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Cowslips Warren posted:So I just want to be sure in Demons, main dude Planck told his gf he'd be back after a year of training, and it's been like 4 years now, and she moved on and got married and had a kid but we're supposed to hate her for that, right? Instead of finding her annoying because all she's done is cry and scream his name. Even post-timeskip, consider Maggie being unhappy because her husband is taking the chance to train baseball over spending a day with her, unexpectedly. And Planck has, what, taken the last 4 years prioritizing training baseball over having any contact with her at all? She'd have loved him even if he got another job, but despite getting into baseball initially to impress Maggie, my take is that Planck has in fact thrown Maggie away to prioritize the chance at playing baseball again. He's the fuckup here, not Maggie.
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Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jul. 01, 1956)
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Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball
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Drakyn posted:I don't know, but I quite like that the modern strip has the wolves bail on a meal that was too dangerous and obviously ready for them rather than commit suicide, and that they correctly realized something's wrong if the wolves are actually trying to eat people.
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The_Other posted:Possibly, although note that we do see Humphrey in this timeline, who is Ella's son by Dan Finster, which would suggest that Ella and Glenn Hughes parted ways as they did in the regular timeline.
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Murdstone posted:Mark Trail Normally I'd be like, well, whatever, what does it matter, but this is presented as an educational comic. Other things that annoy me about the specific strip is that Jules repeatedly calls them jellyfish when they don't even resemble jellyfish that closely - certainly much less than a Man-of-war does - and that the focus is entirely on them washing up on beaches without going into a couple of other interesting details to get people interested - like, the velella featured in the comic is actually only half their life cycle, the polyp colony. Colonies asexually release medusa, and when the medusa are sexually mature they reproduce with each other to produce larva that form colonies as they grow into maturity. Each colony is made up of only male or female polyps, so each colony only produces male or female medusa, so one colony can't just reproduce with itself past the one-generation release of medusa. Idk! They're neat! It feels like Jules just read an article about velella washing up on west coast beaches and then didn't really do any additional research! PetraCore fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jun 5, 2023 |
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I just think it's rude of Jules to call velella jellyfish while only drawing the colonial polyp generation of their two-generation alternating life cycle. At least have a panel showing the life cycle and point to the jellyfish part (the medusa). Yes this is a comic for kids. Yes I can still complain when she calls something a siphonophore that isn't a siphonophore.
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Yeah they're not able to live indoors but they're still on their own private property so they're going to dodge a lot of problems of actual homelessness, I reckon.
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Julet Esqu posted:Dang, I was getting into this one. Really too bad it didn't catch on.
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Drakyn posted:I mean she was pretty clearly a VERY bad gun runner; did you see how many completely unsold guns she had on her when she tried to shoot him? Frankly I'm surprised at how strong she is.
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Hempuli posted:Fingerpori
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Crab Dad posted:Yeah it’s a real joy. The modern artist just can’t get the feelings quite right.
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His Divine Shadow posted:From the comic I got it was a recent but short lived change in behavior myself I think it would be really funny if only one of the hippie witch kids (Sweetpea and Pod?) were actually psychic and the other had just been faking it the entire time to not be left out.
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Zereth posted:Oh I thought that was like, writing on the adult's shirt. A band name or something. I had absolutely no idea what was going on. It's still a weird strip because I'm not sure why the super prolonged glance back ending it out, maybe it'd read better in sequence, idk.
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His Divine Shadow posted:But revenge on who? Feels like I missed something. Did she fall out with the director or ?
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riderchop posted:Safe Havens
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davidspackage posted:*holds out fist* continue to abuse your wife, Shortie! EDIT: Maybe the point is that this sort of rhetoric isn't great because it might help you stand up to people that have hurt you, but then you have people like Hardy, who will use it to be a poo poo. PetraCore fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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Darthemed posted:Retail
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readingatwork posted:Blind Alley
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Giant Ethicist posted:Very yikes, but yeah, the point of the strip is "can you believe men make jokes like this?" rather than "listen to this funny joke a guy told me," but (again, my interpretation) 1993 Japan meant she couldn't write a comic about just braining the guy, so her reaction can read as tacit approval to modern readers. Sidenote, I love how she draws her baby just flapping his arms and legs excitedly. It's so cute when babies do that!
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Also her episiotomy investigations are funny... it really is kind of amazing slash horrifying once you realize humans are not exactly especially suited for giving birth. I heard once 9 months is basically the limit for when a human baby could be born, based on head size and pelvis size, because if you consider, well, babies used to be smaller when people had less nutrition, well, the people giving birth were smaller, too! It's no wonder childbirth can be so dangerous, especially before germ theory was understood, because before germ theory doctors could be doing their best to provide proper medical care to their patients but not understand why they had to sanitize between performing autopsies to help understand anatomy and how to help patients and delivering a baby. Like, it's not like they were walking in completely filthy between the two, but if you don't understand germs exist you're not going to understand why a good rinse with water you're pretty sure is clean isn't enough.
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Alhazred posted:How did they build houses? How did they make clothes? You need tools to do that.
