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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I tried opening one in Calibre and it did this extremely weird thing where pages loaded without speech bubbles. Firefox has to think extremely hard before loading each page. Yeah, although SumatraPDF loads it fine, which is what people should be using on Windows. Honestly, I'm still waiting for the day we finally get to move on from PDF.
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So my Giant Days Library Edition arrived today. Wanted to show off and felt that this would be the best thread to do so; Big Box!   Bonus items: The Quotable Giant Days, printed Circus Windows comic, & Giant Days "Student ID Cards"!  
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A new Steeple chapter starting on Monday: it's Maggie's Party
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