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Question for Modesty Blaise readers - there are two stories left after the one I just started. One is the last proper serial/newspaper comic, while the other is an adaptation Romero did of a Blaise book for an international publication. Which do you want to read last? The true conclusion or the final produced work?
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The true conclusion please. Do you have any thread plans afterwards? New comic, or just doing the time warp and starting Modesty Blaise again from the beginning?catlord posted:If 9CL does come back, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to slap it under spoiler tags. I'm curious, but poo poo, man, I don't blame anyone for not wanting to see that poo poo. I really do prefer timg tags rather than spoiler tags for offensive material. Most of the stuff that gets spoilered these days you can't see the offensive material in timg form. Spoilers also make it annoying for me to read Axa in my preferred manner, reading exactly one strip at a time broken up by random errands to simulate the feeling of reading it day by day in an actual newspaper.
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Mar 5, 2021 02:49
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Definitely the true conclusion last.
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Hostile V posted:I would like to see Axa rebooted and written by a queer woman so she could just constantly and consistently pick the robot to the consternation and confusion of the man barbarians of the savage world outside of the domes. Just, "well I wanna be free and let my tits hang out and maybe know a lover's touch but like one thing at a time, yeah hey I'm topless nude even but like shut the gently caress up I'm gonna date this robot". Now here's the question, who should do the reboot? I keep on thinking "Olive Rae Brinker's Axa" and while I think that'd be hilarious, I'm not sure if the world is ready. Some Guy TT posted:I really do prefer timg tags rather than spoiler tags for offensive material. Most of the stuff that gets spoilered these days you can't see the offensive material in timg form. Spoilers also make it annoying for me to read Axa in my preferred manner, reading exactly one strip at a time broken up by random errands to simulate the feeling of reading it day by day in an actual newspaper. Hm, that's a point. Sometimes I wonder if I go overboard with the spoilers, since I drop them if I see a single nipple. I tend to do timg for dialogue and spoilers for art content, but since Axa's niche, trashy sci-fi I put it in timg to make it easier for others to scroll past and then spoilers go on top of that. Anyways, I'd say true conclusion for Modesty Blaise last as well.
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Mar 5, 2021 03:04
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catlord posted:Now here's the question, who should do the reboot? I keep on thinking "Olive Rae Brinker's Axa" and while I think that'd be hilarious, I'm not sure if the world is ready.
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And He Did! (March 23, 1918) Tee Hee of Everett True (April 29, 1918)  Hitz and Mrs. (December 15, 1923)  Gay and Her Gang (April 10, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (September 10, 1935)  Dark Laughter (March 19, 1942)  Mopsy Sunday (November 16, 1947)  Those Were the Days (December 13, 1951)  Dinky Fellas (June 1, 1965)  Wee Pals (June 1, 1965) 
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Sally Forth Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (August 11, 1933)  Peanuts (March 7, 1974)   Crankshaft  "Classic" Mutt And Jeff assumes a logical spot in the lineup. Think of it as a plastic spacer in your car dashboard. You know, to cover the hole where your stolen stereo used to live.  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (October 4, 1937)  Out Our Way (March 19-21, 1936)    Toonerville Folks, in which Mr. Fox takes a different angle on wartime jingoism than Everett True did. (April 16-18, 1937)    Dok's "Pick Up Your Money, Pack Up Your Tent" Duck (June 25, 1913) 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLQRKnZ2cK8&t=44s
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Mar 5, 2021 05:13
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EasyEW posted:
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Mar 5, 2021 05:18
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I'm surprised it was actually Tara's cousin and wasn't either Luann's mom/Tiff getting something they forgot from the restaurant, or Ann Eiffel stealing food because she's homeless now.
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amigolupus posted:I'm surprised it was actually Tara's cousin and wasn't either Luann's mom/Tiff getting something they forgot from the restaurant, or Ann Eiffel stealing food because she's homeless now. I'm surprised that it didn't turn out to be a con Tara was in on. Those weird battle poses she was doing made it look like bad acting, but I guess it was just bad art. (I guess it's possible that it's still part of the con and Tara is acting out this scene with her cousin for Bernice and Luann to see, but it's seeming less likely.)
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CommonShore posted:andthentheyfucked.png "Remember, I get to call you Lisa. And you have to wear the wig...okay, now put on the bald cap."
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Julet Esqu posted:I'm surprised that it didn't turn out to be a con Tara was in on. Those weird battle poses she was doing made it look like bad acting, but I guess it was just bad art. I would bet actual money that would make more sense than whatever is coming next.
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Mar 5, 2021 06:38
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Intelligent Life   Daddy Daze  Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 3/4/01  Brenda Starr 1/6/46  Smokey Stover 10/8/39  Richard's Poor Almanac  Yes, hardcore Washington Football Team fans do attend games wearing flower-print dresses, straw hats, and rubber pig noses. Karen Hughes was one of W Bush's close advisers.
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Hostile V posted:I would like to see Axa rebooted and written by a queer woman so she could just constantly and consistently pick the robot to the consternation and confusion of the man barbarians of the savage world outside of the domes. Just, "well I wanna be free and let my tits hang out and maybe know a lover's touch but like one thing at a time, yeah hey I'm topless nude even but like shut the gently caress up I'm gonna date this robot". Some Guy TT posted:Most of the stuff that gets spoilered these days you can't see the offensive material in timg form. Yes, the moment you recognize someone is the moment they sit in their car in the darkness and shine the headlights at you. Well done.
