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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise: The Bluebeard Affair That third row... a recurring thing I appreciate in Modesty Blaise is that while the plot is arranged to have her take point the people she interacts with are usually portrayed as quite competent in their own right even if there's a reason they're not so right now. It's not a "clever main character showing the buffoons who think they're actually in charge how buffoonish they are" like, for example, some depictions of Sherlock Holmes. Aside from some arcs where that's the whole point, anyway. The comic has plenty of hubris when it wants to.
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Jan 24, 2024 20:12
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Bad Machinery
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Jan 24, 2024 20:32
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So I searched and I'm surpised no one shared this, but theres a collection of Sunday comics that's coming out by a little known artist named Jack Kirby. Sky Master of the Space Force was a comic strip Kirby and Wally Wood worked on in Kirby's pre-Marvel/early DC days about a guy named Sky Masterson and his adventures in space. There's also a collection of the B&W dailies but it appears to be out of print and the strips themselves don't appear to be online anywhere.  The work was collected and produced by designer Ferran Delgado, and the Jack Kirby Museum is helping bring it to a wider audience. The pages are here samples they shared. Apparently the Sunday's stories were unrelated to the dailies, so it won't leave you hanging.  I figured this might catch the interest of a few of you. Here's a link to the campaign to fund it, which met it's goal within the 1st day. It's also got more details about the history of it all, it's absolutely fascinating.
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Jan 24, 2024 20:57
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Luann Gil Thorp  Home Free 
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Jan 24, 2024 21:07
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Jan 24, 2024 21:14
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Still hate the direction Luann is going with this story, which reads like a boomer rear end "actually, streaming culture is just 100% bad" instead of Bets needed to learn some moderation. Gil Thorp pretty cool with its storyline.
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Jan 24, 2024 21:16
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We Are Reproducing   Bardiche Hotel quote:  And that’s the end of Bardiche Hotel! As I think I’ve said, this has turned into one of my top two or three Q-Rais joints, it just maintains a really particular kind of storybook mood very well throughout, while letting Q-Rais exercise some of the weird surrealism muscles from Chako. As usual, if you want to reread or share it around I’ve got the whole thing up on MangaDex: https://mangadex.org/title/b5d63cfa-ea1d-4082-9537-7392a45daa4f/bardiche-hotel
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Jan 24, 2024 21:41
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Heaven help me, I did crack a smile at that last line.
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Jan 24, 2024 21:41
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann That's right, Bets. The problem isn't that you completely altered your life at the demands of your dump of a boyfriend. It's that you just love social media too much!
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Jan 24, 2024 21:42
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 Hudley!!! Thank you!
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Jan 24, 2024 21:52
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Jan 24, 2024 21:58
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I can't believe Prince-Consort Hagar would cheat on his king
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Jan 24, 2024 21:59
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake  Next: Lothar punches everyone
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Jan 24, 2024 22:03
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Kennel posted:Dustin Why is the daughter there?
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Jan 24, 2024 22:14
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Kennel posted:Dustin
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Jan 24, 2024 22:17
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Green Intern posted:Why is the daughter there? Home studio, apparently. She called their IT guy an hour before her show was due to start, he travelled from wherever their base is, to their house, with seemingly enough time left to potentially identify and fix a problem. His existential malaise is understandable imo.
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Jan 24, 2024 22:20
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Giant Ethicist posted:Bardiche Hotel Bardiche Hotel was a really wonderful series of vignettes, and like you said, I love Q-Rais's surrealism. He has this great way of introducing strange, fantastical characters and concepts and having the rest of the characters treat them as perfectly ordinary. Thanks for sharing it!
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Jan 24, 2024 23:12
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Fishylungs posted:
This looks great. Fun fact: drone delivery of medical supplies exists today, in Rwanda.
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Jan 24, 2024 23:17
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Fishylungs posted:Sky Master of the Space Force was a comic strip Kirby and Wally Wood worked on in Kirby's pre-Marvel/early DC days about a guy named Sky Masterson and his adventures in space. There's also a collection of the B&W dailies but it appears to be out of print and the strips themselves don't appear to be online anywhere. I heard about this Kickstarter and was considering trying to find it. I'd definitely be interested (but I also was enjoying Tom Corbett, so you know). Giant Ethicist posted:Bardiche Hotel I'll definitely miss it, it was delightful.
