|
  Okay, what the         Actually, this is the      If I weren't a
 fractal is this?        regular artist. My PC     pattern of slashes,
  What is it with          broke so we'll be     backslashes and underlines
 lazy guest artists?   doing emergency text-mode     I would hurt you.
    |                   strips for a while.                |
     /\                                                 /\
    /  \                                               /  \
   /____\                                             /____\

                               |
  /\                   I know, I know. It's only          Which is only an
 /  \ - Wow. This is    temporary. It won't be        /\ / improvement in
 \  /    a new low.    long before you're back in    /  \ the most generous
  \/                    1-bit monochrome GIFs.       \  / sense of the word,
                                                      \/   but hurry it up.

     It's been a week and                                  |
    this is only the third      Are you TRYING to   Oddly, my hits per day
  /\ / "strip".            /\ / alienate readers?   haven't significantly
 /  \                     /  \                      decreased. You figure
/____\                    \  /                            it out.
                           \/

                                  |
         Your computer is     I hope so. This          Is there anything
     /\ / going to actually  is more pathetic       /\ / to eat in this
    /  \   BE fixed, right?  than I'm used to.     /  \    textfile?
   /____\                                          \  /
                                                    \/

        |                 .,.                                  |
 Hmm... yeah,  I                ..    What are these?   Fish flakes. It's
 should feed you.         /\       /\ /                 all I could draw.
   Here you go.          /  \     /  \
                        /____\    \  /
                                   \/

     |                       Can I tell my really bad            |
 Hang in there. It         filler joke to pass the time?    Um... maybe in a
 shouldn't be much     /\ /                                 couple days.
   longer now.        /  \             No. Say no.
                      \  /           /
                       \/         /\
                                 /  \
                                /____\

  |
 Okay, tell your joke, Robert.
                                 Okay, so the mind's necessarily imperfect
  You'll regret this....          understanding of Time walks into a bar,
       |                       /\/ and the bartender says, "Isn't there
        /\                    /  \  a drink named after you?" And then
       /  \                   \  /   the mind's necessarily imperfect
      /____\                   \/     understanding of Time says...

                      "No there isn't."
                           |
                           /\
                          /  \
                          \  /
                           \/

   |                              |
 Wow. That was...        Regret it? Not really.
                          It killed some time.    The computer better get
    I told you you'd                              fixed soon, that was the
      regret it.                                    only joke I have.
       |                                              |
     /\                                              /\
    /  \                                            /  \
   /____\                                           \  /
                                                     \/

                           |
    Now what?      Now we stand around       I can hardly wait.
      |               doing nothing.               |
     /\                                            /\
    /  \                                          /  \
   /____\                                        /____\

                                                         |
                So, are you going              Of course. Everyone loves
           /\ / to do something special      role-playing games, and everyone
          /  \  when you get your PC back     loves stick puppets.... It'll
         /____\ to make up for this?                    be great.