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Bonus Book Thread - 01-04-2023 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
- Bloom County by Berke Breathed
- The Far Side by Gary Larson
- Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
My favorite characters in this series have to be Steve Dallas and Opus the penguin. They have a very odd friendship. According to Breathed, Steve Dallas is based on a real person and not as much of a caricature of a preppy frat boy as you might expect. He's loud, obnoxious, unapologetically sexist, and has few redeeming traits. Opus is sweet, kind, hopelessly trying to find romance, just a loveable little goofball. Together, they are a fun odd couple. And then you have Bill the Cat, the semi-comatose--sometimes--dead candidate for President of the United States. His campaigns for president are among my favorite strips. I used to draw a pretty good likeness of Bill the Cat when I was younger...Don't think I could do that now, though. Bill the Cat for Speaker of the House? He can't possibly be worse than Kevin McCarthy.
"When I wrote and drew most of these, I was mostly out of my mind. Not a single one—NOT ONE, HE SAID IN BOLD CAPS—was executed during a sane and lucid hour of the day." [Emphasis in original - PS] -- Berkeley Breathed
I loved The Far Side since it's inception back in 1981. I was too young to really understand the humor, but I could instinctively grasp there was something weird and funny about each panel. Larson's artistic style is very simple, yet he manages to convey a very bizarre world inhabited by crazy characters who just take it in stride. Could you imagine being one of those characters in a zany situation and just thinking it was somehow normal? Like the couple who hear a noise in the night. They come downstairs and shine a flashlight on an ugly monster. The caption reads, "See, Agnes?...It's just Kevin." The homeowners clearly know who this monster is and are not even remotely concerned. Kevin accidentally woke them up while getting a midnight snack of milk and a slice of cake.
"So once you've got your characters established in the hearts and minds of your readers, it's not a good idea to run him over with a truck a few week's later. Whoa! I was not going to be good at developing a character. I was not going to be good at telling a joke in visual form. I was hit and run. My ever-changing characters got crunched, speared, shot, beheaded, eaten, stuffed, poisoned, and run over about twice a week. (Tastefully, of course.)" -- Gary Larson
CALVIN AND HOBBES
Finally, we have Bill Watterson's masterpiece, Calvin and Hobbes. Watterson struggled for years to bring his titular characters to the comics page. It truly was a labor of love. He famously fought an ugly battle with his syndicate about licensing his characters for merchandise. Watterson simply wasn't interested in running a merchandise empire. Unlike Spaceballs merchandise, you won't find the Calvin and Hobbes flamethrower at Walmart any time soon. I love Calvin and Hobbes because I can relate to Calvin. He's the six-year-old kid inside all of us. Hobbes is our inner voice attempting to restrain our baser impulses, but still willing to cut loose and have fun when it counts. FINAL THOUGHTS All three of these silly cartoonists influenced me in profoundly subtle ways. A lot of my own brand of humor derives from what they created. And they themselves admit they were influenced by other cartoonists. Breathed candidly admits he plagiarized his style from Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury and the two of them were "frenemies" for quite a long time before they buried the hatchet. Larson was influenced by single-panel cartoonists like B. Kliban and Charles Addams. Watterson draws upon Charles Schultz' Peanuts and Walt Kelly's Pogo for inspiration. (NOTE: I also love Pogo!) So, what are some of YOUR favorite silly comic strips? What characters would be featured in an Ace of Spades HQ comic strip? The Transcredible Space Adventures of Ace and Garrett: The Search for Crocs!
"It's an exceedingly rare privilege to have your work read by people every day, year after year. If you're inclined to go beyond joke and say something heartfelt, honest, or thoughtful, you have a tremendous opportunity. And best of all, because the comics are generally regarded as frivolous, disposable entertainment, readers rarely have their guard up." -- Bill Watterson
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Catherine at January 06, 2023 05:15 PM (ZSsrh)
Posted by: Catherine at January 06, 2023 05:16 PM (ZSsrh)
Posted by: Ciampino - humor is the best medicine at January 06, 2023 05:16 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 06, 2023 05:17 PM (3Or4S)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2023 05:17 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Catherine at January 06, 2023 05:17 PM (ZSsrh)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 05:17 PM (z3WCn)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 06, 2023 05:18 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 06, 2023 05:17 PM (3Or4S)
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I read that as 'nude bewbs'
Posted by: Ciampino -- humor is the best medicine at January 06, 2023 05:18 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: JimLennon at January 06, 2023 05:18 PM (YpZIc)
Bloom County by Berke Breathed
The Far Side by Gary Larson
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
I cannot argue with this at all.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) blurts at January 06, 2023 05:18 PM (1I6o+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2023 05:19 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 05:19 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: shredder at January 06, 2023 05:19 PM (lDPUy)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 05:19 PM (nC+QA)
The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbs were great cartoons made even greater by ending long before the inspiration ran out. Peanuts went on 20 years too long. Doonesbury, unfortunately, is still around.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 05:19 PM (SYZqE)
Posted by: JT at January 06, 2023 05:20 PM (T4tVD)
Bloom county lost me when he came back and got overly political. as is said, you can't go home again, and you'll never find that magic once you quit. which is a shame.
other comics i always read included Wizard of ID and BC.
Posted by: SturmToddler at January 06, 2023 05:20 PM (Mkvkw)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2023 05:20 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2023 05:20 PM (BoffU)
Posted by: Mookie at January 06, 2023 05:20 PM (Y+2kU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2023 05:21 PM (EZebt)
Check out our favorite entry "the Universal Book report"
Posted by: groovy girl at January 06, 2023 05:21 PM (ybC9u)
Loved C&H and Far Side as a kid. Never read Bloom County.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2023 05:21 PM (oINRc)
While much has been written about all three, not enough has been bestowed upon them. Bloom came about in the Reagan years, and I still laughed uproariously as my young Conservative thoughts formed in my mind. THANKS for bringing this up!!!!
Posted by: Mr. Wolf at January 06, 2023 05:21 PM (Zh2lX)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 05:21 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:21 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: JimLennon at January 06, 2023 05:21 PM (YpZIc)
Posted by: shredder at January 06, 2023 05:19 PM (lDPUy)
the puns are fantastic. idk how he comes up with those.
you can see the set up. you know it's coming. you can't stop it. and you laugh, then agree with rat about beating him over the head with a baseball bat...
Posted by: SturmToddler at January 06, 2023 05:22 PM (Mkvkw)
Posted by: Methos at January 06, 2023 05:22 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Mookie at January 06, 2023 05:22 PM (Y+2kU)
Posted by: Ziggy at January 06, 2023 05:22 PM (1I6o+)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 05:22 PM (nC+QA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 05:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:22 PM (0hOvj)
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You named my all-time favorite: Far Side.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 06, 2023 05:22 PM (BdMk6)
I've read those books several times.
Posted by: JT at January 06, 2023 05:23 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 05:23 PM (z3WCn)
I still want a Hobbes stuffed animal.
The strips where Calvin tries to save but loses a squirrel were masterpieces.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 05:23 PM (goJt/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2023 05:23 PM (EZebt)
Ironically, Watterson stopped drawing C&H in part because of all the bootleg Calvin merch. If he'd licensed the images in the first place, there would have been much more tasteful stuff out there (probably not Calvin peeing on things) and the company would have gone after bootleg Calvin gear.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 06, 2023 05:24 PM (eyxn4)
Peanuts was my favorite strip for a long time growing up, but I read every strip. The Wizard, BC, Henry, Andy, Tarzan, Mark Trail, Prince Valiant, even the soaps like Mary Worth. That was when newspapers had 2 comics pages and 6, 8, 10 full size pages of color comics on Sunday. I always looked for to that, and read some of the news too.
Posted by: fd at January 06, 2023 05:24 PM (iayUP)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at January 06, 2023 05:24 PM (gg4h4)
Also Kliban cats-
https://tinyurl.com/2s3mhsb8
Thanks for happy thread Perfessor!
Posted by: Dr. Chile Pepper at January 06, 2023 05:24 PM (M3hSG)
1. Jeopardy: Einstein, with 23,000 points, Edison, with 19,500 points, and Jones, with -100. Jones raises his hand, and says "I know the game is almost over, but just for the record, I don't think my buzzer was working properly".
2. Two witches: One says to the other: "Helen, you're pregnant? How wonderful. I was taking you quite literally when you said you had one in the oven".
