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[momentumandtorque]

Fanart of a porcelain witch! Character design and concept by @inbarfink, check out their other characters they're really cool! Original post: X

[ptgigi]

Art fight attack against @inbarfink's Dream Witch! (which I thematically drew right before going to sleep, lol)

[comichindrance]

A ton of artfight attacks!

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[icekingandbetty]

reading some of other people's analysis of simon and the new stuff in fionna and cake makes me want to clarify that i use separate tags for simon and ice king/for petrigrof and ice king and betty's dynamic not because i think of them as fully distinct separate people (which they aren't) but bc since betty and restored simon both consider IK to be Not Simon and since IK can't remember enough to recognize the identity as his own, the situations/dynamics are different enough that i think different tags are necessary. hell, i think in the main series even by the end when ice king is pretty stable the only people who consistently talk to/interact with him As Simon are marceline and finn

[marsenatsu]

Okay sorry. I know I said the last one was the last ask I was gonna send in but then I saw this:

https://www.tumblr.com/inbarfink/708698731505156096/much-like-many-what-remain-of-edith-finch-fans

“And I wasn't alone. I started seeing things. The bed I shared with my sister. The chair my grandmother died in. The clock I used to hide inside of.”

EDITH SR HAD A SISTER.

During Edith’s flashback of her last day in the house, you can see some of Edie’s post-it notes about ‘the History of the Finches’, full of names neither Edith nor the player can recognize. 

There were these names. I can't read them but it looks like the curse might not have started with Johann 's death.

I'm more attached than I was before.

I gotta expand the family tree more than I did in my 'what if verse' and wanted to share my excitement.

OH THIS IS SO EXICTING I HAD KNOW THAT WE HAD SOME NAMES (That i believe tie into myths that have to do with gods and goddesses that are associated with water? Does anyone know anything about this...is this anything at all) BUT I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT HER SISTER? This....actually makes sam and calvin more grim if you think about it. I'n sure if relatives previous to Edie went as godwild as her when it came to preserving family history but if they did...this is not great news for her childhood.

You sent in amazing asks I've been dying to talk about this game actually!!!

[much-the-millers-kid]

Is the WAA broke?

Those who have spent a semi-decent amount of time in the Ace Attorney Fandom knows that it's a common joke that the attorneys of the Wright Anything Agency don't get paid, but how accurate is that?

So, @inbarfink posted this wonderful analysis about how often the WAA gets paid (which I highly recommend you look at).  It is highly focused on the financial stability of the client and willingness to pay. However, I am still curious about some things.

First, inbarfink was not focused on which attorney got paid, and I want to know who is doing the best on average based on what we see in game (assuming they got paid individually and not some sort of collection pooling where the agency WAA gets paid and then Apollo and Athena are given regular salaries).

Also, how do cases where they’re likely to get paid correlate to how lucrative they are? As inbarfink explains, attorneys get paid whether they win or lose. However, I have never heard of attorneys being paid a flat rate for the case. More often, they document hours, and are paid on an hourly basis.

So cue me being a spreadsheet nerd and seeing what I can find out.

First: Who is the most likely to be paid?

As far as who is “Paid,” I’m just counting the “Lead” Attorney, unless it really is a full team effort. As an example, The Cosmic Turnabout has two Trial Days: one with Apollo and one with Phoenix. Given It was Apollo’s case initially and Phoenix was covering for Apollo due to injury, we’re assuming Apollo was the one to get paid; same for Trial of Dhurke Sahdmadi, where yes, Phoenix was behind the bench, but Apollo was the main one making arguments and is the one you play as.

I’m pretty sure the only “full team effort” is just the last case of Dual Destinies, which I’m leaving out for that, and because as Inbarfink explains, it is Phoenix defending one of his own employees due to a hostage situation. No one is getting paid for that.

The only other case not being included is The Trial of Zak Gramaraye, for the simple reason that Phoenix lost money. As Inbarfink points out, Phoenix is given a child and loses a badge, so they rightfully gave a score of -1. As accurate as this is, it kinda messes with the numbers and averages, so as an outlier, it is being left out.

After putting Inbarfink's Probability Ratings in a Google Sheet, I color-coded some things to help me notice some trends, and boy did I notice some things.

First of all, on the probability ratings, “Wright” fills up the majority of the lower end, and as they get higher, there’s more and more “Justice.” Not surprising, Apollo seems more likely to make sure he’s paid.

