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September 18, 2023

Inquisitiveness

by David M Willis on January 31, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – Turning Saints Into the Sea

└ Tags: booster, ethan

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 31, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Is the lampshade for that streetlight? Because what they threw is HUGE

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 31, 2023 at 2:24 am | #

      Now see, I thought saying Internet instead of the Metaverse was the lampshade.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        January 31, 2023 at 3:23 am | #

        Pretty sure it’s only called that by detached techbros with no remaining connection to reality.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          January 31, 2023 at 5:09 pm | #

          Totally unlike people commenting on a webcomic page

          • Lysbeth
            Lysbeth
            January 31, 2023 at 6:46 pm | #

            Well we’re commenting on reality, not on how our bad Second Life twin towers of the WTC never fell in fantasyland. That’s gotta count for something.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 31, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Booster: “I have checked The Internet on my Phone.”

    Ethan: “Oh, is that the latest Phone?”

    Booster: “Yes, it has more Megapixels than the last one.”

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      January 31, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

      My Wife: “I’m so jealous of your phone. It has more megapixels than mine!”

      Me: “Do you want to use my phone to take some photos?”

      My Wife: “No! I want a better phone with more megapixels than yours!”

      This is seriously an accurate summary of conversation that we had back in October. She got her new phone – with more megapixels than mine – for Solstice.

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 31, 2023 at 12:35 am | #

        I can just picture Booster going on about how there’s much more to better photos than just megapixels LOL 😆

        Speaking of which, re:autism, thanks for replying, it’s awesome that your wife got the diagnosis. also yeah, you probably were horny Dina in college. 😊

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          January 31, 2023 at 5:12 pm | #

          Yes indeed, the optics are as important as the number of pixels, the more pixels, the more important the optics become to actually use the pixels.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 31, 2023 at 4:21 am | #

        A traditional digital camera with a larger image sensor but fewer megapixels will take better photos than a smartphone with more megapixels.

        • Casi
          Casi
          January 31, 2023 at 1:27 pm | #

          but a traditional digital camera is more equipment you have to bring with you.

          • Smallmoon
            Smallmoon
            January 31, 2023 at 5:30 pm | #

            But if you spend the money on the DSLR, you’re more likely to schlep it around to justify the cost!

          • Mark
            Mark
            January 31, 2023 at 6:38 pm | #

            Ha, the camera is the smallest and lightest piece of that equipment.

      • nobodybasically
        nobodybasically
        January 31, 2023 at 5:35 am | #

        Have you shown her that XKCD comic?

      • Felian
        Felian
        January 31, 2023 at 9:37 pm | #

        This sounds like such a silly argument, but it does sound like it’s all in good fun and it was a great present 🙂

    • Electric
      Electric
      January 31, 2023 at 12:49 am | #

      So outdated since the comic was written, we use Ultrapixels now

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 31, 2023 at 2:54 am | #

        We use Metapixels here in the Metaverse.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 31, 2023 at 4:22 am | #

          In the future, cameras will only have one pixel each. They’ll use heavy processing and upscaling to make up the difference.

          • milu
            milu
            January 31, 2023 at 5:08 am | #

            We’ll finally all have access to that “enhancing” software that previously only spy agencies and some otherwise undistinguished police departments were equipped with, as seen in The Movies

          • Mark
            Mark
            January 31, 2023 at 6:51 am | #

            Nah, they’ll just be on all the time, and the carriers will just get a pixel each from everyone around you to synthesize the image they think you should have been making.

        • Rose by Any Other Name
          Rose by Any Other Name
          January 31, 2023 at 8:34 am | #

          @Clif: As someone who dressed as Violet for Halloween, I appreciate that joke. ^^

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 31, 2023 at 11:20 am | #

            😀

      • Casi
        Casi
        January 31, 2023 at 1:28 pm | #

        Wouldn’t we go up to gigapixels?

        • khn0
          khn0
          February 3, 2023 at 2:32 am | #

          And that’s why I don’t have a smartphone anymore. updating, upgrading without pause, to keep the pace with obsolescence of desires?
          No, I’ll keep my old phony machine and let as much of rare-earth elements in the ground.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        February 1, 2023 at 12:00 am | #

        It is now Dynamaxels

    • davidbreslin101
      davidbreslin101
      January 31, 2023 at 11:13 am | #

      “Bing it!” – Bad Machinery.

  3. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 31, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    I love them busting each other’s chops.

    • MaximumZero
      MaximumZero
      January 31, 2023 at 2:29 am | #

      And also the 4th wall, with the force of a million suns.

      • Psychie
        Psychie
        January 31, 2023 at 5:04 am | #

        They didn’t break the 4th wall, they spoke in a weird way, largely due to the nature of the medium, and then acknowledged the way they spoke was weird. If anything that’s leaning on the 4th wall, as lampshade hanging often (but not always) is, but really that’s the sort of exchange I have with my friends IRL, so I’m not sure if this one is even sufficiently meta to qualify as even leaning on the 4th wall.

        • milu
          milu
          January 31, 2023 at 5:21 am | #

          if “meta” referencing the medium from inside the story, then this is definitely meta. They didn’t literally say “we are in a comic” but the whole joke relies on the fact that they are.

          How is lampshade hanging sometimes not “lean on the 4th wall”? i feel like lampshading is defined by implicitly breaking kayfabe? I’m probably working from an incomplete definition?

          • Psychie
            Psychie
            February 2, 2023 at 2:11 am | #

            Lampshade hanging is when they point out a trope (usually) for comedic effect. Leaning on the 4th wall is when they make allusions to the medium but are sufficiently vague or indirect as to avoid fully breaking said 4th wall.

            This could just be me, but I would say that if a line or conversation could plausibly happen in real life then it might not even count as leaning on the 4th wall. My friends and I regularly call out tropes when we see them in our daily lives, especially when they crop up in conversations, and we make use of them as a short hand form of communication sometimes where applicable. This means that I engage in lampshade hanging in my real life, and I am under no delusions about being a fictional character with an audience watching me/reading about me, ergo I’d say that any instance of lampshade hanging would have to be fairly contrived to qualify as leaning on the 4th wall using my standards. Obviously others are welcome to disagree.

