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Bad Machinery His Divine Shadow posted:Gotta say I don't understand this strip, I guess it because I don't know the british school system and the words make no sene to me. Basically, at the end of the Wen-Tack storyline which takes place after the end of Bad Machinery, Mildred successfully got a road built between Tackleford and the neighbouring town of Wendlefield. This screwed up the catchment areas of Tackleford. Sixth Form is basically the last two years of schooling before University, which can either be as part of a regular secondary school or at dedicated colleges - so if your school doesn't have a sixth form, you would either go to one that does or to a college. Griswalds (the school all of the mystery teens went to) had its own Sixth Form as part of the school, but due to the aforementioned shift of catchment areas (and Britain being a hellscape of Tory-led austerity, both in-universe and IRL), it got closed due to no longer being the only accessible 6th form in the area, so the mystery teens presumably all wound up going their separate ways for 6th form. The problem is that Allison decided Wen-Tack, while apparently canon, wasn't really good enough to merit being posted online (which seems a bit harsh), so it can't be found easily. Some bold goon posted Wen-Tack last thread, but Allison posted a link to a pdf if anyone wants to see it again. Yvonmukluk fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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Alhazred posted:The Good Innvandrer There's something about how the lettering is on the traumas that just made it impossible for me to parse them, 'What's a Trauma? A place? A thing?' First when I looked it up I realized that it was in fact a word, once it was spelled out normally. (And luckily one that's 1:1 english norwegian.) Moominposting 
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä Definitely misread wimp as simp and had to do a double take
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Yvonmukluk posted:The problem is that Allison decided Wen-Tack, while apparently canon, wasn't really good enough to merit being posted online (which seems a bit harsh), so it can't be found easily. Some bold goon posted Wen-Tack last thread, but Allison posted a link to a pdf if anyone wants to see it again. Allison is harsh on it, but it really does fall apart by the end.
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Mikl posted:I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make light of it. I don't work in the field, but I'd heard about how big it was; I just wanted to summarise things briefly. Bruceski posted:Fair enough. I just happened to get in an argument about it last night so that was mainly me decompressing. If I hadn't already been primed to read it as dismissive I don't think I would have. F Minus  Mark Trail  So Mark's really just running from the police, huh? I'm not against it, just a little surprised. Mary Worth  The Phantom  I don't believe the Phantom is just going to walk away here. My guess is he'll be in the background as Phantom where this guy can't see him and help him that way. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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SubNat posted:What's a Trauma? A place?   Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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Yvonmukluk posted:Basically, at the end of the Wen-Tack storyline which takes place after the end of Bad Machinery, Mildred successfully got a road built between Tackleford and the neighbouring town of Wendlefield. This screwed up the catchment areas of Tackleford. Sixth Form is basically the last two years of schooling before University, which can either be as part of a regular secondary school or at dedicated colleges - so if your school doesn't have a sixth form, you would either go to one that does or to a college. Griswalds (the school all of the mystery teens went to) had its own Sixth Form as part of the school, but due to the aforementioned shift of catchment areas (and Britain being a hellscape of Tory-led austerity, both in-universe and IRL), it got closed due to no longer being the only accessible 6th form in the area, so the mystery teens presumably all wound up going their separate ways for 6th form. That bold goon was me, if you want to search for my posts and read it that way. And I know you think you made it simpler for American audiences, but it's still too complicated.  Let's just say sixth form is junior and senior year and call it a day.Modesty Blaise   Next time: new adventure!
