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March 4th, 2008 at 2:57 am
I assume this would be one of the comic ideas you mentioned in the live Q&A.
March 4th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Ooooh. I read Sluggy regularly so I saw that one when it was put up yesterday but didn’t get the joke until now. Thanks BA
March 4th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Shouldn’t that be “Green Eggs and Whom?”
March 4th, 2008 at 7:43 am
There were a couple of us who were referencing this comic in the comments of yesterday’s “Blink” post.
Sluggy is a great strip. Abrams was at DragonCon Last year. I so wanted to get the new book and get him to sign it, but I was too broke, had just enough to register and pay for my room. By the time I did get money, he was gone.
Too bad Death from the Skies won’t be out until after you vist DragonCon this year…
March 4th, 2008 at 8:42 am
checking something…
March 4th, 2008 at 9:48 am
that particular two-part strip of “Home on the Strange” is saved on my desktop and if i could, i’d make a pair of posters out of them and hang them on the wall… i’ve long ago stopped baiting door knocking evangelists (i’ve also stopped answering the door to them) but this is still my theology: my Time Lord and Savior. sadly, HotS seems to have finished up.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Astronomer:
Prehaps it is because you post the same thing, verbatim, without really saying anything, such as point out errors. People have done that in the past, and BA has been excellent at correcting them, and admitting to it too!
Oops. Wait. I forgot one of the most important parts of posting comments to the web, “Don’t feed the trolls.”
March 4th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Wow, I can’t wait for Astronomer to repost his twice deleted post again. Then my retort will come before his post, and I can be all like “See, I’m psychic!” That’ll be great publicity for my book detailing how the Mayans knew about the impending GRB from WR104 and how that event is the end of the Mayan 2012 calendar. Sales will go through the roof!
March 4th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Tangentially related to Dragon*Con, the word on the gamer blog scene is that Gary Gygax has passed away.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:58 am
@Doc:
Yeah, I’m just now seeing it on the AP wire too.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
From the title, I thought you might be linking to my Doctor Who / Doctor Seuss / Cat Macro post from a couple months ago…
http://community.livejournal.com/ihasatardis/678571.html
March 12th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
So BA what was your joke then? Identical, or as I gather somewhat different?