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I gave up on QC years ago, but I'm glad Jeph is doing OK.
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I'm glad he's found some renewed joy in the characters and the setting, and is possibly going to start some more relationship types than just "two dorks on a romantic trajectory." My dumb anxiety-and-depression brain likes that kind of thing but also he's kind of worn an obvious groove into the comic that he keeps falling into. It's good that the characters have grown beyond the dumb teenager brain about relationships that persists into the early 20s, too. It's absolutely a comfort food comic for me, but there are good things about that.
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Mar 10, 2023 19:43
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Regy Rusty posted:Personally I'm enjoying the new wacky robot land plot line And Quirky Girl #258 and #259 that came with it.
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Mar 10, 2023 20:32
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Regy Rusty posted:Personally I'm enjoying the new wacky robot land plot line It was rear end at first but Liz’ manic depressive anxious self destruction is pretty relatable for anyone who’s gone through that and Marten stopped being a yawning void of a character. So, strictly speaking I gotta hand it to Jeph on this one. It’s a fairly successful storyline.
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Mar 10, 2023 20:50
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Plus, even if absolutely nothing else, "kept it up long enough to hit five thousand strips" is pretty impressive. You could go through fifty a day and it'd still take over three months to read it all. I'm not sure how many other comics go that long, outside of the zombies you see shambling around print newspaper strips that are being done by the assistant to the grandson of the original inker or whatever.
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Mar 12, 2023 11:44
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It's certainly gone on more gracefully than Sinfest.
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Mar 12, 2023 13:35
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MechaCrash posted:Plus, even if absolutely nothing else, "kept it up long enough to hit five thousand strips" is pretty impressive. You could go through fifty a day and it'd still take over three months to read it all. Schlock Mercenary finished somewhere north of 7300 strips, having updated daily without pause for 20 years. In active comics, The Whiteboard hits 4000 in about a year - not bad considering it was on a 3-day schedule for the first 10 years or so.
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Mar 12, 2023 14:58
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YggiDee posted:It's certainly gone on more gracefully than Sinfest. In the pantheon of bars to clear. That one's been condemned to the pits of hell.
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Mar 12, 2023 15:19
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Is Sluggy Freelance still going
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Mar 12, 2023 18:55
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Is Sluggy Freelance still going yes. in the most recent comic the first panel has someone yelling "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?". i share the sentiment
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Mar 12, 2023 20:16
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ConanThe3rd posted:In the pantheon of bars to clear. That one's been condemned to the pits of hell. I occasionally pop in to see how Sinfest is going out of a sick curiosity and it has always been worse than I expected. Every time.
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Mar 12, 2023 23:30
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YggiDee posted:It's certainly gone on more gracefully than Sinfest. Milk shares that distinction, though. There's been several calls to ban it from Politoons for basically being the new Stonetoss. He's basically A. Wytt Mann but for transphobia (A. Cys Mann?) Gravitas Shortfall posted:Is Sluggy Freelance still going I remember when Sluggy Freelance crossed over with User Friendly for like five strips.
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Mar 13, 2023 00:59
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Regy Rusty posted:Personally I'm enjoying the new wacky robot land plot line I've been having a feeling the robot apocalypse hasn't happened because the AI there isn't very good at organizing. If Claire comes in and sorts their poo poo out it could be the end of civilization as they know it
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Mar 13, 2023 02:46
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Even the big AI minds don't really seem to care about the idea. It seems to be more efficient for the moment to work with and co-opt the system to get what they want and need, instead of break everything taking over. Which would be a heck of a commentary if intended. (Big if.) Though maybe it'll still turn out like Accelerando where someday the digital minds decide it's long past time to optimize the meat-creatures out and claim the last resources they sit on. EDIT: Cripes, I just went poking around randomly and Claire and Marten have been Officially A Thing since about comic 2800. It does not feel like it's been nearly half the strip thus far. Then again, I've got friends with 10-year-olds whom my brain insists were born only like 3 years ago. disposablewords fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Mar 13, 2023 |
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Mar 13, 2023 03:40
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Joe Slowboat posted:I occasionally pop in to see how Sinfest is going out of a sick curiosity and it has always been worse than I expected. Every time. I genuinely don't know why I subject myself to it (via the subreddit) anymore.
