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Tiggum posted:The geneticist/wizard just discovered that her time-travelling friend is actually her daughter from the future. (yes, that can happen, and my annoyance isn't a value judgement on real people, it's just a kinda racist character decision imo)
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The base joke is funny, but the execution is, uuuuh...
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Jan 4, 2019 02:34
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If they have advanced technology why don't the predators in Kevin and Kell just clone cuts of meat, no murder involved? I mean, if Holbrook is trying to present the murder as not the motive for most of them. If everyone is sapient prey species have the awareness to control their own populations with, like... birth control, anyway. There's nothing natural about the set-up so might as well go full sci-fi. EDIT: Like if Dewclaw Meats or w/e was selling cloned meat then I could buy them as an ethical business. As it is, no, not even if people have to eat.
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Jan 4, 2019 19:59
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Zanzibar Ham posted:If Maria stayed around in hopes of unmaking the universe due to the time-space paradox then she'd be my favorite character. But since she did it because she already knew she did and nothing bad happened then she's still as bad as everyone else. quote:MARIA: i think i mostly want to see what happens when this whole place breaks apart
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Jan 6, 2019 04:45
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It's cruel to do live feeding when you don't have to. Can't it injure the snake, too, if things go wrong? Snap the neck first jfc.
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SuperKlaus posted:New Nancy in four words: raised palm, technology reference. (This is in no way, shape, or form a statement of support for Gilchrist.)
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Cicadalek posted:Didn't Holbrook have a previous storyline about a carnivore who became a sheep or whatever and treated it as a clumsy analogue to transgender issues? That makes this most recent comic uh, really loving gross. I mean, the more obvious answer is the dude eats plants now and isn't hurting anyone whereas Angelique is helping run a hellworld murder-for-food company, but Holbrook excuses his protagonist for doing the same because she's an 'ethical' hunter, so now he has to do something to make Angelique seem even worse, which is having her target her own (birth) species in a ham-handed attempt to get revenge on her ex-husband who she can't hunt anyway because she knows him. Her transitioning to presenting as a rat was probably like, idk, supposed to show what a bitch she was for stepping out of the natural order and probably something about hiding her hypocricy for being married(?) to RL while hating that Kevin married a wolf. Like, Holbrook genuinely tries to get deeper or w/e a few times but it just makes everything weirder bc he takes no consideration into how that changes the implications of everything else. Also, I've got a degree in general biology and not zoology or anything, but it genuinely frustrates me how bad he is at animals. He's forced himself into herbivore = prey and carnivore = predator dichotomy that doesn't actually exist, and then when he deals with omnivores he just kinda shoves them into one category or another. Even ignoring the fact that herbivores themselves range from, like, tiny plant-eating bugs to elephants, p much every animal is both predator and prey. But that doesn't fit his setting so it's ignored, until it isn't and suddenly we're reminded that even the tiniest insects in this world are fully sapient, as is at least one tree. So mice are prey and rats are predators I guess??? But like, mice are only seen as not a big deal in terms of predation by humans because they're small... rats can get bigger and will do pack behavior so they can theoretically overwhelm a human, but mice aren't suddenly not predators just because sometimes they're also prey... Look. The two trophic levels in biology aren't carnivore/herbivore or predator/prey, that's stupid. It's autotroph (produces complex organic compounds from simple environmental resources) and heterotroph (cannot produce complex organic compounds it needs on its own, so eats other things to get it), and even those categories have blur. Like, carnivorous plants are mixotrophs because they're both. They photosynthesize and produce stuff that way, but they grow in nutrient-poor environments so there's certain things they can't produce themselves, so they supplement themselves by eating bugs. And this! Obviously has nothing to do with anything Holbrook is writing, I just wanted to say it, because Holbrook makes me mad.
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skipThings posted:Seeing the new Andy Capp right to the old one makes me uncomfortable in a way, no one I guess has mentioned yet.
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Jan 11, 2019 03:02
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Zereth posted:I'm pretty sure a lot of herbivores will eat meat if they find some, too, they just don't hunt animals for food. But if they find a corpse unattended they might eat it, unless they're something like a koala which will only eat one very specific type of plant. I think there's some evidence that sometimes deer might actually actively kill a small animal to eat, too? Like, they're not just scavenging, it's deliberately kicking a rabbit and then eating the body. It's not a good idea for non-scavengers to scavenge because scavengers can handle more advanced stages of decay in their food. EDIT: When I was trying to see if I could find actual scientific papers on this on Google Scholar so I'm not just referencing my memory or w/e, I found a paper called 'Vegan sexuality: Challenging heteronormative masculinity through meat-free sex', and y'know what, I think I'm done now. EDIT 2: A couple entries below it is 'The least harm principle may require that humans consume a diet containing large herbivores, not a vegan diet', which is a funny contrast. PetraCore fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Jan 11, 2019 |
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StrixNebulosa posted:Has Holbrook ever brought in any hippo characters? Those are the most vicious "prey" animals I can think of. I think it's just more jarring when it's posted next to the old Andy Capp stuff, which gets a lot less cute. Because of all the domestic abuse.
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Jan 11, 2019 03:32
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Yeah, I'm enjoying A Problem Like Jamal. Looking forward to this storyline that's so good!
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Jan 11, 2019 17:07
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Synthbuttrange posted:what the gently caress is with the panel layouts in boss dharma
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Jan 12, 2019 02:33
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What's his Stand?
