Editing 2005: Attention Span
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by a FASCIST TRAIN ENGINE - What is the dragon book? Also, discuss Megan's dissing. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | + | People often groan about their shrinking attention span, attributing it to an increased illiteracy. This allows for fond nostalgia about the times when they were supposedly more intelligent and focused. Cueball does the same here, but Megan retorts that he spent six hours reading over a pointless (if disturbingly plausible) theory about a banal show based off a series of bedtime stories made to entertain small children. Cueball qualifies his statement: he has no attention span for anything good anymore. Megan, in reply, examines Cueball’s bookshelf, finding a book that cements Cueball’s status as a nerd who reads high fantasy. Cueball protests that the book is a classic, but Megan dismisses the fact. | |
− | Cueball | + | To be fair to Cueball, many great fantasies have covers such as those in the comic (e.g. A Song of Ice and Fire, The Lord of the Rings, Randall’s personal favorite Discworld.) To be fair to Megan, this book is apparently not one of them, being thicker than it is wide, a telltale sign of needless bombast and turgid prose. |
− | + | If there was any doubt about Cueball’s dubious literary tastes before, Megan dispels them in the title text, refering to a novelization of the excoriated movie Surf Ninjas, a movie that is, unfortunately, exactly what it sounds like. Signed novelizations of a movie named “Surf Ninjas” are not typical fodder for great minds.{{citation needed}} | |
− | + | The dragon book is possibly A Game of Thrones or A Dance With Dragons from the Song of Ice and Fire saga, His Majesty’s Dragon from the Temeraire series, or Dragonsbane from the Winterlands series. | |
− | + | The comic contains a hyperlink to an article with the same unfortunate content Cueball has apparently finished reading prior to this comic: [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-repressive-authoritarian-soul-of-thomas-the-tank-engine-and-friends The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”] | |
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− | The comic contains a hyperlink to an article with the same unfortunate content Cueball has apparently finished reading prior to this comic: [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-repressive-authoritarian-soul-of-thomas-the-tank-engine-and-friends The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”] | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball and Megan are standing | + | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
− | :Cueball: I haven't read any | + | :[Cueball and Megan are standing.] |
+ | :Cueball: I haven't read any book in forever. I have no attention span anymore. | ||
− | + | :Megan: Didn't you literally ''just'' spend six hours obsessively reading about the theory that ''Thomas the Tank Engine'' is authoritarian propaganda depicting a post-apocalyptic fascist dystopia? | |
− | :Megan: Didn't you literally | ||
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:Cueball: OK | :Cueball: OK | ||
− | :Cueball: I mean I have no attention span for anything | + | :Cueball: I mean I have no attention span for anything ''good'' anymore. |
:Megan: Let's check out your bookshelf, shall we? | :Megan: Let's check out your bookshelf, shall we? | ||
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:Cueball: What are you- | :Cueball: What are you- | ||
− | : | + | :Megan (off-panel): I see a dragon holding a sword in its teeth on the cover of a book that's thicker than it is wide. |
− | :Cueball: And? That's a | + | :Cueball: And? That's a ''classic!'' |
− | : | + | :Megan (off-panel): Just saying, I don't think this is a new development. |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] |