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Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:47 am**

[...unWARP!!!] Good evening. Another comic strip recently ran this: <a href='http://www.mullein-fields.org/archives/m20031006.html' target='_blank'>http://www.mullein-fields.org/archives/ ... br> Has Mr. Simpson used that "template"? Have others? Until next time, remember: I AM THE J.A.M. Good evening. [WARP!!!]

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:33 am**

I think it's a general template that is embedded into our creative thinking.

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:48 am**

what 'template' is being refered to? the general layout? the message behind the strip? help me out here.

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:26 am**

Well, i don't think that O&M is really like that at all, aside from the meaningless fact (which is usually required to keep each strip somewhat self contained, even in the middle of a story arc) I think that Mr. Simpson is like this though in a different way, in that <a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.net/2002/om20020215.html' target='_blank'>he doesn't take himself too seriously</a>.

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 12:23 pm**

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (FoxChild @ Jan 9 2004, 05:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> what 'template' is being refered to? the general layout? the message behind the strip? help me out here.  </td></tr></table>  I don't get it either, except that the general layout has been used in about all comics I know of.

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:15 pm**

I think comic creators sometimes sypathise with their creations. This would leed them to feall sorry for their existance at times. What O and M strip were you thinking about The JAM?

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:11 pm**

That comic made me sad. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:59 pm**

Now who does that guy think he is? I don't find anything wrong with that particular format. Only when nothing original or inspired is added to the much-used method to make it a strip of it's own can the term "clich" can begin to be used. Ozy & Millie breaths a light into the popular format that makes it shine far more brighter than can be done by mocking it.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:08 am**

I saw the funny side when I read it, but after reading your remarks I suddenly see the mocking side which I didn't need.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:47 am**

*Puts on helmet and fires rounds into the air.*

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2004 6:10 am**

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (norsenerd @ Jan 9 2004, 02:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I think comic creators sometimes sypathise with their creations. This would leed them to feall sorry for their existance at times. What O and M strip were you thinking about The JAM?  </td></tr></table>  [...unWARP!!!] Good evening. Not any in particular, it's just that the particular format of this strip suddenly seems familiar in a lot of strips I've seen lately, I just can't pin any one down... Until next time, remember: I AM THE J.A.M. Good evening. [WARP!!!]

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2004 9:12 am**

i don't mean any offence in this, so please don't take this in the wrong way, but it sounds to me like what your saying is a comioc looks like a comic, or a book looks like a book.

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2004 10:47 am**

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (FoxChild @ Jan 10 2004, 07:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> i don't mean any offence in this, so please don't take this in the wrong way, but it sounds to me like what your saying is a comioc looks like a comic, or a book looks like a book.  </td></tr></table>  Yeah, that was what I though either...

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2004 8:39 pm**

I think that particular comic is satirizing not all comic strips that use that string of events but rather, as it says, the ones that don't use any emotional response from the audience. Let's face it almost every newspaper comic format has used this at least once.

Posted: **Sun Jan 11, 2004 12:53 am**

[...unWARP!!!] Good evening. Yeah, I think that's what I'm trying to say...um...maybe I shouldn't post when I'm sleepy, I tend to say things that make sense to me at the moment...um...let me try to figure out what my original question was supposed to be... Until next time, remember: I AM THE J.A.M. Good evening. [WARP!!!]

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