-OPEN SCENE – A used car lot. The camera zooms in on Alex wearing half of a clown suit divided vertically with a cowboy outfit. He turns to the camera, takes off his Stetson clown hat and starts his sales pitch.
“That’s why here at Shuffleverse Used Cars llc, E.O.E., etc, not being first doesn’t mean that you can’t be first.”
– SCENE TWO – Alex walks towards the camera wearing a half Batman/Superman outfit.
“With our huge supply to choose from, simply point out something in a panel…”
– CAMERA PANS, LEADING SALESPERSON HAS HE WALKS ALONG A ROW OF CARS. MEDIUM SHOT. HAND HELD FOR VERMISILITUDE.
“Like, ‘This has got to be the first time that (someone in the panel) has (some action) to [whatever].'” Feel free to use our in house credit approval system. Ten word minimum.
– CUT SCENE – ZOOM IN ON ALEX’S ACNE BEFORE WIDE EXTREME ZOOM SHOWING HIM ON A RAFT FLOATING IN FRONT OF A SIGN THAT READS ”NO KATRINA CARS. SHE’S BEEN BANISHED FOR BEING ALLERGIC TO HERBS AND ROSEMARY.”
And you too can have a twenty deep entry that qualifies for being the first post of the comic.
I was remembering that Juniper was the culprit for Anise’s lost eye, but I think I might’ve been mixing it up with her injuring X’s eye (see author post for comic Nightmare Fuel, current post date April 13, 2014). Though that author post also mentions that if X had been an older sister rather than future Tarra, then Tarra would’ve cost X her eye, so maybe Tarra’s a suspect? Also Ginger’s seven sins mapping is wrath. So I don’t know that the list is all that short (even if we assume it was one of the seven sisters).
If you haven’t read through the full archive, some of the below will be pacing-type spoilers to go to directly.
See comic Family Birthmark (current post date of November 29, 2013) for mention about no sharp utensils for Thanksgiving meals due to not needing more than one glass eye.
See comic Nemesis (current post date March 21, 2014) for first mention of Anise using a marble in her ocular cavity.
See comic High Tension (current post date January 22, 2014) for the first glimpse of part of the tattoo Anise has around that eye.
Finally, see comic Nightmare Fuel (current post date April 13, 2014) for first view of Anise’s fake eye.
Um, what is she actually doing with her boobs in the last panel: plumping them up. Like pillows? At least she hasn’t flashed them at him like she did at Santa. …. um: not yet, that is.
Considering Anise’s exit from her place of business due to Ellie’s distress call, I’m not sure what might be playing through her mind for this, but something fairly unexpected and hilarious is definitely within the realm of possibility.
…though it also may be a bit too far past PG-13 for Rusche to display, so we may never know (unless we find out next post, in which case it’s likely to be GLORIOUS)
If I can just offer a bit of constructive criticism I feel like the panel layout is a bit unintuitive. I think after panel 2 you want the reader to look down but the eye is naturally drawn to continue right. It might have helped if panel 4 didn’t overlap panels 2 & 3 the way it does.
Also, once again Anise gives Cinnamon a bloody nose. Ellie sure is lucky she has Juniper to carry this team.
After all, that ultrabang covers most of the eye. Your reference picture would possibly have one small star visible, but if the issue of shadow gets involved, or distance, we might still be missing it.
You know darn well that it’s not the size that counts, it’s all that she ever needs that’s more important. That, and she’s letting the men go goo goo ga ga over her, them, she, etc.
You want to feel bad for her? My reaction was more, “Good thing Cinn was standing there so someone deserving of it could have her face smashed into the wall like that to complete Anise’s gesture.” I would’ve felt bad if it were a passerby.
I don’t know. It’s not like when she was trying to provoke Quinn and got back handed for it or when she mouthed off to her mom and got her birthday money revoked. Cinn hasn’t really done anything recently to warrant being on the receiving end of slapstick.
I mean she was more enthusiastic about going to help Ellie than Juniper.
I’m going to say that according to the Jewish mother standards and A Christmas Story, punishment will be administered because the person on the receiving end doesn’t know if they’ve done something wrong or not. And taking into consideration her lack of a filter, Cinnamon may have quite a surplus of punishment due.
I didn’t mean Cinn had specifically done anything here. It’s more just my level of sympathy for something bad happening to her is much lower than it would be for a walk-on character.
Statistically, this was likely to happen. I don’t think votes have fallen off so much as we just don’t have the people to go much farther. Remember, we went from down around 125 to here in like a few days. Now we’ve lost the early-month advantage and we’re playing it straight.
Perhaps we’re bouncing around 37 for the current time. However, I did just vote off site using the library. Let me go crunch a few numbers real quick.
brb.
