Paul Gadzikowski

Today for an LJ comment I happened to have cause to run down the links for the two (that I know of) instances when I've been referenced at Something Awful On The Web, and I decided I need to preserve the links in my own journal.

• January 2003: featured as an Awful Link of the Day, for KAITAS, fanfiction and triangle cartoons
• January 2010: bitched about in the forums, for AKOTAS, by someone who's confounded that I should be in the Mythadventures credits

Edit 3/1/10 Aaand in February's top ten referrals I find that I've been linked to from PortalOfEvil.com! Thanks for the traffic, evil.

If you looked at the new character analog timeline table added a few days ago to the AKOTAS-2 FAQ, found it legible, and are a Doctor Who fan, you'll've noticed that Nimue is not analog to the two most recent Doctor Who companions, though she is to almost all the others past and future.

(This table shows that she's even analog to Leela in AKOTAS-2, which she was not in KAITAS. That's only because I got lazy when I was making the table, trying to fit all the lettering in. I'll decide for certain for the first gag that forces me, and if necessary update the table, somehow.)

I mentioned parenthetically the other day that often I draw inspiration for a gag simply by noting the biggest gap in the AKOTAS-2 timeline between existing gags. For today, according to my spreadsheet, the centerpoint of the biggest gap fell analog to the Doctor's time with Donna, one of those two companions Nimue isn't analog to. Having failed, in the time since I realized Nimue couldn't be analog to Martha or Donna if she were analog to Rose, to come up with a character from mythology, folklore and legends with red hair, yesterday I went to the Wikipedia page on red hair. There I discovered that, among others, Mary Magdalene is traditionally portrayed with red hair.

Mary Magdalene also, despite common or even base origins, spent a short time as a companion to a charismatic, world-saving man of superhuman ability, after which she descended into obscurity (doing so for the sake of survival, Dan Brown and others tell us), yet for her time as a companion has had songs sung about her through history (and is revered as a goddess herself, Dan Brown and others tell us).

I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it as hard as I thought about it when I was considering who ought to be the Superman analog in KAITAS, Hercules or Jesus. I made my decision then on the basis that Dejanira makes a better Lois Lane than Mary Magdalene does. But (a) that was back in the days before the Holy Blood, Holy Grail premise was made into novels, movies and History Channel programs, and (2) (b) not all the reasons Mary Magdalene lost out in the running for Lois Lane necessarily apply to the selection for Donna Noble. (Though I haven't any intention of showing or implying, as the paragaph above this one may suggest, that, in the AKOTAS-2 universe, Merlin turns out to have been Jesus in a predestination paradox. Jesus would be analog to ... I dunno. Wilf. Not that he wouldn't still be, you know, Jesus. He'd just also be Merlin's best friend in Mary Magdalene's neighborhood.)

Meanwhile today's cartoon takes another subject entirely. Or it will have once I've written it.

I wish I'd started Arthur, King of Time and Space earlier.

Sometimes I wish that, instead of Arthur, King of Time and Space, my Officially A Webcomic On A Website Of Its Own was rather King Arthur in Time and Space, the one where I blended King Arthur and other legends with my fanfiction pantheon. I miss King Arthur in Time and Space.

Or maybe that I'd had the courage of the convictions I espoused online 1995-2004 and created a conventional webcomic around my fanfiction pantheon itself (If Power Puff Girls Doujinshi wins WCCAs ...) (not that I knew that then). The reason I didn't - lack of a legal fund - is as good now as it was then, but still.

Or maybe even that I'd gone online with "original" Dailies, what's known in webcomics culture as a "journal comic". The reason I didn't do that is as good now as it was then, namely that there's no sf fandom in this town and all my social life is online, but still.

... What? Regrets in my personal life? Nawww. That'd mean:
- I'd be regretting that I and those in my life are the people we've been forged into by the challenges we've faced.
- there'd be any level at all (say, in order to get them right this time) that I wanted to live those challenges over.

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a separate post.

( Featuring characters or their King Arthur in Time and Space analogs from Doctor Who, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek, M*A*S*H, Firefly, and Stargate SG-1. )

Thanks for reading.

( Down through the ages )

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a separate post.

( sketches including the first King Arthur in Time and Space drawing since the inception of Arthur, King of Time and Space )

Thanks for reading.

I understand there's a controversey raging because Mohammad recently appeared in cartoons in a Danish newspaper, when Islam forbids the depiction of the prophet's image.

( THIS cartoon's been on my website for two years. )