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Guest Strip by Greg Eales

Steve Napierski — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000

I should really change the name of this site from Dueling Analogs to Dueling Analogs Presents a Guest Comic Done By Someone Else. No matter how much I may appreciate the people whom contribute them, it always feels like a cop out when I run one.

Before I rant any further, I want to thank Greg Eales for today’s comic. I do truly appreciate it… just ignore the previous paragraph.

Hey! Let’s talk about something else. How about the fact that I bought a PS3 on Friday? Yup! Now for a lot of you, this seems like no big deal. But for long time readers of Dueling Analogs who have repeatedly read my harsh stance on Sony, this comes off rather hypocritical. Whelp, let’s add more fuel to the fire. I bought it for the Blu Ray player. I thought, well I could buy a Blu Ray player for $400 or $500 or I could buy a PS3 and get the player and the system for the same price. Seems like the better deal. Especially since Final Fantasy XIII is set to arrive sometime in the next decade or so.

I’m happy with the purchase, though I haven’t actually played a game on it yet. I kid you not. I haven’t had the time. Why do you think I’m running a guest strip?

Regardless, new comic sometime tomorrow. And Greg, thanks again.

Guest Strip by David Stanworth

Steve Napierski — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0000

Thus, the final guest strip is up. Things will get back to “normal” on Monday… See how I did the quoty thing around normal? That means things won’t actually be normal come Monday. Big announcement on Monday and a big comic come Wednesday. Next week should be fun.

Today’s guest strip was supplied by the all-powerful SNAFU master himself, David Stanworth. Funny guy, funny comic, funny guest strip… Not sure if the “G”,”A”, and “Y” being sparkly is Dave showing discontent for Super Mario Galaxy or if he just did it for fun. My guess is for fun because it a great friggin’ game.

Now to preventively diffuse this; I do think Dave knows that light-years is a measurement of distance and not time… a light-year is the distance traveled by light moving in a vacuum in one year. So in the last panel when Mario Jr. finally reaches the other galaxy, its purely coincidental that its 300 years in the future. Or it could be that Dave is exercising the commonly held believe that 24th century technology will allow man to travel faster than the speed of light. Thus, making it possible to traverse previously unobtainable distances in record speeds. Or its just a joke and get over it. One of those should work…