Comments on: A Post about Public Opinion

By: pops

pops — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:10:22 +0000

As for merch ideas, I’d love to have a copy of Fauxdor’s available when traveling. Perhaps there could even be a digital version coupled with a GPS (with temporal capabilities, of course)

By: macsnafu

macsnafu — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:07:38 +0000

I agree that the dialogue and the messages and such have been pretty good, not to mention the references, obscure and otherwise. Like the cartoony art style, although I agree it does tend to get just a little too exaggerated at times. And the characters seem to be a good mix and interact fairly well with each other, each offering context and counterpoint to the others.
Big problem for me is that the story seems to be meandering for no good effect. The characters are starting to do things that just really make no sense in any context that I can see. I thought you said you had the story outlined to the end. Must be a lot of gaps in the middle? Famous historical settings can be okay, but not really my cup of tea. I’d rather see them in the future, especially since time travel seems to be a pretty regular thing, according to Hermes and the guide books.
Having them meet themselves could be interesting, if handled well, but time paradoxes can be difficult to handle.
I’m still wondering if there’s an overall theme or plot, or if it’s just a ridiculously silly story.

By: Davis

Davis — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:54:43 +0000

3. While it was only a line in the play, having Roy be the one that warns Caesar about the Ides of March would be funny, since many people think that’s how it actually happened anyway…

By: jtbandes

jtbandes — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:02:38 +0000

Oh, also I forgot to mention 2009/02/17 (“syntax parallax” is awesome, not to mention the rest of the comic), 2008/12/12, and 2008/11/21.

Oh, so now I want a Syntax Parallax shirt.

By: jtbandes

jtbandes — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:46:33 +0000

That’s true. I like your idea too — maybe some of the lines from the comics, like “The Future is NOW!”?

By: Joe Wasserman

Joe Wasserman — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:12:04 +0000

4. jtabandes’s ideas for merch are actually really good, but you’d need a lot of merch-desirous readers to produce things that mostly indicate that one reads Chronillogical for profit. Though time goo and black hole in a jar could have wider appeal if the packaging and design were really good (and then promoted via NotCot, geek places, and sci-fi places (i09?)).

By: jtbandes

jtbandes — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:56:15 +0000

1. I love the style of dialogue, along with onomatopoeia and computer screen messages, other made-up hilarious details and such. Examples: 2008/06/10 (first comic), the last 3 panels of 2008/06/27, 2009/09/17, 2009/02/10, 2008/10/17, 2008/09/05, you get the idea, maybe.

2. While the art has gotten more consistent, which is nice, I think the characters have been exaggerated a bit too much, like in 2009/06/23/. But maybe I’m just not used to it.

3. It would probably be confusing to write and maybe not work out well as a story arc, but it’d be potentially hilarious if the trio met *themselves* in the past or future or something. And/or maybe if they showed up in the middle of some ancient war, and accidentally won it, and then were treated as gods. (Though maybe they’re going to do that in the current spatiotemporal arc and I just stole your idea.)

4. Time Goo! Stanley! Black Hole in a Jar! …I could go on!

By: Joe Wasserman

Joe Wasserman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:20:11 +0000

1. The jokes. Like, about history and stuff?
2. Not enough riddles.
4. Novelty mugs. ‘I traveled through time and all I got was this stupid mug.’