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2006-02-13: Escape Phrase 7
Crunching along through the fresh snow
Hey, is anyone actually reading this? Or should I just go back to colourful monster stories?
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
Jimothy: We saw her -- the body -- pretty much as soon as we walked in. Hard... hard to miss. And the... message. Cop One: This the one you saw on the wall? We even got the lab boys on it -- there was nothing. Cop Two: Tell us about the dream, again. Jimothy: God, do I have to? Where's Tsam? Is she okay? Cop One: HA! Is she "OKAY"? Cop Two: She's singin' the nervous prostration blues over in the med slab. Look, you... don't leave town. We might want to talk to you again. But -- go home and get some sleep for now. [[Jimothy walks home in the winter cold.]] Jimothy: Sigh. Jimothy (thinking): Is it wrong I'm still excited about holding her hand? Dr Quickly: Jimothy -- you didn't read today's handout, did you? Jimothy: GAH! Professor Quickly?!