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csammis posted:Is this a translation error or a source error or something in the last panel? If Planck Oh's playing first base and Hardy Choi throws home how did Planck get the opportunity to make an error? Correct! My bad, and the original post has been fixed. As reward for your due diligence, another update- The Demons of Baseball      
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I'm not a great baseball-knowing guy but I'm fairly sure the "right" play would be 2B / shortstop, whichever Hardy is, to 1B for the out.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Is The Mysteries any good? It's short and has maybe a paragraph's worth of text in the entire book but for what it is I think it's decent. Crabgrass  Big Nate 
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riderchop posted:El Chavo did cry weird and high pitched! It was a running gag w/ all the characters that.... was .... well...yeah i guess the comic was spot on.
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Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball I reiterate: 
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Sundae posted:And furthermore, we can clearly see that “Bats Aren’t Bugs” is Waterson’s way of critiquing the public education system…. Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball 
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csammis posted:Is this a translation error or a source error or something in the last panel? If Planck Oh's playing first base and Hardy Choi throws home how did Planck get the opportunity to make an error? May be a translation error, but I'm thinking 'send it home' as in on target. Also, runners 1st & 2nd, 2 out? If fielding the ball has the SS drifting towards second, you flip it there for the shorter throw and the force for out #3. If your momentum's bringing you away from the bag, you set your feet and go for the easy out at first - batter has to finish his swing before he can start running, means the baserunners get an extra step or 2 towards the next base in comparison (IE, 2nd or 3rd is a shorter throw, but since the runner's a good 20 feet further down the line than the batter, 1st is usually still the easier out) thisusedyet fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Jan 5, 2024 |
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Heathcliff No Compu-Toon just yet! Will update if one is uploaded! Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (February 01, 2002)  Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead 
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Untranslatable Fingerpori  The original Finnish word here is "Hellevinkuja" which is a compound word that can break down at least two ways. The first is "Hellevin kuja" (Hellevi's alley). The second is "Helle + vinkuja". Helle is a Finnish word for high temperatures, I think the official line is +25 degrees Celsius. The second word, "vinkuja" literally means "squealer" but it just colloquially means whining or annoying complaining. So there we go. Either Hellevi's alley or a guy who complains about the lack of warm days. And for the record, we definitely had several +25 degree days last year.
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thisusedyet posted:May be a translation error, but I'm thinking 'send it home' as in on target. This was what I was thinking metaphorically but literally this was one hundred percent a translation error caused by me jumbling baseball metaphors with actual baseball. The text definitely explicitly states that Hardy is throwing the ball to first base. Usually I'm careful to note things like the baseball announcers always using clear, unambiguous technical language but, well, this was one reason I decided to stop rushing these translations to fit my imaginary schedule. Despite mostly remembering what happens in this volume from when I first read it there's a lot more dramatic ambiguity in the moment than exists in my memories, probably because what the story is going for only really becomes coherent when you actually get to the ending and even then not so much.
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Doomykins posted:I'm really grateful to get to read Corto and Blueberry from the start! They were always interesting but I was hesitant to read mid-story. I love the art and writing of Blueberry, it's a really enchanting setting. I'm glad you're getting the chance to start from the... start - they've always stuck with me for being (at least, imho) the apex of adventure-pulp - not that they are immune to critique because of that. I'm also enjoying Mexikid stories Anyway, an earlier-than-usual-update, why not? Corto Maltese (one strip spoiled for, uh, an unpleasant term)    Blueberry   
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Doomykins posted:It speaks to the evils of Retail that I didn't actually expect Cooper to get more than an "atta-boy" raise of maybe 50 cents. Considering how long Retail runs this is a reminder that Stuart is pure evil for decades and knew the entire time that Cooper was working two jobs when they slashed his hours. Stuart really deserves to be run over, on purpose.
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Saoshyant posted:Good thing Popeye's becoming public domain soon, 'cause I sure would like any other writer doing a take on a modern Popeye/Olive story that isn't this person. Shugojin posted:Milholland really likes Popeye but his own voice is too strong so it bleeds over. I still like it but I liked his stuff. It's definitely weird for Popeye. Sundae posted:And furthermore, we can clearly see that “Bats Aren’t Bugs” is Waterson’s way of critiquing the public education system…. 
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The_Other posted:Steeple 20: Extreme Freaks Title Drop... “Most arcane subreddits” made me chuckle.