Right now, 19:30 CST, 8/17/2017, we have 999 votes on TWC. This translate in to a rough 58 and just over 3/4’s of a vote per day. However, with school coming back into session for almost everyone, the chance to vote may either expound or slowly gain due to the ability of people to vote per network source. I mean, it’s going to suck if one university can only vote once, especially if they are the Fighting Pacifists.
I really like that Anise’s mental fantasy of Durkin is somewhat derpier than the real thing.
I’m also remembering wondering why he made it into the first character line-up in the cast page and wondering if we’re about to see where he has a bigger role to play in the story…
I’m not saying it shouldn’t, I meant it’s an interesting data point for her character (idealized visions of another character are frequently interesting in one way or another).
I was more curious how often you saw that one posted. Based upon the author note under that comic, a LOT of people were linking directly there enough that he put all his intros/provisos about the comic underneath, so I was wondering if it was already well worn or not.
I can’t say I remember if that was ever mentioned as a future for Cinn or not. I know at the start of the comic she’d shacked up with a “rich boyfriend” and this was mentioned several times (Derek, I believe was his name, though I don’t know that we ever saw him pictured in comic, just mentioned in passing). I’ve skipped comments for comics at times, and I’ve never really spent time in chat or in Google Hangouts or Facebook or any of the other places Rusche has sometimes mentioned these things, though.
This gorram comic, man. My band is in the studio in Nashville this weekend and while tracking vocals on Friday during what is probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever done I’m still feverishly refreshing this page on my phone. The comic never came and that’s perfectly ok (burnout is no bueno) but just goes to show you how hooked I am.
Bummer dude. what about watching the live stream? Besides, I’m between C3 and C4 and I’m inside waiting for a bit closer to C4 before I go back out. It’s hot outside. But I just found out that my local news station had a chicken outside of their building. lawls.
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Why is Howl’s Moving Castle in the bg?
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Get your own stupid fantasies!
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Can you name a sexier House/ride?
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I thought it was a steam punk version of Castlevania, but I just woke up and haven’t put on my glasses yet.
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There has to be *some* sort of castle, right?
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First and the greatest of all time. also bought boobies? lol that is amazing
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nooooooo i failed, by two minutes
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-OPEN SCENE – A used car lot. The camera zooms in on Alex wearing half of a clown suit divided vertically with a cowboy outfit. He turns to the camera, takes off his Stetson clown hat and starts his sales pitch.
“That’s why here at Shuffleverse Used Cars llc, E.O.E., etc, not being first doesn’t mean that you can’t be first.”
– SCENE TWO – Alex walks towards the camera wearing a half Batman/Superman outfit.
“With our huge supply to choose from, simply point out something in a panel…”
– CAMERA PANS, LEADING SALESPERSON HAS HE WALKS ALONG A ROW OF CARS. MEDIUM SHOT. HAND HELD FOR VERMISILITUDE.
“Like, ‘This has got to be the first time that (someone in the panel) has (some action) to [whatever].'” Feel free to use our in house credit approval system. Ten word minimum.
– CUT SCENE – ZOOM IN ON ALEX’S ACNE BEFORE WIDE EXTREME ZOOM SHOWING HIM ON A RAFT FLOATING IN FRONT OF A SIGN THAT READS ”NO KATRINA CARS. SHE’S BEEN BANISHED FOR BEING ALLERGIC TO HERBS AND ROSEMARY.”
And you too can have a twenty deep entry that qualifies for being the first post of the comic.
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BORF
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That’s right up there with BIP!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YvnXrvUt0yQ/UdRPK-6bqsI/AAAAAAAABvI/Qd9MR1RO-3w/s500/Death+tells+Dream.jpg
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ZLONK!
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Damn, right for the stereotypical goth cliches, huh Anise?
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Also, the tool-tip text for this is brilliant.
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so if it’s not a Santa Claus level beard, the guy has to be a vampire?
Makes sense with Anise.
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To be fair, his beard is nicely groomed and presents well.
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Let’s just hope she can control herself..
But..that’s just wishful thinking.
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We got her contempt for a patchy beard, but we don’t know how much size matters to Anise as long as it fits in her “respectable” category.
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Hell, maybe he’ll banish himself to get away from Anise. Fall in love with Sister X….
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Ha! I should have known.
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Unnecessary body check: 10 bonus points.
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Oh lordy loo this can’t end well
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Or very well for Anise ;).
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Okay, I have to ask. Why does one of Anise’s eyes have a green sclera?
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She lost one of them at some point I think
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I believe she lost it in a forking accident at Thanksgiving.
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“Accident” so that’s what we are calling the incident now.
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And, guess who’s on the short list for the other half of that “accident”.
