Subnormality
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Subnormality
Who else here is a fan of Winston Rowntree's opus?
His text-comics are so dense and pithy that there are large swaths of the archives that I have yet to properly plumb. I was actually thinking of buying a print, but it's hard to decide on one; I was thinking maybe someone here might have a suggestion? I quite like The Inner Dark, except that's so darn dark that I don't think I really want it on my wall.
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His text-comics are so dense and pithy that there are large swaths of the archives that I have yet to properly plumb. I was actually thinking of buying a print, but it's hard to decide on one; I was thinking maybe someone here might have a suggestion? I quite like The Inner Dark, except that's so darn dark that I don't think I really want it on my wall.
http://www.viruscomix.com
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Captain Estar Goes to Heaven did nice things to my brain.
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This one is good for a "......well, fuck." feeling, if you're in to that. I also liked Sector 41. But yeah, Captain Estar is good, as is the regular Subnormality strip.
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This one really wanted to be its own long comic, rather than a re-telling. Because damn.
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Thanks to Jorpho for this thread, I had never heard of it before, but I read these two that Talon posted and they are great the one Belial posted was a bit dyslexia inducing, I'll have to give it a try another time, the jist of it seemed cool though.
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This one is also really striking.
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Yeah, that's.. Winston. Subnormality is self-described as the comic with too many words in it.AvatarIII wrote:Thanks to Jorpho for this thread, I had never heard of it before, but I read these two that Talon posted and they are great the one Belial posted was a bit dyslexia inducing, I'll have to give it a try another time, the jist of it seemed cool though.
This is a good short one, I had this one in my signature for a while, Good Ol' Time Travel and Hitler joke.
And this one, too, I think. But yeah, mostly the one you linked.Belial wrote:This one really wanted to be its own long comic, rather than a re-telling. Because damn.
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I finally have Choose Your Own Adventure on my wall. I'm not sure it was such a good idea; it might be a little too evocative of whatever inner existential angst is currently nagging at me. If this latest one ends up as a decent poster it would seem to be a much better choice.
I still need to sit down and read Captain Estar. Too bad there's no convenient PDF.
I still need to sit down and read Captain Estar. Too bad there's no convenient PDF.
"The Machine Stops", by E. M. Forster (1909)
Barry Schwartz TED Talk: "The Paradox of Choice" (Featuring the True Secret to Happiness)
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Ooh, he's got some new prints out.
http://viruscomix.com/printslist.html
Plus there's some links to his Cracked stuff! It's slightly difficult to find his stuff on Cracked.com, especially since visiting Cracked.com is known to cause explosions.
http://viruscomix.com/printslist.html
Plus there's some links to his Cracked stuff! It's slightly difficult to find his stuff on Cracked.com, especially since visiting Cracked.com is known to cause explosions.
"The Machine Stops", by E. M. Forster (1909)
Barry Schwartz TED Talk: "The Paradox of Choice" (Featuring the True Secret to Happiness)
Barry Schwartz TED Talk: "The Paradox of Choice" (Featuring the True Secret to Happiness)
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I keep meaning to order a print for Floor Plan of the Mind, but looking at it again, it seems like it might be a bit heavy-handed. What you you think?
"The Machine Stops", by E. M. Forster (1909)
Barry Schwartz TED Talk: "The Paradox of Choice" (Featuring the True Secret to Happiness)
Barry Schwartz TED Talk: "The Paradox of Choice" (Featuring the True Secret to Happiness)
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Season 2 of Peoplewatching came out awhile ago, if you've not been keeping track.
https://watch.cbc.ca/season/winston-row ... 4de6219cd5
This stuff is heavy. Perhaps a little too heavy.
https://watch.cbc.ca/season/winston-row ... 4de6219cd5
This stuff is heavy. Perhaps a little too heavy.
"The Machine Stops", by E. M. Forster (1909)
Barry Schwartz TED Talk: "The Paradox of Choice" (Featuring the True Secret to Happiness)
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Well shitballs.
heuristically_alone wrote:I want to write a DnD campaign and play it by myself and DM it myself.
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Dammit, seems like they no longer have the cast page with comics indexed by character appearance...that was a seriously useful feature.
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SecondTalon wrote:This content is not available outside of Canada.
Well shitballs.
Oh, that's no good, is it?
Episodes are now being posted to Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uFum9oXnAg
"The Machine Stops", by E. M. Forster (1909)
Barry Schwartz TED Talk: "The Paradox of Choice" (Featuring the True Secret to Happiness)
Barry Schwartz TED Talk: "The Paradox of Choice" (Featuring the True Secret to Happiness)
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