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The Oatmeal has a good one on Christopher Columbus that has the internets buzzing a bit:
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But I come primarily to post this from xkcd:

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Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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Got the first two Deluxe editions of ExMachina. Such a great comic, I long for Saturday to come so I can go buy the next ones. Vaughan is now guilty for 3 of my fav comics ever (Y and Saga being the other two).
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When I was roaming around Brussels I walked into a comic book store and looked around. Outside of the typical Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead graphic novels that caught my attention, one called Blacksad did as well. I can totally get down with something like this:

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This is so awesome. The great Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, came out of retirement to draw three strips of Pearls Before Swine. The very interesting story of how it came to pass can be found, here.

Here are the three strips. And, God as my witness, when I saw them, I thought that Pastis (the author of PBS) was imitating the style of CaH.

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I saw all 3 comics and did not even think about that until today's strip and then I saw the blog post. Great story
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Awesome!
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The Watterson story and strips are fantastic. Now I'm on board with Pearls.

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howard wrote:The Watterson story and strips are fantastic. Now I'm on board with Pearls.

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It's been one of my favorites for years. I've got a few of the collections if you'd like to glance through them and send them back to me.
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BSF21 wrote:I've got a few of the collections if you'd like to glance through them and send them back to me.
Most likely, the local library has a few of the collections on the shelf. (My daughter and I bond by checking out our favorite strips' comic collections from the library and reading them together.)
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sancarlos wrote:
BSF21 wrote:I've got a few of the collections if you'd like to glance through them and send them back to me.
Most likely, the local library has a few of the collections on the shelf. (My daughter and I bond by checking out our favorite strips' comic collections from the library and reading them together.)
Li...brary?

Is that a place on the internet?
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BSF21 wrote:
sancarlos wrote:
BSF21 wrote:I've got a few of the collections if you'd like to glance through them and send them back to me.
Most likely, the local library has a few of the collections on the shelf. (My daughter and I bond by checking out our favorite strips' comic collections from the library and reading them together.)
Li...brary?

Is that a place on the internet?
Heh. You don't have kids, yet. When you do, I bet you re-acquaint yourself with those places.
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sancarlos wrote:
BSF21 wrote:I've got a few of the collections if you'd like to glance through them and send them back to me.
Most likely, the local library has a few of the collections on the shelf. (My daughter and I bond by checking out our favorite strips' comic collections from the library and reading them together.)
Pearls Before Swine is the best comic out there today, IMO. If you can, get the treasuries from the library. Pastis writes notes and stories about some of the strips in the treasuries, most of which are pretty cool.
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A yellowed copy of this is hanging up next to my beer fridge:

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http://xkcd.com/1400/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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That just gave me goosebumps.
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Yeah, definitely got a little dusty for me.
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i'm... on the opposite end. those kind of infuriate me. LET THE DEAD BE.
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I know I'm in the minority, but Pearls Before Swine irritates the fuck out of me. Not a fan at all of those shaggy-dog pun run ons.
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Sweet!
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I'm a sucker for Heisenberg jokes.

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Today's C&H is awesome...

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I've added C+H to my daily rotation, I like it.

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It's so solid.

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Sports related

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I guess there's at least one good thing about Donald Trump being in the presidential election. Bloom County reportedly is coming back!

http://www.avclub.com/article/berkeley- ... m-c-222163" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Sabo wrote:I guess there's at least one good thing about Donald Trump being in the presidential election. Bloom County reportedly is coming back!

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Jesus and Mo is killing it every day.

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howard wrote:Sports related

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There's a Cards Against Humanity like game based on C&H coming out.
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Cyanide and Happiness is having guests do the strip this week. Today, Perry Bible Fellowship is the guest.

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