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riderchop posted:Heathcliff lawd have mercy
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Yvonmukluk posted:Basically, at the end of the Wen-Tack storyline which takes place after the end of Bad Machinery, Mildred successfully got a road built between Tackleford and the neighbouring town of Wendlefield. This screwed up the catchment areas of Tackleford. Sixth Form is basically the last two years of schooling before University, which can either be as part of a regular secondary school or at dedicated colleges - so if your school doesn't have a sixth form, you would either go to one that does or to a college. Griswalds (the school all of the mystery teens went to) had its own Sixth Form as part of the school, but due to the aforementioned shift of catchment areas (and Britain being a hellscape of Tory-led austerity, both in-universe and IRL), it got closed due to no longer being the only accessible 6th form in the area, so the mystery teens presumably all wound up going their separate ways for 6th form. Wen-Tack was last Tackleford storyline before Wicked Things afaik, but it wasn't the only short after Bad Machinery ends with Severed Alliance - there was a brief arc Hard Yards, canonically just before Wen-Tack/The Great Unboxing, which seemed to be backing off on the tension of Shauna and Lottie growing apart at the end of Severed Alliance (where they are reconciled but maybe not really besties any more, with Shauna largely preferring the prickly company of Blossom). In Hard Yards Little Claire joins the mystery team and Little Claire, Lottie, Shauna, and Blossom form a band, hooray... the loose-ends named characters since SGR being tied together in knots. Very neat. Bad Machinery is really more about contemporary social relationships and adulthood than mysteries, but the theme of the ephemerality of childhood friendships, whilst realistic, is also kind of depressing? So y'know. It's nice to scratch that itch. then Wen-Tack drives a steamroller through all of it by splitting the cast up again and introducing a new slate of mystery kids hot doylist take is that it reflects Allison's indecision over whether to end the Tackleford universe, I suppose
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Julet Esqu posted:Hey, Beric, you feel like a big man making little disabled kids cry? I get that he was trying to put an attainable goal in the kid's head without being obvious about it, but yeah, he could have done that in a less hostile-seeming way. Vintage Valiant (May 02, 1943)   Val's luck with boat trips has been mixed in the past, so we'll see where this goes. Medenmath fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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Kennel posted:Dustin Ah, there's s lovely, judgmental Ed we know. Also I'm the dude getting rained on by a chamberpot in Val.
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Transmodiar posted:That bold goon was me, if you want to search for my posts and read it that way. And I know you think you made it simpler for American audiences, but it's still too complicated. Oh my god, Giles 
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail Can't wait for Mark to tell us all about Prison Wildlife!
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I liked parts of Wen-Tack, but the one thing I really didn't like about it was how Linton dropped out of the Wen-Tack Action Group for no reason. The last few stories have exaggerated Linton into a horny idiot and I was hopeful that Wen-Tack's focus on Linton meant he would get some character development.LazyQ posted:Mämmilä I liked her before for her cool outfit, but between this and spreading some homophobic rumors about Ulf before, Aune's just been pretty disappointing as a character.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis I appreciate how subtly he ages Janis in his comics over 20 years. The dude has to be drawing from real life.
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Mikl posted:Oh my god, Giles Also Willie was throwing dildos at people that whole time, what a finale  .
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ronya posted:Wen-Tack was last Tackleford storyline before Wicked Things afaik, but it wasn't the only short after Bad Machinery ends with Severed Alliance - there was a brief arc Hard Yards, canonically just before Wen-Tack/The Great Unboxing, which seemed to be backing off on the tension of Shauna and Lottie growing apart at the end of Severed Alliance (where they are reconciled but maybe not really besties any more, with Shauna largely preferring the prickly company of Blossom). In Hard Yards Little Claire joins the mystery team and Little Claire, Lottie, Shauna, and Blossom form a band, hooray... the loose-ends named characters since SGR being tied together in knots. Very neat. Also I forget, is Bobbins canon to Bad Machinery or is it just another strip by the same author? If the former, how so?
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Kennel posted:Nancy Also, that Modesty Blaise wrap-up was excellent. The Shadow and Flyin' Jenny Aug. 3rd, 1940   Axa   And that's it for The Desired! I peeked ahead a little at the next story and I have high hopes for it.
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Larryb posted:Also I forget, is Bobbins canon to Bad Machinery or is it just another strip by the same author? If the former, how so? They all take place in the same shared universe, just at different points of time. IIRC it goes Bobbins (original) -> Scary Go Round -> Bad Machinery -> some side stories -> Circus Windows (new one). Also New Bobbins and Bobbins.Horse are scattered around there, I can't 100% remember where in the timeline they take place. e: Giant Days is after SGR but before Bad Machinery I think? It's hard to check since OG Bobbins and SGR aren't online anymore and Giant Days and a few of the side stories are actual physical comic books.
