When I came back to this comic today the alt-text just said “Interesting Times 324”, and on further inspection I found that I’d actually written something that had gotten buried in the wrong field. The alt-text is hereby restored for all to see! [January 16, 2012]
What are those round things on the time machine? I drew it, and I’m asking. [January 11, 2012]
There’s this joke I like to do while I’m talking to people, which is that I tell them something I’m not going to say (and thereby say it anyway). For instance, if a friend of mine does something silly, I’ll say “A lesser person than me might say that you just did something incredibly stupid, but I’m not judgmental like that.” The last panel of this comic is a nice visual example of that same style of humour. The best part is that I can just stick to the “high road” and say “yes, but you see, I didn’t go there! I even crossed it out!” [January 11, 2012]
This ‘justification’ lasted for a further three comics before I switched over to The GIMP and didn’t look back. As it turned out I did not much care to work with vectors again, both for reasons to do with ease of drawing and visual style. In the end, the purchase of this program was a big ol’ waste of money. [January 11, 2012]
This comic was likely inspired, at least in part, by my Mom. Over six years ago I introduced her to the computer game “Bookworm” and she has been playing it ever since. Oh sure, there have been other things in the meantime (“Peggle”, and more recently some hidden object games) but Bookworm was her first big gaming fixation.
If she’s ever not playing it regularly, it’s because of the issue brought up by this comic; one day the pieces will fall into place and she’ll get a higher score than she’s ever gotten. Too high, she thinks. Impossibly high. And then in subsequent games she won’t even be able to get close. It’s funny and a bit sad to watch, because I’ve been in that place so many times — if you set the bar too high and aren’t even sure what you did to get there, what hope do you have of ever getting there again? [January 3, 2012]
BEHOLD:
I WILL SOON BE INTERNET FAMOUS.
It’s a film we made last year and yes, it is the victim of a bad Youtube transfer so things are a little stretched.
