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Stultus Maximus posted:Why is this grown man hanging around unrelated fourth graders over holiday break?
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma is a South Korean office comic which appears in the weekday sports newspaper Sports Dongah. Its written and drawn by Park Sung-hoon, who also did the predecessor strip It's All Right Chief Dharma in the Daily Focus and the webcomic Mother from Another Country. I am as far as I know the only person who has ever translated any of them.    My posting rate has slowed recently because I pull editable images from Park Sung-hoon's personal blog and for whatever reason he doesn't post as many of these as are actually published in print. All Boss Dharma comics are available on the Sports Dongah website in PDF form, but this part of the website doesn't appear to be intended to be used for public access, since the whole backlog is available this way and there's no user-friendly way to navigate it. This link works sometimes if you just change the date but a lot of the time Boss Dharma either isn't on page twelve or the formatting for that particular day is different and I just get a dead link. By the same token Mother from Another Country is currently in its fourth season. Kakao has used some sort of technical wizardry so that even using shenanigans like disabling javascript or downloading the webpage directly won't provide me with images that can be edited and rehosted.
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Jan 2, 2020 03:13
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Some Guy TT posted:By the same token Mother from Another Country is currently in its fourth season. Kakao has used some sort of technical wizardry so that even using shenanigans like disabling javascript or downloading the webpage directly won't provide me with images that can be edited and rehosted.
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Jan 2, 2020 03:39
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Oh, so that's why MFAC hasn't come back.  I'd love to see it come back but understand if it's too much of a hassle.
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Jan 2, 2020 03:43
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Ghostlight posted:Classic Cat 
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Jan 2, 2020 03:47
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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens is the second of Holbrook's strips. It originally was about a daycare center but now it's about how DNA is magic and they went to Mars and adopted the planet legally as their child. They are on their way back to Earth after unfortunately saving it from a comet. I just noticed that Lady Dodo has a handbag and I am more upset by this than I thought I would be.
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Jan 2, 2020 03:48
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Some Guy TT posted:By the same token Mother from Another Country is currently in its fourth season. Kakao has used some sort of technical wizardry so that even using shenanigans like disabling javascript or downloading the webpage directly won't provide me with images that can be edited and rehosted. That said, taking a quick look at it, if you open up the Developer Tools on your browser, and go to the Elements tab, there'll be the css rules on the right - find the one titled * and just edit it in a new rule that reads "pointer-events: all !important" then you can drag and drop the images onto the desktop. That said, all the images are called resource.jpg because of the way they're streamed, so it's still a real hassle.
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Jan 2, 2020 03:58
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Ghostlight posted:Oh man, they really locked things down. At that point, it's probably easier to just screen cap or using the snip tool in Windows.
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Jan 2, 2020 04:11
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Stultus Maximus posted:I haven't seen Juggs Parker in here for a while. Is nobody posting that any more? I was posting it, but I've been some combination of busy/lazy/drunk lately and haven't been. Also getting the ones I missed is currently a hassle because my Comics Kingdom account is broken and despite repeated back-and-forth with their support people they seemed unable to fix it, and have now stopped responding to my emails. 
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Jan 2, 2020 04:19
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Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon Charles Boyce, 1994. "If you’ve ever struggled to turn your cell phone off, thought cookies were just a delicious snack, and tried in vain to talk to a human customer service rep, Charles Boyce has created a strip for you. Compu-toon reminds us that technological innovations haven’t necessarily made our lives any easier -- maybe just more funny. " is how Boyce describes it. What is the strip actually? StrixNebulosa posted:why are we worried about serial killer RL i don't know why kell cares about him, she never seemed to like him before, uh, right now class solidarity, I guess? Clearly the fact that she's currently a CEO and he used to be a CEO is much more important than the fact he used to, as I recall, attempt to kill her husband repeatedly.
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Jan 2, 2020 04:26
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Tiggum posted:I was posting it, but I've been some combination of busy/lazy/drunk lately and haven't been. Also getting the ones I missed is currently a hassle because my Comics Kingdom account is broken and despite repeated back-and-forth with their support people they seemed unable to fix it, and have now stopped responding to my emails. they saw you put a swear on a comic and hate you now
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Jan 2, 2020 04:31
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Why are the terminally stupid dodos able to survive with zero help? And how soon until they inbreed themselves extinct again? Who am I kidding, Holbrook is gonna turn them into humans so they can have hands and be the human element on Mars or something moronic like that.
