Emzedoh posted:

Bonus nonsense chapter, dumping it in one go.

Emzedoh posted:

Huh, that's interesting. Here's a mysterious smoking child (?). He casts spells by blowing cigarette smoke at people, I bet he's a popular guy.

Emzedoh posted:

Boba Pearl posted:

He's popular in my heart and soul, but also good news, both work.

SimonChris posted:

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skeleton warrior posted:

Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist

skeleton warrior posted:

Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist

Kit Walker posted:

quote:

“Prince Kassardis struggled mightily to rid himself of his pursuers, for despite what the Very Wise Frog had told him, he still held within his heart the vain hope that the peaceful land of Samura existed and he would someday find himself upon its gleaming shores, free of his wives and throne.

First, he fled the road, and spying a low and reeking gully hurled himself therein. There, the mud and brambles were so thick that he could barely move, and the fetid water was choked with the corpses of animals that had become trapped in the muck. Thick clouds of flies bit at Kassardis as he struggled heroically onward, until at last he heaved himself from the mud, his trail almost completely invisible, and made for higher ground.

Indeed, when the clever and keen Vastoki came upon Kassardis’ trail disappearing into the gully, she was taken aback by his cleverness. But with her specially made eye-glasses, Vastoki’s eyesight was keener than a hawk’s. She picked out the shining pieces of thread from Kassardi’s silver waistcoat clinging to the brambles, and was back on his trail in scarcely an hour, her fellow wives close behind.”

– Tales of the Silver Prince

quote:

“Seeing his three wives draw ever closer and that his first plot to foil them had failed miserably, Prince Kassardis doubled his pace. Knowing he would never outrun the cruel Vastoki on open ground, he hurled himself into a sea of dead grass, and used up all his water trying to escape her grasp. A night and a day later, he emerged on the shores of the river Dal, and spent the last of his money hiring a fisherman to take him downriver.

The fisherman’s boat overturned in the town of Kol Varas, and there Kassardis did a very shameful thing. He sold to the first rich man he could find his fine silk headwrap, and his father’s silver dagger, and his waistcoat lined with sparrow feathers, which were marks of his lineage. With his sack of foreign coin he hired six strong men, belligerent knights from the wars of conquest, and hid himself in a wheelbarrow, hoping against hope that his ploy would be enough.

Vastoki arrived in the dusty town not hours later, and she was almost immediately set upon by the mercenaries that Kassardis had hired. From his hiding place, the young prince watched as Vastoki was caught in their ambush and fought desperately against stave and sword.

Vastoki was very fast, but also very slight, and no match against the six knights in close combat. Though beaten, she merely retreated to lick her wounds and set camp outside of town. One of the knights nearly lost his head to her long rifle when he ventured out to confront her, and that was that for a while.

As night fell, the knights returned to Kassardis. “Where wandereth thee, young one?” they said in their foreign dialects.

“To the land of Samura, where I may find peace and an escape from violence,” said the exhausted Kassardis, from his hiding place.

“Violence is inescapable,” guffawed the mercenaries, and robbed Kassardis of everything remaining that he owned, for they had seen he was a fool from the start. They threw him naked and beaten into the street, and spent their winnings on drink.

Kassardis, his swollen eyes full of tears and knowing his time was short, stole a woman’s garb from a washing line and a small hunk of bread and fled into the desert, the final words of the Very Wise Frog echoing in his ears.

The belligerent knights, for their part, died not hours later when they were squashed into a pulp by Littari’s iron cauldron. ”

– Tales of the Silver Prince

Peanut Butler posted:

I'm so glad you're posting this and it's a specifically excellent choice for this thread!

so- I don't know if ppl are familiar w/CYELATM, but it's- very much the kind of scrappy weird lil webcomic that was common ~20 years ago, with the usual evolution of style and content, but compressed on a timeframe that I find impressive by any standards
Junie Abernathy is makin good stuff, firing off better than ever the later u get- the kind of stuff on the cultural simmering level of a b. kliban or lynda barry, but in the present day, when theres more people and fewer gatekeepers and you just hope you're exposed to *something* good while you look at the leisure screen- and well, I think you are ITT in general, and in specific, if you are open to be in for a treat, you will be, with cyelatm (imho)

Emzedoh posted:

That reminds me, I forgot to mention that ningyo-yaki are soft little cake things filled with red bean paste and made to look like the seven lucky gods.

Something like this:


You know what they say: if you meet God on the road, eat him.

Giant Ethicist posted:

They also come in cute anime versions - Doraemon is popular:

You see Hello Kitty a lot too.

Hempuli posted:

ANSU



Fingerpori

Eppu Normaali is an old & popular Finnish rock band, formed in 1976. The band's name resembles a human name, translating to "Eppu Normal" (Eppu being a nongendered first name).
I tried and tried but couldn't find a wordplay in the sign, so my assumption is that the joke's just "Eppu Normaali is an old band, therefore having their shirt proves you're at least 18 years old to buy alcohol".
In Finland you can buy mild drinks at 18 and strong ones at 21, IIRC.

Hempuli posted:

I really liked Space Dread's mild "Gross." Tredlocity does character voices really well.

Fantastic!

ANSU



Fingerpori

I tried to translate the panel in a way that'd make some sense in English, hence changing "oasis" into "resort"
Kellon ympäri pyörivä keidas = an oasis that's open all day long
Pyöriä = rotate/run/operate
Kellon ympäri = all day long/around the clock
Keidas = oasis, an old cliche term for advertising luxury resorts, shopping centers etc.
Kellon ympäri pyörivä keidas = an oasis that rotates around a clock

Tree Bucket posted:

I got stuck on a train for several hours with no internet today. So here, feast upon the fruits of boredom with
the pyf comics thread crossword
(also the letters in the yellow boxes, when untangled, spell the name of the most gripping & emotionally searing webcomic of our times)

Tree Bucket posted:

(also the letters in the yellow boxes, when untangled, spell the name of the most gripping & emotionally searing webcomic of our times)

The Black Stones posted:

You have too many yellow boxes to just spell “Chako”

ultrafilter posted:

CzarChasm posted:

I like the teen sleuth comic. Hopefully there's some more.

KennyMan666 posted:

Have solved almost all of the crossword, but cannot for the life of me figure out what 25 across is supposed to be. I've got the last letter for it but can't think of anything that would make sense there.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I appreciate that you took the solution to anatomy jazz to be Jo and Oo.

Fortis posted:

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

fritz posted:

And a two-parter from Kathleen Gros:
Lemon-Eating Boss

KennyMan666 posted:

SimonChris posted: