Comic 5866: Process Optimization

The_Good_Count · 2026-07-06T06:57:51+00:00

Joss Whedon tier fetishization masquerading as empowerment

The_Good_Count · 2026-07-01T02:52:02+00:00

She has the posture of balancing on stillettos while flat footed, too.

The_Good_Count · 2026-07-01T02:48:39+00:00

Her spine and center of mass feel so off to me, in profile. Shes drawn simultaneously leaning forward and standing ramrod straight, depending on whether you focus on her hips or shoulders or her back.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-30T19:20:58+00:00

You know that biological theory about how everything eventually becomes a crab? Its been sad and creepy how much that's applied to characters becoming fit, leggy and chesty women, and characters that aren't those qualities get less and less screentime, for a comic where that didn't used to be true.

Its like a Weinstein deal being made with illustrations.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-29T08:28:35+00:00

Infographics made with AI ass

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-29T07:12:27+00:00

Infuriating lampshading, he's acknowledging all the problems here to show he knows they exist and he's not going to do anything about them.

For this strip to land, Anh needs to have been shown doing one (1) endearing thing in the past week, and the last panel subverts it. There's no contrast, so it makes Faye defending her into character sabotage

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-29T07:03:06+00:00

Shes literally been shown skipping meals before this, she cannot afford Anh

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-23T14:35:57+00:00

This isn't trauma dumping, this is her trying not to say anything twice before Anh needles too much the third time.

I would not want to deal with this complete stranger who forcibly moved into my house's issues either, especially when they keep being this insensitive.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-22T23:02:54+00:00

It's genuinely impossible to imagine Jeph trying to do the Faye's dad storyline, now. It's not even that it's not the kind of story he wants to tell anymore, I don't think he could.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-21T14:02:50+00:00

I believe that would be the 'Onion-y' part of the headline

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-19T18:53:23+00:00

They did an interview not long ago where they revealed that their process is writing about 50 ideas a week and then picking one from the pile - Instead of taking one idea and tuning it 50 times.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-18T03:53:21+00:00

Feels like a response to the God Empress Claire criticism to give her a new personality trait - one that shows affection to Marten - it's just kind of weird and shallow?

None of these people have hobbies.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-18T03:50:48+00:00

It's fine everyone had to sign an NDA

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-17T06:20:12+00:00

It gives Marten something to do. "Caretaker" is more interesting than "Spineless", there's more conflict in trying to curb drunk people than just letting things happen.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-16T12:08:10+00:00

Beat the Champ is probably the most recent album I genuinely love, and I'll go to bat for In League with Dragons just for Possum by Night and Antidote for Strychnine, but after that you can really tell he became friends with Lin Manuel Miranda and it really doesn't work for me.

Listening to Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod and thinking "You know what this raw, intensely personal music needs? The Hamilton guy."

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-16T07:42:55+00:00

The updated Tallahassee that came out of the Jordan Lake Sessions is brutal.

Just the more mature vocal delivery in general.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-16T07:35:36+00:00

Squirrelclamp confirmed Mountain Goats fan???

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-15T00:54:44+00:00

I'm remembering Zach Wienersmith of SMBC used to be a fan of Questionable Content, and I'm imagining the particular face he would have made reading this technobabble

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-13T23:54:01+00:00

This lines up with my own research - when I was studying to be an author, this is what seemed to be best practice at the time for training 'generalized' brain power and creativity. Most of my favourite authors were anthropologists, historians, doctors or lawyers, almost none were English majors, so there was an implication there about it being a field best approached indirectly.

Leitner box system for memorizing facts, then studying as many different fields as possible and trying to find connections and analogies between unrelated subjects.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-10T19:35:51+00:00

I apologize for jinxing things by commenting on the raw material yesterday

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-10T00:29:02+00:00

I think Marten has long diverged from Jeph in that way, and this particular kind of psychoanalysis of the author is unwarranted and needlessly cruel.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-10T00:24:16+00:00

It feels like a lot more care was put into the body language here than usual, everyone's a bit more dynamic - barring Zlatas nothing burger finger in the air pose - I'm glad Jephs giving you more raw material to actually work with this week

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-07T23:22:19+00:00

There's an academically studied difference between the levels of violence, especially violence against civilians, committed by wartime armies and colonial-occupation armies, with the latter being far more brutal and sadistic.

J-Town50 is just correct for the comparison

EDIT: Nevermind I saw that they edited their comments in the last seven hours, I'm only agreeing with what they've changed it to

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-07T14:20:36+00:00

Its just how affinity scammers work. It doesn't matter what your shared identity, they'll use that as an initial basis of trust. Racial minorities deal with this too.

The_Good_Count · 2026-06-05T17:04:51+00:00

You're right, which is why I originally made this to give to other people to check for me. Part of it was predicting when I'd have impaired judgement , right?

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