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2023 05:24 PM (lTGtQ)
I believe that those three were the last of the great comic strips.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 05:24 PM (UQUAY)
Posted by: Ziggy at January 06, 2023 05:22 PM (1I6o+)
Pointless strips:
Ziggy
Garfield
For Better or Worse
Family Circus
Apartment 3G
Cathy
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 05:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2023 05:24 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:25 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Octochicken at January 06, 2023 05:25 PM (oCS0o)
I think C&H and FS may have been at the end of comics. I remember really loving them, but they were from my early childhood. By the time I was 10 or so, all the comics in the newspaper were suuuuuper boring and dumb and not funny, and then they all died off. I think those were the last hurrah for that medium.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2023 05:25 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Petulant Child at January 06, 2023 05:25 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: SFGoth at January 06, 2023 05:25 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Dondi at January 06, 2023 05:25 PM (1I6o+)
I could tolerate Bloom County, the less I knew about the person behind the Far Side the happier I was with it.
Peanuts was a lot better with the stuff penned in the 60s to mid 70s.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:25 PM (Lzpvj)
Right... Dilbert. Dilbert was still funny after everything else got boring.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2023 05:26 PM (oINRc)
Stuff like Garfield, Cathy, and the soap opera ones like Marcus Welby and Apartment 3G left me cold.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:26 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:25 PM (Lzpvj)
Granted, my parents had a book of old Peanuts strips when I was a wee lad, looking for stuff to read.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 05:26 PM (zZu0s)
I also have a fondness for Bloom County and The Far Side. The humor in all three strips was superb.
Lost on most people these days however.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2023 05:26 PM (Q4IgG)
I think I will kill myself.
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All New Yorker cartoons can use this as a caption and still make sense.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 05:26 PM (1Nxff)
I wonder who got all the money from those mudflaps and window stickers of Calvin pissing on a Chevy or Ford?
Posted by: lowandslow at January 06, 2023 05:27 PM (qH6FZ)
It was popular at my school, it is another one that sort of moved into the TV Trope "on a very special episode of" territory....
memo to the creators- we are not reading your comics for the most part for deep social introspection.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:27 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 06, 2023 05:27 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:27 PM (0hOvj)
other comics i always read included Wizard of ID and BC.
Posted by: SturmToddler at January 06, 2023 05:20 PM (Mkvkw)
I was a huge Bloom County fan and even saved the last color strip from when it ended. Breathed brought it back on Facebook when Trump was elected, just for the purpose of making fun of him - some of the FB comics were decent, but most were just mean-spirited and derivative of his earlier work. He's gone back into semi-retirement after *iden took over.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 06, 2023 05:27 PM (v23vE)
Too bad America has pretty much lost its sense of humor these days - though the Left and the LGBQTXYZ movement does keep us unintentionally entertained.
Posted by: Just Jim at January 06, 2023 05:27 PM (nbPP6)
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at January 06, 2023 05:28 PM (wE246)
Posted by: Ciampino --- humor is the best medicine at January 06, 2023 05:28 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: SFGoth at January 06, 2023 05:28 PM (KAi1n)
Ride the rocket, good view, from take of
to landing. One minute thirty five seconds.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1611024931348959232
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 06, 2023 05:28 PM (h7ejD)
The elder granddaughter started reading the books, and then subsequently, she tried to recreate some of Calvin's stunts, to her mom's horror.
The books are now put up until she and her sis are a bit older (9 and 7 currently).
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at January 06, 2023 05:28 PM (Gt91P)
The Katzenjammer Kids would have the creator on a federal watchlist these days.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (Lzpvj)
Also Li'l Abner.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (UQUAY)
I have the old books on the shelf in my office.
That collection does looks pretty nice. Does it include the Billy and the Boingers EP?
Posted by: sockamster, full maga retard at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (MLrvz)
Eskimo pokes his head out of the igloo, turns around "well, it's cold again."
Classic.
Posted by: Dark Helmet at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (Oka5v)
Other cartoon I enjoy: Pickles
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (0hOvj)
I still want a Hobbes stuffed animal.
The strips where Calvin tries to save but loses a squirrel were masterpieces.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 05:23 PM (goJt/)
Hopefully Calvin didn't lose "Perfessor" Squirrel.
Thanks, "Perf", for the bonus book thread!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (v23vE)
"Dice for your patrimony!"
This isn't unfair but is still hilarious for some reason.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: sockamster, full maga retard at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: Just Jim at January 06, 2023 05:27 PM (nbPP6)
Honestly, even though it was just a type of humor, I think the trend to gross out and shock humor really did some damage- because it overtook everything else.
I remember watching some Gallagher stuff about 20-30 years ago and aside from the watermelons, his stuff was not unlike a dirtier Seinfeld or Cosby. Cosby's records were great- aside from his nightclub act. That was creepy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (zZu0s)
He wrote for Weird Tales in the 30's along with Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith and Robert Howard. But only about 8 stories. And was very private. Supposedly.a real name and person. I doubt it.
He's really good. Ashton Smith and Dunsany vibe. Well worth a read. There's a $3 ebook on amazon.
My fav story so far is about an evil smoking hot woman who gets sent to hell by her demon lover and just absolutely worked over. It's very Christian but no mention of Christ.
Another good one is about some high level initiate in an esoteric society who goes to fight Lucifer on behalf of Love.
The writing is very very high quality. It is in Ashton Smith's style of purple Baudelaire-ian prose but much more restained.
Can't believe he isn't a bigger name.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (1ais2)
Posted by: fd at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (iayUP)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
I would glance at the Blondie strip because occasionally she would be in the bathtub.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (lTGtQ)
Blondie
Peanuts
Family Circus
Dennis the Menace
Snuffy Smith
Doonesbury (hey, it's what got me to the Editorial Page)
Beetle Bailey
Wizard of Id
Fox Trot
Cathy
The King: Don Martin
The upstarts:
Dilbert (early ones were not so much funny as 'hey, i WORK there!)
Get Fuzzy
Drabble
Posted by: Mr. Wolf at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (Zh2lX)
I am guilty of enjoying Grammy Sammy Kinnison in the 80s and 90s.
He would have been blackballed by 2011.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (Lzpvj)
I periodically look at them.
I have the Complete Calvin and Hobbs collection as well.
That and Charles Schultz Peanuts are simply the best.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (up/3i)
I saw The Far Side and Bloom County comics once in a while but they weren't a regular thing. Doonesbury in the beginning, the first few years, was laugh out loud funny. When it started to take itself seriously as a font of political wisdom it dropped humor for preaching. And lost me as a reader. That was about the same time I stopped taking a daily newspaper.
Posted by: JTB at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (7EjX1)
I would glance at the Blondie strip because occasionally she would be in the bathtub.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (lTGtQ)
Eh, that was ok. But I was in it for the sandwiches.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: sockamster, full maga retard at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (MLrvz)
Do you live somewhere where she can recreate Calvin's snowmen sculptures?
Posted by: Mookie at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (Y+2kU)
Scott Adams has been very disappointing the last couple of years on Twitter. Seems to be constantly arguing both sides of every issue, with no regard to Constitutionality or the effect on civil rights.
Then again, according to his recent book he has some neurological/psychosomatic physical issues and a belief/hope that we live in a computer simulation, so that may be why he treats important issues as simply reasons to argue.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (nC+QA)
Also Li'l Abner.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (UQUAY)
My mom had a lot of Pogo books. Found it harder to appreciate since you don't just recognize who the cartoonist is mocking since it isn't your generation - something Doonesbury and Bloom likely will hit soon enough.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:32 PM (0hOvj)
Pot Shot.
Why should I change with the times, when the times are so obviously wrong.
It is almost brown. She passed in '96.
Posted by: Infidel at January 06, 2023 05:32 PM (ZEa+g)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 05:32 PM (1Nxff)
I still remember the smell of Pappaw's barbassol as we would read the Sunday comics together.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 05:32 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: picassokris at January 06, 2023 05:33 PM (sUgY3)
Apartment 3d sometimes got my attention for that, the girls were always gorgeous, even if the stories were dull as paint drying
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:33 PM (0hOvj)
I made wife's chemo nurses do a double take when I pointed out the 2d 3d and 4th tier order of effect issues of the Idaho Killer being 23 and Me'd....
People take a lot of their civil liberties for granted which is lamentable....their taking other people's for granted is troublesome.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:33 PM (Lzpvj)
He would have been blackballed by 2011.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (Lzpvj)
Yeah, but even Kinnison was not gross out or... well, he was a bit shock, but it was observational humor.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 05:34 PM (zZu0s)
Eskimo pokes his head out of the igloo, turns around "well, it's cold again."
Classic.
Posted by: Dark Helmet at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (Oka5v)
In a similar vein: two cavemen sitting in front of their cave. To the left is a massive glacier. One of them is looking at it and says, "Say, Thag, wall of ice closer today?"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 05:34 PM (UQUAY)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 06, 2023 05:34 PM (ppBhU)
what was that gal that Jan Hooks played where she was moderating a debate and the confused politician was like...are you hitting on me?
