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Autonomous Monster posted:This would suggest that Shelley's entire adult life has been defined by the damage caused by her best friend's suicide. John Allison's works have never exactly been about puppies and sunshine. Unless they're demonic puppies using sunshine to spread skin cancer.
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Leroy Dennui posted:This is what I'm thinking too - her whimsy may have developed as a defense mechanism, and was influenced by Ryan's earthy wisdom. In a similar way to Lottie's extreme love of mysteries, perhaps? They both suffered a loss at a young age and are probably the strangest among their respective circle of friends.
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Yvonmukluk posted:In a similar way to Lottie's extreme love of mysteries, perhaps? They both suffered a loss at a young age and are probably the strangest among their respective circle of friends. Extreme love of makin' noise, maybe. Mildew's odd upbringing makes her a contender, but what really makes Lottie stand out is her resilience and presence of mind to get people out of their dark places.
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Bell_ posted:Extreme love of makin' noise, maybe. Mildew's odd upbringing makes her a contender, but what really makes Lottie stand out is her resilience and presence of mind to get people out of their dark places. I was actually referring to Murder She Writes, where Lottie explains her love of mysteries protects her 'delicate lady-brain' from trauma (see the write-up I did upthread for the illustration). And I think the best demonstration of that was in The Case of Unwelcome Visitor. Also, shame on you getting Mildred's name wrong.
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Autonomous Monster posted:This would suggest that Shelley's entire adult life has been defined by the damage caused by her best friend's suicide. that's pretty much exactly what happens in real life. people close to you dying in your formative years leaves a bit of a mark
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In other news, Ryan's earthy wisdom comes at the price of a loose grasp on biology.
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Oct 9, 2014 01:36
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A sudden plot twist appears!
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Oct 13, 2014 12:52
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God certainly does revel in sending inscrutable omens.
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Oct 13, 2014 13:35
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Oh noooooo. Please don't reboot Scary Go Round, Mr. Allison. 
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Oct 17, 2014 07:53
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Yvonmukluk posted:Oh noooooo. Please don't reboot Scary Go Round, Mr. Allison. Pretty sure that's a joke, like all the other eighties/nineties comic gags thusfar?
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Oct 17, 2014 08:00
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I wonder how accurate those prices in the upper left-hand corner are for '96 exchange rates. I would think the pound would be worth more than that...
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Oct 17, 2014 13:57
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Leroy Dennui posted:I wonder how accurate those prices in the upper left-hand corner are for '96 exchange rates. I would think the pound would be worth more than that... It's actually somewhat higher than the standard price back then, IIRC, which was around $2.50 US/$3.50 Canadian. The UK price cited there is, according to some googling, equivalent to a little over four 1996 USD, but the UK has a history of getting screwed on comics prices.
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Oct 17, 2014 21:26
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Man a cosmic tax-man doing a space audit is a WAY better cosmic threat than some dude who just eats planets and its not okay to kill him for some reason.
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Oct 18, 2014 00:52
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The rugby teacher in the last panel of today's comic shows up again in Scary Go Round when Ryan goes to the afterlife.
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Oct 21, 2014 09:44
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Ah, look at Ole Knotty. And he writes poetry!
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Oct 21, 2014 10:20
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Haha, I can't believe I recognized a Scary Go Round character who was in like three pages in 2006 and didn't realize that was Ole Knotty. 
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Rincewind posted:The rugby teacher in the last panel of today's comic shows up again in Scary Go Round when Ryan goes to the afterlife. That particular storyline is notable for being when Allison ditched Illustrator for good. Reading these old ones makes me realize just how much he's improved in making each panel look more dynamic - you rarely see the "standing and talking in 3/4 view" pose anymore, and the camera angles vary a whole lot more now. 
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The best thing about Ole Knotty being in Expecting to Fly is it turning out he was Ryan's teacherbuddy.
