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4/20/07
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A reader has written to say that yesterday's gag was inappropriate in the
context of the top news story of the week. Certainly it's possible that
running that gag was the result of bad judgment. I went all day Wednesday
without coming up with a gag, and finally about 20:00 CDT (an hour before
update window opens at 02:00 GMT) I went looking for a gag from my old
fanfiction website I could redraw for Thursday. When I redraw here a gag
that's in the archive there I remove it from the site's archive index links,
which I prefer not to do, so first I look through gags once posted there not
currently archived. But no joy. Then a neighbor stopped by, and it was 22:00
or almost before I started looking through the gags archived there for one to
redraw here. The gag I ended up choosing was the first one in the archive
that I thought could be transferred and that I thought I could draw at all
well at ten at night. So I drew it, and removed it from the other site's
archive index (it's still there but, as described above, no longer
linked). I recall feeling that the vague topicality was an added bonus. But
that was the end of the day and I was tired and I might have been
insensitive. I'm sorry if I offended anyone; I'm here to entertain. (But I
don't believe in "depublishing" and I'm not going to remove the cartoon.)
The subject being brought up, however, I'm compelled to propagate what I
believe are the two most important ideas in discussion of the event.
- The actions of the shooter were planned with deliberation. If guns had
not been available he'd've found another way. The gun control issue is
irrelevant to the discussion of this event because greater gun control
could not have prevented what happened.
- What could have prevented it was the psychological and psychiatric
programs to which the shooter was subjected. Obviously they didn't, but you
and I haven't any way of knowing how many people there are who, subjected to
the same programs, have come away helped and functional. No system is perfect
and every system has its unpredictable misses alongside its hits, and by
their very nature there's nothing we can do about them except keep a
level head when they happen.
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Webcomics I read mornings:
Kevin & Kell,
For Better Or For Worse,
Shortpacked,
Todd and Penguin,
Scary Go Round,
Tux & Bunny,
Sluggy Freelance,
Irregular Comic,
Real Life,
Peanuts
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Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings:
El Goonish Shive,
Theater Hopper,
General Protection Fault,
Nukees,
Newshounds,
Girl Genius,
Malfunction Junction,
Ctrl+Alt+Del
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Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings:
AppleGeeks,
Achewood,
Kismetropolis,
Erfworld,
Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break,
Striptease,
Punch an' Pie,
Digger
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Webcomics I read evenings:
LuAnn,
Count Your Sheep,
Goats,
Pearls Before Swine,
American Elf,
Sinfest,
Little Dee
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Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings:
Reasoned Cognition,
Two Lumps,
Zortic,
Order of the Stick,
College Roommates from Hell!!!,
Home on the Strange,
Penny
Arcade
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Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings:
Girls With Slingshots,
Dandy & Company,
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja,
Get Out of My Head,
Megatokyo,
Buck Godot Zap Gun For Hire
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Webcomics I read Sundays:
xkcd,
Minus,
Smithson,
Something Happens,
Li'l Mell,
Three Panel Soul,
Butternut Squash,
Breakfast of the Gods,
Perry Bible Fellowship,
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella,
Ctrl+Alt+Del,
Boxjam's Doodle
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Webcomics I hope will start updating again:
Casey & Andy,
13 Seconds,
Medium Large,
The Magnificent Adventures of Hieronymus Bosch, esquire,
The Green Avenger,
The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World,
No Room for Magic,
Anywhere But Here,
The Whovian Observer,
Gossamer Commons
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See also
The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge,
Talk About Comics,
The Living Comic,
Online Comics Day,
The Belfry Comics Index,
The Webcomic List,
Mister Bloo,
Nth Degree,
100% Originality Theatre,
Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed),
Fleen,
Mr. Myth,
Comixpedia and
Websnark.
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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.
