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Audrey's my favourite character. The way Thorsby draws her with just this constant manic grin and her Punch and Judy face complements her characterisation so perfectly. Also makes me unable to imagine her talking like anything except a girl version of Beavis.
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I think the castration planet in Space Spy was peak Thorsby. This definitely is incredibly him, though.
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May 13, 2016 14:18
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"But a jacket protects you from the cold. It is quite a useful friend." is just a lovely little line.
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May 28, 2016 15:40
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I love this page. Thorsby is a gem. It somehow feels both like standard farce and solid social commentary at once. Really hard to mix those tones!
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Jun 3, 2016 18:26
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Lyndon's my second favourite character after Audrey, so I hope he's not dead.
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Jun 18, 2016 13:38
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Audrey cements herself as the best character YET AGAIN.
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Jun 28, 2016 18:26
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Audrey is once again the best character. I love her totally un-guilty, totally rational response to being told she caused this.
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Sep 30, 2016 12:36
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Demons are afraid of Lyndon Painatorium.
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Oct 3, 2016 04:08
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It did come up previously, we just hadn't met her yet. Although I'm not sure if we knew Audrey and Klara's surname (which is also great)?
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Nov 4, 2016 18:32
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This mugger slaughtering eye man is a saint and a contender for the comic's character find of the year.
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Nov 28, 2016 01:24
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I love that the villains' plans just keep causing them more complications. This one might be different, though. Seems potentially scary for Trixie!
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Dec 12, 2016 14:37
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Let's all pray for Lyndon. He's a good boy and doesn't deserve to be tried as an accessory to murder.
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Dec 23, 2016 15:49
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Whybird posted:True, but at that point Hank Genocide can simply stop supporting Filthmaster and Barbara Everdark can coast to victory. Rudolf Filthmaster is more on the ball than the old lady or the spider, but he's not a politician. Exactly! He's a man of the people! He's just what we need to clean up Diabolica! etc
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Jan 20, 2017 20:39
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Thorsby consistently surprises me in how he manages to get across really strong, distinct characters with very direct dialogue and uncomplicated art. Like, I have a really good idea of who particularly Audrey is as a person and most of her dialogue is expressed in short, simple sentences that are maximally efficient to the plot.
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Feb 11, 2017 23:43
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Audrey rules, and Thorsby rules, and I hope some day he gets huge amounts of recognition for how good his comics are.
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Apr 26, 2017 12:02
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Farce is worth reading about in general. It's also the foundational genre of the modern TV sitcom, which is sort of a niche-evolved version of the stage farce.
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May 3, 2017 08:30
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It is a bit, yeah. The muggers appear to have their own morals, agenda, and I guess biological imperative to steal minds/become smarter, and the rest is just their victim's personality slotted seamlessly into that. It's interesting.
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Jul 18, 2017 10:03
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The Lone Badger posted:Klara thinks Audrey is smarter than her. Interesting. I figured the idea was that both Klara and Lyndon love Audrey and that translates to their mind muggers having an unreasonable level of ideation towards her as a host in particular. It's ambiguous though.
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Sep 4, 2017 14:59
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This doesn't look good for our heroes.
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Sep 15, 2017 09:46
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Lyndon, please.
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Oct 9, 2017 11:50
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There can't be a traitor already in the group, or the Vice President wouldn't have approached Lyndon. The Traditionalists wouldn't need two traitors.
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Dec 19, 2017 11:22
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I absolutely love Samantha just being like, "it's an expression," stone cold no hesitation. Wonderful.
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Feb 2, 2018 15:33
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I used to think Lyndon was a good dude. But now I'm starting to think he might be kind of a skeeze!
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Feb 9, 2018 09:53
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Calling it: Samantha's not insane, and she really does do plausible deniability magic. She just hangs around with insane people because if you're insane, anything you might see is plausibly deniable, making her a ludicrously powerful wizard.
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Feb 19, 2018 14:25
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Lyndon is a real tool with women.
