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[theweaselking]

Prequel, Or, Making A Cat Cry: The Adventure sets a new high bar for webcomics awesomeness today.

You don't have to know anything about the comic. Just enable Javascript (yes, it requires Javascript) and scroll down. Take your time, watch the comic, and remember to look back up once in a while - when you see her look up, something above you has changed. When you get to the bottom, just watch.

That entire thing? All done in CSS and Javascript.

Comments

[drcuriosity]

They've really outdone themselves on this one. It's like a kind of magic, even though I understand the mechanisms making it happen.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever been so impressed.

[ben-raccoon.livejournal.com]

That was really.. really cool. o.o

[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

Bizzarre. Was expecting something rather more important to look at than just the cat lighting a torch at the end. Felt like a bit of an anti-climax.

Also not sure what all those comments that appear above you as you descend meant, particularly this one:
woooot for expecting jquery whizbangery …. I really do hope you are using cut and paste animations as drawing every frame must take eons and you should have a set of js functions to call to whenever you need something to move remember use vars and data-something= statements then you can have flying whizzy divs everywhere.

I wonder what katia thinks of the above command

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

As webcomics go, this is AWESOME.

Also: The comments above and below are an artifact of the comic's conceit, which is that this is a twisted kind of Let's Play, where commenters provide the "actions" of a PC in a game. After each episode, commenters provide "commands" for the PC to follow, and the writer has her hear some/all of them and obey some/all.

That's not the point. The point is: Walk down the 3D steps, see the Thing moving in the dark, reach the end: As a webcomic panel? AWESOME.

[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

see the Thing moving in the dark

What Thing? Or do you just mean the cat protagonist person?

[ben-raccoon.livejournal.com]

Notice how the edges of the panel bulge at random intervals?

[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

Oh that. Yeah, I saw that.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I think you mean "sprout horrible tentacles".

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

I only occasionally remember this comic exists and go back to read a few weeks of it at a time. But that was quite lovely.