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stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#23326: Jun 30th 2016 at 11:48:44 AM

Most comics/cartoons avoid the direct front because it makes characters look completely different.

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.
liontari Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#23327: Jul 1st 2016 at 2:27:32 AM

The Q&A goes out with a bang unapologetic filler.

The still-theoretical Sister III cover comes on Monday. I wonder whether the cover at least will be in colour? The previous two were.

edited 1st Jul '16 2:27:55 AM by liontari

TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
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#23328: Jul 1st 2016 at 5:58:57 AM

FYI Shive, he lives on Drury Lane. tongue

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edited 1st Jul '16 6:05:03 AM by TotemicHero

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Elfive Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#23329: Jul 1st 2016 at 6:02:34 AM

I have only ever heard that song in Shrek, by the way.

32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#23330: Jul 1st 2016 at 7:01:14 AM

I can't say where in my childhood I heard it, but I did at least hear the first verse (I mean, I always assumed there was more than just where the muffin man lives, but I could be wrong).

I'm really glad I don't care much about the Q&A strips; I have to imagine that this batch of them was pretty disappointing overall.

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TobiasDrake Queen of Good Things, Honest (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#23331: Jul 1st 2016 at 7:14:31 AM

PS - Those black spots are blueberries, because of course they're blueberries. BLUEBERRY MUFFINS ARE BEST MUFFINS O_O

Objection! They might have been chocolate chips, good sir! That they are blueberries is in no way as obvious as you make it out to be. Your depiction of a hypothetical animated pastry golem in a fantasy sequence during a non-canon out-of-universe segment is—

...

Y'know what, I think I'm just grumpy this morning. Coffee zombie demands tribute.

edited 1st Jul '16 7:15:12 AM by TobiasDrake

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Elfive Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#23332: Jul 1st 2016 at 7:29:14 AM

Totally agree with Shive regarding blueberry muffins though.

I never eat blueberries in any other context, mind.

DatLonerGirl Get heckin crabbed from a top secret place Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#23333: Jul 1st 2016 at 12:52:59 PM

No! Chocolate 5ever!

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TobiasDrake Queen of Good Things, Honest (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#23334: Jul 1st 2016 at 12:54:29 PM

Guys, guys, relax. It's just muffins. And besides, everyone knows that lemon poppyseed is objectively the best flavor. It's, like, science and stuff.

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#23335: Jul 1st 2016 at 2:35:45 PM

Excuse me, if this were actual science, you'd all be making these different muffins and testing them to see which is the best.

I'll throw in cranberry-orange, and suggest corn muffins as a control group.

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tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#23336: Jul 1st 2016 at 3:38:35 PM

Let's not forget pistachio.

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Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
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#23337: Jul 1st 2016 at 5:12:17 PM

lemon poppyseed


Be honest, are you making this shit up?

edited 1st Jul '16 5:40:54 PM by Ninety

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#23338: Jul 1st 2016 at 5:33:54 PM

While I certainly do not find them to be very good muffin-wise, they do exist, and I have had them before.

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DatLonerGirl Get heckin crabbed from a top secret place Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#23339: Jul 1st 2016 at 5:36:11 PM

Nah, they're real. Also, blah, blah, blah.

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TobiasDrake Queen of Good Things, Honest (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#23340: Jul 1st 2016 at 5:39:57 PM

They are indeed a thing, and they are delicious.

DO NOT eat them before taking a drugtest, however. Too many poppyseeds in your system can give you a false positive for opium. You know, 'cause it's made from poppies.

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liontari Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#23341: Jul 1st 2016 at 5:40:06 PM

I don't know, but it seems to me that 90% of these gaming-themed N Ps do absolutely nothing for non-gamers. Or at least for me.

edited 1st Jul '16 5:44:23 PM by liontari

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#23342: Jul 1st 2016 at 5:41:29 PM

The Exposition Dragon is going to be no help in this one. I've never played Deus Ex.

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#23343: Jul 1st 2016 at 5:41:34 PM

I'm baffled other flavors than chocolate are accepted in society.

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#23344: Jul 1st 2016 at 5:59:22 PM

I've, umm, never played any of the Deus Ex games either, but I'm enough of a fan despite that that I can probably explain some of the jokes. Provided someone who has actually played them doesn't show up.

Also, straight poppyseed - no lemons or almonds - is the best kind of muffin. Chocolate is a close second, though.

edited 1st Jul '16 6:00:04 PM by Noaqiyeum

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TobiasDrake Queen of Good Things, Honest (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#23345: Jul 1st 2016 at 6:01:17 PM

This one, at least, is fairly self-evident. Grace is Just Here for Godzilla and is pissed off that there's no Godzilla - which she is expressing by hilariously inverting Supernatural Angst.

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#23346: Jul 1st 2016 at 11:20:22 PM

@Tobias Drake

Could be I'm misremembering, but I think the Mythbusters covered that one and found that it's like the risk of cyanide poisoning from eating apple seeds... you'd basically have to be eating your bodyweight in them to have an effect.

Now being a bank teller on the other hand, that means that you have to be careful about taking drug tests for a year thereafter.

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
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#23348: Jul 4th 2016 at 3:54:31 PM

plottttt

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
Ardeau Since: Apr, 2011
#23349: Jul 4th 2016 at 4:03:38 PM

Damn. Liontari was right about the new arc title. How did the story become so predictable?

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#23350: Jul 4th 2016 at 4:48:56 PM

Eh, this one was mostly predictable because

A) the previous arc had quite a bit of focus on Susan and Diane heing siblings, even if Susan hasn't shown up in about two years (iirc).

And B) Shive already said it had a 3 in the title, I'm pretty sure. There have been 2 Sister arcs already, so we already knew that.


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