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Ronia got back from Brand New Day with a lot of questions about Jean Grey, and it seemed like I might have to make a Powerpoint deck or something to paper over the fact that I failed as a father - as a man. There's a lot of comic shit I haven't told her, I guess. There's a lot of it out there! I chose the path of curation; we did not come to rest on any of this quotidian mutant fare When those assholes at Marvel finally get around to Ryan North' and Erica Henderson's run on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Ronia will know Goddamn near everything. The only comfort I have otherwise is that Gabriel failed in this task also. Worse probably! Way worse I bet, when you really think about it altogether.

Among fighting game developers, one stands out as more damp and weird than the others. Their carapace is more mottled, their palps somehow more pedi than the rest. Arc System Works! We've been fans of their fermented, piquant takes on the genre for a while and were delighted to see they'd managed to enter the 3D era without giving up the incredible silhouettes of their 2D heritage. Gabriel thought he might sip the summerwine one last time with Marvel Tokon, as he had in the days of his exultant youth, but he says that he washed out during the tutorial. I don't have the game, so I don't know what that would even look like, but the tutorial for 2XKO was perverse enough that I might be able to guess. It was like Operant Conditioning, like I was gonna have to falsify some number of lights at some point or murder a public figure. I didn't even dislike it, necessarily! But it did feel like I was being psychologically terraformed by a force alien to our Earth.

I think Gabe has wanted to draw Asmongold for awhile, and generally these days the thing that keeps him from doing it is that he doesn't want to draw attention to the target. Except the target in this case is one of the biggest streamers on planet Earth. He can't actually be obscured; the strip is about his most recent fourteen day ban, but having been banned as often as he is, this is just part of the business model. The video he made in response to the ban will probably have three million views by the end of the day. You get kicked out of one place, and somebody else is always there to monetize your riposte. YouTube, generally - Streamer Switzerland.

The first panel of this strip has a joke so dumb it arrested my consciousness. I had to crank the key and turn it over several times to get it started again. Gabe bounced off Beast of Reincarnation at light speed, but it did inspire several minutes of reflection on the supernatural. Or, the natural I guess. It's about a concept that I was warned away from as a child, along with Yoga and Transcendental Meditation. I led a somewhat cloistered young existence, where the only drug on offer was Marital Coitus. But it… I mean, it takes a while to set that shit up.