  4. Taffy
    Taffy
    January 31, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    There’s always a new superhero film and most of them are mid. It’s safer not to bother learning the names and to just assume there’s one playing at all times.

    • GholaHalleck
      GholaHalleck
      January 31, 2023 at 1:08 am | #

      “Want to sit in a dark room and look at reasonably attractive men in spandex pants and eat overpriced sugar treats?”

      “You had me at sit.”

    • Axel
      Axel
      January 31, 2023 at 1:14 am | #

      I was thinking he might not be paying attention to superheroes anymore, (especially in live action movies since they’re just pumped out faster than I can keep track of, and I don’t have any trauma related to friends who were into superhero media) and be offering a generic ‘yes’

      • Axel
        Axel
        February 5, 2023 at 1:45 am | #

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-12/03-trial-and-sarah/traumaresponse/

    • shoopdawhoop
      shoopdawhoop
      February 2, 2023 at 6:04 pm | #

      I mean “that new superhero film” is basically the Marvel movie roadmap for the next 10 years verbatim.

  5. Steve
    Steve
    January 31, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    An early preview showing for Ant Man 3 obv. 🙂

    • Carla's #2 Fan
      Carla's #2 Fan
      January 31, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

      Wakanda Forever is still in theaters

      • Marma
        Marma
        January 31, 2023 at 5:49 pm | #

        It comes to disney+ tomorrow.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 31, 2023 at 4:23 am | #

      The joke could’ve easily used Robo-Vac, but then we wouldn’t have gotten the last panel.

  6. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    January 31, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    Ah the ever burdening nature of different time scales. To which I say, “Balls.”
    Then I would probably help two guys with the new problem of the week.

    • milu
      milu
      January 31, 2023 at 7:18 pm | #

      Booster is not a guy. If that’s what you meant?? Apologies if i just missed the joke

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        February 1, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

        I was making a “Supernatural” reference, but it didn’t come across very well.

  7. BOOSTER SHOT
    BOOSTER SHOT
    January 31, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    Finally, the confirmation I was looking for, that DoA takes place in a non-Covid AU. Wonder how long that can last?

    • Nathan
      Nathan
      January 31, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      Great username (and image) for this comment

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 31, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

        Very much so. Don’t get COVID, it sucks! 😭

        • RassilonTDavros
          RassilonTDavros
          January 31, 2023 at 12:25 am | #

          It feels like everybody I know except me has gotten COVID. I’m certainly not jealous by any means– the long-term effects it has had and is still having on my brother are depressing as all hell to watch him struggle with– but it’s weird that they’ve all had this shared experience they compare notes about all the time and I’m just stuck saying “yeah, I can’t even imagine what it’s like.”

          • Rabid Rabbit
            Rabid Rabbit
            January 31, 2023 at 12:44 am | #

            Just become a pandemic hipster. “Oh, I was going to get COVID, but then everyone started to.”

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            January 31, 2023 at 5:23 pm | #

            I can say you’re not alone, I got vaxxed and boosted as quick as I coul, but haven’t had the most recent booster, and I’m the only one in the family who hasn’t tested positive yet. It’s annoying to the rest of the family that I never get sick and the only time I went to the hospital was when I got hit by the truck and subsequent repairs as they found stuff later they missed the first time.

          • shoopdawhoop
            shoopdawhoop
            February 2, 2023 at 6:05 pm | #

            I miss it being last year when I could say this

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 31, 2023 at 4:31 am | #

          I finally caught the plague for the first time a few weeks ago. 104 degree fevers aren’t fun; I can think of better excuses to sleep for almost two days straight.

          • The Wellerman
            The Wellerman
            January 31, 2023 at 5:32 am | #

            That’s not even the worse of it. You can nearly suffocate, and right now long COVID has my back in AGONY 😫

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              January 31, 2023 at 8:58 am | #

              Yeah, I guess I got a mild strain. It was about 2 days of a high fever and another couple days of flu-like symptoms. After that it was about a week before my sense of smell was back to normal.

              I feel like I’m complaining to a drowning person because my drink is too warm… Sorry you’re still dealing with it!

          • davidbreslin101
            davidbreslin101
            January 31, 2023 at 11:59 am | #

            I have it now. Main problem at the moment is running out of everything, including the cough medicine that stops my lungs filling up with crap. Also, the rules for going back to work or to the shops are too vague. How DARE they throw it back on my “common sense”? I don’t have any.

            • The Wellerman
              The Wellerman
              January 31, 2023 at 2:25 pm | #

              Even worse than that in some places. As soon as those rules were rolled back in China, things immediately got worse again, people collapsing and other ugly sights. It got so out of hand that their government even stopped collecting statistics. 😵

              • milu
                milu
                January 31, 2023 at 7:15 pm | #

                I’m not sure the chinese government not collecting (or not publishing) statistics is that dramatic a threshold

            • Laura
              Laura
              January 31, 2023 at 8:30 pm | #

              Paxlovid, my dear! Get it delivered or through a drive-thru window! Good luck to you!

              Treatment dispensaries:
              https://aspr.hhs.gov/TestToTreat/Pages/default.aspx

              • Laura
                Laura
                January 31, 2023 at 8:32 pm | #

                Here are the CDC guidelines on when to end Isolation and how to Isolate:

                https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/isolation.html

                • Laura
                  Laura
                  January 31, 2023 at 8:36 pm | #

                  Here is a directory of local health departments in the USA to get local COVID-19 resources and guidelines for Isolation duration and masking: https://www.naccho.org/membership/lhd-directory

                  Hope all goes well!

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 31, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

      We are at the point where Covid measures are relaxed enough that you could put this comic post-covid.

      But yes, perils of the sliding timescale.

