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CheeseThief posted:I've been enjoying the comics thread for over a year now, I won't list every thing I've enjoyed here so let me just say thank you for introducing me to so many things I have enjoyed. I’ve just been uploading to imgur
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KennyMan666 posted:Lame Selfie Bee Dragon Bros is pretty good but those bee ones are just the perfect amount of dumb for me
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Okay here goes nothing, introducing Nick and Lever. From the Mangadex description: quote:The story of two foreign men living in Japan. I stumbled across this series very recently and to my great delight I found that 1) It was still being translated. 2) The author had recently turned to independently publishing the series on their website, one of the later chapters links to something like a Japanese patreon if I get to posting it. It's a series of very short (usually just two pages) gag comics about two increadibly upbeat yet dense Americans living a carefree lifestyle in Japan. There's far too many things in it that I love for me to try and talk about all at once here but I feel these first pages from comic zero highlight one of them perfectly.   Right there, Nick's projectile eyeball, is a recurring gag that I adore. While Nick and Lever feels very Japanese in the writing and has a very distinct realism artstyle, it features the kind of cartoony expressions and 4th wall humour that when layed over the other two just tickles me the right way. For now, I'm going to skip chapter 1 (because it's 12 pages long) just to show case more of what I mean. Here's chapter 2:   
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i have begun to crave the death of the bro-dragons
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ZnCu posted:I wasn't the only one thinking it, right? Oh necessarily.
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Lavender Jack     Whoops, I guess I accidentally spoiled this conversation since the succession laws didn't get brought up until here. Also I guess Gall doesn't have the full suite of mayoral powers, just law enforcement. It's probably still not not a constitutional crisis, though.
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gently caress Chief Justice Gall.Owl at Home posted:Hey all, think I'm going to take a short break from posting. Nothing serious, I just need a little time to focus on personal projects and family stuff. Prince Valiant and Timelets will return at the beginning of December! Thanks for posting comics, have a good break o/ CheeseThief posted:Okay here goes nothing, introducing Nick and Lever. Aaaaahhhh this was totally on my list of things to post. Ah well. Do the boys justice! And yeah, I rehost all my stuff on imgur. ZnCu posted:
Yes, this is excellent. barbecue at the folks posted:I love how Sasuke is revealed to be a stone cold badass on the battlefield as befits his status, even if he is a total fop outside it I mean, we had seen him with his shirt off before now, right? The guy's got mad scars all over, this is definitely not his first time to the rodeo. 
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"I love my sister, I only pick the best for her", I had forgotten that line. Reads a little differently once you know how this turns out, huh? Hyouge Mono Ceremony 30: Insignificant Pawn        "...nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." Japan Tengu Party Illustrated chapter 22: Of Military Conferences      Who would win, cruise missiles or a skyscraper with a human face?
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Emzedoh posted:
By all means do, I'm unlikely to be consistent so if you've got the drive go for it! Emzedoh posted:No no, you're stuck with them now. I've got a long long list, I'm happy for you to take them. 
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No no, you're stuck with them now. I've got a long long list, I'm happy for you to take them.
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School of World        Harsh Prospect        (this one got downloaded in a way to make the chapter structure clear and I'll try to stick with it)
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Harsh Prospect reminded me of something I used to read so I went and looked it up: Mare Internum, a sci-fi webcomic by the person who did The Meek, Der-shing Helmer. And hey, it's finished now! Not the Meek though, that's still dead. Give it a read if you like deeply unhappy scientists having encounters of the third kind and don't mind a bit of body horror. And depression. https://www.marecomic.com/
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Something about Nick and Lever looks weirdly familiar. I also get very Beavis and Butthead vibes from them.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Something about Nick and Lever looks weirdly familiar. I also get very Beavis and Butthead vibes from them. Yeah, I can see that. They're nicer than B&B, though. You're in it now, mate! Cooking Papa, Cook 15: Roast Chicken to Your Heart's Content (Roast Six Billion Chickens)       Araiwa seems to have something planned. White Tiger and Black Tiger chapters 136-140  I think this could easily be a lame selfie bee gag with only a little adjustment.     Black Tiger teaches you not to fear death.
