As I understand it, the late*, great Flying Squid founded this sub and posted many fine gems like this, captioned skillfully. You can see a lot of these if you go to the community page and sort by “old.” Indeed, that’s how I found this one. These ‘golden-age’ and ‘silver-age’ comics panels almost write themselves, being from such a different age and having such different sensibilities.
Also, these panels generally do a great job of reinforcing the importance of rule #3, i.e. “comics should be unintentionally funny.” I kind of wish today’s posters would be a little more heedful of that guideline, as Flying Squid went out of their way to make it a priority. Unfortunately, the listed mods have all been asleep for awhile.
Anyway, I have loads more of these, and am willing to keep posting for a while if this community remains viable. Thank you for everything, FS.
* Haha, just in terms of him suddenly disappearing from the Fediverse. I certainly hope he (or they) are okay in Real Life.
after he moved to the UK he vanished. i’m choosing to believe he said fuck this place i’m spending time with the family instead of wrecking my mental health online
Oh geez, I hope it wasn’t so stressful for him.
I’ve gotten a tremendous amount out of Reddit and now the Fediverse, but learning how to manage the draining aspects of such can be a tricky skill at times, it’s true.
i mean there’s a lot of stress in the few details we know-- he has a young daughter, moved overseas, and is witnessing the ongoing deliberate destruction of the united states. maybe he’s just taking a break from lemmy/piefed
Overseas is definitely the place to view such destruction, in general. :S
As a disabled person, I don’t have much choice other than to view all this shizzle point-blank style, haha.