i went in expecting it to be total slop and it was actually such an innmesive read that left me so hollow at the end WHY COULDN'T IT BE FINISHED.
i went in expecting it to be total slop and it was actually such an innmesive read that left me so hollow at the end WHY COULDN'T IT BE FINISHED.
I heard that despite the divorce, they're working to get the final volume out regardless. If they actually manage it then I'll be pretty impressed.
i'll be sooo happy if that's true
You heard wrong, they merely said they'd like to one day. Instead the artist has embarked on an incredibly misguided attempt to make a new Gaston Lagaffe, which was delayed due to a lawsuit
</3
Damn.
Frick it, then the writer can just give us a novel, I don't care I need closure.
Wait, a lawsuit? Qrd?
>misguided attempt
Why. Multiple people drew Donald Duck comics, no one threw a b***hfit.
Franquin said in an interview that he didn’t want anyone else drawing Gaston after his death, and his daughter (not to mention many of his fans and colleagues) took those words to heart.
She sued Dupuis and asserted her father’s moral rights over the character. The album is still coming out later this year, and "new" Gaston gags have started back being pre-published in Spirou, but Delaf’s rep has still taken a serious hit from the shitstorm.
>She sued Dupuis and asserted her father’s moral rights over the character. The album is still coming out later this year, and "new" Gaston gags have started back being pre-published in Spirou, but Delaf’s rep has still taken a serious hit from the shitstorm.
Frick dude, that's kinda like Stan Lee's daughter a bit.
>Stan Lee's daughter
The circumstances are actually pretty different, it's not just a random interview, moral rights are pretty strong in france and Franquin's stance on the matter was very well known, and had been respected since 97. It's kinda like if a new Tintin book were made, it'd be a big franco-belgian shitstorm (but Hergé's rightholders are actually trying to find a way around it).
That new Gaston book is actually a pretty desperate move by the publisher. Basically some years ago they bought another publisher that had the exclusive rights to Franquin's original works for a pretty penny just to sort out the rights of the Marsupilami (who like Gaston belonged to Franquin but is also golden age Spirou's essential sidekick, also also a hugely profitable iconic character that even Disney tried to acquire at one point), and then all they managed to do was a couple terrible books, and with Spirou sales flagging anyway they're turning to the other Franquin property they now own because surely they can't frick up Gaston as bad as they did Spirou and the Marsupilami, right?
Right?
I trust Delaf. He’s done Gaston homages in the past and has said Franquin was a childhood hero of his.
People already found half of his nu-Gaston panels are straight up traced from the original so he's not doing an incredible job so far
>It's kinda like if a new Tintin book were made, it'd be a big franco-belgian shitstorm
This should be done.
If we have to sit by and watch our culture get endlessly remade for cheap cash grabs, then why not so also the Europoors?
I don't get Gaston.
First time he appeared in S&F he was an annoying twat. How did that guy got a spin-off?
Vicky deserves nothing.
Thats Awesome Anon. This is been an amazing day. And that made it even better.
she really doesn't. that said, i have the softest spot for lesbians and her being a SAD lesbian makes it even softer so i love her
I guess your right, I feel more for Jenny though. But everybody has their own opinions. Karine is still the best though.
i read the comic a long time ago, what happened to her besides getting an ugly boyfriend she treated like crap and her mom getting married to her worst enemy ex bff
her worst enemie's ex bff's father sorry lol
Well she actually admitted that she was wrong for one, which is a huge step. Its the little things.
oh yeah she was actually a good and geniuine person who just had the popularity go to her head. i forgot
>Vicky deserves nothing.
and that's exactly what she gets
Frick off Birchy
It is a series that makes go from "God I hate these b***hes" to "God please I want my girls to be happy"
It's a series where you spend years waiting for everyone to get what they deserve, only for it to be the last thing you want when it finally happens.
>This
As much as I don't like Vicky, I think she should have another chance. Despite her being a b***h. I don't think any comic ever has given me this much emotional attachment to characters like ever.