Posted by: sockamster, full maga retard at January 06, 2023 05:34 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: JTB at January 06, 2023 05:34 PM (7EjX1)
With Doonesbury, etc. - of course getting political didn't work!
How dumb.
You read through 30 pages of fake, manufactured horseshit news, and get to the comics for... more of it?
No. You went to those pages for *anything but* that crap.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2023 05:35 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 06, 2023 05:35 PM (/iLcI)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 05:35 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: ZOD at January 06, 2023 05:35 PM (Q/6pY)
Posted by: sockamster, full maga retard at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (MLrvz)
I wonder which one was colder?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 05:35 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Javems at January 06, 2023 05:35 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:35 PM (0hOvj)
Check out the color strips on
https://twitter.com/TatsuyaIshida9
(I think his archive is blackm& white)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 06, 2023 05:35 PM (Kd4bG)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (/iLcI)
He very much has a midwestern sense of humor.
I nuked my MSN comments today because despite getting upvoted they are a bit too "eff you" to power.
I am looking forward to not worrying about my reputation.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Formerly known as Skeptic at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (FR+I0)
Something I saw a few weeks ago that stuck with me: The Far Side is the beginning of meme culture. The one-ish panel, the captions, the throwaway characters there just for the punchline, the brilliance captured in one small image.... it's all there.
Posted by: pookysgirl's daughter's Pengie is basically Hobbes at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (XKZwp)
Eskimo pokes his head out of the igloo, turns around "well, it's cold again."
Classic.
Posted by: Dark Helmet at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (Oka5v)
In a similar vein: two cavemen sitting in front of their cave. To the left is a massive glacier. One of them is looking at it and says, "Say, Thag, wall of ice closer today?"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 05:34 PM (UQUAY)
***
Two deer talking..."Bummer of a birthmark Hal."
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (anj39)
The Far Side has held up well due to it's sure absurdity.
I can't read Bloom County anymore.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (XvPQV)
Loved Garfield in the early years. Far Side and Calvin and Peanuts. For Better or Worse til she got too woke. I don't need to know about the sex lives of cartoon characters or be preached to.
I miss the daily papers, still, though haven't gotten one in probably 15 years.
Posted by: TecumsehTea-not a resident troll at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (BjGT6)
I agree. Its interesting reading his back catalog because he starts out more Bloom County whimsey and ends up being very topical and modern.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 06, 2023 05:37 PM (uz3Px)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (0hOvj)
I'll defend Doones a little on that score - he had BD for a while being the pro Viet Gung ho guy and let him keep his respect for quite some time. There is a sad one when Saigon fell ending with BD grieving in the last panel.
As he got into even the 80s though those bits of respect for the characters he made faded out as they faded out and it was a comic without characters and that was just like the 90s and then I was done with it.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 05:37 PM (eoQWY)
I like all but the serial ones 'Dick Tracy' came to mind.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 06, 2023 05:37 PM (15qT3)
Posted by: sockamster, full maga retard at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (MLrvz)
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Sadly, no...though I did get the EP when I bought the original collection in which it was released...Even played it on our record player...CLASSIC!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2023 05:37 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Javems at January 06, 2023 05:38 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: huerfano at January 06, 2023 05:38 PM (dTFZY)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at January 06, 2023 05:38 PM (Mhoe2)
Posted by: Regular joe at January 06, 2023 05:38 PM (nnp+f)
2. Dr. Faustus, T. Mann
3. Ulysses, J. Joyce
Miserable in their own rights.
Posted by: ZOD at January 06, 2023 05:38 PM (Q/6pY)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 05:38 PM (nC+QA)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (goJt/)
Go back and stream 30 Rock.
Posted by: Rosewood Fretboard at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (ckJXq)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (a4EWo)
Also have the (first I believe) Red Meat book, similar sort of dark humor comic strip. He's not quite as clever as he used to be (how long can these people keep it up?) but still enjoyable. https://www.redmeat.com/
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (zB/T/)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 05:34 PM (UQUAY)
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My favorite caveman cartoon is a caveman holding up a club and saying, "Do you know me? I have to deal with bears, wolves, and sabre-tooth tigers. That's why I carry one of THESE!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (BpYfr)
I still remember the smell of Pappaw's barbassol as we would read the Sunday comics together.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 05:32 PM (zZu0s)
When I was growing up, all the dads who had kids had been drafted and so could relate to army life a little.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at January 06, 2023 05:38 PM (Mhoe2)
Ah!
Good memory! Loved Shoe.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Georgia Jarhead at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (TThGC)
I'd make a serious non-nonsensical argument that Larson owes a serious debt to Burr Shaefer.
https://tinyurl.com/Burr-Shaefer
His John W Smith cartoons checked all the boxes as well.
"You look tired," said Livia to Augustus....
anyway check them out.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Diogene
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lol, my mental journey to remember the quote, he said ..i now recall...he had sex with Diane Sawyer on a full size coffin fridge.
Posted by: sockamster, full maga retard at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (MLrvz)
You have to keep their attention.
Posted by: Rosewood Fretboard at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (ckJXq)
Flash Gordon has some of the best art, heroic yet they look like real people. (Real hot people, in the women's case, especially) But the sunday comics keep following the same formula of space women falling fanatically in love with Flash and helping him, kidnapping him, dying for him. Over and over and over. It diminishes the gee whiz factor for me a little.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: ZOD at January 06, 2023 05:41 PM (Q/6pY)
Posted by: On the Safe Side at January 06, 2023 05:41 PM (dXilO)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 06, 2023 05:41 PM (Kd4bG)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (a4EWo)
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Jeff MacNelly. That's one reason why I adopted the nic "Perfessor." I loved the strips where his nephew Skylar get sent to "summer camp" only it's actually a Marine boot camp.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2023 05:41 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:41 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: NC Ref at January 06, 2023 05:41 PM (w3DYt)
I loved when Steve Dallas advertised for his heavy metal band (which was Deathtongue before it was the Boingers): "Must know 3 chords and be able to grimace musically". And I've never forggotten Opus' rendition of Judas Priest's "Satan Love Boogie": Lucifer do your duty! Slam my head, shake your booty. Wham, bam, thank you Nell. We're on the Amtrak to hell!
I guess that was not a real JP song, however.
Posted by: Mookie at January 06, 2023 05:41 PM (Y+2kU)
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (eoQWY)
Yeah, I get that. It was very much 'of it's time.' It's just like so much though, now it seems like a completely different planet, let alone age.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 05:41 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at January 06, 2023 05:42 PM (VdGjU)
He was awful.
Probably stoned or drunk out of his gourd.
I was really disappointed.
Posted by: Bosk at January 06, 2023 05:42 PM (ZVuYy)
The Clinton impeachment broke him, essentially he was convinced the GOP would run the table after impeachment.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:42 PM (Lzpvj)
No love for Family Circle?
Posted by: Georgia Jarhead at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (TThGC)
________
No
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 05:42 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (a4EWo)
Think his name was Jeff McNelly - think he did editorial cartoons first. Think he was in the Chicago Tribune then.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 05:42 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (63Dwl)
I have a Steve Canyon helmet and oxygen mask. And there was a short-lived tv series Steve Canyon. Loved it.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 06, 2023 05:42 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Georgia Jarhead at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (TThGC)
I liked the big, random dotted line paths Billy would take.
It was harmless fun, but not memorable to me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:42 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2023 05:41 PM (BpYfr)
Oh! I remember that. Very funny. Wow!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 05:43 PM (UQUAY)
Two guys fishing with nukes in the background.
"I'll tell ya what it means Norm, No size restrictions and screw the limit!"
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 05:43 PM (anj39)
By the end his brother was having to speak the lines yes it was bad.
The irony is at the end he had been convinced he had worth as a performer and had sobered up to get back to work....
and was of course in a someone shut off the irony moment killed by an unrepentant drunk driver.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:43 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Ronster at January 06, 2023 05:44 PM (7J0ea)
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 06, 2023 05:44 PM (ywTo8)
Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, please. at January 06, 2023 05:44 PM (ZfvV/)
Posted by: Snuffy Smith at January 06, 2023 05:45 PM (dXilO)
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 06, 2023 05:42 PM (BdMk6)
Was it Steve Canyon that had the recurring football rivalry storyline of Maumee versus Scioto State - thinly disguised Miami of Ohio versus Ohio State.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 05:45 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: ZOD at January 06, 2023 05:45 PM (Q/6pY)
Posted by: Mookie at January 06, 2023 05:45 PM (Y+2kU)
I also liked Get Fuzzy, mostly because of Bucky the Cat who is a caricature of a conservative as seen by a screaming lib
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2023 05:45 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Tennessee Jed at January 06, 2023 05:45 PM (pXkXl)
I agree. Its interesting reading his back catalog because he starts out more Bloom County whimsey and ends up being very topical and modern.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:36 PM (0hOvj)
Meh.
