• numbermess
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    171 month ago

    I never really thought this through all the way this until fairly recently, and it’s not just this instance in particular, but Nancy comics are pretty good.

    • Flying Squid
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      281 month ago

      Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead, put out a graphic novel biography of Ernie Bushmiller and it’s really good.

      https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98650852-three-rocks

      A lot of Bushmiller strips are standard comic fare, but every so often he did something funny and weird, like break the fourth wall.

      And then sometimes he would rise above it all to a level of comic genius.

      • @samus12345
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        41 month ago

        The first one is amusingly obsolete on several levels. If Sluggo had a device with internet he’d have something to read without having to go anywhere, and of course the strip isn’t being displayed on paper.

        • Flying Squid
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          131 month ago

          That reminds me of the weird way the opening of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer has become both obsolete while also taking on a completely different meaning-

          The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel

          He wrote it in the 80s, so he meant grey and snowy. Now it would mean a blue sky.

          • @samus12345
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            1 month ago

            I’m old, so I envision the static first. I’m actually curious how many young’ns would get what he meant, since static is still commonly depicted in cartoons and games.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 month ago

              Out not-that-old Sharp tv does fake static on unused HDMI sources. I think I prefer blue though, the static gives me PTSD from being a kid without cable TV living in the woods in the 80s.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        Bill Griffith fucking rules. Zippy for president, and praise goddamn “Bob”.

        Ernie Bushmiller also rules, but Griffith is a fellow SubGenius and Zippy is right up my alley since reality is a sandwitch I did not order.

    • @Volkditty
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      61 month ago

      The original Ernie Bushmiller ones are good, and the modern day Olivia Jaimes ones are good, but the middle period of Guy Gilchrist is junk.