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Finally getting around to House of Orr, boy you guys sure undersold that thing! It starts off weird and floaty and... kind of stays that way? That feels like part of what makes it so good though, there's no pressure, just a bunch of weirdos doing stuff. giantdate is adorable alsofloofyscorp posted:Looks like Andrew Hussie's new project is happening, then. Homestuck... canon fan comics, I guess! That's going to be interesting. Oh look it's the place where Alterniabound should have happened. But seriously, this could be pretty nice. Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Homestuck fandom's biggest crime is ensuring we will never get another masterpiece on the level of Humanimals. Pretty sure this is the actual reason anyone accuses Hussie of "selling out" by continuing to make Homestuck junk
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Apr 14, 2014 20:39
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Did they start shipping the second volume yet? I can't even remember if I put down money for it, same thing happened with the first one, it just dropped through my letterbox one day and I was like "oooooohh yeeeeaaah, I paid for this at some point" 
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Apr 23, 2014 22:58
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I ran through my email receipts and could only find the one, so it seems I am $20 richer and one fine comic book poorer (but still skint either way, I'm spending too much money this month  )
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Apr 24, 2014 01:35
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quote:Many, many months ago, the one and only bullet on my character notes for Friedrich was just the sentence, "Cool dude: performs Capoeira-esque moves, BUT WITH SWORDS" Friedrich: basically Raiden? I have no idea if foot-thumbs is another weird marsupial fact or just something about this guy; based on the comic so far though I'm guessing it's the former.
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May 8, 2014 23:39
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Last week I wondered whether Gustaff could really be dead if there was a panel of him comically drooling on the floor, guess I know what kind of comic I'm reading now! 
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May 15, 2014 10:28
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RandomPauI posted:Yes I already know that Satan Fridge was killed off several years ago by Sam's girlfriend Claire which eventually lead to Sam taking control of the Ninja Mafia. Wait, Sam & Fuzzy is still running?  I quit after Sam hosed up being king/Fuzzy turning out to be an alien robot clone or some poo poo, are we still on that or what?
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May 20, 2014 16:05
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No parent has ever not been able to blab about their kids' silly crushes. Anyway it's clearly fine because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoH9iI-HYnk&t=5s Parts Kit posted:Morbi has pulled the plug on the comments for Poppy as they have been predictably terrible. This is a good thing. Do I even want to know what this was about?
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May 22, 2014 10:09
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I hate the song Rock Lobster with a passion but goddamn if that comic isn't a perfect creation 
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May 26, 2014 21:31
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House of Orr is actually going places with the main plot, surprisingly. Probably something to with it not being a first project for the creators, I'm just used to comics that are this new getting bogged down in pointless side stories or drawn out "character building" for at least 3 or 4 years before finally remembering there was an overarching story to tell. Not that drawn out asides and character building are necessarily bad, but not everybody is Victor Hugo.
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May 31, 2014 00:42
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Zernach posted:Lily just keeps on being absolutly adorable. The cover page is the best. I really want to find out if Poppy's crazy mass/strength are a lucky star thing or some hereditary nonsense that Lily will get as well. Also whatever this Iron Matron jazz is about. I'm not about to cry Get On With It though, because every page where someone is making a face is the best page (most pages).
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Jun 21, 2014 18:38
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RickoniX posted:Today's Poppy update with the shocking revelation that Lily is adopted Wait wasn't this on the April fools list?
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Jul 17, 2014 08:41
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I'm a dozen pages in and so far it's basically Party Cat.
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Jul 18, 2014 20:47
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I'm... not super psyched about it, to be honest. Without any obvious framework, jmoyns signature style just feels like weird for the sake of weird. Without a fascinating allmyth or the adventures of familiar characters, there's nothing really to care about. I might be biased though, since I always felt the crazy space-empire bits of Forming were the weakest. Fingers crossed this project will turn into something better as it goes.
