Reverend Jax Posted September 2, 2002 Share Posted September 2, 2002 I got a nice chuckle out of today's (monday the 2nd) installment. Nice subtle way of bring in the joke slowly so it all pieces itself together was the reader goes along. Tres classy. Way classier than just the french adjective 'tres' to modify and english adjective. Way classier. Keep it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 2, 2002 Author Share Posted September 2, 2002 Yeah, thank god these things aren't for newspapers. I dunno how I'd fit any of my jokes into 4 panels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 2, 2002 Share Posted September 2, 2002 thank god these things aren't for newspapers  That's funny, lots of people work really really hard to make their way into the newspapers and consider it a blessing if they do, and there you are thanking god that you aren't in the newspapers. That's funny  You could to sunday strips only. And then since you had to do only one a week instead of three, that would give yout the extra time you'd need to color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 2, 2002 Author Share Posted September 2, 2002 'S true, but then it'd suck if I ever wanted to introduce any well-definied storylines. They'd take months to see through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 3, 2002 Share Posted September 3, 2002 Lots of comic strip have continuous storylines. So'longs you have four panels a day and at the end of each installment it's funny, or thought-provoking, or shocking, or gets some kinda reaction besides the whaaaaa...? Just promise me if you get an offer for syndication that you won't turn it down "no matter how much money they try to throw at you." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 4, 2002 Author Share Posted September 4, 2002 Do not fear, JMT. I'd sell out pretty easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 Good, that's what I like to hear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 Nice work on the latest installment. I'm liking this freshman orientation story arc of yours. Good stuff, way better than the chatting online with girlfriend stuff. I have a question. How is time going to progress in your strip? Is Dante always going to be a freshamn? In four years will he graduate. As far as I've seen, there are three different time schemes in comic book/strips: Â Static: Season change change and christmas along with birthday will come and go a hundred times, but the character's ages stay the same. Generally speaking, there are no major life changes, no one get fired or promoted (unless they get rehired to the same job at the end of a story arc), no major characters die or are born, etc. ex: Peanuts, Simpsons, Calvin and Hobbes. Â Real: Kids are born adn grow up, character progress, etc. ex: For Better Or Worse, Baby Blues. Â Ratio: Time prgresses, but more slowly. A series might go on for fifty years and the characters that were teenagers in the fifties will be in there mid-tweinties in the twenty-first century. Allows for being able to do lots of material on certain stages in life but still have forward momentum. ex: Spider-Man, Blondie. Â So which is it gonna be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 4, 2002 Author Share Posted September 4, 2002 I'm shooting for the second one. If I can manage to keep this going for a year, then the second "season" will be a second school year. You'll see any physical changes the characters went through during the summer, and I'm hopin' there'll be quite a few actual character developmental changes, too. At least as much as is possible with somethin' as simplified and cartooney as this. If the comic actually becomes somewhat popular, and is still around after 4 years, I'm not sure what I'll do. I toyed with a high school spin-off (I went to a private Baptist-run high school...lotsa material, there) or maybe showin' DJ entering the job market...I dunno...'s a while away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 Who cares if the comic becomes popular! You're not getting paid to do this. You should do this forever even if I'm the only one who reads it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 4, 2002 Author Share Posted September 4, 2002 Heh, well no offense JMT, but if no one reads this stuff, I'd rather spend all this time trying to do something that DOES make me money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 5, 2002 Share Posted September 5, 2002 Big old money whore, aren't we? Lemme ask you something. Let's say people do start reading this. Let's say you get 10,000 loyal readers a day, how do you make money off that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesi Posted September 5, 2002 Share Posted September 5, 2002 Well, if 10,000 people were reading everyday, I wouldn't care about making money off it. I'm just saying, if NOBODY was reading, what would be the point of doing it? It'd be better if I spent all that time doing something that did make me money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 5, 2002 Author Share Posted September 5, 2002 Dammit! That was s'pposed to be me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 5, 2002 Share Posted September 5, 2002 Well, you twos just look so much alike, I couldn't tell the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 5, 2002 Author Share Posted September 5, 2002 Funny <_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 5, 2002 Share Posted September 5, 2002 Well...I thought so anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 7, 2002 Author Share Posted September 7, 2002 Oooo, 2000 hits. Heh, yeeeeah. ::Does Holden dance:: Ohhhh, who's your daddy? Go SB, go SB, it's your birthday, aw... Â Â Â (Ahem) Â ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Funny Friday installment. I think that a joke about the E! show of the same name, but I'm not sure if the name of that E!show is a tribute to something else or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 9, 2002 Author Share Posted September 9, 2002 There was an E! show with that title? Damn, I thought I was bein' creative... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 11, 2002 Share Posted September 11, 2002 Every idea's been done. Nice 9/11 tribute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 11, 2002 Author Share Posted September 11, 2002 Nah, 's still an infinite amount of ideas left. You jus' gotta learn to mix and match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 11, 2002 Share Posted September 11, 2002 That's where you're wrong. There are a finite amount of ideas in the world and all but about three or four have all been thought of long before. What you might be able to manage is coming up with one of the better of the infinite variations or appropriation for an idea or combining two or more old ideas in a new way. That's all you can hope for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted September 11, 2002 Author Share Posted September 11, 2002 Y'know, you're a cynical little uphill iceskating motherfucker, JMT. Lemme ask ya, was that "nice 9/11 tribute" a sincere comment, or just one've those polite things we're supposed to say, today of all days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted September 11, 2002 Share Posted September 11, 2002 Nah, it was sincere. The one year anniversery of the NY and DC attacks aren't enough to get me to fake polite compliments, it's enough to get me to take the fifth on myself and just say nothign at all if there's nothing nice to be said. Your tribute was alright Bob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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