Topic: So the recent comics have hit home (Read 8814 times)

Katie Krakatoa · « **on:** 23 Nov 2012, 15:16 »

I have't posted in a long time due to my transition taking up my life.

After taking a break around 1,200; I've been drilling through the comics again due to a friend telling me about a new trans character. I am almost caught up. 300 pages to go. Then a PVPA kid shows up. Just damn.

I'm from the NoHo area (I worked at a local Sushi joint there, right next to, "Oh MY!" a sex shop directed at women parodied as "Oh, Wow!" earlier in the story). I am an Original PVPA campus Alumni, and I'm a transsexual. So the comic has been hitting home pretty hard for me, lately. Jeph probably doesn't read these boards. But I love your writing, Jeph, and I want you to make these comics forever.

It's weird. I have a trans friend named Claire. Also I myself am a redhead. It's wild.

Not really much else to say. I was just overwhelmed with the urge to post here again after reading MY highschool get name dropped in my favorite comic. Too cool.

jwhouk · « **Reply #1 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 16:43 »

Welcome!

Two things: First, this thread actually fits better in the "Hi, I'm New" subsection of the forum - though we MIGHT let it slide because of your status as a Real Life Northamptonite.

Second: Be wary if you ever visit Rao's Roasting in DT Northampton. Apparently, there is a gal who works there who is The Spitting Image of Dora.

Whitey Fats · « **Reply #2 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 18:01 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 23 Nov 2012, 16:43

Welcome!

Two things: First, this thread actually fits better in the "Hi, I'm New" subsection of the forum - though we MIGHT let it slide because of your status as a Real Life Northamptonite.

Second: Be wary if you ever visit Rao's Roasting in DT Northampton. Apparently, there is a gal who works there who is The Spitting Image of Dora.
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And I live in Florida, damn it. I can't turn on mah good ol' boy charm from this far away!

Katie Krakatoa · « **Reply #3 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 18:36 »

Really? Hmm. I wasn't sure. You see I already gave my introduction there.

A long time ago.

A very long time ago....

Puts this post into perspective a bit, to be honest. Hmmm. :/ Perhaps you're right.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #4 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 20:40 »

Welcome back!

(moderator)I wouldn't sweat it(/moderator).

Is 144 Dwight Street a real place? Google Maps showed a blank there.

Katie Krakatoa · « **Reply #5 on:** 23 Nov 2012, 21:24 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Nov 2012, 20:40

Is 144 Dwight Street a real place? Google Maps showed a blank there.

No it isn't. It is in Springfield, MA about 15-20 miles away.

But not in NoHo.

At least not to my knowledge. The amount of references is insane. I also love when his characters walk down main street because I recognize every building. It's really wild to see such a succesful comic strip that's based so close to home.

Like when Marten and Padma go hiking on Mt Tom? My best friend from childhood lives at the foot of Mt Tom. We'd hike it every weekend. That amazing view when Padma almost falls? Totally accurate representation. Though the reality is much prettier. It's so much fun. I feel so lucky to live here and know all these locations.

pwhodges · « **Reply #6 on:** 24 Nov 2012, 01:21 »

Living somewhere that is being depicted in art can be strange, as well. I know Oxford as well as you'd expect from living here for much of my life (as a child as well as later). It is quite disconcerting, when watching Morse or Lewis on the TV to see them walk through a gate or round a corner that I know well and emerge in a completely different part of town!

DrBear · « **Reply #7 on:** 24 Nov 2012, 06:31 »

Random thought after reading this - I'm tempted to go on Google Street View and take a look around the place...

jwhouk · « **Reply #8 on:** 24 Nov 2012, 06:41 »

144 Dwight Street is supposedly the address for a factory of some sort, last time I looked.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #9 on:** 24 Nov 2012, 12:14 »

The wiki has articles for places mentioned in the comic. If you want to add/edit articles, it would be really cool to know the real-life places that correspond to Fresh Cuts Salon, "that tapas place on Elm", and so on.

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #10 on:** 24 Nov 2012, 14:33 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 24 Nov 2012, 01:21

Living somewhere that is being depicted in art can be strange, as well. I know Oxford as well as you'd expect from living here for much of my life (as a child as well as later). It is quite disconcerting, when watching Morse or Lewis on the TV to see them walk through a gate or round a corner that I know well and emerge in a completely different part of town!

I used to feel much the same way about The Bill. But then I stopped watching it. And then they stopped making it.
So that's all good.

jwhouk · « **Reply #11 on:** 24 Nov 2012, 16:15 »

For me, it was always: "Hey, wait, where the heck is there a roller coaster along the shoreline of Lake Michigan? And why does Port Washington look so much like southern California instead of southeastern Wisconsin? And EVERYONE in that stupid sitcom is SKINNY!"

