Last Kiss by John Lustig for October 05, 2016

Coffee’s condition we do not know

Did he stay or did he go

Hopefully Dick will even the score

Using Selfie’s face to mop the floor

And while he’s knocking that cad into the muck

He can tell GC’s board thier decision really sucked!

(Got that in with room to spare!)

Is “Coffee” truly dead?

Good morning guys!

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It’s as though GoComics has taken us back to the early days of the internet when our capabilities were limited! Soldier on, GoComics, take us back to the Arapanet days! We enjoy living in the past!

Dick seems to have a problem with others making their own decisions. In fairness wouldn’t it be Flintstone’s right to support Moby’s bill if he wanted to?

“Art Held Hostage” – Day 2.

Meanwhile, I’m being ‘spammed’ by unwanted ads for cruises I can’t afford to take.

I think Coffee is recuperating in the hospital….

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The problem is the Bellowthorn will cry persecution when Tracy starts investigating.

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Greetings to Gweedo…. who is now in the other world courtesy of the good guys of GoComics who don’t want folks here to have fun.

And don’t get me started on that “Brewster Rocket” ebook that accidentally clicking anywhere outside the box inevitably leads to.

Where’s Neal, by the way? I’d expected him to have some comments to close out last night.

Good morning Gweedo, 22ph, et al from the new “limited access” version of GoComics Comments… “All you desire and much, much less” !

Day 2: Still righteously indignant. Apprehensive that at some point will hit the “Star Trek: The Cage” wall, as humans can only stay so angry for so long. Most humans, at least.

@22ph

Greetings to Gweedo…. who is now in the other world …

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He was back from the underworld late yesterday. Hopefully, we’ll be seeing him again here shortly.

Remember when Canada’s Defense Minister was featured on the Dick Tracy Hall of Fame? Minister Harjit Sajjan was presented an original of that Sunday strip signed by Joe Staton on This Hour has 22 Minutes, a Canadian news comedy TV show tonight (Sajjan also jumped out an airplane with his “superhero” troops in that segment) http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2016/02/14.

AnyFace, from you appearance, you seem to be extremely upset at the events we have encountered here! .

I’m concerned that you will set off some sort of nuclear blast, the likes of which the world has not seen before!

… is almost as interesting to me as reading the strip itself.

… though I think at least one was someone’s un-erased double-post.

Wondering now if GoComics considers embedded images as ‘Spam.’

At one point, would have posted this to visually underscore the point … https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Spam_can.png

We used to occasionally consume Spam when I was young. Fried it up in a pan.

Anyway, we’ve got to petition to at least get the formatting back, and the number of allowable characters back, or we’ll need to kiss The Death List goodbye as well.

And

I’d

Like

Having

The

Paragraph

Breaks

Fixed.

Speaking of lists …

… has anyone compiled a list of disgruntled posters who have cancelled or are going to allow their ‘Pro’ accounts to lapse?

I’m chiming in on the vote to restore…I agree, in many cases the comments are more interesting than the strips! Besides, we have a real community here. Why rain on our parade?

AnyFace attempted to console his followers with this profound statement,

I am a little hot under the collar about where things stand right now. ;)

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Look in a mirror, AnyFace. If you can see your image, you will notice that the heat under your collar has spread!

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Frankly, I’m very concerned!

AnyFace attempted to console his followers with this profound statement,

I am a little hot under the collar about where things stand right now. ;).

Look in a mirror, AnyFace. If you can see your image, you will notice that the heat under your collar has spread!.

Frankly, I’m very concerned!____________.

Actually, I’m even more concerned that I have followers..

Hope they’re not following too closely. ;)

… and will someone ’splain to me how to fake paragraph breaks under the new system?

Still an undercurrent of dissatisfaction towards the board changes over on ‘Luann’ – Though the flames of revolution burn more hotly here.

Testing …

Testing …

Well, that’s a little better, I guess.

“Our apologies, but to fight off abuse from the formatters, we now limit our comments to include text from non-pro accounts only.”

S’ okay, we knew what you meant. Another Windows option for navigating— highlight the link, right-click, select “Go to…”, Should automatically open up a new tab for your page.

Actually, GoComics probably makes more from ad revenue – I’m looking at you, Brewster Rockit – than from subscriptions.

That’s not even including Teriyaki Spam, or – ugh – Spam Oreos …

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FyhJKRTsgMU/maxresdefault.jpg

While we’re waiting on a peaceful resolution for this dispute, here’s something to help pass the time …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz7qj3MteS0

Taste Test Video …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw—JXL5eKM

We missed out on the Spam ice cream sandwiches …

http://blog.snackfever.com/2016/06/09/get-spam-ice-cream-sandwich-l-weekend/

So, you won’t be getting married.

I think the original is almost as funny as this one

All the talk about Span certainly took away my appetite this morning!

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What happened Anyface? You have taken on the appearance of a famous detective now. Spooky! Actually, I enjoyed the previous avatar. It was a bright ray of light to guide us through this difficult period. I vote bring back the lighted AnyFace!

In the meantime, we’ll just pretend we’re married.

