A New Approach to Salad Dressing That Does Not Involve Dean Cain
Mar13
Suggested wine pairing: sangria.
Tonight: Two characters you KNEW would come back: Moni Malone and Janice Lentils! Will Otto be the next character to return?
Hint: No.
UPDATE
Looks like it’s gonna be a Tuesday comic this week. Praise Týr!
“Pretty as a doornail” reminds me of when kids would say “pitch white” or pitch some other color, not knowing what pitch was.
I cannot help but imagine Janice with a southern accent. Also it is nice to see Moni again. I certainly didn’t forget this cool procompsognathus and/or coelurosaurus. Definitely didn’t forget them both. Nope.
For a second I thought that was Le Pétomane poisoning, and man if you watched his act in too small a closed-off theater, that is valid.
I guess saying “hon” suggests a southern accent, the way saying “the poodle bites, the poodle chews it” suggests you’re Frank Zappa.
Moni is a coelurus, and Janice is from four episodes ago (but wasn’t named).
Man, Le Pétomane could make a living doing that, but I can’t do it by drawing dinosaurs talking to soap opera “stars”? Goes to show I’m as talented as a doornail.
Not to not brag, but *I* recognized both of them immediately. (Okay, I didn’t exactly recognize Janice, but I recognized the concept of playing a soap opera within a hairdryer sales recruitment video.)
I would have a case against you if “writing style in which you put two random characters from previous installments of your webcomic in the same room and just kinda see what happens” was accepted by the patent office. (Seriously, I once calculated how many strips of my comic actually have the main character in them and got 58%.)
A fun Easter egg is that, much like how Dim Stars plays within hairdryer recruitment videos, and a hairdryer recruitment video was depicted within Mountain Time, Mountain Time only exists within episodes of Dim Stars. If you’re wondering how you can read Mountain Time if this is true, it’s because our reality is an episode of Dim Stars. You can take solace in knowing that every detail of your life is being observed by a confused person trying to learn how to sell hairdryers.
I feel like you’re trying to “St. Elsewhere” me. I will not have that! Laura Tits is not a real person; she is a character. When we saw that character before, she was being portrayed by Janice Lentils.
I consider Chimneyfoot my main character. He’s been in 128 out of 1268 MT episodes (according to my tags), which is a rate of .097. I’m pretty sure he has the highest episode count, so I guess I don’t really have a main character.
By that metric, the main character of Mountain Time is Mountain Time, the comic strip. It’s been clearly established as a character, and it’s involved in every single strip by default.
I remember when the onion/s was/were the main character/s. It takes a lot chutzpah to change up the status quo.
Maybe 3000 comics from now, the main character will be Lenny’s therapist
Xin: That’s hard to argue with. Does that mean the drawings themselves are dialogue (or monologue?) spoken by Mountain Time?
Cold: I even forget the onions are a thing sometimes. Then I’ll come up with a joke about onions, and think “That doesn’t work in the context of onions being a ubiquitous ninja clan.” I’ve probably scrapped 700 scripts due to that.
3000 comics from now, I think the main character will be Popeye, who has traveled forward in time to protect his great grandson, who turns out to be, let’s say, Misarranged Bird.
I thought the “lore” was that SOME onions become ninjas, not ALL of them…which would seem to mean that jokes involving “normal” onions should work fine?
…Anyway, I’d say that the “number of appearances/lines” isn’t really how you usually identify a main protagonist. By my mark, that guy who accidentally became his chair was the first “protagonist of Mountain Time”, then maybe Adios Taco and/or The Great One during the 500 Happening. The 2016 series firmly placed Chimneyfoot in the protag seat, with Dawn as a dueterotagonist, except for the part about Brian where he briefly took over the role. And the HurlyBurly basically rotated from protagonist to protagonist as each previous one died..except for Chimneyfoot and TGO again, which arguably makes them the most important characters to that part of the story. The Ameoba series’s protagonist is obvious, and then you have the…team manager guy…for the “Eurydice” series. So on, so forth.
Any long-running series can have its role of main protagonist change hands, as the likes of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure can attest. If you really want one specific character to be “The Main”, the only thing you can reasonably do is try to think about who’s been holding onto that ball the longest, in which case Chim is a pretty strong contender at the moment.
or just use shallots for those jokes.
Xin: Which is ultimately my reasoning for saying it’s Chim; I just used episode count as a shorthand. Your breakdown is, of course, a better articulation of that.
But even more than that, I like to say that my main character is one who’s only in 10% of the strip because it’s an absurd-sounding “fact” that’s much less accurate than saying that Mountain Time is primarily about the city of New Lancaster.
By much the same measure, I don’t really come up with many onion jokes, but when I do, I always think, “Ah, that’ll be interpreted as referring the ninja guys.” Easier to just avoid it.
Cold: You can’t take a joke about red onions and make it about shallots, though. They’re biologically related, but culinarily they’re as similar as red pandas and pandas.
Well I could elaborate on how similar they really are, especially for joke purposes, but not within the time shallotted.
I’d say that’s a chef’s kiss level joke, but the chef in question is obviously confused and put shallots in my Greek salad.