Add to the list Buckley vs. Kurtz.
Oh, the epic battles.
Delayed Comic 2012-11-22
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Re: Delayed Comic 2012-11-22
"Character is what you are in the dark." - D.L. Moody
"You should never run from the voices in your head. That's how you give them power." - Jin
"You should never run from the voices in your head. That's how you give them power." - Jin
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Re: Delayed Comic 2012-11-22
You only get royalties after you've paid your dues...Jürgen A. Erhard wrote:Wapsi Withdrawal Bluesbmonk wrote:I may have spoken too soon. I'm going through withdrawal.bmonk wrote:Yes. We will give thanks even without Wapsi Square--although it may be harder. Concentrate on getting well.
But I think I can survive.
F5 . . . F5 . . . F5 . . . F5 . . . .
"But I think I can survive
On F5, F5, F5"
(Yeah, just a spontaneous inspiration, not a real work of art.)
(DAMN. Normally, you get royalties. But in these here parts, you gotta pay. The... PUN JAR! Okay, here are some chord progressions, you ravenous beast!)
"The price of perfection is prohibitive." - Anonymous
Re: Delayed Comic 2012-11-22
You have no idea how many times I've reflected on how prophetic C. M. Kornbluth was. He wrote The Marching Morons 61 years ago. That's before Sean Hannity and Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo. Newton Minow wouldn't declare television a vast wasteland for another 10 years.Dave wrote:Oh, I know... I just couldn't resist the opportunity to indulge in some mock-horrorJabberwonky wrote:It was certainly meant in jest. Pablo is already the hardest working man in webcomics.Dave wrote:I mean, really. Gahan Wilson was right about this.
"Well, I'll buy that for a quarter!"And to answer the esteemed Mr. Wilson - It must be, look how many worship it through the television.
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Re: Delayed Comic 2012-11-22
Another piece of marvelous social prophecy In the guise of science fiction: Ray Bradbury's "The Murderer". Bradbury successfully predicted the constant-chatterhead "cellphone culture" at least fifty years before it arrived...Dr. Otter wrote:You have no idea how many times I've reflected on how prophetic C. M. Kornbluth was. He wrote The Marching Morons 61 years ago. That's before Sean Hannity and Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo. Newton Minow wouldn't declare television a vast wasteland for another 10 years.
.. and knowing it was coming didn't help. It still drives me crazy. </grumpy-old-guy>
Re: Delayed Comic 2012-11-22
C-A-D was one of the first webcomics I started reading - just behind Questionable Content and Schlock Mercenary. Talent at art aside, the post-cerberus syndrome CAD had a story I enjoyed. While the author's reasoning for a "reboot" is valid, the story shall be missed.jwhouk wrote:That would presume that CAD was actually as good as Wapsi. And that Buckley was actually as good as Pablo.chibichibi01 wrote:Indeed. You could hear us screaming from all over. Just think if Paul had had Shel stab Monica in the head without all that "You can't kill her!" and then just said... "The End"Dave wrote: Could be worse... consider today's plight among the Ctrl-Alt-Del fans...
Yeah.
This is how we feel. After reading that today, this... this is a low blip on the radar, though a well loved blip.
And both presumptions are wildly inaccurate, as Pablo has more talent in his little finger than Buckley ever had.
</quiznos_hate>
EDIT: Of course, NO ONE has ANYTHING on Howard Tayler.
Eagerly anticipating the Pun Jar singularity event...
Forget the Plot Flour...we're into Plot Cornstarch, and the plot has gone non-newtonian...
"To the Journey!"
Forget the Plot Flour...we're into Plot Cornstarch, and the plot has gone non-newtonian...
"To the Journey!"
Re: Delayed Comic 2012-11-22
My condolences - yeah, it hurts when one of our favorite fiction-lines comes to an end and the characters leave our lives (even if it's well known in advance that it's going to happen... which I gather was not the case for C-A-D). And, added to the very personal loss you suffered recently... ow... I imagine that it's rather like salt in a wound.chibichibi01 wrote:Indeed. You could hear us screaming from all over. Just think if Paul had had Shel stab Monica in the head without all that "You can't kill her!" and then just said... "The End"Dave wrote:Could be worse... consider today's plight among the Ctrl-Alt-Del fans...
Yeah.
This is how we feel. After reading that today, this... this is a low blip on the radar, though a well loved blip.
You can at least console yourself slightly in seeing that the C-A-D reboot has led to the discussion of something near and dear to Pablo's heart.
Perhaps this is how he spent some of his time this weekend, while recovering from his nasty case of That Which Should Not Have Been Eaten By Anything Other Than A Hyena?
Re: Delayed Comic 2012-11-22
Then there's Clarke's story "I Remember Babylon" about the people inspired by the idea of geosynchronized satellite orbits, after Arthur had proposed them, to launch their own hardware for broadcasting salacious programming from above international waters. It was something he had realized would be a possible consequence of his theory, but he couldn't predict that the sats never needed to be that sneaky, or that the coming internet would be even more of a conduit for human nature.Dave wrote:Another piece of marvelous social prophecy In the guise of science fiction: Ray Bradbury's "The Murderer". Bradbury successfully predicted the constant-chatterhead "cellphone culture" at least fifty years before it arrived...Dr. Otter wrote:You have no idea how many times I've reflected on how prophetic C. M. Kornbluth was. He wrote The Marching Morons 61 years ago. That's before Sean Hannity and Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo. Newton Minow wouldn't declare television a vast wasteland for another 10 years.
.. and knowing it was coming didn't help. It still drives me crazy. </grumpy-old-guy>
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Re: Delayed Comic 2012-11-22
You left out "Air America".Dr. Otter wrote:You have no idea how many times I've reflected on how prophetic C. M. Kornbluth was. He wrote The Marching Morons 61 years ago. That's before Sean Hannity and Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo.
Dr. Otter
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