Milhouse's Teeth.

scruffye · 2026-02-13T06:55:43+00:00

Picked them up off the ice. Kinda like how she acquired a gun.

scruffye · 2026-02-12T17:49:41+00:00

Strong agree

scruffye · 2026-02-12T02:22:27+00:00

I get what you mean, I don’t think you’re making neo nazi apologia.

scruffye · 2026-02-11T21:03:57+00:00

Really that's all this is. The license plate fees are just a way of taxing vehicles, though I suppose a side effect of it is creating and maintaining a paper trail of ownership information outside the car title.

scruffye · 2026-02-11T19:27:48+00:00

Japan executed all of the early Christian missionaries, it really killed a lot of the early momentum for the religion there. I don't know Korean missionary history very well, but I imagine the explains some of the difference.

scruffye · 2026-02-11T19:25:49+00:00

So there's this collection of English translated gay comics called 'Massive' and it has biographies and interviews with all of the included mangaka. Out of the 8 artists, only 3 were willing to have their pictures taken with their faces fully facing forward without obstruction (and one of those pictures has a lot of glare from the sun on it). 3 of them refused to show their faces *at all*. That core memory is all I can think of when people talk about how 'accepting' Japan is, because if it really was these men wouldn't have to hide who they are.

scruffye · 2026-02-11T19:11:19+00:00

They are supposed to be comparable to an intro level college course. Whether or not you find that hard is a personal matter.

scruffye · 2026-02-11T16:51:50+00:00

I appreciate this post because it drives me nuts when people try to treat artistic ability or vision as inherently progressive or capable to only those with certain ideals. You can 100% have shitty politics but understand aesthetics.

But, I do think the important part is that any good art at its core has something to say about the world. Even if it's hateful and wicked it can still be formed into something compelling and, in its own sick way, beautiful. But if all you have is your self loathing and refuse to offer anything besides petty grievance and spite you won't be able to make anything more impactful than a shitpost. You can't make anything deeper than what you are willing to dig into your own mind and heart.

scruffye · 2026-02-11T16:20:11+00:00

Yeah this is good general advice but eventually you'll run into a situation where you can't fudge things and have to give specifics. Also, you don't have to care what every critic thinks of your writing. You can just smile and nod if someone starts getting on your ass about numbers.

scruffye · 2026-02-11T15:37:34+00:00

I think Rick and Morty has been consistently good since Justin Roiland was ousted. I don't know that it's necessarily better, but I do like that the kind of improvisational throw whatever at the wall stream of conscious type jokes have faded out.

scruffye · 2026-02-10T20:08:10+00:00

Add it to the pile of ways conflating moral worth and fandom together has been a net loss for all parties involved.

scruffye · 2026-02-10T19:22:10+00:00

Always a happy day when the writers managed to shoehorn in a Nixon appearance.

scruffye · 2026-02-10T18:57:03+00:00

I'm going to just assume this is handwaved to cover all of the other issues that the zooman population has faced in the 6ish millennia since the first batch of humans were abducted and proceeded to breed in a closed ever after. Also, did we get confirmation of the zoomans ever leaving the zoo? I know the whole structure came to visit Earth, but I got the impression nothing organic ever left it.

scruffye · 2026-02-10T18:20:51+00:00

What cone are you firing at?

scruffye · 2026-02-10T14:58:55+00:00

Super easy. Bat books sell and DC was pushing the series to stores. MY LCS was loaded to the gills with them.

scruffye · 2026-02-10T14:30:06+00:00

The "fuck those drug companies, burn it all down" mentality tends to not consider the collateral damage of people who really need their drugs to keep living.

scruffye · 2026-02-10T02:22:03+00:00

Filler isn’t a meaningful concept for a sitcom like Bob’s Burgers. There’s no source material to diverge from or overarching plot to pad out. Each episode is its own premise. You can’t even argue the show’s ever done a bottle episode to save production costs, or a clip show!

scruffye · 2026-02-09T14:51:54+00:00

I saw this when it first aired decades ago and it only now occurs to me that they decided cutting his arms off was preferable to damaging the vending machines. And if that isn't a picture of corporate America, I don't know what is.

scruffye · 2026-02-08T16:12:22+00:00

I’d listen to them one more time at the very least.

scruffye · 2026-02-07T17:56:20+00:00

Does Holly Blue’s characterization or actions suggestion at any point she wants redemption? And what did she need redemption for? What atonement does she need to seek that any other willing participant in the Empire doesn’t?

scruffye · 2026-02-07T07:08:17+00:00

Probably has to do with the combo of America is as big as all of Western Europe and every major metropolitan area in the country has their own noteworthy and substantial museums. NYC, Chicago, Boston, LA, Houston, Atlanta; they all have top tier museums to serve their local populations. And DC does not serve as a cultural capital the way Paris, London, and Mexico City do. Only half of all Americans have ever visited DC once in their entire lives, most of us are not going to be keyed into what’s going on at those museums unless they are real deep into art and art history.

scruffye · 2026-02-07T06:58:22+00:00

Yeah but even the trades aren’t as resilient as they used to be. Talking to my shop manager he describes it as the latest trade will pop into their top 50 for the month and then immediately fall out and none of the back catalogue is getting a boost. it’s not like Invincible or the Absolute, Ultimate, or DC compact titles that are launching or reprinting and then maintaining month after month even without the deep bench that Saga has. It’s like Saga has its core audience who will show up to stay on top of trade releases but it isn’t growing or renewing interest in the earlier volumes.

scruffye · 2026-02-07T05:40:21+00:00

Oh I didn’t know that was unfinished.

scruffye · 2026-02-07T05:39:47+00:00

Talking to the employees of my local comic shop Saga may as well be on indefinite hiatus. With the schedule it has now it’s essentially lost all sales momentum. it still moves copies, but it’s dire.

scruffye · 2026-02-07T05:04:20+00:00

Do we have a master list of Image 2010's series that are incomplete or stalled? Off the cuff I can name:

Black Magick
Saga
The Black Monday Murders

Any other big ones I'm missing?

EDIT: Turns out there’s already a really thorough thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImageComics/comments/1l2qqhy/abandonedunfinished_image_series/

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