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Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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For as much as we give tumblr a hard time for being tumblr, it's loving funny how often goons come out with similar poo poo.

"You have a Japanese character in your comic, therefore you must want to be Japanese, that's not cool, stop it at once". Just, jesus, listen to yourself.

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Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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A.o.D. posted:

oh god if you use mine please don't put my forums handle on it.

Yeah, I don't dislike pavlov or anything but the only thing stopping me from buying him a hilarious bunny avatar/title right now is the fact I'm utterly skint.

Because that story is comedy gold, and just perfectly goony in every way.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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I assume the first is Rice Boy

If not you've got some sharing to do

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Oh hey look another cool thing I completely forgot about.

e/ as I suspected, there's been a whole five new pages since I last checked Crush Saga. Such is life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ppaiQ6mhbE

SynthOrange posted:

It's not a webcomic but Saga has tv people too.

Well if we're not limiting ourselves to webcomics then Dead Leaves is pretty fantastic :anime:

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Oct 10, 2010

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icantfindaname posted:

Dead Leaves was post FLCL. Canti-sama wins

Robots don't count :colbert:

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Oct 10, 2010

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Carrasco posted:

I'm gonna die historic on the Demon road.

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.

Bravo Jimmy you idiotic nihilistic poo poo stain.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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It's a whole tooth, any time he opens his mouth you can see the gap.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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qntm posted:

Well, it's pretty intense stuff.

I like bunnymeat but concur that this is a good reason to link them rather than post inline.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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She's alright.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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The ones that end on a flat note like these last two are the best imo, because it throws the hosed upedness of the rest of it into relief without directly saying "this really messed me up, here's how I felt afterwards..." (a couple of the strips do actually do that, and they're definitely weaker for it)

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Haha holy poo poo. Fun for all the family :downsgun:


That poor bunny looks so traumatised. It's perfect.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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I'm partial to this one, mainly because of the dog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcRnC5tkKTo

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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I'd be happy if it was just a still of 0:20 tbh :smugdog:

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Also it's finished (has been for a while), always a plus.

My only gripe is that while I was waiting on the final updates, it seemed to end much more suddenly than the epic scope of the story had led me to anticipate. Being objective though, I think I've just been ruined by too many long form comics. It's very good and I have no substantial criticisms.

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Oct 10, 2010

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Plethora posted:

It's not like we don't have a wildly successful fantasy series that helped set the bar for the genre's standards that expertly merged Christian mythos with Pagan imagery or anything, beloved by generations of kids and adults regardless of religious beliefs. I mean, there's no way those two could be merged into something everyone can enjoy, right?

Well yeah, but although that one was beating you over the head with obvious imagery by the end it never went as far as directly quoting the bible.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Plethora posted:

I honestly don't remember that in Narnia. I DO remember the hilariously self-critical sections, particularly the entire last book where a donkey and baboon dress up like Aslan and trick his followers into doing what they want, which is an obvious metaphor for lovely Christians pretending to know God's demands and abusing the hell out of the public. Not to mention the number of times Aslan fails his people and everything falls to garbage, showing that not even deities are perfect.

It was critical of ALL religions and theological philosophy, actually.

Books 3 and 7 cast swarthy musslemen as the villains. While this would appear to be a straightfoward demonisation of Islam, it's clarified at the end of book 7 that it doesn't matter who you think you worship, only what you actually do.

Some people find that to be a trite and patronising cop-out though, so they continue to call Lewis racist.

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

It's mostly concentrated in The Last Battle which boils down to a very conventional end times narrative where Tash (i.e. wizard Allah) turns into a giant skeleton monster and leads the armies of darkness in the final battle of good and evil etc.

Tash is actually more of a Shiva. Wizard Allah would be Aslan's father, ie the ancient space wizard Abrahamic God who never appears in the books, ie the same situation we have in reality where the Muslim and Christian gods are known by different names but are functionally the exact same dude.

The Arab dudes say they're worshipping Tash, and some of them are, but there's also a bunch of them who do so in a way that's peaceful and contemplative (you know, like most real muslims).

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Oct 10, 2010

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Bobulus posted:

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.

Actually it's because she wasn't dead yet :ssh: That's the ending of book 7, they all die in a train crash.

Of course the reason she wasn't dead was because she wasn't hanging out with the narnia fanclub on account of being too worldly, and they do go on a bit about that, but details. Nowhere is it stated that she's out forever; much like the dwarves (sat around a banquet table in outer heaven yet believing they're still locked in a dark stable at the end of the world) she's got an eternity to get in to heaven, she pretty much just has to realise it's there.


e/ I wouldn't fault anyone for still disagreeing with this, because objective morality and explicit deism, no matter how liberal, are still things it's possible to reasonably want to reject; I'd just like for people to respond to the message that's actually there rather than one that isn't.