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Mar 5, 2021 08:20
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I can't believe Gunther's stepdad is Tara's cousin.
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Mar 5, 2021 08:23
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... obviously I'm just being glib about it, I mean like, I can see perfectly well where the offensive material is and I can point to it and say "sheesh, pretty racist", but I'm never bothered by it to the point where I don't even want to see it, ever. Served me well over the years, but naturally I don't mean to tell anyone to "just don't be offended", y'all do your thing. 
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Mar 5, 2021 08:26
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Mar 5, 2021 08:55
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catlord posted:This is a lot of agonising about whether to keep the lovely guy or the kick-rear end robot. Actually, has she met anyone nice at all? Transmodiar posted:Question for Modesty Blaise readers - there are two stories left after the one I just started. One is the last proper serial/newspaper comic, while the other is an adaptation Romero did of a Blaise book for an international publication. Which do you want to read last? The true conclusion or the final produced work?
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Mar 5, 2021 10:21
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Tiggum posted:Has Axa met a man who wasn't a jealous, possessive arsehole? Mark Ten, but he can honestly do better with how Axa's been treating him. 
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Mar 5, 2021 10:55
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Tiggum posted:Has Axa met a man who wasn't a jealous, possessive arsehole? The scientist who made Mark seemed mostly decent, if a little too trusting. The cavemen seemed pretty ok as well, if perhaps a little suspicious and simultaneously also far too trusting. Uh... the boatman that Axa and Jason rescued? I don't remember him doing anything particularly lovely. A few other minor characters here and there. The wasteland sucks and it's like Fallout: New Vegas taught us, always choose the robot. Are we gonna get a dramatic Luann story where Tara gets run down by her cousin? It feels appropriately soap opera.
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Not that it wouldn't be painful, but running someone down at a distance of 2-3 inches would be about the level of action I'd expect from Luann, yeah.
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catlord posted:The scientist who made Mark seemed mostly decent, if a little too trusting. The cavemen seemed pretty ok as well, if perhaps a little suspicious and simultaneously also far too trusting. Uh... the boatman that Axa and Jason rescued? I don't remember him doing anything particularly lovely. A few other minor characters here and there. The wasteland sucks and it's like Fallout: New Vegas taught us, always choose the robot. I remember thinking it was strange that boat dude just died unceremoniously when their boat ran into those mermen and he jumped into the ocean to try and save Axa. I don't know if he would've turned out to be an rear end in a top hat, but he probably would've been an okay companion rather than Jason. Axa just has the incredibly unfortunate habit of shacking up with assholes.
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Maybe it's just me but it's pretty rare for me to address my cousins as "cousin," I just call them by their names if I'm talking to them. It just feels really awkward and sounds dumb when you have to have a character say something unnatural like that. Or maybe Stella just played a lot of GTA IV. Taking advice on how to be confident from the most confident guy in the office? What an idiot!
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Classic Kevin & Kell (December 20-24, 1999)     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp. quote:Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findings of fact on November 5, 1999, which stated that Microsoft's dominance of the x86-based personal computer operating systems market constituted a monopoly, and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats to that monopoly, including Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Software, RealNetworks, Linux, and others. (This means that at this point, Holbrook had at most a 40-day buffer on Kevin & Kell.) Also, Men in Black (the movie) came out in 1997 and was a smash hit.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Taking advice on how to be confident from the most confident guy in the office? What an idiot! On the note of IL here, the first panel of the second comic, disregarding the rest of the strip, is I think the first time in awhile Skip initiated wanting to do something with nerd friend? Lately it seems most of their interactions is Skip telling him to shut up or hang around less. IL seems like a lot of nerd media in that it simultaneously has contempt for people both less nerdy and more nerdy than the author insert.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Maybe it's just me but it's pretty rare for me to address my cousins as "cousin," I just call them by their names if I'm talking to them. It just feels really awkward and sounds dumb when you have to have a character say something unnatural like that. You gotta let the reader know who these random folk are somehow and why not do it with fists of ham?
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (December 13, 1951) This strip is so remarkably hateful. (also Cream of Tartar isn't dairy, but I guess that's part of the 'joke')
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Mar 5, 2021 13:47
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Art Beeman is definitely like, Chuck Asay's uncle or something.
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The Dinette Set gets cultured. Working Daze takes a skip day.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix reminds me of this thread.  Cul De Sac is the next big creepypasta. 
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Nancy 1946 looks familiar I feel like the one from 1978 was a bit more streamlined, writing-wise manero fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus Small thing I enjoy about Family Circus: The parents are rarely amused with their kids' antics. All these "kids say the darnedest things!" kinda "whimsical" moments, and the parents simply observe them with dead-eyed passivity. No grin, no enjoyment. Just resignation.
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft This actually bothers me. Their organist died (or something) just a day ago and they had exactly one strip of them being concerned for her - and it wasn't even concern, it was "she put wine on her cornflakes" - and now they're trying to replace her. Where's your concern? Don't you have ANY compassion for someone you worked with on a regular basis?! e: For background my dad is a church organist and choir director and if he went down he'd get flowers and concerned phonecalls and such, and prayer in the church. Same with any regular church-goer who had a health problem! Churches in my experience tend to be aggressively caring towards their flock, ESPECIALLY organists!
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Also, pay your musicians you cheap-rear end church.
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Yes but did the organist have Movie Cancer?
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