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My favorite is the guy in the Legend of Korra thread who insisted that all the people seeing romantic elements in the interaction between Korra and Asami were reading their gay agenda into the show, and who continued to insist this even after the creators announced "yes, they are totally bisexuals for each other, and yes, we have been deliberately putting this into the show since at least Season 3."
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Yeah, Spender's need to be the Hard Man Making Hard Choices has led him to making a bunch of hard choices that weren't actually necessary, like fighting to the death with Forge, who he should have been able to make into an ally, and leaving his students in mortal peril to do so, leading to the effective destruction of a team member (not that Spender noticed or cared). He's also keeping secrets from Isaac for some reason in a way that's leaving his most powerful and unbalanced charge increasingly alienated, which is almost certainly a bigger problem than whatever basic data Spender wants to keep away from the storm spirit. Spender is technically competent in pretty much every area. He is bad at his job not because he isn't good at it, but because he continues to make incredibly bad decisions.
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Jul 22, 2015 16:24
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The background models in the first panel tell me that Zack has been watching Steven Universe, like all right-thinking people.
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Aug 11, 2015 16:33
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I think the funny thing is that almost every character in the comic who understands what's going on here is going to give Max poo poo for not sacrificing himself to protect his tormentors.
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Aug 11, 2015 22:42
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MikeJF posted:How do you figure? They look very similar to the background models that Steven Universe uses. Also there's the huge piece of SU fanart Zack did, so there's that. EDIT: To clarify, I mean the simplified versions of the characters used Max when he's seen from a distance, which is a technique more comics could stand to pick up.
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Akett posted:How could he help them without getting himself rekt? He can't do the superspeed thing if he can't connect with his spirit, and he's not exactly close enough to his bat to have a chat with scrapdragon. Mind you he's got that unknown spirit possessing him, but nobody but the spirit and Doorman know about that. Oh, it's totally ridiculous for them to do so, but they still will. Consider that the people "in the know" are Isaac, Spender, Isabel, Ed, and Dimitri. They are all the kind of person who will hassle the newbie for not stupidly self-sacrificing for someone he hates.
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Aug 12, 2015 15:33
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Keeshhound posted:Dimitri seems pretty on board with not making stupid sacrifices for people you don't respect. True, but he will give Max a hard time because it's funny.
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Aug 12, 2015 17:45
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VerdantSquire posted:It's kinda weird that Hijack is saying that he isn't evil considering how eerily okay he is with crippling and murdering children. He is merely continuing the trend of all spirits being articulate and interested in ethics regardless of what those ethics actually are.
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Sep 1, 2015 15:38
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i see that paranatural is still paranatural only more than it was
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Sep 4, 2015 20:58
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A more interesting question is "why didn't Hijack jack a teacher immediately if it can do that?"
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Oct 2, 2015 23:28
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pik_d posted:So... Jeff will dodge it completely? Dodging it is the smart move, but he really wants a ball, so he may not think of it in time.
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Oct 25, 2015 18:17
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Pretty much all spirits capable of intelligent speech seem to be deeply concerned with ethics.
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Nov 18, 2015 02:29
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The possibility that Hijack will just drop Jeff and possess someone else does seem to be something nobody has considered. Including Hijack.
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Nov 18, 2015 02:59
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Chekov's Gun note: Hijack's spirit energy is yellow, the color Spender doesn't want to be associated with.
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Nov 24, 2015 19:35
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Lucifer has also been the one pushing Spender to become a hard man making hard choices, so he's not exactly blameless as regards Spender's whole psychological deal.
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Jan 15, 2016 19:08
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Or it's the result of Lucifer keeping the other guy locked down all the time.
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Jan 21, 2016 04:29
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Hijack is also healthy, so he'd be adding yellow energy to the mix-up, whereas a tool would be draining it.
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Jan 25, 2016 16:24
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Ed is being raised by a guy who's okay with keeping him trapped in this little town for the rest of his life.
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Jan 27, 2016 21:42
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Dolash posted:Are the kids trapped? Assuming they get the train back, they seemed free to come and go from the dome, it's just that Mayview is where the kids and their families/fellow spectrals live and work. Presumably if nothing unexpected happens to interrupt them, they'd grow up and go off on missions like the other agents. Grandpa seems okay with the idea of the train never coming back.
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Jan 27, 2016 22:16
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Hijack seems to jack targets who are emotionally disturbed, so, Spender is the one.
