MLP Forum Archive - Page 9426

#235626 Sky Strike Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:40:32 PM from Trottingham

@Tiggers I'm a huge fan of Pearls Before Swine. I own all the treasuries, actually.

Anyway, I doubt Rat would be a brony. He has his moments (like that time Pig thought he was a butterfly and fell off the roof) but overall he's a jerkass. Also, I'm not sure the creator of the strip knows what a brony is.

@ginger What's wrong with newspapers, huh? Trying to destroy another industry, are you?

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edited 26th Jun '12 3:42:18 PM by SkyStrike

If you stare into the abyss long enough, it stares into you.

Element of Indecision.

#235627 Mousa The 14 Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:40:57 PM from Northern Virginia

Uh yeah, I suppose, I know it was something I did all the time just to see what was worthy of becoming a newspaper comic. I used to want to try that out as a starting artist job. But then I realized you'd have to down your writing levels to mediocre in order to be of interest.

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When All Else Fails, worry, that's the 14 way.

#235628 Pannic Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:42:36 PM

Heh. Used to read newspaper comics, back when we still got a newspaper. Used to read every single one that was in the paper. Even freaking Mallard Fillmore.

edited 26th Jun '12 3:43:11 PM by Pannic

#235629 Japanese Teeth Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:42:38 PM from Meinong's jungle

@Mousa: You've obviously never read Calvin and Hobbes or The Far Side. And there are still a few good ones out there. Zits and Pearls Before Swine come to mind. Foxtrot is pretty good too.

edited 26th Jun '12 3:43:30 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#235630 Sky Strike Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:44:04 PM from Trottingham

@JT The Far Side is good. Unfortunately, both that and Calvin and Hobbes have ended, and Foxtrot only makes Sunday strips now.

If you stare into the abyss long enough, it stares into you.

Element of Indecision.

#235631 gingerninja 666 Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:44:26 PM from Aboard The Damocles

@Sky I'm not interested in reality, so newspapers never interested me

edited 26th Jun '12 3:45:15 PM by gingerninja666

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#235632 Pannic Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:44:36 PM

I recall being fond of Get Fuzzy.

#235633 Kyler Thatch Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:44:58 PM from beyond the stars

So you're not interested in news, but what's that got to do with the comics?

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#235634 gingerninja 666 Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:46:11 PM from Aboard The Damocles

@Kyler I ain't buying a paper purely for comics.

I never bought papers, ergo, I never read the comics.

All the ones I HAVE read, I never got anyway

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#235635 Sky Strike Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:46:38 PM from Trottingham

@ginger You can find a lot of these comics online.

If you stare into the abyss long enough, it stares into you.

Element of Indecision.

#235636 gingerninja 666 Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:47:37 PM from Aboard The Damocles

@Sky We've been through this, they ain't my thing

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#235637 Japanese Teeth Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:49:06 PM from Meinong's jungle

@Sky: I know, it's quite unfortunate.

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#235638 gingerninja 666 Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:53:18 PM from Aboard The Damocles

Anyway, back to Icarus

"Contests fought between two masters are decided instantly. An invisible battle is now raging between the two of them." Lulu vs Schneizel

#235639 kegisak Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:53:45 PM

Get fuzzy was good, yeah. Well drawn, well written... and as someone who grew up with cats and dogs, frighteningly accurate.

#235640 Pannic Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:55:48 PM

Yeah, I liked Get Fuzzy a lot. It was funny. One strip that occurs to me is from a little arc in which Bucky gets a coonskin hat.

Rob: "Don't you think it's kinda... wrong, for you to be walking around in the skin of another animal?"

Bucky: "And that's different from your leather jacket how?"

Rob: "Well, I, um... go to your closet."

edited 26th Jun '12 3:56:08 PM by Pannic

#235641 kegisak Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:57:04 PM

Ah, yes.

|Zits is another good one, though I find it sort of a curious beast. IT started in the 90's, making it very reminiscent of my early childhood... but by the time I got to reading it I was in my teens, making it feel both familiar and oddly dated.

#235642 Japanese Teeth Tue, 26th Jun '12 3:58:42 PM from Meinong's jungle

Yeah, Zits is a good one too. I like how it mocks both the teenagers and the parents rather than just focusing on one side of the thing.

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#235643 kegisak Tue, 26th Jun '12 4:00:23 PM

Plus the absurdity of the teenage mindset makes for good humour even without mocking. One of my favourites is when Jeremy goes into a restaurant advertising 'no shoes, no shirt, no service' with his shoes on his hands and his shirt tied around his neck, then jokes that he should sue when they kick him out. My parents thought I was having an attack I was laughing so hard.

#235644 Drenius Tue, 26th Jun '12 4:01:44 PM from Northern Virginia

I love Get Fuzzy. I haven't read Zits in ages, though.

Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need.

#235645 Sky Strike Tue, 26th Jun '12 4:04:00 PM from Trottingham

@ginger You're on the Dark Pit chapter, right? Hopefully you get to use the Cherubot.

If you stare into the abyss long enough, it stares into you.

Element of Indecision.

#235646 Super Gex Tue, 26th Jun '12 4:04:06 PM from Awesome Town

My sister, my mom, and my grandmother are watching Beethoven (the dog movie) in the background. This might just be Seinfeld Is Unfunny on my part, but oh God. So many cliches! But We Havent Learned Anything Yet, The Family for the Whole Family, Big Friendly Dog, Bumbling Dad, The Bully, Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy, and so much more. I've seen so many movies like this as an easily entertained padawan that it's not even amusing. There seriously needs to be a parody of these movies, let's call them 'babysitter movies' since that's pretty much the only reason most adults would want them. Or an Mulp-Fim movie to take away Disney Animation Studios and Pixar's monopoly on good family movies.

edited 26th Jun '12 4:06:00 PM by SuperGex

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