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A big flaming stink posted:not to mention the "what the hell is up with Spender" plots Not to say that Paranatural is even close to that yet, but it is something you have to rein in.
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Falstaff posted:Pretty sure Zack has said that there's never going to be any romance in the comic, so if she's got a crush on Max it's a one-sided thing that'll be played for laughs.
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Feb 3, 2017 09:37
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Tetracube posted:It's baffling to me that people can be in webcomics, spend 10 hours slaving over each individual page for virtually no benefit, on a project they know will take many, many years, and then end up with "too little happening in too many pages" as a problem.
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Apr 22, 2017 03:19
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Kikas posted:Huh. wait. If Mr Garcia does in fact work for the Cousinhood, then Isaac will have no second thoughts on joining in. I mean the Consortium banned him for life and they won't tell him why, and he'll definately see it as a way to get back and Spender and Max.
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Jul 15, 2017 01:58
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So the shadow spirit that Spender is holding, I assume Lucifer just keeps weakening it so it can never fully regenerate and leave Spender (which is why it got loose when Spender did the fusion). But my real question is how the spirit is affecting Spender's physical appearance, much like how Catnine alters Isaac's hair. Does Spender somehow look even more like a dork?
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Dec 7, 2017 04:56
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Tenebrais posted:It took me a moment to realise Dimitri has orange spectral energy and it's not just burning shonen spirit. Naturally it'd be an overexcitable dork that clashes with Dimitri's cool guy persona.
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Mar 7, 2018 19:39
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I am curious as to why Dimitri isn’t in the club, since we’ve had plenty of hints about a whole group of kids who are aware of spirit stuff but aren’t down with Spender. Or maybe he IS in the club, and his role is to maintain their secrecy  Which is why he doesn’t like getting involved in their poo poo so he can’t be seen as weird and in on it.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:45
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Maybe for some reason he can't utilize energy anymore like spectrals can, but can still see spirits.
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Jun 5, 2018 23:50
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I know this chapter is ridiculously long, but it still blows my mind when I realize it'll be four years this December.
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Jun 20, 2018 03:46
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Rand Brittain posted:I guess when you get right down to it, "I left the student council because everybody else was a putz" isn't actually incompatible with being the head of the student council. The most likely breakdown is that Cody became President, a number of council members got weird about it, and now the Vice Principal takes advantage of it by faking orders from Cody. Again, this is all very stupid and Cody just wants to do bake sales and set up school dances. Also, being half-vampire doesn't mean you're automatically a spectral (or at least can see spirits like a monster can). It'd explain his hitball skills and why he can't see Hijack.
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Jul 3, 2018 16:18
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SKULL.GIF posted:Or Cody. It also follows dad's command.
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Jul 7, 2018 00:09
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Roland Jones posted:Yeah, I was going to say, Nin (the ninja rabbit spirit) is her own ninja army.
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Jul 8, 2018 04:38
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Half of cody will be possessed by hijack, giving him the power to make people seriously consider doing what he says.
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Jul 10, 2018 19:01
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Motherfucker posted:I mean how are you people missing the clowns and sudden abundance of creepy childrens toys? But given Paranatural, it’ll probably be some secret/hard/immoral thing ghosts can do, and it will explain very old ghosts or Max’s Mom will possess a tool/him at a critical moment for MOTHER/SON TEAM UP FIGHT.
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Jul 24, 2018 17:24
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I do think some of these younger artists would be better served doing smaller projects with a very clear scope of how it's going to play out. These monolithic stories are great, but it consumes you utterly and seems to get unhealthy very quickly. Hussie was literally spending every waking hour on Homestuck (although to be fair he did start with Problem Sleuth), and Zack of course has the wrist issues. It gets even worse because fans get very invested in the story, adding another potentially toxic element to the whole thing. It's bad enough that some not-insignificant portion of Zack's livelihood depends upon Paranatural being updates, but there's likely a decent chunk of lovely people that give them grief every time an update is missed. poo poo, even if there isn't, you still likely feel bad whenever you miss an update, regardless of how nice people are about it. I recall ggdg from Cucumber Quest saying she regrets her first independent project being CQ because it's consumes so much of her time. And, not surprisingly, CQ has been on a hiatus all summer long. It was started up the same month as Paranatural, and is maybe halfway through the story. I'd just hate to see extremely talented people get burned out on stuff like this.
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Oct 1, 2018 02:41
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Drunk Theory posted:Likely. And as interesting as this all is I haft wonder if conspiracy kid needs an arc. We have so many existing plot threads, and a huge cast already. But oh well, this is not a new complaint. Mothman is unshaven, disheveled, and his “antenna” are broken. The reveal here is that Bigfoot is...actually a Bigfoot. He’s very likely a Medium with some kind of Sasquatch spirit (remember that Mediums slowly take on their spirit’s appearance). Bigfoot can’t be a spirit, since Stephen has been shown to NOT be a Spectral, and therefore would be incapable of hearing him. Also it means the radio show would have been one Mothman talking to himself for most of the airtime.
