As part of its original sequential art offerings, each month tor.com will be bringing you a new A Softer World strip, by the inimitable Joey Comeau and Emily Horne.
There are years worth of classic strips here, but this one is ours.
Copyright © 2008 by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau
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Awesome.
I love ASW and would follow them *anywhere*.
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Favorite, I love it
You have induced me to search for a definition of “vale”! It is a wide river valley. More fun than a barrel, indeed!
The funny thing is, I believe the original reference is a “veil” of tears. As in something that conceals the face. A part of the joke perhaps? Or a mistake on the part of the author? Like the other unanswerable question “how many licks to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop” – we may never know.
You’ve put so much thought into that, I almost hate to tell you that you’re wrong: It really is “vale of tears”.
Interestingly enough, I kept waiting for someone else to notice that there’s no download option for this fourth installment of A Softer World, yet nobody except me seems to care…
A Softer World 5 is up now and has the download option right from the start… how odd.
If you hadn’t mentioned it, I’d never have noticed the installments of A Softer World had a download option. What is there to download?
With most episodes, you get the option to download a .pdf of the comic to read later without being online… I noticed that they still haven’t given a link to download the 4th issue yet… maybe they won’t.
6 years later I notice my mistake. Better late then never? Thank you anobium.