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I'm the student council president. You can't prove I'm not.
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Bongo Bill posted:I'm the student council president. You can't prove I'm not. Checks out. 
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Dec 10, 2016 22:21
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ThaumPenguin posted:Checks out. Now that I think about it, I assumed "Mr. President" was a member of some other secret conspiratorial organization when that panel happened, but is the Student Council President seriously also the principal
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Dec 13, 2016 06:26
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Poltergrift posted:Now that I think about it, I assumed "Mr. President" was a member of some other secret conspiratorial organization when that panel happened, but is the Student Council President seriously also the principal Mr. President... well, at the time I'd assumed he was head of the board of governers or something. All we really know about him is that he likes waistcoats and ties.
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Dec 13, 2016 06:36
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It's Collin's twin, the boy that prefers ties.
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Dec 13, 2016 06:47
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The anime will never stop. Alt text: can't wait to delve into each of these guys' individual backstories
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Dec 13, 2016 14:06
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Tenebrais posted:Alt text: can't wait to delve into each of these guys' individual backstories This chapter will never end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1YmS_VDvMY Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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Dec 13, 2016 14:34
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Dec 13, 2016 15:24
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So I doubt we're diving into the councilor-general arc of Paranatural, but I'm definitely expecting some of these jokers to start showing up in crowd scenes.
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Dec 13, 2016 17:21
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I can't wait to be introduced to Punk Bard, Cyclops George Washington, Literal Space Marine, and a furry.
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Dec 13, 2016 18:19
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I'm looking forward to World's Worst Tuba Player myself.
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Dec 13, 2016 19:11
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these people are basically on the same level as isaac and ed's sidequest on the train
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Dec 13, 2016 19:27
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Getting PTSD flashbacks to when I read Bleach
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Dec 13, 2016 19:36
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I like that anime is constantly occuring in Paranatural’s world, like some sort of Golden Rectangle.
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Dec 13, 2016 19:41
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Tollymain posted:these people are basically on the same level as isaac and ed's sidequest on the train don't ruin my dreams you rascal
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Dec 13, 2016 19:51
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Tollymain posted:these people are basically on the same level as isaac and ed's sidequest on the train I'm starting to wonder if Isaac is actually normal and it's Ed, Isabel, and Max who are actually the weird ones for regarding his anime-inspired lifestyle as unusual, and that's why he's so irritated all the time.
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Dec 13, 2016 20:06
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Bully La Bully
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Dec 14, 2016 00:09
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Tenebrais posted:The anime will never stop. I see loving Deidara in there.
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Dec 14, 2016 00:49
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I really hope Max has had enough of this melodrama and is finally ready to just force direct answers already, because goddamn. I appreciate this comic being anime as gently caress as the next person but the story really needs to be kicked right in the cock something fierce.
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Dec 14, 2016 01:17
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Going out on a limb here, but... does it? The current plot of the chapter is a rogue spirit with no stated motive or connection to other characters being up to something. It feels very monster-of-the-week and really looks to me like it's just an excuse to explore more of the school setting and break up the pacing before the real plot winds up again with all the various spirit factions and stuff. I don't think it actually matters how quickly they catch Hijack.
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If Max dick-punches his way through the Gordian knot of middleschool anime to get to whatever's important to the larger, even more anime plot of spirits and ghosts then sure, Parody Achieved. Isaac's Mostly Offscreen Anime Train Adventure is a good example, but then again the Half-Year Of Unironic Hitball leaned in the other direction, so I guess we'll see whether we get Literal Space Marine's backstory or Max just plows through him at some point. If you Capitalize Clusters Of Words they have More Meaning. I'm also starting to wonder if spirits and ghosts are even that weird, given the setting. Violet, for example, seems so done with everything that if Max told her "By the way I'm in the ghost-fighting club" she'd just shrug it off, and Lisa might as well be a supernatural being already. It sort of diminishes the contrast if both sides of the story are equally cartoonish and absurd.
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Tenebrais posted:Going out on a limb here, but... does it? The current plot of the chapter is a rogue spirit with no stated motive or connection to other characters being up to something. It feels very monster-of-the-week and really looks to me like it's just an excuse to explore more of the school setting and break up the pacing before the real plot winds up again with all the various spirit factions and stuff. I don't think it actually matters how quickly they catch Hijack. Pacing hasn't been broken up, it's been pulverized, atomized. At this point I check Paranatural for the same reason I check Strong Female Protagonist and that's because it's a trainwreck.
