{"id":4323,"date":"2010-06-13T11:38:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T17:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2010-06-13T21:56:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T03:56:44","slug":"moving-the-glacier-into-the-gutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=4323","title":{"rendered":"Moving the glacier into the gutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that many of the serial comics move too slowly, and the suspense is drawn out for too long.\u00a0 Yes, suspense can add a lot to a plot, but a number of these plots are thin at best, and &#8220;suspense&#8221; only allow the mind (well, <strong><em>my <\/em><\/strong>mind) to wander&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, my point:\u00a0 when Aristotle Popitinpotitoutalot receives a phone call, who knows who or what might be on the other end?\u00a0 Coy comments really don&#8217;t help:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4324\" title=\"new-a3g\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/new-a3g.jpg\" alt=\"new-a3g\" width=\"730\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/new-a3g.jpg 730w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/new-a3g-250x113.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(I also realized after having done this mashup, the first four panels have a nice little shock value, without having to worry about a plot.)<\/p>\n<p>Sly chit-chat on the phone + a visitor who warrants a precious ejaculation =<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4325\" title=\"new-a3g-2\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/new-a3g-2.jpg\" alt=\"new-a3g-2\" width=\"790\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/new-a3g-2.jpg 790w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/new-a3g-2-250x56.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just take this to its logical conclusion, shall we?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4341\" title=\"a3g-3\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/a3g-3.jpg\" alt=\"a3g-3\" width=\"825\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/a3g-3.jpg 825w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/a3g-3-250x57.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that many of the serial comics move too slowly, and the suspense is drawn out for too long.\u00a0 Yes, suspense can add a lot to a plot, but a number of these plots are thin at best, and &#8220;suspense&#8221; only allow the mind (well, my mind) to wander&#8230; Oh, yeah, my point:\u00a0 when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apt-3-g","category-maryworth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}