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Mar 15, 2016 17:32
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Isabel takes a moment to be concerned about Spender's willingness to hogtie an innocent animal without thinking about it.
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Mar 23, 2016 05:55
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Whoops, for a minute I thought we had an adult who wasn't on the train to crazytown.
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Apr 12, 2016 20:58
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Countblanc posted:Everyone gets a turn owning ghost train when it attacks Zarei Honestly, that looks less like Patchworm owned the ghost train and more like Zarei's attempt to attune to the tool fizzled at a really opportune moment.
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Apr 17, 2016 04:14
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Hijack's special effects give me a vague impression that he can only ride people suffering emotional turmoil. So, Spender probably.
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May 10, 2016 21:36
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Slime posted:I dunno, GET SWOLE might actually be a pretty good way to get a bully to back off. It's hard to imagine that Ed won't be pretty swole if he keeps up the exercise routine Muse appears to demand.
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Jun 3, 2016 04:46
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RandallODim posted:Oh my god the parrot is Spender Oh, man, he would be recognizable as Spender even without the double-patches. That is first class posturing.
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Jul 12, 2016 14:24
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Rohan Kishibe posted:For all this thread harps on Spender for being a huge dork, he is actually cool also. The thing is that working hard to be cool and being a huge dork are basically the same thing seen from different levels of information.
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Jul 16, 2016 03:59
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Yeah, pretty much every spirit we've seen so far would be an especially uncomfortable puberty companion.
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Aug 24, 2016 00:59
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My general impression is that for some reason Zarei was confused after coming out of spirit-time and thought the fly was Patchworm, and was afraid of its being hurt. Why that would happen or why it would be relevant, I don't know.
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Oct 18, 2016 15:21
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Kazy posted:It's not her last name per se, but I think she's related to a teacher or something and is too embarrassed to admit it. He could easily be her older brother. There's only a fourteen-year difference.
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Nov 8, 2016 18:44
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Poor Isaac. His power truly is a curse, which forced him to live a life where his only formative experiences came from watching Naruto.
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Nov 15, 2016 21:21
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I'll put my money on "Ed beats up Johnny after it turns out that doing exercise all the time for the monkey on his back has made him suprisingly strong."
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Nov 18, 2016 21:46
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Countblanc posted:I like this page a lot but I sorta wish Johnny had actually not gone noodly-armed since it'd have been cool to see Ed do something legit badass considering he's spent the last X years of his life playing host to an emotionally abusive personal coach as well as just fighting things in general. I had actually forgot at first that Johnny clearly wasn't into it and was like "drat, good poo poo Ed," but then I went back and read the last page and remembered. Oh well, I'm sure it'll be cool anyway once we find out Johnny's reasons for pulling his punches. It's kind of an interesting action sequence, since Ed correctly deflects Johnny's punch (it's just easier than he expected because Johnny's not feelin' it), and then, jazzed by this success, appears to be doing a pretty legit move to take advantage of Johnny's imbalance and gut-punch him, which only fails because Johnny falls over to a fairly light tap instead of resisting. So, Ed actually does come across looking like a pretty decent scrapper; he's just having abnormal results because Johnny doesn't respond to stimuli like a normal human. Admittedly he's about to have his skull cracked with a bat, but he probably just didn't think RJ would actually hit him with something that could kill him.
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Nov 22, 2016 17:49
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Wow, I was actually right about something!
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Nov 29, 2016 07:31
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Tollymain posted:these people are basically on the same level as isaac and ed's sidequest on the train I'm starting to wonder if Isaac is actually normal and it's Ed, Isabel, and Max who are actually the weird ones for regarding his anime-inspired lifestyle as unusual, and that's why he's so irritated all the time.
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Dec 13, 2016 20:06
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I mean, I can tell who they're meant to be aping, so it's not like they look unlike Rohan and Koichi.
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Dec 23, 2016 22:03
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The blasting isn't really funny when you take it in the context of what it says about how Francesco treats spirits.
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Neo_Crimson posted:Issac isn't the only one who thinks he's in a shonen anime. Isaac is just the only one who's always right. Spender thinks he's an anime and suffers for it, Ed is occasionally a shonen boy, but Isaac is completely correct about having an anime-inspired lifestyle and all his actual problems come from something completely different.
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To be fair, Isaac is a small child who has every reason to believe that if he doesn't defend himself, he's going to die.
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So, uh... where is Hijack, then?
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