Whose mind is it anyway?

kaos_de_moria · Post by **kaos_de_moria** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:31 pm

Scott McCloud wrote:BTW, we're close to the end. Not super-close, but close.

which reminds us to make our last votes...

and this sentence now allows me to make a comment completely unrelated to the story...

hey scott: in the list of upcoming titles 'Stop Shooting Me!' is listed with 159 votes - but twice. once where it belongs and once as second last... (sorry for posting this here, but didn't know where else to post it.)

kaos

DecafSilicon · Post by **DecafSilicon** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:42 pm

Rip Tanion wrote:
DecafSilicon wrote:Oh, sure, and the second person will be a Robert Crumb fan, so screw them.
What do you got against "The King of Underground Comix"? Or am I misinterpretting what you're saying here? I worship the guy, even though he's a lefty malcontent.

No, I like Crumb's work - what I can get my cashless, decent-library-less hands on, anyway. I'm just saying that a Crumb fan has no business dissing Dave Sim for misogyny. I mean, Crumb's comics are awash (heh) with sexual frustration and frightened misogyny that Crumb readily acknowledges.

By the way, Scott, I love the endearing joke, "I don't know nothin' about basketball." At this rate, if you ever publish these in dead-tree, you'll have to include our forums to make sense of it all.

I'll accept my royalties in boxes of chocolate ex-lax.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 5:50 pm

I agree. Today's panels had me rolling of the floor. "What a season?" Haw, haw, haw, haw, haw! Now, that's funny.

I wonder who he hates more: Bush or Boone?

But shouldn't it be "Sawks"?

Decaf: Now I get what you're saying. Yeah. Crumb is a sick bastid. That's why I love him.

Can't get enough of that Exlax, can ya?

DecafSilicon · Post by **DecafSilicon** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:20 pm

With Ex-Lax, the good times are a-flowin'. Hmm, sounds like a Prairie Home Companion ketchup commercial.

What in the world is "Bwoston?"

(The above was rhetorical. I am a cognizant primate. I'm merely pointing out that "Bwoston" does not seem to fit the accent.)

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 5:43 pm

I've had the impression throughout this story that she's from somewhere in the New York area, and has some sort of speech impediment; hence "Bwoston"

Ex-Lax always reminds be of the Chief Bowels joke. "Bowels must move. Teepee full of shit."

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:18 am

Wild prediction: Her Father's ashes are in the bag.

Eric F Myers · Post by **Eric F Myers** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:25 pm

Kris Lachowski wrote:Wild prediction: Her Father's ashes are in the bag.

Yuck! with the donuts?
Those aren't sprinkles.

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:46 pm

You know, I ususally like powdered donuts, but ....

Chronosome · Post by **Chronosome** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:28 pm

Kris Lachowski wrote:Wild prediction: Her Father's ashes are in the bag.

Nah...that's what cwoffee cans are for.

Connor Moran · Post by **Connor Moran** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:34 pm

Kris Lachowski wrote:Wild prediction: Her Father's ashes are in the bag.

This doesn't seem so wild to me...fits the data pretty well.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 10:55 pm

Wouldn't that be a bitch of cosmic irony? A guy dies from smoking too much, and he winds up as ashes.

I wonder if he smoked Mwa'lbworos. Red Pack'll kill before yer old.

DecafSilicon · Post by **DecafSilicon** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:03 pm

I dunno, I prefer those Lucky Strikes. But ever since they traded Butts to the VA Slims team, I've been uneasy. It's been a bad season for the Strikes.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 11:07 pm

DecafSilicon wrote:they traded Butts to the VA Slims team

I thought that's a girls team. Are you saying Butts thows like a girl? "Dems is fightin' woids!"

Tim Mallos · Post by **Tim Mallos** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:57 pm

I really liked the 4 panel treatment of yesterday's post. Dividing the background and linking the speech bubbles across the 4 panels. Nice.

That's the kind of layout I really need to work toward being able to visualize for my own work.

Thanks for the lesson Scott!

Tim

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:15 pm

Yeah, Scott's gone all Will Eisner on us; giving us a clinic on storytelling and pacing, with split panoramas and shifting the viewpoints on the far shots. Now, all we need is a meta-panel page, and some super-panels.

DecafSilicon · Post by **DecafSilicon** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:37 pm

And some poor Jewish families getting picked on by Italians.

Bumblejumper · Post by **Bumblejumper** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:10 pm

DecafSilicon wrote:And some poor Jewish families getting picked on by Italians.

Isn't that the title of Improv #26?

Bucket Full of Jewish Families Getting Picked on by the Italian Somber Mood?

CleverUserName01 · Post by **CleverUserName01** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:16 pm

"My stuff got taken last night."

Hmm...'twould appear that we might be on the verge of solving the mystery of the Dunkin' Donuts sack.

Just so long as long as it doesn't cast a golden glow on the faces of those who open it...

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:23 pm

Take a bow, Kris. It appears as though you called it correctly.

Post by **Scott McCloud** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:33 pm

Yes, indeed.

Had the idea a few weeks ago. Didn't want to make it too obvious, but then I can't pull anything over on you guys.

mecherath · Post by **mecherath** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:38 pm

I'm just windering which voice is saying yikes.

zerofoks · Post by **zerofoks** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:46 pm

I hate it when we are right.

DecafSilicon · Post by **DecafSilicon** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:52 pm

CleverUserName01 wrote:Just so long as long as it doesn't cast a golden glow on the faces of those who open it...

Heh heh heh.

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:53 pm

Greg Stephens wrote:Take a bow, Kris. It appears as though you called it correctly.

Scott McCloud wrote: Yes, indeed.

Had the idea a few weeks ago. Didn't want to make it too obvious, but then I can't pull anything over on you guys.

SCORE!!!!