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I thought it might be of general interest (and of particular interest to Scott, if he is reading this forum on the road) to know that there was a <a href="http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2005_04.html#001026">very nice plug</a> for Flight 2 on an animation weblog I read regularly called <a href="...

I looked at the link Scott posted entitled <a href="http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/archives/2005/04/who_beat_the_be.html#more">"Who Beat the Beat"</a> and I assume it is one of those things that are really funny if you know the people involved and not so funny if you don't. But I want to ask a quest...

Buckaroo Bonzai?!? I didn't see that one and I just went back through all the postings to be sure. Sorry--I thought the 'electricity' one looked like John Lithgow in BB. Maybe I am just having a blonde moment. :wink: Now that you mention it, I can see the resemblance, although it's far from overwhe...

Scott, Under Stands All of 'Scott understands' have been great. I am partial to the understanding 'Impressionism' and 'Buckaroo Bonzai.' However, I really liked Scott, Under Stands. How can you not? :) Waiting for the next one . . . Buckaroo Bonzai?!? I didn't see that one and I just went back thro...

I'm know I am going to sound like an old curmudgeon, but what value is added by extending a 24 hour comic to a 48 hour comic, aside from making it into a severe endurance test? None, I think. Of course, anyone who wants to can try to make a 48, 72 or any greater length of time comic, but to do so mo...

I'm currently working on an engine to read a comic shaped as a spiral. I think it might be to use in a neverending comic. Frankly, I think that the spiral web comic engine is a novelty with very limited application in web comics. But don't let me discourage ShadowCaster from developing it or anyone...

To restate what everyone else has already said, great use of flash. Just to be contrary (;)): I wasn't too impressed. I didn't find the whole "branching storylines" thing particularly interesting the first time I saw it, and it hasn't grown on me. I guess I prefer my comics to form a coherent whole...

Tenzil Kem wrote:

William G wrote:Tenzil Kem

Where is your comic?

Here we go - the typical snooty remark.

<snip>

So until then keep your superior little attitude to yourself.

I sense much anger in him.

Not long after this message was posted, Scott added an intermediate level of zoom... Did he add it manually or is it merely a function of the Tarquin engine that when there are a certain number of panels within a certain distance from each other, an intermediate zoom becomes available? I don't know...

I believe the close-up on the panels is too close. It would be better I think to be able to see 4-5 panels at once. Or to have an intermediate level of zoom. but appart from that, this an interesting way of looking at a comic. Not long after this message was posted, Scott added an intermediate leve...

When we later examine this comic's length, how are we going to count the panels? Can we double them up like Scrabble? You know, that's a rather interesting question. I think you could make a good argument for counting each panel that appears in multiple paths multiple times. But, since my purpose i...

"Merkin"? Was this just a misspelling, or do people actually call us that? I used to hang out a lot in international newsgroups, which is where I picked it up. Some must call us that. I call us that. "Merkin" could be derived from Cordwainer Smith's SF. I believe it was in Under Old Earth that Smit...

As a possibly easier alternative, post new list of titles at set dates, say the 1st and 15th (or just the 1st) of every month. Leaving out "Happy Town" (for which it is impossible to calculate a duration at all) the average length of all the Morning Improv s is 23.4 days. The average duration of al...

Scott, You really must divorce the duration of the time to vote on a given set of 10 titles from the duration of the Morning Improv itself. You are going from one long MI to another and, while this is great from my perspective as a MI reader, it is not good from my perspective as a MI supporter. I w...

[Edited to add column titles and other missing information.] Here are all the Improvs to date, ranked by number of panels. (The posting above that ranks them (again!) by duration is by me too. I seem to have a problem recently staying logged on from click to click.) I agree that the number of panels...

Here are all of the Improvs to date listed by duration of completion in days again. This time I put in starting and stopping dates for each one (the table below came out of a more complex MS Excel spreadsheet), which fixed the error in the length of "Robots Love to Dance". (Thanks, Scott!) Since I a...

By my methods, "Whose Mind is it Anyway?" comes in at a duration of 94 days, making it either the longest Morning Improv comic or the second longest, depending on whether you want to count "Meadow of the Damned" as a single MI or three. Here are the "Top Ten" longest Morning Improvs (really eleven, ...

I received my copy of the Morning Improv Limited Edition Print yesterday and it is a thing of beauty! I really appreciate the careful packaging because it was fine even though my brain-dead mail carrier left it out in the rain for hours because it wouldn't fit in the mailbox. (I guess he or she thou...

The lastest installment of "Mind" struck me as hysterical ... after I read it aloud!

I don't suppose Scott had this joke in mind when he gave Sean and Sophie their accents, but he should have. It certainly completely justifies the occasionally annoying task of decoding their speech, at least to me.

"Mind" doesn't look likely to surpass "Meadow of the Damned: the Complete Comic", unless Scott was wrong when he said that "Mind" was nearing its end some days ago. I just checked and "some days ago" was March 9, when: BTW, we're close to the end. Not super-close, but close. Since "Mind" was 'close...

This message was edited for clarification. Again! See note at end. me i'm thinking (without any research to back me up...) that this here looks like the longest improv yet. Am I right? I decided to do the research and came up with the following information. Assuming "Whose Mind Is It Anyway?" ends ...

I just realized that we don't know the names of either of the protagonists in this comic. Who does Scott think he is, Gene Wolfe? :D [Gene Wolfe is a contemporary science fiction writer who is critically acclaimed and notorious, among those who read him, for writing stories told in the first person ...

Rip Tanion wrote:

Fett101 wrote:A bucket of chicken nuggets in the shape of cats. It sells itself.

Hmmm. There's a chinese restaurant joke in there somewhere.

Well, here's <A HREF="http://www.starterupsteve.com/swf/chowm ... l">one.</A>

you're starting post is one of the funniest web forum posts i've read for a long time. thanks kaos I want to chime in here and agree that your message was great, very funny, and a perfect antidote to some of the too intrense (for my taste) political debate that has sprung up regarding certain other...