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Having seen this thread, I've read through Bad Machinery over the last few days and it was a heck of a ride  . Especially as someone who grew up reading things like The Secret Seven, The Three Investigators and The Mystery Kids. Good ol' mystery-solving clubs.
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Rincewind posted:The rugby teacher in the last panel of today's comic shows up again in Scary Go Round when Ryan goes to the afterlife.
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Expecting to Fly is answering all sorts of questions, like why Old Knotty wears an eyepatch.
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howe_sam posted:Expecting to Fly is answering all sorts of questions, like why Old Knotty wears an eyepatch. John Allison's magnum opus. Seriously, I'm really digging how he's bringing back all these old characters now that's he's improved his writing. Ryan's dad was just a bizarre creature in Scarygoround, I'm glad there's some depth to him. Slim Jim Pickens fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:John Allison's magnum opus. It certainly makes me question the wisdom of Shelley's attempts to reunite Pa Beckwith and his family all those years ago.
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It is probably best not to scrutinize the continuity of prior Pa Beckwith encounters too closely, as making them jive would likely require dangerous quantities of amnesia dust. I mean, didn't he run off to be some sort of hobo king or something when Ryan was much younger than he is now?
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Oct 23, 2014 06:38
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Well, uh, that's one mystery solved.
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Wonderslug posted:It is probably best not to scrutinize the continuity of prior Pa Beckwith encounters too closely, as making them jive would likely require dangerous quantities of amnesia dust. He stole a pie off some other guy and became King of the Tramps, yeah.
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howe_sam posted:Expecting to Fly is answering all sorts of questions, like why Old Knotty wears an eyepatch. 
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Oct 23, 2014 22:31
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Wonderslug posted:It is probably best not to scrutinize the continuity of prior Pa Beckwith encounters too closely, as making them jive would likely require dangerous quantities of amnesia dust. That's not irreconcilable, after all Ryan mentions at the start of Expecting to Fly that Pa Beckwith "has been around lately."
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reignonyourparade posted:That's not irreconcilable, after all Ryan mentions at the start of Expecting to Fly that Pa Beckwith "has been around lately." Hm. I had been thinking "That was 20 years ago, Ma!" was a problem, but on closer inspection it seems only Ryan and Riley have seen him thus far, and Ma still has not. Carry on, then!
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So Enter the Taxman is supposed to come to a head on Halloween. Allison might actually use it as some kinda retcon/revision thing-a-ma-boobs.
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I feel like the comic for the 26th wasn't supposed to go up yet... especially considering that's a Sunday.
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Oct 27, 2014 08:25
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Dammit Tim, why couldn't you have made it so the contraption fired at a cushion on the WINDOW? If I didn't already know things work out good for Ryan, I'd probably be inclined to dislike Tim more for RUINING EVERYTHING.
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Oct 28, 2014 08:29
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Tim's inventions have had a habit of going completely wrong.
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Oct 28, 2014 14:17
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Oh, geez. Ryan, Ryan. Ryan, noooo.
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Oct 28, 2014 16:19
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Oh noooooooo. 
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Oct 28, 2014 16:58
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Dang now this has made me extremely curious as to what Ryan and Mr. Knott's relationship is like in the present. Did they interact in any of the school scenes? Maybe this arc is a preamble to that? I loved the teacher bits in Lottietime BM, so that'd be cool.
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Autonomous Monster posted:Not that old. Safeway only went out of business in 2004/2005. I was momentarily VERY confused reading this post, because there are in fact two Safeways in my small town in Northwest USA. But a quick skim of Wikipedia informs me that it's just the UK branch that was sold off (in 1987, but not eliminated as a brand-name by the parent company until 2005).
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There was a Safeway on my local high street as long as I can remember, till it disappeared and got replaced by... I think a Morrison's. Are you telling me it wasn't a real Safeway this whole time?!
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No its like that Goosebumps book where the protagonist finds out at the end that he is a ghost who died in a fire. You are still reliving a time where Safeways existed.
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That page that was uploaded early is in its proper place today.
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