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Feb 23, 2018 09:31
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This is excellent and, in a first for Thorsby, really legitimately pretty unsettling. His limited art style manages to convey a seriously upsetting monster here.
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Mar 6, 2018 02:08
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I love how Lyndon's stretching isn't like, at all based on volition, he just makes himself highly flexible and still has to be pulled into shape. It makes the whole thing lowkey way funnier.
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Mar 23, 2018 17:51
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Audrey rules.
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May 28, 2018 13:34
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I love how Lyndon used to be outraged at Audrey using his pacifist magic to kill, but now he's just like, "yeah, good job mercing that lady!".
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Jun 1, 2018 08:53
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It looks like it worked, but if they were to let Audrey go back and kill the witch, the witch would have seen that when she used the Sceptre, and would have some kind of post-sleeping draught trap in place.
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Jul 17, 2018 16:19
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Lyndon is perpetually trapped in a Painatorium of his own making.
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Aug 3, 2018 09:31
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The idea of someone proposing to me after five weeks actually makes me angry. Honestly I'm impressed that Audrey has shown this much restraint.
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Aug 3, 2018 09:52
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Let's just take a moment to appreciate that Thorsby drew the moose's intestines hanging out at their terminal point.
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Aug 10, 2018 08:37
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The Lone Badger posted:Depending on how the spell interacts with curvature we could have orbiting zombies. I was just wondering this. If it's "absolute" magical force capable of ignoring gravity entirely, they're just going to fly in a (relatively) elevating straight line for a while and then zoom directly into the sky and off the planet, into space. This is a pretty dangerous spell!
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Sep 7, 2018 09:37
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This page is genuinely moving. Ol' Thorsby can deviate from the mechanism and pull out some drama when he needs to.
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Nov 30, 2018 09:06
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Thorsby is lining things up for a brutal evisceration of first past the post where the winning party is eventually elected on, like, 0.8% of the vote.
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Dec 14, 2018 09:56
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I love that all this plan ended up doing was narrowing the field down to three candidates, thus scuppering their initial scheme of bloating the candidate list with socialists. Barbara is back to just about exactly where she started.
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Dec 28, 2018 09:27
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I thought the ending of Transdimensional Brain Chip was pretty happy. Like, the alternative was the entire planet being imprisoned in Buddhist re-education camps.
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Dec 31, 2018 08:42
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Terror Sweat posted:Brain chip ended with the entire world becoming immortal beings living in a post-scarcity utopia under a god who's best interest is making the people happy. That's pretty good for endings While I agree, it's worth noting that they weren't all immortal (because Aisha was concerned about overpopulation in the long term, and presumably didn't want to wind up at a scenario where she had an immortal over-caste faced with a new generation centuries down the line who couldn't practically be granted immortality). She just practised a doctrine of life extension instead, and encouraged people not to procreate so that she could extend their lives further. Notably, she didn't enforce that as a law, just told them that the less babies they had, the longer she'd be able to make everyone's lives. It's a pretty happy ending, the world is saved and a demi-utopia is ushered in, but Aisha's new world still has problems and scarcity. Just far fewer of them, because the prime complaints against her seem to be, "we want immortality and we know you could give it to us, but you won't", and, "I don't like that you're a benevolent dictator who monitors our happiness levels remotely". While valid, they're less pressing than things like "starvation" and "war" and "premature death", which seem to have been totally eliminated.
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Hitmen for Destiny is very good and holds up. Accidental Space Spy has some amazing segments, but is probably the weakest, and has a conclusion ("cultures go to war when the reproductive partners of their leaders are limited and as such the leaders subconsciously feel that a war will cull reproductive rivals in their own society, this is the Ultimate Secret Truth that could be used to prevent war if it were known," which holds up to no scrutiny and doesn't hold half the water of the comic's other evolutionary thought experiments) that undermines its otherwise fun and relatively credible evolutionary biology spec-fi.
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