Makes sense, thanks!

Only Fire - Double Penetration (NSFW)

Huh, I’m surprised the second plane appears mostly in one piece:

Seems like the sort of impact that would pulverize the plane, but I’m no aviation expert. Link to some background on the incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_affair

Green is playing a practical joke on blue. Green is about to laugh in panel 3 as blue discovers the taste of dick, but then blue keeps drinking in panel 4, bemusing green

Some fascinating history about him from Wikipedia:

Reza Khan [the father of the person in the post] believed if fathers showed love for their sons, it caused homosexuality later in life, so to ensure his favourite son was heterosexual, he denied him love and affection when he was young, though he later became more affectionate toward the Crown Prince when he was a teenager.

As Shah, Mohammad Reza [the person in the post] constantly disparaged his father in private, calling him a thuggish Cossack who achieved nothing as Shah. In fact, he almost airbrushed his father out of history during his reign, to the point of implying the House of Pahlavi began its rule in 1941 rather than 1925.

If it’s the only 891mm railroad still operating, does that mean it’s separated into its own system, or are there adapters that make it easy for those trains to use normal gauges, or normal trains to use that track?

Ah thanks, that must be it. That makes a lot of sense.

This would be great for !writingprompts@literature.cafe or something

Must not be, I don’t see how it relates

Yeah TBH I don’t either. I can come up with some partial explanations, like he tries to teach his son to shave on something inappropriate and so his wife divorces him, but it’s still not really clear.

I don’t really think so, but it’s on the line. Marked NSFW just in case.

Judging by the copyright years in the top right that I’ve seen, it’s not chronological. They definitely pick the comics to match some events, like Christmas, but other than that it seems pretty random.

I wonder who thought of it first. Looks like most of his films were after this comic was published, so I’m guessing this came first? Might’ve just been a common saying too though.

Note that this comic is interactive, so you’ll need to go to the site to see the whole thing. Here’s the link again for the lazy:

https://www.exocomics.com/300/

Going to try my hand at making remixes of each comic, appreciate anybody else doing the same! If it goes anywhere, it’d be nice to have a weekly contest or something. I’d like to remix the whole strip, but I’ve only got enough time for one panel today and this was the first thing that came to mind:

Remixed with the image from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donald_Trump_-_Caricature_(49601666187).jpg

There was a recent post about this tower by @stoy@lemmy.zip over in !ccp@discuss.online (shameless plug for the community, I just created it the other day for posting public domain/creative commons stuff!)

https://discuss.online/post/33220770

It’s what’s known as the Old Stockholm telephone tower, and you’re looking at lots and lots of telephone wires, before the whole thing was decommisioned due to running cables underground.

Best guess is that they either fainted or are looking down judgmentally at the farmer. Agree that the drawing is ambiguous though

I wonder if it was worth the impressive amount of effort, in retrospect. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stockholm_telephone_tower:

The tower was quickly made obsolete as telephone companies began using underground cables in urban areas. In 1913, underground cabling for telephones was fully completed and the tower no longer served its original purpose

So 26 years of use for something that seems very expensive (though I didn’t find any numbers for construction costs). I found an HN thread about it too with some good comments as well:

As for why you didn’t see similar constructions in other cities, this was definitely an unusually large telephone office for the time. In the US, a city exchange of the late 20th century would usually have just hundreds of lines, many of them multi-party. Telephone companies scaled up by building more exchanges, rather than a single very large one. When they got into these kinds of subscriber numbers at an exchange, the F1/F2 cable scheme was in use to avoid this kind of wiring. It does seem to be the case that telephone adoption was unusually rapid in Sweden, I find one (poorly sourced) claim that there were some 4,800 telephone subscribers in Stockholm in 1886 which would very likely make it the most telephone-rich city in the world. The situation of the tower seems to have developed in part because its builder, Allmänna, was consolidating the Stockholm telephone market through acquisitions and made a decision to centralize the many acquired customers onto on exchange.

Neither, “Good” and “Evil” can’t exist absolutely and the universe doesn’t care one whit about any of us. Our morality was shaped by what was evolutionarily adaptive, and we developed post-hoc reasoning for it with the nice big brains we evolved.

Bonus panel:

Transcript:

Mister Miracle: Batman? No way. Remember… Batman kills babies.