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Jan 12, 2019 17:08
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Plus, the reason the cop gave for shooting him was that he was going for his gun - he was handcuffed, and his hands were behind his back, and his back was faced away from the officer and his gun. Cop's 'fear' was a physical impossibility. And like other people said, the only reason he tackled the cop was because the cop was getting ready to aim a live weapon at his (unarmed, hands in clear view) mother because she hurt his delicate cop feelings. Tackling the cop doesn't de-escalate the situation, but the situation never should have escalated in the first place. Now, I have no doubt that bigots actually do get hyped up on fear from totally benign and normal interactions with people slightly different from them, and the way 'cop culture' closes ranks and breeds a toxic and vicious 'us vs them' mentality doesn't help, but the fact is we shouldn't, as a society, be handing people weapons, whipping them into a frenzy, and telling them it's okay to use their weapons in a fatal manner if they're just scared enough rather than actually training them to evaluate a loving situation. Get bent.
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Jan 21, 2019 06:58
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Julet Esqu posted:As much as I've enjoyed Heloise's adventures lately, she is just aggressively refusing to get why this might be kind of a big deal for her friend. The sentiment is nice but honestly I'm not surprised Kadia is zoned out at this point, she's gotten a lot of info to process and 'hey! new school! new friends!' isn't helping.
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Jan 24, 2019 02:09
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Synthbuttrange posted:My roommate kicked my dad's rear end! She's a niece to a president? what happened to the plane?
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Unlucky7 posted:This is hilarious but it is also obviously leading up to a false rape accusation storyline and I am not looking forward to that.
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Feb 3, 2019 03:38
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Haifisch posted:Also the phrase "women deserve to be protected" sets off serious "sets women on a pedestal and has no idea why that's unhealthy" vibes. It's what comes out of the mouths of people who think it's good to be blindly chivalrous, not ones who actually pay attention to what women want and need.
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Tunicate posted:The Princess Planet
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Evil Mastermind posted:I don't care what anyone says, these two are good comics.
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Feb 11, 2019 05:44
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I can't believe MJ is about to smother Kilgrave and swear Spiderman and Luke Cage to silence.
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Feb 18, 2019 21:18
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goatface posted:He might be providing the stark, fatalist view of what is necessary to survive a society containing people like the cop in the previous arc. The world is dangerous and merciless, you must harden your soul to it.
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Feb 22, 2019 23:00
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take the moon posted:hes realistically a jerk
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Feb 23, 2019 03:21
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RandomPauI posted:Wait, did Wolfram guy raise his Sheepwolf wife? What? Jesus Christ, Holbrook.
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Cerebral Bore posted:Jamal's character writing keeps being completely on point, yeah. What I really like is that even when a character, in this case Jamal's dad, is clearly and obviously in the wrong and is unambiguously portrayed as such you can still see where he's coming from and the reasons behind why he acts the way he does. Shows that the author actually cares and puts in the effort.
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Yup, Martha is absolutely having a manic episode. Great job, Tommie!* * Not that Tommie could prevent the manic episode, but she should really be a bit more worried and not going 'awww, of course I'll take this dress!  ' I suppose if Martha is just diagnosed with depression and not bipolar Tommie might not be looking out for a manic episode, but I'd assumed she had enough psychiatric training to make her a good candidate to be a home nurse for someone who's specifically mentally ill.
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Julet Esqu posted:I'm not sure when these strips are from, and obviously whatever year it was, bipolar was a thing loooooooooooooooooong before that. But I wonder how good they were at identifying, diagnosing, and managing it back then, or if it was just one of those, "Martha gets a little wild sometimes!" kind of things.
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Mar 5, 2019 05:34
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Alterian posted:I love how this comic has such a dark, depressing undertone of the ennui of being a white, middle class, suburban housewife.
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Angular Cyrus posted:Sad Bear
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Mar 17, 2019 22:36
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Some Guy TT posted:Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Mar 27, 2019 15:01
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Tiggum posted:That's not the only thing she's taking remarkably well. You'd think any human who ended up on this world would be overcome by the horror of a society in which the upper classes literally kill and eat the lower classes. But not her, she's totally on board. She's not fazed by people trying to murder her in the street, and she's 100% ready to start killing and eating people herself. edit: f;b
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Apr 7, 2019 04:24
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catlord posted:Everything goes back to DNA with you, doesn't it, Holbrook?
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Apr 8, 2019 02:58
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dismas posted:This nice guy angle in Foob hasn’t aged well Like obviously mutual respect is important in a relationship but Lynn totally buys into the idea of earning affection with 'niceness tokens'.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:45
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Holbrook made it explicitly clear that Mars lacks a reproductive system, so of course the geneticist is going to 'fix' that and Mars is going to give birth a beautiful bouncing third moon, Harmonia, named to keep in theme with Phobos and Deimos.
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May 5, 2019 03:48
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FrumpleOrz posted:What animal is Mars in the Kevin & Kell universe?
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May 5, 2019 04:25
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Tricking the fae with false riches definitely never ends in getting your eyes plucked out and your children stolen, good work, Mandrake.
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Selachian posted:Retail
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May 13, 2019 01:02
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I haven't played base d&d very much but my impression was they're trying to do a lot better with that sort of stuff. Still a huge problem with fantasy stuff assuming white as default. I hope we get to see everyone's characters.
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May 13, 2019 18:21
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery
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Let your dad be a dragonborn, Jamal. Hell, I'd say let your dad start at level 6 and use your old characters so he's not frustrated by level 1 stuff, if I didn't know manually levelling beforehand was going to take more time and be potentially frustrating.
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