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Mar 13, 2023 06:15
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disposablewords posted:
So they've been dating for what, six weeks in QC time?
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Mar 13, 2023 10:19
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MechaCrash posted:I'm not sure how many other comics go that long, outside of the zombies you see shambling around print newspaper strips that are being done by the assistant to the grandson of the original inker or whatever. Some of those end up improving, though
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Mar 13, 2023 15:32
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ConanThe3rd posted:I genuinely don't know why I subject myself to it (via the subreddit) anymore. I checked on it, it was worse than I expected. Seriously awful and I’m glad the last blog post was “I got kicked off Patreon for being a less popular Stonetoss.” One advantage to humanity of the frankly incomprehensibly baroque layers of non-obvious hateful symbolism in Sinfest is that they really can’t share it around as propaganda. It would just be illegible.
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Mar 13, 2023 15:39
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Is Sluggy Freelance still going Honestly, it may be reasonably close to wrapping up. A bunch of major storylines (Hereti-Corp, the multiversal stuff, the Aylee stuff, Sam and the Vampires) have already been resolved, they're currently working on wrapping up the last really important one (K'Z'K), and then all that will be left will be odds-and-ends (Holiday Wars 2? The Fate Web?) Now, 'reasonably close' might be another couple years, but still...
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Mar 13, 2023 16:38
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anyone curious about the descent into terf madness of sinfest, check out d&d's politoon thread. we been observing and chronicling it
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Mar 13, 2023 17:00
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Bobulus posted:Honestly, it may be reasonably close to wrapping up. A bunch of major storylines (Hereti-Corp, the multiversal stuff, the Aylee stuff, Sam and the Vampires) have already been resolved, they're currently working on wrapping up the last really important one (K'Z'K), and then all that will be left will be odds-and-ends (Holiday Wars 2? The Fate Web?) I remember back when I was reading Sluggy, there were a couple big times when it felt like it may have been wrapping up, and then it's been years and years since I fell off. The comic just goes through a pattern of creating a few wacky storylines, coming back to them to collect dangling plot threads to collect and reassemble into something more serious and dramatic, and then cooling off from that so it could go through more wacky storylines. It's probably not going to end until Pete Abrams is really tired and financially secure, and even then it has decent odds of getting picked up by his kid.
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Mar 13, 2023 17:13
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World Famous W posted:anyone curious about the descent into terf madness of sinfest, check out d&d's politoon thread. we been observing and chronicling it Huh, thought the whole "Drawing illicit drawings of children to own the left whomst are the real pedos" business caused the thread to tap out.
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ConanThe3rd posted:Huh, thought the whole "Drawing illicit drawings of children to own the left whomst are the real pedos" business caused the thread to tap out. also sinfest is posted on sunday as a weekly block
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Mar 13, 2023 17:40
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I think Stonetoss is also banned? It was brought up in passing that it had been a while since anybody had posted it, so someone did and got probated for it.
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Mar 13, 2023 18:31
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MechaCrash posted:I think Stonetoss is also banned? It was brought up in passing that it had been a while since anybody had posted it, so someone did and got probated for it. I think Stonetoss is more than just threadbanned, but I'm pretty sure the reason the person got probated for posting Stonetoss was because that particular stonetoss was a reference to an infamous guro porn gif, not for stonetoss itself.
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World Famous W posted:anyone curious about the descent into terf madness of sinfest, check out d&d's politoon thread. we been observing and chronicling it It is an amazing demonstration of the TERF-to-overt-Trumpian-fascist pipeline, I’ll give it that. Some recent anti-migrant stuff as well, in my last check over, and believes the Jan. 6 insurrection was basically good at this point.
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Mar 13, 2023 18:44
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Neito posted:I remember when Sluggy Freelance crossed over with User Friendly for like five strips. I kind of miss the days when every webcomic would cross over with every other webcomic for no goddamn reason.
