Haifisch posted:

Deathany(*from "On The Fastrack") is just goth. She also supposedly has a bunch of tattoos and piercings(that are never drawn).

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Powered Descent posted:

Bizarro

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The Phantom



It..it's over.

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Kid Fenris posted:

Are these her children? My apologies, but it's been a while since I've seen Noor posted.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

I know that Hagar the Horrible is "it's actually just 20th century american poo poo but in viking outfits" the comic, but it's still loving wild that they're just depicting vikings happily sitting in a loving church.

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Shaman Tank Spec posted:

I knew they eventually converted to Christianity, but I understood it happened like in Finland -- with a lot of bloodshed and resistance. But I didn't know it happened that early. Thanks for educating me!

catlord posted:

Have we ever seen that? That could be interesting. Much more interesting than writing out old storylines from the '50s and going "wasn't that a thing that doesn't hold up in the modern day?" while gurning at the 4th wall.

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I AM GRANDO posted:

There’s a consistent world developing now.

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The_Other posted:

Conan: The Blood Egg Part 1

John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store
Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics

Ardeem posted:

A lot of the the lizard people conspiracy theories floating around the internet are just antisemitism with a hasty find->replace.

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Doomykins posted:

I don't think any comic encompasses wasted potential and talent as much as the Phantom. Always competent art when a guest artist isn't phoning it in, has hung on for nearly a century despite being the textbook definition of a generic pulp hero, takes its own ironclad lore seriously, clearly overthinks the writing of the plot to the point of grave fault.

And for what? Possibly the worst pacing in the entire medium, an action serial that avoids action religiously, lore in service of the most ridiculously tame and subdued "man of danger" imaginable who will spend literal decades avoiding meaningful change and now months of The Phantom, an alter ego, sucking off his imaginary alter ego for the sake of impressing his extrajudicial private army with the knowledge that that's right, he reads philosophy!!! How worldly, there's a globe and vintage nautical maps on his wall! My God, we are in service of a man who rivals the mightiest college seniors!

I just can't believe how impossibly dense and opposed to being entertaining this legacy IP is. How many people have labored in service of preserving the legacy? Has it ever been good? We all liked it when Sarvana was headlining but poo poo, that just goes to show how suffocating Phantom usually is, that somebody with a pulse and the willingness to shoot some guns is easily the best character you can see in the strip for years.

... Yeah, this Sunday strip framed something I've thought passively for years. For Gods sake, surely there has to be something to this character to not let him die off back in the 30s? We get 90 years of the Phantom but we can't find the Scarlet O'Neil reboot in any stores?

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Tragic. What did Lee Falk have on everyone to push this guy so much? Were the first few years of the Phantom red-hot? And I wonder if he has a different market overseas, like how Disney comics and Donald Duck(and his superhero identities most Americans couldn't name) are bigger in Europe.

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Edit: Googling a bit it seems Phantom quality rises dramatically in different formats like comic books. We're reading the worst version that lets the author drag things out, most likely.

The_Other posted:

Conan: The Blood Egg Part 1

John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store
Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics

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Mercury Hat posted:

Translation question just because I'm curious. Was this originally the English "Mister" or the Italian equivalent.

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Also thanks for the work you put into these, women's pro soccer is a fun change of pace from the usual comic strip subjects.

Selachian posted:

I assume Mr. X is a reference to the MX missile, which was pretty controversial in the early 80s.

It might also be because the MX program, in the way of most Pentagon weapons programs, kept getting more and more expensive and complicated as it went on.

Good Listener posted:

Can't wait to see what lame stuff happens in this year's Easter Bunny storyline.

Julet Esqu posted:

For a little while classic Garfield was being posted in one of these threads. There really was a difference. We weren't all idiots when we were kids!

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Tiggum posted:

Yeah, we did.

But you can see that it has the date 2024-03-24 on it so it was supposed to run this week. Here's the one that was supposed to run last week:

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Fingerpori



For the benefit of Americans who still might not have surprise eggs, they are chocolate eggs with a small toy or some other little surprise inside.

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Murdstone posted:

The Phantom

Mercury Hat posted:

"But you said you built this thing!"
"Yeah. I poured the concrete."

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