Comments on: Shoulder Angels

By: Hippie

Hippie — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:12:12 +0000

hehehe, Dave’s social life sprite is smoking a joint… the only one with rolled-up lines. Maybe his social life has glaucoma…

By: Wrabbit

Wrabbit — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:03:46 +0000

I wonder what it says about me that I find Helen’s Left Brain the sexiest of them all. I don’t even like Star Trek all that much.

By: BlackWolfe Coyoten (blackwolfe_coyoten)

BlackWolfe Coyoten (blackwolfe_coyoten) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:54:44 +0000

I love that both Dave and Helen's Left Brain sprites are Star Trek references - though the fact that Dave's is Next Generation and Helen's is the original series has to be indicative of something.

#$(@ if I know WHAT, though.

By: David Harmon (mental_mouse)

David Harmon (mental_mouse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:54:43 +0000

So It Begins: WTH? OK, I have now passed from frustration to astonished befuddlement.

One last idea occurs to me: Are the folks who can post links, perhaps limited to the "premium" users of the site? I'm still on a freebie account myself....

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:54:42 +0000

P.S: I think you post links by standard HTML. BBCode doesn't work in Webcomicsnation. However, I can see no reason why your link didn't work-- I tried it and here it is.

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:54:41 +0000

For the three, I like Dave’s Common Sense, Helen’s Evil (she’s hot when she’s evil! 😉 ), and Mell’s Kill Kill Kill (this one I didn’t have a choice.)

By: Matt Katinas (nidoking)

Matt Katinas (nidoking) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:54:40 +0000

I think the major prerequisite is being too much of a jerk to share the secret. If I knew, I'd tell you... therefore my links don't work either.

That, or lots of people post comments here but never return to read them. So what you need to do is constantly refresh around midnight in the relevant time zone until the new strip posts, add a "how do you post links?" comment before anyone else sees the strip, and repeat until someone bans you for being annoying. Then the question of adding links is moot, because you can't even add plain text.

By: David Harmon (mental_mouse)

David Harmon (mental_mouse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:54:39 +0000

Bah, I've asked this before, and never got an answer.

1) Leon, you just posted a link, which showed up correctly and worked. Obviously, you know how to do so.

2) Equally obviously, it's not a matter of simple HTML, as you can see the results of that in my previous comment above.

3) There is no button for links in the Rich Text editor I am typing in. I have repeatedly gone searching through the Webcomics Nation pages, and have been flatly unable to find any page addressing this point. I have also tried C&P-ing BBCODE from the old forums.

SO:

π) How the heck do you code links into these comments!

By: David Harmon (mental_mouse)

David Harmon (mental_mouse) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:54:38 +0000

Some thoughts:

1) All of Dave's sprites wear glasses (or in one case, an implant), but only about about half of Helen's do. Particularly interesting, given how Dave's glasses take on symbolism throughout the strip.

2) Dave's Right Brain might not appear as such, but it does have some resemblance to his Insanity sprite (<a href="http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10983#strip5">"What the hell are you?!"</a>)

3) With the close of the original strip, I imagined all these sprites hanging out with Morpheus' handy-jack Mervyn.

By: Chris Reed (animeraider)

Chris Reed (animeraider) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:54:37 +0000

I’ve waited until now to say it, but I’ve always loved that Dave’s inner teenager wears a Slayer T-shirt. That sums it all up.