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Cat Mattress posted:As far as the Foglio's notorious issues with pacing go, this doesn't feel like it has dragged on for months. I guess after Mechanicsburg, nothing ever will. Yeah, this seems pretty reasonably paced to me. We're - Getting a look at the Master of Paris, who has been mentioned lots before now a clever and powerful player in the mad-science game - Giving Agatha a chance to play with more Heterodyne tech, building up a gunrack of Chekov's Guns she can pull out at some future point in a fit of madness - Putting her in a place where the new Baron can't just immediately show up again and drag her away, keeping that story note from hitting over and over again
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There is a lot of foreshadowing snuck in about the Muse of Time and those space-time windows. In addition to the stuff mentioned above, in the fanciful obviously-a-grain-of-truth story of the Heterodyne Boys and the Dragon of Mars (in which the actual dragon represents a slaver wasp queen), we can see that the Other first showed up via a space-time window. We also know that the Other is fond of body-stealing, organic or mechanical, and we saw it show up here wearing a body with suspiciously similar robo arms, which is when the Other set the whole body-stealing plot into motion.
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Sep 17, 2015 14:21
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My GG theory is pretty similar, two differences: - The Other is currently within a clank body. Agatha is the only one capable of building clanks with the spark (That's her talent), so as this body was built by someone else, it can't do the job for Lucretia. She has the drivers and software but not the hardware, so to speak. - I'm assuming the Muse of Time is a self-fulfilling time loop. Professor Mongfish, Lucretia's father, whiel tinkering with space-time, accidentally attracts the attention of the Other. The Other destroys the Castle, drives Agatha's family into exile, and unleashes a plague of zombies. This sets off a chain of events that eventually results in the creation of the Other. Prediction: At the end of the story, just before Agatha defeats the Other, the Other makes a desperate plea of 'join me' or something like that, then throws open the time window and gestures at beginning-of-the-story pre-Spark Agatha while arguing her point. This action sets into action all the events that leads to Agatha becoming a spark and eventually defeating the Other. So the dramatic irony is that the Other's actions creates itself, and then its actions creates the means of its defeat.
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Sep 19, 2015 04:24
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I think Hunter is just nuts now.
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Sep 30, 2015 16:20
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Lily's crushed dreams are breaking my heart.
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Oct 11, 2015 22:35
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SynthOrange posted:I need a wiki now because I keep forgetting who these wacky characters are and getting them mixed up. Why is there a ghost astronaut again? I forget the exact details, but it appears whenever a NASA astronaut is harmed to get revenge.
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Oct 17, 2015 05:15
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Saw that twist coming, but it still is pretty hosed up. At least Tye's other friend is probably right next door?
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Nov 7, 2015 04:10
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Gabriel Pope posted:
4U City was pretty decent, and not that many years ago. But mostly, any time the comic starts getting entertaining, the tension is broken by lovely goofy subplots.
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Nov 20, 2015 07:09
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One of Kris's monthly patreon goal rewards was a new Starslip story. I guess he's working on that, now.
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Dec 12, 2015 19:27
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Something something Victor Von Doom. Or maybe Remus Lupin for the double-whammy.
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Renaissance Robot posted:So however many Jimmys there are there, there's at least that many worlds where Hunter wins by default, because they no longer contain a Jimmy to oppose him. Jimmy only cares about Jimmy (and his daughter), so that doesn't really matter to him. He isn't there to witness the alternate histories where Hunter wins.
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Jan 22, 2016 20:29
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SlothfulCobra posted:I really did like the bit at the end with Tash where basically the moral was even if you believe in the "wrong" god, you still can get to Narnia-heaven if you do things right. It's more charitable than some other interpretations of christianity. But then again, Susan gets hard-core rejected by Heaven for doing nothing more than being an adult woman, if I'm recalling correctly. She enjoys looking pretty! She is not in my sight, or whatever.
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Feb 14, 2016 18:25
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kvx687 posted:Uh, that's not actually what happens. She doesn't get rejected by Heaven, she doesn't show up in Narnia because she's the only one of the cast who doesn't die in the train crash. Aslan says outright that she'll end up in the new Narnia when she dies, if I remember it right. I googled a bit: quote:Even then, Lewis indicates, it’s hardly hellfire for Susan. He wrote to a young reader in 1957: “The books don’t tell us what happened to Susan. She is left alive in this world at the end, having by then turned into a rather silly, conceited young woman. But there’s plenty of time for her to mend and perhaps she will get to Aslan’s country in the end . . . in her own way.” Seems like if you're willing to accept that is up to you.