Obviously, Step By Step was NOT one of my favorite TV shows.

Bluesummers · « **Reply #12 on:** 25 Nov 2012, 09:29 »

Quote from: Katie Krakatoa on 23 Nov 2012, 15:16

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I worked at a local Sushi joint there, right next to, "Oh MY!" a sex shop directed at women
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PLEASE tell me it's got official endorsements by George Takei. That would just make my day. XD

Katie Krakatoa · « **Reply #13 on:** 03 Dec 2012, 12:14 »

Quote from: Bluesummers on 25 Nov 2012, 09:29

PLEASE tell me it's got official endorsements by George Takei. That would just make my day. XD

No, unfortunately he hasn't.

ChaosWolf · « **Reply #14 on:** 03 Dec 2012, 16:22 »

Quote from: Katie Krakatoa on 03 Dec 2012, 12:14

Quote from: Bluesummers on 25 Nov 2012, 09:29
PLEASE tell me it's got official endorsements by George Takei. That would just make my day. XD

No, unfortunately he hasn't.

Someone needs to point it out to him. Then he might.

Thrillho · « **Reply #15 on:** 04 Dec 2012, 10:47 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 24 Nov 2012, 01:21

Living somewhere that is being depicted in art can be strange, as well. I know Oxford as well as you'd expect from living here for much of my life (as a child as well as later). It is quite disconcerting, when watching Morse or Lewis on the TV to see them walk through a gate or round a corner that I know well and emerge in a completely different part of town!

Jake Bugg's got a music video that opens with him walking towards the train station in Nottingham. That blew my fucking mind.

DSL · « **Reply #16 on:** 04 Dec 2012, 12:41 »

Quote from: Gareth on 04 Dec 2012, 10:47

Quote from: pwhodges on 24 Nov 2012, 01:21
Living somewhere that is being depicted in art can be strange, as well. I know Oxford as well as you'd expect from living here for much of my life (as a child as well as later). It is quite disconcerting, when watching Morse or Lewis on the TV to see them walk through a gate or round a corner that I know well and emerge in a completely different part of town!

Jake Bugg's got a music video that opens with him walking towards the train station in Nottingham. That blew my fucking mind.

I just learned of a 2000-ish movie ("Bless The Child," or something like that) which includes one of my favorite sightseeing spots (Bluewater Bridge) digitally moved from the foot of Lake Huron to New York City.

Carl-E · « **Reply #17 on:** 04 Dec 2012, 15:54 »

That's OK, I went to IU Bloomington in the 80's.

Ever seen Breaking Away? I ate daily in the cafeteria with the fight scene at 1:22, and had a bike wreck next to the bench by the library at 1:46... most of town and campus hadn't changed since the movie was made, and I didn't see the movie until I'd lived there a few years.

Edit: effed up tags.

de_la_Nae · « **Reply #18 on:** 04 Dec 2012, 16:56 »

Small world, I live in Bloomington. Mind it's been a few decades now, so several things have changed, but it's still trippy to recognize a few places in that trailer. The IU Main Library and the Auditorium, that stretch of Kirkwood St., what I'm pretty sure is Walnut St., and I want to say that highway they're going down at the end is 37N, but I could be totally off-track.

celticgeek · « **Reply #19 on:** 04 Dec 2012, 17:00 »

My wife has an MLS degree from UI, and spent a lot of time there. We also enjoyed Breaking Away.

de_la_Nae · « **Reply #20 on:** 04 Dec 2012, 17:12 »

What does the University of Illinois have anything to do with it? >_>

Carl-E · « **Reply #21 on:** 04 Dec 2012, 17:18 »

There is no University of Indiana. There's IU, and ISU (in Terre Haute, Larry Bird's alma mater).

Then there's the school where I did my undergraduate work - my alma mater.

Purdue - aka the Indiana University!

de_la_Nae · « **Reply #22 on:** 04 Dec 2012, 18:02 »

Exactly, to my knowledge there's no UI in Indiana, hence the joke.

Amusingly you forgot USI.

Also TO THE DEATH YOU FIEND! *draws foon*

Naw...much as it's fun to say Puck Furdue, I can't stay mad at you guys!
Besides, everyone knows we have to stand together against...well...I love Indiana, but she's an awful place sometimes. Someone's gotta keep the racists, the sexists, the anti-worker crowd, and the occasional 'hilariously' crooked law enforcement in line, right?

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