jamesmoar.bsky.social
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Reinventing the Marvel Method for a pun.
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Gochujang cookies as a main course.
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“All the Leopard People I’ve met were non-binary.”
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“Whether the software has actually been around for 10 years or not.”
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Her best couple of strips:
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Making talking loudly her gimmick was the big misstep — without dropping it there was no room to write a strip that didn’t reference it. Setting her up as Charlie Brown’s opposite would have looked more on-point later when his sad-sack persona was more developed, too.
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I wonder to what extent the choices are influenced by working out the future volumes as well — some of the DC Finest have a clear start or end point in them, but others seem like pure middle-volume.
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It’s GOTTA get LIGHTer soon, right?
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Well that’s The Great Gatsby explained, how about the other one?
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The historic style of painted eyebrows maybe makes more sense of dot-stylised brows like that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikimayu
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“Incidentally, I handed in my notice 3 months ago.”
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I think the problem is more that it has strong yes-man biases with everyone combined with a lack of guardrails. Which is only subtly bad for people who’re good enough at supplying their own guardrails, but when someone isn’t….
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“I mean, have you *seen* our kids? The school doesn’t stand a chance.”
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With the hotel clerk saying “I am serious, and addressing me by my first name is a bit personal”?
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The thing with ‘wet pub’ which some people have jumped on seems to be just a case of a legitimate term that’s mostly used inside the industry rather than by the public.
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Insofar as it resembles “as if an alien came to earth,” at all, it’s just because it *is* in fact explaining stuff to an outsider, I’d say.
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books.google.com/ngrams/graph... — forgot the link
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If I’ve done it right, this suggests to-day has long been a minority form? The slight move away from 100% today in the last few years is probably because it’s picking up more internet writing that isn’t professionally published.
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Alright, Pinocchio.
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Because MJ didn’t have a superhero id to provide to the combo, so it’s civilian name from one, codename from the other?
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If you want more Gundam at the end of these, Iron-Blooded Orphans and The Witch from Mercury are both good recent ones — Orphans takes the ‘aren’t these teen pilots actually child soldiers?’ line and runs with it, Witch starts off light-hearted so typical Gundam elements can slowly creep in.
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Ah, right. He’s only a one-episode character. The introduction of Newtypes becomes oddly paced owing to the show being cut from 52 episodes to 43, he’d have been the first of a few Newtype enemy pilots instead of one of two.
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No, not quite that big. A subplot about a high-up traitor in the Federation goes, I think, that’s about the closest thing.
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Maybe doesn’t help that the original (and movies) is visually shonky even for 1979, either.
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The movie compilation version might help if it’s anywhere on hand — it drops a lot of the one-off stories early on and some every-episode bumpf. Though it does condense out some good things too.
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I don’t think it would be anything more than an Act of Parliament — the rules about calling an election were changed to mandate a fixed term then changed back in the last couple of decades that way, and the length of Parliaments was changed the same way further back.
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Two k’s on the *first* syllable, one on the *second*.
(….what?)
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Plus there’s a degree of investing in the right kit as a barrier for gaming that isn’t there for movies and books (though not so much for mobile gaming these days).
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I like the way Everett draws Byrrah with his original fishface look in these issues, never mind the Silver Age redesign of Atlanteans to look more human.
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The Japanese title is fairly straightforwardly translated, except the original uses the term ‘Dutch Wife’
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I’ve been poor about it in the past with my holiday pics since I considered a lot of them to be ‘a picture and saying what’s in the picture’ anyway, but did them for my latest trip and actually had a think about what’s *not* in the post text.
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Having the spinoff books as a warning may have helped there.
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頑張って！私はもうDuolingoで漢字を勉強します。
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They definitely slowed down a *lot* a few years back, and some authors have exited the publisher (Sheckley, Ellison and Lieber being some where I wish I’d grabbed certain books before that happened).
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows and Cursed Child While We’re At It.
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It’s Blastaar, but without the, y’know, context I don’t know why he’d be addressing anyone as ‘masters’.
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And if it didn’t work, they could say “still not ginger”
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Other recorded remarks of Vespasian show the same sense of humour (such as thanking his son for not overthrowing him whilst temporarily administering Rome in his stead).
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“….I shave off my cool beard and I *still* get recognised?”
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That and the symbol meaning hope got put into the comics with an origin retelling in the 2000s (Superman: Birthright), before that it really was just an S there.
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It does manage to definitely break from the Donner films’ Krypton, a move that needed making after Superman Returns, but its choices about how are odd.
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Maomao gets into analysing the toxins in toxic yuri.
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Robin very nervous about the possibility of Lum offering Starfire relationship advice.
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Given how common pennames are for Japanese creators, using one was most likely an unrelated decision (though I didn’t think you were implying that).
Incidentally, I just finished Ryuunosuke Akutagawa’s In Dreams, a collection of his very short pieces (marked as fiction though mostly not really).
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Though the UK broadcast called the 90s one The New Adventures of Superman because the pun on the Lewis and Clark Expedition didn’t work as well over here.
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Ah, that’s why I’ve been seeing cosplayers about in Woolwich.
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When it comes to arguing from the Japanese lettering, the font used there (a common one for manga) isn’t nearly as cold and fills out the speech balloons much more.
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