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Dang, re-reading the trails article is a splash of cold water on the metaphorical face. Yet I rarely see Scott use trails nearly as deftly and ingeniously as in that essay.

It does give me ideas for my own Liquid Velcro, though.

*grin*
*smirk*

*chuckle*

*chortle*

*quiver*
*laugh*

*guffaw*

*nervous tremors breaking into --*
*uncontrollable, wild, maniacal laughter, rolling on the floor, breathlessness, scaring my family, near death due to hilarity*

"It'll only work if we all do it!" You slay me.

Scott's taken a risk by opening up the forum -- he's allowing us to critique, and thus even suggest. I fear a few people may feel they have a right to influence Scott's comics, as the notorious NPR listeners who call in to complain, "you're not playing enough Mozart" and such. Just a thought, open t...

I prefer the gutter to other gaps, usually -- over Eisner's blank spaces, for example, or McCloud's linking lines... but of course, that's just me. The circular panels that Scott's used in Monkeytown -- something about that looks really cool. I'm gonna remember that... Hmph, this is more a note to m...

guymc wrote:Is it just me, or would anyone else get a kick out of seeing this, as a parody of superhero RPGs?

Gimme gimme gimme! *shivers in wild anticipation*

"Won't you take me TO... MONKEYTOWN!" The cat runs in terror at the sound of my monkey voice.

Monkey Disco -- big glitzy dance floor attack!

Somehow, the name "Hasp" strikes me as perfect for a grunty, lowbrow medieval guard type of person. *shrug* I use Latin occasionally... "Exol" is the name of my personal favorite character, a nobleman who leaves his aristocracy-saturated homeland to become the Wandering Noble (exul=wanderer/exile). ...

Hmph. I rather thought sharing characters would be a boon to extremely new artists (e.g. myself) who wish to build creative contacts. I see a different sharing than that of DC or Marvel; since the characters would be rather new, they could be adapted beautifully, and likely conflict in different cre...

Heh, heh... science attack... that still cracks me up. By the by, did anyone else realize that Scott must not have read many Discworld novels (since I hardly believe he would resist the juicy reference just waiting for us all)? You know, the ambivalence toward calling apes monkeys. *He shrugs and mo...

buzzard wrote:eventually, one refuses, and breaks the fourth wall as it does.

That dang fourth wall is so addictive. I nearly muck up my prose every time by putting a bit too much self-referentiality in there...

By the by, I agree with Nathan P. I wonder if Scott thought highly of Nathan's lucid schema?

I'm loving this, Scott. It's just so cool (for lack of something articulate on my part). Looks like a fun one.

In the modern age, though, isn't it a merely academic distinction? It seems a waste of time for those stuck on the borders if they must continually debate over their classification. I mean, if modern installations of refuse, intentional meaninglessness (Neo-Dadaism), etc., are considered true art th...

Not to mention Marmaduke, and even Dilbert (kudos, though, to Scott Adams to building a national syndicated cast of characters despite an admitted lack of artistic talent).

If you could hold off a bit on the t-shirts... (though, as far a one-off personal use stuff, go for it.) Woohoo! *dances in exhuberance, as he really only cares about getting his own t-shirt* :roll: Thanks, Scott. Er, Mr. McCloud. Sir. :oops: What I really want is a lengthy discussion of my many-st...

As a Point of Information, "The world used to be Black and White" is an old Calvin & Hobbes gag :oops: Sorry to dreg this up, but for anyone unlucky enough to not have seen it, here's a rough prose recollection of the original C&H comic (cuz I don't have it with me, and I've no idea how to search f...

Right now, we're ridiculously small -- a folded 11x17 sheet, totalling 4 8.5x11 sides. The comic could take a half-side. Black-and-white, of course -- we have a $50 budget.

Good. Shall I post characters here or open a new forum? My choice, I guess...

I like the gold-standard net currency idea.

Groovy work, but we're looking for something very mainstream -- something, alas, that cannot remind the user of those lazy days in the 60s with illicit pharmaceuticals. I forgot to clarify -- it's a small, somewhat conservative town, and we're shooting for the more cultured bit of it. Jazz, drama, B...

I publish a 200-circulation local mini-magazine (<i>very</i> low-key) that will soon include one comic per issue. We're unable to pay for work, as we've made no money yet, but eventually we hope to provide at least $10 per comic. Anyone willing to donate? Our style is a mixture of <i>Esquire</i>, <i...