The first nearly-forgotten weekend of 2009 (1/3-4/9)

[Caravan Ray]

Yeah, but I figured out what you meant as soon as I woke up from it.

I'd just like to nominate this post for:

BEST RESPONSE TO BLT FOR 2008

[fluffy]

These days I spend way more time drawing comics than working on music.

I didn't get your Womble comic when I first saw it. It took me until last night, when I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep, before I got it. I was confused at first because I couldn't understand why the purple Womble dissolved half way why there was another one coming out of a wormhole. But then picturing it in my head, I think it shows a girl accidentally sending her old Womble into a time warp as a younger Womble comes out. Is it the same Womble but younger, coming out? The green could indicate younger, but you change the colors in the other squares.

The Duchess in each universe has opened up a wormhole into a perpendicular universe. Aside from the universes being 90 degrees off (including in color) they are exactly identical, and the path of cyclically recursive progression is arranged on a golden spiral. It's one of those things where either it's naturally funny or it isn't at all (this is highly-correlated with whether you're a math nerd; if you don't understand why the reduction is 61.8% each time then the joke isn't meant for you).

I don't get the new Unity one at all. Maybe it will come to me later, too.

Unity is a long-form drama/hard sci-fi series, not humor. The pivotal line was a callback to a much much earlier event in the comic. You should probably just read it from the beginning.

I love the partner/cat one. You can look at it with a dirty mind or as a cat lover. I happen to fit both, which made it twice as funny.

That was the intent. Journal comics are autobiographical, and thus the only ones which are actually funny.

[Billy's Little Trip]

The Duchess in each universe has opened up a wormhole into a perpendicular universe. Aside from the universes being 90 degrees off (including in color) they are exactly identical, and the path of cyclically recursive progression is arranged on a golden spiral. It's one of those things where either it's naturally funny or it isn't at all (this is highly-correlated with whether you're a math nerd; if you don't understand why the reduction is 61.8% each time then the joke isn't meant for you).

Wow! I'm sorry I asked, but thank you.

Honestly, I don't think even you would get that if you were seeing it for the first time. I think the goal to any form of media is to entertain "others". What fun is it if you are the only one that gets it? Oh wait, I forgot who I'm asking. Your enjoyment is that you have to explain it to everyone, then call them a dumb ass.
But I do like the pretty colors and dinosaur cows.

[HeuristicsInc]

Actually, I got it, and I thought it was pretty cool.
-bill

[Billy's Little Trip]

Thanks, Bill. There goes the relevance to my defense to Fluffy telling me that I'd have to be from his incredibly tiny planet, before I'd get it.

[fluffy]

Lots of people get my comics and comment on them and that's what keeps me making them. Most of the transcriptions for my comics are provided by other people, who clearly understand it. For example, this is the completely-unedited transcript that was submitted by a reader who is not a major math genius (but is interested in math and nerdy things):

[[The Duchess is holding a remote control. The Womble sits nearby in a meditative state.]]
[[A blue portal begins to open beside The Duchess with the green toes and white tail-tip of an alternate universe Womble barely visible. A purple portal opens under The Womble, rousing him from his meditative state.]]
[[The Womble, a panicked look on his face, begins to fall through the purple portal. A green Womble shoots out of the blue portal, startling The Duchess.]]
[[The Womble is gone. The portals are shrinking to nothing. A green Womble and The Duchess look at each other with blank expressions.]]
[[The first four panels repeat infinitely in a golden spiral, rotating 90 degrees counterclockwise each time. The sets of panels cycle through four radically different color schemes. Each time, the Womble that emerges from the portal is the Womble that disappeared in the previous set of panels.]]

I'd say he got it just fine.

Also, the Internet is big, and there's a lot of nerds on it. Just because you're not in my target audience doesn't mean my target audience is nonexistent. I mean, hell, one of the most popular webcomics right now is xkcd.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Screw that guy. I got the one with the Fluffy locked to a bed, but the key was right next to him on a table and his arm was ....somewhere else in the room. Can't remember because I've only seen it once. But I GOT IT!

[fluffy]

That was a rejected Song Fight art (for Convalescence), and that wasn't a fluffy.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Oh, it has the bewbz, I didn't remember that. I like that one, you know why? Because I get it.
...why do I remember a window in that room? ..and a door, now that I think about it?