Many webcomics do not use spell checkers (which are not perfect).
Though you also need to consider that different dialects will spell words differently (best known examples are the differences between UK and US spellings) which can cause someone to think a word is misspelled.
Of course some of the artists also use spelling mistakes to highlight how someone sounds to give us a sense of their accent and how they mispronounce words.
I’m aware of UK and US spelling variants. Probably half of the media content I consume is British.
I’m talking about things that are just obvious typos. You get a lot of stuff like doubled words on either side of a line-break, dropped and doubled letters … wrong-word insertions, such as what are my most common typos …
Almost all of my typos are caused by the fact that we don’t actually think and type each letter individually … or at least most of us don’t. I’ll think ‘after’, and my fingers will type out ‘although’. Spell checkers are worthless for that sort of typo, and a word processor’s grammar checker almost never catches them, either. It’s also more difficult to scan for typos when I use as many HTML tags and codes as I do, such as using  ; to double-space my sentences. Blogs that have a Preview button help with this issue, but most blogs don’t have one.
I would think that when people are only publishing 5 or 6 sentences a day, they would be a bit more thorough on the text checking, but that’s just me. I have OCD. It’s a bit different in the case of these guys, of course, since their native language isn’t even one of the variants of English.
For typos the only real way to check is to have someone else read the, as if you read it yourself knowing what the text should be you brain will tend to fill in the missing/correct text causing you to miss the mistakes.
I have a lot more experience with editing than most, so I don’t generally have this issue. For everyone else, that’s one of the reasons you’re told to put down a paper for a few hours, then pick it back up and go over it one more time. That’s about enough time to dump the auto-correct buffer from your brain and reset the part of your brain that thought that that particular phrasing was expressive … or even coherent.
Although, I realize that perhaps that joke was too subtle, for those who don’t know HTML codes. That &rsquo’ on the end would have manifested as a ’ symbol, if I hadn’t swapped out the closing semicolon for an apostrophe.
Actually, in real life, judges can toss out jury verdicts if they’re sufficiently off-the-wall, but that mostly only happens in civil trials, I think. Of course, this judge wants to impose criminal penalties in a civil trial, so he’s out of line no matter how he treats the jury’s verdict.
At this point he’s so out of line I think you could get Criminal Charges passed against him for this much messing with the way the law is supposed to work.
… sort of like Roy Moore, who is headed for his second removal from office, over his current administrative order to Alabama judges that they shouldn’t issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in violation of Obergefell v. Hodges. I wonder what he’ll do to get himself removed from the bench again, after he gets re-elected in 2020.
Hmm… lets see…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about Richard: Richard is a type of small sub subcutaneous parasites found on Keti-Alpha four. These parasites have a hive mind and worship a version of the string theory called the potato dance. And they have explosive farts that is formed by the explosive decomposition of various ethyl compounds.
Or he could be talking about that Polish surgeon that did that face transplant thingie. Thinking it’s the parasites really.
Richard is the warlock character from Looking For Group, a webcomic that lampoons MMORPG and fantasy adventuring tropes. Richard is infamous for being psychopathic in the most enduring and identifiable ways possible.
Oh, and where do you get a robe like that, which shows off the girl’s oblique ab muscles and her navel? Is that an attribute of the heavenly robe, or has GG really been hitting it on the crunches?
Reminds me of one comic artwork of DC’s Cheshire in which her costume’s top is supposed to be like a sort of one-sleeved kimono, and it follows the curve of one breast as if it was painted on it.
It is extra awful in that the cloth is full of folds to give it an appearance of volume, unlike normal superhero costumes, then the rim is utterly glued to her body.
At least this one isn’t as bad as the situation with the kimono. After all, aren’t angels supposed to wear gossamer robes or something? Or am I thinking of faeries?
Well, if you’re talking about ye Olde comic Elf life, they wore 3 conveniently positioned leaves (on the PG-13 version) or nothing at all (on the MA version)
No, I just mean style trends in general, not any particular instance. I see a lot of faerie art in which the female faeries are only wearing clothing that’s … well, ‘translucent’ would be more modest than what they’re actually wearing.