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Aug 15, 2014 08:51
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Space-Bird posted:At first I was like....not super into it, then I realized this is literally a plot of a shoujo comic, and I was all in. They might as well start screaming Tamahome and Miaka. Boulet rules. He's probably one of the only artists I can think of that is able to use nostalgia in a non-toxic form, if that makes any sense. Also Morglox. Now I'm struggling to remember all the manga where the villain's only crimes are self determination and being a little overenthusiastic, and all my brain can dredge up is that there were quite a lot. Obviously the quality can't have been all that great.
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Sep 6, 2014 09:56
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SlothfulCobra posted:From what I've seen, Moon Over June is basically Least I Could Do but with lesbians, and the smug faces replaced with really bizarre faces. All I needed to know about MOJ, I learned from watching doubleDildoMachine.gif
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Sep 23, 2014 07:50
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A big flaming stink posted:huh. something is actually happening in QC for once. If by something you mean  (PS Big Finn is Jeph  )I don't hate QC, bland as it is, because sometimes that's what I'm in the mood for, but recent developments particularly make it feel like I'm watching Jeph play with his dolls, or like the comic has turned into fanfic of itself. Out of curiosity, are there any slice-of-life comics that meet this thread's standards for artistic integrity? It seems like the kind of story mode that's particularly suited to going nowhere fast in terms of both plot and art direction, I'd be interested to see the result of someone responding to the common criticisms of the format. Phylodox posted:I just know that my wife said that all the characters look like they have raw, gaping holes where their noses should be and now I can't unsee it. Can anyone explain to me the internet art convention that is cheeto noses, because I have no idea where it came from and it seems like an odd thing for so many people to pick up. Is it just because noses are hard?
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Sep 27, 2014 12:46
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Cat Mattress posted:Likpa is good. I had to go look and all I can say is ANIME MONSTROSITY posted:what the Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 09:27
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Hooray, I can finally start reading Nimona! 
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Sep 30, 2014 08:15
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Keir's armour is  as gently caress, getting the urge to bust out the modelling clay over heree/ it's actually better because Souls never had puffy trousers, much to my disappointment.
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Oct 7, 2014 07:48
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fritz posted:Evan Dahm's doing a thing : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evandahm/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-illustrated oh no, not again 
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Psh, it's not that long.  This image is a) from June 2012 and b) does not include any text in flash/images, which was reasonable at the time since I don't think we'd had any of the walkarounds at that point, but by now would mean severe underestimation considering that Aranea's infodumps alone probably constitute a small novel  Nuns with Guns posted:Wow hey, remember when someone made a Bad Machinery thread after like half a page of discussion? Since the QC talking is going on now a lot longer with more words and is generally more of a bore to read if you don't give a gently caress about it, why not move it into another thread for long arguments instead? You can even give it a funny joke title! If we split it off and immediately gas it, will it stay dead?
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Oct 21, 2014 18:48
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:Can't wait to find out what the new status quo on QC opinion is. 
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Oct 23, 2014 18:30
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Pretty excited for the return of giant mobster birds to Poppy O'Possum. Pick posted:SMBC is my favorite success story because a lot of the early comics are kind of mean and lovely, and he tried to weed that out and go for positive humor when he can. It's hit and miss, but it updates every day, so a miss is hardly a big issue. Today's is pretty good, and indicative of the overall direction of the last couple years (ie gleeful nihilism) His dick/butt/graph jokes are pretty on-point for the most part too.
