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Pumpkin’s real present from Quinn is a shiny silver medal.
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Pumpkin’s real present from Quinn is a shiny silver medal.
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The Mighty Quinn is back in the picture…I love Quinn. She’s purple.
And, presumptive FIRST. Vote now…
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I voted.
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Voting was on Tuesday.
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First not in observance of item in comic.
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…she really doesn’t look very eskimo-ish now, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K13hH0pJx5s
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Rare script of some movie or comic that Pumpkin really likes?
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Copy of certain sexy fanfics formerly part of the shrine?
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Tie for first without having used the word first in describing an element in the comic while having more than ten words minimum criteria met. Please be to share the prime award of First Prime. So, in order of prestige in ranking:
-True First – a statement of ten words minimum with the word first describing an aspect in reference to an object or individual’s item/attention/or action;
– Prime First – First statement statement made with a minimum of ten words while describing an element in the comic while not using the word “FIRST”;
– Casual First – First statement of the current webcomic that I includes a ten word minimum statement with a possessive statement by the comments author attributed to same author of statement, without the use of the word “FIRST.”
– Meh First – someone just says, “First.”
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My God, all these rules for first. I can’t keep up with them. Why must we have all these rules to follow. Why can’t we just be. I wanna go home now…with Quinn.
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Yes, but are you a meatless assclown? That’s her type, you know.
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If you went home with Quinn, that’d be an absolute first!!!
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Someone is still bitter. I think that comment was too soon for both of them.
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Welcome back!
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Uh oh…I think she might have touched a nerve there. Anyone else think she might have touched a nerve there?
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And just to get it out of the way…
Why, welcome back, Quinnbutt. We missed you!
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Well, part of her anyway.
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Oh, smug Pumpkin is smug. Smugkin?
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I have entered the name in the Official Database of “That’s Pretty Good” as far as names go.
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Oh my gosh, I’m very nearly someone!
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Sounds like the name of a Pokemon!
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I love Pumpkin, but I sure do look forward to when she gets bitch-slapped. The whole ‘youngest child syndrome’ only gets more and more obnoxious the longer it goes on. That girl needs a reality check.
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Meh. The ex-friend (who broke Pumpkin’s heart by friend-dumping her in order to hang with a man-child who possessed an obvious lack of redeeming features) has now shown up at Pumpkin’s house (for a party which exists for the purpose to celebrate Pumpkin’s continuing existence in the world) with no apologies or signs of regret for the shabby treatment she gave Pumpkin at their last meeting. Pumpkin is well within her rights to slam the door in Quinn’s face, so if she is willing to dish out a little pointed and accurate snark before letting the matter drop, I think she is acting less like an obnoxious youngest child and more like a saint. YMMV, obviously.
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Pumpkin *was* getting a bit possessive/obsessive, even if not in a sexual way. Quinn probably shut her down harder than she deserved, but she did need to be set down a peg, and she did not seem to be in a mood to take that news quietly.
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I really can’t help but wonder why you would think that that snotty brat behavior is saint-like.
Pumpkin is being a dick. Quinn was pretty harsh on her, but that’s just how Quinn can be, and Pumpkin really was getting overly invasive and clingy. Their whole friendship started when Pumpkin showed up out of the blue and demanded Quinn’s time and attention because she was going through a little crisis and didn’t want to talk to family or friends her own age about it. Seriously, that comic is even titled ‘Another Grand Imposition’. It’s great that she ended up having someone she could talk this stuff out with, but then she just kept showing up and demanding more and more of Quinn’s time and attention and then things started getting weird and Quinn got scared so she cut ties. It’s rough, but sometimes life is messy and awkward and unfair like that.
And the bitch-slap thing sure wouldn’t be just over something like this. Let’s just say I expect this party to get real ugly, and also expect Pumpkin to disappoint us all real soon.
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S..shabby? Quinn treated her shabby..?
Pumpkin was so obsessively creepy. I don’t even have more words for that. Its been a long time so maybe we need to refresh our memories on just how creepy Pumpkin was acting during that entire friendship.
Definitely agree with the needing a smack. She needs a good reality wake-up call. Somehow.
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Memory Refresh – start here, and go a few forward
http://shotgunshuffle.com/comic/patreon-steal-your-heart-away-part-ii/
Yeah, super creepy. (Man… been a long while in real-life)
Now I wonder – is Quinn being understanding and giving Pumpkin a chance to redeem herself, or is she beaten down and needs a boost?
(Hopefully we will find out soon)
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Found Pumpkin’s handle, everyone
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But Quinn is still considering Pumpkin a friend because it seems that she’s giving Pumpkin a script of some sorts,(fan?) And has shown up for the party. And she’s yelling at Pumpkin.
