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Wednesday's XKCD is going to be a the number associated with missing webpages. It would be quite funny if Randell just took the day off, and left a gap in the archive. However Friday will also be the 4/04 (in UK parlance at least). "So basically he could legitimately take the whole rest of the week
off, a web comic version of 4'33''."
Which reminded me of David Morgan-Mar's take on it[1].
By themselves 4 solid black rectangles do not a comic make. But given the context here, I think they clearly do.
The question is: If Randall Munroe doesn't post anything on Wednesday, and carries on from 405 on Friday, is 404 a comic?
It's a valid, funny thing to do. However unlike DMM, you can't say actually he's posted anything. I'm really can't make my mind up on this one.
...
And if he does post something else, is the non-existence of an uncomic art?
Thanks to Nick, Hugh, and Jez for the first paragraph
[1]Aside:
It's been a while since any of irregular webcomic's characters displayed forbidden knowledge and 1390 threw me a little.It's one thing to have a GM shout down from on high that they are cheating, but it's quite another to be reminder that Lambert isn't actually supposed to be a hobbit, but an RPGer playing at being a hobbit. When they normally do it, all you see is the pieces talking to each other. So in the first panel I "saw" Lambert. The statement that the RPGer wasn't in the same room as the others anymore was a real jerk, as I have no mental image of what Lambert's RPGer looks like.
Cross posted to Snarkoleptics. Comments welcome there.
off, a web comic version of 4'33''."
Which reminded me of David Morgan-Mar's take on it[1].
By themselves 4 solid black rectangles do not a comic make. But given the context here, I think they clearly do.
The question is: If Randall Munroe doesn't post anything on Wednesday, and carries on from 405 on Friday, is 404 a comic?
It's a valid, funny thing to do. However unlike DMM, you can't say actually he's posted anything. I'm really can't make my mind up on this one.
...
And if he does post something else, is the non-existence of an uncomic art?
Thanks to Nick, Hugh, and Jez for the first paragraph
[1]Aside:
It's been a while since any of irregular webcomic's characters displayed forbidden knowledge and 1390 threw me a little.It's one thing to have a GM shout down from on high that they are cheating, but it's quite another to be reminder that Lambert isn't actually supposed to be a hobbit, but an RPGer playing at being a hobbit. When they normally do it, all you see is the pieces talking to each other. So in the first panel I "saw" Lambert. The statement that the RPGer wasn't in the same room as the others anymore was a real jerk, as I have no mental image of what Lambert's RPGer looks like.
Cross posted to Snarkoleptics. Comments welcome there.