    • anon
      anon
      January 31, 2023 at 12:46 am | #

      tbf. it probably wouldn’t stop college students from doing what they want. tho a six foot distance, “every 3rd-4th seat” being empty in a movie theatre would be enjoyable esp for a comedy where it’d be hard to hear over ppl laughing (surprised there’s not more subtitles by default on movies, besides just the foreign translated ones)

      • GholaHalleck
        GholaHalleck
        January 31, 2023 at 1:10 am | #

        The real reason Dotty was a dryer apart that whole time was Covid sanctions.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          January 31, 2023 at 3:41 am | #

          Wouldn’t hand holding defeat the purpose of said distance? 😑

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 31, 2023 at 3:50 am | #

            I’m sure they washed them afterwards.

      • milu
        milu
        January 31, 2023 at 5:29 am | #

        Do theaters still require sitting x seats apart in the US? Over here (france) the covid restrictions have pretty much entirely been lifted. I still try to wear an FFP2 mask in public places, buy i’m often the only one (aside from some old people). I wonder if the scary cost of healthcare in the US does encourage more people to still take it seriously??

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          January 31, 2023 at 6:08 am | #

          Haha. No.

        • Tyce
          Tyce
          January 31, 2023 at 10:27 am | #

          Quite the opposite, really.

        • khn0
          khn0
          February 3, 2023 at 2:41 am | #

          The given reason is that test concerts didn’t bring much more contaminations “because people were looking in the same direction” and not speaking to each others. Where I work, it’s a bout one person in thirty that wears a mask, and most customers are well over sixty.

    • Psychie
      Psychie
      January 31, 2023 at 5:13 am | #

      Movie theaters in Bloomington are open and have been for a long, long while. Granted, neither of them are all that close to the campus, and given how late it appears to be I doubt it would be easy for them to reach either of them in time for the final showings for the night. The closer one is the east side theater, which is the shitty one, but they’d probably need to take a bus there to get there in any reasonable amount of time, and I’m not sure how close a bus would get them since I’m not all that familiar with the bus stop locations on that side of town, there might be a stop right there or they might need to walk a couple blocks, and that’s assuming there’s a bus going there with a route that goes through campus, IIRC only a couple of city bus routes do and while both of them go to the east side that doesn’t mean they go to the theater, so they might need to transfer at the bus station. All in all, I worry about Booster’s assessment for how easily they can make it there in time to catch the start of the movie.

      • milu
        milu
        January 31, 2023 at 5:31 am | #

        How do you know that it’s late?
        It’s January so the fact that it’s dark could mean it’s like 5pm

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          January 31, 2023 at 6:23 am | #

          Closer to 3, lately.

        • Psychie
          Psychie
          February 2, 2023 at 2:02 am | #

          Sunset in early-mid January in Bloomington is around 20 ’till 6 at the earliest, and the sky doesn’t get quite that dark until a half hour to an hour after sunset (due to residual light from over the horizon), this changes when the sky is cloudy, but that sky looks pretty cloudless to me. I’d estimate that it’s about 6:10-ish at the absolute earliest. The local theaters have their last show for the night between 6 and 7:30 for most of their movies due to not yet being on their full schedules after covid yet. They wouldn’t say “there’s a showing soon, if we hop to it” if it was only a little after 6 and the showing was 7 or later, I’d guess, based on my checking of the local theaters that we’re looking at a 6:40 showing at the latest, that means they have at most a half hour to get to the theater before the previews start, it looks like they’re outside of Read right now, if they walk to the east side theater they’re looking at a 38 minute hike, at least, according to google maps a bus could get them there in about 16 minutes, but you have to add any time spent waiting for the bus to that and sadly the busses here aren’t super reliable.

  8. butts
    butts
    January 31, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    could’ve said “the new Spider-Man movie”, there’s always another one of them fuckin things

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 31, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      Sony needs to keep making them to retain the rights, so we’ll be getting Spider-Man movies until the end of time.

      Or until Disney finally takes over every other media company, followed shortly by the world.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 31, 2023 at 11:23 am | #

        So next week then.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      January 31, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

      Are there more or less Spiderman movies than Batman movies?

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        January 31, 2023 at 12:28 am | #

        Focusing solely on live action, not counting team-ups, there are 8 Spidey films and 9 Batman films.

        Batman has Spidey vastly outnumbered in animated films, also.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          January 31, 2023 at 12:37 am | #

          I’ll also add that Spidey’s live action outings consistently entertain me more than Batman’s. A lot of that might be the music in those older Batmovies. It was a lot to deal with, most of the time. And then I just kinda liked the Nolan ones okay, nothing special in any of them and the audio pisses me off in a very serious way. Characters whispering followed by deafening rackets will always guarantee I hate your movie, and that’s all there is to that.

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            January 31, 2023 at 2:16 am | #

            I wanted to disagree with this, but actually thinking about it Spidey’s had like four decent films and four bad ones, whereas Batman has a genuine masterpiece, two decent films, two bad but deeply entertaining films, three fever dreams and one throughly middling film.

            • Thag Simmons
              Thag Simmons
              January 31, 2023 at 2:19 am | #

              For the record the Masterpiece is the 1966 Adam West movie, which is flawless

              • Clif
                Clif
                January 31, 2023 at 2:35 am | #

                An Adam West movie, by definition, contains Adam West.

              • Ed Rhodes
                Ed Rhodes
                January 31, 2023 at 2:38 am | #

                A minor flaw; in the final battle on board the submarine, the sky has wrinkles! Once you see them, they stare into your soul!

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  January 31, 2023 at 3:25 am | #

                  That’s just reality breaking from how cool that Batman is.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              January 31, 2023 at 3:26 am | #

              I can’t agree that there were only 50% decent Spidey films. I consider all of them really strong showings, each for different reasons.

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                January 31, 2023 at 1:18 pm | #

                I love the Mai Valentine icon <3

    • zee
      zee
      January 31, 2023 at 1:58 pm | #

      And for bonus points, in a few months it’ll be referring to the new spider verse. On the tricky side how they react after is key. I mean, no one in their right mind would react to spider verse and another MCU Spidey movie the same

  9. Nono
    Nono
    January 31, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    I’ve cooled off a lot from Marvel since Endgame. Watched Black Widow, Thor and Wakanda Forever. They were all… ok? They do their job, but don’t really compare to Ragnarok or Black Panther. No real interest in Ant-Man 3.

