AsLAN
Shaenon: Jeffrey did this. I totally blame him.
Channing: Ahem, yes. A throwaway gag on our January 14 strip suggests that Leo is a budding webcomicker, which is unsurprising, because by rough estimate every single person in the entire gargahooling world has a webcomic, myself apparently included. Leo’s strip consists of three characters: The lion with the slicked-back mane (the cool one), the lion with the forward-bristling mane (the manic one) and the strange antelope-like creature (the patently-uncool straw man used for expressing unpopular opinions.) Every single strip consists of three panels of obfuscated tech-talk followed by one panel of the antelope getting eaten. To Leo, it is a labor of love.
Oh, and yes, the punctuation error in panel one is his. He’s a lion, fer cryin’ in the mud. I think it’s pretty good he does as well with the language as he does.
Dave Van Domelen (dvandom) says: AsLAN silent penultimate panel count: 1
Daniel Ross (nentuaby) says:
Hmmm… I don’t have a webcomic. I guess that’s down to me living in some other world than the gargahooling one.
(Though… I am… Writing A Novel. So… Yeaah.)
John Campbell (jcampbel) says: Leo draws pretty well for a guy with paws.
Ed Gedeon (eddurd) says:
OMG!! They killed Antelope!
YOU B@$%@&*S!!
Steve Ford (sford) says: Does US copyright extend to monstrosities?
Jay M. (is for Monkey) (branching_spiral) says:
Ah, so Leo’s read Power Up comics, hasn’t he?
This is a great parody, BTW.
Kaesa Aurelia (kaesa) says:
From now on, I am going to refer to poorly-written strawman loser characters as The Antelope. They tend to pop up a lot in Mary Sue fics, too.
Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) says:
No webcomic here! No siree!
Just, um, well.. . . . er. . . working on what may someday be an actiuall cartoon so I guessthatskindaworse.
By the way, I have *no* idea what the *heck* he’s talking about. Jut for the record. I somehow now feel *old*. (Durn whpper snappers lions)
NigaiAmai Yume (nigaiamai_yume) says:
I’d only have a webcomic if someone was willing to draw my “Girl Genius/Trigun”esqu, “Gaslamp Fantasy, Clockwork Cowboy-Bounty Hunters in Victorian Australia with Classic Greek References” idea.
Not that I’m asking or anything. ^-^
Novels (or tv series, or movies, or games, or what not) I want to write that I could probably get copyright on: 15+
Fan fic ideas: WAY too many…
Actually written: I have a few poems done…
Sharon Lee (sharonlee) says: I don’t have a webcomic either. Stipulating that I could draw even as well as Leo, which I can’t, I’m far too indolent to draw and post a strip a day, every day; it’s all I can do to write and post a chapter a week, with frequent weeks off for ice cream and other restoratives…
bzzzzd (bzzzzd) says:
Not only am I not a man-of-the-cloth in this gargahooling world, but I am also without my own webcomic.
I feel so pre-defined and post-bermudian…
bzzzzd (bzzzzd) says:
While we are crying in the mud: Remember It’s-Its? Vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two oatmeal cookies, then covered in dark chocolate…..BZZZZzzzttt!
Sorry, apparently excessive drool can short out keyboards.
Mel Van Weelden (kessalia) says: Well, he did say rough estimate… Whose of us without webcomics are probably balanced out by people who have two or more going at once. Which seems to be most of the author/artists I read at the moment. *L* So maybe on AVERAGE it all works out. A few do tons of webcomics so the rest of us can be lazy (and/or completely devoid of talent.)
Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) says:
“While we are crying in the mud: Remember It’s-Its? Vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two oatmeal cookies, then covered in dark chocolate…..BZZZZzzzttt!”
It’s-Its are still plentiful and delicious here in San Francisco. They also come in chocolate and mint.
Dana Mackenzie (zymurgy) says: However, here in Santa Cruz, which is only an earthquake’s rattle away, I can only find vanilla.
It’s-Its also have a cappuccino flavor now.
[quote]Every single strip consists of three panels of obfuscated tech-talk followed by one panel of the antelope getting eaten. [/quote]
This is so “Dinosaur-comics” like — the artwork is almost constant from strip to strip.
Have you considered doing this comic for real?
Ah yes. The ancient days of 2008, when every single person in the entire gargahooling world had a webcomic. So much has changed since then. Now we live in the advanced future of 2020, where every single person in the entire gargahooling world has a podcast. See, that’s much different.
But crusty old dwagons still say “oh, fer cryin’ in the mud” just like Jeffrey.