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May 9, 2019 14:57
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Davy can manipulate the environment which explains how he can squeeze into the mask, it’s perfect Also he mentions to Hijack how he likes his town quiet and safe, which is a very cop thing to say. Further shown when he mentions to his son the peace he keeps for him. Make more sense when you’re a cop!
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Oct 12, 2019 04:53
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A bit worried about their wrist at this point. Switching to a weekly update schedule, multiple breaks for the holidays, and they already have to take a break a week after returning from holiday. Obviously they have more obligations besides Paranatural, but they’ve changed the schedule twice now, and it doesn’t seem to be helping 
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Jan 17, 2020 18:52
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I still love the absurdity of a guy who works in-costume for his radio show.
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If Wights almost instantly come from the brink when they’re killed, then how did Boss Leader become a medium for Sandman? The whole point is to feed off spectral energy to regain their strength, to the point where Eightfold had to off herself to go back into the tool. Somehow this thing had to have been taken down in an area practically devoid of anything it could feed off of, and I imagine that includes spectrals.
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Aug 29, 2020 08:16
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Tired of hearing about her ghostly father-in-law, Amy chugged orange juice until she could finally see him.
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Nov 6, 2020 14:23
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I totally thought it was backwards, and Amy had died and that’s why Grandpa was her daughter’s caretaker. Which is incredibly stupid since Spectrals can see ghosts 
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There is an update! Also, Guerra being a ghost explains his disdain for tools to some degree, knowing what we know about their hypothetical effects on ghosts if one were to use such.
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I only just this month realized Scabs was taking advantage of Isabel’s fear of dogs instead of just using a really sick spectral form because it’s the most anime thing to do.
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Jan 15, 2021 16:25
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Honestly, if Davy is on the police force he may have a hand on suppressing things like that.
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Feb 12, 2021 14:51
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Tenebrais posted:No Penny, huh? Gonna guess mom’s name is Nichol.
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Mar 6, 2021 15:55
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He does seem like the kind of guy to have another kid just for poll numbers
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Mar 6, 2021 17:39
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Isn’t Ritz non-binary, or was it just implied but not yet confirmed?
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Mar 12, 2021 14:49
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Xand_Man posted:
But yeah, it’s likely going to be a lot of “Son” “Sport” and other nicknames. Zack doesn’t seem like the person to make that (completely unnecessary) reveal. It also will reinforce the Spenders very fake family relations. I seriously put in [/spender] at first to end the spoilers 
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Mar 12, 2021 15:32
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Xand_Man posted:She is committing crimes in her reintroduction
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rannum posted:Some people start working in High School so if they're about the same age that'd still work. Wealthy parents are...not good at understanding what it means to love someone.
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Mar 12, 2021 16:50
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The parents that want to disown their son over being gay, the one concerned with presenting the image of a Perfect Nuclear Family...would definitely be okay with their daughter wearing boy clothes at a gala. Also calling her the “future” Penny Spender, to really make a point of it.
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I wonder if even knows about Penny. If he was cut off early enough, he may have never known a out her transition. Basically, I want another Awkward Spender Moment where he treats Penny like a stranger. EDIT: Read a comment that, even as a child, Ritz wants to be a jerk to dogs. Pants Donkey fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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Mar 12, 2021 18:49
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Fecha posted:I do love the headcanon that the Spenders are actually fine with Rick's monster boyfriend and disowned him purely because he's such a huge dork.  (their dealings and Davy and Bill’s gaudy gala package imply this will not be the case, but we can dream)
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Mar 12, 2021 21:39
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RareAcumen posted:This is the impression I got as well and I'm such a moron that I swear the text under the comic was just 'Thanks for Reading!' when I looked at it first.
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Mar 13, 2021 06:13
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This month is the ten year anniversary
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I had a feeling this was inevitable when even a weekly comic was proving impossible to maintain. This happens a lot, where the artist is young and their first major project is an ambitious webcomic that is poorly plotted out in advance and thus takes years to get anywhere in the overarching plot. Cucumber Quest is probably one of the higher profile examples of this. The major difference being ggdg just didn’t want to spend the prime years of her career sucked entirely into another decade on this comic she came up with as a kid, whereas Zack’s spirit to finish seems to be strong, but the flesh human and thus weak. Which is definitely tragic for them, as I know they’d prefer the proper comic treatment they intended. Just look at Gunnerkrigg Court, which seems like it does have some kind of plan to ultimately end, and yet Tom Sidell just passed the 15th year working on this thing. And a good chunk of those 15 years it was his full-time job, and he maintained a near-perfect three page a week schedule throughout. These webcomics either demand the kind of extremely short and self-contained story most young artists aren’t interested in, or turning into Andrew Hussie if you want to see it completed in a reasonable time frame. It sucks, but turns out writing and drawing a complete graphic novel entirely on your own is hard and time-consuming.
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Sep 25, 2021 03:16
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Some comics get there. Monster Pulse, O Human Star, Homestuck, etc. It’s rare, but it happens.
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Sep 25, 2021 03:48
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Oxxidation posted:the smartest thing to do would be to just pull the plug on paranatural and move on to gag-a-day or something, but zack's probably still too deep in sunk cost to consider that
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A Sometimes Food posted:Yeah between this and my patience with Gunnerkrigg finally being up Im down to uh
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