But also, Phoenix’s name is throughout the whole list. There’s only three cases that have a probability rating of 0.9 or higher, and Phoenix was lead on two of them. Granted, one of them is Turnabout Goodbyes, where Phoenix would possibly be the most likely to do it for free because it’s Miles, so that could be less Phoenix insisted on getting paid and more Miles refused to let Phoenix NOT be paid, although that’s debatable because while Larry didn’t pay, Phoenix did expect him to.

Still, the point stands that Phoenix isn’t quite the bleeding heart everyone makes him out to be.

Okay, so that’s first glance perceptions: What about what the numbers say? Who is the most consistently likely to be paid of WAA? The answer is…

*(drumroll)*

ATHENA! With an average probability rating of 0.7!

… Okay, that’s a little unfair to Phoenix and Apollo, given that Athena has only been “lead” on three cases that we’ve seen. She’s the newest; she hasn’t had the challenge of dealing with a Larry that’s going to try to get out of paying or being expected to defend another member of WAA like Phoenix and Apollo have. Although, she also hasn’t had a canon confirmation of payment, and 2 of her 3 cases were childhood best friend Juniper Woods so she may do a friend discount, so those bring her score down a bit anyway. Ah, the importance of sample size and knowing how the statistics come to be.

But yeah, as expected, Apollo is the next to be most consistently paid with an average probability rating of 0.68, and Wright trailing behind him at 0.44.

(Also, likely not super accurate because we only saw two of her cases, but Mia came in last with an average of 0.4).

That brings us to...

Who is making the most Bank? (aka: who is getting paid the most?)

We've seen who was most consistently paid, what about what those paydays were worth? Again, this is based on the time the cases took: Inbarfink covered the financial status of the clients in their likelihood to pay, so we're saying there is no change in rate for if someone has the wealth to pay it or not.

Now, admittedly, a really accurate depiction would look at all the time stamps at the beginning of each scene and count the hours that way. However, I don’t care enough to put that much effort into this (... at least for now; I may revisit this in the future and decide to go into more detail).

So for simplicity sake, I looked up how many “Time Units” a case took, with one unit being an Investigation or a Court Session. (ex. Tutorial Cases skip investigation and usually only have one court session, so they have one time unit, whereas a final case with three days of investigation and three  days in court would have six  time units.)

For the most part, this is relatively simple to figure out. Go through the wiki, count the number of investigation and trial days. Except, while doing this, I had a moment of “What the heck?” Because unless I am reading the Wiki wrong or there’s inaccurate information, there are no three-day trials after the first game.

Sure, the gameplay is longer because the games get more challenging. And yes, sometimes there is a day where something happens, but it is not officially time “On the Clock” as far as the case is concerned ... But I don't think there's and three-day trials after Rise from the Ashes.

For example, in Farewell, My Turnabout, Maya is kidnapped and Juan Corrida is killed on March 20. However, the investigation doesn’t begin until March 21. Also, there’s only two days in the courtroom, March 22 and 23, giving the case 4 Time Units: 2 investigation and 2 court. 

There are similar situations for a lot of cases where there is something going on where it is only 2 days officially, even if it plays like longer, especially for final cases of the game. Phoenix has a whole day at Hazakura Temple investigating Iris before anyone actually dies; the MASON System shows Phoenix’s follow-up investigation after Zak disappeared; Turnabout for Tomorrow shifts from Phoenix and Miles debating Athena’s innocence to all WAA and Blackquill going after the Phantom; Turnabout Revolution has the civil case with Apollo vs. Phoenix AND Apollo going up against both Nahyuta and Ga’ran. Something happens to make gameplay three days or multiple cases in one, but as far as payment goes, it’s one two-day case.

I could have sworn there were more three-day trials after the first game, but I guess maybe I was wrong.

Then, to get the “Pay Rate” I multiplied Inbarfink’s Probability Rating by the number of Time Units.

So here’s the interesting thing: Phoenix is the only member of WAA to have had 3-day trials. He only had three of them, but he’s the only one to have them. Also, two of those are also two of his three with a Probability of getting paid that’s higher than 0.75. If Phoenix budgets well (which I kinda want to assume he does given that last we saw he still had a Nokia brick), he might have gone at least the rest of the trilogy on Turnabout Samurai and Turnabout Goodbyes. I mean, on a scale of one to six, Phoenix is the only one with cases over four, and he has two of them.

