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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens That panel where she is drinking is so loving gross. You know, when people called her DNA Wizard, I was expecting a bit less magic potions and more Reed Richards superscience bullshit. But really, just drinking a genetic sample to switch species? REALLY?
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So, as someone who hasn't even been reading these threads for a full year, can someone give me a cliff's notes explanation of how and why there are moon people in Dick Tracy? Because suddenly, from my perspective, there's literal magic powers in the strip and you can easily acquire giant, cornucopia sized snails from the moon as a regular thing? What?
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Feb 6, 2020 01:59
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I know it won't happen, but I hope that in Mark Trail what happens is that Mark and co pack up, do whatever nature stuff for a few weeks or something then head back to the states where his boss immediately lays into him for doing a lovely job because, guess what, Vargo lived, dug himself out of the snow and everything, and was somewhat dismayed to see that no one had tried to help him and had instead just packed up and left. He is well and alive after coordinating with rescue teams, but his social media following has exploded after his near death. His followers have also made #fuckmarktrail a trending tag after it came out that Mark had kinda not bothered to try and save Vargo. Because these last couple comics seem to be trying to say that even if Vargo did survive its for the best Mark doesn't search for him. Because it would be embarrassing for him/he would obviously abandon the life he has to reinvent himself because ???
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Feb 21, 2020 01:59
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Some Guy TT posted:I'm intrigued by the idea of a two player dating simulation game. When would you play it? On a date? And how would you play it? Is it competitive? Cooperative? What would the terms be for winning? Hi, someone has done that. Competitive dating for prom night, with multiple endings, IIRC
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Mar 9, 2020 03:24
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So in Kevin and Kell its illegal to kill except in self defense, and not with anything but your animal traits, but the predators can just use guns? I remember a few months ago the plot about the 'one good one/credit to his race' gopher where a rabbit (or something) was just wasted with nothing else on panel, near Kell's company. Which makes things even more horrifying; Sure you could defend yourself with quills or stench, but the guy trying to kill you has a shotgun and nobody can do anything against them later, because that's just nature. Jesus.
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Mar 26, 2020 04:11
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Zereth posted:The comic started with them married and their first kid from that marriage was born within a month of strips. Huh, looked back and I guess it was just kinda lovely drawing that made me think that? Nothing about it said 'pounced on by a predator' to me, that looks more like a shot. Hell, it looked like it was just outside a compound, which is what I remembered. Reference: 
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Mar 26, 2020 04:38
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I really, really hate how OBH draws mouths. The characters NEVER look happy, always looks like people are either neutral or grimacing. Its just too much to look at.
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Apr 16, 2020 13:41
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Whenever Chickweed tries to be 'sexy' it triggers a primal part of my brain in disgust. I've only felt such revulsion for other people's wankbait a few times before, like when a much younger and more naive me learned that people would jack it to in style Simpsons porn. I thought this was similar, asking myself why anyone would ever find something so crudely drawn sexy, why, in 2020, people would ever resort to something like Chickweed to get their jollies. But no, it wasn't that type of revulsion at all. It was something more primal. Chickweed reminds me of a game put out four years ago, Haydee, that had some previews put out at the time. That 'game' had the player control a female character who looked like an even more exaggerated fertility idol, at least 50% of the body mass being tits and rear end with a tiny, featureless head, and every animation was overly done to show off her 'sexy' movements. Just seeing that thing was a trip to the uncanny valley for me, but that was not what made it so bad. It was thinking about the people who would be getting off to it that sent me into horrified contemplation. The thought of what type of person would want to play a game about a faceless woman showing off her T&A, like a woman with a face is to much of a person to them and would spoil things, like they need to divorce sexual features from actual women if they are to get hard. Just contemplating the existence of people like that was enough to make me want to curl up in a ball and shiver. And so too with Chickweed. Part of it is the lumpy faces that have nearly nothing to do with human anatomy, with mouths that make me think of garbage disposals and eyes that in any other work would only appear on a serial killer at their most crazed. Part of it is the way they twist and wrap around each other in ways that no real human ever would. But mostly it is taking three seconds and realizing that there are people, probably many of them, who look at these mouths that look like a ring of needles, these bodies that look more fit for Picasso, all the things I find revolting an say "yeah, that's hot!". It isn't so much the kink as what the person with the kink must be like.
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May 6, 2020 23:37
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StrixNebulosa posted:"and i've already sent five follow-ups" what I was going to write something, but is what I was going to reference, but it is much better worded/acted, so just watch this. Apparently it happens constantly.
