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Date: 2010-12-03 06:46 am (UTC)Or was I supposed to wait when the curtains came down? I sat around for a few seconds, nothing happened.
Anyway, yeah, this is pretty surreal and amazing. The author is clearly a genius. I don't mean that in a funny way. This thing must be impossible to put together. It's so layered and complex. And you can tell he obsessed over practically every word in here.
His absurd sense of humor kind of reminds me of mine. I like to think if I had 50 more IQ points, I'd have been able to do something like this. At the same time, so much of it is totally new to me. I feel like I'm reading something from 10 years in the future of comedy. This thing opened up a new alley in my brain and is now right up it. It's hilarious and ambitious. I'm glad there are people like this in the world.
Also, I'm getting a SERIOUS David Foster Wallace vibe here. Are you? I haven't read anything of his in a long time, but right away I started noticing all these tricks and mannerisms that are unmistakeably his. (I can dig up specific examples, but I don't really feel like going through hundreds of panels right this minute.) I keep thinking that it feels like I'm reading something by an alternate-reality DFW who isn't dead, didn't become a novelist, and makes surreal webcomics instead. And just like when reading DFW, it feels like I'm working my way through a slow-motion nightmare described in excruciating detail, but full of comedy. Other similarities:
- The author has an obvious obsession with words: form, semantics, impact, etc.
- When they're on IM, the characters launch into these complex tangents, usually observational humor. I remember this kind of stuff from DFW's characters. Again, excruciating detail.
- Er, I guess that's it for now. And the above two points aren't that strong, but everything taken together really reminds me of DFW.