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Twelve by Pies posted:Like, I know this is what Peanuts was for the majority of its life and what it's best known for, but still. "Ha ha, he's miserable and hates his life because he's not good at anything and has no self-esteem! Hilarious!" The actual joke is probably supposed to be "He's massively overreacting and it's silly to imagine being a person being paved over for a parking lot" but that isn't really the punchline, the punchline is just "I will always be worthless" and as a person with brain problems it really bothers me. I'm not mad about Peanuts or anything but it's just early Peanuts was good fun and very light-hearted, and most of "modern" (for lack of a better term) Peanuts just feels spiteful and mean-spirited towards Charlie Brown, and he just becomes the butt of the joke because he sucks at everything. Yeah, I like early Peanuts but I really dislike most later Peanuts stuff for exactly this reason.
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Uramachi Sakaba  And that, I fear, is all there is. Maruoka seems to have pivoted to writing another, more different, cyberpunk bar series in a web magazine behind a paywall - Uramachi Sakaba hasn't updated since last November. There are a couple of pre-Sakaba short comics to share, and one more that is maybe a bit much for this thread (lots of nudity, one tame-ish sex scene), but I might share behind spoilers anyway. I was too busy / lazy to translate Night Visitors today. Monya the Grey  
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quote:And that, I fear, is all there is. Maruoka seems to have pivoted to writing another, more different, cyberpunk bar series in a web magazine behind a paywall - Uramachi Sakaba hasn't updated since last November. There are a couple of pre-Sakaba short comics to share, and one more that is maybe a bit much for this thread (lots of nudity, one tame-ish sex scene), but I might share behind spoilers anyway. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO thank you for translating and posting one of my favorite strips. Jucika "102 - Jucika And The Telephone"  "103 - Jucika Is Dreaming" NSFW Nudity 
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Giant Ethicist posted:And that, I fear, is all there is. Maruoka seems to have pivoted to writing another, more different, cyberpunk bar series in a web magazine behind a paywall - Uramachi Sakaba hasn't updated since last November. There are a couple of pre-Sakaba short comics to share, and one more that is maybe a bit much for this thread (lots of nudity, one tame-ish sex scene), but I might share behind spoilers anyway. This is a massive bummer, but thanks so much for putting all the work in on this (and Chako, and all the rest of these comics you do). This one was easily one of my favorites. Have you considered putting it up on Mangadex or anything similar? I think it'd be great to get more eyes on Uramachi.
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Doomykins posted:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO thank you for translating and posting one of my favorite strips. My sentiments exactly!
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Mar 20, 2022 15:21
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 3/19/02  Brenda Starr 5/20-22/48    Smokey Stover 11/3/46  Everyday Movies 12/15/34  "I'm getting Mother a set of heavy blankets for Christmas. Every time I go up for a visit I nearly freeze to death."
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Murdstone posted:
And on Sunday:  readingatwork posted:Blind Alley  Does anyone else read Gabriel's dialog in Droopy Dog's voice? And, yeah, I'm gonna miss that little bar, too.
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gleebster posted:And on Sunday:
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Aw man, I loved cyberpunk Cheers. Sayonara
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Thank you for cyberpunk bar fun, hopefully there will be more from the author in the future. Appreciate all the comics you post and translate!
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gleebster posted:A skateboard is in a closet, but these two kids have never heard of skateboards? What the hell is up with this thing? I can get a slow reveal, but this is just too much. I'm actually loving the slow drip feed of incredibly weird details. It's like Peanuts if all the weird elements like the sentient school or the kite eating tree were actually real. Zereth posted:I haven't been keeping the greatest track of this one, but I'm getting the feeling the reason we never see adults is that there aren't any around. I'll believe there are adults in this town when I actually see one.
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Kennel posted:Dustin Powered Descent posted:Bizarro 
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba Thank you for posting it! I really enjoyed this strip. Giant Ethicist posted:Monya the Grey As for this, I happen to be in the market for a dining room table. Anyone know where I can find one with chicken legs? gleebster posted:A skateboard is in a closet, but these two kids have never heard of skateboards? What the hell is up with this thing? I can get a slow reveal, but this is just too much. Zereth posted:I haven't been keeping the greatest track of this one, but I'm getting the feeling the reason we never see adults is that there aren't any around. readingatwork posted:I'm actually loving the slow drip feed of incredibly weird details. It's like Peanuts if all the weird elements like the sentient school or the kite eating tree were actually real. I think Blind Alley is one of my favorite strips in this thread. The slow burn of weird details mixed in with one-off gags and little character moments is really unique. I will say there was at least one mention of an adult, when one of the kids said their grandmother had passed away, but that was in the past tense and not something that had happened recently.
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E: ^^^ The kids talk about their parents a lot actually. You just never actually see them on screen or wandering around town which is very  .I love Wallace but that panel layout is atrocious. I had to read that strip like four times to understand what was going on. readingatwork fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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Wasn't one of the girls on Blind Alley telling how her parents had had a baby, i.e. she had a baby brother/sister?
