It will come as no surprise to veteran visitors that the lights in the lab will be dim for a while. You may see a few shadows in the windows as the ghosts of previous occupants wander around. This is commonly known as “cheating”; and examples will be continue to be helpfully tagged as “retrospect”.

We really can’t say enough complimentary things about darkpony’s illustrations, and we are glad that collaboration between digi-digi.net and geedev.com can finally some light again via a window in this facility.

The  interactive is based on an original strip created by darkpony in Summer of 2005. Late one evening on a forum in an ill-charted latitude of the web, he started a thread that read:

“comicbook short thread.  each post is a panel. I’ll try to draw them as they come in. ok, go…”

Over the next forty minutes, a steward of geedev.com composed an extemporaneous story while darkpony composed a series of illustrations that are doubly-remarkable given the speed of production.

The awkward interactive does not do justice to the original piece ; many liberties were taken for presentation. There is a bit of a disagreement between the collaborators about whether the words should be included or not (geedev: lose them, darkpony: leave them). The current compromise works about as well as all compromises, but we are glad to have it here in any form.

Almost done with the renovations, but in the words of our friend: “No warranty implied or recognized.”

Tinkering types may be interested to note that robotbug.com will for the duration be experimenting with an increasingly-modified variation of the ComicPress theme for WordPress. “Flash comics” are handled using the technique offered by the mysterious entity geedev.com.

Do pardon the inconsistencies as we rummage around under the hood.

Thanks rich!