He does it with a little scissors icon that simply expands the explanation right off the same page, with the default keeping it hidden from view. Works fine.

Also, I love the fourth panel. His dialogue, “Now it’s just getting ridiculous” comes just after the officer asks him to do something blatantly zombie-like, thus hammering the connection, while at the same time he’s forced to go through a way-over-the-top security precaution. Perfectly timed. That is to say, if such a thing even applies within a temorally static medium..

And I agree…the double comment areas are teh suck. One, please. My poor widdle brain is having enough trouble keeping on topic without having to sort out where I put these damned things.

The explanation seems to really divide the group. The fact is, I’m not trying to explain the comic. I don’t think the comic needs an explanation for anyone to understand it. That’s not the point of the post, but I’m doing a poor job of communicating what the point of the post below the comic is about, and I’m getting some negative feedback on it, so I may have to rethink what I post.

When I was posting an explanation, its about what I was attempting to do in the comic. I do this so that other people can see what I was aiming for, and let me know whether or not I was successful. That’s sort of the whole point of why I started posting comics on the internet to begin with, because I want to make better comics, and I need some viewer feedback to achieve that.

Unfortunately, it seems there are a decent number of people who really don’t want to see me dissect my work, or misinterpret why I’m doing it. I understand the viewpoints, and so, I’m going to change things up a little bit in the coming weeks I think.

If it can’t stand on its own without you having to post a blog entry explaining what you meant, then maybe you need to rethink it and draw it over so it CAN. Personally, I thought it was pretty darned good on its own, and didn’t NEED the Mythbusters tour, and I didn’t even notice the kid baffle until you called my attention to it. Nice touch, though.

I’m reminded of the fence around my high school…with the barbed wire around the top, facing INWARD, so we wouldn’t try to escape, and the big, honkin’ chain across the driveway when class started. Someone drove through that chain with a 4X4 when he got a call that his Mom was in the hospital, though…the school Narc tried to stop him, because he didn’t bother to get a note from the office, but he wasn’t in a mood to listen. He just drove right through it, tearing the posts at the ends right out of the ground. They never did put that chain back up.

Gee, I think I digressed there…oooh, look, a shiny red ball!

Jim, I’m tellin’ ya, don’t try to please people. Just do what comes natural. It wasn’t broken to begin with.