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I was wondering that, too.

Probably a case of drawing and texting the image while too zoomed in and not checking the result afterwards. A common human error.

That's what I was thinking, but here's #3865, and the text is still tiny.

Maybe he also accidentally set his browser zoom to 125% and just hasn't noticed?

Edited by Xeroop on Nov 2nd 2018 at 1:08:01 PM

I checked his Twitter feed: "Sorry about the small fonts on the last couple comics, I was drawing on a PC and forgot the font numbers work different in Clip Studio for some reason"

I have to wonder what his workflow is that lets these errors slip by undetected before they're uploaded and published.

#3866

I used to love that "I know this stuff, reading it over again would be a waste of time" epiphany.

Marijuana terminology

Personally, I've always heard "smoke up" in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, but I know that's far from a representative sample.

Her idea of rebellious is to go do mother daughter activities. Claire is precious

And she had to be dragged away from doing research about it first.

Edit: Doesn't Smoke Out mean something else, or it just TV Tropes ruining my vocabulary?

Edited by HeraldAlberich on Nov 6th 2018 at 10:47:00 AM

Things can mean more than one thing. We have an entire index of examples.

I'm from Indiana, and I'm not sure I've heard "smoke up" specifically for weed, only for tobacco, and it seems like a term that hasn't really survived the anti-smoking movement. "Smoke out" is used much more often, but in the sense of "force out of hiding by filling the area with smoke".

New Englander here. Never heard either in the context of weed.

Central Canada. Smoke up is common. Smoke out is a completely different context.

Which suggests that the joke is Claire's cluelessness about fun and her mother is either playing along or ahead of her daughter in the toking.

#3868

Tai hears "drugs," goes running.

I kinda feel like if I had a partner call me to ask if I was okay with them doing drugs, my first question would be, "why do you need my permission?"

Seems reasonable to me to ask. Drugs are a hot button issue, and it's good to check that your SO's Uncle didn't get gunned down over a weed deal or something. Less permission, more information.

Also, it's Claire, who has a librarian's sense of orderliness. Plus, if she gets home in something other than her usual frame of mind, and Marten didn't know why, he might well worry; if he knows why, he can pass her the cookies and then put her to bed.

I mean there's "are you cool with this" and then there's "letting you know".

Note that “Are you cool with this?” isn’t the same as asking permission. It implies that the person asking has the right, as an independent adult, to do the thing anyway, while politely acknowledging that the other party might have some cause to freak out about the idea, and offering politely to back out voluntarily if it’ll cause too much grief.

Courtesy isn’t subservience.

#3869

I like the graduation photo with Claire's old hairstyle.

I like the "Did you remember your keys?"

I like the term "Mary Jane hoedown".

#3870

Oh, ok, we're actually going to go on this journey upriver with them. This could be amusing, indeed.