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DallasBlack Zooey Addict
Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Sat Oct 23, 2010 7:35 pm | |
| Once again someone is crushed by an anchor in the lagoon, seems like every couple of months that happens. | |
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tohostudios King Of Kaiju
Number of posts : 30892 Age : 64
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Sat Oct 23, 2010 7:47 pm | |
| Somehow, the Sunday ones just don't seem to have the same "pizzazz" IMO. Maybe because they're one off strips and don't carry a story arc like the weekday strips do. _________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
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DallasBlack Zooey Addict
Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:00 pm | |
| Thats how it always seems to be most of the time in comics. I've been going through my Bloom County books and it's the same way. During the weekly ones a character will be missing or there's a kind of story arch, but you get to the Sunday one and everythings back to normal (or as normal as it gets in the comics). Other examples I've seen in Fotrot Dilbert, Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, and Garfield (yeah, I read too many cartoon books). | |
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tohostudios King Of Kaiju
Number of posts : 30892 Age : 64
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:26 am | |
| I think he "phoned in" today's strip. I guess comic writers need a break now and then. _________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:05 pm | |
| It would be tough to do day after day for years. |
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DallasBlack Zooey Addict
Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:31 pm | |
| Yeah, that's why Berkley Breathed went from Bloom County to Outland and Bill Amend went to a Sunday only format. Also I don't care what comic strip it is, none of them hit it out of the ballpark everytime. They will always have hits and misses. Some of my favoirte ones, i.e. Dilbert would go like a week before a funny one showed up, which really didn't start happening til about 5 years ago. Of course it gets to a point where they need to retire, i.e. Jim Davis. I was always a big Garfield fan but since the late 90s you would go up to a year before a funny one showed up, if that. | |
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tohostudios King Of Kaiju
Number of posts : 30892 Age : 64
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:34 pm | |
| I will say, Toomey makes his strip at least amusing most of the time and hilarious probably half the time IMO. Pretty good batting average. Although this new one (10/26?) makes 2 clunkers in a row for me. _________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:40 am | |
| 10/27 recovers nicely though creepily. |
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tohostudios King Of Kaiju
Number of posts : 30892 Age : 64
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:21 pm | |
| 10/28 Yoga Man Where the heck is this one gonna go??? _________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:33 pm | |
| I love the shark experimentation series. |
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DallasBlack Zooey Addict
Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:31 pm | |
| I've been going through the Sherman Lagoon books and this isn't the first time people have been doing research on Sherman. I think Toomey revisits a lot of earlier storylines to make new jokes with old material. However, as always he mangages to do it well. | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:56 am | |
| And his characters remind me of people I know. |
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tohostudios King Of Kaiju
Number of posts : 30892 Age : 64
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Thu Nov 18, 2010 8:46 pm | |
| Today's strip is the funniest one in a while IMO. Tracking seahorses by their droppings. _________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
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DallasBlack Zooey Addict
Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:01 am | |
| That is pretty funny but I believe the one where they were using Fillmore for lasso practice was pretty funny too.
This seahorse thing shows that Toomey's strip is almost devoid of cannon. In the first few years there was a supporting character who was a seahorse (Broderick, he wore glasses and a tie) and there was no indication that seahorses were either wild or domesticated but that they were like every other animal in the lagoon. | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:34 pm | |
| After awhile, it probably is just easier to simplify things. |
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DallasBlack Zooey Addict
Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:51 am | |
| F'illmore's affraid of artithmetic" | |
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Zdan Metal master
Number of posts : 752 Age : 38
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:13 am | |
| This is totally awesome. I would buy a whole book of those. Is that available somewhere? | |
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DallasBlack Zooey Addict
Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:23 am | |
| Sherman's Lagoon has 15 collections of regular strips and a Treasury called: In Shark Years, I'm Dead.
It goes in an unusual order for the first ones in the set, two books containing the earliest strips are about 4-5 books in. | |
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Zdan Metal master
Number of posts : 752 Age : 38
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:15 am | |
| Cool. Will look into that. | |
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| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:45 pm | |
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DallasBlack Zooey Addict
Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:40 pm | |
| - DallasBlack wrote:
- Sherman's Lagoon has 15 collections of regular strips and a Treasury called: In Shark Years, I'm Dead.
It goes in an unusual order for the first ones in the set, two books containing the earliest strips are about 4-5 books in. I just checked it out. The strip starts in book 5, Greetings From Sherman's Lagoon, continues in book 6, Surf's Up, then goes in order starting at book 1, Ate That, What's Next. | |
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tohostudios King Of Kaiju
Number of posts : 30892 Age : 64
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:15 am | |
| Today's (12/16) made me laugh. A little thinning of the herd might not be a bad thing. _________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:40 pm | |
| That's because you're mean. |
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DallasBlack Zooey Addict
Number of posts : 17074 Age : 45
| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:35 pm | |
| The 12/17 is also funny and gross. "You feel wet. Is that possible?" | |
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DeathCult Master Of The Crotch Grab
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| Subject: Re: Sherman's Strip For The Day Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:43 pm | |
| - DallasBlack wrote:
- The 12/17 is also funny and gross. "You feel wet. Is that possible?"
Shark porn! Holy damn! I got me an idea for a series! | |
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