>I think she should have another chance
The mulatto mosquito got what she deserved. If she wants another chance she'll have to earn it
The mulatto mosquito got what she deserved.
Based, hey does anybody have that drawing of Vicky as a mosquito?
>Based, hey does anybody have that drawing of Vicky as a mosquito?
Right here.
Nice
>ywn have her drain you of every drop of blood
Why even live?
But anon, you’d die either way.
It'd be a great way to go out though.
exactly
also who's birchy. there's like three birchies in this thread already. is it like gincel in /lgbt/
>who’s birchy
Namegay and pedospammer who has latched onto The Bellybuttons in a desperate plea for attention, much to the disgust of genuine fans of the comic.
You know normally I'd be annoyed by this but I just don't care anymore unlike you I'm actually talking about the comic. So please keep going on and showing everybody how much of an annoying c**t you are. It amuses me. Hanging on to the past is for morons.
You forgot to mention that this fricking lunatic thinks everyone that talks about him is that one anon who ships Star Butterfly and Kevin Spencer
Birchy, please. You’re only embarassing yourself. I was a fan of the comic long before you sunk your fangs into it.
You’re right. That keeps slipping my mind for some reason.
You're right I apologize.
Hey on the topic of the comic is it true that Dan is based off of one of the creators Irl friends, or is that just people saying shit as a meme again?
Frick off, no one wants to talk to you
Hang on lets give him a chance.
I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me.
No, frick that guy, I want to enjoy something for once
Dan was modeled after Delaf himself.
>Dan was modeled after Delaf himself.
Then who the frick was Karine, Vicky, and Jenny modeled after?
>Dan was modeled after Delaf himself.
what the frick? man French people are weird
so that kinda spoils the end of bellybuttons
I mean, it makes sense. I can't imagine Karine with Albin, no matter what shippers here say otherwise.
Not really, they mentioned that they didn't know what to do with Dan after his departure since the story veered off from it's roots.
we'll see!
What were you apologizing for here?
well at least i can tell you they're not op, it's me
well just cuz one character is modeled after someone real it doesn't mean everyone is
what end? it's unfinished 🙁
true. if you weren't so obcessed w birchy and egged him on we wouldn't be fighting rn
LOL
I expected this to be a fun European comedy and I'm honestly disappointed it started to go all 2deep4me, because it just devolved into chick drama
The meanspirited humor was pretty fun, but I do NOT give a shit about all this relationship and cheating and crying crap
It's Canadian
Half of Canada is just gayer Europe
It's still Canada and not Europe
If I make a pizza, it doesn't suddenly stop being Italian food just because I'm not Italian.
If a French Canadian makes a comic that looks Euro in every way, the comic may as well be Euro.
No?
Canada's not even real.
Yeah
Modern "pizza" is American, just like tacos and most Chinese fast food.
>Modern "pizza" is American
You've never eaten anything outside your joke of a country, mutt.
it was published by franco-belgan magazine
The spin-off volumes are there for your kind. Untranslated, though
There's at least the spinoff for people that liked the early volumes.
Has it been translated? Got a link?
Only the first dozen pages and this one page from the second volume. Here’s a link to the storytime…
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/138728747/#138728747
why do french comics have such a low rate of english translations? On the off chance I ever get interested in one it's usually mostly untranslated. I would have thought french, being one of the most common languages learned by native english speakers, would have lots of people willing to translate. Yet somehow the do way worse than weebs do with manga despite being a thousand times easier to translate.
french dont like english
It's really hard to translate well, because French has a lot of untranslatable idioms. When Ouash translated tome...7? I think it was? He had to replace whole jokes with English ones because they would have been nonsense requiring huge TL notes.
I find it funny the core character of this comic is basically Olive Oyl if she had fashion conscience friends.
have a nice day Augie/Birchy
See? This is what happens when you call something European, you attract the worst board autists
I haven't read a single fact about Canada that doesn't sound like it wasn't made up by an extremely bad liar.
Hi munty. I'm looking forward to seeing you spend a week camping this thread so you can reee at an imaginary boogyman. Maybe one day you'll learn how md5's actually work and realize how much of a foolish twat you are.
