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Well, god damn, I've been hitting Next Story on that site instead of Next Page. No wonder some of them made no god damn sense, and yet it felt like things kept continuing because the same characters were used.

I was doing that for *ages* as well! They really need to add a page indicator to the strip.

On the plus side, that means I'm not done with the comic and there still like, 100% more content to go. Yay?

Or just put all the strips for a single story on one page. It's a real UI failure there.

You bastard.

Oh shit, that's how that ended? RAARRRGH

Oh, I did like the story where the Snow Queen gets introduced to a freeze-proof vibrator by a trio of gnomes. BOOOOM

"Spring used to mean something before technology."

Fucking shit, alright, at least I didn't go through ALL of it again just yet.

I'm not gonna view source code, though. the snippets of text at the top are hilarious enough out of context. I think that's what you're talking about anyways.

No, if you hover each strip, there's some text that appears in a tooltip - that's the title attribute. If you right-click the strip (in Chrome and Firefox) and click 'inspect element', you can see the alt attribute as well. I'm half-tempted to write a Greasemonkey script that pulls out the alt and title attributes.

I don't think the epilogue/extras that Elyscape mentioned are relatively new (could be wrong though, I didn't go back that far). I did find two Vocabulary Bears strips though:

Man, amateurs. DDC has easter eggs in the tooltips, the contact email and the RSS feed every day, then usually in the tooltips of ads, occasionally in the comic's transcription or in the image file's watermark. Heck, once he did a comic about steganography and there was a secret message encoded into the file. Using steganography!

Also, now we all know that Elyscape uses Internet Explorer. Let the mocking begin.

Holy crap, I can't believe I've been missing this much Vocabulary Bears! Way to go, Oglaf.com...

OK, the last panel in this made me giggle:

Survivor

Link to the page, not the image. Hotlinking penalty, deduct 10 Elyscape likes.

You're not the boss of me.

Linked by SuperJay in that other thread that isn't about comics:
http://poorlydrawnlines.com

Some of this is pretty fucking funny.

Sinfest got too overbearing with its neo feminist whateveryoucallit, so I stopped reading it regularly. Once a month or so I'll remember it, though, and go catch up to see if he has moved on to his next phase yet. Did that this morning and saw this:



Touche, Mr. Ishida. Touche.

After some bad-ass shit went down in Girl Genius, some bad-ass shit is about to go down in Girl Genius!

Entirely disagree.

Do you remember the story Klaus wanted told to his son?

I always think about that story. It's brilliant.

Remember in the first story in Girl Genius?
Tiktoffen's clanks were outdated. Apparently obsolescence exists in Girl Genius, but the Heterodynes were really ahead of the game.

I think we might be about to get a pointed example of exactly that from Klaus. *squeeing from awesomeness*

Higgs vs. Klaus confrontation incoming! I bet!

... that would be so awesome I would probably collapse in a puddle of glee.

A Softer World, anyone?

Speaking of manly men about a page back, does anyoen read Manly Guys Doing Manly Things?

I don't always agree with the author, but sometimes she knocks it out of the part in an update.

Just so you know, it's mostly about video game characters. Then sometimes it's not.

It introduced me to pigeons which introduced me to Angie which introduced me to.. Here.

I've never seen the appeal.

Seems like he's only looking to deny the Other the former.

Bob the Angry Flower has been phoning it in for years, but occasionally there's a decent one:

Thought this little video from PBS about webcomics was interesting, even if it totally fails to deliver on the premise in its title. The Perry Bible Fellowship guy actually strikes me as far closer to normal than I would have guessed.

So, xkcd is doing something interesting. When his current comic, 'Time', went up Monday, it looked like this:



But then, an hour or so later, it looked like this:



Later that day the couple was building a sandcastle:



And now it looks like this:



The thread on the xkcd forum discussing the comic has passed 750 entries and 155,000 views.

Here's a webpage where a reader's been grabbing each new frame as it updates and has turned it into an animation. I'll be watching to see where this goes.

Edit: Wednesday morning, and he's still at it.

Stuff like this is why I really like xkcd. Sure, there's the occasional math joke that annoys me because I can't understand it, but the guy does some interesting experiments with the webcomic "medium."

May I recommend trying Book of Biff ?

xkcd update: it's lunchtime Wednesday, and the sand castle is done.



Now what happens? I can see three options.

(1) The show's over, folks. Hope you caught it while it was running.

(2) The castle now starts to decay and is eventually carried away by the tide. By Sunday night there's nothing left; the couple returns, pokes around a bit, and sits down to watch the water, returning to the poses they struck in the first installment. The sequence then repeats.

(3) The guy with the hat runs it over with a bulldozer.

Oh, man, I'm hoping for #3.

I like Hallbeck's Minimumble and Maximumble as well (accessible from the top of the Book of Biff's page). Something weird has been going on with Biff's RSS feed. I get nothing for a while, then I get a flood of a week or two worth.

Thanks. Never saw them, for some reason. And they are every bit as random as the Book of Biff, great !