Jesus that was so much better than I imagined

The meta-riffing on their personas really made it amazing.

Doughboys just keeps getting better and better. Pray that the Spoonman lives through the Doughlympics/ Susser Games.

"Author tweets book excerpts- story at 11:00"

It's really well done visually. Maybe this artist and "dying Netflix couple" writer could collaborate on something that really works. Heck throw in a panel of melancholic furries and employ all the contributors!

I think this series has done a good job of showing how hard it is to make a visually appealing, coherent and funny webcomic. Plenty of the contributors have nailed two out of the three rubrics but getting the trifecta isn't easy.

Robespierre is "whimsy." Danton is silliness.

Lionel Shriver's "The Mandibles" is a truly frightening and funny dystopian satire. If you've got strong opinions about finance, investing and economics it's extra scary. Really great stuff.

I think a big budget "Inspector Lin versus the Opium Trade" movie could be amazing. Cast your marketable names as British villains, throw in a sympathetic missionary played by a Matt Damon type and still have your Chinese protagonist and setting

Y'know that is a good question. With the U.K. you've got the RADA/LADA funnel that accounts for a steady stream of British actors to exploit but why Australia and New Zealand? Only marginally lower obesity rates- maybe just having a nationally subsidized media makes for a larger pool from which the cream can rise to…

That's good to hear actually, I'd say that moves it more to homage.

The King elements are pretty damn overwhelming- almost to the point where I could have seen an "inspired by" by credit. The parts from "Firestarter" especially seemed almost past the point of being a pastiche and just being an adaptation. There were lots of other chunks here and there from King (saw a lot of De…

I definitely felt the Pretty in Pink vibe as well. Probably a deliberate allusion.

I really, almost viscerally, hated it. It just seemed so laboriously "grim" and affected and just an unpleasant fantasy. There were some laughs but it seemed like a weirdly twee study in misanthropy.

I really liked the show but the indebtedness to King goes to the point where he should have an "inspired by" or a producer's credit or something. It's essentially "Firestarter" + "Stand By Me" with elements of "Carrie" and The Dark Tower mythos.

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"The Mandibles" by Lionel Shriver. Just a terrifying yet hilarious satire that's designed to prey especially on anyone with a little bit of financial/ investing knowledge. Brilliant, funny and just downright scary.

The Mike Mitchell/ Paul Rust exchange of:

Deformity is strongly alluded to but the description is pretty vague. It's clear that there is some physical transformation happening.

The artifice of intellectual justification for the Right is gone and it's actually kind of brilliant. Decades have been spent on doctrinaire debates about supply side economics and tax cuts and "Exporting democracy" etc and Trump has just stripped it all away and said: "I believe in nothing besides authoritarianism…