Ideally the shame will make you have a nice day, but autistic people usually aren't capable of feeling shame so I'm not getting my hopes up.
Go frick yourself Birchy, you’re the munty, not me.
Munty please, how am I going to take you seriously when you have the audacity to camp a thread for 5 days and still claim you're not obsessed. In one of your reee posts you even resorted to filename searching instead of hash, because hash didn't give you the result you wanted.
Eat shit, Birchy/Munty.
Birchy's new identity dropped? Look at this fricking moron coming back days later to defend himself
This. It’s so embarrassing. He truly has nothing else to live for
Can you too get a room, already? No one here cares about some schizo drama, either talk about the comic or frick off.
Eh, I just enjoy taunting newbies and schizos. I'm about to hit the hay anyway.
Good, get lost.
>5 years later
>no volume 9
Pain.
Reminder that until they release the final volume, this is canon
I'll take it.
Karine is my spirit animal. Seriously this comic got me out of a dark place in my life.
have a nice day Birchy
Okay fellas which is better og Karine or goth Karine?
goth karine what kinda question even is that. poor devin or devil or dave or whatshisname. he really did good by the girls he manipulated, he bettered them but he HAD to go in and double date. and he HAD to go in and date a younger girl
I feel you bro. I hated it at first, but then I secretly fell in love with it
Same, I thought it was gonna be one of those generic "mean girls bully shy girl and shy girl becomes popular" kinda story. Its got a lot of passion put into it. Which is rare for comics these days. Honestly this has gotten me to check out more French comics.
Love it!
Gatekeeping keeps out fricking annoying namegays like you so we should go back to it
I misread it as "....destroy condoms", which I also agree with condoms are terrible
You forgot to start that bubble with a NOT. Letting in casuals and agendapushers is what destroys fandoms.
Reminder: The only ones who complain about gatekeeping are the ones the gate is meant to keep out.
>Reminder: The only ones who complain about gatekeeping are the ones the gate is meant to keep out.
Like blogposting dramagays like Birchy
>"I draw everyday"
>draws hands like this
kys Birchy, give up drawing
I second this. It’s one thing for him to spam pedo shit, but spamming his own shitty art is just sad.
It's fricking embarrassing how shit his art is after all these years
Maybe frick off and improve on your shit art Birchy
You know you can leave right? I know its you. and changing your IP isn't gonna hide it either. Welp sorry fellas some morons namegay vendetta ruined this thread when people just wanted to talk about this comic. I'm disapointed. and go ahead and post an edited screenshot too and be even more of a moron. see you in a few months guys.
>I know its you
holy frick have a nice day you're so fricking pathetic
>Poster number hasn't gone up for the past 2 hours.
You're fricking moronic. Thanks for ruining another thread c**t.
I thought you left already. I guessed you lied about that, too.
you know you dont have to be an ass to him right? like I don't get it he was staying on topic and actually talking about the comic like help me understand
>t. Birchy
frick off and learn how to be anonymous and not a schizo c**t who accuses 19 posters of being someone you're obsessed with
look i dont fricking like him as much as the next guy but derailing a thread just because you hate some namegay is annoying
Funny how you do the same thing, accusing everyone of being one person, I thought you're going to leave?
So all the other 19 posters are all the same person, frick off you derailed the whole thread you schizo c**t
Good. Leave and never come back. Maybe now we can have a decent Bellybuttons thread.
Is kevstar in the room with us right now?
>Jenny managing a finally stable relationship
>Vicky hitting rock bottom
>Karine going off the deep end just to get what she wants
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Courage bros it's time
This page made me laugh a little.
Wrong thread, my friend.
Sorrry
God, seeing Will's son and calling out that twist volumes before the actual reveal was the most satisfying moment I've had reading a comic in quite some time. This comic is really good at setting things up like that.
Agreed
bzzzzt (it's the mosquito)
Who?
