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My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

But that's witchcraft! Also murder, I suppose. Shoulda led with that, really.

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My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

God, people just don't learn about Val, do they :allears:

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

The snow outside really makes this one

Mexikid is very good!

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Val's face in panel 6 is a look that just screams "God ain't stealing *this* kill from me."
I'm getting about 30% "how did none of them put this together yet" and 70% compiling a precise order of events about to befall the three kidnappers.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

maybeadracula posted:

Child slavery? Yes that's what's happening

Rape? Not directly or necessarily or he might have had the bad guys already do it, but it's not good either way
I don't think you'd have gotten away with having the bad guys rape the kids even in the edgy 90s let alone today* and most certainly not in the 40s, but the idea is definitely present in depicting slavery, child or not, without needing to be stated; but at the same time you can say it's "just" a slavery story which is bad enough as it is, really.

*the idea of G.R.R.Martin writing Prince Valiant is at once compelling and abhorrent

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

didn't even realize we'd hit the 60s already with Valiant

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

Out of all the anachronistic elements they're trying to pass off as contemporary it may be the parent wanting to go vegan and the kids rejecting it that is the most glaring.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Ah, the classics. :allears:

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I am on the edge of my seat about Dale

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

"Well, kids, Wildcard won out, and we drew Blasted from the hat. I guess next year we'll specify 'chosen from the three above' but for now it's probably best if your parents sit this one out."

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Wallace is edging dangerously close to the same type of "the fun little joke actually has 13 pages of worldbuilding notes behind it and here they are" arc that Crabgrass keeps trying to pull off there.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Dredging up and integrating minor details from your material's past without ever nailing the basics of the strip's premise? Sounds like splendid qualification to write Dick Tracy!

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Well I'll have to see what Will Henry makes of it before I really say I don't like it. :v: He's never steered me wrong so far.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Page 998 is well in the end notes in that edition, the text ends on 981 :colbert:

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

"I tried using that vegan bacon the kids go on about."

*Keith's eyes go wide, he sticks a finger down his throat*

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse


Well now that just brings up a load of questions about the timeline and whether they made any adjustments for republishing. I suppose these are from the mid-90s originally, and Mr. Bergner looks at least 50, so he'd have fled in about the late 50s, which works out, and if we read him as about 60 it even still works out for today and escaping around the late 70s.

although why he seems to have specifically travelled from the country to Berlin to jump the wall and then be stuck in West Berlin surrounded by East Germany on all sides is anyone's guess

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

It helps that Wallace is presenting the whole thing ambiguously enough that it can still be read as Wallace and Spud just goofing around, where Crabgrass would definitely make sure we know that the secret world of imaginary friends is absolutely a real tangible element of the setting.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Mercury Hat posted:

They had school dentists who would pull a kid's tooth in the 1940s?
That's at least the second tooth Archie has needed to have pulled, and he's only around 17.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

oh suddenly Jeremy calls people on the phone huh

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Flash gonna Riddick it up.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

I'd probably keep an eye on the guy in black

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Slylock they can just sell it all and split the proceeds evenly, or were they out for the best items to put on the mantelpiece?

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Murdstone posted:

Mark Trail


Y'all think this is gonna turn into an intentional take on the colonization of North America, or is she gonna miss the metaphor and it's gonna be really awkward?

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Dicker? I hardly

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse

If only this was a well documented basic issue in journalism that somebody at this college could advise Michael on much better than a random co-student could even if that co-student wasn't phrenology guy.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I probably wouldn't sit down to chat right next to the pee spot but then I'm not six years old

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I don't think Garfield has done the performing-on-the-fence bit in decades, but performing-for-the-internet-on-Jon's-amazon-Ring would actually be a clever update.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I AM GRANDO posted:

I can bullshit on that puzzle though. It just says there’s no air in the bubble. It doesn’t specify whether Count Weirdly created a vacuum, which would technically cause his eyes to burst from the pressure created behind them, or whether he pumped in another gas with a pressure and density similar to air.
If the explanation goes that deeply into air pressure physics already, it's 100% valid to say that if Count Weirdly cannot comfortably exist in a vacuum for 30 minutes, that's a much more obvious reason for Slylock to call bullshit than the comparatively minor detail of how fluids behave.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I feel like a Bok Sunday is imminent, but I'd kind of prefer if his story was left only hinted at.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Isn't "The Count" a former pro wrestler? He's probably pretty good at assessing what kind of damage he may have taken. And could also be lying there with his foot turned 180 degrees and would still claim that it's nothing and he'll walk it off dammit.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I like the detail of Hector having to look it all up very much.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD


There is no way this guy hasn't sprained his ankle before and had to have some sort of support on it while it healed (and presumably while he worked through it at exactly the same rate)

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

yes yes the substitute is an actual wizard who can literally body swap Miles and Kevin and they'll get to visit Wizard Substitute Academy

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

readingatwork posted:

You joke, but...
Oh believe you me I was 100% sincere insofar as that's where I was expecting it to go

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD


Never ever? I think I gotta call bullshit on this guy's credentials.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

If Heart gets to do slice-of-life strips about the day to day of preteens then Rex Morgan gets to do slice-of-life strips about the day to day of retired pro wrestlers :colbert:

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010


My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

No Fingerpori today because of Easter but here's a bonus from the past:



For non-Europeans, Dr Oetker is a popular frozen pizza manufacturer over here.


While the actual original Dr Oetker was long dead by the time the nazis came to power, the company as it was then was running its business very in line with their policies and received an award as a model company for national socialism.

e: incidentally his degree was in botanics

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My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD


The most patient congoers in the universe.

And man. Hagar's never been historically accurate and has always been a contemporary nuclear family strip to some degree, but it used to pretend. Now it's just a contemporary strip with the protagonist increasingly inexplicably dressed in Viking gear. They'll have smartphones soon.

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