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Feb 14, 2016 19:32
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Niton posted:Meanwhile, in Demon: Ebola seems like a poor defense against a citadel storming. By the time it kill anyone, the attack will be long-since over.
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Feb 21, 2016 22:24
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Cat Mattress posted:That's why I don't see any social struggle aspect at all. Yeah, I don't see Skin Deep as an allegory about social struggle either. It's really just a fantasy world scenario. Remember the cartoon Gargoyles? Secret monsters live all over the world, only a select few know about them. Heck, some of them could even appear human. The It's just that, but with more kinds of monsters. The fact that this has some crossover with furries and otherkin is probably an issue for the author, but that doesn't seem the intent, either.
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Feb 26, 2016 17:05
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Was it? I honestly don't remember a while lot about the show.
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HorseRenoir posted:Is Homestuck really not done? I decided a few years ago that I was going to stop reading and wait to marathon the rest after it was all finished, and they're still roughly at the same place I left off at? I'm not even sure what Hussie has been doing these days; it feels like the constant drawn-out pauses killed Homestuck's popularity and momentum. Basically, the spin-off game's development has been a big mess and he took like a year off to work on it and it's still not done. And, yeah, sadly, it did kill a lot of momentum.
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Mar 29, 2016 21:45
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What little I can make out by squinting, I'm probably better off only seeing the thumbnail of that.
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Apr 7, 2016 21:15
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Seems like there's been a general uptick in DDoSing lately? A tiny forum that's I go to that literally hasn't had a new member in years got DDoS'd last week. And I heard Battle.net was being hit hard, too. These tiny things might just be random collateral damage in some bigger 'fight'.
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Apr 15, 2016 20:50
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PleasingFungus posted:his daughter, like jimmy himself, was a monster who'd killed thousands of people, and who eagerly looked forward to killing more. (that's what she's complaining about not getting to do.) preventing her from doing so isn't the same as feeding the poor; it's better. Guessing his sidebar here about the first demon is going to lead to him shooting Sweetpea off into space to be the first demon on a new world, which will hilarously negate any 'good' he is doing here.
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Apr 20, 2016 19:00
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Its been a while, but didn't the bad guys tempt Kit with some illegal and/or hard to obtain reagent in the quest to cure her father? I'm guessing the drastic action she's about to take will involve that.
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Apr 30, 2016 12:40
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Jack's author's girlfriend calling LoveLine about his rape fetish and them calling him a creep is definitely real, though.
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May 19, 2016 16:12
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mycot posted:Keenspot is the one webcomic amalgamate where the head dude turned out to be a literal childgroomer, right? If that turned out to be the case, I never heard about it. As far as I know, Keenspot fell from prominence when the majority of the creative types left and started their own syndicates and websites after Keenspot failed to properly promote their comics, instead choosing to spend their marketing dollars promoting Crosby-run properties. Plus, these days, do that many people use aggregator sites? Even among the small webcomics I read, I only see a few 'vote for me on topwebcomics', and even that seems futile, as all the top spots are occupied by stuff that, at least from the outside, seems like garbage and porn comics.
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May 20, 2016 20:11
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It's a money-pit situation. If they can recover the kids and monsters, she hopes they can fix everything. So any new monsters she creates can also be fixed. Although, honestly, if you've reached this point, it might be more efficient to feed all your staff into the monster-making machine until you get another monster or two with energy-generation and healing powers, rather than sending a bunch of kids after other kids.
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May 23, 2016 15:17
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I think the kitten is a little over the top. But that's just my opinion.
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May 25, 2016 19:32
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I always crack up over the center-fold, which is a huge, four-page fold out that just says 'centaur fold' over and over.
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Kramjacks posted:Whats this? Well, I don't know if he got "big bucks" for it, but he came up with the Candle Cove thing, which got fairly popular as a 'creepypasta', and then it got optioned. I'm guessing that's what Carrasco is referring to. But, yeah, Straub is a great webcomicsman and I hope we see a bunch more Broodhollow soon.
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When a character calls Poppy a 'candidate' for being Iron Matron, my first question is if Iron Matron is a position, or a one-person destiny. In other words, is there a line of Iron Matrons, or is there going to be some magic shenanigans that result in Poppy (or hypothetically one of the other candidates) being displaced from her normal time. edit: This was in the third anniversary image, and I imagine is 'whoever' Poppy is being confused for. Note the bright eye. 