I’m voting yes, I still want to see the old art. Please.

“Day two of captivity, im hearing some ruckus from down the hall, not too clearly tho, every few minutes theres a small uprising that’s almost instantly quelled. there are others here, if only I could contact them somehow. the guards leave food every few hours, enough to sustain but not enough to quench the hunger, im certain they want to keep us weak, to silence us, to break our spirits. it wont work, our voices will be heard, I must rest now and conserve energy, more details tomorrow.”

Not easy to focus on the strip with all this nonsense going on but if anyone’s interested Tracy’s reflection in the mirror is poorly drawn based on the height of his trench coat collar.

Brdshtt who posts on Luann comments that he read 150 comics yesterday and counted 178 who were not going to renew their PRO status.

Coffee Time !!! Good Morning All.

Yes, please do keep posting the web address. As partyalldatyme said, highlighting and right-clicking is almost as easy as clicking a hot link.

Strange I’ve never seen the “abuse from spammers” in GoComics comments that prompted the new policy.

My Pro status expires at the end of the month. I don’t post much but dislike the limits placed on my fellow posters. I enjoy the comments almost as much as the comics themselves. Count me as non-renewal.

It still is irritating me that we don’t know what the bill even is. Is it something as dramatic as banishment from earth? or is it something simpler such as preventing Mysta Chimera and Honeymoon from being US citizens?

some options:

We could try and revive the Yahoo Group (try and contact Beau Kaelin and get him to cede ownership to his abandoned site)

Start our own Facebook group for comments and read the strip on Comics Kingdom.

Yes, John, keep providing the URL to your site so we can see the original that inspires the raison d’être for Last Kiss. Even on my tablet it’s not difficult copying the address to a new browser tab. Thanks!

I love the mirror image in the second panel.

I’ve only just learned of the GoComics decision, and looked back on the past week; some of the poems and pictures appear to be back.

Maybe they’ve realized that, if long posts and pictures are what it takes to ‘get the audience into the seats’ so they can bombard us with ads, then maybe they should allow it.

he sounds like a catch

I’d love to see Honeymoon zap that fat broad in the gut and spill out a wheelbarrow full of triple-decker Whoppers on the sidewalk.

Please keep posting the link. Thanks for taking the extra step.

I sent the following to GoComics:

Your decision to limit readers on comment length and content is very bad business.

We, your readers, are the product you are selling to the advertisers.

The more readers post, the longer readers stay on the page.The longer we stay on the page, the greater likelihood we will read their ads.

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Therefore, it makes sense to ENCOURAGE readers to post thoughts, memories of past strips, etc., and post artwork including past panels and maybe even fan art.

(For example, on the Dick Tracy page, some readers post past strips that give the backstory of characters in the current story, bringing new readers up to speed. This encourages new readers.)

The more involvement you have from readers, the more opportunities your advertisers have to reach them.

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And by slapping on your limits, you have offended many of your most loyal readers. And that makes it less likely they will be open to your advertisers’ products.

Very bad business.

Opinions, anyone?

I haven’t been posting much here lately, because I’ve been going through some unpleasant times, and I’d rather not share my foul moods.

But maybe my foul mood is what’s called for here by GoComics’ stupid behavior.

How smart is it to limit us to 500 characters, only to make us turn one posting into several?

Maybe they should change their name to “GoAway Comics.”

(Love the retro HTML breaks.)

RE: today’s strip:

I wish Mike would at least tell us what Selfy did to Coffee. Maybe he can’t due to the Tribune Syndicate’s limits on violence.

Still, a clue would be nice…

Everyone needs to keep sending messages to the GoComics moderators about these new posting limitations. I know a lot of us (myself included) have already done so.

I’m sure the moderators are counting on an initial flurry of angry messages that will taper off in a few days. We need to maintain a consistent level of complaints until this situation is rectified.

Lois Bellowthon… the “Lois” of the low.

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It worked. I guess emoticons haven’t been banned yet.

What I find exceedingly aggravating is that web sites in general are begging (or strong-arming readers) to allow ads. But yet they’re doing nothing to block the two main reasons why I block ads; malware (although that won’t affect me, on a linux machine) and dynamic ads. If they wish people to stop ad blocking then fix the problem, not the symptoms.

Also stop using low-contrast fonts for everything but what it was originally designed for; a sort of ‘small print.’ Us more mature readers have problems with that low-contrast print, instead of the pure black (or #000000) as we use to use.

Finally for today’s strip. Vitamin always had my respect but he’s gained even more with today.

Man if I had a nickle for everytime I heard that.

GoComics building crumbles. Debris falls from the building of Andrews McMeel Universal, parent company of GoComics.

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http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article106069062.html

Posters who post multiple posts are sometimes called Flood Spammers. To combat this boards can institute programs that require a time limit between posts. No indication that GoAwayComics has resorted to this but also no indication that they haven’t.

boboscar said, about 14 hours ago, yesterday

—-Today GoComics banned Gweedo and drove out Pequod, two of our most popular commenters.I am both humbled and flattered by your praise, bob !  (Great big smiley goes here)

I just had a weird thought. We will never again see a posting of the picture of the pig on wheels.

