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Endless Mike posted:It does seem like they've been updating his parents' cultural references somewhat more recently, but that may just be in my head. But even in 2014 that was a dated reference for people in roughly their mid-40s. He’s actually named after their stillborn from Connie’s hard drug and alcohol usage while pregnant at the concert.
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Jeremy is actually named after that one Pearl Jam song
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Endless Mike posted:Jeremy is in high school, so no older than 18, but doesn't really talk about college applications or anything, so we'll say he's 17, which meant he was born in 1997 when this was published. Must have been some fun retro show his parents went to for kicks. F Minus  I still believe! Mark Trail  I assume that's a LotR reference but I don't understand why. Mary Worth  Oh God do I want this to wind up in court. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Technically, Apartment 3-G has caught up to where we left off, but honestly I don't even remember what the story was and I think I'm done with it for now.
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Murdstone posted:He was named after they went to a Pearl Jam concert. 
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail Considering the dialogue of the last week I wouldn't assume Jules is making a reference unless it was pointed out four times in three days. Also wow, that panel 4. Look at Rods shoulders. The panel two is pretty bad too... really, how many of these hand gestures and arm placements don't work without the camera cropping? Mark's jawline in panel 2 vs panel 4 is a laugh too. The shape changing monitor, the inability of anyone to be on model for longer than two panels. Looking at Rods hairline he didn't even last past his introduction before Jules stopped caring about him! What a daily treat it is to mock this strip.  There just aren't that many who are this openly lazy.
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Doomykins posted:Considering the dialogue of the last week I wouldn't assume Jules is making a reference unless it was pointed out four times in three days. I would love to see a real-time recording of the process of drawing one of these strips, just to be able to see how long it takes and how little effort goes in.
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Solver 10: Boys Like Fun Part 2 John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:Glenn has entered an abstract philosophical world that only he understands. I barely understand it and I’m responsible for writing it. The_Other fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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PetraCore posted:How do you pick names for characters? I read that article on the comic that translated the title as Scary Alien Baseball Team and I really like your translation of Demons of Baseball to capture the 'scary intense outsider baseball players' feel, it's a lot less literal but I feel hits the described mood of the Korean title better. And clearly you're picking more western given names while keeping family names of characters, but I'm wondering if part of that is to capture connotations of names? Like, Planck is a reference to Planck's constant, right? How did you pick that name? Does Two Guns use a nickname in Korean, too? I know you made Maggie and May match because they're sisters, but does Copper have a metallic name in Korean, is Hardy's name a reference to him being tough? Sorry, I'm just really curious! I'm really really enjoying The Demons of Baseball and I've been sharing it with a friend off-forum that loves it, too. Sort of, on Planck. His name in Korean is Hye-sung, which literally means planet and is a fairly unusual name, so I went with the closest thing to get a galactic feel. Two Guns reads as Two Mountains in Korean and I couldn't think of a way to communicate "two big things" that wasn't just a nickname. Copper's name Dong-tak, is kind of metallic, because Dong means Copper, and that was the point where I started questioning my naming rubric but even then I was too far deep to really change it. Choi Hardy is one of the better ones, because his name, Choi-gang, intuitively reads as "the strongest" although I should note, I have no idea what any of these names are actually supposed to mean because I don't know how they're spelled in Chinese. The names in Boss Dharma (but not Chief Dharma) were much more easily interpreted as puns because almost none of them conform to the Chinese syllables most commonly used for Korean names, although they are recognizable as common Korean words.
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Endless Mike posted:Jeremy is in high school, so no older than 18, but doesn't really talk about college applications or anything, so we'll say he's 17, which meant he was born in 1997 when this was published. Must have been some fun retro show his parents went to for kicks. the age thing's already been brought up but the strip used to actually do college prep stuff, especially during the summer, as one of those things the mom pushes him to start sending out stuff for. I think it's been a while since then, though.
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catlord posted:I'm not sure what to expect from Luann, but I am fully expecting it to be real dumb. they'll be siblings but find jesus and get married then smooch
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Tomorrow: they find out they have the same Great-Aunt Brenda. (And if it was Batiuk writing this, you know he'd do it.) Rhinoplasti  Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 2/21/03  Brenda Starr 6/15-17/50  They finally get Hammerschmidt off the cactus, and the copilot, inevitably, flirts with Brenda a bit.   Smokey Stover 2/1/53  Everyday Movies 2/19/36  "Now that we've swapped hats, Duke, he'll never recognize us if we go in again and get another free sample of those crackers." Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 12/2-4/40   
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse  They should've given that quote an attribution, but that would be putting Descartes before the horse. 
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Somewhere in the past of 1940 young Chuck Schultz reads the comics and a seed is planted.
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Strontium posted:They should've given that quote an attribution, but that would be putting Descartes before the horse. Boo!
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (March 21, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  is the bar in Uramichi Sakaba ok 
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Uramachi Sakaba Cthulhu and Girl 
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba Vintage Valiant (Nov. 27, 1955) 
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba Sabao! 
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B. Virtanen ANSU   As a kid it took me a bunch of time to see what's up in the climbing one Fingerpori  The word for "struggle" was one that refers more to fighting/wrestling in Finnish; basically the sentence is meant to convey something like "you must overcome yourself".
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Giant Ethicist posted:Uramachi Sakaba Sabao!! 
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catlord posted:I'm not sure what to expect from Luann, but I am fully expecting it to be real dumb. I'm here for it with popcorn
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"Sharp steel is the only way he'll learn!" I explain to my wife as I hack wildly at my 8-year-old son's totally unguarded throat.
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Powered Descent posted:Bizarro 1980 comics       Dick Tracy  Footrot Flats  The Lockhorns   Computoon: Origins  Legends in the Heights 
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Haifisch posted:1980 comics Nancy only weighs 17 pounds?
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Powered Descent posted:Nancy only weighs 17 pounds?
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