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My Lovely Horse posted:Anyone else feel like something's off with the art in Dick Tracy in the past few days? It's usually quite good, but Vitamin in particular has been looking off-model (hideous as his model usually is), and now this lady is looking like from a different art style altogether, or like a not quite finished drawing. she's a girl who was surgically altered to look like moon maid iirc
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Samovar posted:I know! They're very reasonable. For a conspiratorial organisation.
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's Not mentioning that the two cities have wildly different areas, Ripley? New Orleans is 900 square kilometres, Venice is less than half that (414 square kilometres) if you also count the mainland which is technically still Venice (in the sense of city administration) but has zero canals, and even less (200 square kilometres) if you only count Venice proper. You just can't compare two points of data like that. This has been your pedantic nitpick for the day 
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really sorry for mentioning that i read ahead in jamal. i didn't intend to upset anyone or spoil anything indirectly. the situation in the story is one that i am personally familiar with, and i felt like i absolutely needed to read ahead for my own sanity. i should have at least kept it to myself
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:really sorry for mentioning that i read ahead in jamal. i didn't intend to upset anyone or spoil anything indirectly. the situation in the story is one that i am personally familiar with, and i felt like i absolutely needed to read ahead for my own sanity. i should have at least kept it to myself I'm very sorry to hear about your situation, that sounds terrible
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:really sorry for mentioning that i read ahead in jamal. i didn't intend to upset anyone or spoil anything indirectly. the situation in the story is one that i am personally familiar with, and i felt like i absolutely needed to read ahead for my own sanity. i should have at least kept it to myself My step-brother was shot and killed by police around 20 years ago. He was full-blooded Hawaiian and a drug dealer. According to the police report, he ran and then taunted the cops. They called it suicide by cop. At the time, I believed it. In hindsight, I wonder how it really went down. I remember seeing his birth dad for the first time, at the wake (I guess, we didn't call it that). He came over from Hawaii. I will never forget the look on his face. "Haunted" I'd call it. He didn't speak a single word.
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's South Korea has those too. They're not literally playgrounds for old people, those are just the main people who use them because no one else wants to do exercises in the park. Usually they're in the same area as normal playgrounds, but I've seen them in more obscure places like at the top of small mountains. Aleph Null posted:My step-brother was shot and killed by police around 20 years ago. He was full-blooded Hawaiian and a drug dealer. According to the police report, he ran and then taunted the cops. They called it suicide by cop. At the time, I believed it. In hindsight, I wonder how it really went down. I remember seeing his birth dad for the first time, at the wake (I guess, we didn't call it that). He came over from Hawaii. I will never forget the look on his face. "Haunted" I'd call it. He didn't speak a single word. The spoilers here are a trigger warning, which I don't think is necessary but all right. That story sounds true but running away from and taunting the cops is not suicide by cop. I've always understand that term to mean, like, brandishing a weapon when they've got a gun on you and have told you to stand down. It wouldn't at all surprise me to learn that they classify regular old murders like that because that term sure as hell sounds a lot more justifiable in a report than "he made fun of us" does. Cheer Up Boss Dharma  The men in this comic are all using honorifics while Miss Giffs is...not. Whenever Peggy says Gee, by the way, she's using honorifics, but pronouncing them in a weird way based on how people used to write on an old message board.
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Some Guy TT posted:Cheer Up Boss Dharma Like someone saying "roffle" for ROFL?
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Even though it's probably too controversial for most papers, I really appreciated how Jamal handled the pacing of that story. Imagine seeing that in your paper and just having to wait it out, every single day, wondering how the whole story changes...and then sorry, it's just the poo poo that instantly flashes through your mind when you're a minority dealing with police. But it forced you to experience that moment as if it were real, because for so many people it absolutely is. Sadly this requires more introspection than I think the average audience will have, and the letters to the editor would be insane. Hope that made sense. I've never had a direct run-in with the law, but I grew up with the uneasy knowledge that the color of my skin would complicate any interactions I did have. Thanks for posting this comic.
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More obscure than that. It's specific to women of a certain generation (Internet users in the early 2000s) who learned how to be cute from the Internet. When It's All Right Chief Dharma first started it was a social marker of Peggy being in her early twenties, but the character introduction article for Cheer Up Boss Dharma had to explain it because Peggy is now too young for the reference to make much sense logically anymore. That's the only reason I know what it means now, since I certainly wasn't messing around on Korean message boards back then.
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coronatae posted:Even though it's probably too controversial for most papers, I really appreciated how Jamal handled the pacing of that story. Imagine seeing that in your paper and just having to wait it out, every single day, wondering how the whole story changes...and then sorry, it's just the poo poo that instantly flashes through your mind when you're a minority dealing with police. But it forced you to experience that moment as if it were real, because for so many people it absolutely is. Sadly this requires more introspection than I think the average audience will have, and the letters to the editor would be insane. It was eye-opening. I'm white. I can rest easy knowing that cops aren't going to randomly shoot me. But going through that every time you have an interaction with a cop if you're not white? That is not okay. Cheer up Boss Dharma meanwhile was hilarious. I love that she just broke off the other heel and marched on. I respect that.