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Oct 10, 2010

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A.o.D. posted:

He wrote 1028 pages of Lord of the Rings. If he wanted something read into the text, he would have put it there himself!

You say that like it's a lot.

But I've lived through Homestuck. :fireman:


e/ I seriously can't remember what's going on in that anymore, and my enthusiasm is long dead. I'm still eager for it to wrap up though because I really want to see the final (actual and adjusted) word count.

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Oct 10, 2010

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Carrasco posted:

Supposedly it's going to wrap up on 4/13, but who knows.

We've been saying this every year since 2011.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Is it supposed to be pronounced Prague as in the city, or like a stereotypical Japanese person saying "plague"? I can never tell.

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Oct 10, 2010

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mycot posted:

vvv Hey, nobody says Cyclops not being able to turn off his eye beams is uncomfortable, is what I'm saying. Believe me in a sexualized thing the drawbacks would be something a lot less straightforward.

Idk, slowly inflating to the size of a house until you explode seems both straightforward and extremely uncomfortable :suicide:

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Wait, Vattu still isn't finished? :psyduck:

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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It's okay, I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway :suspense:

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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I'd have laughed harder at today's smbc if I didn't know it was ripping off an old episode of buffy the vampire slayer.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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I did mean that, but was being deliberately hyperbolic with "ripping off"; it's essentially a joke I've heard before, so of course it's not as funny to me, but I appreciate that this time I didn't have to sit through an hour of teen drama to hear it :v:

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Speaking of which, it turns out Jimmy's real superpower is being a total loving psycho. Who would have guessed!?

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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So we're into the last thirty-something pages of Demon. The way things are going I'm fully expecting it to be a huge letdown and/or shaggy dog story (as in, more than I was a few months ago)

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Plethora posted:

Just posting a link and not uploading a comic. This one's kinda gross.

loving clickbait :argh:

I'm not going to be so melodramatic as to suggest an :nms: tag, but yeah... if you don't want to see a fairly realistic severed rabbit's foot, don't click through.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Tollymain posted:

oh, and homestuck's back

Uuuugghhh whyyy

I don't even remember anything about what's going on. I said this after the last two mega pauses but this time I'm serious, I don't have clue. There was that code poo poo? Time travelling Terezi? I don't know if that was the very last thing though.


Just, gently caress reading it all again. I haven't booted up my PC in months, and the comic is so flash heavy and dependent on webpage formatting that mobile reading is basically impossible.

Also I'm employed now and no longer critically depressed, so I don't really have the time or inclination to spend hours and days at a time sat in front of a monitor clicking buttons (unless I'm at work :v: but really not even then)

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Howard Taylor, the Stalin of webcomic artists

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Oct 10, 2010

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majormonotone posted:

Honestly with BCB the constant stream of drama has been starting to get to me. I don't enjoy it nearly as much as I used to, it just feels like bad things happening over and over and over. I guess that's what high school is? But it's not really fun and entertaining anymore. It's just exhausting.

It's a shame because I feel like Vero's art is really good now. I hope I like her next comic better

Just keeping my fingers crossed her own crippling depression doesn't lead her to sour the ending. I'm optimistic, since she's got trusted input from people who aren't riddled with self doubt and anxiety, and previous plot elements suggest a few ways it could wrap up cleanly on a high note.

The worst case is off the table at any rate, since she already did a School Days parody :v:


e/ she still can't draw that sort of half open "oh hi there" hand wave though. It's like a tic at this point.

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Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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To get over their dumb bullshit teenager issues, graduate, move on, grow up.

Also for Abbey to get hit by a bus.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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I was briefly excited when I saw Jeff might be quitting QC, before I realised what day it was.


In my defence, I never went to sleep, so in a way it's still March 31st.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Tollymain posted:

it's not even impressively awful, it's just bland

mlyp

e/ it's just a habit. I tend to forget it exists for a week or two and then go back when I'm bored.

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Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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He's not wrong.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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A Wizard of Goatse posted:

rocky crossed the line from court jester to 'definitely going to axe murder someone any minute now' a while ago

Somebody's got to pick up the slack now that Mordecai's gone.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Literally everybody in the k6bd thread. :goleft:

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Huh, didn't know you had an account here. Makes it easier to say thanks for the comics at least!

Fwiw I'd have been perfectly happy to see You Suck continue with sketches, if it was a choice between that and it never updating again. Then again I also felt the One Punch Man redraw was mostly unnecessary (not to be ungrateful, but), sooooo definitely don't take my aesthetic opinions too seriously.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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This one really reminds me of the opening to Binding of Isaac for some reason.

Probably the certifiable mother and getting shut in the basement.

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Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

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Pavlov posted:

It's a good example of the value of morbidity in art.

The two classic genres of storytelling are comedy and tragedy. The world has enough comic strips, I think it could use some more tragic strips.

I agree.

Which reminds me, are people still bitching about Prequel/trying to claim it's torture porn, or did they get bored and wander off?

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