Update: We removed the word bubble in panel 1. If you haven’t seen the strip until now, just pretend this update note doesn’t exist!
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Archive for April, 2008
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Attention reader: You may have noticed that there are only 2 strips in today’s post as opposed to the usual 3. Please do not be alarmed. We at Riotfish assure you that the reason for this will become evident in Friday’s post. The safest thing for you to do right now is remain calm and stay in your homes until the next update.
UPDATE: Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, Monday’s post will appear some time in the evening.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTEREST: We at Riotfish feel that this is a more respectable cliffhanger for Newspaper Comic Strip. We now make way for Random Commercial Parody. But don’t despair, as maybe once every week or so, we’ll revisit the adventure of Newspaper Comic Strip.
Announcement: As you can see, this is a spin-off of an earlier Random Commercial Parody strip. I encourage readers to go check out the original here, so as to put this strip into context. Although it uses the original as a launching point, this will be a self contained story when finished, and it isn’t, strictly speaking, a Random Commercial Parody strip. We’re running this because James/xfoo has been cut off from the internet temporarily, and we can’t coordinate at the moment. If you have any problems with Riotfish this week, it’s all my fault, because I’m running the whole show.
In another cruel twist of fate, I’m going to be out of town for the rest of the week, so I luckily happened upon this forgotten practice comic today. It’s about the descent of an amnesiac man down a mysterious tower. Newspaper Comic Strip and 1989 fans alike might get something out of this.
The Descender part 02 appears Friday. Seasonal Soldier re-appears on Monday, and regular Random Commercial Parody returns next Wednesday. Break!
It occurs to me that most non-British Columbian readers might not know what a ‘pine beetle’ is. They’re a normal part of the BC forest ecosystem, but right now their numbers are exploding, due, apparently, to bad forestry practices, and, it seems, global warming. Basically, it’s pretty much a given at this point that they’re going to wipe out a large percentage of BC’s lodgepole pine forests, and there are dangers that they might jump to other species, and possibly make the leap to the vast Canadian boreal forest.
As I sat on the deck today and thumbed this comic, I watched the sun play across the mountains to the east, and noticed for the first time this season just how increased the veins of red pine trees are across the hills. It’s spring, but it almost looks like a fall scene. The problem is, it’s an indication that the trees are dead from pine beetle infestation. The trees that are still green now likely have pine beetles in them, and could be red by next year. After the red stage is a skeletal gray stage.
You can check out this CBC piece on the pine beetle for a little more information, or just use good old Google, if you feel you need to know more.