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Kazinsal posted:They all take place in the same shared universe, just at different points of time. IIRC it goes Bobbins (original) -> Scary Go Round -> Bad Machinery -> some side stories -> Circus Windows (new one). Also New Bobbins and Bobbins.Horse are scattered around there, I can't 100% remember where in the timeline they take place. That's mostly it. Bobbins.Horse is basically a remake of the original Bobbins comic, allowing Allison to tell the stories he should have told the first time. New Bobbins picks up and takes place alongside Bad Machinery, but focusing more on the adult cast (Shelly Winters, Tim Jones). There were also some one-shots that take place at different points in the timeline ( Expecting to Fly takes place while Shelly and Ryan are in high school, while Murder She Writes takes place before the Bad Machinery: Case of the Fire Inside) A relative chronology would be: Bobbins/Bobbins.Horse -> Scary Go Round -> Giant Days -> Bad Machinery / New Bobbins -> New Scary Go Round (Wen-Tack) -> Wicked Things -> Circus Windows
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Larryb posted:Also I forget, is Bobbins canon to Bad Machinery or is it just another strip by the same author? If the former, how so? It's all canon; Bobbins was the genesis of the whole Tackleford character universe. It was a "young people working in an office" strip about the lives of Ryan and Shelley's generation in the late 90's. After Bobbins came Scary-Go-Round, which was initially centered on Tessa and Rachel, two secondary Bobbins characters. Eventually Amy, Shelley and Ryan came back to the fore of SGR, while Tessa and Rachel became recurring villains, then disappeared from the strip altogether (They made one final return appearance to get killed off.) Through Shelley's younger sister Erin we were introduced to the world of Griswald's Grammar School, where one of her fellow students was Sarah Grote. Ryan briefly dated Sarah while she was in sixth form (kinda gross,) and around that same time that Sarah's younger sister Charlotte discovered that her friend Shauna had Desmond Fishman living in the shed behind her house (her brother Darren had nursed him back to help after he and his lads initially thought they'd killed him while roughing him up - Des had merely spit up ink, as is his habit.) Charlotte and Shauna became central to the last few SGR stories, then Bad Machinery started with them as the leads.
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voting third party posted:Also Willie was throwing dildos at people that whole time, what a finale "Where is he getting all these clubs?" Modesty wonders, as Willie beans another goon in the forehead with a dildo.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Everett True: due process is un-American A lot of intellectuals and writers who survived World War 1 talk about a time of "war madness" where they got swept up in intense jingoism and movements they otherwise would never have had, because it was just what everyone was doing and the groupthink was so intense. This isn't to let Everett and by extension Condo off the hook(there were people who knew WWI was a bad idea at the time, like Bertrand Russell, who was put in jail for objecting to WWI and then lived to protest the Vietnam war) but it's just interesting how Everett shows what went through the head of someone who was relatively progressive for the era in some ways, but frustratingly short sighted in others. I think the closest event like the WWI collective delusion in my time has been the post-9/11 era and the Iraq War.
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Yvonmukluk posted:The problem is that Allison decided Wen-Tack, while apparently canon, wasn't really good enough to merit being posted online (which seems a bit harsh), so it can't be found easily.
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The barbarian family from Wen-Tack is something that needs to return. It'd be a good fit for Steeple.
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Green Intern posted:I cannot get over the theoretical skull structure of the new baby in Kevin and Kell. But a rhino having sex with a feline and producing offspring is ok? It's (bad) fantasy relax.
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LingcodKilla posted:But a rhino having sex with a feline and producing offspring is ok? That's not okay either!!
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Evil Mastermind posted:That's mind-boggling, given how Wen-Tack gave us such classics as Fit Mum, the barbarian family, and Linton's unboxing channel. If only it hadn't fallen apart near the end. It had a lot of good stuff but it just didn't quite nail the landing. At least it's available now, even if not in a place of honour, because missing out on everything you mentioned is a drat shame.
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