Mastodawn

http://aquila.alexdaily.nl/index.php?id=152

NEW COMIC

this is an April Fools update about April Fools in which I try to be the change I want to see

plus: click through and scroll down to the newspost for... a spinoff?

#comics #webcomics #aprilfools

only just now noticed a double "like" in this comic I wrote and drew a year ago, fixed it

Ambient Sponge 4d ago

@Alexis I fully support this take on April Fools.❤️

4d ago

@retrosponge Thank you. I did stress out about it for a while, but I figured:
* Centers the actual issue we all have with April Fools without just also being part of the problem.
* Delivers a gag.
* Also delivers five additional pages.

Fun, no downside!

Ambient Sponge 4d ago

@Alexis Yep.

I have no notes.😂

I've always been anti-April fools because the emphasis is on making people feel stupid.

But it turned to full-blown hatred a few years ago now where I remember looking up something and finding the information I wanted. But then it turned out it was from April Fools but it had been disseminated and was dated completely different by the time I got hold of it and I traced it back to a bullshit post.

The internet is already ruined. Let's not burn down the rubble.

european handle

🎏3d ago

@Alexis I'd say do one of these every year, but how many could you do like this? This, David Lynch's dog comic, and loss.

@kurt I haven't quite decided what the formula is yet — but I feel like launching a no-promises goofy spinoff every year is probably part of it, so yeah, it does have to be something repeatable or continuable.

@kurt But also, if next year on April 1st I'm in the middle of, I dunno, "Return of the Pixies: Annie Takes Manhattan," I'm not interrupting that to do a riff on "A Softer World" or to start an adaptation of "Richard III," so, you know.

Alexan Vorritold 3d ago

@Alexis In France, a very reputable radio station aired a geopolitical program about the Battle of the Pelennor Fields and the balance of power, discussing the likelihood of Sauron’s victory. The program concluded that it was in Sauron’s best interest to fight against hope; if humans lost hope in the future, Sauron would win.

@avorritold See, that's funny, that sounds like it hits the exact right balance. It's a prank, it's one thing pretending to be another thing, but nobody's gonna, say, get excited by something that turns out to be a lie.