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Rand Brittain posted:I was thinking that Heartful Punch slept in, but actually, of course magical girl school doesn't start until very late. I think it was even called out last chapter when Tessa started at regular school. The magical girls have to stay out late hunting monsters so they get different school hours to match.
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Honestly I thought HP as more of a dog person. Also, the results of that character popularity poll are hilarious.
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Does anybody know why Jerkcity became Bonequest I just checked in for the first time in a while and have a lot of questions
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JethroMcB posted:Does anybody know why Jerkcity became Bonequest I thought that was just a joke, they're really committing to it then? I mean, committing to it doesn't mean it's not still an absurdist joke of some kind. Just a different kind I suppose
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jerkcity has been telling the same four jokes for a billion years and is still the crown jewel of western civilization, they can afford to mix it up a little
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I just caught up with How to Be a Werewolf Kind of interesting. Slightly generic. I sped through it so I had a hard time telling who was who.
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I gave up on How to Be a Werewolf because it came off as one of those fantasy webcomics that tries too hard to be grounded so it's got this very earthy vibe but is never really interesting.
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DoubleCakes posted:I gave up on How to Be a Werewolf because it came off as one of those fantasy webcomics that tries too hard to be grounded so it's got this very earthy vibe but is never really interesting. Well, that's the good thing about webcomics, I guess. You can sort of let them go for years at a time, and when you come back, you can read them all over again, except a lot more. Of course, if you are following a webcomic like you're supposed to, you will only ever be sad.
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May 29, 2018 16:00
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SGR: Fit Mom’s interactions with Grendel are so consistently supportive and wholesome. It’s heartwarming.
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DoubleCakes posted:I gave up on How to Be a Werewolf because it came off as one of those fantasy webcomics that tries too hard to be grounded so it's got this very earthy vibe but is never really interesting. It keeps digressing into how random magic things work and other backstory that's kind of interminable to read page-by-page over months, so that's understandable. I'm more disappointed it's snuggled into the same "secret magic society" rut as most urban fantasy, and I don't see what could possibly make unique at this point.
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It's hard to make a setting with magic that's supposed to look like the real world. Either you try to keep magic hidden and largely unknown so that it will still plausibly look like the real world; or you don't and then you end up with something closer to high fantasy. Basically it's hard to find a middle ground between Vampire: the Masquerade and Eberron.
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Cat Mattress posted:It's hard to make a setting with magic that's supposed to look like the real world. Either you try to keep magic hidden and largely unknown so that it will still plausibly look like the real world; or you don't and then you end up with something closer to high fantasy. Magical realism's a whole literary genre, dude.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Magical realism's a whole literary genre, dude. It's more of a South America thing, I reckon? One Hundred Years of Solitude, House of Spirits, Like Water For Chocolate. Love & Rockets supposedly has elements of it but I still haven't read it.
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Samuringa posted:It's more of a South America thing, I reckon? One Hundred Years of Solitude, House of Spirits, Like Water For Chocolate. its most well-known originator was colombian but at this point it can't really be claimed by any one culture
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Oh, my bad, didn't mean it to be about cultural appropriation, just that I couldn't think of works like that outside of that region.
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Samuringa posted:Oh, my bad, didn't mean it to be about cultural appropriation, just that I couldn't think of works like that outside of that region. salman rushdie's the first one that always comes to my mind
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Oxxidation posted:salman rushdie's the first one that always comes to my mind Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's The Wizard of the Crow is magical realist and also excellent. I do think there's a relationship between magical realism and postcolonial literature, though I'm not entirely certain how to describe it.
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I Stared at the Night of the City was a pretty great Kurdish totally-not-Midnight's-Children, offhand. Joe Slowboat posted:Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's The Wizard of the Crow is magical realist and also excellent. They're usually deploying magic at least partly as a metaphor for the tension between the old precolonial ways and the March of Progress that rules the modern age. Southern gothic novels do the same thing sometimes. I think the difference is those novels are typically trying to say something with their fantastical flourishes, so they wind up with this more nuanced relationship between them and the mundane similar to the real nature of whatever they're writing about, whereas webcomics people mostly just want to gently caress a werewolf. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:46 on May 30, 2018 |
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Samuringa posted:It's more of a South America thing, I reckon? One Hundred Years of Solitude, House of Spirits, Like Water For Chocolate. Love & Rockets totally has a lot of that and it really really rules.
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I love absurdist humour and bizarre sexual content, so the last couple of Oglaf updates were just loving hilarious; I laughed like a drain. That's all, carry on.
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i want to gently caress a werewolf
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this broken hill posted:i want to gently caress a werewolf There are plenty of webcomics for that.
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DoubleCakes posted:There are plenty of webcomics for that. I still remember who pointed me at 'Peter Is The Wolf' and I have never forgiven them.
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I am delighted by these last two pages of Astral Aves. Pippa and Agrippa are both wonderful.
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Dawgstar posted:I still remember who pointed me at 'Peter Is The Wolf' and I have never forgiven them. You asked, you got what you sought Seek better things
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Burkion posted:You asked, you got what you sought They thought I would enjoy it with a Dave Strider-like irony. They were wrong.
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only one thing to do now. *unzips*
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Zero_Tactility posted:I am delighted by these last two pages of Astral Aves. Pippa and Agrippa are both wonderful. I enjoy Astral Aves, but I wish someone would explain how this world is "supposed" to work, because literally every character makes their way in the world by Doing It Wrong.
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monster pulse is currently really heavy and really uncomfortable god drat moreso than usual for the comic where the plot only really started rolling when somebody got their face turned into paste w a fuckin rock
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Just so you all know, I've had to make a spreadsheet to keep track of the comics I read now. And if I had to make it, you all have to see it.
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Or just use Comic Rocket.
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is it even a spreadsheet if it doesnt use conditional formatting or data validation or alternate line colors or unnecessary formulas
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has there ever been a good QC guest strip? like good on JJ for taking time to rebuild his buffet and rest and whatnot but the only thing worse than QC guest comics is yelling bird comics
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The best QC guest strip involves a suicide.
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morallyobjected posted:has there ever been a good QC guest strip? like good on JJ for taking time to rebuild his buffet and rest and whatnot but the only thing worse than QC guest comics is yelling bird comics You shut your heretic mouth.
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and then their lips met in a magical love kiss
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