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Dec 14, 2016 02:50
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two weeks until this chapter's first birthday
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Dec 14, 2016 03:24
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Crumpet Strumpet posted:two weeks until this chapter's first birthday It started Dec 30 2014
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Dec 14, 2016 03:32
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This is a funny comic. I have no clue what's going on. I think there are some serious pacing issues.
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Dec 14, 2016 04:00
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Comic is good again. This should've been split into two chapters though, single sequence be damned.
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Dec 14, 2016 04:05
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Calaveron posted:Pacing hasn't been broken up, it's been pulverized, atomized. At this point I check Paranatural for the same reason I check Strong Female Protagonist and that's because it's a trainwreck. Um. I think that's a little much. Pacing issues aside, it isn't doing what SFP did.
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Calaveron posted:Pacing hasn't been broken up, it's been pulverized, atomized. At this point I check Paranatural for the same reason I check Strong Female Protagonist and that's because it's a trainwreck. who cares
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Dec 14, 2016 04:47
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these good funny jokes and good funny characters....... let it be known i'm only reading this good funny comic to see if they've gotten to the fireworks factory yet
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Dec 14, 2016 04:48
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oddium posted:these good funny jokes and good funny characters....... let it be known i'm only reading this good funny comic to see if they've gotten to the fireworks factory yet I dunno sometimes the funny jokes start to feel like they're the same joke coming out of every characters mouth.
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Dec 14, 2016 05:35
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Maybe this take is kind of hot but I didn't really think this page was that funny or good
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Dec 14, 2016 05:39
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Well after the 8 month arc that existed solely for the purpose "lol anime" and did not advance the story in any significant way, I have to say I am feeling a bit tired of it
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Captain Oblivious posted:I dunno sometimes the funny jokes start to feel like they're the same joke coming out of every characters mouth. It feels like every character in the comic has exactly two character traits and one is reserved for snark.
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Dec 14, 2016 06:12
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Tetracube posted:Well after the 8 month arc that existed solely for the purpose "lol anime" and did not advance the story in any significant way, I have to say I am feeling a bit tired of it so's the protagonist
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Dec 14, 2016 06:12
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Wrist Watch posted:It feels like every character in the comic has exactly two character traits and one is reserved for snark. no, the adults are not allowed to be snarky.
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Dolash posted:It sort of diminishes the contrast if both sides of the story are equally cartoonish and absurd. This is a really good point. Granted, the human world in Paranatural was always just as absurd. It feels like it's been taken up to eleven lately, though. Wrist Watch posted:It feels like every character in the comic has exactly two character traits and one is reserved for snark. It feels like every character has the same 'voice' at this point, especially since we've really only seen snark and lolwacky faces for a while.
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I propose that we ban the word "anime" in this thread.
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Bongo Bill posted:I propose that we ban "anime"
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Hmm yes, Paranatural IS blood
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PhysicsFrenzy posted:This is a really good point. Granted, the human world in Paranatural was always just as absurd. It feels like it's been taken up to eleven lately, though. It's one thing if there's a goofy teacher who hands out stars, and Johnny is a top-tier goof but he's getting drawn into the ghost plot too. There was a scene early on though where once Max could see spirits he walked through some kind of coral reef spirit thing holding his arms up only to realize that the normal students couldn't tell what he was doing and he became embarrassed. Stuff like that's important to maintaining some perspective, the comic hasn't given up on taking actual dramatic turns and that requires a bit of grounding. There's another problem with the constant anime send-up that this page is another example of that eventually doing too deep into irony or parody will just turn you into that thing. It is okay to like anime and take some inspiration from it (hot take), and Isaac as the middle-schooler who likes anime too much and partly uses his ghost powers to live out that fantasy is a solid premise and good comedy. The whole hitball arc really was just anime though, and if the whole school's going to be like that then Isaac isn't an oddity and it narrows the gap between the two worlds. It lessens the threat of Suzy or Johnny's gang revealing them. This isn't the end of the world, and it's not unrecoverable either. Webcomics tend to evolve quite a bit over time and can go through different phases, each update can still be fun even if taking a step back the pacing and other larger-scale issues are messy. Still, I think this might be another case (*cough Homestuck cough*) where an editor and more long-term planning might've helped smooth out some issues.
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