Now, Apollo is still ahead when it comes to “how much do they get paid per case” on average. However, it is a much tighter race. 

Probability is ranked from 0-1, with Apollo at 0.68 and Phoenix at 0.44. Convert to the percent of what is possible (68% and 44%, respectively), and Apollo is in the lead by 24%.

However, the Pay Rate is ranked from 0 (not getting paid) to 6 (a score of 1 for definitely getting paid, times 6 Time Units). Apollo has an average Pay Rate of 2.04 out of 6 (34%) and Phoenix has an average Pay Rate of 1.94 out of 6 (32.3%). So as far as how much they’re getting paid on average, Phoenix is only behind Apollo by 1.7%.

Also, so far, Athena with her three cases, two of which didn’t have an investigation (that we saw at least), is still doing pretty okay with a Pay Rate of 1.73 (28.8%), and as far as Mia with her only two cases also not having investigations has a Pay Rate of 0.4 (6.7%), so… oof.

So there you go: Despite Phoenix's bleeding heart reputation, Mia is actually the broke bitch of the attorneys that have worked in that office. (Joking, obviously we only saw two of her cases so we don't have an accurate measure).

Apollo is the most likely to get consistently paid, and because of that he gets paid the most. However, while Phoenix has the most cases where he has a low expectation of getting paid, whether from someone trying to get out of paying or the goodness of his heart or just having too many other things on his mind, Phoenix also has some high clientele and he is the only one to end up with the on-the-wire three-day trials.

And of course, all this is based only on the cases we see in the games. Maybe if we get AA7, we'll see Athena or Apollo get their first three-day trial, or maybe being the only defense attorney in Kur'ain Apollo will have to do more pro bono work. We shall see.

Oh, and here's the full spreadsheet in game order, if anyone wants to make any other interesting observations.

Each Game and Lead Attorney was given their own color.

For the number color keys:

Probability Rating: Less than 0.25 is red, 0.25 to 0.5 is orange, 0.51 to 0.74 is yellow, and greater than 0.75 is green.

Investigation and Court Sessions: 0 is red, 1 is yellow, 2 is turquoise, and 3 is green.

Time Units: 1 is red, 2 is orange, 4 is turquoise, and 6 is green.

Pay Rate: Less than 1 is red, 1 to 2 is orange, 2 to 3 is yellow, 3 to 4 is purple, and greater than 4 is green.

[moki-dokie]

bit of toony AF revenge on @inbarfink did their werewolf superhero character Moonfang!

(thanks for always being like my #1 follower too mwa mwa)

[beatrice-of-the-stars]

I love @inbarfink 's Magic posts slowly making me into a Magic bug monster

[fauchart]

All my traditional attacks for artfight this year! (Minus one that will be included in the animated attack dump)

Patchworks - @inbarfink Stitch - Wolfy9008 Auti - The-acid-rain Bug - Gh0ulF00l Kristops - @miergalvis

[shepherdhous]

anothaaa! 1. @/Oopsiedaises | 2. @/voidsslime | 3. @/BunnyBeane 4. @/Potato-Tattoot | 5. @inbarfink | 6. @igige

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PINNED POST!!!

This is a web-log about webcomics, thus the name

Started in 2012 but immediately abandoned, revived in 2022 to be a place for me to share my thoughts about my favorite webcomics and about the medium of webcomics in general.

My favorite webcomics still running are El Goonish Shive and Order of the Stick, and I’m also still a big admirer of Gunnerkrigg Court. 

Links to my stuff...

General Webcomic Content:

(^^^ Source: Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud)

Longform OC General article/essay on the nature of Webcomics: What Is Webcomics? (There was always intended to be a part 2, maybe someday!)