Use a fabric with any spandex content higher than 30%. Probably a spandex/poly/rayon blend. 60/30/10 would be my guess. Honestly these days it’s hard to hit a fabric store and find cloth that -doesn’t- cling like mad. Over half the knits, jerseys, etc, are “stretch” which really means “clings like it’s painted to your body”. To make the skirt hang looser than the top simply make it out of a different fabric, probably a double knit, especially since the belt is providing a break. If you want cloth that acts like actual cloth you pretty much have to hit a thrift store and raid the old bolts. Even the mills have switched over to trash fabric. /rant
Shouldn’t you get more information about my spouse, before congratulating me? ^.^ I mean yeah, my wife is great, but I know a few … mostly guys …
“Well, congratulations. So, who’s the … wait, you married him? Really? Do you need the number of a good divorce attorney?”
And she has several local stores she can get good stuff at, since we’re in a rather large metro area with a lot of hippies around and about. She just can’t get decent organic yarn by wandering into any Michael’s or somewhere similar.
Apparently Hobby Lobby has a decent selection of yarns, but no way in hell either of us is giving them any business.
With this comic, it’s just a matter of figuring out which particular Marvel or DC character a secondary LoSRH character is a knockoff of. That any non-main character is a knockoff can be taken for granted, except for a few who are the embodiment of a trope or a bad joke, such as Mary-Sue, Spank, or The Banana.
Shiropolis. Where hulking space Tyrants are less corrupt than our human officials.
The devil suddenly realises he didn’t even need to be here, and grumbles that there was like 30 people he could have corrupted in the time he’s taken for the trial.
Same do, but spiked by high power flowing through it, like a Saiyan. I really hope they keep drawing her in that do. The pigtails are so… first comicky.
Maybe some sort of transformation to this hairstyle, when she goes Saiyan. The pigtails for her usual costume fit her character’s social-maturity level, which is that of a slightly-concussed 9 year-old. I still don’t think she’s figured out what Alex and Eva are doing in Eva’s bedroom, when Alex comes over for a slumber party.
It would be interesting if triggering this new super-form summoned this other being into her body, from now on. Although, I’m not sure that adding someone super-competent to the team will work well within the theme of the comic.
There could be a good bit of mileage in having this angelic being stuck inside of GG’s body sometime, though. A non-corporeal being, stuck inside of a human body for the first time, could be good for some random absurdity. It’s far from a new story-concept, but it’s always possible to take an old trope and try to spin it off in a new, unexplored or rarely-explored direction.
I wonder if KNO3 meant to call him that as an insult, since the guy is this close (.0000001 of an inch) to act like a witch prosecutor. I wonder if he was going to sentence GG to see if drowned or if she weighted more than a duck.
Possible. I think that’s more of an insult to Satanists, though. I know a handful of of Satanists, although they’re the Satanic Temple sort, not the Church of Satan.
And no, it isn’t a matter of the Judean Peoples’ Front and the Peoples’ Front of Judea. The Temple folks are atheistic materialists, basically following the tenets of Secular Humanism. The Church folks actually worship Satan.
I agree with the perspective of the Church of Satan, though, that Yahweh is the evil one in the dualistic pairing of the two. Of course I disagree with them in their thinking that either of the beings actually exist, but within the context of the narrative of the Old Testament, Satan definitely had the right of it, to my way of thinking.
The people over at the Satanic Temple aren’t for Satan but only use the myth of him as a useful bully pulpit, for Lucien Greaves to deal with 1st Amendment issues through means other than legal challenges.
It’s funny how quickly you can get 1st Amendment violators to turn around on the issue, once the Satanic Temple shows up. When the Dominionist Christians get called out on their 10 Commandments displays and other exclusively Judeo-Christian decorations being allowed on a courthouse lawn or somewhere similar, in violation of the separation of church and state, they’ll say that members of any religion can put up decorations, knowing full well that no Muslims or Hindus are going to pop out of the woodwork to erect their own displays. But no, atheists aren’t allowed to put anything up, because they’re not part of a religion, and it’s a space for religious displays … but we’re still being inclusive, since we’re allowing any religion to put something there.
So, here come the Satanic Temple folks, wanting to erect a 9′ statue of Baphomet, next to all of the Christian displays. The Christians can refuse to allow the statue, in which case they’ll lose a lawsuit for being discriminatory, or they can allow the statue, in which case the Christians will turn around and declare that no religious displays should be allowed, since they certainly don’t want a satanic statue on the lawn of their courthouse. So far, the statue hasn’t found a home, since the Dominionist Christians have always flipped their stance, upon being presented with the alternative.