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What I'm asking is, is there a series of Iron Maidens (like the comic strip Phantom, who is replaced by a new one whenever he dies off), or is there one Iron Maiden of legend, and these magical people are tracking / working towards putting one person in that position.
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Jul 19, 2016 14:11
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I've loaded it up once or twice, and it's still just kinda mediocre. He's got a lot of the same issues as with Dominic Deegan (throwing together a large ensemble cast when it isn't needed for one thing, making bad guys way too over-the-top evil for another) but it never quite stumbles enough to hit 'hilariously bad' levels like DD.
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Jul 22, 2016 22:28
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Renaissance Robot posted:Remind me what his malfunction was? PFSC was really good. If I'm recalling correctly, the order of breakdown was: - Did a kickstarter for a book of PFSC comics. - Underestimated shipping costs, ran out of money. - Went off anti-depressants trying to save up money to ship the rest of the books. - Got depressed, posted about it. - Internet accused them of 'faking sadness' to avoid shipping books. - Had real bad breakdown, probably related to going off the anti-depressants. - Declared money to be a poison on society or something to that effect. - Filmed video burning copies of kickstarter books, declared that they'd burn more for every email they got asking where the book was. - Generally said some things that seemed designed to drive away anyone who considered them a friend. - Some real bizarre rantings about money, patronage, and how This Is Not How Things Should Be - The Cards Against Humanities guys offered to help ship out whatever books were left. This happened. - Radio silence. Overall, it came off to me as a rather depressing breakdown fueled by stress. Poor PFSC person.  edit: The 'faked depression' post was very obviously a sarcastic rant about the people claiming just that, but the internet didn't get it.
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I think PFSC had its moments. It resonated a lot more with my friends who have had depression that it did with me, but I enjoyed it.
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Agean90 posted:edit: or now that i think about it the fact that he is literally a free energy source if you have even a basic idea how power plants work. The Venture Bros tv show had a morally-corrupt Mister Fantastic analogue, and he did basically this to the Human Torch analogue.
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Straight White Shark posted:The attack on the castle was a ruse so that some of the Sweetpeas could sneak into the lab and hijack the demonizer to demon up the entire population of the planet, neutralizing Hunter's demon army since there's no one left to possess. Jimmy realizes that he never figured out what was up with the alternate method of leaving a host without killing them, and neither does the reader. That's not what I took away from it. Jimmy has demonized everyone in the world. Everything should be back to normal, since anytime anyone dies, they just stay dead. ...except the obscure rule that you leave your host if you spend a certain amount of time bring completely Good or something. So, lol, Jimmy put the world back as it was, except all good people will just occassionally sponaneousky drop dead. Good jorb.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Also I don't think opossums are normally legally considered property. Just non persons. Which is worse because property at least has value! Oh, Opossums have value. apparently in some parts of the world, there are hunting bounties on them, much in the same way we cull deer. 
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Autonomous Monster posted:Someone remind me, isn't Zola a Lucrezia now? Did she do some sort of mental judo pin on the brainwashing? Zola's group knew about Lucrezia's brain-stealing abilities, and had a decade or so to ponder about them. So they came up with a technique or technology or something that lets Zola block it. So now she's in an extremely advantageous position: - She's still in control of herself. - She remembers all the Lucrezia memories that were forced into her, giving her insight into a bunch of circuitous plans and schemes. - The rest of the Lucrezias think she's one of them (because she has Lucrezia memories and knows all the proper codewords and stuff), giving her access to their resources. Seems like she's trying the exact same 'dominate with a velvet fist' scheme as when she attempted to impersonate the Heterodyne Heir, but this time she's got a bunch of agents prepositioned thanks to Slaver Wasps.
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Cat Mattress posted:I hope we get an epilogue of Doc Patrick marrying, having a boy, and naming him Charles. What's interesting is that, if this universe does produce another Chuck Goodrich, he won't actually be able to time travel to fix things. The time portal is gone. What does a non-time-travelling Chuck Goodrich end up like?
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Nuebot posted:I have no clue where I left off. I think someone got turned into a robot or something weird like that? If that makes any kind of sense, has any meaningful progress been updated since then? One big animated scene where Ava hosed poo poo up, and then the fallout.
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PMush Perfect posted:Is that Boris helping her train? Yeah, that's why Lily's teacher is so excited in that panel.
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