Bo Lindbergh

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• Commented on Pushing it back
  That sounds like the set-up of a bad joke. An octopus, a corvid, and a parrot enter a ropewalk......
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  Was the bit in The Fuller Memorandum when something woke up in ensign Burdokovskii's body and asked what year it was intended as a hint of mental time travel? If it was, it's another loose end to be tidied up....
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  Anybody writing that story absolutely must mention the traditional greeting of the Ski'ites, "Slalom alaikum"....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Perennial Aurora Award winner It Never Rains features an unintended time traveller whose future self seems no less confused about what is going on....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Did my message about Get Medieval get through?...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  You've mentioned that you never cared for Narnia. Was there any fantastical fiction that your younger self did love and which your adult self could affectionately mock?...
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  It varies. Those webcomics that are posted automatically on a regular schedule get sorted by update time of day; the rest, alphabetically....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Behind the Gifs takes animated images found on the internet and improves them with hand-drawn framing stories. Currently hiatusing, but has a hefty archive....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  If you like four-panel comedy with occasional heinous puns, try Inky Rickshaw....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  You're scott_sanford at Dreamwidth, right? Get Medieval happens to have a not-really-infringing option I can tell you about. As for contact information, the cartoonist is still blogging at ironychan.tumblr.com, just not about comics. (I don't know how much help that...
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  I've got a complete saved archive of Get Medieval and also as-complete-as-they-could-be archives of Irony-chan's incomplete/unfinished comics (Dumnestor's Heroes, Knowledge Is Power, The Lonely Booth Babes, The Prince and the Pauper, The Interstellar Tea House). What are the ethical issues...
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Missing Monday, an inter-universal lesbian romance fantasy quest. Uses different styles/palettes for each world visited. Completed earlier this year; currently in rerun-with-extra-commentary mode (but the original archive is still up). https://www.missingmondaycomic.com/comic/chapter-01-page-01...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  US patent 20110298332....
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  So no crossover, but have you considered a simultaneous mutual cameo? You know, a bystander with an unusually detailed description dying gruesomely.......
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  Maybe this is one of those concepts that are too silly for anything but comedy? "Looking for Love in All the Wrong Cosmoi"...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  Fortunately, Peter Madsen is still safely behind bars....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  That's a perfectly sane national border compared to some other cases. (Search for "Märket".)...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  No footnote for triple parentheses? Those are opaque if you haven't already heard of them....
• Commented on Bad news day
  Potassium permanganate? Strong oxidant with a taste for hydrocarbons, and water soluble so it works with the soak-and-let-dry step....
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  Theoretically, you could build a tunnel under the Åland Sea (shorter than the Chunnel!) and bridges across the Archipelago Sea.......
• Commented on CMAP #16: Book Title Blues
  According to the CMAP index page, this entry ought to be numbered 17 rather than 16....
• Commented on Three pieces of news about the Laundry Files (UPDATED!)
  Early, middle, or late 2020?...
• Commented on Three pieces of news about the Laundry Files (UPDATED!)
  42, eh? Now try not to imagine a Watership Down / Laundry Files mash-up. Try hard.......
• Commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  Hare's Breath Escapes and Other Malaprops would be a good anthology title....
• Commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  Hey! No poisoning of nature preserves, please....
• Commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  But you need to make it sufficiently different from "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag"....
• Commented on Typo Hunt: The Labyrinth Index
  109 versus 10⁹... fight!...
• Commented on Typo Hunt: The Labyrinth Index
  Confirming lost superscript in Orbit EPUB via Apple. The source has plain "109" with no tags on the "9".The package file contains <meta name="generator" content="GeeThik"/>, which tells you exactly whither the conversion was outsourced....
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  Yep, there it is....
• Commented on Publishing: A Slice of Life
  Ditto. The artifact-laden overcompressed look is a nice touch....