Weekly Webcomic Roundups, a series of OC longform weekly articles that discussed the happenings in various webcomics that week

The first 10/1/22

The second 10/9/22

The third 10/17/22

Reblog of reaction by blujayonthewing to comics theory from Mort Walker’s The Lexicon of Comicana

Reblog with link to “What Is Webcmics,” above, of post about decline of art by literallyaflame, linked by roach-works to webcomics specifically

Reblog of thewebcomicsreview’s story of the early history of webcomics

El Goonish Shive Content:

Longform Reaction to last page of “Balance” arc and the mysteries it clears up, and its hints at future

Page reaction to latest My Love in Stitches page, comparing to similar moment in EGS:NP

Every time someone says “pressure release chopsticks”

Reaction to latest page

Longform Answer to mintcarousel’s question about the nature of the character Grace, explaining her heritage and powers

Longform Reaction to latest page, explaining callbacks and implications

Page reaction to latest EGS:NP page, comparing to similar moment in Order of the Stick

EGS REBLOGS

MUCH MORE! Beneath the cut:

Order of the Stick Content:

Reblog of saturniade re-draw fancomics

Reblog of long-form page reaction by theoutcastrogue

Reblog of panel reaction by bobauthorman

Reblog of MiTD cosplay photo by anmitdcosplayer

Reblog of general observation by song-of-oots

Reblog of grassknotts re-draw fancomic

Reblog of general observation by song-of-oots

Reblog of character appreciation of Belkar by kirbyofthestars

Reblog with commentary of character theory re Belkar by opti-mized

Linking of this page to a similar plot-point in online novel series Curse Words

Linking of a panel from this page to unrelated D&D fanfic by bixbythemartian

Reaction to panel of this page

Reblog of Meme-ification by grassknotts of OOTS characters

Reblog and comment on page reaction by chetungwan

Reblog and comment on post of panels selected to show Belkar’s character arc by opti-mized

Reblog of fanart by trainwreckgenerator

Reblog of longform character analysis of Belkar by inbarfink

Gunnerkrigg Court Content:

Reblog with comment of orville-redenbacher-space-hero page reaction

Reblog of library-graffiti “recent updates” reaction

Reblog with comment of acesvega page reaction

Reblog with comment of faline-cat444 page reaction

Reblog with comment of andmaybegayer  connection of two pages reaction

Reblog of analysis of Treatise 10 by andmaybegayer

Reblog with comment of thewebcomicsreview page reaction

Reblog of bstormhands page reaction

Back and forth between gunnerkriggcritical and myself regarding the character Tony

Back and forth between gunnerkriggcritical and myself regarding the character Jerrek

Reblog of cameoappearance panels selected to demonstrate theory about the direction of the plot

Page Reaction

Reblog with comment of orville-redenbacher-space-hero page reaction

Page Reaction

Reblog of library-graffiti panel reaction from panel from this page

Back and forth between gunnerkriggcritical and myself regarding a page reaction

Back and forth between gunnerkriggcritical and myself regarding the character Jack

Back and forth between gunnerkriggcritical and myself regarding the character Annie

Back and forth between gunnerkriggcritical and myself regarding a page reaction

Back and forth between gunnerkriggcritical and myself regarding a page reaction

Reblog of faline-cat444 page reaction with page reactio of following page

Other Webcomic Content:

Reblog, originally from Will Santino’s Instagram  Source

Reblog, Lil Molotov Cocktail cartoon. source unknown

Reblog oneshot webcomic by staticevent

Reblog with comment oneshot webcomic by floccinaucinihilipilificationa

Reblog of bibberly blog of Get Your War On webcomic strip

Reblog with comment of oneshot webcomic by jaciopara

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by mochimars based on poem by Nael, age 6, from anthology They're Singing A Song In Their Rocket

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by haxbomb

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by mcnostril

Reblog of page of webcomic myloveinstitches

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by murdercake

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by shencomix

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by shubbabang

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by leftoversalad

Reblog of latest page of webcomic val-and-isaac

Reblog of general comment by the-girl-who-sold-the-wxrld on the webcomic Heartstopper

Reblog of recommendation post of spooky, queer webcomics by thetoadcrow , with My Love in Stitches added

Reblog of page by cosmogalaxy2  combining all chapter-heading panels from the webcomic Heartstopper

Reblog of 5 pages of webcomic Liberta

Reblog of page of webcomic myloveinstitches

Reblog of page of webcomic club-cryptid-by-sarah

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by saccharinescorpion

Reblog of pin-up of webcomic My Love in Stitches

Reblog of webcomic page by foxes in love

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by nellucnhoj

Reblog of latest page of webcomic val-and-isaac

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by lotldraws

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by mixmioart

Reblog of latest page of webcomic tredlocity

Reblog of page of starfleetrambo webcomic Dream Diary

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by summercomfort

Reblog of page of webcomic by inkgoblinz

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by Brad Jonas

Reblog of latest page of webcomic tredlocity

Reblog of a page of the webcomic cassiopeiaquinn with great commentary by thewebcomicsreview invoking theory from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by cassandracalin

