Author: Saxon BrentonSaxon Brenton
Date: Dec 11, 2006 13:00
Mooshing three replies together:
On Monday 11 December 2006 Jamas replied:
>Saxon Brenton wrote:
>> I'm guessing that the number of
>>drabbles is directly related to the current DC Comics series anthology
>>series _52_, although there doesn't seem to be any significance beyond
>>that so far.
>
>That's what I said in the ad for this series...
Oops. Worrying how I can remember that Haiku Gorilla had four
story arcs but not the contents of a recent advertisement.
>> It's a cute concept, and makes clever metatextual use of the
>>limitations of the drabble as a form of superpower. However, I do think
>>that the confrontation in the Wordinator's dimension in issues 8 through
>>13, with all the random words floating around, was a little bit too much
>>of an obvious easy way to get the postings to one hundred words.
>
>First rebuttal point: The Wordinator has a particular speaking pattern
>which happens to use a lot of words 'cos that's the nature of the beast.
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