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* '''mezzacotta''', a webcomic "with two people talking to each other. Mostly." Though it launched in October 10, 2008, its archive of daily strips extends significantly farther into the past. The archive contains strips for every day that has passed since the introduction of ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', the World Wide Web, the year David Morgan-Mar was born, [[Older Than Television|television broadcasts]], [[Older Than Radio|radio]], [[Older Than Steam|the steam engine]], [[Older Than Print|the printing press]], [[Older Than Feudalism|the fall of Rome]], and so on. The 'earliest' strip in its archive [[Older Than Dirt|is supposedly 9,986,270 million years older than the presumed age of the Universe]].<ref>If you want to know where the comics ''really'' come from, they are {{spoiler|generated by a fractal algorithm seeded from the "publication date".}}</ref> One could, perhaps, think of it as the [[Jorge Luis Borges|Webcomic of Babel]]... or maybe the {{color|blue|Webcomic}} [[House of Leaves|of Leaves]]. You can find the "first one" '''[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-9999999999999-01-01 here]'''. |
* '''mezzacotta''', a webcomic "with two people talking to each other. Mostly." Though it launched in October 10, 2008, its archive of daily strips extends significantly farther into the past. The archive contains strips for every day that has passed since the introduction of ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', the World Wide Web, the year David Morgan-Mar was born, [[Older Than Television|television broadcasts]], [[Older Than Radio|radio]], [[Older Than Steam|the steam engine]], [[Older Than Print|the printing press]], [[Older Than Feudalism|the fall of Rome]], and so on. The 'earliest' strip in its archive [[Older Than Dirt|is supposedly 9,986,270 million years older than the presumed age of the Universe]].<ref>If you want to know where the comics ''really'' come from, they are {{spoiler|generated by a fractal algorithm seeded from the "publication date".}}</ref> One could, perhaps, think of it as the [[Jorge Luis Borges|Webcomic of Babel]]... or maybe the {{color|blue|Webcomic}} [[House of Leaves|of Leaves]]. You can find the "first one" '''[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-9999999999999-01-01 here]'''. |
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* '''Lightning Made of Owls''': a webcomic consisting entirely of user-submitted [[Guest Strip|Guest Strips]] (much like the [http://www.moovok.co.uk/gsp/ Guest Strip Project]), launched on 15 November 2008. Its name is a deliberate [[Word Salad Title]]. It features the following stock characters: |
* '''Lightning Made of Owls''': a webcomic consisting entirely of user-submitted [[Guest Strip|Guest Strips]] (much like the [http://www.moovok.co.uk/gsp/ Guest Strip Project]{{dead link}}), launched on 15 November 2008. Its name is a deliberate [[Word Salad Title]]. It features the following stock characters: |
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** Holly, an optimistic, lively young woman. Always depicted with clear round [[Nerd Glasses]]. |
** Holly, an optimistic, lively young woman. Always depicted with clear round [[Nerd Glasses]]. |
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** Ambrose, a learned, eccentric older man. Always depicted with a yardbrush moustache. |
** Ambrose, a learned, eccentric older man. Always depicted with a yardbrush moustache. |
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