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Aw, I had a Zambian 48k as a kid, fond memories of playing Practical Football on it when I had a hernia repaired as a little kid.
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Scary Go Round (March 10-11, 2005)  And that's the end of The Child! Next up,
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I'm beginning to understand why my friend's answer to my "hey, Bad Machinery is great! I want to catch up, so can I get a link to the point where Scary-Go-Round hits its stride?" was to send me the link to the first Bad Machinery strip.
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Yeah my experience reading through scary go round was that absent a few storylines near the end, basically all of which were proto-bad-machinery storylines focused on the previous teen cast, scary go round is functionally unreadable, it's bizarre pacing had events slipping through my mind within two or three strips of when they happened.
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it feels like Allison just making comics about whatever idea he has that week, then throwing them away when he gets bored.
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I think when Esther and The Boy become protagonists in their own right is one of the key points of SGR taking form. But we’re not there yet.
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SGR is very much a product of a time when you could hope to develop a fanbase that would support you drawing as a career so long as you updated three times a week without fail. Allison running with an idea for a few weeks and then hopping to a spy movie parody with Falon and vice versa is accurate. I'm still pretty fond of SGR, there is a light continuity and Shelly and Amy are a huge improvement as protagonists. Compared to other long running strips SGR was in the top half of the quality curve.
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Doomykins posted:SGR is very much a product of a time when you could hope to develop a fanbase that would support you drawing as a career so long as you updated three times a week without fail. I'm not sure that time ever ended tbh. people love a consistent update schedule.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm not sure that time ever ended tbh. people love a consistent update schedule. Jeph Jacques has been producing I Hate My Characters: The Webcomic for twenty plus years with the driving force being five comics a week and unceremoniously rotating out old cast members every couple years, so, yeah.
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There's quite a few 20+ year runners still in it. I won't go look at Sluggy Freelance on fear of being struck down like I just witnessed an elder god.
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The Schlock Mercenary guy had a pretty strict work ethic. Though he finally gave up and ended it, feels like it happened last year but probably has been 5 years by now.
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Yeah, Howard wrapped it up a few years back and was planning on doing a new strip in the same universe. Then he got COVID real early on and it apparently hosed him up pretty bad so he hasn't done any drawing outside of book sketches since then.
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Doomykins posted:There's quite a few 20+ year runners still in it. I won't go look at Sluggy Freelance on fear of being struck down like I just witnessed an elder god. They say that somewhere deep within the bowels of the Internet, User Friendly still lurks making "Micro$oft" and "Bill Gates is Borg" jokes, but I cannot gather up my courage to check
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm not sure that time ever ended tbh. people love a consistent update schedule. it's a big part of how most successful comics got successful but there's also a lot of not-bad comics out there that have been updating consistently for a decade or more to an audience of, afaict, fuckin nobody
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Steeple John A posted:One of those wallets has a real life Japanese mascot on it. I wonder who’s it is? I can’t remember the name of the mascot. Perhaps someone will help me out here. Things move in front of my eyes very quickly and I grab what I can get.
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It's this guy.
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Howard Beale posted:They say that somewhere deep within the bowels of the Internet, User Friendly still lurks making "Micro$oft" and "Bill Gates is Borg" jokes, but I cannot gather up my courage to check I think it went into reruns like fifteen years ago. I remember it had a sudden arc out of nowhere where the old guy had a cancer scare and the main character became a combat medic in Afghanistan and then boom, back into reruns. Shelley Winters posted:Hello reader and welcome to my "commentary"! I hope you enjoy my asides, telling you what went on behind the scenes. For example, many of the tales in this book omit incidences of my shutting my fingers in a door or stubbing my toe. Things like that are strictly for the connosieur, not the casual passer-by. The next few arcs have book introductions written "by" Shelley instead of directly by Allison. Scary Go Round (March 14-16, 2005)   
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Saoshyant posted:Steeple drat, I was wrong about it being a fakeout
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:drat, I was wrong about it being a fakeout Mrs Clovis in jail is too rich a concept to pass up. I bet she's thriving in there.
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Nice of Charlotte to remove the phone before throwing the selfie stick.
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Numero6 posted:Nice of Charlotte to remove the phone before throwing the selfie stick. She's not that much of a dick, I guess. Are selfie sticks still a thing? I feel like they had their era several years ago but maybe I'm just out of touch.
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Steeple John A posted:The terrible truth comes to light. Oh dear oh dear. I hope we can resolve this in the few pages we have left, otherwise I’m going to be in a lot of trouble.
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Saoshyant posted:Steeple Hell yes, a mystery is afoot
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RIP Andre Braugher
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"Bad enough that if you don't save me, I may stop breathing and require burial" is another line that's lived in my head rent-free waiting for an excuse to be said.
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SGR is kinda like Achewood in that way where sometimes out of context lines just stick with you until your dying day. Scary Go Round (March 30-April 1, 2005)   
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 John A posted:Ladies, we can’t leave this plot thread dangling. Oh, if ONLY they knew anyone who could resolve such a situation.
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