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That's what the current thing with them chasing the world-ship with the dinosaurs is about. They found a fuckload of worldships heading away from the galaxy, and this is the one that they could get a location for and pop over to say "so, what's the deal with you guys hauling rear end out of here?" It was enormously expensive, so Petey doesn't have the power to keep the Pa'anuri out of the galaxy anymore, which lead to the sequence of events where "blow up all of Othlin's TAD systems and then soulgig everybody" seemed the least horrific course of action.
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Sluggy Freelance is one of those lumbering zombie comics from The Before Times that persists out of sheer inertia, and if it tried launching today it never would've gotten off the ground. But the comic itself is not the thing I want to bring up, but the reference links. I think the reference links are a really good idea, because especially when you have a really long running comic, sometimes things can be forgotten, or someone who didn't go back and read over twenty years of comics may not get a reference. It's kind of like the old reminders/recaps of what happened in old comics, only instead of having a tiny textbox from Smilin' Stan, why not just link directly to the comic in question? It's something I'd like to see more online comics do. Everything is right there! Use that! But any credit it gets for reference links is more than lost because the actual comic, which is the loving point of the site, is something you have to scroll down a screen to see.
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Aug 13, 2019 08:25
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Ishida's big issue is that the core of his comic didn't change. It's still "you ladies are all Womaning wrong because you're too stupid to get it; let me, an Intelligent Man, teach you how to Woman correctly." He's just changed his definitions of what it means to Woman correctly. As for the Robo-Fuckin' Comic, I agree with Mors' take on May and loving. She probably isn't interested in loving for the sake of loving, but she does dig loving when she can be loving weird, or otherwise transgressive somehow. Sven just wants some no-strings loving and is willing to roll with it, I guess. I wonder if things are going to hit a point where he goes "sorry no but too much."
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Oct 6, 2019 00:20
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Julius CSAR posted:Oh yeah, absolutely. The bag was just kinda of an odd detail lol. I also like that there are socialists who want to bring down the bourgeois magical girl industry to prevent the proliterian magical girls from being exploited. It's great. The whole idea of "Sailor Moon Is A Child Soldier" is super interesting. If military magical girls interests you, I would also point you towards Symphogear and Nanoa StrikerS. Symphogear has multiple seasons and is on Crunchyroll, but Nanoha StrikerS is the third season of its series, preceded by Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's. StrikerS is basically "and many years later, they grew up, moved to the Magical Girl World, and joined the army." The first season and A's were localized but I think there's some expiration fuckery that makes them hard to get, StrikerS was not licensed so you're on your own there. Spec Ops Asuka was mentioned, but...okay, you know how comic books had the Grimderp Age in the 90s, where everything had BLOOD and DEATH and SWEARING to show that they WEREN'T FOR KIDS and as a result turned into pizza cutters, all edge with no point? Yeah, Asuka's basically that. It just gets super gross for shock value. As for the gift bag, it makes sense to me. There's a bunch of letters and he has to put them in something, so that's what he used. He probably had some plain old boxes around, but may as well put them in something nice, you know?
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Dec 18, 2019 04:26
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Yeah, she's still dealing with the mental fallout of feeling like it's not really her body. This is not helping.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:ah, an anti-medication (anti-therapy?) parable I don't think it was meant to be anti-medication or anti-therapy, because that's a level of direct manipulation that does not currently have a parallel for humans. The given reason is that it's such a gross violation of the sanctity of the mind ("gross" here being used in its scale sense, not disgusting sense, although it can do some double duty here) that Spooky Cluster AI absolutely refuses to do it because that's one of the few principles they holds themselves to, because if Spooky Cluster AI doesn't hold themselves accountable, who will? Who can? But I suspect there's also a bit of "and here's why this character, who I intend to have stick around, isn't just magically fixing Roko's massive mental issues, despite a demonstrated ability to do so." And I think Jeph is taking some meds himself so I don't think he'd be on the anti-medication train. Plus there's Bubbles, who is an example of why having someone gently caress with your mind in order to smooth over problems may not turn out the way you'd hope. (For those recently joining us: Bubbles the combat AI had PTSD, she asked to have the relevant memories partitioned off and encrypted, the problem is that this was done by an unethical rear end in a top hat who used the key as leverage, except it turns out WHOOPS she hosed up and deleted them and now those memories Bubbles had are just gone so now she has different problems.)
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Jan 14, 2020 23:00
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Tenebrais posted:There's been no real indication yet as to what the monsters are or want at all, really. We've seen what happens to the people they attack, but not why. Nor do we know how or why they get in for four hours around midnight. The most I've managed to figure out is they seem to be dream-related, since they're mostly based on fears and nightmares and the magical girls themselves get their powers through dreams too. But who knows how any of that works? Mary Cagle, I'd imagine. 
