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Julet Esqu posted:
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2025 22:46 |
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You know, I like Curtis and I like Billingsley.
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Green Intern posted:God I hope this ends with the housemaster getting shitcanned for wasting all this time and money.
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BigDave posted:I think what bugs me about Zelda the most is that everyone looks like they're wearing lipstick. Also Nova is totally crushing on Zelda. Nova, you can do better.
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How Wonderful! posted:Yeah, it's an endless and appalling rabbit-hole. I'd be curious to see how other comics with some degree of topicality (like Bloom County or Doonesbury) treated it at the time, since in DtWoF it mostly lingers in the background. * As in, the problem is never that she's 'too angry' at things, but that she doesn't know how to turn it off.
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How Wonderful! posted:No problem, I love that DtWOF gives me an excuse to yammer on about queer history as much as it does!
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Zerilan posted:How much I love Beastars just makes Kevin and Kell all the more unbearable.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Overboard has featured wolf concerts for years. Yes, it's ripping it off.
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How Wonderful! posted:I think Clarice and Toni are two of the more interesting DtWOF characters but I always thought Clarice is acting like a huge prick in this strip. I suppose if I were to theoretically suggest a right time to cheat on your partner, when they're out of town for their grandma's funeral would not be it. Somebody get Mary Worth on the line, stat. Unrelated, but I'm excited for the Heart of the City reboot! I used to like that comic a lot as a kid, but it's been fairly mediocre okay since I've seen it in this thread.
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Are we sure Welch and Rick aren't an item?
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Parahexavoctal posted:I'm drawing a blank on who Welch and Rick are.
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Good Listener posted:Having not read it before, I'm glad they added the backdrop and mentioned Heart was in middle school. With the char designs, I thought they were all 20 something age characters. I don't mind the designs but newspaper comics have this problem a lot I've noticed.
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NRVNQSR posted:It really feels like this was the moment when John Allison was suddenly told by an editor "BTW, your comic is ending in a week. Figure it out." Except that's obviously not what happened because he was self-published at the time.
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Mister Olympus posted:I still don't get it It's a real shame, because I love the Mystery Tweens. The characters are solid, but it seems like this wasn't the story he wanted to tell with them. Maybe someday he'll find the right story for them! I hope so!
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How Wonderful! posted:I used to work primarily with Julliard students c. 2011-2013 and I now completely understand why everyone in 9CL is the way they are.
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Mikl posted:Oh, this hit a bit too close to home (like obviously there's issues with big = ugly, unsexy, pig-like and unintentionally reinforcing that for each other, but it's also okay to talk about feeling ugly and unsexy and to have that linked in part to the physical changes of pregnancy. Just, you know.)
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #51 (1989) We know Lois doesn't approve of out-and-out cheating, so I'm wondering if the implication is that her lust is overwhelming that or if she doesn't consider it cheating if she's a lesbian still married to a man or what?
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How Wonderful! posted:Lois is ok with open relationships and I think in these strips is testing the waters by being flirtatious. The issue with Toni and Clarice for her was that it was totally one-sided-- Toni thought she was in a monogamous relationship and so there was a bond of trust being broken. Although yeah, she's also really horny and not really thinking it through in the moment, which kind of comes to a head at the end of this little arc.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Mar. 12, 1939)
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I like that Nova and Zelda are now stressed-out angry feminist friends.
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Sailor Cat posted:To be fair, the comic also skips over the horrible things that happen to your body as it starts shutting down, so I can give it a pass on skipping fights and breakdowns, too Ironically the worst part about Lisa's Story is everything after as the comic never ever lets it go. Les' obsession with sharing it and the acclaim given to what is in-universe a pretty clean and sanitized cancer story feels like an unwitting meta-commentary on the comic author chasing the praise he got for the storyline. And instead of getting a story about recovering from grief and loving your late wife but also living your life, we get a story where Les never shuts up about how his wife died of cancer and it was so hard on him and his PoC second-wife only shows up to either get brushed off by him or to praise Lisa.
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Julet Esqu posted:Same. And I would think the deep relationship that she and Willie have would have taken way more than six years to develop.