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Jan 2, 2020 04:48
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I'm curious how Holbrook is going to keep them around when they literally live on a different planet than the other characters separated by several months' worth of space flight.
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Jan 2, 2020 05:01
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Let's not forget how DNA Wizard and her husband adopted Mars to make colonizing it legal. Holbrook then did a few strips of them acting like parents to Mars...which he then followed up by having them abandon Mars to go back to Earth after stealing technology from it that will make them rich. How Holbrook can write this poo poo without thinking about the implications is giving me a headache.Some Guy TT posted:I'm curious how Holbrook is going to keep them around when they literally live on a different planet than the other characters separated by several months' worth of space flight. Lots of "Signal Delay Edited Out*", that's for sure. Zereth posted:He used to run a serial-killing corporation and was a bad boss, and Kell worked for him. She since left to run her own, more ethical (in ways I don't think the strip is very clear on) serial-killing corporation. Class solidarity is right. I remember Kell's brother kept attempting to murder her husband all the time and it's treated as a minor annoyance.
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Jan 2, 2020 05:11
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell is the final Holbrook strip. It's about a hellworld of capitalism with predator and prey dynamics. It gets more hosed up every day. I've been away for a while, but I seem to recall a story arc establishing that neither predators nor prey can use "unnatural" means to either hunt their prey or defend themselves from predators. There was a whole court case about it that ended in the grisly dismemberment of Kevin's would-be predator. This trap should be illegal.
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Jan 2, 2020 05:34
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amigolupus posted:
i'm not sure it even goes deep as that, literally just that "this is a named character, he exists, he cannot be allowed to be actually outside of understood orbits because holbrook doesn't really know how to change things significantly"
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Jan 2, 2020 06:10
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse  Fort Knox 
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Jan 2, 2020 06:54
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I wanted to grab Tim as an avatar, but ended up going with Lottie after all, so here is a pair of Tims.  
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Jan 2, 2020 10:24
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (June 9, 2008)  Arlo and Janis Classic (June 9, 1998)  Garfield Classic (June 9, 1988) 
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Jan 2, 2020 10:48
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In today's Corto Maltese: 'I'm no hero. Never was, never will be' - Solid Corto, or Well, that was fortuitous, or Gordon Ramsay thinks Corto is a bit extreme with his food critique  
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Jan 2, 2020 10:53
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Bad Machinery quote:Mildred's behind-the-scenes detective double-crossing has come to light, and Lottie is poised to work this angle. Some more good av material here. I don't know why they cut the last speech bubble from the original strip, though.
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Jan 2, 2020 12:02
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It's borderline joke-explaining, and detracts from the absurdity of Lottie delivering a compliment in the form of an aggressive attack. Personally I think this is one of the more straightforward improvements when the GoComics version changes something from the original.
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Jan 2, 2020 12:28
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Tiggum posted:I was posting it, but I've been some combination of busy/lazy/drunk lately and haven't been. Also getting the ones I missed is currently a hassle because my Comics Kingdom account is broken and despite repeated back-and-forth with their support people they seemed unable to fix it, and have now stopped responding to my emails. I had the exact same experience late spring/early summer with Comics Kingdom.
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Jan 2, 2020 13:10
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This is generous. My friend was on Millionaire, and took me as a lifeline (this was a few years back and they got rid of "phone a friend" because Google makes it pointless), and he had to pay all transportation and lodging and such. After taxes he probably broke even since he didn't do as well as he'd have liked.
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Jan 2, 2020 14:27
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Old School Peanuts (May 7, 1951) Calvin and Hobbes (Nov 12-13, 1986)   Robbie and Bobby (Dec 9-10, 2014)  
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Jan 2, 2020 14:37
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Heart Docks   Zip  Rip  Dick 
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Jan 2, 2020 14:40
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I've always loved Calvin's eyes in that last panel.