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I was remembering that Juniper was the culprit for Anise’s lost eye, but I think I might’ve been mixing it up with her injuring X’s eye (see author post for comic Nightmare Fuel, current post date April 13, 2014). Though that author post also mentions that if X had been an older sister rather than future Tarra, then Tarra would’ve cost X her eye, so maybe Tarra’s a suspect? Also Ginger’s seven sins mapping is wrath. So I don’t know that the list is all that short (even if we assume it was one of the seven sisters).
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It would explain why Juniper wasn’t seen at Thanksgiving dinner, but rather staking out the appliance store.
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One of her eyes is fake, and I think she stuck a marble in the socket when she lost her glass eye
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It’s why they ate Thanksgiving dinner with sporks. Herb and Rosemary had regular cutlery.
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[puts on archivist hat]
If you haven’t read through the full archive, some of the below will be pacing-type spoilers to go to directly.
See comic Family Birthmark (current post date of November 29, 2013) for mention about no sharp utensils for Thanksgiving meals due to not needing more than one glass eye.
See comic Nemesis (current post date March 21, 2014) for first mention of Anise using a marble in her ocular cavity.
See comic High Tension (current post date January 22, 2014) for the first glimpse of part of the tattoo Anise has around that eye.
Finally, see comic Nightmare Fuel (current post date April 13, 2014) for first view of Anise’s fake eye.
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*mR. Blue gives you $1.00 US.*
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And chibi Anise?!
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Um, what is she actually doing with her boobs in the last panel: plumping them up. Like pillows? At least she hasn’t flashed them at him like she did at Santa. …. um: not yet, that is.
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Pretty sure she is preparing them for war…
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I read Anise in the last panel emphasizing via gesture what she’s planning to Ellie.
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Powering up, going in weapons hot?
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Considering Anise’s exit from her place of business due to Ellie’s distress call, I’m not sure what might be playing through her mind for this, but something fairly unexpected and hilarious is definitely within the realm of possibility.
…though it also may be a bit too far past PG-13 for Rusche to display, so we may never know (unless we find out next post, in which case it’s likely to be GLORIOUS)
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Oh. Of course Anise would be into sexy bearded vampires. Why did that surprise me?
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If I can just offer a bit of constructive criticism I feel like the panel layout is a bit unintuitive. I think after panel 2 you want the reader to look down but the eye is naturally drawn to continue right. It might have helped if panel 4 didn’t overlap panels 2 & 3 the way it does.
Also, once again Anise gives Cinnamon a bloody nose. Ellie sure is lucky she has Juniper to carry this team.
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Team Reject blasting off–half-cocked–again.
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So…Anise fluffing the girls didn’t work on you….and you looked down?
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No, I looked right instead of looking down. And Anise’s assets are completely irrelevant to that matter.
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The hell they are!!!
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Anise is clearly unfamiliar with the term “leg man”.
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Not often you see a triple negative. Nicely done.
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Please let me be the first to ask, where did her facial star tattoos go?
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Hidden behind the ultrabang. Remember, they’re off toward the temple, if I remember it right….
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Sorry Steve, Sircle gets Squared.
http://shotgunshuffle.com/comic/nightmare-fuel/#.WZY03tT6cdU
She’s got several stars surrounding her sordid specticle.
…
please don’t hit me.
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Still shaky, son.
After all, that ultrabang covers most of the eye. Your reference picture would possibly have one small star visible, but if the issue of shadow gets involved, or distance, we might still be missing it.
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Her hand tattoos aren’t showing either, so it’s certainly within precedent for this appearance.
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We we informed that their coverage would be covered.
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And with that, it can’t be her mega bang.
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Too bad Anise hasn’t got around to ‘buying’ a bionic eye.
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Priorities.
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What surprised me the most, is Anise had to buy her boobs. Judging by the rest of her sisters, one would think they were natural. :p
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It was either that or art school.
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[forgot to take archivist hat off]
See comic Hooch Smuggling (current post date May 9, 2014) for reference.
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Wow. How I’ve forgotten some of the strips :(
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Juniper’s breasts aren’t that big either.
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You know darn well that it’s not the size that counts, it’s all that she ever needs that’s more important. That, and she’s letting the men go goo goo ga ga over her, them, she, etc.
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It’s not her fault. Sometimes talent skips an iteration. I’m sure her daughter(s) will grow up stacked!
:V
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That surprised me too.
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I want to feel bad for Cin. I want to. I don’t. But I want to.
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You want to feel bad for her? My reaction was more, “Good thing Cinn was standing there so someone deserving of it could have her face smashed into the wall like that to complete Anise’s gesture.” I would’ve felt bad if it were a passerby.