His anti-woke screeds are good. But he turned a cute, hot girl into an ugly lesbian feminist.
Pass.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:45 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2023 05:45 PM (xhaym)
I love Get Fuzzy!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:45 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 06, 2023 05:46 PM (/iLcI)
Posted by: Mookie at January 06, 2023 05:46 PM (Y+2kU)
Posted by: Regular joe at January 06, 2023 05:46 PM (nnp+f)
Eskimo pokes his head out of the igloo, turns around "well, it's cold again."
Classic.
Posted by: Dark Helmet at January 06, 2023 05:29 PM (Oka5v)
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Two polar bears ripping apart an igloo:
"I love these things! Crunchy on the outside, with a chewy center!"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 06, 2023 05:46 PM (XlE1Z)
Posted by: Georgia Jarhead at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (TThGC)
I liked the big, random dotted line paths Billy would take.
It was harmless fun, but not memorable to me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:42 PM (XvPQV)
Wasn't it "Family Circus"?
I read that before I could really read- and after I could read I always saved till last. After Archie and Nancy (?).and sometimes Mary Worth (or was it Apt. 3g?) and Peanuts.
Posted by: LASue at January 06, 2023 05:46 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:46 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Muldoon at January 06, 2023 05:46 PM (ykeLU)
Also have the (first I believe) Red Meat book, similar sort of dark humor comic strip. He's not quite as clever as he used to be (how long can these people keep it up?) but still enjoyable. https://www.redmeat.com/
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (zB/T/)
***
I'm not bullshitting anyone. The SECNOD thing I looked at in Playboy was Gahah Wilson. Then the jokes.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 05:47 PM (anj39)
Posted by: LASue at January 06, 2023 05:47 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:33 PM
Unless they are lying in the released court documents, they already had super-genius-in-a-white-Alantra as a suspect and only used DNA testing on his father's trash to get a 99.99% match as super-genius-father before they got the arrest warrant. So no 23-and-me on this one.
Posted by: Chuck C at January 06, 2023 05:47 PM (xttsV)
Posted by: Mr. Wolf at January 06, 2023 05:47 PM (Zh2lX)
I liked L'il Abner and Daisy Mae.
Posted by: Ronster at January 06, 2023 05:44 PM (7J0ea)
__________
Son, every red-blooded American man likes Daisy Mae.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 05:47 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 05:47 PM (UQUAY)
I still remember the smell of Pappaw's barbassol as we would read the Sunday comics together.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 05:32 PM (zZu0s)
When I was growing up, all the dads who had kids had been drafted and so could relate to army life a little.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (eoQWY)
I remember the Sad Sack cartoons also. I don't know think that lasted past 1955 though.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 06, 2023 05:47 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2023 05:20 PM (BoffU)
I have an almost complete collection of Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire novels, which was an ongoing series on life in Trollope's imaginary county during the '30s through the '50's.
They are a blend of domestic humor, social commentary and romance and if I need something diverting and sympathetic (but NOT cozy), I'll read one.
She and Kipling were cousins, so her writing is very good.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at January 06, 2023 05:48 PM (wE246)
Well I would buy one, if I did find it there.
Posted by: Half Dozen at January 06, 2023 05:48 PM (c7HsI)
So... it had to die.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2023 05:48 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Mookie at January 06, 2023 05:46 PM (Y+2kU)
I remember a pair of strips of a guy talking to his dog using her name and from the dog's view it was "blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah GINGER"
Next was a similar one with a cat, but in the cat's view the speech bubble was totally blank.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 05:48 PM (eoQWY)
This isn't unfair but is still hilarious for some reason.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 06, 2023 05:30 PM (ppBhU)
We're all gamers and John was the biggest gamer of the lot, so it's very appropriate. Less likely to cause bad feelings than having them bargain with each other, which was something he also liked.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 05:49 PM (nC+QA)
1. "Lookit, a family of raccoons. The babies follow the mother down the tree-trunk."
2. (Mark points, son looks, both smiling)
3. "They'll head to the creek-bed for frogs or small fish."
4. (Cormac McCarthy Indians show up, rape Mark and son, harvest their scalps)
5. "Gahhh!!"
(fin)
Posted by: ZOD at January 06, 2023 05:49 PM (Q/6pY)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 06, 2023 05:49 PM (FVME7)
One great cartoon is when he is reading the bedtime story. Calvin asks him why, and he says because reading the bedtime story is the Dad's job. Calvin's mom yells from the kitchen, "and apparently that's the ONLY dad's job around here!!"
Calvin notes that Dad is leaving mom with the dishes again, and he says loudly, "Tonight's story, why Prince Charming stayed single". To which the mom replies, "Prince WHO???!!!"
Posted by: Mookie at January 06, 2023 05:49 PM (Y+2kU)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (goJt/)
My mom, a TAG teacher and huge Far Side fan, found this tshirt and wore it to death:
https://tinyurl.com/yc6ntkam
Posted by: pookysgirl's family still laughs at the joke at January 06, 2023 05:49 PM (XKZwp)
I hope that is the case, anyway I am glad they took the guy and prefaced my remarks with that.
In the end he was definitely if guilty setting up a new hobby.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 05:49 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 05:47 PM (UQUAY)
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It's a shock to see the really early Rick O'Shays, which was very "cartoony", and not at all like the fully evolved version.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 06, 2023 05:49 PM (XlE1Z)
Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at January 06, 2023 05:50 PM (9X60i)
Somewhere around here I still have a Beatle Bailey that someone cut out and gave me. It shows Beatle in front of a door marked MILITARY INTELLLIGENCE"
(I was a MI officer.)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 05:50 PM (anj39)
Yeah he has a kind of blind spot when it comes to lesbian feminists, they are the unblighted, absolute heroines of the little world he's created. I don't know if he's related to one or something but I think the reason he opposes modern woke culture is not because of moral or philosophical positions but just because its destroying his favorite niche group.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:50 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (goJt/)
How do you feel about the "semi-colon"?
Disclosure: I detest and do not trust it and refuse to use it. I also don't believe in syntactic grammar. Punctuation is just pause length. I am also not smart enough to understand paragraphs in an intellectual way. I just use them instinctively. I do believe in spelling.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 06, 2023 05:50 PM (1ais2)
Next was a similar one with a cat, but in the cat's view the speech bubble was totally blank.
Pretty much describes my brood.
Posted by: Mookie at January 06, 2023 05:51 PM (Y+2kU)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 06, 2023 05:51 PM (uz3Px)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:51 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 05:39 PM (goJt/)
My son was in Gifted and Talented programs from the 4th grade through high school. One thing they did right here. He knows what a gerund is.
Posted by: Javems at January 06, 2023 05:51 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Ronster at January 06, 2023 05:44 PM (7J0ea)
__________
Son, every red-blooded American man likes Daisy Mae.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 05:47 PM (1Nxff)
Only to be outdone later by Connie in the US Army preventive maintenance comic books. Everyone wanted to fuck Connie.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 06, 2023 05:51 PM (BdMk6)
All three strips were excellent and I always looked forward to reading them. I must of received a far side desk calendar for 20 some Christmases.
Of course, eventually I became a white collar worker and then it was Dilbert's time to shine as he captured the tortured world of office work.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 05:51 PM (PX01u)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:52 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Georgia Jarhead at January 06, 2023 05:40 PM (TThGC)
"Ida Know" and "Not Me"- the imaginary household ghosts who did all the bad stuff.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at January 06, 2023 05:52 PM (wE246)
Bloom County was funny. I use the line "I'll chase you around the pool with a pair of ice tongs yelling Piranha." No one knows that I got it from the Bill the Cat at Mary Worth's house drawing.
I discuss Calvin and Hobbs with my students. I remember as a kid doing the air-liner crashing into the collision of a gas tanker and a school bus. Calvin is the boy child we remember.
Far Side is also a favorite. "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal. "
Want to add "ErfWorld". It was fun until close to the end. I have those books also. Kinda D&D with war-game hexagons on a strange world with strong rules.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 05:52 PM (u82oZ)
I still laugh.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 05:52 PM (anj39)
You have to keep their attention.
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ABSOLUTELY!!! I hardly ever answer a question; I just ask a question in response to help the student discover the answer.
Sadly, many typical students don't want to think; they just want the "right" answer.
My advice to parents looking for non-woke teachers: look for those 45 and older; check out their social media profiles; and talk to former students and their parents.
Don't hesitate to request a teacher who "best fits the needs" of your child--be sure to frame the request that way; mere preference won't matter.
Email the teacher to introduce yourself and ask questions--even ask to meet in person.