Y'all think these girls are hot right? Visually I can't deny it. However, I need to remind you that canonically they speak french with the *QUEBEC* accent which is the *MOST HORRIBLE THING EVER* . I'm not racist, but seriously Quebec-gays, if you're gonna butcher the beautiful french language you might as well speak english. Also the poutine dish sucks ass.
>Also the poutine dish sucks ass.
DAT'S RITE
> Also the poutine dish sucks ass.
I think YOU suck ass.
And you suck wiener espèce d'ostie de tabarnak.
No, you.
>the *QUEBEC* accent which is the *MOST HORRIBLE THING EVER*
QRD?
It's kinda hard to understand if you're not a native french speaker. But here's a comparative video.
Left is from Quebec and right is from Metropolitan France.
Quebec French is borderline gibberish.
tgpd
Doesn't sound like it to me.
Only because they didn’t use Quebecois actors for this.
Is it ever mentioned in the comic that they are in Quebec?
it's mentioned that vicky has accent
I was not expecting Vicki to sound like that.
funny thing, proper quebec-french as LESS english words integrated in it than france-french.
mind, most quebecers mix a lot of english words in since they are surrounded by english speaking people so its not "proper" french.
it's CHINK FRENCH
Post final volume (lol) predictions
>Karine faces some comeuppance for her dark behavior
>Vicky is redeemed but stays fat or at least chubby
>Jenny is happy 🙂
I've been thinking about how it would end for a while now. I think this might be how I'd best be satisfied with it:
>Vicky tries to confront Meg one last time in Albin's apartment
>she looks like a complete mess, she's begging Meg to take her back
>Meg harshly rejects her, calls her Bouboule
>Vicki snaps out of it and slaps Meg so hard she flies across the room
>after that Vicki disappears for months with no one knowing what happened to her
>meanwhile Karine is spiraling hard
>She's getting more and more detached from the rest of the band, suppressing her guilt and hiding behind a veil of nastiness
>She's missing rehearsals just to drink and party hard
>she gets herself into some trouble and Albin only barely bails her out, he gets hurt in the process
>Karine realizes she can't do this anymore, wants out of the band, Albin abides by her wish
>meanwhile Jenni finally manages to contact Karine and tells her that Vicki's been missing
>Meg reveals she knew, she just couldn't be bothered to tell Karine about it
(1/3)
>Karine and Jenni's family try and look for her all around town
>suddenly Gabrielle goes to Karine and Jenni and claims that she found her, with a wicked grin stretched across her face
>they head to a bakery
>they find Vicki there, cleaned up but fatter than ever, baking pastries
>shes almost unnaturally happy to see them, with no malice in her face
>Karine asks what happened to her whole Gabrielle laughs at her
>Vicki explains that while she was out on the streets, she managed to find John John and reconnect with him
>he unmasked himself for all to see, and while she was initially freaked out she got used to seeing him
>he opened a small bakery and was looking for some people to help work the place
>she agrees in exchange for room and board
>John John teaches her how to bake
>took her a while to get the hang of it, but she ends up being really good at it
>she finally found a calling that she can be proud of
>she gains weight from snacking on her own pastries, but she doesn't care
>for once in her life, she's truly happy
(2/3)
>back to the present, Vicki apologies to Karine and Jenni for how horribly she had treated all of them
>Gabrielle starts to look uncomfortable from all of this
>Vicki apologies to her for abandoning her all those years ago, and asks for a second chance at their friendship
>Gabrielle finally breaks down and cries
>It's all she wanted from her this whole time
>Vicki's father sees how happy she is decides to let her be, though putting up a tough front
>There's only one thing left to do now
>Dan is walking around in New York
>he hears a familiar face calling his name
>It's Karine, in clothing similar to her original getup, but much more fashionable
>she simply asks if he wants to chat over a cup of coffee
>he gladly accepts
>Jenni, Vicki, Hugo, and Gabrielle all come out of a corner to celebrate
>Dan is flabbergasted
>Karine simply tells him that they have a LOT of catching up to do
>fin
it always amazes me that some people gain weight so easily despite their best efforts to be slim, while others remain slim, without any exercise
In reality it's 100% diet and lifestyle. Unless you've got some hormone problem.
