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Bad Machinery quote:The Case Of The Modern Men is over! Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. If you feel like you missed something, or just want to read it as nature intended, go back to the start and read it in its entirety. Bad Machinery will return with a new case in late 2014/early 2015. Now, I'm not sure whether GoComics is going to go straight into the next case, or do the sidestory Space Is The Place. But there's some New Bobbins stories that sort of take place in the gap, namely Fishman's Return ('starring' the titular Fishman), and Into The Woods (which has a storng focus on Erin Winters and some of the other returning Bobbins cast). They're by no means necessary to understand the next case, but there's some good character moments for the mystery kids in the latter.
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Alterian posted:Growing up we use to call the crust of a pizza after you eat the pizza part "pizza bones". They kind of look like ribs!  My family called them that too but it was an in-joke that we made up ourselves. And here it is in Red and Rover. Guess we weren't as original as we thought.EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Please don't be the band candy from that episode of Buffy. 
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MariusLecter posted:How anticlimactic and pointless. Rats love carrots? They are true omnivores.
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2012 Spiderman       The Amazing Spiderman  Dick Tracy  Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics 
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell WHY DIDNT YOU JUST MURDER HER FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
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Raskolnikov38 posted:WHY DIDNT YOU JUST MURDER HER FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK Because they're not bad guys, they just robbed her of her identity and attempted to kill her to punish and humiliate her and to teach her a lesson about trying to be something she wasn't born as
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Jan 30, 2019 19:16
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell
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Calaveron posted:Because they're not bad guys, they just robbed her of her identity and attempted to kill her to punish and humiliate her and to teach her a lesson about trying to be something she wasn't born as I hate every single thing about this sentence. I hate even more that's an exact description of what went down in the strip.
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Jan 30, 2019 19:19
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Alterian posted:Rats love carrots? They are true omnivores. Yea i mean, there was no character arc for Angelique or anything. She just has a mentally blocked trauma now that will probably manifest in all kinds of PTSD symptoms that will haunt her till she's dead. Score another victory for the Dewclaw family.
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Jan 30, 2019 19:33
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kidcoelacanth posted:Ya Holbrook's stuff isn't a fetish thing, it's just what he thinks passes for wacky cartoon antics.
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Holbrook is the worst. What isn't the worst, however, is Modesty Blaise!  Imgur recently changed their poo poo up so that albums now need to be shared (i.e. posted to Imgur front page to be made available for upvotes and comments by the awful Imgur community) so you can no longer see the Modesty Blaise stories on Kammat's or Transmodiar's Imgur album pages. To make them available again, without having to "share" them to Imgur, Transmodiar and I worked up a compilation site. It has all the currently posted stories from Kammat and Transmodiar, and Transmodiar will soon post early stories that were missed. As Transmodiar finishes up posting new stories in this thread, they'll also be made available on the site, although maybe not immediately because it takes a bit of work to organize the albums so that the pictures are in the right order and such. Adding them to the page isn't super hard. I'm not a web developer/designer so I just used Google Sites templates. If I hosed up a link anywhere, let me know please! This is available at https://modestyblaise.shortspecialbus.com
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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens
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Kennel posted:Mandrake Two, he was jogging in the gold shoes on earth Tiggum posted:Honestly, Holbrook is not capable of subtlety. If he was into creepy fetish porn we'd know it because he'd be drawing it blatantly and having his characters explain it in detail. He doesn't understand the concept of subtext. That's why his comics make no goddamn sense. A normal person reads the subtext but Holbrook did not intend that subtext and is not aware of it. If he'd intended it then it would be repeatedly and explicitly spelled out.  Alterian posted:Rats love carrots? They are true omnivores. They'll eat it if you give them some, but what they actually want is like, lettuce.
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shortspecialbus posted:Holbrook is the worst. Yo, this is awesome. ... I should finally read some of these, haha. Which one would you rec as a starter?
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StrixNebulosa posted:Yo, this is awesome. Yes, you should. I skipped them forever because the art was initially in poor shape and I don't generally like strips like this, but it is really really good. Start at the beginning, I'd say. You can read the prequel, which is the first of Transmodiar's stories, if you want the background. But I'd just go in order - there are occasional references to things that happened in earlier stories, although it won't matter much if you've not read what's being referenced. Transmodiar will likely add the missing stories sometime soon-ish, but I don't want to make any promises for him. Edit: The one that got me to start reading them and go back and read all the ones I missed was MB48 - The Scarlet Maiden although you need to at least understand that Modesty and Willie are incredible bad-asses, and their relationship together is strictly platonic but probably closer than any married couple. That's all the background you probably need for that if you want to start with one of my favorites. MB43 - Eve and Adam is also quite good. Also, and I'm going to add this to the page, there are some  pages in the stories here and there. Nothing hardcore, but there's a fair few tits.
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shortspecialbus posted:This is available at https://modestyblaise.shortspecialbus.com Thank you for this. I skipped MB for a long time and regret it. Having it all in one place is a godsend.