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Has Quinn gotten hella thicc lately or is that just my imagination? She went from Gwen Tennison to Jessica Rabbit since the beginning of this comic…
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It’s a side effect of proximity to a certain blond. A blond who is so “well rounded”, she radiates.
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Quinn needs to watch out or she will look like the pets from the pet store.
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Well, at least someone Pumpkin invited showed up outside of the three friends she went to comicon with.
Also, I haven’t read the Patreon comics but it seems that the Ian/Quinn arc ended horrifically. So…that might be why she’s on edge about it.
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I think you just…
put your finger on it.
(puts on sunglasses)
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YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!
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Hmm, so it looks like Pumpkin has finally stopped binding. That’s some character growth I think we can all support.
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She wasn’t expecting anyone to see her then suddenly there was a party. If she had known people were coming over she might have still done it.
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I have so missed Quinn. :D
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So what’s the present? I seem to recall a while back we learned about a fanfic Quinn wrote, but she didn’t deign to share it with Pumpkin at the time…
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Sooo what did I miss? Cuz everything going on in this page, save for the fact that it’s Pumpkin’s birthday, is completely foreign to me.
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Pumpkin and Quinn were briefly spotted hanging out together, following a heart-to-heart talk at Quinn’s apartment whilst Ellie was away, thanks to a mutually-shared love of comics. Quinn was keeping hers quiet, and also didn’t exactly have the cash for such a fondness, until Pumpkin introduced her to the commonly-liberal comic shop policy.
This led to Pumpkin going a mite overboard. Things got weird, and Quinn expressed her open regret that she’d spent any time with Pumpkin at all. This was also the site of Quinn’s latest car death, which made things double awkward.
Find these events in the first Patreon series, which was uploaded to the main archive about four and a half years ago.
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I’m taking credit for this one, having pressed enter before including my naming data.
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Thanks, that helps a bit.
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Actually, that helped a lot. Didn’t realize at first that you meant it was this archive, one I can read. Which I did. So thanks again!
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Oh yes. Frequent Archieve Dives are a thing that is actually encouraged in order to gain the Key of Dehu.
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It’s DHEU, you fucking pleb. Are you even a REAL fan? :D
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3rd panel, Pumpkin seems to be protecting her vagina. Odd body language.
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She’s talking about what a younger more immature version of her would do. I’ve certainly seen my kids do that when excited or shy. (and no, it’s not always a potty dance) So it read to me just like she was being playful. (see also: Goofy grasping his hands together and saying “Garsh”)
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I think she’s pushing her boobs out to show how “mature” she really is.
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I don’t remember that conversation- I guess I have to go back and reread the archives AGAIN.
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Pumpkin coyly smiling and pushing her boobs together was a nice touch.
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Ex-England rugby player Wade scores 65-yard touchEx-England rugby player Wade scores 65-yard touch
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I just realized, Pumpkin gave Quinn the invitation to her birthday in the first Patreon storyline, saying it would be in a month. That was in 2015. So for four years of reliable and consistent updates with very little (if any) hiatus, only an estimate of thirty days have passed in the narrative?
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If you think that’s bad, Dumbing of Age as been running daily for since 9/2010 and they’re STILL in the first semester of Freshman year!!
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Dead Winter averages about six hours of in-universe time every five years or so of actual time.
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That’s not that bad, really. Assuming a standard four panel comic, and using D&D rules of 6 seconds per round/panel, a 5 minute conversation that took place during any one day in-comic would take just shy of two weeks to cover (12.5 comics at 7 comics/week), so in a year of comics (52 weeks) you’d cover a hair more than 26 days (or 20 days if it’s only 5 comics/week). With the average semester lasting 15 weeks, and getting between 3-4(ish) weeks per year, that’s about a three year minimum. If you have more than one story line going on per in-comic-day, you could easily stretch that number out to 9+ years and still be within the first semester.
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Van der Poel takes final stage as he wins Tour Van der Poel takes final stage as he wins Tour
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Renault critical of Japanese Grand Prix disquaRenault critical of Japanese Grand Prix disqua
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Sorry for my ignorance, but when does this comic update? I believe it’s on Tuesdays and Thursdays, is that correct?
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It updates whenever the next page is finished.
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Ok, thanks
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It’s “supposed” to be Tuesdays and Thursdays but it’s never been consistently so. Past few months its been once a month or at most twice month. So I actually think we should move the update schedule to the first of the month to be a monthly comic. I read two other monthly comics, they still get my viewership. And it seems like once a month is something Rusche can handle with his hectic life.