>Unless you've got some hormone problem
hmmmm........ I don't want to to say soi, buuuut....
nope. i'm thin and all the excercise i do is biking like 20 mins a day 5 days a week at a leisurely pace just to get to work and i don't eat particularly well.
MUSCLES are all diet and excercise, but genetics play a huge role in fat gain and loss. if your default state is fat it's gonna take a lotta work to get thin, i'm lucky my default state is thin, though idk how it'll be past my 30's or after pregnancy if i have one
>it'll be past my 30'
spoiler - after 30s metabolism slows down. greatly
I've read one day an article detailing why the breasts of japanese women got bigger during the last 50 years, and they wrote something to an extent is that it depends on what a woman eats during pregnancy, and that it affects a baby and its future
>I've read one day an article detailing why the breasts of japanese women got bigger during the last 50 years
this is a good point actually. 50 years ago, jap women were thin and flat. nowadays you can see more and more curvy japanese women. if japs gain weight, then no one is safe and everyone is doomed
You'd be surprised how stationary 'I get fat just looking at a burger!' folks are.
They're stationary because they can't stop looking at that burger
that's true too. i live in a small town w a SHIT bus system so i got no other option than being active since. cars cost a lot more money than the bike i already own. yk what i'll pay attention the next few days to see if i see anyone Really fat biking...
yeah that's what i'm dreading. actually having to work to maintain my flat stomach. that and getting fat if i move to a town with a better public transport system.
>genetics play a huge role in fat gain and loss. if your default state is fat it's gonna take a lotta work to get thin
This is complete bullshit and fatty cope, frankly. It's like how people claim they're "eating for two" when pregnant but actually the effect is like 1 slice of dry bread per day or whatever. Genetics can effect HOW ie WHERE the fat accumulates on your body, but they don't make fat appear out of thin air.
Some people just don't like to eat a lot because they never developed the habit
I think he might be thinking of high vs low metabolism.
Someone with a heightened metabolism will have a an easier time losing weight, and a harder time keeping it, with the opposite for someone with low metabolism.
But it doesn't make it impossible or anything. It just means that you have to think a bit more about how many calories you eat, compared to how many you spent.
I personally have a high metabolism, and I'm currently overweight, because I barely do anything, but I'm not even remotely near what someone what someone with a normal or low metabolism would weigh with my lifestyle, and in the past I was extremely underweight with a hard time keeping weight, because I ate a lot less, and was actually physically active.
Genetics does play a role, but you're right that lifestyle definitely plays a far bigger role.
When I finished school I stopped doing any exercise and discovered alcohol so I gained 20 kilos in 2 years. After that I didn't gain any more despite living the same lifestyle. I've been sitting at around 80 for 10 years now. My sister who's younger than me drinks less, eats less, has even done weight watchers and shit and is still fatter.
That’s really interesting, anon.
She only eats and drinks "less" in front of you. Also unless you're constantly increasing the amount you eat and drink, of course eventually your weight is going to catch up to the new normal and then stay there.
You can't actually be this damn stupid.
Do you think that the people who claim "I don't understand why I'm fat, I eat healthy foods" as if eating SOME healthy food should cancel out all the other shit you eat, or eating SOME shitty food should somehow just keep increasing your weight regardless of how much you actually consume? This kind of magical thinking is sadly really common and probably the reason why your sister is a fat frick.
>When I finished school I stopped doing any exercise and discovered alcohol so I gained 20 kilos in 2 years. After that I didn't gain any more despite living the same lifestyle.
You hit the weight consumerate with your caloric intake and it stabilized there. That in no way at all makes it genetic.
>My sister who's younger than me drinks less, eats less, has even done weight watchers and shit
>and is still fatter.
She's eating more than she should.
Look, I'm not throwing stones at people for being heavier than they want to be. I could lose 20lbs. And we all understand that modern life and systemic overweightness is a societal level problem and not just a personal flaw. But this is 100% pure cope. It's not some sick twist of genetics that your sister is fat, and it's not genetics that your weight stabilized. It's calories in and calories out.
