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Yeah, Real Life Comics has been a favorite time waster of mine for quite some time now. I think http://www.reallifecomics.com/daily_old.php?strip_id=839 is one of my favorite strips, which came out right before the LOTR-two towers hit the theaters.
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OK, ages since I posted but I have two things I must mention in this thread, first read Schlock Mercenary it is wonderful and it is topical for us since it is a Sci-Fi webcomic ( http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ )
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Okay, I thought the rest were kind of lame. But that "PartiallyClips" or whatever was really friggen funny.
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Yeah, I think that the concept behind it really works to highlight the humor. Particularly when the chosen clip would seem to depict some sort of action, so the joke has to revolve around keeping the picture the same.
And also, it's really the only one where the humor can be described as "friggin" at all.
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Yeah, I read all of them (hey, what can I say, I'm not a good guy here).
It's funny how some of the ones he thought were really great were kinda so-so and some of the ones he didn't think were very good are just brilliant. It adds something to the humor, you know?
Like in the comments about "Movers", where his commentary says "The actual definition of "work" in Newtonian mechanics is a little more complicated than these guys are putting it." He provides a link to a site that explains, get this, that the transfer of energy is dependent on whether the force is causing the motion. I'm like...noooo. Physics doesn't care which thing is causing another thing. If you push on something that is moving, even if it is moving because of something else (like pushing on the back end of a bus that is already moving), then you do work.
I think that my favorite is Recipie Book. I think that part of the grand slam humor of it is the subtlety, particularly compared with all the other strips, so maybe you should just read them from the beginning for maximum effect
Oh, and keep that commentary open. It's funny...or, er, maybe not to another human. I wonder....
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Yeah, that was pretty funny, though I was hoping it would take a shot at the writing itself.
The first was great and the ones thereafter weren’t bad at all. Then we got to “Pillars of Creation,” and that’s when I was out. In fact I’ll just post my review here instead creating a whole new rant.
quote:Approximately 652 pages.
I just want those who’ve followed the series to know, it’s not until approximately page 652 of a novel a little over 700 pages you catch up to Richard and Kahlan. Now, you don’t have to thumb forward the way I did to see when you going to start enjoying the book.
I’ve read all of Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth novels, and I admit I’ve enjoyed them, although they are a bit of a guilty pleasure. In his previous novels, elements of Goodkind’s plots seem rather familiar, and even those that are original are not anything groundbreaking, and a times a bit contrived, but you do find yourself getting caught up in the story. I can excuse all of Goodkind’s shortcomings because of the incredibly touching and endearing relationship between the protagonists Richard and Kahlan, even though it may be the biggest element of fantasy in the entire series.
The Pillars of Creation takes these contrived, and unoriginal plot elements to a level not yet imagined. To add insult to injury, the most interesting aspect of the story is removed as the reader will not interact with Richard or Kahlan until near the book’s conclusion.
Instead, Goodkind has decided to introduce two new characters, Jennsen and Sebastian, who are not nearly as interesting, and readers of the previous books will know them from the start to be either misguided or on the wrong side. There is no way a reader of this series won’t be privy to that information, yet Goodkind hinges the suspense of the story on this.
All of this still would have been excusable had he taken these characters and built the story to a climatic surprise conclusion that shockingly ties everything together. After enduring these new characters and their mundane, and predictable adventures, I was expecting a payoff along the lines of director/screenwriter M. Night Shyamalan’s work. For those of you will read this book, don’t get your hopes up. The ending is just a disappointing, if not more so if that’s possible, than the rest of the novel.
In fact the conclusion of the novel reminds me of the action/adventure cartoons of the 80’s, where the bad guys are defeated, and any misunderstandings are instantly resolved, and everyone shares a big laugh as we fade to the credits. Overall the book was a tremendous disappointment from an author who, despite my earlier comments, has proved himself in the past with his previous works The Wizard’s First Rule, and Soul of the Fire.
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