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Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Samovar posted:

Ha-ha! Child Labour!

it's a memoir. this is meaningfully different from out our way how

# ¿ Jan 18, 2024 20:31

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 14:05

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

isn't it illegal to prey on someone you know? and wouldn't people in a boarding house (those still exist?) know each other? drat you holbrook you've done it again

# ¿ Jan 28, 2024 05:00

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Mercury Hat posted:

this has been the running joke between me and my friend whenever the sea hag's shown up this storyline

# ¿ Jan 29, 2024 19:29

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

JethroMcB posted:

Wow. A timely reference from Rose is Rose, with those cups that I'm told are popular.

I regret to inform you that the popular cups are full of lead

https://twitter.com/LeaMaric/status/1751790285561204753

# ¿ Jan 30, 2024 15:33

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

EasyEW posted:

especially incomprehensible today, this one

# ¿ Feb 3, 2024 07:42

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

could be worse! early vaccines used to involve putting lymphnodes cut out from animals directly under your skin.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2024 00:36

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Malachite_Dragon posted:

No, but the dude who used cowpox to immunize a kid against smallpox did use matter taken directly from a cowpox sore and inject it into the kid (who was sick for several days but recovered and was in fact immunized to smallpox) so I can see how they made the jump to that.

yeah that's what i was thinking of, i knew they used to literally take it from cows and jumped from there

# ¿ Feb 12, 2024 06:26

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Whoever posted that the allisonverse makes so much more sense when put in its context by the tone of the 200X strips was right

# ¿ Feb 14, 2024 01:45

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Doomykins posted:

Pairing Thimble Theater with modern Popeye is just cruel, especially when TT is at its best. Maybe we could send this months Sea Hag strips to Randy. It's hard to judge Olive and Popeye: Ghost Investigator since something is happening but at the standard incredibly poor pacing.

he's probably read them, given all the deeplore references. it's just easier to default to your comfort zone when asked to do daily strips, it's a very different kind of challenge

# ¿ Feb 14, 2024 20:35

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

it's a really weird one, though. it keeps swerving between parody soap opera and just actual soap opera

# ¿ Feb 26, 2024 06:25

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Okay wandering culinarian is approaching demons of baseball territory now, i'm in

# ¿ Mar 3, 2024 21:22

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

they don't make comics like doctor hormone or scarlet o'neil anymore and it's a crying shame

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 07:14

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Giant Ethicist posted:

Become Meguca

e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrgxHDoe8gA

# ¿ Mar 10, 2024 00:27

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

the less comprehensible, the better, i say. love that window into a completely unrecognizable past

# ¿ Mar 17, 2024 05:13

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

yeah i really enjoyed that back when dippy duck was just starting out in 1906 or whenever and nobody loves a fat man was happening. watching people figure out in real-time which way word bubbles should be ordered was super fascinating

# ¿ Mar 17, 2024 09:20

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Giant Ethicist posted:

I struggled with the snake/shrimp panel quite a bit � my preference (as I�ve done so far in the chapter) would be to localize with an analogous word pair in English (like �ship� and �shrimp� or something) and avoid footnotes altogether, but with the drawings there I had to stick to the original words � I tried to make it work without footnotes but eventually realized I just had to explain that �ebi� is in fact the correct pronunciation of �shrimp�.
(Those are some hell of cute animal drawings, though, I gotta say.)

Probably the best but least feasible solution I've ever seen is Kanako's Life as An Assassin, where the translator is just the original artist, who changed the puns to ones that work in English and redrew the panels to match the new puns. Real Samuel Beckett hours.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2024 00:41

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

mark trail should be sundays only. drat the plotline, just give us nature facts. one strip a week gives you time to make it look nice too

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 23:46

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

If you go back a few years the entire event was chronicled in these very threads, including the poster realizing he was being called out by an old man in the newspapers and bringing it to the syndicate.

I believe the character in question was a delusional diabetic bigfoot hunter who died in an avalanche

Mister Olympus fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Mar 28, 2024

# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 00:23

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Is there a broader cultural note on this bit in Vera that we should be getting? Were porn stores actually illegal in the 70s, or is this Stan riffing on some existing scandal?

# ¿ Apr 1, 2024 23:43

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

speepy

# ¿ Apr 4, 2024 22:06

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

trader joes employees wear hawaiian shirts and shorts at work, yes. so the formal dress is for home

# ¿ Apr 5, 2024 17:50

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

oh kid pix, now we've unlocked a core memory

# ¿ Apr 6, 2024 23:14

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Alhazred posted:

Kinda weird how he's okay with his wife eating fellow herbivores.

it says something, i think, that the closest manga equivalent to this comic has it so that while carnivores eating people is widely done and quietly acknowledged, it's totally taboo to bring up and 100% illegal. basically like a metaphor for weed in much of the world. as opposed to blithely accepting that some people will just have to die violently to feed others and making jokes about it

anyway my point is people who can't help themselves from straining to comprehend holbrook should read beastars, it's pretty good if directionless

# ¿ Apr 11, 2024 07:05

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Tiggum posted:

That sounds way crazier than Kevin & Kell. People blindly looking the other way when their friends and relatives are murdered because a large proportion of the population are serial killers but we don't talk about it?

