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[theinevitable]

...why did my link not work? I am not sure what is going on.

[Drygioni]

S'funny, because I just spent the former half of the afternoon helping our kid with his English. Despite having no school aged children of his own, Onstad's pretty much nailed the way little kids write.

Spartan dialogue? Check. Completely illogical deus ex machinas that the kid never even bats an eye at? Check. Flexible supporting characters who let the hero do what the hell he wants? Check. Check, check, check ad nauseum.

Luckily for us, Phillipe had both the benefit of a neat word processer and excellent grammar. If only this could have been true for the young one today, I might have been doing something fun for an hour.

A* strip. Particularly liked the ending of The Case of the Mystery and the author's subsquent dash to find more fun things to do.

[CortJstr]

...why did my link not work? I am not sure what is going on.

I think your forgot to paste. Because here's was I saw

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[url=http://]"It was his signature drink. He craved the stuff."[/url]

[V-Adore]

In retrospect, I think the detail I like the most about this is the "signature drink" lines, which show off something very typical of kid-writing: awareness that genre cliches exist, and desire to use them ("hard-boiled detectives ALWAYS have signature drinks!"), without any understanding of what they actually mean or how to use them. I think I've seen it more in kid attempts at fantasy and sci-fi (where there are always elves and/or spaceships despite the fact that there isn't anything for them to do), but this implementation is perfect.

[dejavroom]

Also the concept of a "driving leg" amuses me moderately. "Ow my DRIVING LEG shoot can't DRIVE anymore skidding OW"

[scrimp]

This strip was peaches all over, I'm going to go read it again. EDIT: Done!

[Roger]

I think Mr. Bear looks concerned because it's his typewriter Philippe's pounding on.

So many good stuff in this strip, indeed. What about rolling down a plane window to talk to the pilot?

[robot_god]

Q is spinning in his grave.

[jough]

Ash, you're the one always threatening to stab people.

Q would be more like "OH THAT TYPERITER IS H0TT I WANT TO FUKK THAT TIPEWRYTER"

[theinevitable]

so, yeah. that was a shitty link. sorry about that.

also: I, personally, was a step above this as a child author. I managed to rip off several other stories with everything I wrote. Which is strange, because I had a hell of overactive imagination (if imagination can be overactive at that age... NOT). The worst thing is, I remember turning in the assignment and being so proud of how clever and original it was.

[Doc]

I really think Q needs to get back, or withdrawal is turning into something... unpleasant.

[theinevitable]

I think he's reading it, and just not posting.

so, we should all talk about him as much as possible.

[pmcd9]

He should be back in just a couple of hours.  He stated quite plainly when he reached 2000 post that he was taking a hiatus until the time of his one year anniversary, which is tomorrow.  He's been reading the entire time he was gone.  I say we tidy up the place, break out a bottle or two of the good stuff and give him a welcome back party.

~Paul

[jough]

Yeah, he's totally reading this, just slowly jerking off, not coming, and then crying himself to sleep in his hotel room, where he dreams of factory work.

HI Q

[AugustWest]

I say we hide behind the door, grab him when him comes in, tie him up with extension cords, pummel him with a sock full of quarters, dunk his head in molasses, roll him in cornmeal and dangle his trussed up carcass from the motel balcony whilst we blast the Bay City Rollers at him.