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Giant Ethicist posted:Haraiso Days "Don't ask what we did to prisoners or the Island's native population."
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Pogo 4/30 - 5/2/51  Bunch of literary references in this one: "Ode on a Grecian Urn." "You may fire when ready, Gridley." A Child's Garden of Verses.  Snappy Answers to Archie Questions 1/8-10/48   
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Kid Fenris posted:"Don't ask what we did to prisoners or the Island's native population." i dont think its supposed to be the IJA
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Professor Wayne posted:Zits Compu-toon rear end joke
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A distant Jughead relative
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i dont think its supposed to be the IJA I agree that it's pretty clearly meant to be "the Japanese army in WWII", right down to their uniforms and fighting a losing war over jungle islands, just as Haraiso itself is nominally in an unnamed country that (when it comes up) doesn't know what a "Japan" is, but is at the same time very clearly mid- to late-20th-century Japan with SF trappings. Soapbox: Frankly, the way this is handled is a problem you often see with Japanese stories about the war in popular media – it was a terrible thing, unwinnable from the start, done by the politicians, but it’s just a thing that happens to ordinary people, it’s like a force of nature and they’re helpless victims of it. (Note that, as the other poster alluded to, the soldiers here don’t really do anything.) That framing is true in some sense, as Japan was quite un-democratic to begin with and then was soft-couped by a very hawkish military faction, but it’s a very common way the war is talked about in media here that just happens to completely clear the common person of any responsibility whatsoever for what happened. Taken on its own the story is fine, it's not about "soldiers fighting in a war" so much as it's about "soldiers enduring harsh conditions", but it's definitely part of a larger pattern in Japanese media.
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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:When this story started, did you imagine, even for a second, that this is where it would end, with collusion between a robot and a battling priest? No. No you did not and that is why you keep coming back despite the fact that webcomics on web sites are old hat. I was thinking about how this would work out in the long run. Would Gareth need oil changes and replacement parts over time? Would that effect him? I'm guessing as long as his computer core/brain is left alone he should be fine.
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The_Other posted:Steeple 17: Hell on Wheels Part 2 I remember in a very horrible (not horrible like funky but horrible as in oh dear God why why) comic about the Functionism Age of Transformers, if a bot kept pissing off the Council by doing things not their function (IE if your alt mode was a truck and you didnt want to deliver poo poo but wanted to be a scientist) at some point the bot would have a transformation lock strapped on so they were forced to stay as a truck or jet or lamppost forever. So I imagine there would be a much lighter form where a bot might just decide gently caress it, I'mma be a truck for a few decades and chill.
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As promised, the rest of the morning. Thimble Theater (April 1, 1940)  Out Our Way, featuring mother-daughter collusion. (August 31-September 2, 1942)   
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hexwren posted:I am really glad nobody's posting doc rat, I gotta say
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Doomykins posted:Jucika "230 - Jucika As A Stewardess" Did you miss posting #224 & 225?
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Yes. Jucika "224 - Jucika Likes Privacy"  "225 - Jucika As A Tour Guide" 
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Selachian posted:
That reminds me, did we run out of The Timid Soul, or did the guy posting it vanish?
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The_Other posted:I was thinking about how this would work out in the long run. Would Gareth need oil changes and replacement parts over time? Would that effect him? I'm guessing as long as his computer core/brain is left alone he should be fine. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  If Truck's not careful Mud's gonna steal away Wanda. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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riderchop posted:On The Fastrack
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riderchop posted:Compu-toon He's just making fun of us now.
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Zereth posted:Look, "having tattoos" is not something you can really do as "Tell don't show" in a visual medium. It's the thing that annoys me most about any of his comics. "This character is covered in tattoos and piercings," he says, making absolutely no effort to draw them, ever, even when they are directly relevant. "Can't be done," he says, "they're too small to show up." Apparently he's never read Zits or Dustin, because both of those comics seem to manage to depict characters with tattoos and piercings.