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Yeah, I was just coming in to ask if that was the "real" conclusion to the Jamal sorty? If so, "yay for not having a cop getting away with murder". I guess that might also explain why the girlfriend didn't attend the funeral. Also speaking of, my take on the unidentified man at the funeral was that it is Jamal's father, but either he wasn't introduced in the comic proper yet, or the parents are separated/divorced. I like the strip, but if I'm being honest, there's no way in hell you can get that story published in any newspaper, even with the "happy" ending. Maybe if the strip were running for a few years and had a fan base, you could do it. But in the first dozen or so strips? I'm saying no. And that's unfortunate.
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Some Guy TT posted:Cheer Up Boss Dharma Why is it such a deal breaker for him that she snapped off the heel and just kept-a-walkin? Seems like a confident and resourceful young woman.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Outbursts of Everett True Edit: Oh haha a quick google answered the second question. https://www.history.com/news/theodore-roosevelt-spelling-controversy Earwigs were apparently a significant issue back in the day. I read them most of the time. If I decide to skip them because I'm in a hurry, I go back when you post the next batch.  Macanudo  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  This whole premise is stupid and insane and I'm starting to enjoy it. The Phantom  Yeah, what does that mean? Pooch Cafe: More than Meets the Eye  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Johnny Walker posted:I don't quite understand what happened here. Also, that last one...I guess Teddy Roosevelt was famous for bad spelling? Everett just left. The dude was telling a boring story so he left without a word, or something. As for Roosevelt, today I learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board The Simplified Spelling Board was an American organization created in 1906 to reform the spelling of the English language, making it simpler and easier to learn, and eliminating many of what were considered to be its inconsistencies. The board operated until 1920, the year after the death of its founding benefactor, who had come to criticize the progress and approach of the organization. "The board's initial list of 300 words was published on April 1, 1906. Much of the list included words ending with -ed changed to end -t ("addressed", "caressed", "missed", "possessed" and "wished", becoming "addresst", "carest", "mist", "possest" and "wisht", respectively). Other changes included removal of silent letters ("catalogue" to "catalog"), changing -re endings to -er ("calibre" and "sabre" to "caliber" and "saber"), changing "ough" to "o" to represent the long vowel sound in the new words altho, tho and thoro, and changes to represent the "z" sound with that letter, where "s" had been used ("brasen" and "surprise" becoming "brazen" and "surprize"). Digraphs would also be eliminated, with the board promoting such spellings as "anemia", "anesthesia", "archeology", "encyclopedia" and "orthopedic". [8]"
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Tunicate posted:Turns out joshreads posted it if anyone wants to see the full version Discendo Vox posted:I love all of you, that's probably exactly where I encountered it. Now to learn who this mysterious shadowy figure is Haha, I remember that guy. A live-in butler and chef guy. What a bizarre story arc! Inspired my first avatar choice, too.  Dude was serious about his cooking.
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Johnny Walker posted:Earwigs were apparently a significant issue back in the day. drat straight they were. Terminix knows the score: Terminix posted:This species was accidentally brought into the United States around 1912. The Eastern and Western U.S. recorded their presence at about the same time. By the early 1920’s the earwigs were so bad in the Pacific Northwest that Colorado formed the Bureau of Earwig Control. They began control efforts by dumping 200 tons of “earwig bait” (I haven’t been able to find exactly what this was) over 30,000 lots. This provided some relief but the earwigs came back the following year. Sally Forth  Skippy (September 10, 1931)  Peanuts (January 27, 1972)  Funky Winkerbean  No Seriously, The Old Dude in Crankshaft Is Having A Heart Attack  Rip Haywire  Out Our Way (November 26-28, 1931)    Thimble Theater (August 20, 1935)  Dok's Dippy Duck, featuring various non-earwig infestations of the early 1920s. (May 17-19, 1923)   
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:really sorry for mentioning that i read ahead in jamal. i didn't intend to upset anyone or spoil anything indirectly. the situation in the story is one that i am personally familiar with, and i felt like i absolutely needed to read ahead for my own sanity. i should have at least kept it to myself It's zero percent about making you feel bad for reading ahead. It's just a thing that can affect the dynamic of the storytelling.
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StrixNebulosa posted:It was eye-opening. I'm white. I can rest easy knowing that cops aren't going to randomly shoot me. But going through that every time you have an interaction with a cop if you're not white? That is not okay. Justine Damond probably wouldn't agree.
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A lot of people in this thread have read ahead in Bad Machinery and its not a big deal. It's only rude to discuss stuff that's about to happen specifically enough that spoiler tags are necessary.
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Some Guy TT posted:A lot of people in this thread have read ahead in Bad Machinery and its not a big deal. It's only rude to discuss stuff that's about to happen specifically enough that spoiler tags are necessary. No one cares one goddamn iota if you read ahead. Posting poo poo like "the next strip is great" or especially "we'll never see that character again" is really obnoxious, though. That's the issue.
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:It's zero percent about making you feel bad for reading ahead. It's this. And also: The Bloop posted:No one cares one goddamn iota if you read ahead. Posting about how you read ahead isn't making good conversation. If you've got something good to say about it, it'll be better served at a time when everyone is sharing in the moment and can react and maybe discuss and talk about things as a group.
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The Bloop posted:No one cares one goddamn iota if you read ahead. I saw the next Everett True, and it's great, and also we'll never see the character in it again.
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Tunicate posted:I saw the next Everett True, and it's great, and also we'll never see the character in it again. Christ, what an rear end in a top hat
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i apologized, and i made it clear that i was sorry for mentioning it, not that i was sorry for reading ahead. please stop harping on it. not you, the bloop
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