    • Alongcameaspider
      Alongcameaspider
      January 31, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      Ant-man 3 makes me irrationally angry

      The entire appeal of the Ant-man movies was they were self contained breather episodes between the major ones, just fun adventures with relatively low stakes

      Why on earth would you make one that’s the centerpiece of the entire current plot line for the universe

      • anonymsly
        anonymsly
        January 31, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

        Unfortunately Marvel but themselves in the ass – Ant-Man’s the only property with access to time/dimensional hoopla without the persistent asshole vibe that is Dr, Strange, since they have not yet introduced the Marvel Universe’s ACTUAL time/dimension crazy weirdos, the Fantastic Four. (That’s the one I’m sad about. It’s gonna be terrible, because no one in show biz seems to understand what the Fantastic Four actually are and aren’t. I know this because all movies to date have insisted they’re superheroes.)

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 31, 2023 at 2:41 am | #

          True enough, but the Disfunctional Family slot has kind of been taken over by Guardians of the Galaxy.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        January 31, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

        They’ve been dicking around since Endgame. May as well put a plot somewhere.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        January 31, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

        What I heard was that the Director got tired of making the breather episodes and wanted to make an Endgame and they decided to let him

        Not the choice I would have gone with.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        January 31, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

        Was Ant-Man ever claimed to be that? That seems like a really dumb way to market a movie.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          January 31, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

          The main villain of the last one was Walton Goggins and some goons he found on craigslist.

      • GholaHalleck
        GholaHalleck
        January 31, 2023 at 1:14 am | #

        If Ant Man Three isn’t just an hour and half of an entire room of Time Displaced Micheal Douglas’s (Duglassi?) making Pym Particles like Walter Whites on acid, I’ll be sorely disinterested.

        • milu
          milu
          January 31, 2023 at 5:41 am | #

          Love the concept of “sorely disinterested” =)
          “Painfully unconvinced.”
          “Devastatingly skeptical.”
          “Crazed with ambivalence.

          Don’t mind me, go on

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 31, 2023 at 11:27 am | #

            I quite liked Crazed With Ambivalence. Stolen.

    • AbacusWizard
      AbacusWizard
      January 31, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

      I loved Spiderman Homecoming, Black Panther, and Thor Ragnarok. But the whole Avengers III/IV thing pretty much ended my interest in the whole MCU franchise. If the directors can kill off main characters all over the place because they don’t like them, and kill off 3/4 of the world’s population and bring back *some* of them five years later and then just continue as if it was no big deal, why should I even care about these characters or this setting?

      • Jeff K!
        Jeff K!
        January 31, 2023 at 4:03 am | #

        That was a scenario directly out of the original Infinity Gauntlet comic, although it was given much bigger stakes in the movie by placing the destruction of half the universe at the end of a movie and given five years to breathe rather than being deleted at the end of one issue and brought back an issue and a half later, with about an hour interim in-story.

        • Joy
          Joy
          January 31, 2023 at 12:31 pm | #

          Pesky actors age :/// /s

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          January 31, 2023 at 12:50 pm | #

          Didn’t Thanos also put Captain America’s head in a block of acrylic like five seconds after the snap thing, too? It’s been a minute since I read that story.

    • AKP
      AKP
      January 31, 2023 at 12:42 am | #

      I had been not liking most marvel movies very much for a while before Endgame came around. Thor Ragnarok was kind of the major exception, but like. There’s only so many movies I can watch that start off by pretending to have substance and then never address any of the substance in favor of bombastic fight scenes. I would say maybe I just shouldn’t be watching action movies except that while I have criticisms of it, the most recent Batman really did do it for me. So did Shazam. And Birds of Prey. Like there are clearly superhero movies that work for me, but they have to like care about their themes and their characters in really genuine ways and for the most part marvel movies don’t feel like they do that and haven’t for a long time.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      January 31, 2023 at 3:08 am | #

      Me too, but I gave up watching any movie after Endgame.
      Nothing catches my attention anymore. I don’t know why.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        January 31, 2023 at 5:44 pm | #

        I actually bought one of the Spiderman animated movies because I saw so many articles praising the artwork, which was honestly spectacular. Also that movie did a much better job of introducing Miles Morales than the comics did.

        • Amós Batista
          Amós Batista
          February 1, 2023 at 12:13 pm | #

          Gonna try this tip. Thanks.

    • zee
      zee
      January 31, 2023 at 2:02 pm | #

      Infinity was pissed me off bc i only watched the preceding marvel movies so i could watch Thor Ragnarok and black panther. I’ve gone on a billion rants about how it ruined the MCU, blah blah blah. I refuse to interact with anything but Thor and the occasional Spidey movie if my boyfriend reeeeally wants to.

      Thor Love and Thunder was awesome in my opinion. I mean, it wasnt like…high cinema or whatever but it was dumb fun which was all I ever needed it to be. a fun romp. Not enough superhero movies are fun romps these days

      • zee
        zee
        January 31, 2023 at 2:09 pm | #

        That’s the biggest problem with the MCU now. Marvel movies are supposed to be fun, but they’re not fun anymore. They’re homework. You have to study 8 movies and 15 new Disney+ series with nauseatingly awful CGI bc Disney works their SFX apartment like slaves, all just so you can watch a mediocre movie that’s more about “hey isn’t it cool all these characters are in this same room together?! Isn’t this crossover aMbItIoUs?!!!” than being entertaining.

        Like MCU was always mediocre but at least it was less work to understand one movie before

  10. Alongcameaspider
    Alongcameaspider
    January 31, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    This is smart writing by Willis because there’s always a new Superhero movie

    • butting
      butting
      January 31, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

      Even more smart not to specify the franchise. That way, we can imagine them talking about a DCEU property and being too embarrassed to mention the title, the characters, or even the franchise altogether.