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Fantastic, thank you  CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:Aaaaaaaah I love the doggiessss  GREAT by Ryan Armand Hempuli posted:286  288  289  290  291  292  293  294  295  296  I appreciate the honesty Fingerpori  The need to include "either" makes the pun work even worse in Finnish IMO. EDIT: Wait, "either - or" implies that both things can be true; what'd be the exclusive or phrasing in English?  Have an extra Fingerpori; came across this and found it funny!
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Hempuli posted:
Genuine LOL at this, thanks!
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SimonChris posted:Fantomius Hah, he didn't even have to come up with some guff about why it's fake, they just opened it up and let him in anyway. Smooth play with the calling card, though.
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Alright because it's the weekend let's get chapter 1 done, 0 and 2 are more representative of the manga's usual content but chapter 1 is an extra long episode formally introducing our titular characters.              Nick's projectile eye saves the day! This chapter firmly establishes the themes of the comic and the pair's powerful friendship. Ghost Leviathan posted:Something about Nick and Lever looks weirdly familiar. I also get very Beavis and Butthead vibes from them. I've heard that they're actually based on wrestlers, Nick in particular is a dead ringer for someone in the WWE, but I don't know enough about wrestling to say for sure.
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Looking forward to reading about two very good (and very stupid) boys.
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I'm here for the masterfully-painted non-toxic masculinity.
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Does Japanese language have "throw a look/glance" metaphor?
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Some people can stare daggers. However Nick is American, and therefore stares bullets.
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CheeseThief posted:Nick's projectile eye saves the day! love this, thank u for sharing it shades of cowboy henk, beavis brothers absent buttheads cruelty, fish who are certain they are in of water but they are not
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Prop Wash posted:Haujobb is extremely good imo. They’re electro-industrial but with a really high level of proficiency with production. It’s also funny because one of the Haujobb guys is named Daniel Myer so idk if the artist put the poster there for the reference. And now more 8 Easy Bits  I actually listened to Dir en Grey in my early teens, when androgynous men played a key part in figuring out my gender and sexuality stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UA-rm937kc Well, sounds fine I guess.  Another main character appears! I won't say which game they're from before the comic does in case anyone enjoys figuring it out themself (how do we say this using singular they, anyway?), but I played a bit of it back then and thought it seemed pretty good.  The early 2000s, everyone. I won't even comment on all the offensive parts of this one and instead say that I had a modded original Xbox that served as the media center of my shared student apartment. I also rented Morrowind for it and just copied the disc to the HDD. I miss that machine, actually. Lots of good games and a neat homebrew scene.
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Spirit Circle        I think I'd rather just be dead
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Hempuli posted:The need to include "either" makes the pun work even worse in Finnish IMO. I'm pretty sure "either" is an exclusive or qualifier in English. It would be an ambiguous phrasing if it was just "drunk or underage," and if you wanted to make explicit that it's an inclusive or, you'd say "drunk and/or underage." I'm sure it's colloquially used for inclusive or questions sometimes, because not everyone produces their sentences as strict logic constructs, but the either is what makes it exclusive.
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CheeseThief posted:Nick and Lever My favorite detail in all of this is watching Lever in the back at a dishwashing station, at a McDonalds. Don't @ me if your or Japanese McDonald's has a dishwashing station.
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W.. why does Dr. Bunny have a Furby face in this one?
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Hempuli posted:Fingerpori "either/or" is absolutely the exclusive or - or on its own is the ambiguous or which can be exclusive or non-exclusive in english, the joke construction would just be to play off the ambiguity of the unmodified or, similar to a dialogue along the lines of "would you like a or b?" "yes"
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