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RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Retail can be a bit repetitive, but it handles rear end in a top hat characters better than Kevin and Kel ever has. I'm more worried about Stuart based on the lack of phone calls than I was ever worried about serial killer wolf monster RJ.

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RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Heaven help us if Tiff knows some "secret" about Bets which is why she's reacting this way. What would it be; Bets is non-binary, poly, or undocumented?

Trick question, the comic is too hamfisted to consider any of those off without tipping its hand.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Maybe Luann will go the "Sports Night" route and his new GF has her own porn site. And Isaac says a thing. And a guy's brother makes TV tubes! The last season kind of blurs together.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Why did Gilchrist and other guy split?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
The latest twist in Intelligent Life isn't doing anything to dissuade me from my "Black Mirror/Rick and Morty" style reading of the strip. Real humans are forced to act out Skips fantasy of him being in a sitcom but Skip doesn't realize that's what's going on.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1jWdeRKvvk

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

Nenonen posted:

Who could possibly want this? Oh, boomers. Right.

Yet even Gilchrist is too toxic for boomers.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
What do you figure the birdwoman/mouse man Holbrook kid will be like? He already has a plant baby.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
There's already a bat-kid in the other comic, and Holbrook seems to hate using the same species twice as a general rule.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I don't know why Max having two moms makes me happy.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Genetics is Holbrook's Checkov's gun. Lady scientist is going to get pregnant in the future and her new kid will be half shapeshifter.

RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Jan 22, 2020

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
They don't explain why the baby is pale as her dad either. This does happen with some biracial children, but I don't know that Holbrook gave it much more thought than that.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Did we miss an Arlo and Janice storyline about guns?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
What the gently caress is up with this 9cl storyline?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

Ghostlight posted:

For a lot of the historically-located strips I like to google references to things, basically just to see if they're references and whether it's some extra wink-wink-nod-nod storytelling.

While the story of the brigantine Venus is quite interesting, based on who we've been introduced so far it seems like it won't be terribly relevant beyond that most archetypal of stories at sea, the mutiny.

The more interesting part is that the slightly bawdy part of the tale, wherein the captain reports finding drunk crewmen with topless women, appears to have caused the ship to lend its conveniently salacious name to a drinking song that feels like listening to the Event Horizon video logs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuRO86t12sY

Thanks for reminding me of this song from that album. It's the closest thing to a drunk guy impersonation that I actually like. Or he actually got drunk before singing this song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOT-XHsG4ss

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

amigolupus posted:

Was this the rabbit "hate group" whose high crime was trying to overturn the system so they would no longer be in danger of being murdered and cannibalized, or did K&K have some other hate group that I don't know about?

It might have been the TERF-analog hate group that hated a wolf that transitioned into being a sheep. Or the racist-analog hate group that hated the farmer wolf for farming and not being a herbivore.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
An evil racism/miscagation storyline where one partner is royalty would be very topical given how the Brits treat Meghan Merkal and Prince Henry. So, of course, Holbrook hosed up that idea too.

Edit: I still don't know how I know that one of them is a princess somehow.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

That almost can't be Nancy's mom but my brain keeps parsing the comic that way.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

Strontium posted:

Daddy Daze


The comic is improved if you read it like this "kids" TV show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Bq42UdpAU

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
STOP MAKING ME FEEL FEELINGS, STEPHEN COLLINS!

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Fort Knox gives me "Origin of the Sunday Funnies" vibes. Specifically back when they were starting to figure out what did and didn't work in the format. Like, using sequential panels. Or jokes.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I am glad that the new one-read rule will keep me safe from having to reread the latest Luann. But I can only dream of the day that the long arm of the law finally reaches Brooke McEldowny.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I am still convinced that the awards thing was just an excuse to give kids cheap pieces of paper and cheap pieces of plastic instead of ice cream and soda and food that makes kids happy/hyper.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Is merfolk dna an STD now?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Today's 9CL reminds me of my birthday a lot.

It was today, and my mom made my birthday party all about her. How painful it was giving birth to me and my sisters, what the experience of giving birth was like. There were also really shallow, superficial comments about how horrible the holocaust was and gosh it was so horrible and wasn't it horrible?

That feels like the fate that will befall those poor kids. A fate where the most important things will always be putting their parent's wants, needs, and desires front and center.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Grape juice isn't safe for dogs. Grape soda with no juice or purple drink should be safer maybe?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I'm picturing the Yeti version Chuck Tingle getting a whole book series out of being pounded in the butt by different internet personalities.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Why is Edda making out with Gulk?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Holbrook's lioness college storyline is a strong showing for "worst of the week", but there's almost no way to top Gulk.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Is this 9cL and the lasts 9cl storyline a dry run for a spouse swapping storyline?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
What does 7 o'clock straight up mean?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I dread asking this, but is the bat in Kevin and Kel the animal version of Deathany?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I like my headcannon where the Librarian is Nancy's mom and she just couldn't be bothered to raise a daughter.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
So the water is dna magic blood but they haven't drunk it for reasons?

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
There is no reason to think that the asteroid will hit the moon and cause it to develop life. But it's Holbrook so that has even odds.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I gave that comic the middle finger. My patience was already tried by Mookies new comic where the mutants have a "buukstoar".

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
What about using culdesac as the background for the neat-o bird?

Edit: I know its lazy to not do the mockup myself but I honestly don't know how to edit gifs.

Edit 2:

Like this, but a gif and with the proper neat-o!

RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Mar 11, 2020

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I would love a Bird tag at Bird's earliest convenience. I just can't resist the alliteration.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
This thread and the people in it make me very happy.

Edit: Thanks for the tag! :-3

RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Mar 12, 2020

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I forgot if there was a reason why the woman in Fast Track has a giraffe neck. Quirky character trait, forgotten ancestral ties to sentient murder planet, DNA hijinks in college.

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RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

How Wonderful! posted:

I tried to explain Kevin & Kell to my wife today and eventually just gave up and said it was Beastars for perverts and 90 year olds.

I'll give it a go.

Holbrook decided to make a comic with a milquetoast, Aaron Sorken, truth is in the middle sensibility. Except half the characters are predators and half is pray and murder is legal but self defense is not.

Holbrook inadvertently created a comic that critiques his world view but he either didn't realize that or he didn't care so long as people kept paying him to draw boobs on animals.

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