Ah, for those who are either not OLD or into nerdy rabbit holes, Snuffy was super shy so everyone thought he was Big Bird's imaginary friend. This changed after stories of childhood abuse made the news and the writers didn't want kids to think their guardians wouldn't believe them when needed.

Yay going into hiding in Questionable Content was reaching into Mr. Snuffleupagus childhood frustration levels, so my appreciations sent to the author for resolving that for now. You bastard.

HAH! 🤣

By the entropic nature of observed reality, that strip is 14 YEARS OLD NOW? AND it's still RELEVANT?

Parlez-vous paumé?

Aha! found it.
shortpacked.com/comic/false-equivalence

This cover is 100% what got pulled from the memory banks. Like, there have been STUDIES that show it trends otherwise, my dude.

What was that Shortpacked! comic where the fem character drew their idealized Batman that mad the grognard uncomfortable...

FUBAR

The customer is always right in manners pertaining to taste.

Pepperoni also works.

I was just going to mention them.

Nay, trying to remember if we've met at some gathering over the years... I did a summer gig separating a Grendel book in 97 when Cara ran the coloring dept. Got into the Service Beauru in... 2001? Still there in Prod.

... so no WYSIWYG there. Dark Horse had custom color swatches printed that we would use to figure out the CMYK blends, then cut them into TintPrep. It sucked. I'd imagine DC and Marvel had similar setups as well. /end

"But why the color codes?" Couple o' reasons. One being Photoshop still wasn't the standard yet, and even when it was ramping up people were still learning how to properly calibrate their monitors. The other color separations software was called TintPrep, which was DOS based... /1

Quest Sprout repping Oglaf was not on my bingo card...

I also dug Rise, and trying not to get too excited about Burn.
Definitely a reboot done right, imo.

The Shrine, for reasons that are spoilery.

Mad God.

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)