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1300: Am I an awful person?
Alex C:
Man, I was into fat ponies before it was cool.
JD:
--- Quote from: Shmee on 24 Dec 2008, 12:29 ---
--- Quote from: Zombiedude on 22 Dec 2008, 08:29 ---Yes you are an awful person. For creating a silly thread.
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Off-topic, but your icon is GREAT. I love Kate Beaton.
Did you make it, and... I politely ask... may I steal it? :D
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Nah, I was sneaking around Kate Beaton's LJ
Feel free to use it.
norcekri:
--- Quote from: littlefox on 24 Dec 2008, 12:21 ---Wow, norcekri. Make your own webcomic. I'd read it.
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Thanks for the vote of confidence. I do write some, but my drawing skills are somewhat less than the typical fare at xkcd. If you want to see these ideas in readable form, convince Jeph to use them; I won't get there in this decade.
Doing a regular comic requires a different style of writing: you have to present a situation and put a cadence on it in just a few panels. It requires strongly-defined characters, pithy dialogue, and enough drawing ability to support the expressions. I'm working on it, but for now, I'm happy to toss out ideas in case something inspires Jeph. If you're really interested in my writing, you can see some examples in the brain teasers at Braingle.com
As most writers can tell you, ideas are a dime a dozen, now that the dollar has fallen on international markets. Treatments are part of the grind-it-out process, and execution is where the talent is. I'm saving a few things, and working on more, for potential publication (probably self-publication, which bears a similar relationship to other things that begin with "self-"), but the day job and family have to come first.
DontPanic6x9:
--- Quote from: norcekri on 23 Dec 2008, 21:07 ---It's natural to want a little drama in your life. That's why soap operas are so popular. That's why ... well, fill in your own TV shows.
I've been waiting for a front-line breakup, myself: not like Ellen existing only to be the first girl to do the Booty Boogie, but one where both characters keep shivering in place, raising the anxiety levels of at least half the QC cast. Imagine a break-up in which Faye continues to console (and abuse) both sides, Steve sides with Dora, and Penelope becomes the staunchest supporter of Marten's position. Not just "it didn't work out", but Dora and Marten had to make an ethical decision, and went in opposite, incompatible directions.
For instance, what if Dora had troubles keeping DoC afloat, and started selling bootleg mix CDs under the counter? What if she included the first decent song Marten wrote, and he didn't find out until she handed him a check for his cut of the profits, with similar checks for the other band members? (Okay, so $12.50 isn't much for the first month, but ...). We can blow up the whole intellectual property rights thing in about ten panels spread over a week or so, and let the world polarize.
In the meantime, Hanners decides she'd better copyright herself before someone starts selling HanneClones; PintSize gets into the argument until he overloads with an identity crisis and starts spouting Sartre and DesCartes; Tai posts a photocopying session (of her salient parts) on YouTube; Raven makes tiny dolls of the CoD staff and sells them -- along with little pins -- to the customers. The whole thing ends with a fight over her right to make the dolls, lots of apologies ... but the make-up sex doesn't necessarily recapitulate the original romances.
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Sounds like the world according to Slashdot.
Shawn:
I don't hate their relationship, and I don't hate Dora, but I was hoping for some Dorten Drama too.
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