I can't believe I missed this thread! YES! I actually saved a bunch of the strips from my local paper when I heard that Watterson was going to stop making comics! I bought most of the collections when they came out, including the 10 year anniversary book. I think I'm only missing two.
You already mentioned TwoKinds, so I'll skip that one and get to some deeper cuts:
Night Physics: This is one of my all time favorites. Simply described by the author as: "a comic about a bear and his friends." A slice-of-life that contemplates the intricacies of navigating life in your 20's. (CW for: mature themes, drug use).
Pixeas and Henry: A story about two unlikely friends struggling for acceptance and coming to terms with themselves and their lives. (CW for: mature themes, implied SA, drug use, one of the characters struggles against homophobia, both internalized and external.)
Synthetic Instinct: From the author: "A Cyberpunk-Dystopia. Isa's mundane life is completely changed when the government finds out that she is a chimera- a hybrid of two unrelated genus. Navigating an unforgiving society Isa befriends a demobilized war machine named Rex, whose past is much darker and violent than she may realize. A story about who you are versus what the world wants you to be. Updates once a month."
Derideal: A series of sci-fi comics (there are several side stories set in the same universe available to read through) featuring anthro animals created as test projects for a shadowy corporate-state.
Project Roar: Not sure how to describe this one...A speculative historical fiction/sci-fi about a group of soldiers in WWII, biological experimentation, and their lives and experiences after the war. The story is still unfolding, but this is the general theme of the comic so far...
The Slow Decline: From the author: "When the world ended, they happened to be out of town. Now two co-workers, Rudy and Tom, are alone in a city that is making less sense by the day. The Slow Decline follows the two as they make their way through the mundane life of surviving the apocalypse. From anomalies at the breakfast table, smoke falling from the sky in the afternoon, or disembodied screaming through the night, it's all just another day at the end of it all. Updated EVERY THURSDAY!"
Psychopomp: From the author: "Something spooky’s happening in the eerie Southern town of Bonaventura, and Ray’s the only mutt who can communicate with the restless spirits plaguing the town. This ability might help him save the town from a supernatural threat, but it can’t help him navigate his own mundane life. Psychopomp is a queer comic which blends the campy mystery fun of Gravity Falls with the atmospheric horror of Silent Hill."
Lackadaisy: I'm sure you're already familiar with the animation, but before the animation, there was this comic. Beautifully illustrated and painstakingly historically researched, the comic follows a down-on-its-luck crew of rum-runners and the speakeasy they supply in prohibition-era St. Louis.
And for dessert, the saccharine sweet Duncan and Eddie: From the author: "Two boyfriends stumbling their through life together. They may not be the most competent couple, but that won't stop them from loving each other to bits! Updates every SUNDAY"
I'm hate how I'm actually kinda nostalgic for old commercials now...what have they done to us? What have they done to me?
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Absolutely! I was just thinking about this movie, what with the other thread referencing Don Bluth. It's totally one of those movies that you revisit as an adult and are like: "holy shit, they made this for kids?"
Me then: "hehe, what a silly mouse with his big floppy hat and big floppy ears!"
Me now: "Did this literal children's movie just teach me about eastern European religious persecution and the exploitation of immigrants in America during the machine politics era?"
Great movie, though. Hot take: I kinda liked Fievel Goes West better than the original, but that might have been because it was the only one we had after our VCR ate the first one...
I totally remember that one! It was absolutely Goosebumps. Solid shout-out to Are You Afraid of the Dark, though. Between the two shows, I think Are You Afraid of the Dark was the better one...
LOL, omg right? The bit where Charlie dreams he's being sent to hell literally fucked me up as a kid. I had no idea what was going on there, but I wanted no part of that. I used to close my eyes when that part came on screen. 10/10, would let Don Bluth traumatize me as a child again.
Edited to add: I love how the studio execs changed a the tommy gun into a "ray" gun, because that was too scary, but literally let Bluth send the MC to a fully artistically realized hell for an entire scene...
I feel like I remember the TV show more than I remember the books. My sister had a ton of them, though. I do remember having a couple of those "choose your own adventure" ones that I got from the school book fair which were pretty neat. IIRC, there's one where the kids are turned into dogs or maybe its the other way around. That entire series was a trip. I don't know what brand of spray paint Stine was huffing in the '90's but he sure was hitting it hard.
No love for All Dogs Go To Heaven? Literally wore that tape out when I was a kid and we had to get another.
The whole series is over on webtoon. It's delightfully wholesome and ironic, with a dash of mid-2000's nostalgia.
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