Finally, SUPPORT THAT TEACHER! Send a note to the principal (copying the superintendent and the school board president) with specifics about why the teacher is good. Consider writing a letter to the editor to praise the teacher. Lurk on social media to monitor whether wokesters are criticizing him or her and HAVE THE TEACHER'S BACK!
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 05:52 PM (goJt/)
also so my wrists don't break...
Other good comics:
- Digger by Ursula Vernon. Wombats that don't put up with foolishness, even from Gods. There's a big collected paper version, and also still up for free on the web!
- Girl Genius, paper versions and for free on the web. Mad science and silliness!
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at January 06, 2023 05:52 PM (cjvQp)
Posted by: Mr. Wolf at January 06, 2023 05:53 PM (Zh2lX)
Meh. Keep an eye on him. I went through all that shit. National Merit Scholar ... blah blah blah.
Its no guarantee.
Posted by: Rosewood Fretboard at January 06, 2023 05:53 PM (ckJXq)
Who got to read the Sunday comics first was always a fight when I was a kid.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2023 05:53 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, please. at January 06, 2023 05:53 PM (+h94r)
1. "Lookit, a family of raccoons. The babies follow the mother down the tree-trunk."
2. (Mark points, son looks, both smiling)
3. "They'll head to the creek-bed for frogs or small fish."
4. (Cormac McCarthy Indians show up, rape Mark and son, harvest their scalps)
5. "Gahhh!!"
(fin)
Posted by: ZOD at January 06, 2023 05:49 PM (Q/6pY)
See...this is why I stopped reading McCarthy
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:54 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: DaveA at January 06, 2023 05:54 PM (FhXTo)
Get Fuzzy (I have a cat just like Bucky)
Lio (especially the ones with Eva Rose)
Foxtrot
XKCD
Posted by: emf at January 06, 2023 05:54 PM (93uFj)
LOL, in Middle School, my Junior High had the whole anthology, of GOR.... they had no idea what it was about...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2023 05:54 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at January 06, 2023 05:55 PM (9X60i)
*****
I had a bit in the book I wrote where my dad and his brothers as kids would kneel on the floor looking at the front page news articles while Grandpa read the comics.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 06, 2023 05:55 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 06, 2023 05:55 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:55 PM (0hOvj)
I never understood how anyone could have been confused by "Cow Tools."
The meaning of the cartoon is obvious at first blush, even to a kid. Cows are dolts, and if cows had tools, they'd be all fucked up and retarded.
What are you going to do with a saw whose teeth poke in different directions? Not break out of a pasture, that's for sure. Or that weird claw thing? Only a dumb cow would think that's good for anything.
I think the confusion came from people who didn't grow up near cows, and don't quite realize just how amazingly stupid cows are.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2023 05:55 PM (oINRc)
I appreciated that it was eternally resetting. Every two years, everyone reset to their starting age. Gave the comic a timeless quality.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:55 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 06, 2023 05:49 PM (FVME7)
That's awesome. Larson=good coug!
Posted by: LASue at January 06, 2023 05:56 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 05:47 PM (UQUAY)
Yep. Rick O'Shay was a staple. My dad had a signed copy of a strip by Stan Lynde.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 05:56 PM (PX01u)
LOL, in Middle School, my Junior High had the whole anthology, of GOR.... they had no idea what it was about...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2023 05:54 PM (oHd/0
same same. Saw the cover and instantly grabbed it. Whoah. I did my youth reading 100% off cover art.
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 06, 2023 05:56 PM (1ais2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:55 PM (0hOvj)
Dragon Magazine... Phineas Fingers?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2023 05:56 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:56 PM (0hOvj)
My mom just did not get Far Side (or Bloom County for that matter). I'd show her cartoons I thought were absolutely hilarious and she would just shrug.
Posted by: Mookie at January 06, 2023 05:56 PM (Y+2kU)
Posted by: Muldoon at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at January 06, 2023 05:52 PM (cjvQp)
I caught up with that somewhere around the end of the first big story and didn't pick it back up, but the Zanyness of the author works better as a comic book than in some of the printed novels he did.
I guess if we are including alternative comics, there is the 1980s ElfQuest "graphic novels", at least for the 4 volume main story by Wendy and Richard Pini. Its amazing that it never got picked up for animated work, probably somewhat too early
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: Snuffy Smith at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (dXilO)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (TkO4P)
Posted by: Mr. Wolf at January 06, 2023 05:53 PM (Zh2lX)
Our library had those too!
I absorbed far too many Zonker Harris verbal tics for a middle schooler, a result.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: ZOD at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (Q/6pY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (zZu0s)
A one panel cartoon to make a point with brief commentary is pretty hard.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 05:58 PM (TkO4P)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:55 PM (0hOvj)
Dragon Magazine... Phineas Fingers?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2023 05:56 PM (oHd/0)
"What's New with Phil and Dixie"
"Growf"
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 05:58 PM (XvPQV)
Phineous was fun (I loved how he turned hobbits into awful backstabbing mobsters) but no I was referring to What's New with Phil and Dixie.
Second only to Wormy, of course, in the back of Dragon.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:58 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: ZOD
I don't remember that comic.
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Seriously though, all three in the post were my favorites when I was still reading newspapers. Especially Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes, but also Bloom County. Did Breathed also pen "Shoe"? That was a good one, too.
Others I didn't expect mentioned or forgot about: Shoe, Get Fuzzy, and Foxtrot.
Others I loved not mentioned: Bizarro, Robotman (which was renamed Monty). I looked forward to each and every one of these, every day and especially Saturday.
Worst comic ever made: The Lockhorns. Stupid Jeffersons ripoff, absolutely hated it. I'm glad my parents weren't like that.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2023 05:58 PM (YJwUM)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 06, 2023 05:58 PM (t3/qz)
My mom, a TAG teacher and huge Far Side fan, found this tshirt and wore it to death:
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I smiled, knowing the cartoon before I checked!
PS: I still have to check doors...
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 05:58 PM (goJt/)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food,
My favorite was Uncle Duke and his Chinese minder, Honey.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 05:59 PM (PX01u)
Bill the Cat...
Is the subject of my favorite photo of me during my Army days. We were on the tarmac at Sharm al-Sheik Airport in Egypt lined up to enter the rear ramp of the C-141 taking us home. My stuffed Bill the Cat is sticking his head out of my rucksack and I'm turned and smirking at one of the other guys taking my photo.
I get up to the ramp and the First Sergeant is there counting heads. He sees Bill and GOES OFF. Chews my ass out, and makes me stick him back in the ruck.
Worth it.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 06, 2023 05:59 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 06, 2023 05:59 PM (t3/qz)
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (eoQWY)
Wow, Elf Quest... had not thought of that series in years.
Was in the Navy on a ship then, friend had someone who sent them to him whenever they came out.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2023 05:59 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 06:00 PM (UewuT)
The Order of the Stick
and
Knights of the Dinner Table.
If you played D&D, funny stuff.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 06:00 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:00 PM (0hOvj)
But there is a current web cartoon that I have followed for years: Rusty and Company.
https://tinyurl.com/4tbwnaae
Is is the extended adventures of a rust monster, gelatinous cube, a mimic, and their friends. Very well drawn, with strong plotting.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 06:01 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Muldoon
How could I forget to mention B.C. and Wizard of Id!
Also excellent humor!
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2023 06:01 PM (YJwUM)
Don't worry brother , they can go lower. And they certainly will.
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 06:01 PM (TkO4P)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food,
My favorite was Uncle Duke and his Chinese minder, Honey.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 05:59 PM (PX01u)
Uncle Duke > Hunter S. Thompson
Uncle Duke was actually funny, bouncing off the leftists of the comic.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 06:01 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 05:57 PM (TkO4P)
Yuk! And they were bizarrely drawn too.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 06, 2023 06:01 PM (BdMk6)
How about Zippy the Pinhead? Would that get printed these days?
Posted by: Mr. Wolf at January 06, 2023 06:02 PM (Zh2lX)
I once watched a calf get separated from its from its mom, by a barbed wire fence. Not by a farmer, and not on purpose. This fence had a big huge gap it in it that the calf wandered through. Both animals were maybe ten feet from the gap when they noticed the fence. These cows stood there, mooing frantically at one another, for a good ten minutes before I took pity and steered the little idiot back to the big idiot.
Cows are even dumber than chickens, I think.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2023 06:02 PM (oINRc)
Rusty and Company is in the same ballpark as Order of the Stick. The cartoonist was even sued by Wizards of the Coast, in a corporate dick move.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 06:02 PM (u82oZ)
There are a couple of web comics I used to like a lot that faded over time like PVP.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:02 PM (0hOvj)
I probably should double check this. But I won't. Because it just rings true.