By the way, if you do a Google search for “statue of satan courthouse lawn,” you’ll find many articles, with pictures.
Well then.
Called it.
Yup.
me too
Surprise witness.
methinks somebody is upset.
Well, you know, satanists.
Is coming spelled wrong on purpose?
I don’t imagine so. We tend to get some pretty dodgy spelling around here, at times.
Considering the authors’ first languages aren’t English, they do very well.
Plus, it seems to be a webcomic thing, in general. Hell, these guys are probably better than average.
Wha iz diz spellin thingg youse yapin oobout?
Many webcomics do not use spell checkers (which are not perfect).
Though you also need to consider that different dialects will spell words differently (best known examples are the differences between UK and US spellings) which can cause someone to think a word is misspelled.
Of course some of the artists also use spelling mistakes to highlight how someone sounds to give us a sense of their accent and how they mispronounce words.
I’m aware of UK and US spelling variants. Probably half of the media content I consume is British.
I’m talking about things that are just obvious typos. You get a lot of stuff like doubled words on either side of a line-break, dropped and doubled letters … wrong-word insertions, such as what are my most common typos …
Almost all of my typos are caused by the fact that we don’t actually think and type each letter individually … or at least most of us don’t. I’ll think ‘after’, and my fingers will type out ‘although’. Spell checkers are worthless for that sort of typo, and a word processor’s grammar checker almost never catches them, either. It’s also more difficult to scan for typos when I use as many HTML tags and codes as I do, such as using  ; to double-space my sentences. Blogs that have a Preview button help with this issue, but most blogs don’t have one.
I would think that when people are only publishing 5 or 6 sentences a day, they would be a bit more thorough on the text checking, but that’s just me. I have OCD. It’s a bit different in the case of these guys, of course, since their native language isn’t even one of the variants of English.
For typos the only real way to check is to have someone else read the, as if you read it yourself knowing what the text should be you brain will tend to fill in the missing/correct text causing you to miss the mistakes.
I have a lot more experience with editing than most, so I don’t generally have this issue. For everyone else, that’s one of the reasons you’re told to put down a paper for a few hours, then pick it back up and go over it one more time. That’s about enough time to dump the auto-correct buffer from your brain and reset the part of your brain that thought that that particular phrasing was expressive … or even coherent.
Oh, and have someone else read the … what?
And I think you meant ‘your brain&rsquo’. :-P
Although, I realize that perhaps that joke was too subtle, for those who don’t know HTML codes. That &rsquo’ on the end would have manifested as a ’ symbol, if I hadn’t swapped out the closing semicolon for an apostrophe.
What IS there first language?
Proto-Indo-European?
“their” (sorry couldn’t resist)
Proto-Indo-Nazipean?
(chuckle)
Now all we need is the prosecution to come up with horns and a forked tail.
If someone knocks off that halo, the defense will come up with the horns and forked tail, themselves.
Isn’t the judge kind of legally bound to follow the jury’s verdict?
Tell that to Roy Moore.
Actually, in real life, judges can toss out jury verdicts if they’re sufficiently off-the-wall, but that mostly only happens in civil trials, I think. Of course, this judge wants to impose criminal penalties in a civil trial, so he’s out of line no matter how he treats the jury’s verdict.
At this point he’s so out of line I think you could get Criminal Charges passed against him for this much messing with the way the law is supposed to work.
Removed from the bench, at least.
… sort of like Roy Moore, who is headed for his second removal from office, over his current administrative order to Alabama judges that they shouldn’t issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in violation of Obergefell v. Hodges. I wonder what he’ll do to get himself removed from the bench again, after he gets re-elected in 2020.
Looks like the devil/prosecutor was lying, at least to a degree. This might mitigate some of the cluster-fuck of the last few pages.
So, who was the (faux?) pope channeling?
This isn’t a real pope. It’s actually…OLD MAN JENKINS!
And he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling dieties.
And their three headed dog!
I can’t wait until they remove his mask. Should be bloody.
Get Richard to do it.
Richard? I’m not getting the context.
Hmm… lets see…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about Richard: Richard is a type of small sub subcutaneous parasites found on Keti-Alpha four. These parasites have a hive mind and worship a version of the string theory called the potato dance. And they have explosive farts that is formed by the explosive decomposition of various ethyl compounds.
Or he could be talking about that Polish surgeon that did that face transplant thingie. Thinking it’s the parasites really.
