And people assumed we would get mad about it because daring to criticize anything WAR mom automatically means we hate any and everything that she does, per goon hivemind tradition. You either agree with someone completely and kiss their rear end relentlessly or you will not stop until their head is on a spike over your doorway as a warning to all others who would contemplate doing A Thing I Don't Like, nuance is not to be tolerated.

you are making up a guy to be angry at

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


manero posted:

The overly generic use of "my neighbor" and "our neighbor" in both of these strips bug me for some reason. Nobody talks like this!

they're all old and can't remember other peoples' names anymore

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


theironjef posted:

So I remember when Rose is Rose was first being discussed before being brought in there was a lot of discussion about it being unpleasant in a sort of 9 Chickweed Lane Way. Is that something that happens later? Right now it just seems to be an artist that can only draw ballet poses and untroubled people and if those two things cannot reach a punchline well gently caress you they're syndicated anyhow.

it's never been anywhere near 9CWL levels of bad in its entire history. the original artist was just very obviously into fat women and there were some strips with the thinner Rose compared negatively to her larger mother, stuff about her needing to eat more/feeding her stuff, that gave off some seriously horny vibes (in that repressed Catholic way it does all emotions, anyway)

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Haifisch posted:


Mexikid Stories

Yes, part one is missing. Yes, it's like that on gocomics. No, I don't know why, and neither do the commenters:


i found it on the webpage, but it only shows one panel at a time so i'm too :effort: to post it. weird that it's not on gocomics though!

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


gasp, you can say "crappy" in the funny pages now?

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


wait wait wait

this whole revenge porn AI pic story is obviously terrible, but why is the very small child looking at "girls showing off their BBLs"

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Zamboni Rodeo posted:

"Confimistic"??? I had surgery earlier today and I'm on some good drugs right now so I'm stupider than usual, but what the gently caress is this even supposed to mean? At least I can make sense of Crankshaft's aphasic malapropisms.They're not funny, but they're understandable. This is just goddamn nonsense.

it's a portmanteau of confident and optimistic

it's also terrible, but that's expected from crankshaft

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


yeah, i kind of prefer it this way? maybe i'm a grouch but i don't think crabgrass is great at doing that kind of hyper-whimsical.

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


pencilhands posted:

I'm glad Keith is happy

but why

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Murdstone posted:



Mary Worth



oh my god

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007



it's always been weird to me that curtis can realize chutney's treatment of him is weird and inappropriate, and then go on to be exactly like that towards michelle

like, it's not exactly unrealistic, but still...

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Strontium posted:

Take It From The Tinkersons


oatmeal is good you weridos

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


fondue posted:


Where could one purchase this so the most money goes the author?

the link on Pedro's website goes to Penguin Random House, so I'll assume it's there.

book looks really cool, I'm gonna have to pick it up too. mexikid stories rules

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


kidcoelacanth posted:

feel free to not post daddy daze during this storyline, or hell even after it

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007



:murder:

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Julet Esqu posted:

Not looking in the GC comments this week is a form of self care.

comment sections are literally hell

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Mister Olympus posted:

mark trail should be sundays only. drat the plotline, just give us nature facts. one strip a week gives you time to make it look nice too

this is the only awareness I had of Mark Trail growing up, tbh. I had no idea it was a weekly strip with storylines and characters and stuff, I just saw it in the color funnies and was like "oh boy the cool animal facts comic :neckbeard:"

it was a better time

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


oh no i remember this exact one, they had it in the mac lab in my grade school

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Mister Olympus posted:

oh kid pix, now we've unlocked a core memory

Oh No!

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Why are we being tortured with Rose is Rose again? Why for god's sake, why?!

a bunch of people declared that they love Rose is Rose, actually, and that we're a bunch of cynical killjoys

some sick minds itt




yoonikawrn

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Giant Ethicist posted:

We Are Reproducing



I suppose someone will find the Arthur birthday dance within an hour or so?

it's another Living Book! look at him go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMLv907fBfw&t=25s

the kid remains cute as hell

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Giant Ethicist posted:

We Are Reproducing



Another explanation of the trash can in case you forgot.
Here’s the tortoise and the hare so you can check out his lame little dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dki75GEmm44
She calls the program with the stars hereラフスボーン, and the only result google turns up for that is in the transcription of this comic in its free preview on amazon.

looks like it's another Living Book, this one called "Ruff's Bone"! here's the Twinkle Twinkle bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxIz_5p0oOU&t=1547s

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


I feel like the landscape and the kind of games available on a tablet are different from the kind of things available on PCs in the early 90s, but also I learned to read and type extremely early, and I can only imagine the edutainment software I grew up with (from about 2, just like this kid) was a benefit in that regard

parenting is complicated!

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


mary worth suuuuuuuuuucks

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007



i hate when this strip makes me agree with luann

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Haifisch posted:


Mexikid Stories


melodica mention :buddy:

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD



wow, two dead dogs in the funny pages this week!!! what the heck

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Murdstone posted:

I don't think RMMD will kill off a dog, but I do admit having just put my dog down a few weeks ago these storylines are getting to me a bit. I just miss her so much.

sorry about your dog, that's awful :( losing pets is always so hard

someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


PainterofCrap posted:

If you’ve heard “Jingle Bells,” then you may recognize the line that describes their ride as a “one-horse open shay.”

(The song is actually a celebration of Thanksgiving, not Christmas)

https://www.britannica.com/technology/one-horse-shay

Jingle Bells is about a sleigh, though, isn't it?

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someone awful.
Sep 7, 2007


Strontium posted:

Take It From The Tinkersons


What order of operations would produce that color error, and why do it that way? :psyduck:

speech bubble on a transparent layer, missing the inside of the O with the fill tool would be my guess! they'd have to be using the fill tool after hand lettering the dialog, which is a choice

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