Reblog general discussion of webcomic fandom

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by myjetpack

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by myjetpack

Reblog of page of webcomic myloveinstitches

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by incidentalcomics

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by cherryistired based on Tumblr story posted by gallusrostromegalus

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by rebeccacohenart

Linking of a page from Dr McNinja to unrelated meme

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by atlas-of-galaxies

Reblog of page of webcomic the Recloseted Lesbian

Reblog of page of webcomic My Love in Stitches

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by cherrvak

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by foolfortune about the Tumblr pornbot plague

Reblog and reaction to SMBC page

Reblog of webcomic by sighcomics

Reblog of oneshot webcomic fanfiction by mandiminimojo of D&D module Curse of Strahd

Reblog of gifset memeification of this webcomic page by foxes in love

Reblog of commentary and memes about a webcomic page by shen

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by va-draws about the Tumblr pornbot plague

Reblog of webcomic by secondlina

Reblog of webcomic by shubbabang

Reblog of a “There’s an xkcd about anything!”

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by niteween

Reblog and comment on reaction by thewebcomicsreview to a page of Dumbing of Age

Reblog and comment on webcomic fanfiction by kim-poce of online novel Time To Orbit: Unknown by Derin

Page reaction of Questionable Content

Reblog of page from akimbo comics

Reblog of a “There’s an xkcd about anything!”

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by everchased about the Tumblr pornbot plague

Reblog of webcomic page by Mesut Kaya

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by hisclockworkservants

Reblog with comment of oneshot webcomic by emett-sidecast

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by mixmioart

Reblog of oneshot fanfic webcomic by chell-sea-art based on SF novel series Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Comment on poll about webcomic Aurora

Reblog of prokopetz answering a question about Questionable Content

Reblog of thewebcomicsreview answering an ask about Questionable Content

Reblog of oneshot webcomic by thechekhov

Page reaction of Questionable Content

[umbrasdoodles]

When InbarFink saw my Legendary Rattata she requested Volo mashed up with Youngster Joey to go with it so... here that is

[emmabirb8]

I posted 5,307 times in 2022

37 posts created (1%)

5,270 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@dyedviolet

@lastoneout

@elf-kid2

@inbarfink

@darknessvisiible

I tagged 5,225 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#cool art epg - 1,235 posts

#what we do in the shadows - 1,108 posts

#nandermo - 455 posts

#video - 372 posts

#wwdits art - 367 posts

#our flag means death - 344 posts

#nandor the relentless - 311 posts

#funny stuff epg - 262 posts

#animal art - 231 posts

#illustration - 225 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#and marwa's just like... looking into the camera like 'i did not return from the dead and get transported to the modern day to deal with th

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I just think Nandor needs to get railed by Guillermo. If Guillermo simply railed him a little, I think he'd calm down.

723 notes - Posted September 27, 2022

#4

Lmao, Guillermo's Abuelita revealing that their slayer genes cause members of their family to get goosebumps and "a heart filled with fire" in the presence of a vampire...

how much you wanna bet Guillermo had that exact reaction when he met Nandor but just chalked it up to his immediate attraction and infatuation with him?

1,067 notes - Posted August 16, 2022

#3

Okay so now that it's pretty much canon (through Marwa's actions due to the wish) that Nandor has wanted to hug/kiss Guillermo for at least some length of time, that means he's most likely been holding himself back all those times Guillermo has tried to go in for a hug.

Which means there must be a reason he's been holding back.

And I personally think that reason is because he's afraid he won't be able to let go.

Nandor is afraid that any level of physical intimacy with Guillermo beyond their routine hand holding will make it all too real and he'll have to actually acknowledge his true feelings.

He won't be able to stop himself from initiating more. And for someone as repressed, emotionally constipated, and touch-starved as he is, that terrifies him.

