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   Lewreader said, almost 3 years ago

   I”m predestined. I’m going to die. Why work, go to school. or pay my bills? Move over Clyde, I’m claiming half this bench.
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   runar said, almost 3 years ago

   ”Like genitals to the gods are we…they play with us for their sport.”

   – Unknown
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   fritzoid said, almost 3 years ago

   There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will –

   In the name of Weingarten, Weingarten, and Clark - a trinity?

   This comment brought to you by Divinity (TM) countour undergarments – “”We shape your ends!”
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   Doctor Toon said, almost 3 years ago

   It is nice to know your place in the grand scheme of things.
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   jtpozenel said, almost 3 years ago

   Ho boy! Is he ever full of it, or what?
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   motivemagus said, almost 3 years ago

   Whoa! Seven weeks and it’s already gone “meta.”
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   fritzoid said, almost 3 years ago

   “Full of it?” Clyde’s observations are often florid, but generally well-thought-out and to the point.
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   DirtyDragon said, almost 3 years ago

   So who are these puppeteers, and what is their agenda?

   Coming this week on Glenn Beck.
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   shytimes2 said, almost 3 years ago

   If WE are the fourth wall, what is that page peeling thing?
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    fritzoid said, almost 3 years ago

    The term “fourth wall” comes from theater and television, where an interior set would literally only have three walls. To break the fourth (i.e. the “missing”) wall is to speak to the audience or camera. To extend the metaphor to comics, perhaps looking behind the back of the panel would be a third-wall breach. But if you consider that a comic panel has four borders (top, bottom, left, right), perhaps the back would be considered a fifth wall (making a comic character who speaks to the audience guilty of a sixth-wall violation)…
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    shytimes2 said, almost 3 years ago

    And they have the nerve to call us nerds! OW, my head hurts! Thanks fritzoid! And speaking of Nerds- read today about a pencil stabbing at Comic Con over a seating arrangement. There needs to be a Nerd Games- start off with pencil fencing, followed by NoseBleed Olympics. Like Nerds don’t get enough bad press.
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    fritzoid said, almost 3 years ago

    On a related topic, the effect of Hamlet’s soliloquies can be vastly different if they are played as “Hamlet talking to the audience” as opposed to “Hamlet talking to himself.” Most seem to do the latter, but Jacobi did the former, and in my own production I’d have Hamlet speaking to the audience. I wouldn’t necessarily make that choice for ALL Shakespearean soliloquies, but Hamlet in many ways anticipates metatheater.

    Like Vonnegut’s Kilgore Trout, Hamlet is the rare fictional character astute enough to intuit that he’s fictional…
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