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It actually was twice a week for a while. And pretty reliable, too. Then things started happening as is their wont and the Rob Zombie movie family that is the other side of the Rusche kids’ family tree stepped in to make chaos and that slowed things half unto death. Then the move, then this, then that.
We may get back up to two a week again, some day.
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According to the Archive; back 2015 and prior to 2015 yes, he did upload twice a week. For the past 4 years though it’s been maybe one month out of the year getting 2 a week, followed by mostly once a week (2017 and 2018) or once to twice a month (this past year since April). So for the past 4 years it’s been inconsistent. I’m not being hyper critical, just stating fact. And when he did post more he was always worried about deadlines and rushing out work. Which is why I propose just going to monthly comics rather than continuously putting pressure on him.
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He also had an excellent run in early 2018 and early 2019. But the second summer hits and Rusche has to take the kids back to the Firefly clan, disaster strikes.
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True, but only really Jan and April. I wouldn’t call that’s very consistent in the scope of the whole year. Considering that it’s been officially a whole month since last update, my point still stands.
Though hopefully it will signify a trend that we’ll see him more next month after the holidays? Fingers crossed.
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Dominant Rangers exact Europa League revenge Dominant Rangers exact Europa League revenge
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All families have disagreements – Southgate on SAll families have disagreements – Southgate on S
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Sound investment or panic buying? Villa hopingSound investment or panic buying? Villa hoping
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Wow. It has definitely been a while since we saw Quinn. She’s got a nice body on her. If she wasn’t such an obvious narcissist I could easily see her landing better ranked dudes than Ian.
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PumpQuin – still ship it.
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grey
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Aquamarine.
See? I can do it too.
C’mon people! Join in the “Name a rando color!” Game!
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Turquoise! Ooh, this is fun!
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Sports
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eSports!
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XSS
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You forgot ‘; DROP TABLE ‘users’;
I kid, I kid.
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It’s nice to see others taking up my favorite wait-for-the-new-strip hobby of heckling the spammers.
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I didn’t realize that was a thing, but I approve of this.
Oh, wait, the new phrase these days is:
This is the way.
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Dis is de wae, my brudda.
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Can’t wait for December’s comic! What’s the present?!
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Oh, no! You jinxed it! Now there won’t be a comic until (hmm.. was going to say January, but the I’d be jinxing it.)… a long time!
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Money Market Account
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Limited-term debentures
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R541OLEK4 http://www.apple.com
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THX
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Dolby Atmos or GTFO!
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DTS:X FTW!
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Honestly, I’ve had excellent results with a simple Vizio sound bar. Of course, it has wireless surround and a subwoofer, but still, I’m pretty happy with the performance thus far.
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RFL & Super League appalled by crowd trouRFL & Super League appalled by crowd trou
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And the crowd goes quiet with the mention of the super duper pants off crouding.
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Markets
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‘F’
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Oooo, what are we paying respects to?
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Just the idea of monthly updates! ;-P But moving house and blending families is time-consuming business, so it is what it is…
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F is for friends who do stuff together
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C is for couch that’s covered with Pleather…
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I do! I understand that reference!
U is for U and meeeeeee….
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N is for no survivors, WHEN YOU…..
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index
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Metal
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I now feel the Lake Bell voice of Poison Ivy works for Quinn.
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Euro
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Pre-decimalization Irish Pound!
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Zimbabwean dollar!
I was actually the guy who supplied the flavor text for that item in Forumwarz, if you remember that game.
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F. Giving up now and removing favorite from hotbar.
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Dont blame you man. I really cant talk as I’m not a patreon, so any update is fine with me, however long it takes. But I feel bad for the people who actually do pay. Maybe he’s doing patreon stuff I just dont know about, if so that’s fine. But if nothing hasn’t happened for over a month for them, that’s pretty messed up. I get people are busy during this time of the year, but I mean, c’mon. If he stopped making money from this and had to get a real job like the rest of us, he’d have a hell of a lot less free time.
Again, dunno if he has done patreon stuff, but if he has, that’s cool. But either way, I personally am not a patreon, so any content, even if it takes a year, is just fine by me.
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Nope. No patreon stuff is happening either.
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Dang. I would not be happy if I’m paying and getting nothing in return.
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Comic ded?
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I love this comic but is it moving to a once a month posting kind of situation?
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As much as we may have enjoyed this toon, we can’t in the end, care more about it than its creator. His creativity in the early days was matched by his own curiosity about what would happen next in the world he was creating. While his artistry became very refined, it looks like his life has taken him to other places. Sayonara.