it's been a while since i read it, but iirc most of it is under-the-table sales from funeral homes or desperate houseless people selling limbs to butchers to get off the streets

which now that i type it out is really hosed up yeah. it is a really crazy comic. though the way it's framed is that a majority of carnivores are ok on meat substitutes, basically just some people have picked up the habit and others don't, which is what made me think of weed in places where it's illegal, and reads at least as a little more logical of a setting than K&K

# ¿ Apr 11, 2024 07:16

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

JethroMcB posted:

There's something so funny about a gorilla referring to "That dame"

it's giving deathless deer, where the person taking over the strip didn't know what to make of it so just had the falcon crack wise about bird things

# ¿ Apr 11, 2024 18:15

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

it was already weird realizing that this was a motherhood journal about a kid who should be about the same age as me, but even weirder when he suddenly has the same kind of childhood

# ¿ Apr 12, 2024 01:23

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Kennel posted:

The Uchida household appears to consume almost exclusively Western children's media.

home desktops were a relative rarity in japan until recently, right? i imagine having one in 93 means she's a really early adopter and there isn't much in japanese for children's media, though i know there was an explosion of adult computer games at the time

or maybe it's all part of her cosmopolitan image

# ¿ Apr 12, 2024 23:47

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Giant Ethicist posted:

Huh. Maybe I'm poisoned by knowledge, but this setup seems very easily readable to me. I won't go through why I think so, because it looks like it might be spoilers, though.

No, I got it too. This is very much a stock plot. birthday episode right?

# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 22:14

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Aces High posted:

I dunno, I guess I can't handle...however you'd describe it, I want to compare it to how Joss Whedon writes characters, but that feels a little too mean-spirited

it's a valid comparison because they're coming out of the same primordial soup, the dawn of internet culture as we understand it today. it's the exact same feeling you get looking at posts from this website circa 2004, and the old allison comics make it very clear. he's refined it in a different direction since then, but is fundamentally bound to a lot of the same gestures

# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 23:01

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

the hell is with old superhero comics and gorillas anyway. was there anything that started the midcentury gorilla boom

# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 17:48

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Shungicu Uchida is a much more interesting person, for one. Comparing the babies is also comparing a drawn-from-life portrait of a real person to a broadly-sketched ideal type of an innocent child. WARbaby has been distinctly getting more coherent and intelligent, and the funny malapropisms are authentically ridiculous baby-talk instead of something calculated to appeal to an adult.

A lot of the proper strips posted here are held back by the need to produce daily content. It's very hard to keep that trickle consistent over years and years, let alone without repeating yourself heavily when you run out of ideas and have to riff a bit.

Mister Olympus fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Apr 23, 2024

# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 22:38

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Kennel posted:

Even if WAR isn't 100% based on reality, it has very realistic and grounded tone and shows less idealized aspects of parenthood, which makes the cute parts more relatable.

e. hmm... then again, you could say that about FOOB...

that's another reason why I led with "shungicu uchida is an interesting person" - because lynn johnston is less interesting and more reprehensible

# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 23:03

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

EasyEW posted:

It happened last June. Olive pretty much died in that cave after something called a soul leech tried to eat her, then she spent a few weeks as a ghost while Petunia toted her body around until they found a solution. The "I see dead people" thing was a side effect.

Synthbuttrange posted:

god. well. okay.

see, if it maintained this kind of plot, it would be a lot closer to the original. but what it's missing--why people have the "god. well. okay." reaction to it--is that neo-popeye characters behave like normal people in the face of grand weirdness, as opposed to either arbitrarily violent, unflappable, or comically cowardly. they aren't enough like cartoon characters for the kind of character that popeye and olive should be.

and also wimpy didn't gently caress any of the ghosts as far as i know, which is quite out of character for wimpy as we know him

# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 04:49

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Goatson posted:

Making Mannerheim this inefficient fascist villain feels almost surreal. He was really popular during his lifetime. When he died in 1947, the funeral procession was over 2 miles with over 100k people attending. Ranks first in majority of our "greatest x" polls. Dude is our Churchill.

to be fair along these lines you could ask the people of india, pakistan, and bangladesh what they think of churchill and get a very different answer from most europeans. lefty is right in that the big papers are absolutely out to destroy communism as an idea, and not just overthrow stalin for his crimes specifically.

i wonder to what degree most people at the daily worker genuinely didn't know or made the 'lesser of two evils' choice a bunch of americans make while voting all the time. this is well before the new left but there were outspoken communist and anarchist critics of the soviets at this point in time--but without being there, was it possible to just assume emma goldman was paid off or something and betrayed her principles?

e: adjacent to this, i recall someone mentioning when peanuts introduced franklin, there was a wave of boycotts from papers across the south for not making him a minstrel show stereotype like almost every black person is in the old timey papers. this applies even when a black person is drawing them, i.e. george herriman. i really wish that besides del, i could talk to the ghosts of people like herriman and williams and ask them, you know, did you really see people like this? or was this just what you had to do to get published? what does williams think of the (presumable) real co-worker he had that he based ick on?

Mister Olympus fucked around with this message at 19:28 on May 3, 2024

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Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

okay but what's the rubber hose and lamp for

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