1,397 notes - Posted August 9, 2022

#2

*SPOILERS FOR TURNING RED*

I thought it was kinda cool how in Turning Red, Mei's color palette in her design consists mostly of red/pink with a touch of green (in her barrette):

Then, in contrast, her mother, as well as her aunts and grandmother we see later, have color palettes that consist mostly of green with a touch of red/pink (for Ming, it's specifically the pendant that contains her panda spirit):

See the full post

2,224 notes - Posted March 16, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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8,827 notes - Posted July 27, 2022

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I posted 19,073 times in 2022

119 posts created (1%)

18,954 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@sullina

@embraceyourdestiny

@purplelea14

@inbarfink

@tharkflark1

I tagged 1,167 of my posts in 2022

#kingdom hearts - 188 posts

#kh - 120 posts

#sora - 82 posts

#sorikai - 58 posts

#riku - 56 posts

#kairi - 53 posts

#prev tags - 36 posts

#roxas - 35 posts

#ventus - 30 posts

#watch later - 29 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#vexen is a smart man who surely didn’t live solely for the org. their interests simply aligned to his benefit. so what was it that caused

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Ephemer: Dandelions symbolize everything I want to be in life

Skuld: Fluffy and dead with a gust of wind?

Ephemer: Unapologetic. Hard to kill. Feral, filled with sunlight, bright, beautiful in a way that the conventional and controlling hate but cannot ever fully destroy. Stubborn. Happy. Bastardous. Friends with bees. Highly disapproving of lawns. Full of wishes that will be carried far after I die.

Player: edible

134 notes - Posted August 24, 2022

#4

No context other than me imagining him in a boy scout hat and dying but lea would be a great camp counselor actually

156 notes - Posted March 15, 2022

#3

Sora loves both his best friends and they love him and eachother back and I will fight anyone who says otherwise

The particular shape of said love is irrelevant but anyone who says they aren’t equal can jump in the lake

158 notes - Posted August 16, 2022

#2

Sora riku and kairi deserve a good long nap together in the sand under the sun

172 notes - Posted April 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

List of people Kairi has and/or should have bit

Braig

Apprentice Xehanort

The Mayor of DI

Sora n Riku (she actually feels bad about both this and the previous one but she was also five and scared and so were they and they’ve since gotten over it)

Tidus, but he bit back. They’re cool about it.

Selphie, same as before

Destiny Islands Elementary’s resident bullies (she does not feel bad about this and it has happened multiple times)

Axel | Lea (she also does not feel bad about this one)

Isa

Xemnas

199 notes - Posted June 26, 2022

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Fantastic Four Vol 1 #314 & #315

Fri Feb 11 2022 [04:05 PM] Wack'd: seventeen issues of englehart left [04:07 PM] Wack'd: god where to goddamn start with this page

[04:07 PM] Wack'd: johnny being all "not all men" [04:07 PM] Wack'd: ben turning the subject from "unwanted attention" to "now she can't get dates" [04:07 PM] Wack'd: crystal stating a basic fact and being accused by johnny of misandry [04:08 PM] Wack'd: or ben deciding "actually, none of this feminist rape culture stuff belongs in superhero comics, let's stop talking about it" [04:08 PM] Umbramatic: haha oh wow [04:10 PM] Wack'd: so during this fun excursion they discover harvey set up teleport pads all throughout his caverns, allowing for swift movement and expanding his domain without use of vehicles [04:10 PM] Wack'd: that sure was a no-prize that didn't need to be no-prized but got no-prized anyway [04:11 PM] Wack'd: back in new york: the sky is on fire [04:11 PM] Wack'd: ...we're not gonna dwell on that i guess! back to the underground [04:11 PM] Bocaj: Is it the watcher again? [04:11 PM] Bocaj: He does that sort of thing [04:11 PM] Umbramatic: we don't have time for all that [04:12 PM] Wack'd: instant trauma recovery means instant romance

[04:13 PM] Bocaj: Comics. Are just so bad at romance [04:13 PM] Bocaj: And other things. Physics, mental health, addressing racism and sexism and isms [04:14 PM] Bocaj: Sometimes anatomy [04:13 PM] Wack'd: while they flirt johnny realizes someone's kidnapped crystal [04:14 PM] Wack'd: i guess they're fighting some sort of...bat-man

[04:14 PM] Wack'd: must be pretty wealthy to afford a place this cushy looking [04:14 PM] Bocaj: Ha [04:15 PM] InbarFink: I don't Like this design for Benn [04:16 PM] Wack'd: It's rough [04:16 PM] Wack'd: Both to look at and, I imagine, to touch [04:16 PM] Umbramatic: -touches it- [04:16 PM] Wack'd: GOD EVERY FUCKING NON-MAIN-CHARACTER-DUDE IN THIS BOOK I SWEAR TO FUCK