      Relatable.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        January 31, 2023 at 12:21 am | #

        I mean, it’s Power Rangers 2, right?

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          January 31, 2023 at 12:23 am | #

          Any day now. It’s only been six years.

        • GholaHalleck
          GholaHalleck
          January 31, 2023 at 1:15 am | #

          Tommy’s still alive in DoA timeline.

        • Dara
          Dara
          January 31, 2023 at 1:19 am | #

          Mystery Men 2. Please, just give me this.

      • Alongcameaspider
        Alongcameaspider
        January 31, 2023 at 12:26 am | #

        We can even pretend that they’re in a universe where the DCEU wasn’t hot garbage that spawned the most annoying fanbase on the internet

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          January 31, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

          I can’t watch Batman V Superman without falling asleep. I’ve tried five times.

  11. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    January 31, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    Oh no, Becky’s awareness of the sliding timescale from that one Patreon strip is spreading

    The Soggies will soon be upon us

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      January 31, 2023 at 12:21 am | #

      Dear god, not the Soggies coming over into the Dumbyverse!!

      (Willis, I came here to say please “date” your comic strips! Let them be full of nostalgia & reasons to suspend disbelief. 😁)

      • milu
        milu
        January 31, 2023 at 5:45 am | #

        Oh, they are. This is just for the joke, willis is not usually so shy about referencing pop culture (see e.g. Taffy’s current avatar which is a reference to an in-comic reference to Spiderman 3)

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          January 31, 2023 at 11:26 am | #

          My what?

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 31, 2023 at 11:31 am | #

            Taffy has always had this avatar. You can go back in the archives and check.

  12. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    January 31, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    After all, don’t want to mention the MCU and have this look silly in 2030 when the MCU is passe and the Rip-Off Comics Universe is ultra-hot.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 31, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      It does sort of feel like the sun is starting to set on the MCU empire.

      • Alongcameaspider
        Alongcameaspider
        January 31, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

        Now the whole craze is overly brutal deconstructions of the genre

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          January 31, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

          The superhero craze started with Watchmen and the Nolan Batmen, and there have consistently been gritty deconstructions of varying quality throughout the reign of the MCU.

      • Nono
        Nono
        January 31, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

        Endgame was their last hurrah, in a way. Most of the recognizable heroes are retired/killed off now. They might squeeze out another Thor, but I can’t really see a new Hulk movie and I’m not watching Guardians as long as Chris Pratt is in it.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          January 31, 2023 at 12:18 am | #

          Guardians 3 might do okay and Spider-man is consistently big, but yeah.

          They do have Fantastic Four and X-Men back, so we’ll see what they do on that front. If they get a second wind, that’ll be how.

          • Nono
            Nono
            January 31, 2023 at 6:46 am | #

            Oh Guardians 3 will probably do well, I just don’t want to watch it.

            It’s a shame because I did enjoy the first two.

        • Mark
          Mark
          January 31, 2023 at 7:17 am | #

          Oh, but they can do prequels and Super Babies and all the other exhausting stuff that studios do to squeeze one more drop of blood out of that turnip.

        • Rose by Any Other Name
          Rose by Any Other Name
          January 31, 2023 at 9:00 am | #

          @Nono:
          What? Why? Last I knew, Chris Pratt was dull and inoffensive. A quick Google of his name hasn’t turned up any horrific scandals.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            January 31, 2023 at 9:47 am | #

            People are mostly just sick of him being in everything. I think he might also be a fundie in some way, don’t quote this sentence.

          • davidbreslin101
            davidbreslin101
            January 31, 2023 at 11:27 am | #

            So far as I can tell, it’s ‘cos years ago he attended an outspokenly homophobic church for a while, and this means he is Bad Forever. (That he presumably /left/ an outspokenly homophobic church gets ignored.)

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              January 31, 2023 at 2:38 pm | #

              Maybe. He seems to have been pretty cagey about the whole thing, so it’s hard to be sure why he left or even if he left. He also defended the church as not being homophobic.
              A lot of it reads like he got in trouble and his PR told him to do damage control. Which is fine, I guess. At least he’s not trying to play “support me because I’ve been cancelled by the left” card.

              • not someone else
                not someone else
                January 31, 2023 at 4:48 pm | #

                Yeah I’m not sure where people got the impression he left just because he doesn’t talk about it openly. He’s an Evangelical Christian, as recently as the summer he still attends an Evangelical Fundamentalist Church- and no, it doesn’t say those words on there, you have to speak Christian to know it even has a position on anything- and the best anyone can say about him is that he’s real gosh darn nice so they’re sure he doesn’t believe anything bad. Sure, his response to accusations was “oh we’re all sinners, I’m divorced and that’s the same thing” but that can’t be a dogwhistle.

                As we all know, someone from Minnesota being Nice has absolutely no chance of being anything other than face value.

                • Rose by Any Other Name
                  Rose by Any Other Name
                  January 31, 2023 at 8:14 pm | #

                  … so he’s _might_ have some right-wing views, but keeps his mouth shut and _doesn’t_ use his platform to preach hate crimes?

                  **breathes a sigh of relief – can safely watch Guardians 3**

                  These days, I’m happy to accept a neutral ‘live and let live’ on the matter.

    • Jeff K!
      Jeff K!
      January 31, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      We were supposed to get a new cinematic universe if Bloodshot was a success.

      …

      *sigh*

      • Mark
        Mark
        January 31, 2023 at 6:48 pm | #

        “Oh, no, not another one!” — Marvin

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 31, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

      Everyone knows that the King Features Syndicate universe is the next big thing.

      When they finally crossover, the Defenders of the Earth movie will break 4 billion at the box office.

    • Otl1973
      Otl1973
      January 31, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

      Are you implying that in our timeframe they won’t actually get to the theater until 2030? It’s slow, but it isn’t quite that slow.

  13. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    January 31, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    Yeah, trying to have both pop culture references and a sliding timescale is like trying to push repelling magnets together.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 31, 2023 at 3:39 am | #

      In that you can do it if you’re really determined?

