Magnificent Creatures | The Every Thursday Free Online Comic

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1. minetruly
   June 7th, 2010 at 5:53 pm

   These blocks of text sound like you’re working under some kind of unnatural constraint– like they’re word puzzles. Are you trying to embed anagrams or some such?

   As a linguist, the idea of uncovering a hidden message is intriguing, but if there’s nothing there, I don’t want to waste energy. No obvious devices are jumping out at me. Perhaps it’s something that continues across all the pages? Words that need to be picked out according to the Fibonacci sequence or something? The unnaturalness is too dense for that, though…

   Please give us a hint as to whether looking for an encrypted message is a waste of time!

2. dale
   June 7th, 2010 at 8:56 pm

   thanks for commenting on our comics.

   there was a bit of a restraint in that the project was an exquisite corpse.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse

   in our version of the exquisite corpse, the artist had very little information what I was going to write and I had little clue what he was going to draw. the only information that we had going into the project was a rough outline of the story progression (intro character, intro world, intro plot twist) and the panels from the previous weeks.

   each of the different Magnificent Creatures stories was not made with the same formula but please give each a bit of your time.

   thank you again!

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