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Jan 30, 2019 20:45
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Jan 30, 2019 21:35
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Blah, blah, excuse for being late, cold temperature apocalypse right now. Sam's Strip My favorite strip so far or "So that's where those come from."  ...And my least favorite so far.   Ye Olde Foxtrot 05/6 - 5/8/88    Tarzan: Hippies, Hippies Everywhere.    Also, is it just me or is the new redesign of Imgur's user interface terrible?
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Darthemed posted:Aw poo poo. Yeah, I just got this email: quote:This is a message from Kickstarter’s Trust and Safety team. We're writing to inform you that a project you backed, Weapon Brown: Aftershock, is the subject of an intellectual property dispute.
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Jan 30, 2019 21:53
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Weapon Brown is actually parodying Charlie Brown and Peanuts, not just using Charlie Brown to parody something else, so it should be legally in the clear. However, it's still probably going to be an expensive pain. Good luck, Death Ray. Edit: This is really a lot of bullshit. Amazon hasn't delisted the Weapon Brown book. ssb fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Jan 30, 2019 |
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Scarodactyl posted:Yeah, just those normal hijinks where people are killed and eaten, a woman is forcibly transformed against her will and stripped naked, another woman is forced by ~wacky~ circumstances to urinate in public. Totally normal, no reason to think any of this points to anything unwholesome. That does read as worrying when stated like that, but on the flip side the strip has shown men going to The Wild and getting naked as well (and I believe has happened more times comparatively) and while the urination joke does feel to me like quite a bit raunchier than we see in Holbrook's other strips it's also female characters just interacting with the plot the same as the male characters and I don't feel like there's really any leg to stand on in calling these elements fetishistic. The pregnancy thing though--
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Schwarzwald posted:please tell me this was an edit I'm terrible at photoshop. It was not. Also yeah, good luck with things Death Ray and getting it resolved.
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shortspecialbus posted:Holbrook is the worst. Dude, you rock. Bitchtits McGee originally posted the stories, and he helped me with two of them when I started posting. The Vikings https://imgur.com/a/0TyU8#1 The Head Girls https://imgur.com/a/YpE2z#1
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Glorified Scrivener posted:Also, is it just me or is the new redesign of Imgur's user interface terrible?
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Tiggum posted:If only I had such a thing. I copy and paste the letters. hmm.
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Kammat posted:Dude, you rock. Bitchtits McGee originally posted the stories, and he helped me with two of them when I started posting. You're the best! Shoot me a PM if I need to re-credit anything! I'll get these added shortly.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery They'd better not skip it, because Space is the Place.
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Which Modesty Blaise story was the one with the elephant? That was the first one I read
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asecondduck posted:there's a long-running strip that is currently written and drawn by former fetish artists that you'd never guess in a million years. Ziggy. No, wait Ripley's Believe it or not.
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catlord posted:Which Modesty Blaise story was the one with the elephant? That was the first one I read There are several. If it was an older one, it might be MB25 - The Bluebeard Affair but if it was more recent it might be MB55 - The Return of the Mammoth but there are several other stories in which Chloe the Elephant makes an appearance, I believe.
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Discendo Vox posted:
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It seems a bit silly to get bent out of shape that people frequently have fetishes. Pretty much everyone has a goddamn fetish of some sort. I'll grant you there's a point where it becomes an issue, like The Whizzard inviting you to explore his Enchanted Piss Forest, but someone who happens to have the hots for pregnant women writing a lot of pregnant women into non-sexual situations in their strip is pretty loving tame. And we all know what the author of Heavenly Nostrils did before that comic, yet it's one of the best comics being currently written. Someone accidentally letting their fetish leak in harmless ways is not worth the outrage it's getting here. 9CL/Pigborn are problems because of the fetish nonsense. Holbrook comics are problems for significant other reasons - not because of any fetishes the author might have. Hell, even Modesty Blaise is full of art of every single drat woman in it including Modesty herself doing basic everyday tasks in contorted pinup poses. It doesn't ruin the strip.
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shortspecialbus posted:It seems a bit silly to get bent out of shape that people frequently have fetishes. Pretty much everyone has a goddamn fetish of some sort. Indeed. If you are an artist who can paint or draw, there is a 95% chance you've created art depicting things that make you horny.
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I don't think that they're fetish strips, except possibly the pregnancy thing. I also still loving despise them. That guy who used to be a mouse or whatever looks completely loving stupid. And even Compu Toon has a better understanding of how computers work than his loving cyberspace strips.
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Slipping your fetishes into everything you create is gross, like the old feeder rose is rose comocs.
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shortspecialbus posted:I'll grant you there's a point where it becomes an issue, like The Whizzard inviting you to explore his Enchanted Piss Forest 
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To me that one was just weird, not really fetishy. I don't know though. I don't really care about fetishes and I think everyone is way too uptight about poo poo like that in general so even if I personally think something is gross, whatever 
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