>She's eating more than she should.
OR she's eating way too much junk food, OR she doesn't move enough compared to what she eats. OR everything combined
>It's not some sick twist of genetics that your sister is fat
I dunno, while we were both still in school (so same amount of gym classes) I couldn't get above 56 kilos no matter how much I ate and trained so I definitely have a different metabolism from her. And at the time I was positively ravenous compared to her.
I think these anons are struggling to process that people's bodies are different, and handle weight differently.
What you're struggling to process is that it's a well studied, known fact that people tend to underestimate how much they eat, and obese people underestimate their calorific intake way more severely than normalweight people. As in, people can try to track what they're eating and think they're eating 2000 kcal / day but are actually eating 4500 kcal/d.
That's what's REALLY behind the "I'm trying so hard but can't lose weight" phenomenon, not the minuscule differences in how people's bodies handle weight differently.
Idiots trying to bring up the amount of GYM CLASSES they had in school, as if that's the only time anyone can excercise and they're lying around being carried to places on stretchers outside P.E, just demonstrates how clueless people are about weight related things. They'll do stupid ass shit like only look at what they eat during actual "official" mealtimes (breakfast lunch dinner), and ignore all the snacking around it, and say "but I eat the same thing as x!" Or only look at "official excercise" like effing gYm cLasSeS at sChOoL, and ignore all the movement or lack of during the rest of the time. "But we do the same amount of excercises!"
For example
>Under-reporting of total energy intake is a common and well-known source of measurement error in dietary assessment, and evidence suggests that this bias is particularly significant in obese individuals. After a multi-stage selection process of eligible papers, this literature review appraised 34 papers detailing the accuracy of self-reported dietary intake in people with an obese body mass index (BMI ⩾ 30).
>The available literature to date shows that having a body mass index ⩾30 is associated with significant under-reporting of food intake.
34 scientific papers, all showing that obese people underreport their intake "significantly".
dropped link https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28810493/
Here's another study about the differences in how people's bodies and how metabolism effects things, comparing people who report that they just can't lose weight no matter what vs people who don't have "diet resistance". Anons here would claim it's because of muh metabolism or bodies being different, but guess what
>Some obese subjects repeatedly fail to lose weight even though they report restricting their caloric intake to less than 1200 kcal per day. We studied two explanations for this apparent resistance to diet--low total energy expenditure and underreporting of caloric intake
>Total energy expenditure and resting metabolic rate in the subjects with diet resistance (group 1) were within 5 percent of the predicted values for body composition, and there was no significant difference between groups 1 and 2 in the thermic effects of food and exercise.
>Low energy expenditure was thus excluded as a mechanism of self-reported diet resistance.
>In contrast, the subjects in group 1 underreported their actual food intake by an average (+/- SD) of 47 +/- 16 percent and overreported their physical activity by 51 +/- 75 percent.
>Although the subjects in group 1 had no distinct psychopathologic characteristics, they perceived a genetic cause for their obesity, used thyroid medication at a high frequency, and described their eating behavior as relatively normal (all P < 0.05 as compared with group 2).
Oh wow, there were very little differences in metabolism etc, but all of the "can't lose weight no matter what" people underreported what they ate AND overreported their exercise, while blaming genetics
>Conclusions: The failure of some obese subjects to lose weight while eating a diet they report as low in calories is due to an energy intake substantially higher than reported and an overestimation of physical activity, not to an abnormality in thermogenesis.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1454084/
To bring it back to the series, Vicky struggles with her weight because she's an emotional eater and reacts to stress, emotional distress, insecurity etc etc etc with compulsively stuffing her face, which is probably aggravated by how hard her mom is pushing heavily restricted eating.
