"Choose Your Own Lack of Adventure"

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 10:14 am

Hey all, I just put up a choose your own adventure-esque comic on my site. It's like "Choose Your Own Carl" but with only one beginnning and one ending. It follows our hero, Grover, through a day in the life. I figure if I'm gonna advertise it anywhere, it ought be here. It's supposed to be funny.

You can view <a href="http://www.nooutlet.org/history/comics/ ... .html">the whole thing at once</a> (~ 3 MB), or <a href="http://www.nooutlet.org/history/comics/ ... 1.html">it one panel at a time</a>.

Edit: changed links to point to new locations .

-Adam
<a href="http://www.nooutlet.org">No Outlet</a>

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Post by **Greg Stephens** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 10:52 am

Very nicely done! I like it a lot.

Jack Masters · Post by **Jack Masters** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 11:31 am

Wow! This thing is huge! I didn't quite appreciate just how big a structure you'd made until I zoomed out. You must have more then 150 panels here.

When did you start working on this?

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 4:58 pm

Thanks.

There's 170 panels all told. I started on it last January. It was pretty off and on working on it, finished a couple weeks ago. These's a "zoomed out" page <a href="http://www.nooutlet.org/cartoons/lackad ... l">here</a> though it uses the same images, just squished down, so it takes just as long to download.

-Adam<a href="http://www.nooutlet.org">No Outlet</a>

Sean Frost · Post by **Sean Frost** » Fri Sep 21, 2001 7:37 am

That is really impressive. It's going to take me a while to look through all of the variations.

Great job!

Max Leibman · Post by **Max Leibman** » Fri Sep 21, 2001 8:19 am

Well, it certainly lacked adventure. Made me smile, anyhow. A day in the (lack of a) life of slacker college students.

I really enjoyed your art style, too -- clean line...distinct, pleasant color-schemes...anthropomorphic dogs (frankly, those are the only kind I can stand). I look forward to any other experiments you may put out.

-Max Leibman

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Mon Oct 01, 2001 10:10 am

Thanks guys.

And while it's certainly not very experimental, but I relaunched my comic today, finally throwing off the shackles of the newspaper strip format. Hopefully it'll let me do stuff like this on a regular basis in the future.

-Adam
<a href="http://www.nooutlet.org">No Outlet</a>

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Mon Nov 12, 2001 12:36 pm

Worth pointing out (though I'm sure Adam already knows) Kevin Pease has seen fit to bestow his (belated) September "Smart Move" award on Choose Your Own Lack of Adventure! Cool.