Hi I guess it is my turn to try out this thing! I am ascared of blogs kind of, it seems like an awful lot of people who think they're important by having opinions about other people's opinions about things they can't do anything about.
I am going to write about this comic that has dinosaurs for a second, it is at the website qwantz.com. It is a deal where this guy, Ryan, decided to take the same comic layout and write different words every time. You've seen this done before, unintentionally. You know, some dude been workin on two characters for a couple hours then finally gets it right, and copies and pastes it a thousand times just making the mouth a different shape -- this makes it not funny.
What makes this "Qwantz" thing funny is that this is what Ryan deliberately set out to do. Reading the archives gives you this freaky sense of deja vu, and then you find comfort since you realize that unlike your other deja vu experiences, this one doesn't involve your unpredictable bowels.
I noticed last night (this morning) there is this weird subculture of internettin' e-bay dudes that are at the post office mailing multiple packages at 1 o'clock in the morning. They don't say much, but it's comforting, to be amongst the like-pasty-faced and Paypal-pioneers.
i *wish* we had 1am post offices around here.
Posted by: rstevens | December 11, 2003 at 12:39 PM
There is a 24 hour post office near every major airport! This is a secret that is like "Fight Club".
Posted by: jeffR | December 11, 2003 at 12:51 PM
the secret lives of sexy DINOSAURS.
Posted by: rstevens | December 11, 2003 at 01:10 PM
Wow, thank you Jeff! I am largely in favour of dinosaur comics.
My first try used a slightly different layout with a different dinosaur in the first two panels. It turned out that it was impossible to do anything with this! I couldn't even do one comic. But then I changed the first two panels and then I put the comics up on the internet!
Posted by: Ryan | December 11, 2003 at 02:25 PM
What I've always liked about dinosaur comics is that it recontextualizes the same pictures, it takes them and makes genuinely funny and insightful comics out of them, instead of just relying on the gag that the pictures repeat.
And that gets me sort of hot.
Posted by: Joey | December 12, 2003 at 01:09 AM
Get Your War On, by David Rees (mnftiu.cc), utilizes that comic style.
Posted by: mbmathy | December 12, 2003 at 04:08 PM