Writing a long-ish story (yes, there’s still plenty more) made me contemplate some of the timeless themes of storytelling. As you know, we’ve been in a flashback for a while up until today. I was a journalist in a previous life, and the essence of my job was combining (hopefully true) stories people tell me with other facts I find into a large (once again, hopefully true) story.
From my experience, flashbacks are a terrible way to tell a story in real life.
From TV and movies, we know that flashbacks are usually something people have to shake you out of, so were a source to mumble or worse, silently genuflect over the phone while I waited, I couldn’t even grab them by the shoulders and bring him or her back to the real world. Thus, were Fuzzy Five more realistic, it would look like this:
(With apologies to Melissa the Illustrator)
This comic just gets more and more adorable. Now I sort of want to see a big Bollywood number with Squishables dancing and singing. I see the Android in the background! Hee.
Watashi want ichii now.
Omg! a hedgehog squishable! its adorable! btw im new and i have to say this comic rocks!
i’m lost.
How so?
I dunno–I think we can safely skip the huge dance number.
I don’t think so. I’d like to see a dance number.