[04:17 PM] Umbramatic: geeeeeeeez [04:17 PM] Wack'd: this dude literally turns johnny into a pig [04:17 PM] Wack'd: are we...are we doing a thing [04:17 PM] Wack'd: does englehart think he has yet more to say about rape culture [04:18 PM] Umbramatic: oink [04:18 PM] Wack'd: anyway sharon lays him out with one punch [04:18 PM] Umbramatic: ha [04:19 PM] Wack'd: hey bocaj, i think i found something of yours

[04:20 PM] Bocaj: I literally just posted WCA 6 this Wednesday [04:20 PM] Wack'd: incredible [04:20 PM] Bocaj: Advertise advertise [04:20 PM] Wack'd: so it turns out the cats are demons and belasco is their dark lord. sure. [04:21 PM] Umbramatic: kitties [04:21 PM] maxwellelvis: It's an itty bitty kitty city [04:21 PM] Wack'd: what

[04:22 PM] maxwellelvis: Another time Shuma-Gorath was mistakenly colored purple. [04:22 PM] Umbramatic: WHAT IF IT WAS PURPLE [04:23 PM] Wack'd: so it turns out [04:23 PM] Wack'd: all the underground worlds of marvel are connected [04:23 PM] Wack'd: including the otherworldly/hell-knockoff ones [04:23 PM] Umbramatic: the underdark... [04:23 PM] Wack'd:

[04:25 PM] Wack'd: so we cliffhang on the gang having wandered into another underground world--the world of MASTER PANDEMONIUM [04:27 PM] Umbramatic: good supervillain name [04:28 PM] Wack'd: Letters! [04:29 PM] Wack'd: Most of them are pretty boring and just talking about how they feel about Ben and Sharon's new looks [04:29 PM] Wack'd: One woman really wants Sue to die for some reason and for Reed to return to the team without her [04:29 PM] Wack'd: But what I really wanna highlight is this

[04:29 PM] Wack'd: Never let it be said that in the ol' days people didn't notice or care about racism [04:30 PM] Umbramatic: oh huh! [04:30 PM] Bocaj: Maybe the problem is the stereotypes marvel [04:30 PM] Wack'd: Granted it is perhaps telling that--yeah, that, one [04:30 PM] Umbramatic: good for the people calling it out [04:31 PM] Wack'd: And two, uh, that the problem was with how Fasaud was dressed and not with him being an evil oil baron who personally slaughters American reporters and who had the full backing of his evil government [04:32 PM] Larena: Saying "Yeah our villain is a stereotype but our heroes are stereotypes too!" almost verbatim is really funny. Like that's just satire [04:32 PM] Wack'd: Yeah, fair

Fri Feb 11 2022 [04:33 PM] Wack'd: sixteen issues of englehart left. [04:33 PM] Wack'd: we open with. morbius the living vampire's origin story???? [04:33 PM] Umbramatic: hi morbius [04:34 PM] Wack'd: oh no, not an origin story. [04:34 PM] Wack'd: just. recapping his recent exploits. [04:34 PM] Wack'd: he's also lost underground apparently [04:34 PM] Bocaj: Very busy underground scene [04:35 PM] Wack'd: so apparently this was all in morbius' diary [04:35 PM] Wack'd: which mister pandemonium read [04:35 PM] Wack'd: and then he starts recapping his own underground adventures [04:37 PM] Wack'd: ten page in. the fantastic four are here. finally [04:38 PM] Wack'd: mister pandemonium holds crystal hostage [04:38 PM] Wack'd: because of course [04:38 PM] Wack'd: this is just gonna keep happening to crystal i guess [04:39 PM] Umbramatic: fuck [04:39 PM] Wack'd: anyway it's determined this was all a big misunderstanding [04:40 PM] Wack'd: as enumerated in the long, long recap, mister pandemonium is stuck here, and so are the four [04:40 PM] Wack'd: they need to find a way back to earth [04:42 PM] Wack'd: AUGH. MORE CHARACTERS FROM OTHER BOOKS [04:42 PM] Wack'd: a couple of astronauts crash down and they're from comet man and ben knows them [04:43 PM] Wack'd: and one of them has superpowers and he teleports everyone but they're in a snowy wasteland now [04:43 PM] Wack'd: cliffhanger.

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