      • Wizard
        Wizard
        January 31, 2023 at 4:14 am | #

        Also in that if your fingers or attention slip for even a second, things tend to go flying apart.

    • milu
      milu
      January 31, 2023 at 5:48 am | #

      I mean
      It isn’t much of a sliding timescale if there are no pop cultural references, now is it?

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 31, 2023 at 11:32 am | #

        Fair point.

  14. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 31, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    It’s true tho

  15. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 31, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

    And while we’ve got an Ethan strip and I’m thinking about it…

    *Scenes of dinosaur-styled motorcars racing around a track*

    ANNOUNCER: This is the best race we’ve had here in years! A full-on charge by the pack now through the chicane to the roundabout before the home stretch and everybody’s bringing 110%…

    ANNOUNCER: The Ankylo BiTurbo and the Tri-Cam Triceratops are taking the fight to the PturboPterasaur and the Raptor Roller…

    ANNOUNCER: The Stego Special and the Top Fuel T-Rex are trying to open a breakaway…

    ANNOUNCER: And at the line—The Champion of the Shortpacked! Five Hundred for Twenty Twenty-Three!—

    The cashiers and sales staff of Shortpacked!, holding their cars’ remote controllers. The kids and parents who’ve been watching the demo are cheering.

    ANNOUNCER (FAZ): —Barbie in the pretty pink Dually Diplodocus.

    DinoBro cars are, it seems, the toy car of the year. I don’t know if they really make RC or slot versions but this is comics!

  16. Suet
    Suet
    January 31, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

    While it looks like neither is ingratiating each other anytime soon…

    I see you, Willis, I see you and that panel 4 5

  17. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    January 31, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

    Uh-oh, the combination of Ethan and Booster is somehow shortpacking the universe. Is this merely a localized phenomenon?

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 31, 2023 at 12:18 am | #

      More testing and observation is needed to confirm.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 31, 2023 at 3:52 am | #

        Quick! Apply for a grant.

    • davidbreslin101
      davidbreslin101
      January 31, 2023 at 12:02 pm | #

      SCENE: Booster and Ethan in a store-room, looking at a sign marked “Drama Tag.”
      BOOSTER: I can’t even see what this is supposed to be attached to.

  18. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    January 31, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

    Wakanda Forever is still in wide release I can kind of see why Ethan would put off seeing a movie that’s all about processing grief.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      January 31, 2023 at 12:23 am | #

      Especially when that grief is processed … like that.

  19. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    January 31, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

    Ah, yes … trying to say “Nocturnal-Echo-Locating-Flying-Mammal-Man” without actually SAYING “Nocturnal-Echo-Locating-Flying-Mammal-Man.”

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 31, 2023 at 11:59 am | #

      Night-time – acoustical radar – wing flapping while levitating – breast-fed – guy.

      • milu
        milu
        January 31, 2023 at 7:01 pm | #

        Non-diurnal – sound-oriented – vertically-mobile – hyoid-boned – dude

  20. thakoru
    thakoru
    January 31, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

    I do not believe Booster’s claim that they will not talk during the movie.

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      January 31, 2023 at 4:19 am | #

      I question Booster’s physical ability to not talk for the duration of even the shortest of movies.

      • milu
        milu
        January 31, 2023 at 5:52 am | #

        Do gifs qualify as very short silent movies

    • zee
      zee
      January 31, 2023 at 2:13 pm | #

      I mean, super hero movies are meant to be riffed on the whole time. Live action ones at least

  21. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    January 31, 2023 at 12:37 am | #

    The movie is weird. It’s “awkward” to go alone, but it’s impolite to comment on a movie with friends during the screening. Why go in a group?

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      January 31, 2023 at 12:49 am | #

      I’ve always enjoyed in-theater movies more in a group, because you can lean over and mutter jokes during the loud parts. You also get to be part of a crowd that’s all here to see the show, so when you laugh or cheer there’s probably a couple of other people doing the same thing, and it feels more communal.

      Come to think of it, a big crowd of people who are compelled to shut up for most of the event, sitting in comfy chairs, munching on snacks, in the dark… that’s kinda my ideal group setting.

      But also, I saw the Sonic movie 8 days in a row when it came out, and only 2 of those viewings were with other people. The 6 times I saw it alone before work, it was a much more personal, meditative experience because I’d already seen it and knew what was happening, so I could tune in and out at my leisure and use the time in a way that was entirely my own without the possibility of other people I knew interrupting me with some random personal drama I couldn’t care less about but would have been obligated to engage with.

      • Rose by Any Other Name
        Rose by Any Other Name
        January 31, 2023 at 8:19 pm | #

        … sorry, I’m stuck on ‘saw the Sonic movie 8 days in a row’.

        Why?
        Even if you liked it… 8 days in a row? I don’t think I could watch my favorite movie 8 days in a row.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          January 31, 2023 at 8:56 pm | #

          I was under a lot of completely unnecessary stress at the time and it was a pretty good movie, so I had an excuse to leave “for work” early and just Exist on my own terms for a couple hours before my shift. More about being unreachable than the movie itself, if I’m being entirely honest.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      January 31, 2023 at 3:26 am | #

      Because when you go alone you are existing for yourself, instead of existing for someone else’s benefit.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 31, 2023 at 3:45 am | #

      Because I don’t have friends who are that polite.

    • milu
      milu
      January 31, 2023 at 5:57 am | #

      I go to the cinema alone most times. I like to sit all the way to the front of the room and most people hate that, so when i go with people usually we don’t even sit together lol.
      What i do enjoy about going with a friend (or friends) is we get to discuss the movie afterwards =)

    • JBento
      JBento
      January 31, 2023 at 6:47 am | #

      Not ONLY do I have no issue in going to the movies alone, I make sure to go to showings that have the biggest chance of having as few other people in the room as possible, so that I don’t have to fight off the urge to strangle whichever fucker has decided to play games on their phone with the sound turned up during it.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        January 31, 2023 at 9:49 am | #

        Don’t fight that urge. Employees at most places aren’t allowed to confront people anymore, so they’ll only ask the person nicely, which is never going to work. Take matters into your own hands and beat up the disruptive jackasses.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 31, 2023 at 10:22 am | #

          Employees at most places aren’t paid enough to confront people. If companies want security, hire security people, don’t task the minimum wage teenager with throwing people out.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            January 31, 2023 at 11:27 am | #

            That too. Or let the other patrons do it for free.