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riderchop posted:Compu-toon I listened to that Seanbaby podcast on Compu-toon over the weekend. It's really interesting to hear some people who've written comedy professionally try to analyze what Boyce was going for, how his process of writing a joke might work. Sometimes it's like he starts with a very well trod joke scenario (the shipwrecked dudes on a desert island, for instance) and then just crams a vague computer-related reference into it. Other times it's word association, where any other writer might go "wait, that doesn't make sense," but Boyce just pushes forward. They also point out how much of Boyce's strips are recycled art with parts of it erased. I feel like you can tell particularly well with this one, most of the background looks like he took a digital eraser to it. I bet that he doesn't have template files where he stores frequently used backgrounds or characters - whenever he wants to do one of these jokes where apps for some reason get sold in a brick-and-mortar store, he just takes the last comic he did about it, rubs out half of it, and types new text over it. And next time, he'll grab this comic...
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davidspackage posted:They also point out how much of Boyce's strips are recycled art with parts of it erased. I feel like you can tell particularly well with this one, most of the background looks like he took a digital eraser to it. I bet that he doesn't have template files where he stores frequently used backgrounds or characters - whenever he wants to do one of these jokes where apps for some reason get sold in a brick-and-mortar store, he just takes the last comic he did about it, rubs out half of it, and types new text over it. And next time, he'll grab this comic... Somebody a bit earlier posted a screenshot of his process. Come for the glimpse behind the scenes, stay because you're frozen with horror at his desktop.
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I'm here for Sarvana to fire a grenade launcher at fate, Mozz. Mark Trail has reached the point where the author resents having to tell a story in the first place. 
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riderchop posted:On The Fastrack "Here's the gold star tattoo I gave myself for working with you." God, can she sound more condescending? riderchop posted:Safe Havens Either the colorist gave up in the last panel, or everyone got some fatal illness from transforming into mermaids. Doomykins posted:I'm here for Sarvana to fire a grenade launcher at fate, Mozz. Can't we give the Phantom mantle to Savarna? She'll probably do a better job. And yeah, lol, this NuTrail story ends out of loving nowhere. Just an absolute mess from start to end. It's really telling how NuMark is so ineffectual that we never see him be the one to actually shut down anyone's plans. The villains either defeat themselves or someone else has the critical thing needed to beat them.
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Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 8/6-8/51
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Doomykins posted:Yes. Thanks!
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I'm fairly certain a phone swelling up like that is a subtle hint that it's time to replace the battery.Shaman Tank Spec posted:Fingerpori
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I used to keep up with this thread and then I got way behind so I'm still catching up I made it to February of this year I just have to pop in and chime in that Rex Morgan is so loving boring what's the point
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A+J OK, Marylou being this pushy about it while also talking up A+J as investors or partners in a new business venture is getting a little ick. I wonder if that's the vibe I'm supposed to be getting or if I'm reading too much into, "older folks don't like change" jokes.
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Huxley posted:A+J She’s pregnant. That’s my guess.
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Dec. 28, 1958) Here I've been talking up how the magic in Prince Valiant is usually so subtle and otherwise-explainable, and then Val goes full-on psychokinetic and levitates a drat dagger.  you broke my grill posted:I used to keep up with this thread and then I got way behind so I'm still catching up I made it to February of this year I just have to pop in and chime in that Rex Morgan is so loving boring what's the point Rex is in a decades-long competition with Mary Worth to have the fewest things happen in the longest span of time. Bizarro  The Family Circus  Slylock Fox 
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Tiggum posted:It's the thing that annoys me most about any of his comics. "This character is covered in tattoos and piercings," he says, making absolutely no effort to draw them, ever, even when they are directly relevant. "Can't be done," he says, "they're too small to show up." Apparently he's never read Zits or Dustin, because both of those comics seem to manage to depict characters with tattoos and piercings. I was going to tip in a comment about artists making design choices they live to regret, but then I remembered what creator we were talking about. Mutts  Sally Forth  Skippy (September 7, 1935)  Peanuts (August 31, 1976)  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire missed a filing deadline.  Thimble Theater (April 2, 1940)  Olive & Popeye  Out Our Way (September 3-5, 1942)   
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