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Christopher Lundgren · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 2:05 am Post subject:

Hey, maybe if we get enough of this strip we'll be able to play Five Card Nancy with it, seeing as how the panels are all the same.

Josiah Rowe · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 3:35 pm Post subject:

But then it would be Five Card Bob!

nihon · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 5:25 pm Post subject:

Okay, now it's becoming really really interesting... I want to print a t-shirt of this too!

and I still haven't bought the paper...
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Zem · Regular Poster Joined: 07 Apr 2002 Posts: 24

Ah... in the third panel of Uninformed Bob #4, it should be, "changed its name," not "it's." Remember that "it's" stands for "it is."

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Scott McCloud · The one and only Joined: 23 May 2001 Posts: 299

Dang! I keep making that mistake.

losttoy · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 8:33 pm Post subject:

Poor "Uninformed Scott"

Fulgore · Guest

I must say, after missing Bob for two days, I enjoy the developments. A few random things I like:

- Scott switching the last panel of every strip to a singel image, that's a different color than the rest! Adds more to the effect.

- I love the idea (although only two non-concurrent Bob strips have used it so far, so it might not be a Bobly trend) of telling the story of a fictional creator through the strip itself. This is getting my own wheels turning.

- Just a side comment, I think it's great that 'Bob' uses the strip format as a storytelling tool. This probably belongs in the RC forum, but my only beef with the infinite canvas is the lack of the ability to use the page as a storytelling tool (Best web comic to effectively use controlled page-like perception: Nowhere Girl

Christopher Lundgren · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 4:24 am Post subject:

Anybody wonder who Morrie Dugan is? I'm guessing that it's either the name of somebody Scott actually knows (or knew at some time) or it's a composite of somebody's name that he's heard and decided to use.

I only say that, because that's often where I get the names for characters in my comics.

Fulgore, I don't follow you about the panels of another color. It all looks black to me. Am I missing something?

...and I'd have to agree with Bob's description of a newspaper syndicate. He obviously knows a lot more than he lets on.

Alexander D. · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 10:27 am Post subject:

I really think what we're seeing here, rather than just a comment on stereotypical comic humor, is the story of a comic strip writer who has become bitter and disillusioned. Morrie Dugan is our actual main character, not Bob. Bob is just the mouthpiece. The Newspaper Syndicate comment is the most obvious clue. But Bob's comment about his wife running off with his editor is also very telling. People whose jobs involve having an editor don't tend to wear work shirts that have a name patch on them -- as Bob's shirt does. That was Dugan talking about his own editor and wife.
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Greg Stephens · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 1:15 pm Post subject:

Nick Douglas · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 2:04 pm Post subject:

Scott McCloud · The one and only Joined: 23 May 2001 Posts: 299

If you could hold off a bit on the t-shirts, we'll probably be doing something similar in the near future. Sorry for the delays on that.

[though, as far a one-off personal use stuff, go for it.]

Rip Tanion · Guest

Carl Fink · Guest

The woman constantly slapping her forehead: is that Carl's mom from _Understanding Comics_ and then "Choose Your Own Carl"? Sure looks like her to me.

NatGertler · Regular Poster Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 44

No, the apostrophe in A's is not for contraction. Otherwise, we would be seeing the sentence He used to be an Oakland A'.

And hey, if every strip is going to be the same, shouldn't it be Uniform Bob?

Jordan D. White · Guest

This newest one, with the scribbles through it, very weird! And under the scribbles, it LOOKS like it says...

"Damn it! (?) I hate it! I hate everything! Just kill me! Kill me!"
"Now (something) scatter my ashes out to sea! If I have to spend one more f*cking day on this"
"Miserable ball of sh*t I'm going to vomit out my eyeballs and burst into f*cking flames!!!!!!!!"
"Okey Dokey, Thanks!"
"Oh, that Bob! Will he ever learn?!"

Anyone see anything different, or fill in the blanks? Poor "Sorrie". I have a bad feeling about the next one... like maybe it's written by his estate.

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Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 7:39 pm Post subject:

I think it was "Dammit" at the beginning, and the missing word is "and", to be read across the panels as "Kill me now and scatter my ashes out to sea!"

Was the scribbling done by Morrie, or his grandson, though?

Nathan Phillips · Guest

The repetitive nature of the comic with its slight variations makes me think that Bob may be a friend of Carl's. I could see a Carl strip made of this quite easily! By the way, the crossed out wording in the last panel is quite harsh!!

Guest · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 3:54 am Post subject:

Woot! Mike Patton!

Casey Bruce · Guest

Nice job mentioning Mike Patton there, Scott!
For those who may not know, Mike is/was the frontman for the bands Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, and Tomahawk. He is also currently involved in the band Loveage, with Dan the Automator of Gorillaz fame. Does anybody know anything "official" about Mike being into comics?
Check out Fanotmas' first album ? it's a cacophonic burst of sound effects and bizarre vocals that actually (sort of) corresponds to the comic images in the album's liner notes. Plus, on Tomahawk's recent release, the sleeve features artwork by woodcut artist Lynd Ward (God's Man).
So, like I said, anybody know for sure what level of involvement with comics the guy has?

Scott McCloud · The one and only Joined: 23 May 2001 Posts: 299

I've been catching up on Mike Patton lately thanks to our friends Sally and Matt. Last week I was listening to the first Mr. Bungle CD a lot.

buzzard · Frequent Poster Joined: 30 Jul 2001 Posts: 70

The first Mr. Bungle album is astonishing, but it's also the most lyrically disgusting album I own. (I suspect between the lyrics and the various sound effects that it was a calculated, ironic immaturity, or something, but wow, it doesn't work for me.)

The third album is equally astonishing and lacks the potty humor. (I want to say more astonishing, but as much as California [the third album] is full of crazy stuff that I'm amazed anyone would ever possibly think of, the first albums's death-metal/circus-music vibe is a hard vibe to top.) Recommended if you appreciate the first. (All of my first-album-liking friends didn't think much of the second and loved the third.)

Nick Douglas · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 2:57 pm Post subject:

Rip Tanion · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 11:38 pm Post subject:

I bet if you stacked together a group of Garfield strips, you'd have the same repetitive pattern as Uninformed Bob. Probably would work with Cathy, and at least dozen other strips.

I wonder if Nancy falls into this category?
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