1/0
Its old. So if you've already seen it, don't comment on how its old. I know its old, and you know its old, and you don't need to rudely inform the people who don't know its old that its old because, to them, its new.
That aside...
I just finished reading all 1000 strips of <a href='http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=1' target='_blank'>1/0</a>, and all I can say is "wow".
It was amazing. Highly philosophical, while still retaining a humourous aspect. It dealt with the nature of existence, religion, circumstantial ethics, tolerance, love, self-examination, and death.
It follows several characters in a void populated only by themselves, and a large terrain mass formed from the corpse of a bear.
The characters constantly and continously break the 4th wall, openly conversing with they're creator, and acknowledgeing the outside world, and their own mortality, as the comic is only 1000 strips long, and they know it.
Its a fascinating journey, to see how the characters come into being, live, love, hate, die, live again, et cetera.
I know this will sound corney, but I feel more... enlightened, I suppose is most appropriate, after finishing it. I view the world differently, and even found some strips apply to me and my life.
So, go take a look.
<a href='http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=1' target='_blank'>1/0</a>
That aside...
I just finished reading all 1000 strips of <a href='http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=1' target='_blank'>1/0</a>, and all I can say is "wow".
It was amazing. Highly philosophical, while still retaining a humourous aspect. It dealt with the nature of existence, religion, circumstantial ethics, tolerance, love, self-examination, and death.
It follows several characters in a void populated only by themselves, and a large terrain mass formed from the corpse of a bear.
The characters constantly and continously break the 4th wall, openly conversing with they're creator, and acknowledgeing the outside world, and their own mortality, as the comic is only 1000 strips long, and they know it.
Its a fascinating journey, to see how the characters come into being, live, love, hate, die, live again, et cetera.
I know this will sound corney, but I feel more... enlightened, I suppose is most appropriate, after finishing it. I view the world differently, and even found some strips apply to me and my life.
So, go take a look.
<a href='http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=1' target='_blank'>1/0</a>
Comments
[edit] I like how he tackles the 'god in the universe' issue around 190 <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Thats part of what I like about it. It all makes sense (relative to the laws of its universe). Things happen for a reason, and objects/characters don't just pop into existance. They come from somewhere.
Get Opera. Its good to have multiple browsers on stand-by, just in case a page doesn't want to cooperate.
Ditto
628... I friggin love this strip, when I finish I may start my own strip in this style... Although the temporal aspect will have to be a little different, since there is no way in hell I am going to be able to find the time to do exactly one strip a day, and I'll probably be tempted to do many more than that...
Fair enough, I honestly doubt this strip has much appeal to anyone that isn't from a christian demographic, since it really only explores a world that mimics the christian worldview to any degree...
I'll probably end up re-reading at least the last 300 strips some time later...
They ALWAYS suck at the start. In many cases for at least 50 strips.
Read through the lot earlier, interesting.
:edit: now with transparency
They ALWAYS suck at the start. In many cases for at least 50 strips.
Read through the lot earlier, interesting. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
the strips i read regulaly (CAD, White Ninja and PA) all managed to entertain me even at the start, and even Megatokyo (which entirely went downhill) was good at the start. Hmm, any others... i think VG Cats started well too, but i don't remember.
In short, the first strips are the ones that should captivate people and make them want to read more, if it doesn't do that, why bother reading on?
They ALWAYS suck at the start. In many cases for at least 50 strips.
Read through the lot earlier, interesting. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
the strips i read regulaly (CAD, White Ninja and PA) all managed to entertain me even at the start, and even Megatokyo (which entirely went downhill) was good at the start. Hmm, any others... i think VG Cats started well too, but i don't remember.
In short, the first strips are the ones that should captivate people and make them want to read more, if it doesn't do that, why bother reading on? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Exactly.
Sure, the comedy may get better, but you shouldn't start until you're good enough to be considered good.
I didn't enjoy 'em much either <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
[I say "targetted", because it doesn't really seem like anything can be targetted in that strip, but it was as close as you could get to satire in strip such as that, it seems.]
Flame away.
They ALWAYS suck at the start. In many cases for at least 50 strips.
Read through the lot earlier, interesting. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
the strips i read regulaly (CAD, White Ninja and PA) all managed to entertain me even at the start, and even Megatokyo (which entirely went downhill) was good at the start. Hmm, any others... i think VG Cats started well too, but i don't remember.
In short, the first strips are the ones that should captivate people and make them want to read more, if it doesn't do that, why bother reading on? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Exactly.
Sure, the comedy may get better, but you shouldn't start until you're good enough to be considered good.
I didn't enjoy 'em much either <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
/me tosses his hat in with this group.
If it takes an effort to get to where it becomes good, it probably isn't worth it.
SP, QoW, Flem, etc all catch you from the first comic. This one I stoped some where around where ribby's eye becomes the 3rd character.
Though, I thank you for giving me the idea of going back and rereading all of SP, QoW, and Flem (if people want links to these, I will send em via PM as they all break forum rules rather spectacularly <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
Fair enough, I honestly doubt this strip has much appeal to anyone that isn't from a christian demographic, since it really only explores a world that mimics the christian worldview to any degree... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm not religious, but I find the comic very interesting. Maybe because one of my classes is AP European Civ, which covers religion quite heavily (how can it not?).
Generally I think the enjoyment I got from it was more that it reminded me a lot of the time I RPed a character who knew they was an RP character. Led to interesting situations and for fun I'd sometimes get a conversation between me the player and the char... quite often I had people convinced there were really 2 of us at the keyboard o.O
I kinda gave them the same freedom as the chars in that comic though; I let them act as they would and eventually they did things on her own to such a degree it almost didn't require any effort from me at all. It was like watching a soap because it often didn't feel like I was playing their part; they were living their own personality and choices out for me =o