Reading this one, it suddenly occurred to me how rare it is for your first 3 panels to function on their own in a 2-beats-and-a-rimshot Daily 3 Panel Newspaper Comic Strip way.
I love the way you pace yours, but now I’m suddenly wondering whether you just don’t get many 3 panel “quick gag” ideas, or whether you simply prefer to expand upon them? Or…some third thing.
Woo King’s Quest! I was just thinking recently how unlikely it is for a computer game reference to appear in Cat and Girl. It’s like if Penny Arcade quoted Sylvia Plath.
I never liked Sierra games. “Oh no, you forgot to check the air pressure in your tires before going for a drive and have lost the game, even though if you had checked the air pressure of your tyres they would have been fine. I hope you saved recently”. Actual way to lose at Police Quest.
i’m teaching macbeth this semester and i’m embarassed to say that i can’t decode the title of this strip. there was a propecy? about knowledge? help me, people.
idkrash, you’re right! Quite a few of the 3-panel combinations work as coherent comics on their own when read down, across or diagonal. It’s Cat & Girl Sudoku. Wild stuff! Darn you idkrash, and darn you Dorothy. Now I have to go back and re-read hundreds of comics looking for tic-tac-toe irony.
Rocketbride, I think the title is a suggestive reference to the soliloquy:
“She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.” — Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)
Essentially, the credo of the entire run of Cat & Girl.
KQ4 was the one I never got all that into. Can’t really say why. It made me too anxious–what with the time you do things being so important and me constantly believing that I missed an opportunity for something because a certain hour had passed.
Hey, we’re studying Macbeth in my drama class! We had to watch a movie that was a modern interpretation of the play. The guys who represented Macbeth and Banquo went hunting in Birnam Wood. It was an ok movie I guess?
September 17th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Reading this one, it suddenly occurred to me how rare it is for your first 3 panels to function on their own in a 2-beats-and-a-rimshot Daily 3 Panel Newspaper Comic Strip way.
I love the way you pace yours, but now I’m suddenly wondering whether you just don’t get many 3 panel “quick gag” ideas, or whether you simply prefer to expand upon them? Or…some third thing.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:15 am
Woo King’s Quest! I was just thinking recently how unlikely it is for a computer game reference to appear in Cat and Girl. It’s like if Penny Arcade quoted Sylvia Plath.
I never liked Sierra games. “Oh no, you forgot to check the air pressure in your tires before going for a drive and have lost the game, even though if you had checked the air pressure of your tyres they would have been fine. I hope you saved recently”. Actual way to lose at Police Quest.
September 17th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Wow, dropping an old-school Sierra reference. Sweet.
September 17th, 2009 at 10:17 am
i’m teaching macbeth this semester and i’m embarassed to say that i can’t decode the title of this strip. there was a propecy? about knowledge? help me, people.
September 17th, 2009 at 10:28 am
I think it’s not so much that there was a prophecy about knowledge, as it is “our downfall is inevitable, and we have brought it about” sort of thing.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I just read each line and diagonal as 3 panel gags.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I meant row, and I just finished each column.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:39 am
idkrash, you’re right! Quite a few of the 3-panel combinations work as coherent comics on their own when read down, across or diagonal. It’s Cat & Girl Sudoku. Wild stuff! Darn you idkrash, and darn you Dorothy. Now I have to go back and re-read hundreds of comics looking for tic-tac-toe irony.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
There’s people online writing fake ending summaries for games?
September 17th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Rocketbride, I think the title is a suggestive reference to the soliloquy:
“She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.” — Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)
Essentially, the credo of the entire run of Cat & Girl.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I thought King’s Quest IV ended not with a bang but a whimper. Unless of course you forgot the magic fruit.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
KQ4 was the one I never got all that into. Can’t really say why. It made me too anxious–what with the time you do things being so important and me constantly believing that I missed an opportunity for something because a certain hour had passed.
KG7 was way more my speed. And 5 and 6. And 3.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Has anyone ever noticed that Cat is on the dollar bill?
http://innerart.net/images/dollarcat.JPG
Hat tip to this guy, who thinks it’s keyboard cat but is wrong:
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9lgp1/us_dollar_bill_has_a_triforce_hidden_in_it_beat/c0d9k1x
September 17th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
stick that in your i-phone and tweet it!
September 17th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
When Birnam Wood won’t come to you, you can always go to Birnam Wood.
September 17th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Hey, we’re studying Macbeth in my drama class! We had to watch a movie that was a modern interpretation of the play. The guys who represented Macbeth and Banquo went hunting in Birnam Wood. It was an ok movie I guess?
September 18th, 2009 at 1:15 am
I was stuck for a title and figured it was easy to get lost in a forest that moved. Everyone else’s answers are better.