Richard is the warlock character from Looking For Group, a webcomic that lampoons MMORPG and fantasy adventuring tropes. Richard is infamous for being psychopathic in the most enduring and identifiable ways possible.
Or that child killer King Richard the third.
Ah, yeah, I read up on that one, from time to time. I just didn’t make the connection. I guess I just know too many homicidal people named Richard.
How about Richard Ramirez the night stalker and serial killer?
He could probably get the job done for us. Do you have his number?
Nope. He died, and didn’t leave a forwarding address or his new number. Funny that.
Maybe the guys in San Quentin have a forwarding address. Or maybe the plaintiffs’ attorney in this LoSRH case can get in touch with him for us.
Or Richard, roommate from hell.
Oh, and where do you get a robe like that, which shows off the girl’s oblique ab muscles and her navel? Is that an attribute of the heavenly robe, or has GG really been hitting it on the crunches?
Reminds me of one comic artwork of DC’s Cheshire in which her costume’s top is supposed to be like a sort of one-sleeved kimono, and it follows the curve of one breast as if it was painted on it.
It is extra awful in that the cloth is full of folds to give it an appearance of volume, unlike normal superhero costumes, then the rim is utterly glued to her body.
At least this one isn’t as bad as the situation with the kimono. After all, aren’t angels supposed to wear gossamer robes or something? Or am I thinking of faeries?
At least they’re opaque, at any rate.
Well, if you’re talking about ye Olde comic Elf life, they wore 3 conveniently positioned leaves (on the PG-13 version) or nothing at all (on the MA version)
No, I just mean style trends in general, not any particular instance. I see a lot of faerie art in which the female faeries are only wearing clothing that’s … well, ‘translucent’ would be more modest than what they’re actually wearing.
Use a fabric with any spandex content higher than 30%. Probably a spandex/poly/rayon blend. 60/30/10 would be my guess. Honestly these days it’s hard to hit a fabric store and find cloth that -doesn’t- cling like mad. Over half the knits, jerseys, etc, are “stretch” which really means “clings like it’s painted to your body”. To make the skirt hang looser than the top simply make it out of a different fabric, probably a double knit, especially since the belt is providing a break. If you want cloth that acts like actual cloth you pretty much have to hit a thrift store and raid the old bolts. Even the mills have switched over to trash fabric. /rant
Yeah, my wife has a hell of a time finding real wool, rather than synthetic crap made to look like wool.
Try Amazon. Oh, and congratulations for being married.
Shouldn’t you get more information about my spouse, before congratulating me? ^.^ I mean yeah, my wife is great, but I know a few … mostly guys …
“Well, congratulations. So, who’s the … wait, you married him? Really? Do you need the number of a good divorce attorney?”
And she has several local stores she can get good stuff at, since we’re in a rather large metro area with a lot of hippies around and about. She just can’t get decent organic yarn by wandering into any Michael’s or somewhere similar.
Apparently Hobby Lobby has a decent selection of yarns, but no way in hell either of us is giving them any business.
More information? Nah. Pretty sure you got great taste.
How do you know that isn’t my defining flaw, like Mary-Sue’s?
First of all, am I wrong?
I dunno. A few of the girls I’ve dated refute the global statement that I have good taste in women, in general. There have been a few psychos.
As Distractarella famously said once: “it’s body paint”. :)
*spends 15 minutes looking for a nipple*
Blind lawer? What is this a Chinese knock of Dare Devil?
GG must have rolled a epic power surge…. it’s about dam time.
I would pay cash money for “Chinese knock off of Daredevil” to be a real thing.
I don’t know if all readhaired blind lawyers with one bumbling partner should be considered Daredvil knockoffs, seems premature^-^
With this comic, it’s just a matter of figuring out which particular Marvel or DC character a secondary LoSRH character is a knockoff of. That any non-main character is a knockoff can be taken for granted, except for a few who are the embodiment of a trope or a bad joke, such as Mary-Sue, Spank, or The Banana.
Shiropolis. Where hulking space Tyrants are less corrupt than our human officials.
The devil suddenly realises he didn’t even need to be here, and grumbles that there was like 30 people he could have corrupted in the time he’s taken for the trial.
Hey, I’d vote for the hulking space tyrant.
Better than trying to decide between Turnbull and Shorten come election.
Too soon. Way too soon.