#BackTheBlue
Posted by: Rosewood Fretboard at January 06, 2023 06:02 PM (ckJXq)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (UewuT)
"Disclosure: I detest and do not trust it and refuse to use it. I also don't believe in syntactic grammar. Punctuation is just pause length. I am also not smart enough to understand paragraphs in an intellectual way. I just use them instinctively. I do believe in spelling."
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I truly wish I could have been your teacher. There is a beautiful art (and science) to English, but in my experience, few teachers (including "English" teachers) understand it, much less can teach it.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (goJt/)
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Sublime choices. The latter for it's wholesome sweetness in imaginationland and the former for the nerdy, askew.
I'll never forget the image of "God" as a student in a chemistry lab with the busted glassware and chicken feathers. It was subversive, blasphemous, innocent, clever, surprising, and just plain funny. Larson really was revolutionary to me.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (aXxgO)
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2023 05:59 PM (oHd/0)
I saw them in college at the game store but only scanned them, then picked up the colorized collections years later. The first edition hand colored by Wendy are just lovely. And dozens of characters that you grew to know over the stories.
A while back I saw they had a site you could view them on, not sure if it is still there.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (eoQWY)
Schlock Mercenary, if only for The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (n+4am)
Frame one: (A blue-painted human splayed on a stone altar atop a tall ziggurat. Several Aztec priests, obsidian knives)
Frame two: (Confused looks)
Frame three: (Priests) "So, umm, what now?"
Four: Blue man rises, shoots cuffs, strolls off.
Five: "Huh. Like that."
Posted by: ZOD at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (Q/6pY)
Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (VdGjU)
He hates Duke, in much the same way Alan Moore hates Rorschach....
He never completely understood that a character he made to mock the right was used as a role model.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (Lzpvj)
Ashli Babbit's mom arrested at SCOTUS while protesting her daughter's murder. The charge- jaywalking.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 06, 2023 05:58 PM
Whoever is running this simulation of reality has to lay off the brown acid.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (enJYY)
My dad and I would reference that to each other all the time, since it encapsulated us to the T.
Posted by: Crazy to be sane at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (qnyv5)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (cjvQp)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 06:02 PM (u82oZ)
WOTC is run by Woke Leftist idiots and Lawyers who worked for MSFT. I know, I worked there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 06:04 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: TecumsehTea-not a resident troll at January 06, 2023 06:04 PM (BjGT6)
For off-beat weirdness, Bernie Kliban, who was famous only for various strange cat cartoons, also had a wide variety of other one-off cartoons that always make me laugh:
https://tinyurl.com/B-Kliban-Archive
Dude was seriously fucked in the head. (Gotta click on each cartoon's name at that link and it'll redirect to the image.)
Posted by: Sharkman at January 06, 2023 06:04 PM (233bX)
I wish that I would have had a good English teacher in school that was tough on grammar and sentence structure, diagramming etc. I would have hated it at the time and fought against it but... most of what I have had to learn about grammar and sentence creation I had to learn from editors.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:04 PM (0hOvj)
He never completely understood that a character he made to mock the right was used as a role model.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (Lzpvj)
#Truth
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 06:04 PM (XvPQV)
As God intended.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 06:04 PM (qoGsy)
235 229 Seconded on Girl Genius, its wild, outrageous fun with steampunk fantasy. Foglio is always a fun read, all the way back to his Dragon Magazine comic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 05:55 PM (0hOvj)
Dragon Magazine... Phineas Fingers?
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2023 05:56 PM (oHd/0)
Fineous Fingers! Now there's a name from the past....
Adore Girl Genius- equal parts smart and nutty, and an artist who appreciates the human form. Have likewise been reading Foglio since the Phil and Dixie days. (growf!)
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at January 06, 2023 06:05 PM (R3yzU)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
***
*type delete*
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 06, 2023 06:05 PM (Kd4bG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 06:05 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 06, 2023 06:05 PM (kFrCu)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2023 06:05 PM (oINRc)
Yeah my French teacher had many of the books (in French of course) and Paris match magazines. I discovered that the French advertisers were big fans of naked women in Paris Match.
Both Tintin and Asterix are delightful fun to read, but every attempt to turn them into movies has failed utterly to capture the feel.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:06 PM (0hOvj)
Schlock Mercenary, if only for The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (n+4am)
I tried and tried to get into Schlock. Never did. Sounds like the author went nuts around the Trump era.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 06:06 PM (XvPQV)
Today there's a couple that I enjoy. One is Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller. He's very much a lefty when he does something political but his recurring characters can be a hoot. The best ones are the bears that are always smiling as they set traps for the humans.
The other is Sherman's Lagoon by Jim Toomey. Sherman is a somewhat overweight shark.
Posted by: George V at January 06, 2023 06:06 PM (ugbqN)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2023 at January 06, 2023 06:07 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Yeah, right up until you are walking them to the stake (steak?) truck to cart them to the butcher. They know. They look at you and with those big eyes say "This isn't going to end well for me, is it?"
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 06:07 PM (qoGsy)
As well as a real love for good comic strips.
It's what makes us....Morons.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 06, 2023 06:08 PM (uLr+K)
Posted by: Sharkman
I discovered B.Kilban in the B. Dalton. Not a joke.
1001 Uses for a Dead Cat. The folks took us to the mall after church. After I was out of quarters from the arcade, I could always be found in the Comics and Humor part of the book store. Usually reading Truly Tasteless Jokes Vol. XVI or something they wouldn't have approved of. 😁
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2023 06:09 PM (YJwUM)
Posted by: fred at January 06, 2023 06:09 PM (GzokN)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 06, 2023 06:09 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (cjvQp)
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I should do a Book Thread on Asterix and Obelix because the series is just brilliant on several different levels...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2023 06:10 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: ZOD at January 06, 2023 06:10 PM (Q/6pY)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 06:04 PM (XvPQV)
WOTC: Making Games Workshop look less evil since 2002.
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 06:10 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 06, 2023 06:10 PM (uPgE/)
Plus Bill Mauldin in Up Front and other cartoons.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 06:10 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tennessee Jed at January 06, 2023 05:45 PM (pXkXl)
Yes! Pretty sure John was purposely modeling some of his parenting decisions on Calvin's dad. Like, informing the kids that, in the future, the answer to "why does (sibling) get more than me?!" Would be "Because I love them more."
Cut down on whining about exact size if dinner servings right quick.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 06:11 PM (nC+QA)
Posted by: runner at January 06, 2023 06:11 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: creeper at January 06, 2023 06:12 PM (cTCuP)
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at January 06, 2023 06:12 PM (wE246)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 06:12 PM (u82oZ)
if you have not heard the latest news, WOTC has decided that their open license is ended and nobody can put out anything under it from now on. Despite the contract specifically saying that it cannot be changed like that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:13 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 06:03 PM (goJt/)
I liked to sleep in class.
I took a lot of Latin and do a lot of writing.
I remember reading Shakespeare and thinking "there is no grammar and this punctuation is not what anyone told me it was".
I just write it as I would say it. And default to "needs more paragraph breaks" and "that string of sentences is too long, waaaay too long no one wants to read that.".
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 06, 2023 06:13 PM (1ais2)
I think I done raised them right.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 06:13 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2023 06:13 PM (YJwUM)
I have 6 Bloom County books - each has stickies marking favorite lines:
Opus: "I bought Bolivia." - Milo: "Did you keep the receipt?!"
Oliver: "Take me away, imperialist puppets of the great pay-TV satanistic corporate boogerheads!"
Opus, space barbarian: "You'll be a light speed whoopee wench in pressurized lingerie! Forever! Ha ha ha!"
I had a LOT of fun putting stickies over parts of Opus writing his autobiography in "Happy Trails"!! I turned "I told about that July I belched during 'Moonstruck' " to "I told about that July I mooned Fidel Castro".
His book title changed from "Conquests of a Stud Monkey" to "I Was Raquel's Stunt Double".
Milo's line "I heard you and Jack Kennedy played 'hide the guacamole' with 19 Rockettes during inauguration night", became "I heard you and Corazon Aquino played 'spin the bottle' with 19 Chippendales in Managua."
Opus questioning Milo's revised book "Naked Came I": "Excuse me. I never shot Warren Beatty in the buttocks" became "Excuse me. I never shot Daniel Ortega in the buttocks."
So much fun!
Posted by: Pat* at January 06, 2023 06:14 PM (sSIXM)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 06, 2023 06:14 PM (Kd4bG)
Posted by: ZOD at January 06, 2023 06:14 PM (Q/6pY)
You would have loved my class.
One of the dearest compliments I've ever received was, "I really hate English, but I love your class."
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 06:14 PM (goJt/)
Good it will drive the few good creators on the fan side of the DM's guild to the OSR world.
