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Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Suzy and Johnny are both amazing. They should grow up to make a kid together. Their offspring would be the Kwisatz Haderach of hilarious obnoxiousness.

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Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Space-Bird posted:

Redoing pages can be pretty darn toxic to a webcomic creator.

Not just pages and webcomic creators. Whenever you spend your time using your improving skills to redo the same tiny part of a creative work, without ever creating the rest, then eventually you'll look back on it and tell yourself that you've spent fifteen years of your life working on something which is like 5% complete.

On the other hand, some poet once said: "Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, twenty times over put your work back on the loom, ceaselessly polish and polish it again, add to it sometimes, and often delete." So YMMV I guess.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

JingleJunction posted:

Everyone in this thread is talking about Johnny getting a tool, but when was it mentioned that he's a spectral and/or could see ghosts and spirits? Did I miss something?

Just recently, he has seen some freaky sights, yo. (Though Zack edited the flashback panel to remove the sphinx from it.)

Having been knocked out and half-conscious by the shock might count as a NDE. Or maybe there's a lot of citrus in his hair gel. Anyway, he's not spectral yet, but he might very well become one eventually. "Prolonged exposure to supernatural phenomena" is something he'll get if he keeps on bullying Max.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Brannock posted:

I wonder what the announcement will be. Twice-weekly Paranatural? Kickstarter? God I hope so :allears:

Twice weekly Paranatural Kickstarters!

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Yonic Symbolism posted:

Where is everyone, there is a shocking new development to discuss. Using two tools is supposed to bring them into conflict, could that happen or be happening to max?

But what would be the second tool?

I took the two arrows of the speech bubble to be an indication that it's speaking with Max's mouth but with another voice. (Or maybe he's speaking in stereo with the bat. At the moment, Ockham's money is on the possession being by the bat's timesnake spirit.)

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
The sphinx is a spirit, not a ghost.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Meowjesty posted:

I had to choose between Gunnerkrigg Court and Paranatural for that dumb voting thing.

I chose Paranatural. :ohdear:

Man, I voted for a bunch of comics, and both Paranatural and Gunnerkrigg Court were among those. There's no limit to how many boxes you can tick before clicking the vote button. (Or if there is one, it'll be at 128.)

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

MrFlibble posted:

Wasn't that mainly the Goblins guy?

Him and his fanclub, yes.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

rotinaj posted:

Sandra and Woo seems like a godawful gag-a-day comic. Am I wrong?

It's not really gag-a-day, but otherwise you aren't wrong.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

MikeJF posted:

It is possible to unredact the text in the last panel.

Dunno if that was an accident or deliberate. Still, here we go.

Probably deliberate. The weird glyph text has been decoded too. It's like a treasure hunt. There are clues for the readers who care to seek them, though in the end nothing is really spoilery.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Of course, there's a recent page showing that it's foolish to think tool-wielders are safer from their associated spirits than mediums.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

MikeJF posted:

It is possible to unredact the text in the last panel.

Dunno if that was an accident or deliberate. Still, here we go.

Didn't like how washed out it was, so by magic-wanding the black squares and fiddling a bit with the color curves in GIMP, here's a better version of the unredacted page:

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
The glasses man, or is it ... the glasses' man?

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

scarycave posted:

I know but the implications that Issac was pregnant is still there.

That final loss panel can be used for any situation in which one character is in the hospital and another is just futilely standing there, unable to find any sort of way to bring comfort to their friend. It has been used in edits in which miscarriage wasn't the cause.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Try to paint a face on yourself when you don't have eyes to see what you're doing!

Now Isabel in the last panel, that's something alright.

I mean, I don't know thing it is; but it most certainly is that thing.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

horriblePencilist posted:

So Spender is a Green Lantern?

He's a yellow spectral, so he doesn't want more spirits bonding with him.

