Wow. (Triangle & Robert, again.)

[hmpf]

I'm still not quite done reading the T&R archives, and I've just now reached September 03, where the cartoonist does something... uhm... I'm still not sure if it's amazingly daring or amazingly boring. Possibly both. Anyway: at that point of the story the protagonists find a machine called a 'Recapulon' which, well, recaps. - It recaps the - entire- first - year - of - the - comic! The recap runs for 20 strips... that's three weeks! Must have driven readers crazy at the time... I'm lucky, I can read it in one sitting in the archives now! *g*

Gotta hand it to Patrick Shaughnessy, he's not afraid of alienating his readers. Well, okay, we knew that since he invented Alienating Readers Week, I guess... but still, that mammoth recap must have been more like Alienating Readers Month!

Check it out for yourselves. It starts here:
http://tr.froup.com/tr.pl?n=1444
It's kinda fun, in a way.

Comments

But what would I read then?

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

You see, T&R is oddly addictive.

Nah, don't worry about the writer. As long as he's having fun... He's not harming anyone (except for Triangle and Robert, I guess) ;-)

I just discovered I was wrong to assume the Recapulon recapped only the first year... dear God, how long does it continue? I wouldn't put it past the author to actually have it recap all three years of the comic...

If you want to be less disturbed, you could read some Zebragirl. That's just a normal urban fantasy story, and once the author finds his feet after the first few strips it's really, really nicely drawn, as well.

Re: But what would I read then?

[ommadon.livejournal.com]

Oh no, he definately finishes at least year two - I gave up at that point and he was about to start on three :S

Wow. I'm not sure I would have had that much patience,

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

if I didn't know the strip and were genuinely interested in finding out how it continues.

I take back what I said about 'Alienating Readers Month' - it's actually 'Alienating Readers Year' I think - he must have spent about three months recapping.

Re: Wow. I'm not sure I would have had that much patience,

[ommadon.livejournal.com]

but at least he breaks it up with the discussion of telepathic sheep....