Gweedo! I thought you were in the penalty box…. Wazzup?

Sent an email this morning and told them not to renew:

“DO NOT RENEW MY MEMBERSHIP ON 10/10!!!

The changes you have made to the comments section are unacceptable and I have no desire to financially support your organization any longer."

Looks like my PRO is gone so they flat out cancelled it instead of letting it expire.Even my password is no longer valid. Very petty and spiteful reaction.

Hmmm. Now my PRO has re-appeared.

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Ms. Kerry Slagle CEO International -Universal Uclick and President of International -Universal Uclick

Yes please!! It’s easy to copy and paste the link. And thank you so much!

AMU in the first address is “Andrews McMeel Universal”

“Our apologies, but to fight off abuse blah blah blah.”Bah, they’re just suppressing the fans.They say they’re getting rid of spam. Whoopdedo.They’re also getting rid of me. Bye gocomics.P.S. If you guys figure out a new place to meet, shoot me a note at jerryh1967@yahoo.com

One can read Dick Tracy at Comics Kingdom (in color), accessible in several newspaper websites, or at the Houston Chronicle (black and white). The former allows comments. Other comics can also be read, and commented on, at Arcamax. So, alternatives exist.

Meanwhile, today’s strip reads, IMO, as though Coffee is dead fish dead. I hope I am wrong, but who knows (at least until tomorrow)?

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A friend had a vicious man as a manager would had side dealings with a tools supplier and would damage tool bits in the CNC machine by running feeds and speeds beyond best limits. Also sabotaged a job by holding back production to cause late deliveries. His plan; to convince the customer to send that job to his soon to be new employer.

 

Gocom has a tapeworm in their works !

You can add another name to the list of people who won’t be renewing their PRO membership when it expires. Unfortunately that’s not until February, though.

I’m leaving the occasional mis-formatted, partial posts above as is, partly due to laziness, also to underscore what a horrific mess the new limitations create.

And God Knows how or why Gweedo’s signature line was randomly added to the end of an unrelated post.

As if discussion and civil discourse weren’t difficult enough in this world where people shout over everyone else, GoComics had to go and render it ‘Dang Near Impossible.’

I guess I should have called it an “icon” instead of an emoticon. You need to view it sideways, like the “winking” icon… ; )

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(Mr. Bribery)

I would like to hear Mike and some of the other creators weigh in on the commenting changes. I know Brooke McEldowney had enough pull to restrict comments on Pigborn and Chickweed Lane before this new policy.

One thing: The comment counts will go up because it takes several comments to get your thought out. It falsely makes the pages look more popular than they really are. Could this be a move by middle managers to make themselves look better?

Garbled, but received.

Dilbert.com is also owned by Universal UClick. They use Discus as a chat board. Why doesn’t GoComics use the same on GoComics rather than impose these restrictions if they are so worried. Why are they more restrictive here than there?

Think I added a rose in Bribery’s lapel. :)

“Luann” is at 243 comments today, by the way.

Pop up ads? I haven’t seen any. Well, looks like Adblock Plus will get a Christmas card from me after all.

One more comment on Spam…Spam pizza is very popular in Hawaii.

Think we can push the outraged comment count up past 200 again tonight …?

Point being, the NEGATIVE NANCY’s and THE TROLLS can’t move PAST the comments or the photos. Instead, they feel it is their duty to flag everyone who posts photos, comments on things beside the strip itself, etc. I think that is the SPAM the “goatcomics” (to quote Eldo, LOL) is referring to. I have made a lot of friends here over the years because of the comment sections on various strips, HECK, GWEEDO was one of the first folks I spoke to

back in the Pibgorn days! I have also lost some close friends here who have passed on, Carmy in particular. I came here when all we did was comment. The photos, the other strip revisits, etc over the years, in the comments were a bonus. I will still continue to read the comics as I have done since a little girl of 5 years old. WHAT PI^^^^ ME OFF, is the haphazard way UCLICK treats those who come here FAITHFULLY to our various strips, the “haunts” we

gather together in friendship at, etc. They disregard we loyal people and let the minority rule! WTF?A boycott would be a GREAT idea, but the ones who did the flagging will still show up. Of course, on the other hand, that could help weed them out, eh? And others will still post as well. Of course, if there numbers go way down, maybe they will relax some of their rules?

I don’t ever post here, actually never come here, but I know where the “hangouts” are

And I saw Gweedo’s post elsewhere, and have been checking the general sentiments around the board. I would say 90% are *P^^^^^ as HE^^. People have posted that never post, just liked reading the comments and/or seeing the photos! The goats (gee I hate insulting those lovely animals!) are going to lose some readership over this one!

Thanks to the 500 word limit now, I helped your count, didn’t I? LOL! :-D

I really want to post a link to the Phil Hartman “Soylent Green 2” sketch, but NBC and its parent companies seem to have cleansed all SNL clips from YouTube.

200th Comment.

I see that your blog (http://www.lastkisscomics.com/) always has the current offering but usually no other update. Why not put the original artwork there along with your take?

He’ll be dead before he get a job as a poet.