Comments on: Mell’s Major: July 16-21, 2001

By: David DeLaney

David DeLaney — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 06:00:41 +0000

In reply to Michael Brazier (michaelbrazier).

… that third paragraph has not really aged well.

–Dave, posting from the mid-apocalyptic month of September 2020

By: Seph

Seph — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:57:37 +0000

Speaking of evil lawyers, whatever happened to Octavius Winter Esq.? At the end of the filename story Helen tells him she’ll have him reanimated in no time, but at the start of the comic he’s nowhere to be seen.

By: BlackWolfe Coyoten (blackwolfe_coyoten)

BlackWolfe Coyoten (blackwolfe_coyoten) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:05:26 +0000

LOL@ "Big Law Book w/Tiny Print"

==END OF LINE==

By: Justin Grubbs (the_purple_knight)

Justin Grubbs (the_purple_knight) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:05:25 +0000

If that chair is a face then why in the world did Helen put its mouth in the seat? I've heard of cruelty from her, but never on such a terrible scale. No wonder the chair looks so sad.

By: David Harmon (mental_mouse)

David Harmon (mental_mouse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:05:24 +0000

That sentence would've contained two links to the estimable TV Tropes Wiki

We've gone through this before. Some of the freebie accounts can post links, some can't. We never did find a pattern, but someone provided a bit of script-magic that works around the problem:

In the comment box, put your cursor where you want the link, then go to your address bar, paste the following incantation, and make the obvious substitutions before hitting Enter. (The link will be blue but non-functional until you commit the comment.) The incantation:

javascript:tinyMCE.execInstanceCommand('mce_editor_0','mceInsertRawHTML',false,'<a href="INSERT URL HERE">TEXT TO DISPLAY FOR LINK</a>');

By: Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson)

Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:05:23 +0000

Did anyone else notice that the chair in the last panel looks like a face? Perhaps it’s a genetically-modified chair that does massages.@scivo – methinks we need to upgrade to non-free accounts to be able to insert links. Schmirt Spamion!

By: Matt Katinas (nidoking)

Matt Katinas (nidoking) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:05:22 +0000

Leon: I think that, rather than evaluate a jump in webcomic time here, it’s time to increase the Fourth Wall count.

By: Daniel Dauenhauer (scivo)

Daniel Dauenhauer (scivo) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:05:21 +0000

FWIW, I agree with Leon that Artie's question in yesterday's strip most resembles a Metafictional Device serving the Rule Of Funny...not that there's anything wrong with that!

That sentence would've contained two links to the estimable TV Tropes Wiki, but I can't figure out how to do it. Neither HTML nor BBCode is working for me. Oh well!

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:05:20 +0000

Saturday's Comic: The death ray was weeks ago? Quite a bit of webcomic time has passed between the computer guy's retirement and this instance. Let's assume that, say, eight weeks have passed, as that is the duration of real time that Mell's comment is actually referring to. (This might render previous exclamations a little unusual, but the context there is sufficiently loose.)

Hence: the "Mell's Major" storyline actually takes place at the end of February. The time disparity caused by the previous storylines is beginning to slacken.

By: Owl Who says South (owlsayssouth)

Owl Who says South (owlsayssouth) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:05:19 +0000

of course. this mell is but the deadly dangerious beast, whose attention will always be distracted by the "big gun" of the moment.

A mell who thinks, shows remorse, and remembers things (like what she was going to do with that "big gun")... well, that mell is the dangerious one.