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One thing I've noticed in classic Val is that Foster draws people like people, even non-white people. This shouldn't be surprising, but vintage comics have, hmmm... greatly disappointed me. Meanwhile this looks like he actually looked at reference pictures of mongolian people and picked some faces from there instead of going to grotesque caricature.
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sweeperbravo posted:This is a dumb question, I'm sure. I definitely remember lunch table anxiety, though it was more about having a solid friend group than anything else. In middle school I was in an experimental gifted and talented track for the first two years, we were separated from all the mainstream classes so we only knew each other. When I started to get bullied by the other girls I was stuck still trying to sit with them at lunch because there was nobody else, and they were stuck trying to pile bags on the empty seat to try to stop me. It was extremely awkward and tense all around and I started failing all my classes. I've never been a 'theatre kid' so I have no idea if the techie bias is a thing or not. I was in choir and vaguely remember doing backstage work was considered less prestigious than being on stage, but there were a whole group of kids that did tech work and set building so it's not like there was, like, a single isolated lighting tech. That said, I imagine the new author doesn't want to flood us with characters and is massively simplifying.
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Val's first battle he didn't enjoy. Well, enjoy much.
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The best part is, if you look at the last page, if they'd held out for one more night the siege would have melted away, so they valiantly killed themselves for nothing.
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amigolupus posted:Just like with the poachers, Holbrook doesn't get what adding this means for Hellworld. You gotta love the thought of having people out there willing to pay to have people skinned or have their bones cut off.
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It's also a p lovely timing to have that discussion right when Tove is happy about it, even if Zelda was the right person to make those points (as a straight gal, she ain't). She strikes me as the kind of person who read a bunch of queer theory when Tove came out and then decided now she's the expert on lesbianism and queer representation, what do you mean it's not her place?
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Call your dad, Zelda
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The new title is really good, that line immediately stuck out to me. I, too, often feel like a little green onions, but onions are awfully nice.
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There's at least a little bit of villanous queercoding going on with Piscaro's foppishness, sadism, cowardice, and general presentation. Note how he's presented in contrast to Valiant being a 'real man' with perfumes, guards for protection, enjoying hurting people but only brave enough to do it when they're helpless, flowery language and dress. From our modern point of view Val himself is extremely homoerotic and it's very easy to read him as a bisexual murder hobo, but that was hardly the intention at the time. THESE beautiful youthful warriors wrestling shirtless and complimenting each others beautiful bodies are GOOD and HETEROSEXUAL, while THIS gilded coward complimenting the body of his torture victim is STRANGELY QUEER, HOW SINISTER.
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My Lovely Horse posted:All those times Valiant and his manly knight friends held their gay celebrations.
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StrixNebulosa posted:
It's just nice to have queer characters accepted as a thing that doesn't need to be explained or overly commented on.
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Kavak posted:I don't mean disrespect to anyone but Rae doesn't feel like it has anything going for it besides "Our cast is all LGBT!" There needs to be substance to representation. Full disclosure, I'm not sold on it yet either, but I'm waiting for things to actually happen to pass judgement.
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Julet Esqu posted:
I could be wrong. I don't have faith in the writing. Anne is gross. But if they were really going to play the 'just get along' card, I'd expect Anne to suddenly and uncharacteristically be tolerable to deal with now that Tiffany has backed down, thus validating that the problem all along was Tiffany. This ain't that.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jan. 01, 1940)
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Schwarzwald posted:There've been so many comics about the parents passing the baby off between them that I just assumed they were divorced.
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curtadams posted:TBF Attila's Huns (probably no substantial connection to the Hungarians, name and location notwithstanding) were pretty awful. Hopefully we'll see at least somewhat better treatment of other non-European ethnicities.
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Gnoman posted:A Gutenberg Bible is not a specific translation of the Bible, but one actually printed by Gutenberg in the mid-1400s. As only 49 copies are known to exist, this makes it an incredibly rare artifact, akin to having a Stradivarius violin or original Donatello painting just sitting there.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Stuart's right here. If you think that being convicted of a crime should bar someone for life from any job even a lovely no skill temporary retail position you are a bad person. Ban the box, Marla.
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