      • Mark
        Mark
        January 31, 2023 at 6:52 pm | #

        Egad, I think the last time I went to a theater, “playing games on your phone” was not yet a thing.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          January 31, 2023 at 8:42 pm | #

          I think the last time I actually went to a theater How to Train Your Dragon 2 was playing which was 2014 according to Google, which coincides with how the grandson was behaving after the movie when he was tired and hungry. He was little then.

  22. june gloom
    june gloom
    January 31, 2023 at 12:44 am | #

    He could just as easily have said “there’s a couple of superhero movies we could pick from” because there’s always like three in theaters at any one time. (I’m actually sick of the genre because of the oversaturation.)

    • Belegcam
      Belegcam
      January 31, 2023 at 1:04 am | #

      Ironically, I went to check and as of today, there were none at my local megaplex.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 31, 2023 at 3:46 am | #

        Here in the Metaverse we call that a defective megaplex.

      • june gloom
        june gloom
        January 31, 2023 at 6:08 am | #

        Obviously I’m being hyperbolic. Just saying there’s been a lot and I don’t think it’s a good thing, as much as I adore the new Batman movie.

    • davidbreslin101
      davidbreslin101
      January 31, 2023 at 12:05 pm | #

      Right up until the Plague Year, I was avoiding the MCU stuff because it felt like too much of a time committment to watch a series od 20-odd films.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 31, 2023 at 12:41 pm | #

        When you retire you can subscribe to Disney, binge-watch them all, and then cancel your subscription.

  23. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    January 31, 2023 at 12:45 am | #

    Hold on, Kraven’s getting a movie?

  24. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 31, 2023 at 12:54 am | #

    Ahhhh friendship.

    So how do you guys handle pop culture references in your work?

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      January 31, 2023 at 1:10 am | #

      I always make sure they’re from a certain amount of time before I make the thing. Nobody’s gonna bat an eye if I put a mute, blonde, green-clad swordsman in my game because nobody’s alive right now who was born before the first Zelda game came out. Long-running series are perfect for it, whereas a current meme is only gonna be interesting for a month or two.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        January 31, 2023 at 1:13 am | #

        It’s always easier to do commentary on things where the ink is dry

      • Mark
        Mark
        January 31, 2023 at 7:28 am | #

        ? Zelda was published in the 80s, while I was introduced to the world in the 50s and my Dad, who lives still, was a teen in the 40s. I’m actually too old to be familiar with that character. In my day, computer-driven games were played on Teletypes. Honestly!

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          January 31, 2023 at 9:51 am | #

          The first game came out in 1886. You’re never too old to be familiar with something.

          • davidbreslin101
            davidbreslin101
            January 31, 2023 at 12:07 pm | #

            [Inserts cutting-edge references to Chinese Checkers and Ludo into comics to be down with the kids]

            • Clif
              Clif
              January 31, 2023 at 12:53 pm | #

              Chinese Checkers are neither checkers nor Chinese and Ludo is British Parcheesi.

    • Axel
      Axel
      January 31, 2023 at 1:20 am | #

      all my works tend to be in a set time, and if they’re not, I tend just to avoid specific references- I don’t usually find it necessary in my writing style to name things like that. (that’s not to disparage those who do, it can be incredibly important to setting or very poignant to know what exact song a character is listening to on repeat, but it’s rarely relevant in my works)

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 31, 2023 at 3:14 am | #

      Either by ignoring it or writing it in the indeterminate future and making shit up.

      • milu
        milu
        January 31, 2023 at 6:03 am | #

        It funny when scifi set in the future wants to reference something current or recent, and they go “grandma once told me that in the before-times they had these things called “records”, she even had me to listen to one that i really liked,” etc ^^

        • Mark
          Mark
          January 31, 2023 at 7:31 am | #

          Nearly as funny as scifi set in the far future that has secret messages being held in a gadget that reads your fingerprint and spits out a piece of paper.

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 31, 2023 at 1:39 pm | #

            If it doesn’t print out the secret message, how else can you swallow it after reading it?

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            January 31, 2023 at 2:50 pm | #

            It’s the old sci-fi with FTL spaceships, but they still whip out slide-rules to do the navigation that I love.
            Makes you wonder what future advances our current ideas have completely overlooked.

  25. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 31, 2023 at 12:54 am | #

    Sun went down, i guess the chapter is almost over.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 31, 2023 at 3:16 am | #

      Are you talking about our civilization or the comic?

      • milu
        milu
        January 31, 2023 at 5:07 pm | #

        Hahaha! It’s funny cuz it’s true

    • Jenniffniff
      Jenniffniff
      January 31, 2023 at 9:54 am | #

      The sun’s getting real low.

  26. 3oranges
    3oranges
    January 31, 2023 at 1:03 am | #

    And now this comic will be dated as soon as Bing replaces google as the standard. Any year now…

    • Dara
      Dara
      January 31, 2023 at 1:21 am | #

      Duck Duck Go. 😀

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 31, 2023 at 3:24 am | #

        Ask Jeaves, the AI.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 31, 2023 at 4:19 am | #

        DuckDuckGo leans on Bing results.

    • Mark
      Mark
      January 31, 2023 at 7:32 am | #

      AltaVista….

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 31, 2023 at 11:37 am | #

        Alta Vista never had the personality of Ask Jeves though.

  27. General Tekno
    General Tekno
    January 31, 2023 at 1:12 am | #

    I reached panel 2 and thought “oh hey, Willis is avoiding dating this comic by not saying WHICH superhero film.”

    Then I reached the last panel and LOST IT at that being the Actual Punchline.

