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WCDT: 2416-2420 (1-5 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread New

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pwhodges:

--- Quote from: ChaoSera on 06 Apr 2013, 19:18 ---Oh hey, there are still people online. Awesome.
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This forum has members all around the world, so there are usually people around.

ZoeB:

--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 05 Apr 2013, 18:08 ---Momo, for example, wants... to be recognised as an AI girl without that distinction marking a significant difference. In other words, she wants to change the world such that the global memetic concept of real girls includes AIs alongside organics.
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There are certain parallels with this world there.

raoullefere:

--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 06 Apr 2013, 03:15 ---I'd say it's best to start with Roomies, actually.

The older comics set up the Walkyverse (in which Shortpacked is in, so there's a lot of references to get), and the entire premise of Dumbing of Age is that it's using the Walkyverse's characters in a non-scifi environment.

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I started with DOA. I think it's easier to get a handle on because it hasn't been running as long. I went back to Roomies/Walkie/Joyce and Walkie after that, but somehow I could never make the transition to Shortpacked 2.0. Someday, I ashll go dive in. Anyway, all of those work as a 'pre-boot' of DoA just as well as the other way around.

DrBear:
Well, it was reading Willis that got me over here, so Mr. Damn You has that going for him.

That said, the first few years of Shortpacked! were terrific, but right about the time Robin and Leslie broke up, it seemed to fall apart. Now, with most of the original characters gone, I have trouble following it. Notably, I got into Shortpacked! first before going back and checking out Roomies and its offshoots. Never got into them - scifi isn't my favorite genre, I much prefer humor - but at least I was able to get some of the inside baseball in Shortpacked! (Mike having been dead, etc.) And it did have one of my all time favorite webcomic lines: Wolf Blitzer saying "Welcome to The Situation Room, where everything's made up and the points don't matter."

DOA is readable, but it misses something in being in a more condensed daily format than Shortpacked! (or QC for that matter).

Also, Best. Marriage. Proposal. Ever. http://www.shortpacked.com/2008/comic/book-7/08-the-cartoonist-proposes/will-you-marry-me/

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