Comic Strips 2024: Just Act Cool and Flex a Little

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Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻

I wouldn't mind opening it up to the floor, along with reasonings for them (I mean, that's what I did with some of my translations for Blueberry, too)

Also yeah, sometimes if a person is sickly, like Sally is, they don't want dinner? It depends on what they are sick with?

Corto Maltese

Blueberry

# ? Jan 13, 2024 07:25

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# ? May 23, 2024 12:31

CzarChasm: Mar 14, 2009; I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

Some Guy TT posted:

So funny story, almost. By sheer dumb coincidence, I kiiind of ended up going through similar stuff as Planck while I was translating this. And believe me, the constant reminder of "remember what Planck did? Don't do what Planck did" was borderline therapeutic in getting through all that.

Anyway, I have a general query. As some of you might have noticed, I attempted to use Phoenix Wright style localizations for names in Demons of Baseball instead of directly transliterating them from Korean. I did this for text box reasons, making them easier to remember, and also maintaining some of the thematic implications (Planck's Korean name is not a common one and literally translates as planet, for example). I'm now mulling over whether to do the same for the Wandering Culinarian. Thoughts?

As a more specific aside to this question, there's a really stupid pun for two of the characters' names where they can be combined to form a four-letter phrase meaning something like grand feast. That's the sort of thing I'd like to at least try to reproduce in English instead of banishing to a translator's note. So far I've got Hanks and Gillian (to approximate Thanksgiving) but knowing the tendency of some posters to try and translate the untranslatable Fingerporis, I figured I'd open this one up to the floor.

I'd say keep up the style you are most comfortable handling, but I think going with names that are close enough and easier to keep characters separate.

I don't know if it helps, but if the Grand Feast character names are surnames, I wonder if Hanks and Givens might score a little closer. If it's first names, maybe Buffy (buffet) if it's a woman.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 07:27

Strontium: Aug 28, 2009; Dexter didn't much care for the party.

Daddy Daze

Take It From The Tinkersons

Macanudo

Dark Side Of The Horse

# ? Jan 13, 2024 07:56

riderchop: Aug 10, 2010; av by @daikonquest!

Heathcliff

Compu-toon is......classic today?

Garfield

Overboard

Monty

For Better or For Worse

Classic Arlo and Janis (February 09, 2002)

Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon

On The Fastrack

Safe Havens

Zippy The Pinhead

# ? Jan 13, 2024 08:01

someone awful.: Sep 7, 2007

riderchop posted:

Garfield

keith is that you

# ? Jan 13, 2024 08:20

Giant Ethicist: Jun 9, 2013; Looks like she got on a loaf of bread instead of a bus again...

We Are Reproducing

# ? Jan 13, 2024 09:22

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Excellent babby faces

# ? Jan 13, 2024 09:36

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Grant & Buffy.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 11:25

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Hostile V posted:

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So you're only allow to kill and eat people you don't know?

# ? Jan 13, 2024 11:57

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

If you already knew them clearly it's murder. Unlike if you were complete strangers, which is totally different because [anomalously long, loud flatulence noises]

# ? Jan 13, 2024 12:07

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

This is why most comics with talking animals avoid the logistics of how a world with sentient animals would work.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 12:54

Drimble Wedge: Mar 10, 2008; Self-contained

Holbrook's characters are all just as smug and self-satisfied as Batiuk's (I know this isn't exactly a new revelation but god, one can only take so much, and also someone should do a creative edit with all those backward-pointing thumb gestures he loves so much).

# ? Jan 13, 2024 13:46

Odonata: Nov 5, 2009; Nap Ghost

riderchop posted:

Rae the Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon

Whoa! A modern Popeye comic that tells a good joke & isn't about how the artist is full of daddy issues? Give me more!

# ? Jan 13, 2024 14:31

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Into Ilves

Nancy

Dustin

Mandrake

# ? Jan 13, 2024 14:37

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Rhymes with Orange

Get Fuzzy 1/12/04

Stephen Collins

Brenda Starr 6/5-7/52

Smokey Stover 3/1/59

Everyday Movies 2/20/37

"If this cold weather keeps up, Duke, we'll just hafta chop some wood and start the fire."

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 12/3-5/42

Been a while since we had Scarlet getting knocked out by a stray punch.

Closer Than We Think! 3/1/59

Yes, well, we've just gotten around to imposing congestion fees in Manhattan. So maybe someday.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 14:38

Shaman Tank Spec: Dec 26, 2003; *blep*

Selachian posted:

Archie 3/31 - 4/2/49

I mean...