  28. nothri
    nothri
    January 31, 2023 at 3:05 am | #

    Booster dangerously close to having a deadpool epiphany….

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 31, 2023 at 3:27 am | #

      Are those actually dangerous?

      Asking for the audience.

      • J.Gawain
        J.Gawain
        January 31, 2023 at 8:15 am | #

        It would depend on what he did with said epiphany. If he went about his day as normal and just winked at the fourth wall occasionally, no. If it sends him into the existential dread of knowing nothing and no one is real, it could be very dangerous.

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 31, 2023 at 12:15 pm | #

          I was thinking more along the lines of taking his epiphany and beating the audience over the head with it.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        January 31, 2023 at 9:53 am | #

        The medical term is “CHIM”, and the worst that can happen is you could pop out of existence. On the other hand, you could gain console commands and savestates.

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 31, 2023 at 12:18 pm | #

          Console commands would be cool and all, but most days I’d settle for extended play mode.

  29. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 31, 2023 at 3:07 am | #

    This isn’t quite breaking the fourth wall yet, but we’re getting kinda close to it with Booster and Ethan here.

    • Icalasari
      Icalasari
      January 31, 2023 at 4:05 am | #

      This isn’t even really close. It’s called a lampshade, where characters bring a plot contrivance to the audience’s attention. It’s the most basic form of “leaning” on the fourth wall

      Yes I feel pedantic tonight

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 31, 2023 at 12:25 pm | #

        In the future, everyone will have a copy of ChatGPT that can generate the lyrics to Yes, I Feel Pedantic Tonight.

  30. Queezle
    Queezle
    January 31, 2023 at 3:10 am | #

    Did someone lose their lampshade?

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      January 31, 2023 at 5:39 am | #

      the lamp is above their head, I guess

  31. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    January 31, 2023 at 3:14 am | #

    Alt-text: the cons of having a buffer of this size.
    I imagine Willis, running fixing an entire timeline, because something crazy happened in pop culture or in the world and he doesn’t want to lost the timing of the thing

  32. Lone Duck
    Lone Duck
    January 31, 2023 at 4:00 am | #

    Google is eternal, nations will rise and crumbles, space colonies will flourish and dwindle, but Google will never stop searching. Don’t ask what they are searching for, that way leads to madness.

    • Mark
      Mark
      January 31, 2023 at 7:35 am | #

      There is a theory which says that, if they ever find it, it will be taken away and replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.

      There is another theory which says this has already happened.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 31, 2023 at 12:34 pm | #

        I thought that was what happened everytime the SEOs found what they were searching for.

  33. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    January 31, 2023 at 4:05 am | #

    The only thing I miss in this strip is a reference to Meta.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 31, 2023 at 11:46 am | #

      It was implicit. A Meta-phor if you like.

  34. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    January 31, 2023 at 4:15 am | #

    Booster’s genre-savvy.

  35. Hotel Papa
    Hotel Papa
    January 31, 2023 at 4:55 am | #

    Take that, 4th wall.

  36. Amelie Wikström
    Amelie Wikström
    January 31, 2023 at 5:53 am | #

    In my mind, they’re going to see James Gunn’s “Super”

  37. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    January 31, 2023 at 8:18 am | #

    Nobody in this strip searches on Prodigy anymore?

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 31, 2023 at 11:45 am | #

      I participated in the interactive mysteries on Prodigy, but I don’t recall searching.

      But it’s been awhile.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 31, 2023 at 12:09 pm | #

      We never had any of those fancy online services like AOL or CompuServe. We had the number to the modem pool at my dad’s work and crawled the web at 9600 baud. (Apparently this call cost 10 cents a minute because it was long-distance.) Then in the late 90s we made do with the “10 hours free per month” NetZero before finally getting 1.5 meg DSL in 2003. That “was good enough” until I put together a business case that paying for analog basic cable, a POTS line, and DSL cost more than twice as many channels, phone service, and 50 meg Internet from the fiber company. This was 2011.

      It was about being cheap the whole time.

  38. Zee
    Zee
    January 31, 2023 at 9:53 am | #

    The title attribute on this image has done more promotion for “Kraven The Hunter” than Sony.

  39. Adept
    Adept
    January 31, 2023 at 12:36 pm | #

    This one was kind of painful.

  40. wakeangel2001
    wakeangel2001
    January 31, 2023 at 1:03 pm | #

    at the time of posting Wakanda Forever is still in theaters, at least AMC, but you’d hardly call it the “new” superhero movie at this point

  41. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    January 31, 2023 at 1:28 pm | #

    And they’re under a street lamp
    Can’t tell if that was on purpose or if I’ve gone insane

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 31, 2023 at 1:42 pm | #

      it’s logically possible that both could be true.

  42. Alex
    Alex
    January 31, 2023 at 1:56 pm | #

    I (friend) ship it.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 31, 2023 at 11:36 pm | #

      XD

  43. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 31, 2023 at 2:29 pm | #

    This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. If Booster is able to not fall asleep during the movie… Good for Ethan and let’s hope this will help Booster with Amber.

  44. Taffy
    Taffy
    January 31, 2023 at 3:11 pm | #

    Since people are mentioning obsolete websites and computer programs (they used to be called programs, not apps), I’ll offer that in one of my grade schools, we had a computer lab and designated Computer class period. All we were allowed to do was go on Yahooligans or chat with Bonzi Buddy. It was a weird time.

  45. Pergola
    Pergola
    January 31, 2023 at 3:26 pm | #

    This looks delicious! How did you know I was hungry?

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 31, 2023 at 5:12 pm | #

      I’m hungry for action too LOL XD

  46. bcb
    bcb
    February 1, 2023 at 11:11 pm | #

    Oh my Cheese I love meta jokes like this!

  47. Hinoron
    Hinoron
    February 2, 2023 at 10:11 pm | #

    Also avoids a passionate yet ultimately irrelevant 100-post argument between “True fans” of whichever superhero movie they like best, or MCU vs DCU, or movie-verse vs comic-verse, etc, etc. ^_^

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