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readingatwork posted:E: ^^^ The kids talk about their parents a lot actually. You just never actually see them on screen or wandering around town which is very Hmm, weird that I'd forgotten about that then. Regardless I really enjoy the mysteries - the spy camera birds (made weirder because the kids dismantled them but no one stopped them or responded to that happening), the hobo kid who is constantly trying to get to town but never arrives (or did he finally get there, I forget?), all the little things like the kid who looks like Ness "remembering" that the one girl used to have a different name. I can't even tell for sure whether it's supposed to be leading up to an actual reveal or if the strip is just meant to be bizarre. It's really unique.
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 Giant Ethicist posted:And that, I fear, is all there is. Maruoka seems to have pivoted to writing another, more different, cyberpunk bar series in a web magazine behind a paywall - Uramachi Sakaba hasn't updated since last November. There are a couple of pre-Sakaba short comics to share, and one more that is maybe a bit much for this thread (lots of nudity, one tame-ish sex scene), but I might share behind spoilers anyway. gleebster posted:
F Minus  Mark Trail  Wikipedia says their conservation status is "Least Concern" so I think they're doing OK. But, I did not know there was a difference between squirrels on the West Coast and the East. Mary Worth  dismas posted:please please please let the random quote for the sunday strip be depeche mode The Phantom  Get him, Phantom. Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Good thing we settled that thing that was already settled. Andertoons  Flash Gordon 
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I suppose I should actually post comics while I'm at it. Big Nate Year 1 (Jan 25-26, 1991)   Old School Peanuts (Jun 7, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Nov 9-10, 1990)   No Blind Alley today
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Murdstone posted:
Look at the the dog.
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Mar 20, 2022 19:13
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Blind Alley is just the adventures of dreary children and also a drip feed of a drip feed mystery
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Murdstone posted:
Phantom, why are you busy intimidating the bartender instead of stopping the mori girls from being drugged?
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Kennel posted:Dustin (source: a lot of the highways around here used to have a nominal limit of 55 which literally everyone ignored & it mostly just served to make speeding tickets more punishing for poor people. Most of them got raised to something more reasonable several years ago, thankfully) Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba  I really enjoyed Uramachi Sakaba, thanks for translating it!
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Powered Descent posted:FoxTrot a good foxtrot
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba I should really get around to getting copies of it, seconding the mangadex upload recommendation if you're ok with it!
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Bobbins John Allison posted:Don’t ask me why Shelley keeps antifreeze in a milk container. Well, you can ask me if you want. My guess is her Dad gave it to her. He buys it by the drum, so there was some decanting involved. You have to let the antifreeze breathe.
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Echoeing the love for "Uramachi Sakaba," thank you for posting it, Giant Ethicist! Quick question for anyone, but where did the current thread title come from?
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Murdstone posted:The bar owner and the antique dealer got together the end.  I loved Uramachi Sakaba, it was a fantastic little comic.
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Murdstone posted:The bar owner and the antique dealer got together the end. They had better <  >
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Powerful Katrinka posted:Quick question for anyone, but where did the current thread title come from? It was a line into Into Ilves, when Ilves was doing the log balancing pushing contest thing with the local thug. I assume the translation is accurate, since it's such a goofily literal thing to say I can't imagine what other interpretation there could have been. Powerful Katrinka posted:Echoeing the love for "Uramachi Sakaba," thank you for posting it, Giant Ethicist! 
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Some Guy TT posted:It was a line into Into Ilves, when Ilves was doing the log balancing pushing contest thing with the local thug. I assume the translation is accurate, since it's such a goofily literal thing to say I can't imagine what other interpretation there could have been. (note for the future, the current title is: "Except for stabbing this is my favorite hobby") The literal translation would have been: "You may not know that poking with a knife and this happen to be my favorite sports." I prefer to use the same font size for every bubble, which makes things quite tricky as sometimes the original text is extra tiny. Kennel fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Mar 21, 2022 |
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba That was a fun strip, thank you for all the work!
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Kennel posted:(note for the future, the current title is: "Except for stabbing this is my favorite hobby") Really? Why is the size variable? Are smaller sizes used to indicate when someone is whispering or is it just a desperate attempt by the author to fit what he wants to write in the text bubbles? Speaking of which... Cheer Up Boss Dharma  The seventh panel goes out of its way to avoid using the phrase father and daughter partially because daughter is an extremely large English word that's hard to fit into the text bubble but also to avoid awkward consecutive use of "you" as the first word twice in a row. Oh, and I also have a mostly arbitrary style rule to avoid starting a new sentence with the object of the previous sentence in cases where the object is the last word of the sentence. Also "recording" is upside-down at the end, but that seemed like too much trouble, so I didn't bother.
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Giant Ethicist posted:
no....no!!!! THEY HAVE TO KISS YOU CANT JUST END IT WITHOUT THEM KISSING but also thank you for sharing it wit hus it was very good
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