Not because "she just gains weight more easily", but because she copes with emotions via eating snack foods, and naturally because she's such a huge b***h with a frickton of baggage, emotional damage, regrets, fear and insecurities, this means she's constantly on the verge of a secret binge and is probably fighting an urge to stuff her face nonstop
AWW YEAHHHHHH
WHILE you're not wrong, you also argue assuming that people here are discussing in bad faith
I don't necessarily think they're arguing in bad faith in the sense that they know they're bullshitting, but rather that they're stupid, fell for the muh excercise and muh genetics effecting muh metabolism muh weight set point bullshit memes, and are now determinedly clinging on to the magical thinking crap out of not wanting to acknowledge they're wrong. It's exasperating. So not knowingly bad faith but bordering on it, and refusing to accept the truth when faced with it
I mean I see how one might fall for it because the magical metabolism you can't control your weight bullshit is pushed so hard nowadays, but I do still judge people for actually falling for it, and even harder for bringing up ridiculous "but we have the same gym classes at school" nonarguments. It's exasperating.
Oh excuse me for trying to base arguments around things I know and experienced you stuck-up frickwad butthole. Go frick a cactus and write it off your calorie intake cause you shoved it up tHe WrOnG hOLe. Stupid b***hass frick.
Yeah, finding out you were confidently incorrect and pushing falsehoods with arguments that were shockingly stupid in hindsight is embarrassing, truth hurts.
But you don't need to embarrass yourself further by acting like this over being proven wrong by research lmao
I too like to read random bullshit on the internet and then act like I know everything and lord over people.
>Go frick a cactus and write it off your calorie intake
frick I kekked, esp with the pic rel
gentlemen, keep in mind that the quality of food (including so-called healthy food) deteriorated. ignoring the fact that sugar is included everywhere in fricked up amounts, the milk, bread, sausage of 2023 is toxic garbage when compared with the milk, bread, sausage of 1950.
what we eat nowadays can be summarized as over-processed junk
It’s genetic. Some ethnic lines have literally evolved to store fat better than others, sometimes depending on factors such as climate. Before the modern era, this was a useful genetic trait.
Bad metabolism's a b***h.
>some people gain weight so easily despite their best efforts to be slim
It's because "exercise makes you slim" is nonsense. Exercise is good for you but you can't outrun a shitty diet.
Some people's "best efforts" just are shit because they've gotten themselves addicted to food. They have cheat days, severly underestimate their calories and don't take drinks or snacks or whatever into account, or focus too much on how haaarrrrd they exercise and then reward themselves with food, or like eating so much they "try to lose weight" while still eating as much as they can and then frick it up by miscounting the calories, or drink their calories, or pig out while out drinking, or do ridiculous overly strict fad diets that cause them to slip and binge etc etc.
People are morons. And then there's idiots telling them it's "genetic" or "because of your metabolism", validating their moronic antics.
Whereas in reality, the people who remain slim without any exercise just never got to the habit of overeating, and are sated with amounts and types of food that keep them slim.
The most effective "weight loss diet" I ever experienced was when I broke my leg and had to lie on a sofa for 6 weeks so sedentary I had to take medication to prevent health issues from that, and my leg muscles atrophied a bit. JUST because I had to drop all alcohol and had difficulty managing the fridge door, so only ate the plates my mom prepared (she eats very healthy and light)
>"How is it possible some people lose weight without exercise, it must be their metabolism or their nAtUrAL sTaTe!"
Morons like that are bound to get fat eventually because they don't understand how weight loss or management works at all. They think it's natural and then wonder why giving in to every single pregnancy craving led to developing eating habits that result in weight gain. "Pregnancy really did a number on my metabolism!"
WHy do you called that?
Don't look!
Huh, it's actually not that bad past the initial 'WTF" factor.
All I want is for the lesbian girl to suffer, she is a pushy rapist and a spoiled rich kid
Does this art style reminds you of the bellybuttons?
It IS the bellybuttons, you dope.
I was the anon that posted how Vicky looks like the Sunny Patch spider mom, but I'm wondering is there's another character that also has a similar face to Vicky.
I think you meant to post something else?
Nice!
>I'm wondering is there's another character that also has a similar face to Vicky.
Pearl from SU?
Can't believe I forgot about her, yeah she's another one. Anymore with pointy noses?
Cleopatra from Asterix?
