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The Demons of Baseball is a South Korean comic published in the eighties- forty years ago this year, although no one seems to be sure when its exact publication date was, just early 1983. Despite not really being a newspaper comic, Demons of Baseball is really important in South Korean comic history specifically and pop culture history in general for being really...well...intense. The comic changes genres a lot, and really abruptly. What started out as a typical shonen sports manga story has taken sharp turns into romantic melodrama, baseball politics, and sheer psychotic lunacy. A contemporary example of South Korean popular culture in this tradition is the movie Parasite from 2019, although it was much more common twenty years ago during the first Korean Wave. In terms of comic influence, Demons of Baseball reminds me of the soap opera strips I've seen in some South Korean newspapers there that I just could never be bothered to figure out what was going on because there were too many characters that I didn't know who were talking about an ongoing plot I couldn't follow. Oh, but don't let that put you off starting the comic in this thread for the first time. I've curated a perfect starting point. After several hundred pages of build up where no one had any idea where this story was going, this update features an explicit description of the final goal. And if you think this guy is nuts, as it happens, everybody else thinks he's nuts too, because it's been years since anyone's seen him or anyone else in his squad of free agents.      
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The Demons of Baseball       edit: misidentified Caishen's job title Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Jan 4, 2023 |
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Kennel posted:Dustin I'm extremely irritated that this is basically the only time we've ever seen Ed express a sincere, spontaneous interest in physical fitness and his wife is making GBS threads all over him because she believes, simultaneously, that pole vaulting is disproportionately dangerous compared to other physical activities and also that it's a dumb sport for babies.
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Doomykins posted:Woo, The Bus! I don't know either, for the record, but my assumption based on my knowledge of RETAILS FROM THE FUTURE is that she has to ditch the whole plan when she finds out she's pregnant and needs her health insurance.
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riderchop posted:Overboard Wait a minute. Scratch is an anthropomorphic cat. But he doesn't do any of the normal crew stuff. He isn't allowed to hunt the mice. So why do they even keep him around? Before this comic I'd have just said "because they value his friendship" but I'm hard-pressed to imagine any friendship so powerful it would compel me to clean someone's poo poo for them when they could just do it themselves. quote:Safe Havens This sounds uh pretty existentially horrifying? Am I supposed to think it's funny? Samovar posted:In today's Blueberry: Oh yeah - late 1800s America loving sucked socially, politically and morally, or Trouble brewing..., or Campbell gets thrown a bone Eh, if anything I'd say this comic is being way too positive about Americas social, political, and moral state in the late 1800s if this big fancy Bostonian writer is acting flabbergasted at the notion of lynch mobs. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Jan 8, 2023 |
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CommonShore posted:This is why I make sure that every grappling class that I teach includes at least one cool fun technique, whether a basic throw or a simple submission (and at least one fundamental drill). Powerful post/avatar combo.
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Vargo posted:Heart of the City Being a mascot is actually extremely physically demanding since you're basically a member of the cheer squad and are doing a lot of the same stuff they are in addition to having to wear a really heavy suit. It's not uncommon for members of the cheer squad to alternate in the role because of how difficult it can be. So, I'm going to be really annoyed if that's not addressed. Murdstone posted:F Minus Give it a few years. We'll get there.
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Darthemed posted:Popcom We're not sure that animal's a moose when it definitely looks like a moose and we know what mooses look like, but we're definitely sure that these are dinosaurs, which as far as we know are extinct and no one's ever seen before?
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Just abruptly realized that Slammy hasn't posted in the thread yet and feeling kind of bummed.
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Kennel posted:
It's always extremely funny when some ancient thread lore pops up that I don't even slightly remember only to see that oh right that's because it predates my forums registration. EasyEW posted:Thimble Theater (August 15, 1939) OK, see, this is the attitude that's missing from modern Popeye- the idea that he would want to settle down and stop going on adventures being presented as horrifically shocking to his girlfriend, yet mundane and unremarkable to Popeye himself. A big part of what makes these characters so endearing is that they have tunnelvision, not just to their own goals, but even when it comes to understanding how other characters perceive those goals, and this doesn't make them bad people, just inherently comedic ones. It's really the main thing they all have in common to begin with, which is why it always robs me the wrong way when modern Popeye neatly tries to divide them into good and evil characters.
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more like 13+ years if you dropped around GBS -> BSS move.
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Nostalgamus posted:This is rapidly becoming one of my favorite comics in the thread. Man, I gotta say, if you'd told me last year Selachian would go ahead and post three new comics instead of just one, I would not have guessed that Pogo would be the least popular of the bunch by far. Which says a lot more about the other two than it does anything about the quality of Pogo. Powered Descent posted:Slylock Fox Immediately guessed the coffee, but completely failed to notice that it was iced, not hot. And that's why I'm no good at the spot the difference puzzles! EasyEW posted:Once again, the Sunday Popeye goes full Ham. On one end, I still dislike this comic's black-and-white morality. On the other end, drat, that is a fantastic cartoony punchline.
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Haifisch posted:2018 Spiderman Feels weird to mention starting from the "beginning" again considering you kind of already did, although yeah, old Spider-Man and new Spider-Man are kind of obviously not coming from the same source. Thanks for posting! riderchop posted:Monty I feel like Monty's really underselling how messed up it is that he signed up an obviously-not-intended-for-combat intelligent robot to a robot fight without its permission. riderchop posted:On The Fastrack A perky goth with a negative charisma score kind of beggers disbelief, especially considering that Dethany works most closely with Fi, whose main characteristic is that she openly hates nearly everyone.
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in your life.
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davidspackage posted:Oh, Jesus. I didn't understand yesterday's comic at all until this one. Has Maggie's sister been seen before? Good thing there's a perfectly eager replacement around, Planck! She had lines in the train scene when they were kids and also the dinner scene where Copper didnt show up. Since I knew she would be important, I had to make a point of giving her a name, and it matches Maggie's (they have a themed name in Korean) but didn't realize until the last update that "May" without context doesn't really sound like a name. The second part of your comment made me realize that a lot of the plot of Demons of Baseball can be theorized in terms of Lacanian psychology. But I probably shouldn't explain what I mean by that, because spoilers, and also because I'd be really surprised if the author ever thought of it in those terms.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I like Randy and I like that he's doing Popeye but that is an S*P strip with the character designs switched out The depiction of Pappy in modern Popeye always has me scratching my head a bit because yeah, he was a jerk, but he only ever even had the opportunity to be a jerk because Popeye kept dragging him along on his adventures. Pappy demanding attention from Popeye, and Popeye getting mad at him for demanding attention, are both really out of character.
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Rudy stinks at tracking? Since when? Wasn't he a star player on the hunting team? How do you hunt without being able to track?
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons I feel like I'm missing something that this wasn't the solution to the Rex Morgan plot like two medical emergencies ago.
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