I had to.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 15:35

Saoshyant: Oct 26, 2010

Selachian posted:

I continue to be in awe on how absurd this strip can get.

There lies Scarlet O'Neil, invisible, knocked out conveniently on top of the bed, while people are shooting each other with her in the middle.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 16:10

Forum accident: Jun 15, 2006; All hail Thor...the THUNDER GOD!

Frank and Ernest

(10/1/1993)

(10/2/1993)

Ziggy

(7/17/1971)

# ? Jan 13, 2024 16:15

Vox Valentine: May 31, 2013; Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

LOVE MY WIFE-TO-BE AND OUR loving SYMBOLIC LOG

My Kid Could Crap One Of These Out

# ? Jan 13, 2024 16:15

Medenmath: Jan 18, 2003

Vintage Valiant (Mar. 26, 1961)

# ? Jan 13, 2024 16:23

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Bizarro

The Family Circus

Slylock Fox

Flash Gordon

# ? Jan 13, 2024 16:37

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Very poor form to leave the claim-holder sibling alive.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 16:39

Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

Val: I mean on one hand I want to do more killing.

Flash Gordon is pretty drat amazing but yeah, stupid as gently caress to leave your angry drunk brother who thinks the throne is his alive and free.

edit: best thing to do is kill him, of course, but Good Guys don't do that. so find him some nice island with a ton of sexy servants/guards and whatever he wants, alcohol, games, etc, and give him a life of leisure so he never wants to leave it.

Cowslips Warren fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jan 13, 2024

# ? Jan 13, 2024 16:43

Tendales: Mar 9, 2012

It's still the pulp hero thing to do. If nothing else it ensures you still have a job.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 16:51

Rand Brittain: Mar 25, 2013; "Go on until you're stopped."

He doesn't exactly seem to be a clear and present danger.

As far as bad pun names, maybe Ban and Quest?

# ? Jan 13, 2024 17:00

Chicken Parmigiana: Sep 12, 2007

Kennel posted:

Dustin

"The bouncer is escorting her from the premises and the police have been called."

# ? Jan 13, 2024 17:29

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Powered Descent posted:

Bizarro

Don't worry, another one will come around.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 17:38

Doomykins: Jun 28, 2008; Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?

If Aura wants to show she's not her father then executing her brother for being a jerk and a political inconvenience really isn't the path. Good on the writing for making things believable and grey.

Jucika "498 - Jucika Keeps An Orderly Queue"

"p�nzt�r = Cash desk/checkout"

:laffo:

Take the L, robber. Jucika can snap your arm like a twig!

"499 - Jucika And Microdistrict Under Construction"

# ? Jan 13, 2024 17:47

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

Ming should have done it. You really gotta prune that line of succession before your current character dies.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 17:55

Raskolnikov38: Mar 3, 2007; We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

why do people think ming is dead, apparently everyone had ample time to evacuate the ship and barin hasn't mentioned killing him

# ? Jan 13, 2024 17:57

JethroMcB: Jan 23, 2004; We're normal now.
We love your family.

Cul de Sac

FoxTrot Classix

Rose is Rose

# ? Jan 13, 2024 18:03

EasyEW: Mar 8, 2006; I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.

Mutts

Sally Forth

Peanuts (January 15, 1977)

Crankshaft

Rip Haywire

Li'l Abner (August 19-21, 1935)

Thimble Theater (August 17, 1940)

Out Our Way (October 18-20, 1943)

# ? Jan 13, 2024 18:19

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Chicken Parmigiana posted:

If we get CyberBelluso at the end of this, all is forgiven.

_Cyberlluso

"We can fix him, we have the technology."
"Actually, Belluso was the one who sold us that 'technology' and it turned out to be a slinky and some LED lights."
"...suck to be him then."

# ? Jan 13, 2024 18:23

Green Intern: Dec 29, 2008; Loon, Crazy and Laughable

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Mar. 26, 1961)

Paul's got a hell of an arm. That pulley looks heavy as hell.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 18:29

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 18:34

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Hostile V posted:

thaaaaat's politics.

Pictured: a CEO having class solidarity with another CEO, despite them being a horrible murderer. (Even by the world's standards, these being CEO of competing Murder Companies.)

Alhazred posted:

So you're only allow to kill and eat people you don't know?

Yes. Fun fact: This?

Hostile V posted:

Also illegal! Prey aren't allowed to use anything but their "natural abilities" to evade predators!

Alhazred posted:

This is why most comics with talking animals avoid the logistics of how a world with sentient animals would work.

Or if they do don't have literally everything be sentient. Assorted mammal as people and then lizards as beasts of burden/transport/food, for example.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 18:55