Hey more accurate than the Netflix version
Nice examples. Never knew how much I liked mosquito nosed characters, I guess they just look funny.
Testing CSP. Here’s some Vicky.
Cute!
Vicky is perfect.
>t. Vicky
So, hey.
Important question.
Is there porn of this.
It’s amazing how much better Karine looks when she’s gothed up and the creators sneakily make her legs longer.
It's a pretty brilliant subtle change to show just how much her self esteem is affecting her outward appearance. Though it was a bit sweet how Dan saw right throught that regardless.
Also found some neat character sheets.
WACKY WAVY INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE GIRL!
Damn that's a really cute Karine, do you have the source of the artist?
https://twitter.com/thatonegummy/status/1690590595788525568
>that date
You just know this art was made because of the storytimes, I love it.
>Even nuttier: The new cartoonist on Gaston LaGaffe is keeping an extensive reference file of Franquin's original work -- claiming something like 10,000 references.
>So the internet has already gone to work finding them
>This got ugly FAST.
Delaf probably shouldn’t have said anything about that working method.
that's pretty dumb, since Franquin also reused a lot of expression in the mundane dialogs panels, focusing all the creativity on the punchline
you do realize that fanbases are usually autistic?
autism doesn't make you stupid, just weird. this is ill intended stupidity.
it's a hypocritical not muh
where to read this in french
Quebec
I don't think there any laws that forbids you from reading it in french anywhere you want really.
libgen
If we’re gonna talk about fat people we may as well post the best one of all.
That's a great Hugo.
I want Hugo to give Vicky healthy weight loss tips that don’t amount to eating disorders and drugs, and then to take her jogging with him.
I can just imagine Jenny cheering from the sidelines until both of them collapse into a heap, red-faced and puffing.
Hugo is cute. Cute!
my ideal
Best one only because soon Vicky will be the only other fat person in the series.
>implying
But he will always be second to everyone else, even Dan or Albin, and especially BEST BOY JEAN FRANKY LET'S GOOO FRANKY BROSSSSS
>Dan better than Hugo
>spoiler
I didn’t know it was physically possible to have taste this garbage.
I say this every time I see a Hugo poster even the abusive boyfriends of Jenny's mom were better.
I still like Hugo but just come on dude.
>rates cheaters and abusers above a legitimately nice person who has standards+a functioning moral compass and is part of the only 100% healthy relationship in the series
Your thirst for manprostitutes and manipulators will only bring you to ruin, Ser Shit of Taste.
Oh shit Black person trips.
Wasted trips but I cannot argue with that.
Dude must be hung like a horse.
This is pretty good art, is it a scrapped sketch from the creators?
Yes, part of a subplot deleted from tome 5 involving the winning bottle cap from the previous volume.
Honestly it feels a bit too lewd for Bellybuttons, I know they have lewd and gross scenes and references but an onscreen handjob feels a bit much
They were sniffing some dude's used underwear
no way?
THIS HAPPENED TO ME DURING HIGH SCHOOL. oh the shame
You grabbed another guys wiener?
I wish. My wiener got erected during school break and everyone noticed that, it was (and still is) very thick and meaty
Ah, the curse and blessing of being a shower.
Sadly as a grower if that happened to me I'd have to throw my pants down and start jerking off so that it could get rock hard and go "LOOK LOOK IT'S HUGE STOP LAUGHING" like that one greentext.
you joke, but it's not fun having a thick wiener. to this day I am nervous before sex, because I don't know if I can manage to insert it in the pussy. as a matter of fact it's my personal tragedy and kinda made not want to have sex. I really hate how it looks so easy in porn for a hung guy to just put his dick like that *snap fingers*
you probably don't believe me anyway, but it feels better to share something like that anonymously here, where nobody watches
No anon I was serious too, I know what it's like for women to be incapable of taking wiener.
It sucks, although I haven't been rejected for it yet.
I feel your pain, I was just saying.
Thanks bro, I really appreciate it, and it feels good to talk with someone who understands
No, he looked at it with a pair of binoculars.