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PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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you broke my grill posted:

A covid party is when a group of kids have a party and intentionally invite people who have covid so they can prove they don't care about the virus and are cool and to have fun being rebellious

It's another one of those things that doesn't happen or happened once but the media tells everyone all the young people are doing it everywhere
There's been some real dumb youtubers and instagrammers but I think it's unfair to lay the behavior of people seeking attention both negative and positive as a career to all zoomers, everywhere.

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PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Red meets yellow? Let it mellow.
Black meets red? Oh poo poo, you're dead.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Kit is going to attempt to ghost his entire family once he turns 18 at this rate, but I don't see how having him back directly helps Kadia.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Drakyn posted:

Helmot



Maybe she wants to push their faces together and tell them to kiss? Don't know why because Kadia's clearly into Heloise despite her weird head games, but still.

edit: hah, I THOUGHT that would make a good thread title and I didn't even notice the change.
Probably Heloise wants his emotional support in this complicated social time and thinks Kadia could use another friend. Everyone is going to be real shocked and sad when Kit Sr. admits he forgot which mountain he dumped his kid on.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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The White House released a statement saying the parents of 425 children separated from them, who now cannot be located because of poor record keeping by ICE, actually just didn't want their children so people shouldn't be mad.

But sure, Batuik, ICE is just sooo easy to deal with, why hasn't anyone just called Bill Clinton?

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Johnny Aztec posted:

Sooooooooo.......How old is she supposed to be here?
She looks fairly elderly.
She was the sameish age as everyone else before Mars, but then she jumped ahead to get an MD with a specialisation in natal care, so I think she's like 30 years older than Bambi.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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coronatae posted:

I wanna say she time traveled for all the training to be an OBGYN so she could deliver...herself
I think that included a few years of practice, too, not just premed and med school and residency. Very, uh, weird.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Safety Dance posted:

If you met a time traveler and the two of you hit it off and later you realized that a friend's newborn was the time traveler's past self, why is that concerning and hosed up? It's not significantly more odd than dating a time traveler in the first place.
The entire situation is very weird but I don't think there's any grooming going on. Bambi's not attracted to the toddler.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Cowslips Warren posted:

It's just more proof that real hell is whatever Holbrook can make it.

Up next: Bambi and Adult whateverthefuckhername is will have a baby!

edit: I think for some of it, the thing is kinda weird because presumably had the time traveler not hooked up with said singer, the toddler would have grown up knowing her as an auntie or something.
Oh, I'm not saying it's not both weird and completely baffling.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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LazyQ posted:

Mämmilä
...they lost the baby? :(

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Ella, honey, your dad definitely is not intending to pay those people back later, he's a coward and a poo poo.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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How Wonderful! posted:

Oh I don't know, I appreciate that Holbrook's thoughts in that strip seem to be "things might be very hosed, many of my readers might be terrified or unsafe on November 4th, but I have no way of knowing and feel weird writing and drawing strips for a future I feel uncertain about." It's a sentiment that I have spoken to many other educators about after the experience of teaching in Fall 2016, and one that I am not alone in having tried to work into what has already been a very strange and disconnected semester. It's not great great great comics but I understand and empathize with where he's coming from. I think it's perfectly human to acknowledge the conditions of precarity within which one is producing art, and somewhat moving even in the context of this dumbshit comic about murder rabbits or whatever.
This is where I'm at. Don't get me wrong, Holbrook's work is absolutely loving bonkers, but I don't have the impression of him being a cruel person and I think he was genuinely concerned about how people will be feeling when he was writing that comic.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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amigolupus posted:

I think she looks like she's supposed to be around 10 or 12? If it was just doing one thing, that'd be okay, but she's way too young to have all of this dumped on her shoulders. Also, the brother's an rear end in a top hat for choosing not to help.
It's the sort of thing that would be fine if Elly had assigned them each specific tasks so neither one of them is trying to do it all. I'm definitely interpreting this week as Lynn trying to make that exact point, actually, and Michael is going to get in trouble for ditching completely.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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rannum posted:

Please take Anja's advice for therapy, heimo :smith:
It's like a laundry list of depressive symptoms. Lethargy, insomnia, irritability, anhedonia, self-loathing, externalized self-loathing projected onto others...

