Thanks for reading.
Today I spent several hours creating a spreadsheet for Star Trek
original cast episode and movie stardates. When I look for gag inspiration in
the widest chronology gaps between existing AKOTAS-2 gags, which I've
mentioned doing in this space before, the notation I use is based on the
number of seasons of Doctor Who to date. Consequently I'm afraid I've
been favoring Merlin over Arthur in the gags that result. My spreadsheet does
prorate between that notation and stardates, though, for that segment of
Doctor Who's chronology that has been designated to run parallel to
original cast Star Trek. So I compiled a list of episodes by
stardates, invented stardates for the four episodes that don't have'em (and
for the one animated series episode whose stardate places it impossibly
previous to the second pilot, which stardate jiggering can be explained away
in-text by relativistic effects of traveling to the center of the galaxy)
based on production order, and now I have a tool for setting such gags in
Arthur's history. Tomorrow's gag will be set shortly after the imaginary
AKOTAS-2 screen episode The Omega Glory.
This sabbatical thing is definitely having a positive effect on my interest in doing daily cartoons, if frequency and length of newsposts is any indication. |
Webcomics I read mornings: Kevin & Kell, For Better Or For Worse, Tux & Bunny, Sluggy Freelance, Irregular Comic | Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings: General Protection Fault, Nukees, Newshounds, Girl Genius, Ctrl+Alt+Del | Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: El Goonish Shive, AppleGeeks, Achewood, Striptease, Punch an' Pie, Digger |
Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly, LuAnn, Pearls Before Swine, American Elf, Devil's Panties, Narbonic, Schlock Mercenary |
Webcomics I read weekday evenings: Questionable Content, Starslip Crisis, Count Your Sheep, Dandy & Company, Dinosaur Comics, Girls With Slingshots, Shortpacked, Wapsi Square, Help Desk, Real Life, PvP | Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings: Fans, Two Lumps, Goats, Order of the Stick, College Roommates from Hell!!!, Penny Arcade | Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings: The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Get Out of My Head, Darths & Droids, Megatokyo, Buck Godot Zap Gun For Hire |
Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Something Positive, Station V3, Sinfest, Little Dee, Skin Horse, Sheldon, Peanuts |
Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian
Legend
Arthuriana - the
Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the
North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four
Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW -
The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged
entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Early British Kingdoms - Arthurian Bios.
Historia Ecclesiastica.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble
Knights of the Round Table,
Volume 1 and
Volume
2.