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Post by arecomicsevengood on Sept 27, 2022 23:53:34 GMT
Any bits from comics you think about a lot, like stray bits of dialogue or gags or whatever? These days for me it's mostly from the Alex Graham Baby Clowns In A Castle, the one has a catchphrase "Why don't you... get off my freakin jock!!" (paraphrase)
Also for a long time I thought about a line Catwoman says in an issue of the Batman Adventures, like maybe issue two? maybe previewed in the back of issue one? So potentially one of the first comics I ever read. Anyway Batman's like "why you out here doing these crimes" and Catwoman says "It's a Saturday night and I don't particularly like the book I started." Again, paraphrase. But it's haunted me! That's why you gotta find a good book, so you don't resort to criminality.
I think I had more when I thought of the idea of this thread but right now those are the big ones I can think of. There's The Far Side panel about the sandwich mafia sending someone to "sleep with the fourth graders." The "I'm with you tea bag" bit in Brian Chippendale's Ninja.
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Post by mikesheawright on Sept 28, 2022 0:31:29 GMT
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Post by andrewpilkington on Sept 28, 2022 5:30:21 GMT
The first two that jump to mind are when the bat comes out of the elevator in that Pits of Hell collection, and the terrorists from Ufukistan in Fukitor.
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Post by griffen on Sept 28, 2022 19:16:50 GMT
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Post by matgreaves on Sept 28, 2022 23:48:42 GMT
I read a Maakies strip years ago where Drinky Crow and Uncle Gabby are driving along then suddenly have to swerve to avoid hitting something. One of them says something like, “You survive every near-death experience… except once.”
I’ve never been able to find it since. I emailed Tony Millionaire about it and he said he did write it but has no idea when.
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Post by whitecomics on Sept 29, 2022 12:58:48 GMT
Great question, I have a few. The Tom Herpich strip from Cusp with the opening/closing hand. "Now do this." Someone post it, I can't find an image online! This Pablo Holmberg strip (he's still drawing but not really working in this mode, does that make him a subcategory of Good Cartoonist Gone?)  Finally, the two full pages in Slam Dunk--near the end, a volume in the late 20s--where Sakuragi jumps up and block a shot across a page turn. So cool! Probably swiped from a photo of Dennis Rodman! |
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Sept 29, 2022 23:09:48 GMT
The Tom Herpich strip from Cusp with the opening/closing hand. "Now do this." Someone post it, I can't find an image online!
This is a big one for me as well.
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Post by disneyweirdness on Sept 30, 2022 1:21:39 GMT
Any bits from comics you think about a lot, like stray bits of dialogue or gags or whatever? These days for me it's mostly from  |
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Post by franseen on Sept 30, 2022 20:51:46 GMT
Harvey Pekar, "Working Man's Nightmare." Got me when I first read it 15 years ago as a millennial entering the workforce in a recession, still gets me today for different reasons. |
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Post by disneyweirdness on Sept 30, 2022 22:33:20 GMT
Harvey Pekar, "Working Man's Nightmare." Got me when I first read it 15 years ago as a millennial entering the workforce in a recession, still gets me today for different reasons.
I saw Comic Book Confidential when I was a kid and could never forget the American Splendor section. I'd think about it a lot years before I ever saw the book. |
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Post by disneyweirdness on Sept 30, 2022 22:33:53 GMT
I read a Maakies strip years ago where Drinky Crow and Uncle Gabby are driving along then suddenly have to swerve to avoid hitting something. One of them says something like, “You survive every near-death experience… except once.” I’ve never been able to find it since. I emailed Tony Millionaire about it and he said he did write it but has no idea when. That's amazing. Is it this strip? I found it in the collection Desert Island put out a while back. |
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Post by matgreaves on Oct 1, 2022 22:10:31 GMT
I read a Maakies strip years ago where Drinky Crow and Uncle Gabby are driving along then suddenly have to swerve to avoid hitting something. One of them says something like, “You survive every near-death experience… except once.” I’ve never been able to find it since. I emailed Tony Millionaire about it and he said he did write it but has no idea when. That's amazing. Is it this strip? I found it in the collection Desert Island put out a while back. Whoa! I guess it must be, unless he did another version of the same joke. Thanks for finding it, genuinely been pondering it for years. |
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Post by matgreaves on Oct 6, 2022 15:32:53 GMT
Just thought of another one by Rory Blank:  Fred Flintstone running in his garage is one of the best gags I've ever seen. I think about it often. |
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Post by whitecomics on Oct 7, 2022 18:10:50 GMT
The Tom Herpich strip from Cusp with the opening/closing hand. "Now do this." Someone post it, I can't find an image online!
This is a big one for me as well.
It's funny, I hadn't looked at this in a while and I would easily have guessed that it had twice as many images. What a strip. I recently (re)read both issues of Richard Hahn's Lumakick, and was struck by the similarities to this in terms of densely paneled pages that combine sparse drawings with rhythmic text. |
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Post by teemcgee on Oct 8, 2022 14:15:30 GMT
Everything I can think of seems so downbeat, and not necessarily at all representative of what I like in comics - like Ivan Brunetti's Francois Hardy receeding into the background of the panel as she talks of her weariness with fame ("No, I wasn't made for that"); or one of Tatsumi's ejaculations of male angst ("This is hell. It'll never stop").
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