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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 May 2004.
Nerd Boy, episode 541

Nerd Boy, episode 541

Urgh, I hate colds, they turn           You say that as if it's
 my body into a weak mess.           usually strong and muscular.
             `                         ,
             OO                     ..~
            ((                     .<<.
    _______ b b ___________________ || ____


      Hey, no quips, I'm sick,         Looks like someone already
        cut me some slack. `           ,  cut you a lot of slack.
                           OO       ..~
                          ((       .<<.
          ________________ bb _____ || ____________



 Look, I know I'm leaving very        You're not just weak
  tempting quippable openings,         from being stupid?
  but that's because I'm weak          ,
  from this insane fever. `OO       ..~
                          ((       .<<.
                 _________ bb _____ || _________________



             That one wasn't               I know.
               very good. `                 ,
                           OO            ~--
                           ||             >>
jg                         bb             |\



-----
The pacing is interesting in this one. It seems to go uphill,
going slower and slower to some kind of apex, and then just
releasing in the final panel. Nerd Boy has become less of an
ASCII experiment, and more a 4-panel comic script experiment.
I find that I've started reading strips in a different way now,
looking at rhythm and form more than the actual joke.

Another interesting thing about this strip is that Mandy seems
to be on autopilot for the first three panels; she doesn't move
a muscle. Like she's using an aimbot for her quips.

-- 
 OO  Joaquim G�ndara
.||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
 bb  jg

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