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[chalicier]

I've just had a sudden mad idea.

A webcomic in which previous episodes slowly change as the plot advances.
Kind of a built-in retconning.

I'd need one hell of an artist to help me pull it off, and fuck knows if I'd ever have the time, but the idea is really appealling.

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[stu_the_elder]

Time travel?

Spiffing!

- Caractacus Crump, 18th century gentlefool

[rosabella]

Change in what way? (Never heard of retconning?) Like the details, as if it was being remembered by someone else? Or do you mean like things that happened that were never recorded get put in there, like they put those flashbacks in films to show the bits they didn't show you the first time around (like in oceans 12, for example. Think it was 12? Could have been 11. Could have been both.) Or do you mean like complete headfucky where reality just changes as it goes along for some reason? Or something else entirely?

[rosabella]

*sees crump's comment* Ooh, or like they time travel in the current episode and the older episodes change? That would be awesome. You'd have to build a big following from the start, though, or archive the original comics maybe as well?

[chalicier]

Well, that's kind of what I'm getting at. I have a vague idea of a plotline that could use it in my head, probably involving reality-shifting concept and whole segments drawn from characters' memories (and thus not necessarily being true), but the actual conceit of *going back and changing* the history of the comic, for whatever reason, appeals hugely.

It all started when I was reading the Order of the Stick forums, and they were pointing out that the writer had laid clues to the events of the current plotline hundreds of issues before, and I thought "but I don't remember that, I mean I don't think he changed it, so I must have just forgotten..."
And then it occurred to me, why should they stay constant in a dynamic medium like the Interweb? Why isn't this another toy for the narrative to play with?

[stu_the_elder]

Feng Shui (the RPG, not the woo-woo) did this sort of thing right. If you can get a copy of the book, it may amuse.

- Crump