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   Kafka on the Shore said, over 1 year ago

   @johnzakour, @Thomas Scott Roberts
   A little tip of the hat to “Ink Pen”, eh? Way to salute the fourth wall, guys!
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   Sack of Rabid Weasels said, over 1 year ago

   Dude just got exposed.

   At least it’s something different from the usual Jay sucks at life/Ed sleeps a lot/Rita is mentally you know what/Dana can do anything/Roy is socially stunted/Kathy is Roy’s beard/Oops. gotta do something for the other characters rigamarole that runs this strip.
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   UnKnown VQ said, over 1 year ago

   Uhh….Ok…
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   vwdualnomand said, over 1 year ago

   yes, we are all nameless extras in someone else’s story. at most, a minor recurring character.
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, over 1 year ago

   @Kafka on the Shore

   Not sure what Ink Pen is. Just seemed like a fun idea. There have to be other people in the company.
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, over 1 year ago

   @Sack of Rabid Weasels

   Hmm. That sounds a lot like most strips. A cast of stock characters with personality traits, quirks and foibles that can be explored for gags. How odd.
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   contralto2b said, over 1 year ago

   @Thomas Scott Roberts

   do I detect a note of sarcasm? Maybe a whole symphony?
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   Burnside217 said, over 1 year ago

   Fun gag. I remember a STNG episode like along these lines.
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, over 1 year ago

   @contralto2b

   As Bugs Bunny would say: “Ehhhh, Could Be.” I just wonder when commenters seem to be keeping score on when a comic strip is doing what comics strips traditionally do.
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    Cartoonacy said, over 1 year ago

    @Thomas Scott Roberts

    Ink Pen is another strip in the GoComics catalog. It’s about an employment agency for out-of-work cartoon characters. Now’s a good time to check it out, because last month it went into reruns, all the way back to the beginning. (Not so good for the creator, though, I guess.)
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    StoicLion said, over 1 year ago

    @Burnside217

    You are thinking of the episode “Lower Decks”, where the story centers around a cadre of junior officers (and a bartender). And yea, I was thinking the same thing.
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    johnzakour said, over 1 year ago

    @Burnside217

    Supernatural also did a fourth wall episode that was very funny.
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    Marc said, over 1 year ago

    @StoicLion

    I kinda recall that episode. One of the junior officers dies on an away mission, and in the end, one of the senior officers joins them in Ten Forward to mourn with them. Some kind of point about camaraderie, I think.
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    DAZZ said, over 1 year ago

    I think you have to PLAN things as if you were one of the main characters, but UNDERSTAND that you are NOT.
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    Agent54 said, over 1 year ago

    This sounds like my job. Everyone’s got a number and nobody knows your name. We support the cause, but are buried so far underground, mushrooms know us better than managers.
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