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Neito posted:I remember when Sluggy Freelance crossed over with User Friendly for like five strips. Bobulus posted:Honestly, it may be reasonably close to wrapping up. A bunch of major storylines (Hereti-Corp, the multiversal stuff, the Aylee stuff, Sam and the Vampires) have already been resolved, they're currently working on wrapping up the last really important one (K'Z'K), and then all that will be left will be odds-and-ends (Holiday Wars 2? The Fate Web?) Did the Oasis plotline ever get anything remotely resembling closure? I remember her being brought back at least twice. habeasdorkus posted:If we're doing Recommendations, it looks like Lavender Jack concluded at the end of last year. It was a high quality Batman-em-up on webtoons. Emzedoh posted:Hey, thanks for reminding me that Princess Planet exists! Archive's still up and everything, I'll give it a reread the next time I'm bored maybe.  More finished webcomics for me to read! Thank you!
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MechaCrash posted:I think Stonetoss is also banned? It was brought up in passing that it had been a while since anybody had posted it, so someone did and got probated for it.
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ToxicFrog posted:That's how I ended up reading Sluggy Freelance back in high school, and I'm pretty sure subsequent crossovers were how I ended up reading most of my other webcomics of that era, too - CRFH, DMFA, EGS, CotC, Zebra Girl, Schlock Mercenary... Oasis absolutely got closure. It ties in with Hereti-corp and she came back way more than twice. I can't say I love the way it made all the supernatural stuff in her plotline a red herring. I think the fate web and holidays could get wrapped up along with K'Z'K's last hurrah in this current storyline. But I also thought Sam was going to be permanently retired as the "king" of American Vampires so...
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Mar 13, 2023 19:25
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Jedit posted:So they've been dating for what, six weeks in QC time? Probably closer to two years, actually. There have been a couple overt time skips plus implied ones. Long enough that Marten moving with Claire for her work feels reasonable for their relationship instead of impulsive.
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Remember when folks were worried about Dora and Tai because Tai has never gone monogamous before and people thought there would be tension? I guess Jeph stopped caring which is fair enough, if par for the course.
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Dawgstar posted:Remember when folks were worried about Dora and Tai because Tai has never gone monogamous before and people thought there would be tension? I guess Jeph stopped caring which is fair enough, if par for the course. Tai had never been monogamous and Dora had just burned a good relationship to the ground over her own insecurities. It should have been a huge loving problem. Instead Dora goes from not being nearly as invested to being in love off screen. One of the biggest dropped balls in a comic whose plotlines generally fill ball pits.
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Characters cycling in and out based on Shits Given is a blessing and a curse. A lot of characters that ceased to exist that way, like Brun, it was really for the best.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Characters cycling in and out based on Shits Given is a blessing and a curse. A lot of characters that ceased to exist that way, like Brun, it was really for the best. Remind me who Brun was? The name rings a bell.
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Mar 14, 2023 00:17
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Joe Slowboat posted:Remind me who Brun was? The name rings a bell. She was the girl Clinton was also maybe interested in until he hooked up with the big guy. Wow, I'd completely forgotten about her.
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Yeah I was wondering what happened with harpoon girl. Marigold, Dale, May, and Momo are off dealing with a booming vtubing career.
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Dawgstar posted:She was the girl Clinton was also maybe interested in until he hooked up with the big guy. Wow, I'd completely forgotten about her. its funny how immediately and completely she got dropped considering it feels like the comic revolved around her for like a year
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Captain Oblivious posted:Characters cycling in and out based on Shits Given is a blessing and a curse. A lot of characters that ceased to exist that way, like Brun, it was really for the best. Which is really funny because Brun was just Hannelore 2.0, who started her life as Faye 2.0 but then got completely reworked like a League of Legends champion. Remember Big Himbo's boss who ran the other cafe? Now that's a character who just got Thanos snapped.
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I mean, he's still Marten's stepdad, which is something. I think Brun turned out to be in a weird situation where she's a tier 3 character whose only connection to the rest of the cast is a tier 2 character, so when Clinton drops off the radar for a bit, his pals vanish even harder.
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