Comments on: Grass Roots: June 24-29, 2002

By: Darkstarr

Darkstarr — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:08:11 +0000

In reply to Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity).

Am I the only one who noticed that you used Albertus Medium (the same font used in The Prisoner for pretty much everything in The Village) in Monday and Tuesday’s strips? Very nice touch, that!

Now I can’t wait to see Dana shout, “I am not a number, I am a free hamster!” ^_^

By: ribbles (ribbles)

ribbles (ribbles) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:55:12 +0000

No one is as clever as Jason Shiga.

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:55:11 +0000

Interactive…? Um.

By: Joel Brackenbury (mockferret)

Joel Brackenbury (mockferret) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:55:10 +0000

The final storyline was enough of a mindfuck as it was. Making it a Jason Shiga-style interactive tale would probably have caused my head to entirely melt.

By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity)

Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:55:09 +0000

Only, you know, horrible and wrong.

By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity)

Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:55:08 +0000

Andrew just commented that he likes the hippie because it’s like Bruno carrying Oscar the Grouch on “Sesame Street.”

By: Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson)

Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:55:07 +0000

I can see Andrew’s point. There is a certain special something about a lobotomized hippie. Maybe that’s the future of personal transportation. Everyone could ride around on a lobotomized hippie.

By: Adam Underfoot (unnatural20)

Adam Underfoot (unnatural20) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:55:06 +0000

I’m glad it didn’t become a choose-your-own adventure. I always end up picking the most undignified death possible.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:55:05 +0000

Saturday:

The brainpower engine seems to be a necessary element for any permutation of this story - it is, after all, the reason for the bleakness of the Bleak Future.

But, conversely, the irradiation of 90% of the planet seems to be a low priority for our Future cast - instead, their own personal deaths and debilitations are what actually motivate them to change things. And, in the end, the most plot-significant aspect of Dana's device turns out to be the fact that it is a high place to tumble off from.

"Also, at one point I was going to do the final arc as a Choose Your Own Adventure story." I'm assuming this doesn't mean that the strip would suddenly switch to second-person narration. Would you really have been motivated to draw ten different endings, though?

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:55:04 +0000

"That's Zeta. Dana doesn't have eyewear."

Consarnit! From now on, I'm calling the human "Ms. Vincent" and the rodent "Girl Artie".