This was originally supposed to have a "Focus!" "Directrix!" joke. That didn't happen. Probably because of how I drew the rope bridge.
Plus I knew I wanted the Trigger joke more. Oddly, the hardest part were the villains, who were originally the upside-down triangles from Temple of Duran, and then a title. Good thing I went with Hexagons, I guess!
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It uses the Right-Hand Rule because everyone lose that Vector's left-hand was lost and became a powerful artifact!
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You could say that brings us back to the origin.
Had I known that "Trigonometry Jones" would become A Thing, I might've planned for a compass to appear in that first run of strips. But then that would have compromised the first joke, which was that they were lost.
Seriously, T.J. started as extremely elaborate "right angle" joke. It all changed when I added the spiffy hat!
By the way, several months back, I started re-running own comics on Twitter on Saturday afternoons at 1pm ET, with the label #SaturdayMatinee.
This comic is timed to appear on Twitter the same time it appears on the blog!
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Since this is Part 2, it actually is a running gag now!
Part 1 appeared back in 2015, Comic 990.
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I went from ''sliding yardstick'' to ''running gag'' in about three seconds.
I hope the running gag was not what you expected it to be. My thoughts on sliding yardsticks were here in this
article.
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And if the horse were here, they could ride off into the sunset.
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So the Golden Ratio was actually a rare gem the whole time? Who knew?!
The gem came as close to the golden ratio as I could manage in Paint. Actually, it was closer, but I hated the way it looked, so I altered it a little to make it more esthetic.
It does seem like they've been looking for years. And now it's almost done.
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Trigonometry is referring to the last time he was in the Mountie's Hall.
That happened in the final trailer for Trigonometry Jones and the Lost Compass.
One other note: Even though I storyboarded this, it's still not turning out exactly as I planned. But it is coming to a conclusion!
And that will be the last time I get this involved in the details!
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Dum da dum dum. Dum da dum. Dum da dum dum. Dum da dum dum dum.
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Will Trigonometry do the Right Thing or the Reich Thing?
Yes, the gang is back! That chilling cliffhanger to which you've waited nearly FIVE years for its resolution!
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... which will hopefully be happening, even though I've been dreading this.
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If you were one of those searching for Mr. Jones, let me know. I know that it's been a long time, but I did get bogged down in an actual plot instead of just moving a story along. And like some of the greats (not that I'm putting myself among them, just emulating them), I know the next step and I know how it ends, and it's just a matter of getting there.
And, I will admit, other than getting bogged down in the strip, the other problem was that I actually got a tepid-to-poor review of the comic, which might not have bothered me so much, but it was the only review I'd seen since I'd first started making the comic, so it stung a little. So I moved on from there.
By the way, the top search term last week was about "cinco de mayo" and as a result, temporarily, the Parabola comic has dethroned Coffee Logic as the most-viewed comic of the week.
In a nutshell (because I couldn't find a decent, stable link), Kepler wrote a book with a title that translates as "Solid Geometry of Wine Barrels", and he has a wine-barrel problem named after him. I stumbled upon this recently (after starting this series, in fact) and thought that was better than actual showing (and creating) these mysterious Knights, who are too numerous to count (and actually aren't that important to the story, such as it is).
EDIT: The explosion is a black-and-white version of a picture I took of a fireworks display.
to be continued...
to be continued...
to be continued...
