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SimonChris
Apr 24, 2008

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Grimey Drawer

The Vagabond of Limbo







Musky getting along with the guard because he asks questions and expresses curiosity instead of making assumptions is pretty sweet. Too bad he was working with the bad guys.

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Emzedoh
Jun 26, 2013

Wait, Musky's NB?

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
sounds like the Eternauts are non-binary through their adolescence as a whole

Musky has been presenting as masculine so far, though. At least as far as I can tell, I guess "prince" could be an ungendered term that got mangled in the translation from space languages to French/English.

Emzedoh
Jun 26, 2013

Presently NB might have been a more accurate way to put it. I'd be surprised if 'prince' in French is non-gendered though, the Romance languages are mad keen for gendering nouns in gen(d)eral. Giraffes (une girafe)are feminine and monkeys (un singe)are masculine, for example.

I just googled those examples, don't @ me.

SimonChris
Apr 24, 2008

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Grimey Drawer

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

sounds like the Eternauts are non-binary through their adolescence as a whole

Musky has been presenting as masculine so far, though. At least as far as I can tell, I guess "prince" could be an ungendered term that got mangled in the translation from space languages to French/English.

The Prince is their father. Musky is "the son of the Prince of the Eternauts", which is explicitly male-gendered in French as well. They have been presenting as male so far for political convenience, but are happy to explain things to people who show interest. They are also blatantly flirting with Axel, in case people haven't picked up on that yet. Eternauts stay on puberty blockers until they have found their partner, as partially explained in their introduction:

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Axel's being really rude to the shapeshifter when he full knew what he was getting into. vOv

Is Musky going to turn out to be Chimeer at the very end? :v

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Tunicate posted:

MS Paint Masterpieces
#391: Not Just Yet - That Thing Is Creepy

#392: Not Just Yet - Boding

#393: Not Just Yet - The Brows Of Doom


Sunglasses wily is fun
MS Paint Masterpieces
#394: Not Just Yet - More Bad Acting

#395: Not Just Yet - Tubular Fate

#396: Not Just Yet - The Deus Ex Machina


Wow, I can't believe he'd do something like that?!

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Laserjet 4P posted:



‘Mᴜʀɪᴄᴀ, ғᴜᴄᴋ ʏᴇᴀʜ

I'm the wrong nationality to grab that as an avatar, but drat it's close

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Slimy Hog
Apr 22, 2008


I don't get it. Is that a pokemon that eats kids or something?

MAJOR Chapter 5










Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Slimy Hog posted:

I don't get it. Is that a pokemon that eats kids or something?

Pokedex posted:

Stories go that it grabs the hands of small children and drags them away to the afterlife. It dislikes heavy children.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Drifloon_(Pok%C3%A9mon)#Pok.C3.A9dex_entries_2

CheeseThief
Dec 28, 2012

Two wholesome boys to brighten your day

Time for Nick & Lever!

April Fool's day








Forced entry



A Major Discovery (Lever repping SA in this one.)



(That last page, such high quality for what is essentially a silly gag comic.)

Loser

(I saw some notes from the translator, in the original Japanese Nick's manner of speaking is supposedly very childish.)

Lever's Morning






(Meanwhile Lever's Japanese is very polite and feminine, also that backpack he's wearing in the last page is apparently of a type for elementary school kids.)



(Over all, in terms of the Japanese they use, Nick & Lever are supposedly perfectly fluent and understanable but switch between alphabets arbitarily giving the impression of foreigners speaking correctly but without knowing the naunces a native speaker would.)

As you've all heard Nick & Lever has ended, well more accurately it had ended a while ago but now translations have reached the end. We've still got plenty of chapters for me to procrastinate over actually posting! We haven't even hit peak Nick & Lever yet and my favourite chapter is still on the horizon.
I believe the translations were a one man effort so shout out to them, I'm just grabbing these from Mangadex to share because I genuinely think more people need to see these.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

i'm the secondhand dentures shop in episode 31

Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"


Spirit Circle










I like that Koko's question here is kind of an inversion of the question asked about the non-living repeatedly in Lafalle's chapter

Owl at Home
Dec 25, 2014

Well hoot, I don't know if I can say no to that
Prince Valiant in the Days of king Arthur (May 14-28, 1944)








Lmao King Anguar's face in panel 5

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

CrocodileKingSaysNO
Jul 25, 2007

prince valiant is truly a treasure

Clean Your Teeth
Jul 10, 2009

Clean Your Teeth posted:

Scoob and Shag
is back baby!

Since it's been over a year since the last update(!), a brief recap:

The big picture: The 'good toons', led by Scoob & Shag broke Velma and some others out of Mickey Mouse (bad toon)'s prison, but not before Mickey had filmed Velma's "format" power. Mickey then used the tape to wipe most of Earth's memory and brainwash them into believing the Toon's had been in charge forever, becoming President of the USA in the process.

The small picture: It's ~2 months later & halloween! A bunch of trick-or-treaters encountered Eddy (sans Ed / Edd), and he ate them or something? An unrelated teen is trying to get to a party on the subway but it mysteriously stopped, seemingly for a few hours though other passengers say it's been days and have gone all Lord of the Flies...

