gleebster posted:

What a clever way to avoid taking the trouble of drawing identifiable vegetables. I see why goons fall all over themselves praising this strip. Here's Bettwy's other work of genius, Sales:

Still love him?

riderchop posted:

Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon

goatface posted:

The strip recently confirmed this is the 5th century, and it mentioned the sack was by the Vandals, so ~455ish (in theory). Maybe he was confusing it with the shift of the Western Roman capital to Ravenna? But that would have been like that the last time he passed through, so it wouldn't have been a surprise.

Maybe the Pope is just on his hols.

Murdstone posted:

The Phantom

The Bloop posted:

He kick your dog or something?

The art has always sucked rear end but the jokes are above average to genuinely great, that's why people like it

goatface posted:

It's such a specific thing to include though. The papacy doesn't move much, it's the Bishop of Rome after all, so I don't know why he has decided it would be an appropriate thing to move here.

Kennel posted:

Dustin

My Lovely Horse posted:

as opposed to...?

Medenmath posted:

What exactly is an EMF reader anyway? Is it basically just a radio?

gleebster posted:

Nah, the gags are bad-to-acceptable. And I don't have a dog. Maybe it would improve my attitude.

Kennel posted:

Dustin

Twelve by Pies posted:

An electromagnetic field reader, it measures the amount of radiation given off by electrical stuff. One of the uses for it is if you want to dig somewhere, you use it to see if there's any underground power lines/cables so you don't accidentally sever them.

The reason they're using one is because ghost hunters believe that ghosts cause electromagnetic disturbances, so if you're in an area where there usually isn't a disturbance and an EMF reader starts showing one, it's supposedly proof of a ghost.

Another thing TV ghost hunters love to use is a device that pulls random radio signals out of the air, with the belief that ghosts will manipulate them to send messages. I don't believe in ghosts personally, but I imagine even people who do think that TV ghost hunters are just pulling stuff out of their rear end or predisposing people to believe they heard things.

Powered Descent posted:

Did that whole thing start with Ghostbusters, or was the movie spoofing something that already existed in real-life tinfoil hattery?

John Allison posted:

I remember when I didn’t know if the bread was free or not. Kept me up nights.

Powered Descent posted:

Did that whole thing start with Ghostbusters, or was the movie spoofing something that already existed in real-life tinfoil hattery?

gleebster posted:

What a clever way to avoid taking the trouble of drawing identifiable vegetables. I see why goons fall all over themselves praising this strip.

readingatwork posted:

Big Nate Year 1 (Apr 29-30, 1991)

readingatwork posted:

Julet Esqu posted:

Never forget that Dan Aykroyd was and is a true believer. Much of the stuff in that movie including a lot of the lore was pulled from Aykroyd's experiences with spiritualism.

quote:

His great-grandfather, Samuel Aykroyd, was interested in psychic research and psychic experiences. He regularly held seances in his home and he primarily worked with a medium named Walter Ashurst. So Samuel, Dan Aykroyd’s great-grandfather, had this keen interest in psychics being in touch with the other side. That interest went on to Maurice Aykroyd, who is Dan Aykroyd’s grandfather. They were owners of journals like the American Society for Psychical Research and other academic studies of the supernatural.

In fact, Dan’s father, Peter Aykroyd, wrote a book called, A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Seances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters. You can get it on Kindle for about ten dollars. If you want a paperback copy, you’re gonna be spending almost a hundred bucks right now. I’m guessing it’s because of the Ghostbusters name being so big right now. Everyone’s trying to scramble to get a copy of the book. I happened to find mine at a used bookstore. It’s a great book. Dan Aykroyd wrote the foreword for the book. So Dan took his family’s interest and family history and integrated elements of that into the Ghostbusters movies.

Giant Ethicist posted:

Thanks all for the kind words about Monya! Do try and send Q-Rais some clicks or even yens if you can.

I’m back on track with Haraiso Days, so here’s the start of chapter 5:



Also here’s last week’s Night Visitors


With Monya done, I think I’ll start in on Q-Rais Talks to Himself, his diary / hobby cooking comic. There’s a tweest that’s explained at the end of chapter 1 – see if you can spot it!

Chapter 1: Tatsuta-age fried chicken bento

Giant Ethicist posted:

Thanks all for the kind words about Monya! Do try and send Q-Rais some clicks or even yens if you can.

I’m back on track with Haraiso Days, so here’s the start of chapter 5:

readingatwork posted:

Calvin and Hobbes (Feb 9-10, 1991)

Twelve by Pies posted:

It's a diary comic so I assume it's his girlfriend/wife. Though it's Q-Rais so you could be right, too.

gleebster posted:

What a clever way to avoid taking the trouble of drawing identifiable vegetables. I see why goons fall all over themselves praising this strip. Here's Bettwy's other work of genius, Sales:

Still love him?

ukonvasara posted:

Yeah, I never quite got the shift to unrestrained praise for this strip. It can now produce a good joke or even a series of them occasionally, but most of the time the writing tops out at "unremarkable." The art is still consistently hot garbage--suggesting it has improved at all is being very, very generous!

Kennel posted:

Hostile V posted:

riderchop posted:

?


i guess we all just dont give a single poo poo at work one day