At the end, yes, but on the first page he has some suspicious looking droplets hanging around his mouth.
The one where Jeffy did it is probably the only Family Circle that ever made me laugh.
Family Circus.
Though I’m sure I saw an oozing bloody stump recipe in Family Circle back in the early 90s.
Would I be too much off the mark to suggest this thing as a Morag-muncher? failsafe
Possibly, but the mask’s eyes are not shown.
I’m getting a Rancor vibe from the setting, but I’m sure I will be wrong.
New one, but it’s an intermission from the current storyline.
ALT and TITLE texts:
ALT - A fighting cock.
TITLE - Gather up Uudroth’s justice juice. It’s good for the complexion.
Not a fan of this one. Not just because I was really enjoying the current storyline, but because it’s more …meh. Dick jokes. Okay.
What a shame… was looking forward to more Grier, or, possibly, Morag action.
That, and Uudroth just looks stupid.
i thought it was good…but yeah, a bit disappointed its not more of the story…oh well, it’ll continue eventually
dang, I can’t edit my last post for some reason. Anyway, this has changed my view on comics with long running plots and their “fluff” moments: (spoilered for wall of text and plot)
[QUOTE=Andrew Hussie, creator of homestuck]
What effect do you expect this stream of images to have on a person reading through the archive as opposed to waiting?
mspadventures responded -
The longer I do this the more I’m struck by how radical the difference is between the experiences of reading something archivally vs. serially, both for the reader, and the author if he’s prone to sampling reactions frequently as I do. For the reader especially, I think the experience of day to day reading is so dramatically different, they might as well be reading a different story altogether.
The main difference is the amount of space between events the reader has, which can be filled with massive amounts of speculation, analysis, predictions, and something I guess you could call “opinion building”, which can have both positive and negative effects. On the positive side, these readers become more closely engaged with the material than archival readers can be, zeroing in on details and insights which might be overlooked otherwise. On the negative side, I think that excess mental noise the space between pages allows can potentially be a bit suffocating, and put a strain on the experience the material was intended to deliver.
The archival reader always has the luxury of moving on to the next page, regardless of how he reacts to certain events, and thus can be more impassive about it. That internal cacophony isn’t given time to build, and if there are reservations about a string of events, whether due to shocking revelations, or questions over the narrative merit of something, or really any form of dissatisfaction, all he has to do is keep clicking to see how it all fits together, and can make a more complete judgment with hindsight.
The recent pages had me particularly conscious of the nature of serial delivery. The whole scene was rolled out over the course of a weekend, first with ______, then ______. When ______ dies, this registers as one extremely dramatic event. Cue the waiting, speculating, worrying and all that. When ______ dies a day or so later, it registers as a second dramatic event! Again the scrutiny begins which the space allows. Is this all too much? How do I feel about this narrative turn? Is this setting a trend for a bloodbath? Does that serve any purpose? The reader projects into the future, does a little unwitting fanfiction writing in his head, and may not like what he sees! All this activity becomes the basis for opinion building, which is sort of the emergence of an official position on matters, good or bad, which is only able to flourish in the slow-motion intake of the story. That official position can be a very stubborn thing, especially when it’s negative, and seriously textures the way additional developments are regarded. It’s really hard to shake a reader off an entrenched position on a matter, even when it was formed with an incomplete picture.
Reading the same events in the archive is quite different. Very little of that inner monologue takes shape. And while the events are still shocking, and the reader may raise his eyebrows a mile high, he then simply lowers them and keeps reading. In fact, because of the reading pace, I would suggest these two deaths actually register as only ONE DRAMATIC EVENT! One guy snaps and kills two characters. In the flow of straight-through reading especially, it is quite startling, tension-building, and can only serve to propel the reader into further pages, at a pace which suspends the experience-compromising (augmenting??) play-by-play.
But like I’ve said, I don’t think one way of reading is necessarily better than the other. Both have plusses, and obviously I choose to make this serially, and I play off plenty of in the moment reactions. But I tend consider the archival experience more, because when all is said and done, this thing has to sit on a server for years to come, waiting for new people to find it.
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You can only edit your post for five minutes after you post it. We like our words to have permanence, around here.
What do you expect from someone with a glans for a head?
I thought it was an amusingly silly bit of one-time fluff. An example of, as I’ve commented before, just how hilariously fucked-up a world with real magic in it would be.
I agree with the spoilered text in your post. Reading a strip in collected fashion is a different experience than reading it in its original day by day schedule. I know when I first read Erfworld I wasn’t all that impressed by it. But later I went back and reread the series all together and I realized how much of it I had missed.
From the other perspective, Rich Burlew, the creator of The Order of the Stick, has explicitly acknowledged this phenomena. He has set the pacing of events in his regular strip to reflect the fact that people read it one day at a time and have plenty of opportunity to discuss each strip before the next one appears. When he publishes the strips in a collection he adds new foreshadowing material that he intentionally left out of the original story. He feels that a person reading a book will be carried along by the story and won’t stop to over-analyze the individual pages and therefore won’t figure out what’s coming up.
New One. I like the first “punchline” better than the second.
Ok, still in intermission, but at least I laughed this time.
I like how Front Half Guy is all enthusiastic about the ambush plan even though it turns out that he’s completely unclear about the identity and even the existence of the target.
Better than last week’s, but I’m definitely looking forward to getting back to the main storyline.
And it’s here: Diversions
BWA-HA-HA!!! I can just see that really being done!
2nd page Mouseover text: For the night-time rodeo, we grease it up
BWA-HA-HA!!!
Yep, getting the story moving again at any rate. 