Clean Your Teeth has a new favorite as of 20:35 on Jan 2, 2024

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Nick & Lever are golden boys, thanks for posting 'em

Digamma-F-Wau
Mar 22, 2016

It is curious and wants to accept all kinds of challenges
Me & You

Dieting Hippo
Jan 5, 2006

THIS IS NOT A PROPER DIET FOR A HIPPO
crime! crime! crime!

Emzedoh
Jun 26, 2013

Dieting Hippo posted:

crime! crime! crime!

Criiiime

CheeseThief posted:

Time for Nick & Lever!
As you've all heard Nick & Lever has ended, well more accurately it had ended a while ago but now translations have reached the end. We've still got plenty of chapters for me to procrastinate over actually posting! We haven't even hit peak Nick & Lever yet and my favourite chapter is still on the horizon.
I believe the translations were a one man effort so shout out to them, I'm just grabbing these from Mangadex to share because I genuinely think more people need to see these.

Thanks for posting Nick and Lever and thanks for the translation notes in particular!


Hype for more Scoob and Shag!


Hyouge Mono Ceremony 43: Hole of Simplicity









It is a little bit of a dangerous game Rikyu is playing here, to be fair.


The Dragon, the Hero and the Courier Episode 23: The Carrier, Love and the Courier






Jon is a good boy.

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011


Star Impact






Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
Tiger, Tiger



Some parts of this get a bit too twee for my taste.

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.



Jolyne Cujoh
Dec 7, 2012

It's not like I've got no worries...
But I'll be fine.
Sweetness And Lightning










fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

This is terrible news to start the new year

don't be sad because it ended at chapter 134, be happy because that means we still have 100 more chapters to go

Phthisis
Apr 16, 2007

"Maybe some dolphins have sex for pleasure."
One again checking in to state how much I really love Prince Valiant.

I really love this sea panel here in panel 3:


The weird gray pillars on the left are a little weird, but otherwise I like the stylistic choice for the sea and sky and the detailed bird is a really nice touch.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Phthisis posted:

The weird gray pillars on the left are a little weird

Rain shafts? :heysexy:

I thought it was rain anyway, I thought it looked pretty neat despite being opaque due to newspaper coloring.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Phthisis posted:

One again checking in to state how much I really love Prince Valiant.

I really love this sea panel here in panel 3:

The weird gray pillars on the left are a little weird, but otherwise I like the stylistic choice for the sea and sky and the detailed bird is a really nice touch.

Agreed. That last panel needs "visit THULE" written across it, next to some mid-century airline's logo

Emzedoh
Jun 26, 2013

THULE IS SO BRACING (?)

Phthisis
Apr 16, 2007

"Maybe some dolphins have sex for pleasure."

Captain Hygiene posted:

Rain shafts? :heysexy:

I thought it was rain anyway, I thought it looked pretty neat despite being opaque due to newspaper coloring.

Yeah I assumed it was rain, too, though even so it looks a little strange to me. Also because it looks fairly sunny with the high-contrast shadows? I dunno. I'm not exactly gonna lose sleep over it and don't think it negatively impacts the panel or anything. It was just a bit of an eyebrow-raiser in a panel I otherwise loved.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Emzedoh posted:

THULE IS SO BRACING (?)

I've got a book of railway maps and ads, and by far the best poster is this incredibly British one from Olden Times that essentially goes
Visit CORNWALL
In many respects, CORNWALL is quite similar to ITALY
Visit CORNWALL

SimonChris
Apr 24, 2008

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Grimey Drawer

The Vagabond of Limbo





Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
lmao of course axel's first thought was to bang the jelly alien

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

lmao of course axel's first thought was to bang the jelly alien

Vagabond of Himbo...

Emzedoh
Jun 26, 2013

Tree Bucket posted:

I've got a book of railway maps and ads, and by far the best poster is this incredibly British one from Olden Times that essentially goes
Visit CORNWALL
In many respects, CORNWALL is quite similar to ITALY
Visit CORNWALL

I googled this and found the original, check out the total disregard for scale as well as truth:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/l0kpna/this_1907_british_travel_advertisement_compares/

I enjoyed learning about this, thank you for sharing it!


One Day Outing Foreman chapter 13: Geezer Hunting






Karma!

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Emzedoh posted:

I googled this and found the original, check out the total disregard for scale as well as truth:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/l0kpna/this_1907_british_travel_advertisement_compares/

I enjoyed learning about this, thank you for sharing it!

That's it! That's the one!
Why surround yourself with the fabled fruits, wines and dusky Mediterranean maidens of sun-kissed Italy, when you could go a couple of miles and witness Roberta Jenkins, professional eel-smoker and whelk-scraper, looming through the fog?

e: come to think of it my mother's family is a mix of Cornish and Italian so, I'm probably the direct result of someone attempting to put that poster into practice?

Tree Bucket has a new favorite as of 14:01 on Jan 3, 2024

Akratic Method
Mar 9, 2013

It's going to pay off eventually--I'm sure of it.

Any day now.

You probably meant "smoker" as in hanging the meat in smoke to preserve it, but I definitely first pictured someone lighting an eel on fire and sucking in the smoke.

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Slimy Hog
Apr 22, 2008

MAJOR Chapter 5




Koshien is referencing a pretty important high school baseball championship that's apparently similar to March Madness in popularity. There's actually a documentary about it called Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams that I recommend (I randomly found it via my library's streaming service when I was reading this originally.)








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