Schwarzwald posted:

Are the OG Flash Gordon comics collected anywhere? I'm guessing there's nothing equivalent to the Fantagraphic Valients, but surely there's something?

I AM GRANDO posted:

Zits is inching closer and closer to Dustin territory here. I hope the mom realizes that Jeremy has a point and that mores and cultural expectations change over time.

Saoshyant posted:

Good thing Popeye's becoming public domain soon, 'cause I sure would like any other writer doing a take on a modern Popeye/Olive story that isn't this person.

Shugojin posted:

Milholland really likes Popeye but his own voice is too strong so it bleeds over. I still like it but I liked his stuff. It's definitely weird for Popeye.

Sundae posted:

And furthermore, we can clearly see that “Bats Aren’t Bugs” is Waterson’s way of critiquing the public education system….

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

So i dropped off the last thread around july last year and have one important question:

is the phantom still doing the same story line?

Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD

MockingQuantum posted:

So I've been reading the thread for a while now, and there's still one question that hasn't been answered for me: what exactly are the pluggers plugging?

Mokotow posted:

Finally jumping on the Prince Valiant train. I thought this is all fantasy world so the North African slave market threw me off.

Selachian posted:

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 11/30 - 12/2/42

I'm not really sure what Sweet Willie's plan is here. Stay in the room holding a gun on Ott and Marlys for the next ... 55 days?

LvK posted:

ye gods, Vera Valiant is so drat good

Hostile V posted:

thaaaaat's politics.

Alhazred posted:

So you're only allow to kill and eat people you don't know?

Hostile V posted:

Alhazred posted:

This is why most comics with talking animals avoid the logistics of how a world with sentient animals would work.

JethroMcB posted:

Rose is Rose

Y'know, Rose and Husband seem to kiss a lot, but it always feels oddly chaste. They're not holding a candle to A&J in this "This person LOVES their spouse!" category - no other comic characters can - but still, there's a hollowness there.

Selachian posted:

Flash was a polo player in the original strip. They changed him to a football player in the Sam Jones movie because to an 80s audience, polo was a prissy rich guy's sport unbefitting an action hero.

Mr. Squishy posted:

You seem to have forgotten Gunk's main feature, which is that his eyes were stacked horizontally in the middle of his face. Which thankfully doesn't line up with any hurtful stereotypes, but he wasn't just some generic white kid.

you broke my grill posted:

what if Dr. Rex Morgan, MD had to give Rene a sponge bath ha ha just kidding

I AM GRANDO posted:

When did Billingsly stop putting quotation marks around Onion’s name? Didn’t it always used to be Derek and “Onion”? I feel like I’ve missed a lot of changes in Curtis lore.

Cowslips Warren posted:

perhaps Val recognizes the slave and will help him get revenge? maybe?

and doesn't Angelique stay as a rat after this bullshit? much like the "pray away the gay" camps, trauma doesn't "fix" you.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

It's going to be one of those situations where Cooper doesn't have to do anything; the threat alone will be enough to freak Stuart out and cause him to gently caress up his own job.

Cowslips Warren posted:

If this was a recent story, I'd be tempted (no I will not touch the DNA poop) to email Holbrook and ask why he's anti-trans in regards to Angelique but if anyone calls Bruno a wolf (note, just calls, doesn't rip his fur off or try to steal his ruminant stomachs), they must be punished!

An Taoiseach posted:

It almost endearing that Holbrook thinks very little of the worlds he sets up (and a *lot* less than we do); his focus is entirely on just how laboured a visual metaphor he can shoehorn into tomorrow's strip, and seems to have been for a quarter-century at this point

Giant Ethicist posted:

And that’s the end of Bardiche Hotel! As I think I’ve said, this has turned into one of my top two or three Q-Rais joints, it just maintains a really particular kind of storybook mood very well throughout, while letting Q-Rais exercise some of the weird surrealism muscles from Chako. As usual, if you want to reread or share it around I’ve got the whole thing up on MangaDex: https://mangadex.org/title/b5d63cfa-ea1d-4082-9537-7392a45daa4f/bardiche-hotel

Malachite_Dragon posted:

also, my prediction: Given his poo poo-stirring nature, Ming II isn't actually dead.

Ardeem posted:

We have a cause of death, what we lack is a weapon.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

That's hearsay, that's not an autopsy of the body.
We do also lack the weapon though, you are correct.

readingatwork posted:

Crabgrass

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Awful eager to get him thrown into a cell before anyone can remember to ask about the body

Powered Descent posted:

Flash Gordon

That would answer the question of the weapon.

Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD



You know, Rene seemed to be a fine art teacher, and since he knows this guy he probably could have done all this self-help stuff totally legit. What I'm saying is Rene is a very bad con man and would be better off just using his talents for real things.

Powered Descent posted:

Flash Gordon

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Yeaaah, given how the queen has been played like a fiddle this entire arc so far by the people who clearly have it in for Flash? I give it three in-universe months before anyone realizes he's been hosed over.

riderchop posted:

For Better or For Worse lol

Selachian posted:

Closer Than We Think! 7/26/59



That doesn't really look safe for the dog.

Kennel posted:

Mandrake

Kennel posted:

He wasn't there.

You win this time, Fredericks.

Samovar posted:

I like how everyone else has a standard hologram profile, but then we have the witch-queen elegantly posed in her case file photo.

Selachian posted:

Closer Than We Think! 9/13/59



Rosey the Robot it ain't.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

the mouse talks now?!?!?!

Professor Wayne posted:

Zits
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PainterofCrap posted:

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Murdstone posted:

Rex Morgan MD

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Huh. I did not know that "tangent" is used in art to mean ... bad... art... things, like two objects overlapping in a confusing way. I would guess that the term is related to the mathematical concept of a tangent, because there the tangent also touches another thing. But I guess I still don't get what the "tangent" is specifically in the second panel.

Selachian posted:

Closer Than We Think! 11/8/59

Doomykins posted:

On that note I want to call in advance that Bones story about "an old fashioned death squad came to town" is a tip off a future development. I mean it's a given Ming is alive but New Flash is so drat good it could mean anything in how we get there and what developments occur. I just think that's a big tip off to shenanigans, maybe even from Aura herself? Or whoever else on this planet is up to questionable things.

It's a really cool look at the point in a setting where we assume all the good guys casually forge a golden era after the villain is knocked off. I was tickled pink by the ancient evil bastard in charge of the prison that ripped up Flash's order.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

I mean, they were about as helpful as an rear end in a top hat on his elbow during Flash's trial...

Cowslips Warren posted:

hey remember when Holbrook did a huge anti-trans/species strip about Angelique but it was okay cause she's Bad and deserved it, compared to Bruno who is Good?

I can't imagine how much better he can run this poo poo.

Bruceski posted:

the name of the monster is Victor Frankenstien.

Murdstone posted:

The Phantom