So is it that GOD[TM] who has possessed GG now? Poor GG, she’s such a tool!
“Where’s your god now?”
Different body proportions (all over. Look at those abs!), new crown… This is definitely not an act by GG, she’s being possessed by a holy being.
Also, new hairdo.
Same do, but spiked by high power flowing through it, like a Saiyan. I really hope they keep drawing her in that do. The pigtails are so… first comicky.
Maybe some sort of transformation to this hairstyle, when she goes Saiyan. The pigtails for her usual costume fit her character’s social-maturity level, which is that of a slightly-concussed 9 year-old. I still don’t think she’s figured out what Alex and Eva are doing in Eva’s bedroom, when Alex comes over for a slumber party.
Oh yeah. I was checking the last time she went Angelic. She had twin ponytails then. But yes, in-court, this is her hairstyle.
It would be interesting if triggering this new super-form summoned this other being into her body, from now on. Although, I’m not sure that adding someone super-competent to the team will work well within the theme of the comic.
There could be a good bit of mileage in having this angelic being stuck inside of GG’s body sometime, though. A non-corporeal being, stuck inside of a human body for the first time, could be good for some random absurdity. It’s far from a new story-concept, but it’s always possible to take an old trope and try to spin it off in a new, unexplored or rarely-explored direction.
Oh-kay…
We now have Good Girl, Good-er Girl (With Double-power abilities but _REALLY_ short timer!)…
And now, she’s also Metatron’s Speakerphone.
And Bad Good Girl got amped as well with The Good-er Girl; so, what is BGG’s pump up with this?
I wonder if that won’t burn the halo’s power even faster.
Not if someone has her back.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure she’s now just a conduit for some other being’s power and voice.
soooo. third new personality?, great good girl?
Nah, super good girl transformation. Her power level is now over 300!
Time to smite the Satanist judge!
The judge sounds a lot more like a lot of fundamentalist Christians that I know, not a Satanist. Most Satanists are pretty chill.
I wonder if KNO3 meant to call him that as an insult, since the guy is this close (.0000001 of an inch) to act like a witch prosecutor. I wonder if he was going to sentence GG to see if drowned or if she weighted more than a duck.
Possible. I think that’s more of an insult to Satanists, though. I know a handful of of Satanists, although they’re the Satanic Temple sort, not the Church of Satan.
And no, it isn’t a matter of the Judean Peoples’ Front and the Peoples’ Front of Judea. The Temple folks are atheistic materialists, basically following the tenets of Secular Humanism. The Church folks actually worship Satan.
Well if you are on the side of the devil you kinda are a satanist.
I agree with the perspective of the Church of Satan, though, that Yahweh is the evil one in the dualistic pairing of the two. Of course I disagree with them in their thinking that either of the beings actually exist, but within the context of the narrative of the Old Testament, Satan definitely had the right of it, to my way of thinking.
The people over at the Satanic Temple aren’t for Satan but only use the myth of him as a useful bully pulpit, for Lucien Greaves to deal with 1st Amendment issues through means other than legal challenges.
It’s funny how quickly you can get 1st Amendment violators to turn around on the issue, once the Satanic Temple shows up. When the Dominionist Christians get called out on their 10 Commandments displays and other exclusively Judeo-Christian decorations being allowed on a courthouse lawn or somewhere similar, in violation of the separation of church and state, they’ll say that members of any religion can put up decorations, knowing full well that no Muslims or Hindus are going to pop out of the woodwork to erect their own displays. But no, atheists aren’t allowed to put anything up, because they’re not part of a religion, and it’s a space for religious displays … but we’re still being inclusive, since we’re allowing any religion to put something there.
So, here come the Satanic Temple folks, wanting to erect a 9′ statue of Baphomet, next to all of the Christian displays. The Christians can refuse to allow the statue, in which case they’ll lose a lawsuit for being discriminatory, or they can allow the statue, in which case the Christians will turn around and declare that no religious displays should be allowed, since they certainly don’t want a satanic statue on the lawn of their courthouse. So far, the statue hasn’t found a home, since the Dominionist Christians have always flipped their stance, upon being presented with the alternative.
By the way, if you do a Google search for “statue of satan courthouse lawn,” you’ll find many articles, with pictures.
This turn of events makes me feel happier than it should.
Looks like it is time for a Deus Ex Good Girla…
I wonder how plaintiffs’ counsel will react…
is the Lawyer also blind?