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The Saddest Rhino posted:THE CARPET MERCHANT OF KONSTANTINIYYA just came to take a peek at the thread and was sidelined by sudden feelings 
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A thread newbie here wondering what exactly is the joke in Joey's Special Experience, is it machine translated or done extremely poorly by someone not native in Japanese or English? It's very funny, all the same.
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Whybird posted:I was assuming that what we are seeing now is what life for Allison has been like for the past year Yeah, the end of last chapter laid out pretty clearly what will happen next (Allison will need to train and grind some mooks a lot to level up), so it's pretty clear to me what's been going on. You could even say that the comic is showing it to me instead of spending panel after panel and text bubble after text bubble telling me what happened.
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Apr 21, 2023 13:09
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Boba Pearl posted:Mad respect for just time skipping. It feels wrong but it's the right move if you're trying to hit the key points for your story. You don't want a year of filler so that you can wait out a training thing. Instead they just decided "Hey nothing important is going to happen during this, so let's get to the next plot point." You only really see that in comics that have an ending because, well, they have something to get too. I also liked feeling a bit disoriented at first, and then realising a bit by bit what has been going on as Buff Allison starts doing her new thing which is also a lot like the old thing. The brain loves being given a bit of stuff to figure out and a lot of artists miss out on giving their audience that pleasure because they want make sure that the reader don't miss a single detail about the world and the story they've painstakingly put together.
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Apr 21, 2023 13:32
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That panel of the Head House is the G-d dang best thing. Abaddon really knows how to fill a world with stuff that's pleasing to look at.
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Apr 27, 2023 08:22
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Japan also has a cultural thing with really taking appreciating and enjoying food seriously. Watch Tampopo if you haven't already, it's a really great loving parody slash earnest celebration of the kind of culturally ingrained foodie mindset you never see in the West.
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Apr 28, 2023 12:58
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Cursed Princess Club rules, it is pure calories in the best possible way. Sometimes you just want a story about growing up different, the difficulty of self-acceptance and the healing power of friendship, very competently executed, and it delivers in spades. I tried reading it in webtoon form and bounced off hard though, something about the format itself really irks me, but I absolutely love it in post sized bits in the webcomics thread.
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May 1, 2023 22:32
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I don't remember this part of the Mr Boop saga, it keeps on getting more amazing the more meta it gets.
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May 2, 2023 19:26
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rollick posted:I don't know who you're talking about here, so I tried to look up "who is Alec Robbins married to". It uh didn't help. 
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May 3, 2023 09:53
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World Famous W posted:i can no longer see anything on imgur, both phone and computer. vpn on and off, phone data and wifi tried My VPN allows me to switch between different proxies in different countries, try that until one works. Mine changes daily, it's a drag but at least I get to read the comics thread for now.
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May 17, 2023 07:34
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:
This was a good batch, thanks for posting this hilarious nonsense.
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May 20, 2023 23:17
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Phlegmish posted:What is that crescent-shaped mark under the shop owner's left eye? At first I thought they were supposed to be bags to signify how tired and weary she was, but it's only under one eye. A scar from the constant wars after the end of the world that almost everyone else in the comic has taken some damage during. Everyone else deals with all of it by drinking with their mates, she is the one supplying the drinks.
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May 20, 2023 23:29
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I get Wakako-Zake. After a long day of dealing with people at work, I want nothing more than a moment alone with my thoughts, just enjoying a meal and a drink. It's fun to just sit by your lonesome, observing people and getting a light buzz before moving on home.
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May 30, 2023 09:32
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Thank you for reminding me about Jerkcity.
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May 31, 2023 18:43
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It's always weird when a Duck artist draws in a human with a real nose instead of the black button they usually use.
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Jun 8, 2023 08:11
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CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:OH! right. i remember i was going to look up what "autodefenestration" means. It comes from a historical thing that happened that the people at the time took to calling "the defenestrations of Prague" in what was probably a bit of dry humour, since everyone with a degree spoke latin at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
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Food goblin ended up being a lot more complex than I expected! Thanks for posting the Japanese originals, I'm working on learning the language and they'll be great material for picking up food Japanese!
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Jun 21, 2023 10:27
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Jun 27, 2023 15:07
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I actually like Decap Attack a lot, it's exceptionally good for an obscure British videogame tie-in gag comic. It's in that exact zone of zany and self-aware early 1990s comics I remember and love. The Sonic magazine had a lot of side comics which had no right to be as good as they were, lot of good creators around at that time.
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Jun 30, 2023 22:37
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I really can't tell if the Heathcliffs are edits or some sort of mad AI generated nonsense or not. If not, that's even funnier.
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Jul 2, 2023 20:45
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:in case people don't read SAD: vyelkin has resurrected the old banished webcomic thread in cccc which was originally removed due to a deranged finn spamming reports I remember having a lot of good times with that thread, loads of good stuff and edits in there to offset the webcomics. 