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Jan 2, 2020 14:46
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Zereth posted:Don't forget the mascot of the strip, the Keypad Kid, who's a... nonspecific keypad with a screen (which is its face). It's not anything specific, just some weird nebulous thing which doesn't correspond to any actual computer hardware. Nono, the Keypad Kid is a mascot for something to do with "the digital divide" I forget the specifics at the moment. Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Yes late 70s to somewhere in the 80s Lynn, trans men exist. Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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Jan 2, 2020 14:48
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Darthemed posted:Dick In addition to just kinda stumbling onto "clews" in this chase, Tracy also shot and killed a hostage truck driver. Our hero!
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Jan 2, 2020 15:05
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Sally Forth Skippy (August 20, 1932)  Peanuts (January 5, 1973)  Funky WInkerbean  Crankshaft  9 Chickweed Lane  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater ushers in a new era. (August 1, 1936)  Out Our Way (November 23-25, 1933)   Born thirty years too soon (for concussion science) (Yeah, I know it was longer than that, but gotta work with what's there.)  Toonerville Folks (June 5-7, 1916)    Dok's "This Film Was Banned In Boston" Duck (January 3, 1913) 
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Jan 2, 2020 15:27
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Let's start the new year off properly. With some Moomin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUhUkHHzmbQ (Feel free to substitute in whichever language version of the intro you prefer.) Double dose, because I didn't have time to scan them yesterday. And Moomin dealing with his house being occupied by his poor relations seems like a good fit for the current season.   e: is the size alright with everyone? 1000px width should be enough to fit on pretty much anything nowadays. And I really don't want to make them so small the details go away. Because there are so many tiny lovely details everywhere. SubNat fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Jan 2, 2020 |
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Jan 2, 2020 15:39
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amigolupus posted:Lots of "Signal Delay Edited Out*", that's for sure.
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Jan 2, 2020 16:03
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Has there even been any jokes or plot points where the signal delay mattered? He highlights it, but every dialogue between the planets goes as if they were next to each other.
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Jan 2, 2020 16:16
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SubNat posted:e: is the size alright with everyone? 1000px width should be enough to fit on pretty much anything nowadays. And I really don't want to make them so small the details go away. Also, what happened to Moominpapa and Moominmamma? 
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Jan 2, 2020 16:20
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Endless Mike posted:The size is fine, but maybe use timg to post? That's how I do Star Wars which will return tonight! Yeah, I guess I'll timg it in future posts. As for papa and mamma, this is Moomin's dark origin story, before he met them. The family is such a central part of everything that it feels weird not to have them around yet though.
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Jan 2, 2020 16:36
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SubNat posted:Let's start the new year off properly. Size is good, but would you mind bumping up the brightness? Quick comparison: 
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Jan 2, 2020 16:44
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Yeah, looks like a quick +50 brightness, +50 contrast puts it roughly at that spot. Pushing it a bit further also cleans out the ghosting from the other side of the sheet, too.   Better, or too stark? Judging it on a terrible laptop that prioritized 144hz over decent black levels and contrast is a bit hard.
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Jan 2, 2020 17:07
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Kennel posted:Has there even been any jokes or plot points where the signal delay mattered? There was very briefly a moment of possible tension when the comet was destroyed, and it wasn't clear whether Earth had survived or not due to space debris. The debris was cleared up in the next strip and everyone was fine.
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Jan 2, 2020 18:09
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Thanks for posting Moomin again, SubNat. It's always a delight reading them. Jokes? Punchlines? Who even needs those, right?  Kennel posted:Has there even been any jokes or plot points where the signal delay mattered? The part where the bird and mouse got married was extremely stupid because of this. Holbrook probably wanted us to think it was touching that DNA Wizard officiated their wedding, but then you remember they're just standing around and staring at the screen for like 20-30 minutes every time they try to reply to one another. Green Intern posted:There was very briefly a moment of possible tension when the comet was destroyed, and it wasn't clear whether Earth had survived or not due to space debris. The debris was cleared up in the next strip and everyone was fine. Didn't they say the comet passing over Earth destroyed all the satellites along its path or something? I imagine that people in space stations died and communications getting hosed up would cause a lot of damage on Earth. But as usual, Holbrook doesn't explore the terrifying implications in favor of how his characters will get rich from becoming a department head in college.
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Jan 2, 2020 18:34
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  SubNat posted:Moomin.  I think the lightest one you posted was ok, but I wouldn't mind the contrast that Darthemed posted either!
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Jan 2, 2020 18:40
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