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Paladinus posted:Here's a question. Are daily updates even worth it? Over the years humour in a geeky-sciencey comic is bound to start feeling same-ish at some point and I think SMBC has probably lived well beyond its prime. I am not saying the author should kill the comic or drastically change its direction, but why set a schedule that practically forces you to make a decent amount of your comics follow two basic premises half of the time? The comics where something innocent/mundane is explained in scientific/philosophical terms to make it sound vile/exciting are the worst offenders, not even going into anything that deals with religion. The only thing lazier in my opinion is graph jokes, but XKCD is much worse in this respect. Like Pick said, rapid updates take the sting out of failed jokes, and also keep people checking in regularly. You see the same strategy in stand-up sometimes (eg Russell Howard, who I don't like but that's neither here nor there) Surprisingly few smbc strips are outright bad in my opinion, though plenty are mediocre. It makes me laugh often enough though, so I'd tend to say his strategy works, for him at least. Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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Eldercain posted:The last cowboy is pretty great too. I'm gonna echo that it seems to handle the space racism in a way that makes a lot of sense. I think the lady who makes the robits being racist and her kid just wanting to play with awesome dinosaur people plays a lot better than the professor, but I trust that a lot of that is locked up in the bit you have about her activist past so I'm keeping an open mind. The feeling I'm getting is that Adsila isn't so much intentionally racist as having misgivings about finding friends amongst non-humans because it feels like giving up/making it more likely humans will die off sooner. Which comes across as xenophobia, obviously, because it makes her even more standoffish and antisocial than normal, but she doesn't outright dislike/distrust aliens in the same way as the robosexual lesbian, is what I mean. Entirely possible I'm wrong, that's just my read.
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I remember liking Dawn of Time, though the pacing gets a bit rocky towards the end.
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I used to check in occasionally to see what was up, mostly to see if these infuriating assholes/impossible children had gotten over themselves/each other yet. They never did.
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Nov 2, 2014 15:56
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I can see Loss parodies outliving CAD, not because they're always funny, but because it's become a standard unjoke format like "why did the X cross the Y" or "imagine four loss edits on the edge of a cliff..."
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Nov 7, 2014 21:34
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Tollymain posted:Is anybody else reading Bogleech's Awful Hospital? It uh, sure is a Bogleech thing I am now. What the hell  I don't believe I've had the pleasure of the Bogleech experience before. What else has it done?
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Nov 11, 2014 20:14
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I love the magic prosthetic hands birds get on their wrists to compensate for the fact that their actual hands are busy being wings.
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Nov 22, 2014 20:37
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Avshalom posted:I'm probably just oversensitive because of, you know, webcomics as a whole, but that comment string kind of makes it sound like the artist has a body-snatching fetish and we all just read the most subtle and elaborate porn in history. Practically all prose sci-fi/fantasy contains a significant amount of/is a thinly-veiled vehicle for the author's fetish, I see no reason why comics should be different.
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Nov 22, 2014 21:03
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Pick posted:Spiders Heinlein, who lives in cave and has over 10,000 fetishes, is an outlier and should not have been counted. I will admit that my opinion here is probably skewed by indecent exposure to Heinlein in my youth. The Number of The Beast is a book that should not be read by anyone under the age of 50 who does not also have a strong desire to have an orgy with variously transgendered timeclones of themselves. I still have no idea how it got on my parents' bookshelf 
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I don't remember the last time I laughed out loud at xkcd, but today's was pretty great, even if the punchline was nothing more than "Dinosaur Comics, amirite?". (it was probably entirely because of that)
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Nov 26, 2014 08:31
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Potsticker posted:There is no punchline. It is just literally "this is a thing you are familiar with." Also true of goon darling goatkcd 
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Nov 26, 2014 09:47
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How much of K6BD is there at this point? I tried reading it when it was just starting and was all like "if I try to keep up with this as it updates I'll start hating it for being so slow and that would be terrible because it's too good". If there's a couple solid chapters I might have another go.
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Nov 28, 2014 18:19
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Expensive books are the only kind of books worth having these days. I remember when I was younger having a bookshelf that was so full the shelves were breaking in half, and it was super hard deciding what would go in storage and what to get rid of. Now, unless it's signed or annotated or super loving pretty on the outside, it's like "toss it, I'll just find it online when I want it again". I think it's roughly equally down to the ubiquity of ebooks, the sweet leather cover on my tablet, and the creeping realisation that I will never own a permanent dwelling in which to house a fuckload of dead trees. (mostly the last one though )
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Dec 5, 2014 18:32
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Also available bound in questionably sourced leather 
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Dec 5, 2014 19:18
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Awful Hospital status: continuously more awful. That spoon 
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Just Offscreen posted:Holiday comics always come out close enough to the actual holiday that it's always welcome- you don't see a Christmas story coming out in August. What about that Halloween story that started in September? Three years ago 
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