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Vintage Valiant (Feb. 05, 1961) eta: Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball 
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 1/4/04  Brenda Starr 5/18/52  Guess we're not done with the Castle-Nolettis yet. Smokey Stover 1/4/59  Everyday Movies 2/11/37  "I'm five, but I was supposed to say four on the train and I did." Inebriated Scarlet O'Neil 11/15/42  Scarlet's a lightweight. Closer Than We Think! 1/4/59  Want to know how we ended up with suburbs that can't be navigated without a car? Because people thought stuff like this was a neat idea. Bonus Comic! This one interested me because it's so different from everything else on its contemporary comics page -- both the crudity of the art and the weird, fourth-wall-breaking humor. The Nebbishes 1/4/59 
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Strontium posted:Macanudo They never actually traveled by balloon in the book, so I don't know if this is written by someone that never read the book, or if its written by someone that saw a book with a balloon on the cover and then got really confused because it never happens. Judging by this being Macanudo and the typical twee bullshit happening, I'm guessing the former.
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Selachian posted:Closer Than We Think! 1/4/59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXIe4oOzVs4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQsNktD9zW4 Dahir Insaat is right on it!
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Bad Machinery I'm also posting Bad Machinery in the dedicated John Allison thread, if anyone's interested.
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I always read Calvin and Hobbes as primarily being from Calvin's PoV, hence all the unreliable narrator bits are fine. A 6 year old doesn't have perfect social and emotional maturity? Uncanny. Calvin's antics and his relationship with others aren't perfectly healthy but they're also entirely realistic and pretty benign for decades of similar character writing and real life anecdotes. Centuries really, he'd fit right in with the Toonerviller Folks kids. As I recall the truly worst things he does are tormenting the babysitter. Even things like breaking windows/appliances are feasible accidents. Murdstone posted:Mark Trail Trail usually sucks but you know what, I laughed at this one today. The change of having Mark, the source of his own, uh, thoughts and the butt of the joke do the set up is ten times better than the narration box being Jules nervously elbowing you in the ribs and asking if you got the joke while also being an unrelated meta voice that doesn't belong to any of the involved characters. The last panel just delivers the punchline and lets it stand on its own and it works nicely. There's also a chance Mark might develop any nuance in his character as being reluctant to share emotionally, and "the guy running the support group turns out to need support" is a good idea and simple twist. Now just do this 30-60 more times to close out the storyline. quote:The Phantom OHHH BOYYYY 
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Arbetor posted:They never actually traveled by balloon in the book, so I don't know if this is written by someone that never read the book, or if its written by someone that saw a book with a balloon on the cover and then got really confused because it never happens. Judging by this being Macanudo and the typical twee bullshit happening, I'm guessing the former. I think the David Niven/Cantinflas movie has a balloon.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery That poem is simply unexceedable. It can't be defeated.
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Some Guy TT posted:Correct! My bad, and the original post has been fixed. As reward for your due diligence, another update- It would be extremely funny if Planck was intending to use the ULTIMATE DEFENSE to throw the game because no one has perfected doing it, only for him to pull it off by accident because his mind's in such an addled state from the fever.
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Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon I had no idea there was a mid-90's animated series where Teen Flash had a butt-cut and a hoverboard. Mister Kingdom posted:Say what you will about Ziggy, he had one of the best Christmas specials. This somehow wound up right in the middle of my childhood VHS of animated holiday specials. Every year, I got to experience it over and over again: A jarring tonal shift from the slovenly antics of Garfield and earnest sentimentality of the Peanuts gang into the oddly depressing, ultimately heartfelt story of Ziggy silently muddling his way through a dingy, deeply cynical world at Christmas. (It was recorded from a late 80's airing on Showtime, too, so no merry and bright commercial messages to break up Ziggy's trials and tribulations.) Speaking of sentimentality and cynicism, Rose is Rose 
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I know I watched that 90's Flash back in the day. Checking that IMDB link, every single screenshot is familiar. Yet, I cannot remember a single thing about it.
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Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon Dammit, I thought that was going to be Defenders Of The Earth Flash until I saw that haircut. Oh, and just a reminder that Popeye 1.0, the no-spinach one with the weird, deflated jawline, begins his public domain journey in 2025. But if you really want to limber up your pen, the first ten years of Thimble Theater is already fair game. So why not make a Life With the Oyls sitcom while you're waiting? Mutts  Sally Forth  Skippy (December 25, 1935)  Peanuts (January 7, 1977)  Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Breezy and Cobra had a bonding moment awhile back, but really, she just wants to take Cobra off of Rip's ledger. Li'l Abner (July 18-20, 1935)    Thimble Theater (August 9, 1940)  Out Our Way (September 27-29, 1943)   
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