The Comic Strip That Has A Finale Every Day by John "Scully" Scully for April 30, 2016

Long ago a famous composer wrote a piece called Four Minutes and Thirty Three Second. It had a person sit at a piano for this amount of time without playing a note. Well, people laughed, hissed, booed, etc. It turn out it was not a piano piece at all but was 4 minutes and 33 seconds of audience noise. When it was recorded, there were many sounds from the audience and that was the piece. It reminds me of this cartoon which is mostly about what the viewers say. I enjoy reading the clever remarks. As they say on Public TV.. Thank you. (:-)

I admit, when I first discovered this strip, I was as puzzled as everyone else about why it was here. But slowly I saw the remarks area dividing up into two categories: those who hated it vocally, and those played along with the premise. I began commenting as a kind of zen exercise, to see how many different ways I could improvise, and I’ve come to be very protective of those like to ‘build the story backwards’. Eventually, someone will read every comment ever posted here and work out the series’ plotlines from the comments. The names Osgood and Ernestine seem to be sticking, and the frog seems to be some kind of royalty. I look forward to learning more about the history of this series every day!