Your name is GEORGE.
As previously established, it is your BIRTHDAY. Your grandchildren have given you a new INTERNET TERMINAL!
What are its features?
→ examine terminal
It’s a fully-featured device! Not only can it run apps, it also has a WEB BROWSER! Your mind boggles at the possibilities. Many years ago, you used to read a webcomic, but it didn’t get acquired by the Big Web Comic App, and you lost track of it. Now that you have a WEB BROWSER, you can view things outside the Proprietary Comics app!
What was that comic’s name again?
→ ask chums
Hey! I finally got an unlocked computer, and I'm setting up an RSS feed reader and repopulating my bookmarks. What webcomics should I add?
Paranatural isn't not a coming-of-age slice-of-life of tweenaged troublemakers taking powers from ghosts
Kill Six Billion Demons used to be a forum quest but then it grew a plot and characters and now it's its own thing. Needs a soundtrack.
→ check one out
oh my gawd there's peanus and peanut is this webcomic safe for children? what will we do if the warlike Harry, like himself, does assume the port of Mars, and at his heels, leashed in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, crouch for emploment?
But pardon, gentles all, The flat unraisèd spirits that hath dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object. Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O pardon, since a crookèd figure may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great account, On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high uprearèd and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder. Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts. Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance. Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i’ th’ receiving earth, For ’tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there, jumping o’er times, Turning th’ accomplishment of many years Into an hourglass; for the which supply, Admit me chorus to this history, Who, prologue-like, your humble patience pray Gently to hear, kindly to judge our play!
==> [s] descend
→ ask chat if they're all like this
Is every independent webcomic like this, these days?
Like what?
huh?
only most of them
bread, and all the variants of the aforementioned
also Serial Experiments Lain if you haven't already done that
→ explain it to them with a diagram
Hold on, let me draw what I mean
Like this:
Ooh, nice floorboards, behind the stickies. Or is that your desk? Either way, that looks like a very sensuous texture.
hush, let the Beatle finish typing
Metatextual, lovingly-illustrated, hypertextual, with all the website tricks and hijinks that cannot be done in the webtoons apps, can only be done in print if it's a CYOA — the sort of "comic" that is less of a comic and more of a webmaster's side gig — G-d d-mn -t I called them 'webmasters' and ain't that that truth?
Webcomics made by people who love the Internet for what it is, not because it's pretty. Who don't care if it's ugly at times, because what matters is that it's the only tool that can tell the sort of story they want to tell without the even-huge-er effort needed to make a visual novel or vibeo gaem.
Webcomics that feel like a Let's Play of a visual novel, but presented as a slice-of-life story instead of a walkthrough. Authors in the role of the people who turn cinematic video games into movies, but instead we're reading in our reality a webcomic of a video game which doesn't exist.
Something where the author drew a character-selection screen at one point.
That sort of comic.
only most of them
Grandkids these days. Making homages to the things their parents grew up reading, not knowing whether something is just The Way Things Are or a reference to a Specific Thing, barely conceiving of what came Before.
Bless ‘em.
But what to do next?
The power of the Internet is at your command.
george@webcomic:~$ [S] Binge.