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Apocalypses then.
This does seem to be the season for Apocalypses.
They're like buses. You wait ages for one, and three show up at one. In order of destructiveness then:
I've just finished reading The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin. Very funny, and surprisingly clever, but ultimately only threatened the inhabitants of it's strange illogical, well thought out little universe.
Next up, deep time have just set off a bomb to re-write history in a way of their own choosing, across many, but not quite all, timelines. Our heros have tried to escape using a risky manoeuvre concocted by a machine descended from a spambot (Sorry Charlie!).
Go have a look at the homepage for Starslip crisis today.
It's brilliant! The whole page has been utterly ripped apart!
Last, but not least, a whole bunch of time travel stories have culminated in 13 paradoxes occurring in the closing weeks of 2008 in various Irregular Webcomic strips, taking down every one of the different themes' universes.
The last two weeks' worth of strips have been a fantastic response to that.
He's asked before if 4 black squares can be a comic. This is taking that question to the next level. Can a blank white rectangle be a comic? How about two weeks of colour swatches? I think the answer's yes, and I have actually really enjoyed these last two weeks.
Cross posted to Snarkoleptics
They're like buses. You wait ages for one, and three show up at one. In order of destructiveness then:
I've just finished reading The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin. Very funny, and surprisingly clever, but ultimately only threatened the inhabitants of it's strange illogical, well thought out little universe.
Next up, deep time have just set off a bomb to re-write history in a way of their own choosing, across many, but not quite all, timelines. Our heros have tried to escape using a risky manoeuvre concocted by a machine descended from a spambot (Sorry Charlie!).
Go have a look at the homepage for Starslip crisis today.
It's brilliant! The whole page has been utterly ripped apart!
Last, but not least, a whole bunch of time travel stories have culminated in 13 paradoxes occurring in the closing weeks of 2008 in various Irregular Webcomic strips, taking down every one of the different themes' universes.
The last two weeks' worth of strips have been a fantastic response to that.
He's asked before if 4 black squares can be a comic. This is taking that question to the next level. Can a blank white rectangle be a comic? How about two weeks of colour swatches? I think the answer's yes, and I have actually really enjoyed these last two weeks.
Cross posted to Snarkoleptics
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The discussion on 4'33 was very interesting. Clearly the person who did not like it and wrote "It's like going to a modern art museum and discussing the artistic values of a urinal" clearly doesn't understand the nature of either work.
The challenging of the boundaries of art is something that has always fascinated me.
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His notes under the comic are almost always worth a quick read too. Here's a handy list of the list of comics with educational annotations. Some of these explain things at studied with more clarity than I ever got at uni.
I think you might enjoy another one of DMM's projects too.
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Damn you! I've got work to do.
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It's not as though I pointed you at his turing complete Zombie language, or his comic re-imaging Starwars movie (screenshots) as a bunch of unruly RPG players (which explains Jarjar as character made up by a small child).
Or even pointed you to the latest BBC news: As Others See Tintin fans story.
Be grateful for that at least... oops.
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