Spongy now online

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 11:33 pm

I just put up first (last) strip of Spongy.

<a href="http://castlezzt.net/spongy/">http://ca ... spongy/</a>

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Thu Jul 12, 2001 8:57 am

Thank you! And yes, you have it right. Greg inadvertently gave me the idea. (Thanks Greg!)

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Thu Jul 12, 2001 1:35 pm

I like the start (er.. ending)! It's very suggestive of what may have happened-- like a story that starts at the end and is told in flashback. And I also like the style of the art.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Thu Jul 12, 2001 3:11 pm

It feels very different from any other story I've written. It doesn't flow in the same way, because of how you have to think against the grain, but I think the end result feels much more dynamic then what I would have created otherwise.

On the subject of art, I can draw mazes really easily. The guy I feel proud of too, but he came about more from me editing every single little pixel until it looked right then any natural pictoral talent. In particular, I found it really hard to draw him tearing up the letter.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Fri Jul 13, 2001 2:31 pm

No one has written in with a character idea yet, and wednesday will arrive soon. If you want, you can post your idea in this forum thread instead of emailing it to me, and perhaps you'll start an interesting conversation.

damonk13 · Post by **damonk13** » Sat Jul 14, 2001 12:26 pm

Very interesting indeed, Jack!

I'll be reading on to see what happens, err, happened, err, will happen, umm, in the past, after the before part, err, umm...

*starts to drool and snaps catatonic*

Tim Mallos · Post by **Tim Mallos** » Mon Jul 16, 2001 9:28 am

Character Suggestion: A big cynical rat who sits back and derides all those who pass in the maze, admonishing "There IS NOcheese, stop bothering".

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Tue Jul 17, 2001 12:39 am

Good one, thanks!

shadefell · Post by **shadefell** » Sat Aug 04, 2001 11:32 pm

wow!
i really like that!
what a cool idea!

who wrote the letter?
what's the signifigance of him tearing it up?
why are there tiny little people (or enormous mice) in a maze?

so cool!

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Sun Aug 05, 2001 12:54 pm

Character Suggestion! A woman talking on a mobile phone who wears a fur coat and is walking her terminally depressed dachshund.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Sun Aug 05, 2001 4:31 pm

On 2001-08-04 23:32, shadefell wrote:
wow!
i really like that!
what a cool idea!

Thanks!

who wrote the letter?
what's the signifigance of him tearing it up?
why are there tiny little people (or enormous mice) in a maze?

Giant rat; normal sized people. (if only because when Tim described the rat he said "giant".) I do know what the letter says and who wrote it, but I plan to wait quite a while before revealing such.

Thanks for reading!

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Sun Aug 05, 2001 4:33 pm

On 2001-08-05 12:54, Greg Stephens wrote:
Character Suggestion! A woman talking on a mobile phone who wears a fur coat and is walking her terminally depressed dachshund.

That sounds interesting! But who does she talk to? Hmm...

shadefell · Post by **shadefell** » Sun Aug 05, 2001 11:23 pm

perhaps she is the wife/girlfriend/mother/sister/tormenter/long lost cousin of the pirate or the janiter?

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Sun Aug 12, 2001 11:51 pm

Jack, you are out of your mind. I admire that.

Also out of his mind is Russ Williams, but I don't think he's quite as far gone.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 8:34 pm

If you haven't submitted a character idea yet, PLEASE DO. I have to write thursday's comic, and I need suggestions.

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buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Wed Aug 15, 2001 10:38 pm

I'm still trying to decipher <a href="http://castlezzt.net/spongy/index.cfm?S ... 30">#30</a> (even loaded it in IE to make sure it wasn't a NS bug), and still puzzling over the sequence of squares that showed up in the bottom left on 34..26.

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Thu Aug 16, 2001 12:01 am

Jack- I think you should interpret that as a character suggestion of a cryptologist buzzard.

buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Thu Aug 16, 2001 2:29 am

...with a defeatist, cynical attitude towards new ideas.

buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Thu Aug 16, 2001 2:29 am

...and awfully argumentative

buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Thu Aug 16, 2001 2:30 am

...with itself even, if no one else will take the bait.

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Thu Aug 16, 2001 10:49 am

Buzzard-bait, so to speak.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Fri Aug 17, 2001 10:08 am

THANK you! Comic strip coming right up.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Fri Aug 17, 2001 11:01 pm

Hmm, this raises more questions about their economic structure and food chain then I had first realized.

I think I'll have something fall from the sky.

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buzzard · Post by **buzzard** » Sat Aug 18, 2001 12:06 am

more character suggestions for the future...

a very long snake which twists and turns through a lot of the maze, which is depressed because everyone forgot its birthday

a guy in an alien suit, on a secret mission he can't reveal

a used car salesperson

a historian time-traveller from the future who's doing some in-person research for his paper on the maze... hmm, maybe combine this with the guy in the alien suit

an anthropomorphized car whose wheelbase is wide enough that it straddles two walls of the maze (although if you think about this, it would have a lot of trouble at a T in the maze, but best not to think about it)... or anyway I think there should be SOMETHING which runs around on the tops of the walls of the maze, instead of inside the maze (the tops form a maze of their own, anyway)