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Jul 7, 2023 12:50
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The Finnish name for Paperinik is "Taikaviitta", or Magic Cape - intentionally generic (it's a part of the joke, I feel), but still better than... Paperinik. The Italian names for Disney characters are just weird, but I guess I would feel different if I grew up with them. One of my favourite Euro Donald characters, for sure! Italians especially have a whole alternate roster of Duckburg characters, some of which made it to Ducktales, I think?
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Jul 12, 2023 15:09
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This is an exceptional page in an exceptional thread
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Jul 18, 2023 23:31
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I love Zhuangzi Speaks. I recently got the privilege of talking with someone who does actual research into the philosophy and texts and I've been meaning to read the book since, but until I get down to do that, the comics are great at letting me understand a bit about why he's a big deal. It seems that for a professional philosopher with Western training in contemporary ethics and politics there's a lot of really exciting ideas there that could contribute a lot to that paradigm! He comes across as very ancient and very contemporary, even postmodern, which, yeah, probably why he's a true classic.
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Jul 21, 2023 12:06
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I gotta respect Qrais' work ethic, eking a living out of comics in Japan of all places can't be easy (and the cooking comic he did for a time that was about being a poor artist who lives alone and wants to eat semi-healthy alluded to that all the time) and boy howdy I can't imagine what it's like to know that all the cool weird stuff you'd rather be doing will never beat Stupid Mouse Uses Ticket Scanner as a Tanning Bed when it comes to actually paying the bills.
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mystes posted:stoicism is lame do epicureanism stoics and epicureans got constantly clowned on by a bunch of dirty homeless people living in barrels and masturbating in public, clearly cynicism is the superior philosophy.
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Phthisis posted:I wondered what modern-day Prince Valiant was like, and, well, I love this thread so much
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Jul 26, 2023 19:19
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I didn't even remember how good Q-rais is at food porn. I just got back home from a 10-month long work trip and have full use of my kitchen again after cooking with a kettle and a microwave for months, so I definitely feel the need to raid an Asian market and try some of this out. Thanks again for posting, GE, your contributions in this and the webcomic thread form a very large part of my morning routine and I continue to appreciate it a lot.
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Jul 26, 2023 21:54
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Are the disguised Beagle Boys supposed to remind the reader of RAF terrorists with automatic weapons because Donald Duck just got real, lmao
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Jul 28, 2023 09:47
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Around in Nordic the Euro Duck stories were published monthly in small volumes not unlike graphic novels today under the name "Donald Duck's Pocketbook". I read literally hundreds of the things, so seeing some of those stories pop up here is a nostalgic delight. And yeah, the Euro Duckverse paints Mickey as a mild-mannered amateur detective who is way too friendly with cops and spends his free time solving crimes for them. This is very unlike the working-class Donald who regularly gets in scrapes with the authorities because of his temper when he's not forced to work for his uncle for basically free. I think it's often implied that Scrooge owns Donald's house and is not afraid to use that as leverage to coerce him into doing his bidding. It's pretty clear that Europeans love Donald a lot more than Mickey.
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Jul 31, 2023 11:07
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We had the discussion about skipping a major training montage earlier and even if I was against it then, I feel we should have spent some more time with Zaid now just to get a better feel for him. He now suddenly turns up all cool and buff and with all the answers and I'm not feeling it, at least yet!
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Aug 5, 2023 18:23
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Funny, I have that exact Le Creuset cast iron pot that Takako-san has and it's my favourite cooking implement. I managed to snatch a lightly used one for a low price and it's great. Something cheaper would probably be just as good, but when it comes to kitchen stuff, I cherish that little extra fanciness.
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Emzedoh posted:Takako-san chapter 50 This really hit for me. Gotta visit the parents again soon.
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Splicer posted:Sisyphus's punishment isn't the toil. He has been promised he can return to the mortal world if he pushed the boulder to the top. His punishment is hope. This is also apparent in the story of Pandora. We take the end of the story to be an inspiring reminder that even if the world is full of bad stuff going on, there's still hope left, right? For the Greeks the story was probably meant to be a depressive reminder that the world has already gone to Hades and hope is nothing but false expectation. Greeks really didn't believe in hope.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:what are you basing this on? Looking into it, there's a tragic (hope is evil) and non-tragic (hope is good, actually) reading of the story, and I only now realized that I've always been partial to the tragic reading since it was also advocated by Nietzsche: Hope was put in a box/jar of evils by Zeus because hope is an evil that only allows man to continue tormenting himself constantly anew. Looking into it, there's unsurprisingly a large amount of scholarship on the issue and many people these days take the opposite view - Greeks had a non-tragic sense of hope and Hesiod's original meaning was not as clear-cut as the tragic reading would suggest. Teaches me to blast about classics 
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Aug 12, 2023 11:41
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KC Green is a bit hit and miss for me but at all of those.
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Emzedoh posted:
You can really tell when the artist actually pays attention to what people around them wear instead of just drawing whatever from the usual references. John Allison is another artist who's great at it, I love how his characters' styles look like the kind of stuff people like them would wear in real life, with just a little extra thrown in.
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Hell yeah Boulet, I love Kingdom Lost
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