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Powered Descent posted:Flash Gordon Girlbossed too close to the sun. EDIT: I'm also assuming Aura and Barin made plans to get married after Ming died before he got captured by Ming, since nobody is surprised at the wedding, just surprised they haven't seen Barin yet. PetraCore fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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Weembles posted:Diana is right. If some woman old enough to be my son's mother with a prophecy of doom hanging over her head came sniffing around my child I would want to keep her at arms lengh as well. Regardless, the prophecy of doom is the thing that makes it not unreasonable for Diana to be cautious, especially since a key part of it is Kit and Savarna interacting. So... shrug.
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Weembles posted:Diana the UN official and Savarna the murder-tornado are polar opposites. It's fun to watch the uptight character stew over the carefree one and it's fun to watch everyone tiptoe around a curse which may or may not be real.
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Giant Ethicist posted:To be fair, I think the gist of it is mostly centered around seeing black women with white children – the white woman’s baby is specifically described as “dark reddish-brown,” while all the other people are either “white people” or “black people,” which I think is meant to imply that the baby is mixed-race while nobody else is. It’s also probably worth noting that black nannies, often immigrants, for well-off white children is apparently a thing in NYC in particular. It can’t be denied that Japan is often pretty racist, but I’m not sure you can lay this comic at its feet. That's not to say this idea can't be racist or lead to racism, I've heard it can be a real problem for parents with white-passing mixed children to be constantly assumed to be 'the help' or even kidnapping their own children.
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Ghostlight posted:i don't think i'm being unfair, but i do think there's a distinct unconscious bias in how the white woman with an explicitly mixed-race baby is depicted in the subway ranting to strangers about having no money to raise it with before we're shown two panels of pure-white children whose families are wealthy enough to hire nannies.
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EasyEW posted:It's got to say something that the (perceived) big swerve was not screwing over Bets. LMAO at Stef just standing there filming. Is she supposed to be commenting that like a stone cold bitch or is that just a random 'fan' of Bets? I think it's random fans but it's still funny, because everyone in this comic does blow.
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amigolupus posted:Huh, I guess the name of this character got changed for the ComicsKingdom version? I vaguely remember they had a Japanese name. Probably best for Shauna not to make her anonymous rocksona a different ethnicity than her, all things considered.
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Powered Descent posted:The question marks in this lettering look way too much like the ♀ symbol.
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Kazinsal posted:Scary Go Round (May 20-24, 2004)
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Julet Esqu posted:They have always hated Bets.
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Cowslips Warren posted:pretty much what the mom is thinking/saying falls under a lot of antivax crap. "oh doctors don't know everything, I'm the mother, I know best!" So with that context, the comic posted today isn't about 'what do doctors know', but her asking for the risks and assessing it and deciding based on that. I really don't think she would have avoided bringing her baby to the hospital if his fever hadn't broken, and she was perfectly fine with her son getting blood tests to see if he had jaundice, it's just that the blood test results were not in line with jaundice. If anything, it feels to me like the joke about first time parents running to doctors for everything, and second-time parents having the experience to assess their baby's health better, except she's confident enough to have skipped past the anxiety. Basically, I'm not disagreeing that the comic sounds like a dogwhistle in a vacuum, but with the context of stuff so far I don't get that read from it, since she's generally been quite positive about how much she learned from the nurses and doctors at the hospital about newborn care.
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Giant Ethicist posted:Well, yeah, juice is a separate issue, I'm not saying she's a super mom or anything - but here at least there is juice for babies, which is to regular fruit juice as baby food is to regular food - i.e., pretty much just water.
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Hostile V posted:Yeah the notion of parents giving away kids is gross as hell. It's not really a serious criticism of Holbrook but I do think it's funny the Dewclaw family is supposed to be so progressive and yet there's this really archaic traditional bit dropped in. I just don't think Holbrook has thought about it, lol.
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Vargo posted:We Are Reproducing is really good, but I'm gonna lightly suggest that some of its goon praise stems from Jucika-level horniness for the hot anime lady that talks about her tits a lot. Also, we've seen a touch on Uchida's opinion about formula in her opinion about baby bottles, which is that bottles are hard to clean so she felt lucky she only uses them for treats. I didn't get the impression she cared particularly about formula either way except that breastfeeding works best for her. I think people project a lot of opinions on her that she's not actually expressing?
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Crab Dad posted:Yeah I’m not pulling all the sex scenes back up but they looked like different dudes.
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You know, given the laws around predation upon people you know and the fact that prey aren't allowed to fight back with more than their natural tools (which are downplayed frankly a lot more than they are in nature, herbivores do NOT gently caress around) but predators are allowed to defend prey loved ones, you'd think Mark having a feline girlfriend would be a plus for the kid's safety. Unless people are just breaking these laws willy nilly and never getting punished, of course. EDIT: Some of the deadliest animals in the world are herbivores but even if Holbrook has one of those like a rhino shaped like a tank it's all about nerfing him by having him constantly chased for his horn ivory because god forbid anything truly question the status quo (except via heterosexual cross-diet relationships). If Holbrook tried to include a hippo major character that's more dangerous than any of the predators he'd break. Kevin is allowed to be a super buff dangerous rabbit because haha rabbits are weak so that's funny, and also he doesn't try to do anything to challenge anything. PetraCore fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Dec 17, 2023 |
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