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Jan 25, 2024 00:30
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Pogo 3/23/52 Archie 5/12-14/49    The Virtue of Vera Valiant 12/13-15/76   Winthrop has achieved a level of uselessness worthy of Sam Cooper. 
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Jan 25, 2024 00:36
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Any Good Ideas? Nope. Time For Strips About That Gator Child At School.        "And He's Always Talking About Pegging." 
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Jan 25, 2024 01:10
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Fishylungs posted:I figured this might catch the interest of a few of you. Here's a link to the campaign to fund it, which met it's goal within the 1st day. It's also got more details about the history of it all, it's absolutely fascinating. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Are they just recapping a really old story like it was a dream? Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Jan 25, 2024 01:12
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom The whole thing feels like an attempt to retcon away a bad story.
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Jan 25, 2024 01:17
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom Ghostlight posted:Oh man, we're straight back into something - Phantom is recapping the start of the 1953 storyline 'The Chain'. The scans online suck, but this page has what's probably all the pertinent information.
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Jan 25, 2024 01:24
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Mutts Sally Forth  Skippy (January 9, 1936)  Peanuts (January 26, 1977)  That's a hell of a field trip that just lets kids wander off and climb up on top of barns. Hope that permission slip had a liability waiver. Crankshaft  Rip Haywire  Li'l Abner (September 16-18, 1935)    Capp's really finding his tone in this storyline. Thimble Theater (August 28, 1940)  Out Our Way (November 15-17, 1943)   
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Jan 25, 2024 02:28
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Giant Ethicist posted:We Are Reproducing Bardiche Hotel was a great story, thanks for translating and posting it.
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Jan 25, 2024 02:34
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goatface posted:Home studio, apparently. She called their IT guy an hour before her show was due to start, he travelled from wherever their base is, to their house, with seemingly enough time left to potentially identify and fix a problem. His existential malaise is understandable imo. If it's a home studio then yeah, the IT guy is extremely right to be in a bad mood.
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Jan 25, 2024 03:53
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Murdstone posted:Rex Morgan MD  Morgan had nothing to do with what happened to you, you windsocked fart
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Jan 25, 2024 04:00
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As an IT-type the number one thing to remember is these stupid loving mooks pay your paycheck so wise the gently caress up and dont be a dick to them no matter how goddamn stupid they are. Yes, ive been called out for unplugged power and comms cables. And I'm thankful that the world has enough idiots that I can make a career out of catherding dumbfuck IT's who act all upset when they get called away from watching youtube videos to go "fix" some dumb gently caress's monitor because he didnt push in the plug all the way.
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Jan 25, 2024 04:00
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Yeah as a computer janitor I'd rather deal with a dozen callouts for an unplugged computer than a single "real" problem where I have to trace a generic error message back through six different Microsoft services only to find out the issue is that one of them is following a different XML standard which makes its output completely incompatible with the only clue being an eight-year-old post that a Microsoft rep marked as "solved" because it was a known issue that they didn't intend to fix.
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Jan 25, 2024 04:14
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Malachite_Dragon posted:
Well, Rex did clue in the original author what was being done with his old method, after encountering him in an astonishingly unlikely coincidence.
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Jan 25, 2024 04:39
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Ghostlight posted:Yeah as a computer janitor I'd rather deal with a dozen callouts for an unplugged computer than a single "real" problem where I have to trace a generic error message back through six different Microsoft services only to find out the issue is that one of them is following a different XML standard which makes its output completely incompatible with the only clue being an eight-year-old post that a Microsoft rep marked as "solved" because it was a known issue that they didn't intend to fix. Did you turn it off and on?
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Jan 25, 2024 04:52
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Crab Dad posted:Did you turn it off and on? That's called "power cycling". They claim it's because it's a broader term to include rebooting things remotely, but I think it's so less people yell at them when they suggest it.
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Jan 25, 2024 04:55
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Jan 25, 2024 05:02
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Bruceski posted:That's called "power cycling". They claim it's because it's a broader term to include rebooting things remotely, but I think it's so less people yell at them when they suggest it.
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Jan 25, 2024 05:07
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Kennel posted:Dustin One of the first things you check when something won't turn on - Is it plugged in? If Yes - Is the power strip plugged in/turned on? Can't count how many times this was the solution.
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Jan 25, 2024 05:31
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Scary Go Round (March 17-21, 2005)  
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Jan 25, 2024 05:42
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Corto Maltese   Blueberry   
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Daddy Daze Take It From The Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side Of The Horse  Legend of Bill   
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