Joined: 25 Oct 2002 Posts: 27 Location: baton rouge, LA
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 4:04 pm Post subject: I like it.
I'm going to have to ransack the archives to see what's happened inbetween the print comic I have and the newest episodes. Keep up the good work! _________________ Zack
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Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 513 Location: Olympia or St. Paul
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 7:19 pm Post subject:
Wow. Joda, your comic is really awesome. I remember finding FaFB a while back while surfing around, but I didn't have time to really investigate it, and forgot to bookmark it. It's good to see it again here on S.N - there's something really special about it that I'm still trying to put my finger on. My current theory is that what attracts me most right off the bat is that it gives off a feeling of a genuine microcosm. There's something in there simultaneously reminescent of Peter Pan, Lord of the Flies, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Fleep, The Cube, and a bunch of other stuff that I can't remember right now. Anyway, it's awesome. And that ditty gives me shivers. _________________ ~Nick Fagerlund
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Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 513 Location: Olympia or St. Paul
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 6:14 pm Post subject:
I went to your site and poked around for a bit. Lemme see if I have this correct - are you working back through the archives from the start and redoing every storyline? What are your reasons for this? And actually, while I'm at this, how are all of the stories organized now, chronologically?
Curiously yours,
Nick _________________ ~Nick Fagerlund
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New material: More poems, I guess..
Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 18 Location: Few and Far Between
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 11:31 pm Post subject: Square One
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[A]re you working back through the archives from the start and redoing every storyline? What are your reasons for this?
Last year, after six years of the strip's evolution on the Web, I decided to begin anew the annals of Few and Far Between. I did this for a couple of related reasons:
1: I resolved to try (and succeeded!) having FaFB printed as a comic book, and I wanted the first printed issue to be "square one". "Small World" is square one. Everything the FaFB reader could need to know about FaFB starts, continues, and will continue from there.
2: The Swamp and the Poles were not part of Few and Far Between back when it started as a daily strip (the Noo Greak Kollum). Starting over at square one, I wanted to frame earlier Noo Greak Kollum events in the larger world of Few and Far Between and to integrate the Swamp and the Poles into established tNGK/FaFB history. So some old storylines are touched on (Tako's visit to the Desert, Calculus' introduction), but most of what's going on hasn't been depicted before. "Old Neighbors", in fact, is entirely new, as will be the next story.
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[W]hile I'm at this, how are all of the stories organized now, chronologically?
Even though FaFB "continuity" starts with "Small World", I have left some earlier material up at fewandfarbetween.com because readers seem to like seeing it. Prodded by your inquiry, I reversed the listing of the four Stories on the Archives page into chronological order (instead of most recently drawn first). They all take place sometime after the new stories and shouldn't contradict or be contradicted by any upcoming activity (although, you never know ...And I do plan to revist "Hither and Yon").
I hope this info helps, Nick! Thanks for being interested!
Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 513 Location: Olympia or St. Paul
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 7:35 pm Post subject:
Okay, I think that answers all my questions. Thanks!
The main thing I was wondering was whether you were re-working existing stories and taking down the older versions of them, or creating a whole new continuity. (I'd noticed things in the S.N edition that seem to take place before the character descriptions on your site, such as Hector being at the poles instead of Julian, or Weeping William still being corporeal.) So that clears that up.
I've been poking around your site a bit more whenever I have the time. The world you've created fascinates me to no end. It's like something out of someone's recurring dreams. _________________ ~Nick Fagerlund
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New material: More poems, I guess..
Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 18 Location: Few and Far Between
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 6:08 pm Post subject: "Meet the Few and Far Between"
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I'd noticed things in the S.N edition that seem to take place before the character descriptions on your site, such as Hector being at the poles instead of Julian, or Weeping William still being corporeal.
It was fun putting together the interactive "Meet the Few and Far Between" feature, especially creating musical sounds for each locale. But I completed it not long before I started the stories over again from the beginning. So a few of the character descriptions there reflect where we are headed, and the stories you're reading now will show how we get there. A kind of foreshadowing I guess. Maybe I'll apportion some project time to get it in line with the current stories. I do need to add Crystl in now..
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