Not to mention he's got a young child he's caring for, he's fighting with his significant other, and it looks like it's the middle of winter right now in the strip so he's not getting as much vitamin d. He needs to see a doctor and then a therapist, like, yesterday.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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amigolupus posted:

If only this was how the Wilbur and Estelle storyline from Mary Worth ended instead. :sigh:


What the gently caress, Batiuk? The last thing anyone on their last year at college needs is to have minimum-wage work dumped on them, especially if the person already made plans or just wants to relax.

Edit: Like it's one thing to have your friend's mom ask for your help in wrapping up a few presents for her. It's another to have her volunteer you without your consent to work at a mall during Christmas season, especially when the Christmas rush means work is going to be a killer (the Funkyverse doesn't have COVID so I'm assuming things run like normal there).
Especially because both Summer and what's her face should be over 20 here. Cayla can't actually like... force this on them...?

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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The Bloop posted:

The comic is racist
What Calvin is/was doing is/was racist
Calvin was not A Racist - for one thing, he's a little kid
His parents should have known better - it's not like he got that stuff on his own, but that doesn't make them racists (n) either, even though they allowed a racist behavior to propagate




edit: this is an entirely worthwhile discussion, it was just derailed from the go by the histrionics
Yeah. It's not like Native Americans didn't exist in the 80s, and in fact the practice of dismissing Native American concerns because it's all in the past while glossing over the fact that they're such a small percentage of the population with eroded cultural traditions because of an intentional, concentrated genocide is, in fact, a racist narrative. And those intentional genocidal governmental practices continued into the 80s and in fact continue into today in many ways.

TBH, this is less about Calvin and more about Bill Watterson. I don't think he's A Racist, but I think that strip was one he didn't think about particularly critically when writing it and hopefully would not have written today if that's when he was writing Calvin and Hobbes. That's all that really needs said, except that probably it would be good if Andre talked to his kid's school about why cowboys and indians is not really an appropriate game. Like, I get it, it sounds like a holdover from American media showing that game without also having the close enough cultural connection to go 'wait, these are real people, not made up fiction, yikes', but that's why I think it's a good idea to say things to people who honestly haven't thought about it before. Shrug?

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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My Lovely Horse posted:

Personally I'm pretty ambivalent on the strip. Calvin's in racist Indian costume cause that's an established visual shorthand for child's play and also the only way the joke works, cause the arrow so clearly belongs to him. I dunno, sure it's racist but if, like, Dustin had the neighbor kid show up in the same costume it would be to convey the message that wearing the costume is fine and the libs are getting their panties in a bunch, in the grand scheme of things 30 year old Calvin & Hobbes is a pretty minor blip on my radar.
I do think there's other costumes you could have him in that'd make it clear the arrow was his. A lot of them are less, uh, an immediate cultural touchstone but I think that also fits with Calvin being an offbeat and creative kid. Robin Hood, janky homebrew super hero hawkeye knockoff, just sort of a forest ranger look...

Like, again, I understand that Watterson came up with the joke and then picked that costume because of the established visual shorthand. I also think that it'd be a slightly better joke with some tweaks.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Vargo posted:

I like the several hints that in-canon, nu-Mark really did just get stuck in a cave for a ridiculous amount of time at some point.
There's such a fascinatingly sketchy quality to the art. Feels like the artist is trying to figure out what works for the pace of output needed, I'm interested to see how it settles in because I'm quite liking it.

EDIT: Calling it now that runaway teen Mark lived in a cave for a while and that's how Cherry met him, and he's never going to live it down.

EDIT EDIT: Either that or he did just get stuck in a cave and it ballooned into a huge thing. The park services getting involved, and news reporters watching the rescue, and meanwhile he's trying not to touch any of the particularly delicate cave structures and obsessing over the impact hand oils would have on the microbiotic environment, talking to bats to keep himself sane.

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PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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The Bloop posted:

And someone holding a phone like a human might!
I think it's really funny that Olive is getting super worked up about the estrangement while Peach is just like 'you know she has instagram, right?' Feels like two very human reactions to whatever backstory we don't know yet.

PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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Gnoman posted:

That's a good True, and a well-drawn poor child.

As to where Hoover coems into it, he was the head of a wartime rationing board.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Food_Administration
I genuinely appreciate that Everett True will go off on adults for even super petty annoyances, but is never once depicted as violent to children. S'good.

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PetraCore
Jul 20, 2017

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howe_sam posted:

It's Rich Tweedy and Tim Jones, being pretty awful is just par for the course with those two. Honestly, Ryan is just about the decent person she is friends with.
And even Tim Jones is creeped out by Rich.

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