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2006-09-01: Escape Phrase 89
Concrete too
I like how the author breaking in was handled in Concrete.
Everyone has opinions about Dave Sim.
This comic is in the storyline:
- Escape Phrase
This was intended to be a 24-hour comic but my hand hurt too much twelve pages in. And then it turned into a crazy experimental study of the interaction between form and content in the comics medium.
Text transcript
Dr Quickly: It's like in Cerebus, where he meets the author and all sorts of weirdness that is interesting occurs. Tsamantha: I never read that. Jimothy: In what? Dr Quickly: Yeah... me neither. Nick told me about it. Anyway, that's not the point. This whole story existed to make some strange points about metafictional narratives. Jimothy: Is this all just some terrible joke? You, the "Author"... and our POWERS... Dr Quickly: No. I created you. The force of it made the four you faced. And here we are at the end of the story. Your story.