What the heck is Third Dementia?

Third Dementia is a webcomic. But you knew that. You're not stupid or anything. I'm not saying you're stupid, you know, because if I was doing that then you wouldn't read Third Dementia. Which is as I mentioned, a webcomic. That was a sentence fragment.

Third Dementia is apparently, according to what I hear from both my readers, funny. At the beginning of the series, it's not funny-"haha", per se, but more of a funny-"strange", or funny-"that's funny". I've since added a revolutionary humour thingy called "A Punchline", and I've divided up the archives into sections indicating the beginning of the "Punchline" era. If you are upset at the fact that there are none of these "Punchlines" for the first few chapters, and you are looking for the funny-"haha" sort of thing, click HERE. Now keep that image in your mind as you read Third Dementia and you'll be giggling uncontrollably on every page.

You didn't click up there, did you. Click it. Seriously. It's funny.

How did all this start?

There was a "Never Ending Story" that I wrote most of years ago, and I decided I wanted to make a comic out of it. So I did. It was 4 pages long. Not exactly great art, either. So it went into a drawer. Then I thought I'd lengthen it by adding a prologue, explaining why the protagonists jumped through dimensions. That gave 2 extra pages of Katt. It went to the drawer. Then I read about mini-comics, the art of using only a quarter of a page, folding it in a bizarre manner, and poof! A comic! So now I had it up to 20 pages! No one cared. Back in the drawer.

October, 1999. I was working for the government in a job far below my nigh-godlike (kay, not serious.) computer skills. So I surfed the net a lot. And I discovered web comics. Really cool good web comics and really crappy web comics. It was the really crappy web comics that inspired me to scan in my ill-drawn minicomic, paint it horribly (I had drawn it on paper with little dots all over it, preventing simple floodfilling) and post it on the net. Third Dementia the webcomic was born!

It started out as a daily comic, with me at my desk drawing and inking and scanning and painting. That went on until January, when I went back to school. Then it was more of a monthly comic at best. Now I'm shooting for a Monday, Wednesday, Friday sort of deal, missing occasionally, but doing good, I'd think. My artwork improves every day (Compare the first strip with the latest. I mean, it's a slight improvement, no?), and I just got one of those neato artist models (I keep him in the closet and he takes care of the rat problem) so now I can make realistic poses! Yay!

So who gets credit?

What, you mean because of the massive amounts of writers of the original NES, how can I say this webcomic is by me? Um, well, okay seeing as I wrote at least 51% of the story, and I don't actually know who wrote the rest, I'll use the following space to hold the names of people who remember adding to the story back when it was on the first BBS. In order for your name to appear, just tell me something that proves you wrote it.

Contributing writers to the original NES: (None)

I have a cool Third Dementia story idea!

Really? That's great! I mean, my brain's going to run dry any minute now, and I'll be left plotless! And if you have a plot outline and are willing to help me out with dialogue, I'll definitely put your name up for the chapter. Only rules I really have are that the stories involve the Bob, Judy, and Toto characters. I mean, you can't just kill the main characters off in the first comic and go off on a tangent about weirdo vigilantes and their incredible reality-altering box who are pitted against nazis and nuns with uzis and stuff.. I mean, c'mon... That would just be weird. I reserve every right to reject your story idea if it doesn't fit into the storyline. I also reserve every right to take the plot in my own direction if you bail out halfway through the plot, and that includes having a bloody death befall a secondary character with your name.
(Please refrain from coming up with a plotline just so you can bail out and get your death in the comic. Seriously. If you do that I won't kill you off. So there.)