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I hate you so much, Mav.
why? I'm not the one who was mean. It was Fluffy.
You know what you guys could use? Transition boxes. "Meanwhile, back on the Cosmic Hellcats' ship..." That sort of thing. A lot of the backgrounds look the same, and it's a long time between episodes. Also, I had to read this one twice because I forgot the ship could talk, and I thought the robot (what's the robot's name again?) was talking. Maybe you could give the ship's dialog balloons some indicator that they are coming from somewhere...
You know what you guys could use? Transition boxes. "Meanwhile, back on the Cosmic Hellcats' ship..." That sort of thing. A lot of the backgrounds look the same, and it's a long time between episodes. Also, I had to read this one twice because I forgot the ship could talk, and I thought the robot (what's the robot's name again?) was talking. Maybe you could give the ship's dialog balloons some indicator that they are coming from somewhere...
Wow, hot multi-comment action! Mav, fwiw, the first time I posted my comment above it took me to some weird page that looked like one of those "this page is parked" kind of deals. I don't know if the server was being restarted right in the middle of a POST, or what...
I've considered the "Meanwhile" boxes before. I've got very mixed feelings on them and not sure which way to go. For now I've been keeping them off, but I could be convinced to go the other way. Really the problem is that sometimes they're distracting, especially with rapid transitions (which we don't really do, except for when we're going to Andrew and Fluffy, who we kinda use as transitional strips, at least for now). That's why modern comics don't really use them anymore. That said, I sometimes worry about exactly what you're talking about.
The robot's name is Andrew. I really need to get bios for all the supporting characters posted sooner or later.
Fluffy doesn't really "talk." He projects digital screens as holograms. Sometimes I use that to effect, but it hasn't been all that obvious in these strips with Andrew.
Yeah, there's a lot going on.
As for the multi-post, it's a server bug we have between the admin interface for Movable Type and our web host. I haven't been able to narrow it down yet, but this is the first I've heard of it happening on a comment post. That's disturbing. *sigh*