August 21st, 2011
Rock Ness Mess part 11
I battled with he punchline here too. I knew what I wanted to have happen story-wise, but the final gag wasn’t coming together. Another draft of the gag was a crazy Roger internal conversation of “Wow! And for all this extra loot I’m going to need some oven mitts. Like mitts the size of ovens. Get it, me? Of course – I’m you. Good!” That was just using weirdness to end my strip instead of a joke. Weirdness can be fun but crafting out a joke is more rewarding for me. I hope it is for you too.
August 21st, 2011 at 2:57 am
Nice, a four-part joke. I wonder what Roger’s fake name was.
August 21st, 2011 at 9:52 am
Ribuprissin – A few weeks ago Roger says “Now that ‘DOUGLAS’ is in the city..” Does that answer your question?
August 21st, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Oh, are those gnomes? For some reason I thought all gnomes had long names, and the list was of non-gnome people.
April 27th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
I like your draft internal monologue better personally; but that’s probably because I do that to myself all the time… “You get what I’m saying?” “Of course I do, I’m you!”
May 24th, 2014 at 2:55 am
I love the joke of having a way easier time of getting through than expected.