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I don’t know. It’s not like when she was trying to provoke Quinn and got back handed for it or when she mouthed off to her mom and got her birthday money revoked. Cinn hasn’t really done anything recently to warrant being on the receiving end of slapstick.
I mean she was more enthusiastic about going to help Ellie than Juniper.
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Probably just an over-enthusiastic “It’s a VAMPIRE! Out of the WAY, Cinn!”
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I’m going to say that according to the Jewish mother standards and A Christmas Story, punishment will be administered because the person on the receiving end doesn’t know if they’ve done something wrong or not. And taking into consideration her lack of a filter, Cinnamon may have quite a surplus of punishment due.
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I didn’t mean Cinn had specifically done anything here. It’s more just my level of sympathy for something bad happening to her is much lower than it would be for a walk-on character.
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Vote people, Chris is at 38 on TWC. He was 36th.
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Statistically, this was likely to happen. I don’t think votes have fallen off so much as we just don’t have the people to go much farther. Remember, we went from down around 125 to here in like a few days. Now we’ve lost the early-month advantage and we’re playing it straight.
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Perhaps we’re bouncing around 37 for the current time. However, I did just vote off site using the library. Let me go crunch a few numbers real quick.
brb.
Right now, 19:30 CST, 8/17/2017, we have 999 votes on TWC. This translate in to a rough 58 and just over 3/4’s of a vote per day. However, with school coming back into session for almost everyone, the chance to vote may either expound or slowly gain due to the ability of people to vote per network source. I mean, it’s going to suck if one university can only vote once, especially if they are the Fighting Pacifists.
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On the 13th, there was a rough calculation of 62.46 votes per day, where today we have a rough 58.76 votes per day. We have slacked off slightly.
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At this current time of posting. SHOTGUNSHUFFLE.com has received an average daily vote of 55.35 votes per day. We have a total aggregate vote of 1107.
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I really like that Anise’s mental fantasy of Durkin is somewhat derpier than the real thing.
I’m also remembering wondering why he made it into the first character line-up in the cast page and wondering if we’re about to see where he has a bigger role to play in the story…
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Anise is one of the people who go total derp for Nicholas Sparks movies, so why not here?
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I’m not saying it shouldn’t, I meant it’s an interesting data point for her character (idealized visions of another character are frequently interesting in one way or another).
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-3- and sudenly we share the same taste in guys.
vampire studs with long hair
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So how often do people pass you the following link when you mention finding vampires sexy?
http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=3
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hot to look at -3- didnt say their traditional personalities are wins
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I was more curious how often you saw that one posted. Based upon the author note under that comic, a LOT of people were linking directly there enough that he put all his intros/provisos about the comic underneath, so I was wondering if it was already well worn or not.
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Beware, the rabid Anne Rice fan…
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Hey. Another “Back to the Future” reference. Because his name must be Calvin, it’s written on his underwear.
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Actually, people usually call Durkin ‘Marty.’
(Mom moves in to get sexy)
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Aw man… Anise was my favorite. And she has fake boobies? Boo…
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Her fake boobs have been mentioned a few times before.
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Fake boobs makes her less your favorite? For fictional characters, the fact that they have fake breasts I always found more interesting. :p
Why I like Emma Frost even more in the X-Men. All the big breasted heroines around her, and she’s fully admitted to having hers done :p
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Protip for voting each day:
Set this link as your shortcut to SS. It’s the voting page, but it also has a link back here. Easy peasy.
http://www.topwebcomics.com/vote/14850
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Vampire again?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rsQCYvS-RC0
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Cin supposed to marry someone really rich eventually? Wonder id she meets him here.
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Sauce?
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I can’t say I remember if that was ever mentioned as a future for Cinn or not. I know at the start of the comic she’d shacked up with a “rich boyfriend” and this was mentioned several times (Derek, I believe was his name, though I don’t know that we ever saw him pictured in comic, just mentioned in passing). I’ve skipped comments for comics at times, and I’ve never really spent time in chat or in Google Hangouts or Facebook or any of the other places Rusche has sometimes mentioned these things, though.
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This gorram comic, man. My band is in the studio in Nashville this weekend and while tracking vocals on Friday during what is probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever done I’m still feverishly refreshing this page on my phone. The comic never came and that’s perfectly ok (burnout is no bueno) but just goes to show you how hooked I am.
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Go watch the Eclipse man. I already was outside for C1, in 20, I’m going for C2 – Totality – C3. Then I’ll come inside and go back outside for C4.
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Sadly I had to go back home to MD the day before the eclipse. Only 75% here.
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Bummer dude. what about watching the live stream? Besides, I’m between C3 and C4 and I’m inside waiting for a bit closer to C4 before I go back out. It’s hot outside. But I just found out that my local news station had a chicken outside of their building. lawls.