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1. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   The other image I could no longer put up was an uncensored Sunday strip from the second Second Shaky story showing his girlfriend Fortuna with a black eye. The black eye had been removed from several papers and even the GC site, but markwillman4 found a paper that carried the uncensored version and posted a full image of that Sunday strip on the web with a link we could go to.

   So here it is in all it’s black-eyed glory: the uncensored 6/20/21 strip:

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   So thank you for the latest loophole, GC admins! I couldn’t have done it without ya! You stupid, oppressive, completely contemptible jerks! XD

2. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Hi, boboscar here. Sometimes to get the replies I need to make my useful main comment the Featured Comment, they won’t be divisible by 3. I’ve decided when that happens to mock GC admins’ neverending battle against fun in the Comments. 8 years ago, GC removed all images, videos, & links from the Comments and blocked us from putting in anymore. All we could do is type the full html to the links we wanted. Turns out GC resented us being able to do even that little, cuz last year they found a way to block us from doing that. We found a loophole to get around that, but I discovered 2 images I wanted to upload I no longer could in the loophole. Recently, GC blocked that loophole. We soon found new ones and I discovered I could now upload those images in the NEW new loophole!

   The first of these images was first posted on here by margueritem in the bad old days when the talentless Dick Locher was the writer and main artist of the strip. It’s an image of a wooden toy pig on wheels. It references a time when Locher was doing a circus story where he drew what was (maybe?) supposed to be a circus canon but was so badly misshaped it looked more like a pig on wheels. Good ol’ margueritem would repost the POW many times in the abysmal Locher years, always to great acclaim from her fellow commentors, seen as a sign of protest, not just against Locher’s bad writing, but also his bad drawings.

   So here it is in all it’s glory: the Pig on Wheels!

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   As Haf-and-Haf would say: MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

3. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   PARAPHRASING FROM WIKIPEDIA! RM! LEFT IS! AND SIGNED ON WITH WARNER BROS! RECORDS FOR TOTAL CREATIVE FREEDOM! THEIR FIRST ALBUM THERE WAS GREEN! IN 1990 WARNER BROS! RELEASED THE MUSIC VIDOE COMPILATION POP SCREEN FOLLOWED BY THE VIDEO ALBUM TOURFILM!

4. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Hello, Haf-and-Haf here. Quoted from Wikipedia: Don Gehman was unable to produce R.E.M.‘s fifth album, so he suggested the group work with Scott Litt.  Litt would be the producer for the band’s next five albums. Document (1987) featured some of Stipe’s most openly political lyrics, particularly on “Welcome to the Occupation” and “Exhuming McCarthy”, which were reactions to the conservative political environment of the 1980s under American president Ronald Reagan. Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote in his review of the album, “‘Document’ is both confident and defiant; if R.E.M. is about to move from cult-band status to mass popularity, the album decrees that the band will get there on its own terms.” Document was R.E.M.‘s breakthrough album, and the first single “The One I Love” charted in the Top 20 in the US, UK, and Canada.  By January 1988, Document had become the group’s first album to sell a million copies.  In light of the band’s breakthrough, the December 1987 cover of Rolling Stone declared R.E.M. “America’s Best Rock & Roll Band”.

5. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Quoted from Wikipedia: Following the success of Lifes Rich Pageant, I.R.S. issued Dead Letter Office, a compilation of tracks recorded by the band during their album sessions, many of which had either been issued as B-sides or left unreleased altogether. Shortly thereafter, I.R.S. compiled R.E.M.‘s music video catalog (except “Wolves, Lower”) as the band’s first video release, Succumbs.

6. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   PARAPHRASED FROM WIKIPEDIA! THEIR FOURTH ALBUM LIFES RICH PAGEANT REACHED # 21 ON THE US BILLBOARD CHART AND WAS THEIR FIRST ALBUM TO BE CERTIFIED GOLD FOR SELLING 500,000 COPIES!

7. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Hello, Haf-and-Haf here. Quoted from Wikipedia: They toured Canada in July and August 1985, and Europe in October of that year, including the Netherlands, England (including one concert at London’s Hammersmith Palais), Ireland, Scotland, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and West Germany. On October 2, 1985, the group played a concert in Bochum, West Germany, for the German TV show Rockpalast. Stipe had bleached his hair blond during this time. R.E.M. invited California punk band Minutemen to open for them on part of the US tour, and organized a benefit for the family of Minutemen frontman D. Boon who died in a December 1985 car crash shortly after the tour’s conclusion. Fables of the Reconstruction performed poorly in Europe and its critical reception was mixed, with some critics regarding it as dreary and poorly recorded. As with the previous records, the singles from Fables of the Reconstruction were mostly ignored by mainstream radio. Meanwhile, I.R.S. was becoming frustrated with the band’s reluctance to achieve mainstream success.

8. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   Quoted from Wikipedia: The band’s third album, Fables of the Reconstruction (1985), demonstrated a change in direction. Instead of Dixon and Easter, R.E.M. chose producer Joe Boyd, who had worked with Fairport Convention and Nick Drake, to record the album in England. The band members found the sessions unexpectedly difficult, and were miserable due to the cold winter weather and what they considered to be poor food;  the situation brought the band to the verge of break-up. The gloominess surrounding the sessions worked its way into the context for the album’s themes. Lyrically, Stipe began to create storylines in the mode of Southern mythology, noting in a 1985 interview that he was inspired by “the whole idea of the old men sitting around the fire, passing on … legends and fables to the grandchildren”.

9. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

   PARAPHRASED FROM WIKIPEDIA! THEY MADE THEIR FIRST NATIONAL TV APPEARANCE IN LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN IN OCTOBER 1983! THE SONG THEY PERFORMED THERE SO! CENTRAL RAIN I’M SORRY WAS THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THEIR SECOND ALBUM THE RECKONING! IT PEAKED AT # 27 IN THE US ALBUM RECORD CHARTS!

10. about 2 months ago on Dick Tracy

    Hello, Haf-and-Haf here. Quoted from Wikipedia: I.R.S. first paired R.E.M. with producer Stephen Hague to record their debut album. Hague’s emphasis on technical perfection left the band unsatisfied, and the band members asked the label to let them record with Easter. I.R.S. agreed to a “tryout” session, allowing the band to return to North Carolina and record the song “Pilgrimage” with Easter and producing partner Don Dixon. After hearing the track, I.R.S. permitted the group to record the album with Dixon and Easter.  Because of their bad experience with Hague, the band recorded the album via a process of negation, refusing to incorporate rock music clichés such as guitar solos or then-popular synthesizers, in order to give its music a timeless feel.  The completed album, Murmur, was greeted with critical acclaim upon its release in 1983, with Rolling Stone listing the album as its record of the year.  The album reached number 36 on the Billboard album chart. A re-recorded version of “Radio Free Europe” was the album’s lead single and reached number 78 on the Billboard singles chart in 1983. Despite the acclaim awarded the album, Murmur sold only about 200,000 copies, which I.R.S.’s Jay Boberg felt was below expectations.