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Steeple 17: Hell on Wheels Part 2 John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website John Allison posted:I think this story really came into its own when I decided that Reverend Penrose would try in vain to twist the robot’s head off. It all flowed from there, backwards and forwards.
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The_Other posted:Steeple 17: Hell on Wheels Part 2 No no an empurata is removal of head AND hands in Transformers/bots who change forms.
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Kennel posted:Mandrake "It makes people want to kill their fiances. Anyway, you should probably be getting out of the flashback now."
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Vargo posted:Breaking Cat News It hurts my immersion whenever Dunn romanticizes the household pests that normal cats would always being trying to murder. Or maybe I'm just annoyed because there are already too many cats to keep track of without having to keep track of all these other animals too. quote:Phoebe and Her Unicorn I'm very struck how this was the whole "gateway in the subway" storyline in Legend in the Heights, except way more condensed and genuinely charming because it's presented in purely functional terms and isn't just assumed to be inherently interesting. EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (April 27-29, 1942) This one really threw me because I can't imagine a road with lots of greenery and frolicking deer (who I can actually see and therefore not accidentally run into) as being a part of a less beautiful landscape because...whatever they're looking at is thinner. Can't even tell if that's supposed to be part of the joke or not.
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mycatscrimes posted:Sorry I'm not trying to be aggro but I am truly mystified by this recurring discussion thread around the strip's setting. It's extremely normal for a lighthearted kid's story not to be 100% grounded in a specific setting and to just have random anachronisms or excursions into the fantastic. The 'honey badger' thing wouldn't be a big deal even if it was supposed to be strictly set in the 80s, because that's a throwaway line immediately understandable to the audience reading it and the point of the work is not creating a slavishly authentic period piece. The approach to setting is driven by the kinds of stories told, not the other way around, and there is no real need for a 'kids solving a mystery in an ambigously nostalgic past' story to be a super authentic period piece, because the exact time period is not tremendously important to the story. I don't think you're being aggro at all! I keep bringing the topic up because I enjoy discussing it. Crabgrass isn't suddenly terrible by any means, but the vibe is definitely different and I think that's more interesting than it is bad.
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Some Guy TT posted:It hurts my immersion whenever Dunn romanticizes the household pests that normal cats would always being trying to murder. Or maybe I'm just annoyed because there are already too many cats to keep track of without having to keep track of all these other animals too. I think the rubber tires on the car are wearing thin so everybody is much more concerned with making sure they stay in the ruts and don't find any surprise punctures than looking at the landscape around them.
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BigglesSWE posted:Ballard Street
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EasyEW posted:Sally Forth, featuring Ted's dad bod.
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Some Guy TT posted:This one really threw me because I can't imagine a road with lots of greenery and frolicking deer (who I can actually see and therefore not accidentally run into) as being a part of a less beautiful landscape because...whatever they're looking at is thinner. Can't even tell if that's supposed to be part of the joke or not. They're looking at the ruts in the dirt road, which in previous strips were so deep that they were practically driving slot cars. But tire rationing had started in January, so some people don't get around much anymore. At least that's my take. Our Boarding House (April 17-19, 1924)    Toonerville Folks (June 20-22, 1921)    Dok's "That Type of Friendship" Duck (October 31, 1914)  Little Lefty, featuring Patsy and Kate, spy smashers. (November 3-5, 1938)   
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Tiggum posted:Doesn't she see him every day? Not with his shirt off They only exist in the strips we see, which is why they never had a second kid
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The_Other posted:Steeple 17: Hell on Wheels Part 2 Def made me think of the old Headmasters Marvel comic. 
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Good Listener posted:Def made me think of the old Headmasters Marvel comic. 
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Green Intern posted:Really side eying this dog being left outside in an open chickenwire cage. Like, crate training and kenneling are a thing and can be really helpful for situations when you need to keep your dog contained and it's not cruel if done properly. But you're not supposed to just lock your dog up in the shed all day every day because you got bored with the idea of owning a dog, 80's Canadians! Murdstone posted:
You guys are going to beat people up at the press conference? Luann  Bad choice. If you hate the main character you're writing, how can you expect the reader to like or want to read about them? Not saying it can't be done. Saying it takes skill and Luann doesn't have the chops. Gil Thorp 
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Some Guy TT posted:I don't think you're being aggro at all! I keep bringing the topic up because I enjoy discussing it. Crabgrass isn't suddenly terrible by any means, but the vibe is definitely different and I think that's more interesting than it is bad. That's fair! It's fun to talk about stories. : ) And with all the recent changes, it only makes sense Crabgrass is drawing some extra scrutiny. Glad I didn't come off as snippy.
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Fingerpori munankorvike = egg substitute/replacement muna = egg muna = slang term for penis (or more probably male genitalia as a whole due to the "testicles resemble eggs" thing, even though where I'm from it's mostly been a penis euphemism) munankorvike = penis substitute/replacement I'm a bit hazy how you get "vagina" from "penis substitute/replacement"
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Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball Oh no, now I'm starting to feel bad for Copper! I get so annoyed at strips of Luann forever complaining that writing is so hard. Make an effort at something for once in your comic strip life, you goddamn waste of space At least Dustin goes out and tries things, despite his family trying to keep him down
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (August 15, 2001)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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davidspackage posted:Oh no, now I'm starting to feel bad for Copper!  Planck marrying the sister and becoming his in-law would be delicious.
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Some Guy TT posted:It hurts my immersion whenever Dunn romanticizes the household pests that normal cats would always being trying to murder. Or maybe I'm just annoyed because there are already too many cats to keep track of without having to keep track of all these other animals too. Interactions with yard critters can be complex. My mom's yard has picked up a badger. Her reaction was "it'll keep the sage rats away who were more of a pest, and I wasn't using that part of the yard anyway so a big hole doesn't matter", and her friends' reaction was "oh boy, we can bring our dogs by and they'll kill it for you!" So she had to have a bit of a talk with them to make sure nobody crossed boundaries thinking they were doing a favor. Meanwhile deer, which a lot of folks would say "aww, how sweet", she chases away with a broom because they eat plants she's trying to grow. They love the small stuff that hasn't gotten established yet.
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 Untranslatable Fingerpori  "Sei" or "seiti" is Finnish for pollock, the fish. "Sonta" is Finnish for dung. Because Finnish is a language of compound words, we can put those together. If we add in the word "vakuutus", insurance, we get a long word: seisontavakuutus, which can be broken down to sei + sonta + vakuutus and literally means "pollock dung insurance". Obviously this word is nonsense and nobody would use it, but it is also a homonym for "seisontavakuutus", seisonta + vakuutus. "Seisonta" is a Finnish term for a vehicle that is not currently commissioned to be road legal, ie. a car you have put in long term storage. If you are willing to legally state that you will not be driving it for a long period, you can opt out of buying quite expensive (and mandatory) normal car insurance for it, and can instead get cheaper "seisontavakuutus", or "laid up insurance"/"decommissioned insurance". 
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