I love it when enemies kill themselves.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:14 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2023 06:16 PM (YJwUM)
Another strip I always liked as a kid was Spy vs. Spy.
I'm not sure why. It kinda sucked.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 06, 2023 06:09 PM
Yes, it did suck. But it was a lesson. Much like the preacher who continually housed the drunk in a Mark Twain novel it took a couple of iterations to figure out the facts. Then you could not un-see that some people are always gonna 'game' the system to their own advantage.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 06, 2023 06:16 PM (enJYY)
if you have not heard the latest news, WOTC has decided that their open license is ended and nobody can put out anything under it from now on. Despite the contract specifically saying that it cannot be changed like that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:13 PM (0hOvj)
Look for someone to put out legally distinct rules and let people make product for that instead that DnDers can use instead. Gygax in the old days couldn't keep others from making dungeons and stuff that can be played.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:16 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:13 PM (0hOvj)
Oh, how lovely. They really think taking on Pathfinder and its many children is not suicidal?
dis gon b gud
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 06:16 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: Thesokorus at January 06, 2023 06:13 PM (1ais2)
I took a lot of Latin, too and it does leave a mark on your writing.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at January 06, 2023 06:17 PM (wE246)
People get pissy when you explain that rules cannot be copyrighted....
thank you Hoyle.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:17 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 06, 2023 06:17 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, please. at January 06, 2023 06:17 PM (o/z0H)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 06:17 PM (goJt/)
Posted by: nurse ratched, I wanna cookie, please. at January 06, 2023 06:18 PM (o/z0H)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 06:18 PM (PX01u)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at January 06, 2023 06:18 PM (H7aqi)
Previous editions of the rules have been about trying to fix mechanical problems, update the rules to modern play, add in great features from other games. This one is exclusively by penny pinchers and lawyers about maximizing profit from the brand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:18 PM (0hOvj)
I loved Bizarro. One of my favorites is 3 or 4 young adults gathered in the living room and looking up at a big hole through the roof. The mom walks in and says "I told you not to get your father talking about taxes!"
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 06, 2023 06:18 PM (t4BDZ)
Again, I wish I could have been your teacher.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 06:17 PM (goJt/)
You should start an English class in the blog - a diagramming of one of Ace's rants would be just the thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:19 PM (eoQWY)
Previous editions of the rules have been about trying to fix mechanical problems, update the rules to modern play, add in great features from other games. This one is exclusively by penny pinchers and lawyers about maximizing profit from the brand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:18 PM (0hOvj)
They're already doing another edition? The settings for 5th aren't even fleshed out in the 5e timeframe.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 06, 2023 06:19 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 06, 2023 06:20 PM (d9Cw3)
I read Erf World for a while starting in 08 or so. Seemed to be going towards a grim place so I quit. Should I try again?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 06:20 PM (nC+QA)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 06:21 PM (PX01u)
They are reverting back towards what damn near killed the game (looking at you 4th ed) and are now demanding to see your books and possibly demand royalties if you use their shit....IOW "not an open license."
I bought a VTT this winter for Modiphius's Fallout 2d20 game....I purposefully did not buy 5th Ed and now I will make a point of not buying it.
Greyhawk forever.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:21 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:21 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 06:21 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 06, 2023 06:22 PM (t4BDZ)
That is what happens when you allow go fish players to run a wargaming business.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:22 PM (Lzpvj)
It's ageless
Posted by: Megthered at January 06, 2023 06:22 PM (T+YOs)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 06:22 PM (u82oZ)
For years he had his easel set up in the front window of the store and you could watch him create his comics. He's gone semi big time now since his strip has been syndicated and he doesn't write in the store anymore. Super nice guy.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 06:22 PM (ZLI7S)
PS: I am fluent in French and familiar enough with Latin and Greek to teach the etymologies. The clever kids LOVE that.
PSS: Here's another hint for parents considering teachers in public schools: ask the teacher to his or her face whether he or she is a Christian. It's understandable if the teacher avoids answering directly out of concern for repercussions, but I (32 years of experience--no one's going to fire me) respond with a confident, "Yes."
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 06:22 PM (goJt/)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 06, 2023 06:23 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 06:23 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:18 PM (0hOvj)
Well there is the old Star Wars quote about the more you squeeze the more will slip through your fingers. I guess that's why boy Vader hated sand. I expect that will happen here.
I just remember back in first edition/boxed and the net two iterations nobody used the magic rules as written I ever found.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:23 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
They gotta keep up with the ever-changing Woke rules that govern their own rules, and their very lives. Given this fact, expect a new edition biannually. Maybe even quarterly.
LOL!
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2023 06:23 PM (YJwUM)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at January 06, 2023 06:24 PM (z7W9M)
Posted by: JTB at January 06, 2023 06:24 PM (7EjX1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 06:24 PM (zZu0s)
OSR is better, it plays faster, the rules being non-"story driven" means you weed out the drama queens from the start....
The rules light shit drives me nuts...
"flip a coin and call it, you either have an I win or lose moment!"
//Sven's new RPG "Digital Decision Fantasy!"
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 06:23 PM (UewuT)
There was an attempt at that in the late 80s, 90s where a small box had basic rules for combat and the like then a world book for DnD type, space wars, comic heros and one other?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (0hOvj)
https://www.thefarside.com/
Posted by: TexasDan at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (z/ifB)
LOL!
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2023 06:23 PM (YJwUM)
Just imagine the effort required to maintain pronoun rule books for all the various races and settings.
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 06:26 PM (u82oZ)
Will have to look up Digger. Current reads, now that Schlock Mercenary is done, are Girl Genius, Sluggy Freelance, and Freefall. Used to read a couple more but dropped them either for getting political or being inconsistent in posting (which I put up with from Sluggy but not other comics).
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 06:26 PM (nC+QA)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
They gotta keep up with the ever-changing Woke rules that govern their own rules, and their very lives. Given this fact, expect a new edition biannually. Maybe even quarterly.
LOL!
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2023 06:23 PM (YJwUM)
They have some sort of One DnD rollout coming that is supposed to rule them all. It's an unfortunate brand name as that makes them Sauron in the fantasy piece.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:26 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: TexasDan at January 06, 2023 06:26 PM (z/ifB)
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at January 06, 2023 06:27 PM (xnmPy)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 06, 2023 06:27 PM (uLr+K)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (0hOvj)
That's really stupid because races in DnD aren't races at all, but species.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:27 PM (eoQWY)
You should start an English class in the blog - a diagramming of one of Ace's rants would be just the thing.
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OMG!!!
*waves hand in the air frantically*
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
Along with a discussion of the books Morons had to read, along with a list of texts we think all well-educated Americans should know.
My dad (1935-2003) told me he had to read "Julius Caesar" in high school and hated it. I told him that was because I wasn't his teacher.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 06:28 PM (goJt/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (0hOvj)
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Sounds about right. Take everything that made old school D&D great (1st/2nd Ed) and carve out everything fun about it. Make it a hollow mockery of the original creators' vision...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2023 06:28 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at January 06, 2023 06:28 PM (clNjV)
Evil Inc?
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (Lzpvj)
*looks it up* No, this was a free webcomic (at least several years ago.) Female awkward protagonist. Superman level power leader of team. Magic Balls? Very glossy artwork. Joker?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 06, 2023 06:28 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: LadyS at January 06, 2023 06:29 PM (VGiJY)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 06:29 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 06:29 PM (UewuT)
In a strange case of "race (culture actually) washing....
WOTC pretends that "well of course the orcs by TSR were always African-American ghetto folk and we apologize"
well "no" they were 1) a fantasy humanoid race, and 2) going all the way back to Tolkien were an obvious indictment of continental Germans which Gygax kept up.
WOTC by retards for retards
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:30 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2023 06:30 PM (xhxe8)
On Easter and Christmas, someone had ALWAYS cut out B.C. from the comics page. Literally cut it out of the page, before it even hit the newsstand.
Too Christian for the Godless Northeast. I was glad to leave.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2023 06:30 PM (YJwUM)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 06, 2023 06:28 PM (goJt/)
Our English teacher in 9th grade had us read SSpear aloud and take a part, which worked a lot better. Showed the Taming of the Shrew movie too.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:31 PM (eoQWY)
Then again, according to his recent book he has some neurological/psychosomatic physical issues and a belief/hope that we live in a computer simulation, so that may be why he treats important issues as simply reasons to argue.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 05:31 PM (nC+QA)
He has a young thot now to clothe and feed.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 06:31 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2023 06:30 PM (xhxe
Valiant
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:31 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Heidi at January 06, 2023 06:32 PM (ECHKg)
John got me reading OoTS. Read it for a while after he died, but stopped at some point. Not even quite sure when.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 06:32 PM (nC+QA)
It reminds me of when (later DC Comics) sued the creators of Captain Marvel for ripping off Superman. Back then, they though they were the sole owners of superheroes and even the term superhero. Judges were not exactly clear on what the hell anyone was talking about or what superheroes were, and some really dumb decisions were made, until finally Captain Marvel creators realized kids weren't buying superhero stuff any more and just gave up fighting.
