question mark Story Tuesday May 17, 2016

[CritterKeeper 1,102]

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2236

 

So, I had noticed that the NP story "Question Mark" had been added to the menu for main story comics, but I guess I'd just assumed it was a link to the regular NP pages.  Turns out, it's been copied into the regular Story comics section, four to a page, and there are brand new commentaries with each page.  

They're all dated Tuesday May 17, 2016, which puts them, not immediately after "Squirrel Prophet" when they take place, but after the end of "So A Date At The Mall."

I thought that, since I'd missed that fact, others likely have too, plus the new commentaries deserve a place to discuss them.

[Scotty 1,061]

7 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2236

 

So, I had noticed that the NP story "Question Mark" had been added to the menu for main story comics, but I guess I'd just assumed it was a link to the regular NP pages.  Turns out, it's been copied into the regular Story comics section, four to a page, and there are brand new commentaries with each page.  

They're all dated Tuesday May 17, 2016, which puts them, not immediately after "Squirrel Prophet" when they take place, but after the end of "So A Date At The Mall."

I thought that, since I'd missed that fact, others likely have too, plus the new commentaries deserve a place to discuss them.

Is it bad that I originally thought you necroed a post from May? Then I was like "wait, there's been no replies to this, is this a new thread?" Sorry, I just woke up, lol.

The thing about the Question Mark NP, is it spans the whole day from just after Sarah waking up to when she goes to bed. So the stuff with Sarah trying to figure out her new spell happens before So a Date, and Pandora's visit is after. Dan probably figured it'd be easier to just lump it all after So a Date in the archives and treat it like a "Meanwhile, at the Brown residence..." rather than split it up.

[partner555 170]

Rereading Sarah's antic as she tries to figure out her spell shall be amusing.

[hkmaly 490]

17 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

I thought that, since I'd missed that fact, others likely have too, plus the new commentaries deserve a place to discuss them.

Wait ... is there something else new in the commentaries besides the "hey, I put this in main archive for people who don't read NP nor commentaries" , "I hope this is less confusing with four strips concatenated into one" and "hey, this is too important for NP"?

[The Old Hack 2,448]

1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

Wait ... is there something else new in the commentaries besides the "hey, I put this in main archive for people who don't read NP nor commentaries" , "I hope this is less confusing with four strips concatenated into one" and "hey, this is too important for NP"?

Quite possibly. I find it at least within the realms of possibility that not every single reader on this forum has exactly the same perspective and conception of what is important that you do.

[hkmaly 490]

8 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

Wait ... is there something else new in the commentaries besides the "hey, I put this in main archive for people who don't read NP nor commentaries" , "I hope this is less confusing with four strips concatenated into one" and "hey, this is too important for NP"?

Quite possibly. I find it at least within the realms of possibility that not every single reader on this forum has exactly the same perspective and conception of what is important that you do.

It's not about what is important. It's about what is new. Which is much more objective criterion.

I skimmed over the new commentaries and I don't think they are saying anything new about the spell or anything else happening in the commics - meaning, that it was already said in the commentaries in NP. There is new content, of course, but that speaks only about why Dan put it into main archive. This includes him saying several times "this is important". Well, it is important, but it's not new, it was already clear to be important from the NP.

Unless I overlook something, in which case I would appreciate if someone would tell me what.

(Meanwhile, your "quite possibly" sounds almost as you didn't read those commentaries yet.)

I'm not saying that putting the story line into main archive was superfluous ; there ARE people who could be confused, especially first time readers (meaning, people who didn't read the strip for Monday, May 16, 2016 before August 26th, 2016). I'm just not sure what we are going to discuss here to not repeat discussion for the NP strips.

... although, based on this, we are going meta.

[The Old Hack 2,448]

3 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

It's not about what is important. It's about what is new. Which is much more objective criterion.

The Moderator: And I am saying that you are not being objective at all. CritterKeeper started a thread against the possibility that people wanted to discuss it here in the story forums now that the Question Mark storyline is not merely canon but a full part of the main storyline. YOU are sarcastically and hostilely questioning the purpose of the thread, which is also known as trolling and is against the FAQ. My original post was made in the hopes that you would take the hint and thus obviate the need for me to post as moderator but I clearly made it too subtle for that.

In the future, if you feel a thread is redundant, there are two clearly proper courses of action. One is to complain to the moderator. Me. The other is simply to ignore the thread. Posting hostile logic chopping in an attempt to derail or kill the thread is a FAQ violation and will earn warning points.

I hope I have made myself sufficiently clear this time.

~tOH.

[partner555 170]

On 17 September 2016 at 1:03 PM, CritterKeeper said:

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2236

 

So, I had noticed that the NP story "Question Mark" had been added to the menu for main story comics, but I guess I'd just assumed it was a link to the regular NP pages.  Turns out, it's been copied into the regular Story comics section, four to a page, and there are brand new commentaries with each page.  

They're all dated Tuesday May 17, 2016, which puts them, not immediately after "Squirrel Prophet" when they take place, but after the end of "So A Date At The Mall."

I thought that, since I'd missed that fact, others likely have too, plus the new commentaries deserve a place to discuss them.

I have reread the comics. Doing it again all at once means everything is clearer.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2237

Does this mean the fact that Adam West DID NOT play Boba Fett is canon?

Because that would have been so incredible if he performed that role under an assumed name with the stipulation that the truth would not be revealed until after his death

[Scotty 1,061]

24 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2237

Second panel of the third row of that page, Sarah was on the right track thinking that Jerry might have missed an innate talent she had.

[hkmaly 490]

5 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Does this mean the fact that Adam West DID NOT play Boba Fett is canon?

... I think that was supposed to be two separate tries: one with guessing who played Boba Fett, other with guessing who is Adam West.

[Tom Sewell 268]

Remember that the Moperverse isn't quite our universe. Maybe Jason D. Poit played Boba Fett.

[mlooney 3,417]

I like the fact that she thought ahead about what turning into a werewolf would mean and took off her clothes.  Of course I would approve of anything that results in nudity mind you.

[Scotty 1,061]

8 hours ago, hkmaly said:

... I think that was supposed to be two separate tries: one with guessing who played Boba Fett, other with guessing who is Adam West.

No, Sarah did the the Boba Fett/Adam West bit in a Jeopardy style where she gives the answer first then attempts to give the matching question.

Also, note in Dan's commentary. " Adam West would have perfected Boba Fett. "

[Stature 96]

On September 19, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Scotty said:

Also, note in Dan's commentary. " Adam West would have perfected Boba Fett. "

I would have countered it with "Stick to superheroes", but Hollywood is in the way.

On September 19, 2016 at 0:22 PM, mlooney said:

I like the fact that she thought ahead about what turning into a werewolf would mean and took off her clothes.  Of course I would approve of anything that results in nudity mind you.

Save the clothes now, transform later. General rule of thumb, I guess.