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May 11, 2020 05:28
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Samovar posted:Because I'm up late to watch a stream, here's today's Corto Maltese: Today's strip brought to you by..., or I've heard of the language of flowers, but this is ridiculous!, or No-one expects the ...I really haven't followed Corto Maltese, so kinda curious as to why there is a JoJo in there?
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May 22, 2020 02:33
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Ghostlight posted:i believe ashsaber is in fact referring to the titular jojo maltese, a westerner who is both quite angular and dressed in a country-unspecific military naval uniform and comparing them to the titular corto jotaro of the bizarre adventures of corto, who is similarly depicted in a fairly angular manner dressed in a gakuran, a japanese school uniform explicitly modelled on western military naval uniforms. ...Yeah, pretty much. Took one look at the Corto from the last few days' strips and thought it was pretty much Jotaro's design but with regular human proportions.
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May 23, 2020 16:26
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You know, aside from the horrendous mockeries of human anatomy attempting to look 'sexy', 9CL also pisses me off with its 'artsy' strips. Here's a strip of a few cats knocking balls around in ways that don't connect in the frames. Here's a Sunday strip with 7/8 panels of dog tail and snow, with one of creepo the dog monster leaping into the air. Here's a strip with one panel of a cat and everything else is just a series of red balls, which is supposed to convey perpetual motion. A strip of a woman at a piano, but there is a cat yowling at the other end, how goddamn droll. If its not pissing me off with perpetually horny idiots pretending to be smart people, its pissing me off by being a waste of space. Like, in this thread we see the old Sunday funnies, which are amazing spreads with tons of details that you can just feel taking up like a full page of Newspaper, making good use of all that room, then you've got a large comic of Edda just having her dress change color in a I guess it ties into his own interpretation of art where music is all about making you feel horny and nothing else that anything artsy he makes is most easily read as either laziness or more horniness.
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Jun 4, 2020 05:43
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Julet Esqu posted:I still find it baffling that Evans thinks Delta is impossible to write for. A leukemia survivor. Extremely politically minded (and a lefty). One of the only black characters in the strip. Yeah, I can't think of any storylines that could possibly involve somebody like that. I may be poisoned by the Politoons thread, but I feel like its less they can't think of storylines featuring her as much as trying to write someone who is A)Black, B)Leftist, and C)Female is about as alien to them as writing a realistic perspective of a starfish or something.
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Jul 18, 2020 22:59
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As a grocery store cashier I want to reach through the screen and strangle this man.
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Jul 30, 2020 13:44
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Parahexavoctal posted:In this installment of The Timid Soul, I assume that Webster knew why not to use water on an electrical fire, and that therefore the buckets are an extra layer to the joke. Spent enough time in the OSHA thread that this seems entirely reasonable for dealing with fuses from the time.
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Sep 16, 2020 03:14
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amigolupus posted:Is jicama even easy to get from a local grocery store? Searching about it makes it seem like you can only find it on farmers' markets or a specialty-produce shop. Working in a Canadian Grocery store: yes, easy enough. Granted we're in a highly ethnic neighborhood so that does effect our stock, but I get a few through every week or two.
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Sep 18, 2020 03:34
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My two cents on FooB: I can't remember seeing the mother ever looking happy with her kids. Like at all. It just seems like she is constantly smoldering with anger, and there's never anything that makes her smile. Like the kids are always just a burden, never something positive. That plus the bits about the real lyn just makes things feel like it is difficult to be charitable when reading FooB. I don't think it should be banned or anything, and I do think that some of the comments on it are a bit much, but I do feel at least a good bit of the hate is understandable.
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Sep 22, 2020 12:59
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JethroMcB posted:Too relatable, every single time I put my mask on it irritates my nose in a way that inevitably causes me to sneeze multiple times. I assume everybody around me in the store assumes I'm a thoughtless one-man superspreader event. Jesus, thank you for wearing a mask. That is what it is there for. I have seasonal allergies so I end up sneezing at work every few days, people don't make a fuss about me and I work in a grocery store. Today I had a guy come through my line and deliberately take his mask off before sneezing. Then coughing. I wanted to scream. As long as you have your mask on we're all good.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I know it's going to be incredibly stupid but I have to ask. Why is that bear (I think it's a bear?) in Kevin and Kell wearing a turtle shell? Weasel lady was fleeing Poachers. She needed a new identity, so 'the heroes' hacked databases to declare her dead and give her a new identity as a turtle. She used to use the real turtle shell used by the frog-pretending-to-be-a-turtle who was the snake's boyfriend, but they returned that one and 3D printed a new one. So now she can never show her real face again without having people trying to kill her. If you think this sounds absurd and dumb and convoluted keep in mind I am leaving out as much as I can. It is so, so much dumber.
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