ok, help me out with today's strip.

ZOMBIE USER 8454 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8454** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 1:07 pm

is it some archane British thing that i'll never understand? or is it just supposed to be taken at face value? or have i been working too much and i've become dull? or is it a celebration of onomatopeoia? or is it an allusion to something? or am i reading too deep into this?

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 1:28 pm

Beats the heck out of me. Looked at it three times now.

W.M.Y.L.G. Joe · Post by **W.M.Y.L.G. Joe** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 8:14 pm

Glad I'm not the only one who was rather lost...

Columbellidae · Post by **Columbellidae** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 9:26 pm

Add me to the list. I believe that there's definitely some point to this strip, but I can't pin down exactly what it is. My subconscious is teasing me.

WolfFur · Post by **WolfFur** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 9:39 pm

Is this just the sort of random event that is going to get his creativity blossoming?

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 1:02 am

Judging by the title of the story arc I'm just assuming he's having another of his dreams... However Alex is rather too surprised in the second panel for it to be a dream. Or maybe he's just hallucinating? Hence a picture of a Willys full of clowns and then (I think) the same clowns milling around outside...

...

No, honestly, I'm at a loss now that you've got my mind going. I just thought "hey, clowns in a willys, happens all the time," but why, what, where and who, errrr... I never usually try to think that far ahead. It's safer in the long run...

JimRob · Post by **JimRob** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 9:29 am

Heh heh.

There's one thing I will clear up; this strip is actually the start of a new story arc, but I haven't decided what to call it yet. But that's all I'm saying for now.

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 7:53 pm

*is relieved*

I found it amusing.... I dunno why, though.

Rennen · Post by **Rennen** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 12:26 am

Hm. Reminiscent of the old Larson strip, "Ship of Fools, Car of Idiots".

Does it have to "mean" something? Is it a mere segue into the beginning of the actual storyline? Who says it's a Willys?

Rennen

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 2:57 am

I say it's a Willys because I've been playing a hella' lot of Battlefield 1942. A good an excuse as any. I can't stop dreaming over an MG42 in my front lawn... Then again, I never remember ever not wanting an MG42 in my lawn. So maybe that's just me?

However that clown ve-hik-cle could be a custom, the Swedish Copy, the Chinease copy... Even a Light Landy, possibly?... Or it could quite simply be Generic... However, I'll stick to my Willys, they have the best knick name ^.^

Bo Lindbergh · Post by **Bo Lindbergh** » Mon Sep 09, 2002 11:55 am

Are you sure this isn't another dream? I mean, a photographer whose car has the license number "200 ASA" finding two random people wanting to be photographed in the trunk of said car... 8)

Ahayweh · Post by **Ahayweh** » Mon Sep 09, 2002 1:26 pm

Is there any significance to the number 200 ASA? I have an idea that half the jokes in AF fly right over my uneducated little middle-schooler head, but that only makes it more interesting, really.

ZOMBIE USER 6611 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 6611** » Mon Sep 09, 2002 2:30 pm

Ahayweh wrote:Is there any significance to the number 200 ASA? I have an idea that half the jokes in AF fly right over my uneducated little middle-schooler head, but that only makes it more interesting, really.

200 ASA is a film speed, appropriate for more or less medium lighting and target speed conditions.

Generally, the faster the number, the better the film is at capturing moving objects. However, the trade-off is detail; the lower the number, the more suitable the image is for magnification.

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:34 pm

Hummm, intruiging... I'll get 350 ASA slapped on my imaginary TVR and .0045 ASA on my new spanking