The Old Hack

I must still be tired. My immediate reaction to this was a mental image of immortals flocking to your home trying to mark you with an energy draining spell.

Nonsense. Billions of women manage just fine without one.

Patience! Patience! They're only just getting to the midjinks.

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They start up easy with lowjinks and then work their way up.

I think Tony is just stupid.

Yeah... he's pretty much screwed.

Big talk from the Pharaoh who used to dress like THIS.

Mph. I feel that is stretching it, but that is because I know the character and would be hard put to see him as anything but a big friendly dork. Mind, if it had been Rich...

Yes. Bloody things are sneaky. Next one coming might put on a mask and then we wouldn't be able even to recognise it and pull it out of a line-up.

Why would assuming that make her a good feminist? And besides, what he does doesn't even remotely resemble sexual harassment.

It's proof that she is good at her job.

I love the way Pandora looks in the last panel.

Good jokes often have at least some basis in reality Steven Brust has experimented with this. In his excellent book Taltos (book four in the series about Vladimir Taltos the assassin) he writes no less than three interweaving stories that all take place at different times and all come together seamlessly at the end. The movie Short Cuts presents a series of short films that all tie together in the end. It is actually a time honoured device to start a story in media res (you enter in the middle of an action sequence) and then only later learn how it all began. In fact, that is the beginning of A New Hope. I also recall several episodes of NCIS which open with one or more protagonists in dire trouble and the rest of the team trying to work out where they are and how it happened. Mind you, as with all other story devices it may be done well or badly. Done well it adds challenge and zest to the entertainment. Done badly it is just a mess.

I know, I know. That's why I am stretching a point and am opening the book after that one with part six. *sigh*

You strictly speaking don't need an earthquake for that. All you need is a cat. Or two, like my own dearly departed fur-covered troublemakers. Hm. I wonder if felines intensify the scale logarithmically, too? So one cat can create a force 1 catastrophe, two of them force 10, three of them force 100...

As a writer, I find Dan's commentary intensely irritating. He is jumping the gun. First of all, to have part two right after part one is no more than pandering to the audience's expectations. One needs to be more bold! I usually don't have my prologue until at least in the middle of part eleven, and in my next planned book I am killing off my protagonist in part three (which comes immediately after part seven, which is the one I traditionally open my books with.)

This one?

I have happily moderated the weather thread and have managed to not worry too much about the occasional hurricane or sharknado. If we are going to need a permanent earthquake thread, I am going to be worried.

AWESOME! Looking forward to seeing the game and hearing the songs!

The Moderator: When a thread has been inactive for ten days to two weeks, it is time to let it rest in peace. Please do not necropost. Posts commenting on old topics like these belong in the speculation threads in the general forum. ~tOH.

Edward, the reason it sounds bad is because it IS bad. That hole of yours is deep enough. Stop digging.

Nonetheless. Take care down there and make sure the family mummies are stored someplace dry.

I am very sorry to hear. I hope all your friends and relatives are safe and that you will get to the bottom of this. Be safe, old friend.

With one key difference. In "Airplane" it was intentional. Miller's All-Star Batman & Robin was just a mess. *sigh*