I think modern judges are now a bit more up to speed on what the heck role playing games are and what these IPs are and are ruling a bit more intelligently on the topic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 06, 2023 06:32 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 06:32 PM (0fVbu)
well "no" they were 1) a fantasy humanoid race, and 2) going all the way back to Tolkien were an obvious indictment of continental Germans which Gygax kept up.
WOTC by retards for retards
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:30 PM (Lzpvj)
As I recall orcs are green, not black.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:33 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 05:19 PM
Sadly, almost no one has my, how you say, +37 Charisma.
Posted by: Paolo at January 06, 2023 06:33 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (eoQWY)
Steve Jackson's GURPS?
I still play that....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 06:34 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 06:34 PM (UQUAY)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at January 06, 2023 06:28 PM (clNjV)
A very good book
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:35 PM (eoQWY)
When you have a straits of girbraltar sized chip on your shoulder...
This was another case of grievance rent seeking by the SJWs who invaded gaming EARLY in the mid 2000s.
Those of us who gamed in person noticed little mind numbed fuckwits who suddenly were applying grievance studies theory to fantasy settings.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:35 PM (Lzpvj)
Maybe that's why I quit reading. Used to read WereGeek as well. Eldest Kidlet even has a chibi Gelatinous Cube that the author drew as a request. Wonder if it's still running.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 06:36 PM (nC+QA)
Try to find the eavesdropping panel series "At the top of the stairs was...a giant doughnut." You'll recognize the characters and the situation.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 06, 2023 06:36 PM (jYCXf)
For years he had his easel set up in the front window of the store and you could watch him create his comics. He's gone semi big time now since his strip has been syndicated and he doesn't write in the store anymore. Super nice guy.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 06:22 PM (ZLI7S)
I bought the first collected stories of Wallace the Brave. It's....toothless. It lacks drama and excitement. It's just bland niceness.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 06:36 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:25 PM (eoQWY)
Steve Jackson's GURPS?
I still play that....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 06, 2023 06:34 PM (XvPQV)
I think the one I was thinking of was Chaosium's Basic Role playing. They had an Elfquest version and Call of Cthulhu version based on them.
I used to get scenarios just to read them like horror stories.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 06:41 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 06:42 PM (UewuT)
BRP is not bad, I have been dabbling in using the 4color rules system to run different settings. I may well publish genre books on drivethrurpg if my workload abates this year because of the health issues of wife and I.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2023 06:42 PM (Lzpvj)
My dad's two brothers finished the third grade and the eighth grade. While working my way through my second Chaucer course, I read them the Miller's Tale, with a little commentary. One of them peed himself.
One was more or less in demand as a story teller. I used to get a call about once a year to recite the events of the tale for his audience, in the big garage, around the coal stove. Guys still like a good story.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 06, 2023 06:46 PM (jYCXf)
As a kid, The Lockhorns killed me. Still do.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at January 06, 2023 06:53 PM (TU8Tj)
I still have one Quigmans I cut out from the university school paper from my undergrad years that I thought was hilarious and have kept taped to my monitor for nearly 3 decades.
"Attack of the Killer Aunt Beas"
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 06, 2023 06:53 PM (TNyrE)
It is up to man to ponder the most meaningful thing in life
Posted by: Happy at January 06, 2023 06:56 PM (8wFql)
Posted by: One more comic at January 06, 2023 07:00 PM (sqdh7)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy's Husband at January 06, 2023 07:01 PM (Vf4Y7)
Posted by: Wenda at January 06, 2023 07:02 PM (uFqRH)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 07:03 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Paolo at January 06, 2023 06:33 PM (a3Q+t)
Lol. So what are your dump stats?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 07:04 PM (nC+QA)
Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at January 06, 2023 07:04 PM (WusEB)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 07:05 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy's Husband at January 06, 2023 07:06 PM (Vf4Y7)
Posted by: I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the hold music that repeats a bar too early at January 06, 2023 07:11 PM (7kSOl)
Prince Valiant.
Especially these days while he's in Africa being upstaged by his wife and daughters and outsmarted by the people he meets..
Posted by: Auspex at January 06, 2023 07:14 PM (0S27Y)
Posted by: I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the hold music that repeats a bar too early at January 06, 2023 07:15 PM (7kSOl)
Posted by: I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the hold music that repeats a bar too early at January 06, 2023 07:17 PM (7kSOl)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 07:26 PM (u82oZ)
Great year after year. Hidden "Easter Eggs" in the mouse over. Sciencey and nerdy and goofy.
Not for everyone, but I'm no STEM person and I love it.
Posted by: MarkW at January 06, 2023 07:29 PM (MlfpZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 07:31 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 07:05 PM (u82oZ)
True. Pretty sure he'd need at least one more though to get 37. Intelligence, I suppose, since it would be important to keep Dexterity reasonable and Constitution as high as possible unless he hopes to be like The Simpsons' Mr. Burns and have all his diseases so precisely balanced as to keep him in good health.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 06, 2023 07:39 PM (nC+QA)
I agree with you.
He is not smart. Emotional connectivity enhances the process to something sublime. Mucus membrane stimulation and headboard-smashing athleticism leads to much less than heart to heart caring, trust, and relationship growth. IMHO.
I may be an outlier in the 'rons.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 07:43 PM (u82oZ)
But I think my favorite C&H was the one where he asks his dad where babies come from. "Well, most babies come from Sears." "I came from Sears?" "No, you were a K-Mart Blue Light Special -- almost as good and a lot less expensive." A dismayed Calvin wails. Mom calls "What are you telling him now?" Perfection.
Favorite Gahan Wilson? The Death of the Sandwich Man.
And way back when, Doonesbury had a couple of terrific strips centered on an appearance on campus of John Kerry. Trudeau may have been a leftie, but he had Kerry's number.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 06, 2023 07:46 PM (a/4+U)
"Mutts", Patrick McDonnell.
"Xkcd", Randall Munroe.
"One Big Happy", Rick Detorie.
Posted by: aelfheld at January 06, 2023 07:49 PM (Zy9Yy)
Posted by: Kangarew66 at January 06, 2023 08:26 PM (aw9ze)
Posted by: jasonj at January 06, 2023 09:07 PM (4Tpar)
Pogo (You did mention him)
Asterix and Obelix -Lot of Latin (Roman) and Gallic puns
Posted by: coarsehair at January 06, 2023 10:22 PM (pXnYD)
Posted by: coarsehair at January 06, 2023 10:33 PM (pXnYD)
In short order:
Our Boarding House (featuring Maj. Hoople)
Crock
Tumbleweeds
Frank and Ernest (Bob Thaves was a genius)
The Neighborhood (I preferred this to The Far Side)
Hagar the Horrible
Zits
So many more ... and I hardly read newspaper comics now.
Posted by: Weak Geek at January 06, 2023 10:36 PM (Om/di)
Loved Calvin and Hobbes--I consider it the best strip ever. Far Side was iconic, but I never loved it the way I loved C&H. Never a fan of Bloom Country.
For other comic strips: Foxtrot is probably my second favorite. Reading it now, it's a neat little time-capsule of what nerds were obsessing over in the mid-90's. I'm also a fan of Liberty Meadows, but for....different reasons.
And for newer strips, I just gave my niece a collection of Forest Folk strips. A once-a-week webcomic about a somewhat semi-delusional fox and his somewhat-more-grounded circle of friends.
Posted by: Castle Guy at January 06, 2023 11:16 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 07, 2023 12:28 AM (SRRAx)
Here's what I've been doing.. www.Payathome7.com
Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at January 07, 2023 08:53 AM (K9VT9)
Calvin and Hobbes was brilliant from beginning to end. Watterson was so creative in using Hobbes as Calvin’s alter ego, conscience, and partner in crime. I once saw a Lio strip where that character saw a man with stuffed tiger sitting on a blanket holding a sign that read, “Retired too soon.” As soon as I could get the Complete Collection of Calvin and Hobbes, I did.
What I liked best about Bloom County was Breathed lampooned everyone equally. The strip was at times more political than entertainment, but the author never favored anyone that I could see. Trudeau could have used some notes for Doonesbury that way. My favorite characters were Milo Bloom and his buddy. Breathed closed out the strip saying he was out of ideas, but he also had quit using most of the characters, which limited his options.
A sadly defunct strip I’d add to this list is Cleats. Written by one of the co-writers of Tank McNamara, Cleats follows a group of kids through all their adventures, mostly in sports.
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