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91. Or Anything Like That
A little murder? Or a lot? Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on Thursday and the result shown on Friday.
90. Like Men
Our Xmas Extravaganza continues! First up we have the Werner Herzog Christmas Special, followed in quick succession by the Devil, the deformed, the dead and… er… Godzilla. Then, setting the controls for 100 Planets, we discover The Plane of The Christmas Encounter and finish our journey at The Planet of God & Son. Merry Christmas everyone!
89. Counter Demand
Attempt camaraderie? Or go for the toast? Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on Christmas Eve and the result shown on Boxing Day.
Wait… Eve? Boxing? Yes, that’s right – Winter Yule is upon us once more and with it the annual E-merl Xmas Extravaganza! Which means… links to your favourite Christmas-themed strips of years past! Woo! So for today’s treats: How about this or this from Brain Fist and oh… maybe this and this from All Knowledge Is Strange? More to come on Friday!
88. Indefatigable
Canons make all peace negotiations better (and, crucially, often a lot shorter).
87. Beat To Quarters
Welcome to all the new readers brought on board by The Empty Kingdom. Your task today: choose between negotiation and trickery! Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on Thursday and the result shown on Friday.
86. Shouting Orders
Really, who hasn’t?
85. B.O.R.D.E
Invisibility or evasion? Roll a six-sided dice and post the result to the comments thread or tweet it to @merlism. Rolls will be tallied on Thursday and the result shown on Friday. And also, have a play of my new game comic, The Empty Kingdom. More details over here.
The Empty Kingdom
My new game comic, The Empty Kingdom, in now live on the Interwubs for your perusal. This one is a little different from Duck and Icarus – while it’s a bit adventure-gamey and does draw on my memories of MMOs, it maybe sits best in the genre that RPS likes to call “walking simulators.” Only you’re walking around inside a comic with your headphones on and there are these little alien dinosaurs and… anyway. Have a play and let me know what you think?
Once you’ve had a play you might also want to listen to the chat I had with Fredrik Rysjedal for the Norwegian comics podcast, Teiknesamtalen. We had a good talk (in English, since my Norwegian is rather limited) about some of the ideas behind The Empty Kingdom and my wider thoughts and experiences of digital comics as a whole. I think it ended up being quite a useful discussion of the emerging digital comics form, so will hopefully be of interest for those of you who are into that sort of thing.
While I’m thinking about it, those folk might also like to check out these two reports of the Electricomics panel at Thought Bubble. I think the panel finally succeeded at getting the message out as to what we’re actually trying to achieve with the research project, and I was very pleased to see this reflected in Asher and Hannah‘s excellent coverage.
84. Probably Nothing
Francois, no! You’ve doomed us all!