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December 8, 2011
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Just as funny the sixth time, Scott.
LOL in every frame. You're not stale yet, Scott. Keep trying.
There are so many different ways to spin the same subject matter.
For example: I frequently have to explain my fear of butterfly faces to my friends (they either didn't believe me the first time I explained or just like to see me squirm). Each time I explain my fear it's different. The first time it was more a "Aaaah! Holy Christ their just horrible and scary!" The second time was more wordy "Jesus Christ! You don't understand! Their freaking demon bug faces from hell!" By the third time explaining it I've devolved into mere sound effects such as "Ahhhhhh! Geeeeeh! Eeeeek!"
So don't worry about reusing material. Everyone does it!
Excellent. Desperate times, desperate measures. Now we get to send you all our
patheticingenious ideas.Do one about Star Wars!
[Chuckles at third panel, realizing that he already has his RSS feed labeled BI]
Just add more female characters and I can get behind the renaming to BI.
Not just an LOL in every frame, a GIANT lol in every frame! Wonderful to have Missy back. And you know what? I'd like to see a strip with you and Rick called "BI." Especially if it was tight and lean, which on second thought I guess might be too much of a stretch for Rick.
This is just brilliant.
Nah, you're not creatively bankrupt. The allusion to KFC was particularly lucid, and it happened right in the middle of an introspective comic. That's trickier than a lot of people might think.
I'd comment, but I wouldn't be saying anything that hasn't been said before.
I've been following you for a couple years, been through all the archives, and I have several favorites. This comic, however, was one of your best for sure. As Sterling said, Lol'd in every frame. Great stuff, thank you for your work.
"Welcome to Basic: You Still Won't Learn."
Pure awesome. Seriously Scott, you've got some raw and major talent here.
If you wish to change the format, then just play around with it a little.
I'd suggest makin' a few rerun samples. Tweaking comics already made into your new format idea, and then linking them in, but not as a main feature Then you ask for feedback and see what happens. ^_^
Well, that's what I'd do anyways, just to test the water.
Anyways, whatever you do, I'm sure it'll be FRIGGING* brilliant!!!
(*Is that too obscure for an inside joke?)
Keep cool, Scott!!
~ Sniff.
Hey! We bi people take MAJOR exception to panel three. But the other three panels pass inspection. Carry on.
'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is how the age-old, grammatically incorrect, maxim goes I do believe
You're hitting winners every time! If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I think after 2008 you´re entitled to a debt reorganization. Do we get any assurance that the comics will still be taking off on schedule and the mileage program will be honored?
I've read over 500 of these? Wow!
If you run out of ideas for instructions, I'll assume that my studies here are complete and that I can now go out and make my own way in the world. The wisdom of the BI people will travel with me.
It'll never not be funny.
"Young humorists borrow. Mautire humorists steal."
-Mark Twain (but maybe not)
Brilliant!
The format never gets old for your readers! I can see how it would sometimes limit the writer, but never your fans. No one else does this, and the fact that you have successfully done 500 is amazing!
It always irks me when people say, "Haven't you done this topic before?" They are taking liberties with criticism they wouldn't waste the time sending if it weren't so easy in this online format.
Get Fuzzy is another of my favorites, and there are recurring topics that are just spun different ways, but it's still funny. How many ways can Bucky's obsessions with monkeys make us laugh? Who knows? We haven't stopped yet.
That said, I would love to see any experiments you'd like to try. You're a comedian and an artist. Break your box if you want to!
Good stuff, Scott!
LIsten, from time to time, I leaf through your first two books and still get a kick from them. Some I don't bother to look at all like the one with the cat and mullet boss. *shudder*
I remember when you tried different stuff at Scott Adams' suggestions and I was glad you stayed with this format. However, nothing wrong with trying different stuff if only to stretch yourself. Just don't be thinking that what your doing is somehow not working and you need to do something different.
Some of the longest running comics are pathetically predictable, yet they keep making money at them. Many people don't want change, they want comfortable.
Family Circus never changed why should you.
Scott, you've created a comic where the readers feel an emotional connection with the characters. Not many artists have done this as well as you. In the lives of people in the real world, most days are pretty much the same. So if the readers care about the characters the same way they care about real people, they'll forgive a little bit of recycling of situations. Scott Adams and Stephen Pastis wouldn't be able to get away with it, but you can.