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Feb 16, 2020 01:34
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What's the deal with the collapse? I remember that the last big arc was a giant paintball tournament for something important, which just kind of stopped and they rebooted the comic, but I don't remember where things went from there. Other than, of course, the collapse.
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Mar 28, 2020 09:27
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The comics that immediately came to mind in that thread are Sore Thumbs, Electronic Tigers, and Sinfest, but yeah there's a depressingly large number of them. I'm not sure how well those all fight the "right-wing death spiral," though. Sore Thumbs started out being aggressively left (lovely, but left), Electronic Tigers was deliberately right wing because the creator got drummed out of DC for being a giant homophobe nobody wanted to be around, and Sinfest is nominally left, but it went full TERF and the fact that they tend find common cause with literal Nazis should be a red flag but hate is a hell of a drug.
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May 1, 2020 22:10
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I got curious and decided to check on what Poe's current comic is, and immediately got a faceful of TERF, so yeah I'm sure he and Tats would be best buddies.
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May 2, 2020 01:00
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That tweet is unsurprisingly making the rounds among Comics Types, and well... https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike/status/1256078308338470913 That tweet posted:But still, taking them all as a whole, it's pretty wild how many cartoonists whose fans defended them with IT'S JUST EDGY JOKES, YOU'RE THE IDIOT FOR TAKING HIM SERIOUSLY!!! turned out to be... surprise, genuinely lovely people. As the saying goes, "when someone tells you who they are, believe them."
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May 2, 2020 01:54
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Cassidy was also getting specific attention from Goops, which I'm sure didn't help.
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Jul 9, 2020 18:42
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Hostile V posted:The presence of sapient machines and robots is a cultural blood debt owed to Megatokyo permanently changing the face of early webcomics. There's actually a thing about that. The immediately relevant bit is that Megatokyo introduced Ping, and way back in the day aping Megatokyo was what you did if you wanted on the bandwagon (unless you were aping Penny Arcade), so you put a robot in the comic because that's just what you did, and QC launched in that window, so here we are.
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Jul 12, 2020 00:49
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The space elves aren't just any space elves. They're very clearly Elerians from Master of Orion 2. One of them even even looks just like the soldier who tells you about technologies you captured.
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Mar 12, 2021 19:28
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Mr Phillby posted:Oh wow thats like the first time I've thought about PvP in like a decade. Some of the "this is unrecognizable" can be explained by Kurtz doing a time skip. The titular PVP was originally a video game magazine, which is obviously incredibly dated and anachronistic. Last year he just said "gently caress it, time skip forward" so he could get rid of that and also skip past the whole Covid thing because gently caress is trying to deal with that in your comic while also dealing with it every day depressing.
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Jun 14, 2021 15:03
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I have always said that Ishida's central principle of "you ladies are Womaning incorrectly, so allow me, an Enlightened Man, to show you how it's done" has never changed, it's just that his definition of "Womaning" has shifted over time. I would ask "so did he ever bring up Roe v Wade given that it was kinda loving important" but I already know he did not and never will.
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https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/1555508880326758400Jeph Jacques' Twitter posted:Just gonna get ahead of the discourse and say that the upcoming arc in QC is NOT the end, or setting up the end, of the comic. I have no plans to end it anytime in the near future. Shits about to get kind of wild though (by qc standards, anyway) It's not ending. As for "prioritize your needs," that's perhaps not the best phrasing, but it's not bad advice. Making yourself miserable because you shelved all of your hopes and dreams for your partner's sake is also a problem.
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Plus, even if absolutely nothing else, "kept it up long enough to hit five thousand strips" is pretty impressive. You could go through fifty a day and it'd still take over three months to read it all. I'm not sure how many other comics go that long, outside of the zombies you see shambling around print newspaper strips that are being done by the assistant to the grandson of the original inker or whatever.
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I think Stonetoss is also banned? It was brought up in passing that it had been a while since anybody had posted it, so someone did and got probated for it.
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One of the things I feel Sluggy Freelance deserves credit for doing, and I kind of wish more things did, was "when someone shows up, there is a link to their prior appearance to contextualize it." The problem is that this then leads to more "who the gently caress is that" links, since the strip linked to usually only has a vague allusion or whatever, so you have to do even more archive diving, but the one for "who is this lich looking dude" was, at least, very straightforward. As long as you remember the general deal for Mohkadun, anyway.
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Speaking of a specific kind of monomania, I recently discovered a comic called Motherlover. I want to share the About page for it. I went the extra mile to include the formatting, you're welcome.Motherlover's About page posted:Motherlover is a sweet serial romance comic about two moms from different walks of life who (are going to eventually) fall in love, with a bunch of other life stuff that happens along the way. I admire the purity and directness of "THIS ENTIRE COMIC IS TO MAKE THESE TWO KISS."
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