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Arthur, King of Time and Space

12/17/05

Last year at about this time I announced that every year I'd run out my filler reserve Christmas week in order to give myself a break and to keep the gags from getting stale. Since then though I've got involved in the Daily Grind Iron Man challenge from which I'll forfeit if I run one of these fillers on a weekday. (At least, according to the interpretation of the rules by the contest judge who responded to my discussion on the Grind message board.) So, Decembers until I win or lose the challenge, I only get weekends off. This year there were only three fillers left in the buffer anyway.

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A reader noted on the message board that in Thursday's gag Morgan wasn't wearing gloves but Friday's she was. Another reader noted that in Wednesday's gag she was, and in Thursday's her dialog does include the phrase, "The gloves are off." The lack of gloves Thursday was, of course, a coloring error; but now I think I'll leave it.

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Ryan Estrada's curmudgeonly webcomic critic Welton Colbert is having a guest strip week at Comixpedia this month, and one of the guest strips is from me. Ryan's brief in his requests for guest strips specified that respondents show Welton reviewing their own work. The first panel of my guest strip is swiped from Welton's commentary on the Daily Grind, in which Ryan drew each panel in the style of a different Grinder, including me. The other panels of mine are my rendering of his rendering of Welton in my style, an exercise he was flatteringly enthusiastic to see I'd attempted. Thanks, Ryan.

Webcomics I read mornings: Peanuts, General Protection Fault, Achewood, Scary Go Round, Todd and Penguin, The Adventures of Brigadier General John Stark, Tux & Bunny, College Roommates from Hell!!!, Kevin & Kell, Real Life Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings: El Goonish Shive, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Theater Hopper, Nukees, Tweep, Gossamer Commons Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: Digger, Taking Up Space, Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break, AppleGeeks, Orneryboy, Striptease, Penny Arcade
Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly, Loserz, Questionable Content, Starslip Crisis, Queen of Wands, Narbonic
Webcomics I read evenings: LuAnn, Count Your Sheep, Goats, Pearls Before Swine, For Better Or For Worse, Help Desk, American Elf, Schlock Mercenary, Sinfest, Anywhere But Here, Irregular Comic Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings: Reasoned Cognition, Two Lumps, Shortpacked, Girls With Slingshots, Girl Genius, Megatokyo Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings: Casey & Andy, Extra Life, The Noob, As If!, The Green Avenger, Get Out of My Head, Order of the Stick
Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Something Positive, Pibgorn, The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World, Dinosaur Comics, Wapsi Square, Medium Large, Sluggy Freelance, PvP
Webcomics I read Sundays: The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge, Butternut Squash, Dr. Devious vs Lincoln High, Syntax Errors, Alice!, Checkerboard Nightmare, Nemesis, Journey Into History, Tailsteak, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Her: Girl Vs Pig, Smithson, No Room for Magic, 13 Seconds, Perry Bible Fellowship, Boxjam's Doodle See also Talk About Comics, The Belfry Comics Index, The Webcomic List, Nth Degree, 100% Originality Theatre, Comixpedia, The Living Comic and Websnark.

Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian Legend
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.

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