Inversely, Isabel's grandpa must be a red spectral like Isabel herself, and he doesn't want the plunger because since it's not a red spirit, he couldn't use it. It'd just be a dumb old plunger into his hands.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Mirror it though. It should face the posts.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Papa Squat's Pizza (and wiretapping) certainly seems like a legit business.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Tradition's wack, and so are rules!
Long technique names are for fools!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ4zkj6IRzM

Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 11:35 on May 11, 2013

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

donges posted:

It's the little things.

TANKBOAT
vs the squid

RATED [PG]

I like how he's using some ink volutes as a decorative clothesline.

Also look at the little photo on the bookshelf. Grandpa, Ed, and Isabel?

Otherwise, a monkey plush, an 8-ball, some toy soldiers (or action figures or whatever) and a generic console (the shape reminds me a bit of the Nintendo 64; but it's not an exact match).

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Spender sports a yellow tie, therefore people's energy color are identified by their tie rather than by the level they hang around in. :colbert:

Speaking of which, the mustached man to the left of the panel, with the pink tie, looks familiar.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Manlizard is the best character.


And I'll echo his "juicy what?" -- leaping from "hweeyermz" to "worms" is hard.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Rich Spender has the best colleagues/coworkers/bosses/whatever that is.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

rotinaj posted:

Is this why Manly Guys doing Manly Things is being Googleblocked as well?

Yes. Though apparently you can visit it safely anyway. If you wish, you can use NoScript to block thehiveworks.com until this blows over; though according to the Hiveworks guy the hack wasn't actually dangerous, it was merely designed to flag Google's filters without really downloading anything.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Zeeman posted:

For some reason, it won't show up. Here's the alt text:

The reason is presumably that whatever tool Zack is using to update his comic freaked out over the quote marks. The HTML code is a mess:
code:
<img title="" tzu"="" -sun="" fun.''="" really="" it's="" subordinates.="" your="" irritate="" alt="" 
src="http://paranatural.net/comics/2013-06-28-chapter-4-page-18.png" style="width: 783px; height: 1161px;">
e: added linebreak to avoid layout havoc.

Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jun 28, 2013

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

ronya posted:

Are foods normally ferromagnetic?

Some are.

I remember seeing a video of someone putting an unopened bag of Kelloggs cereals into a blender until everything was ground into fine dust, then traipsing a magnet in the outcome, showing how it got covered in iron filing.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
I like the sparkle's little anxious "schwing?" when Spender grabs it.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

ConanThe3rd posted:

I barely get it myself, is rabbit-ear girl supposed to be Gigi?

If she is supposed to be anyone real, Gigi would be the most likely choice. But then who is the punk with the DBZ meme?

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
"My bat's stuck!" "Same here!" :allears:

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

horriblePencilist posted:

Not even a dent in his shirt.
How does he do it?

If it's not a haunted shirt, it'll receive no damage from ghosts, spirits, and spectral energy.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Someone should take the two middle panels, erase the spectral energy aura and redraw the missing bits of background and characters so we get Muggle-vision of the scene, and animate them back and forth.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Trebuchet King posted:

Maybe Bob Ross didn't really die after all...

"There was a happy little accident, and... Well, it's been our happy little secret."

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
I can't wait for the introduction of Buzzinga.

Also the alt-text today is truly a pinnacle of wit.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Good thing Eightfold only ever goes back into her book. Imagine the damage she could do if she went into some device connected to the Internet...

On second thought, it could be harnessed for good, if she agreed to only eat Youtube comments.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

MikeJF posted:

As best as I can tell, 'On the Birth of Gods' by Dr A. Beaumant.

I'd say Beaumont rather than Beaumant, but otherwise I concur.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
I want to see Emofresh Forge (if that's indeed his name) smith something just to confirm or infirm my theory that he uses his own head as an anvil (since it is an anvil).

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Isaac, you're one to talk in the ninth panel.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Apparently, Shadow Man isn't part of the comic books he read.

Max should get him to play Planescape: Torment.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

RIP funtimes

More like MORT FUN TIMES, WOOHOO!

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Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
In any of these "geeky franchise character vs. geeky franchise character" fights, the winner is always the bookmaker.

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