Guest 26 – by Ghislain Deslierres
According to Ghislain Deslierres, chapter 7 could have ended very differently had we taken some inspiration from a very well known gaming webcomic from the 2000s.
Those who don’t know about the infamous webcomic meme that loss.png is are probably lost as hell. I personally find it hilarious.
I… I’m at a loss.
But it is our gain.
I have heard of this “loss.png”, guy rushes in a hospital doorway, nurse points him in a direction, talks to someone along the way, then finds someone in a hospital bed. Never did get it. Asked Daniel the Human, he said apparently Bed Lady had just lost a baby, but didn’t know why it became a meme either…
It became a meme because CTRL-ALT-DEL was a silly gag webcomic of the “Two gamers on a couch” variety, and somehow turned into serious and sad family drama overnight. It made no sense and alienated its entire readerbase.
A bit like if, say, a cute slice of life webcomic turned into an action story where a bunch of superhuman girls fought on a rooftop for no reason.
But it didn’t happen overnight in the case of that webcomic. The readers saw it coming for a while!
Also Saki and Gaia were established to be a secret agent and a super-human respectively from the very beginning with the former even hunting the latter first.
Furthermore you were even able to successfully pull off a Deus Ex Machina, because Laurence was established from the beginning to be something between a Lovecraftian Horror and the comic’s guardian sentinel who didn’t just destroy the 4th wall, but simply unmade it as if it had never existed.
Well, not the entire readerbase. I never stopped reading it.
The whole meme things went past me unnoticed. (Like most memes)
Know Your Meme is always there to the rescue! ;)
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss
I am embarrassed to say I didn’t see it at first, although I am sure I would have if it were in the 2×2 panel square format
Hehe, nice. :-)
I didn’t know about that meme, either, so thanks for the explanation and the knowyourmeme-reference!
Well, there you go, Dez, you finally have your Loss comic.
…please tell me you smacked him.
Somebody smack him.
So… Was your reaction similar to what’s pictured in panel 5, Dez?
Should I be concerned that I recognized this from the very first panel?
And here I am, finally. At the end of the archives.
Hi everyone.
Welcome, & congratulations on catching up. New pages typically arrive on Mondays, sorry for having to wait…
I did that right, right? That’s how Daniel the Human does it I think…
Thanks for the welcome.
I read all the comments in the archive, so I already feel like I almost know some of you.
It was always fun reading your unique, Cybertronian perspective on things.
Does, on page 129 you commented ” I have the best non-furry readers in the world”
HAHA I’m a furry and proud of it
All I meant with this meant that the furry fandom is REALLY loyal to its creators. The top comics on Top Web Comics always seem to be furry comics.
I think there’s only two in the top-10 now (based on the banners).
But you could always try giving your girls animals ears and a tail :P
Though I guess Louis’s guest-comic already did that to Saki.
Sorry DEZ, dumb autocorrect
Also please please PLEASE explain Laurence to me
Explain how?
With interpretative dance.
YES
Imagine just finding this comic and this being the first thing you see…
This was the first thin I saw
Thing