Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
20:28 - Chicken at the Outback, cost a lotta dough
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Blog comments take on the tone of the blog they're on. If it's a snark blog, the comments get snarky; if it's a profound philosophical blog, the comments get deep and notable. If it's a blog infused with relentless humor, so will the comments be.
The same goes for comic strips that have comments, and in particular I call to witness Achewood.
The strip inspires its commenters to a level of comedic performance art comparable to the strip itself. It's bolstered by the "chubby" system by which pithy wit is modded up by community vote and lame chaff is modded down; the result, far from resembling Coach Z attempting to freestyle, is extemporaneous exchanges like the one that begins with "sarrk's" comment, "Dang. I wish I could shout sweet piano music too" and continues from there—which I will forever imagine whenever in the rest of my life I hear a certain song.
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