Ghost Leviathan posted:

UFO Aftermath also has giant hermit crabs using cars as shells iirc.

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Son of Thunderbeast posted:

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Herr Bazooka posted:

Isn't she his wife? Number like 17 or 18?

CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:

king dang just gonna read his daughters diary like a cad

Herr Bazooka posted:

Isn't she his wife? Number like 17 or 18?

marshmallow creep posted:

I don't think they actually have any kind of legal entanglement like that. A kingdom needs a king and a princess. Those are their roles, almost as if they were handed down by the Dead Man himself.

some plague rats posted:

His wife would be the queen, not the princess

Osmosisch posted:

Besides everything else that is great about this comic, I just absolutely adore that he had the inspiration and took the effort to draw a little fizzy pop effect for the freshly-poured soft drink. He's just so grounded, I love it.

e: My absolute favourite Boulet always gives me an instant sense memory and transports me back to childhood. It's gorgeous.

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Son of Thunderbeast posted:

https://twitter.com/ShadowPowerup/status/1579895743695159298

lol

I thought he had a big master plan this whole time

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Technocrat posted:

Tony Lazuto says "dig".

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Silly Newbie posted:

I feel like visual and some multimedia art is analog where music and the written word is digital. Not in the medium, but in the perception. Words and (mostly) music are composed of definite concepts. A group of characters is a word or it isn't. If you compose several groups of characters that aren't words together, they aren't art, they're a concept. Musical notes, at least to my understanding, can be defined the same way - it's a note or it's not. Visual art doesn't have to exist in the same kind of defined space. We can narrow the definition of "blue" down to a mathematical visual spectrum, but we can still debate where it ends and crosses into other colors.

Anyway I'll have a six piece spicy nugget and a chocolate frosty.

Emzedoh posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi

He doesn't actually hate music, he hates the expensive musical performances and other indulgences popular among the ruling class of his time. He was just a real practical, hard headed kind of philosopher.

Anyway, other interesting things about Mozi:
- He argued against both Confucians and Daoists.
- He condemned wars of aggression on no uncertain terms. Given that he was living in the Warring States period, he had plenty to condemn. In fact, it's said that he and his followers engaged in military action to defend states and cities he judged to be victims of wars of expansion.
- Speaking of his followers, Mozi led a utopian paramilitary movement: he could tax, judge, punish and even under some circumstances put his followers to death. It was apparently quite a demanding and austere lifestyle.
- Speaking of austerity, for sure he was. "What is the purpose of houses? It is to protect us from the wind and cold of winter, the heat and rain of summer, and to keep out robbers and thieves. Once these ends have been secured, that is all. Whatever does not contribute to these ends should be eliminated."
- He also came out swinging against the traditional clan and filial piety system, promoting universal and impartial love as opposed to ... tiered affection? Liking people you know more? This is pretty loving spicy for ancient China just so you know.
- After the Qin united China, Mohism basically vanishes and was probably violently suppressed. This is a little ironic because the Legalist school of thought adopted by the Qin finds many of its antecedents in Mohism thinking.

Kit Walker posted:

I think it’s not actually possible for every idea to be written or explored, and that’s specifically because of the iterative properties of creative works. By which I mean, every time something is created, it builds on what came before, but also recontextualizes it. Every piece of work changes culture, changes how we view the past, and opens up new stories that can be told. A book written in 2022 would simply not have been possible to write 50 years ago because everything in between was necessary for its creation. And likewise a story written in the 70s gets interpreted differently now. Even if you took all the most basic story beats of some old piece of fiction and decided to rewrite it today, you’d produce a totally different narrative

Tenebrais posted:

I like the touch that compared to all her lying earlier in this arc, being in lethal danger is the one time teen Val isn't sweating.

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Tree Bucket posted:

That makes sense. So a book isn't just a book, it exists in relation to every other book, or every other book that particular reader has read, which will be different to what another reader has read. Endless recursive fractal possibilities.
There has to be a French or German word for all this.

Empty Sandwich posted:

canon

Synopsis posted:

Listen! Hear a tale of mallow-munchers and warriors who answer candy’s clarion call!

Somewhere in a generic suburb stands Treeheart, a kid-forged sanctuary where generations of tireless tykes have spent their youths making merry, spilling soda, and staving off the shadow of adulthood. One day, these brave warriors find their fun cut short by their nefarious neighbor Grindle, who can no longer tolerate the sounds of mirth seeping into his joyless adult life.

As the guardian of gloom lays siege to Treeheart, scores of kids suddenly find themselves transformed into pimply teenagers and sullen adults! The survivors of the onslaught cry out for a savior—a warrior whose will is unbreakable and whose appetite for mischief is unbounded.

They call for Bea Wolf.

some plague rats posted:

Boulet and weinersmith seems like a solid combo, a guy who draws great but sucks at writing teaming up with a guy who can't draw and also his writing is terrible

thetoughestbean posted:

Yeah he should have teamed up with Branson Reese who can’t draw and only has a single joke