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Using movies as a reference for making people feel old and scared about how fast time flies was used also in http://xkcd.com/891/ --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.31|108.162.229.31]] 12:03, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 
Using movies as a reference for making people feel old and scared about how fast time flies was used also in http://xkcd.com/891/ --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.229.31|108.162.229.31]] 12:03, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 
Children born after xkcd first came out are now old enough to have this conversation.
 
[[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.183|173.245.56.183]] 19:12, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 
 
: Warning: it is not a good idea to consider how much further we are from this comic, than this comic was from the events it describes. --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.4|172.69.68.4]] 18:26, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
 
 
I was born after 9/11, yet I am old enough to read this comic.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.30|141.101.104.30]]
 
 
Two years from now, people born after the turn of the millennium will start to graduate high school. [[User:International Space Station|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station|talk]]) 05:16, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 
 
I just saw this comic (again) today, and also a highlighted [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blick_von_Williamsburg,_Brooklyn,_auf_Manhattan,_11._September_2001 German wikipedia article] regarding [https://www.lempertz.com/typo3temp/_processed_/csm_Lempertz-1098-156-Photography-Thomas-Hoepker-View-from-Williamsburg-B_f9b5c7e8cf.jpg a photography] of the smoke clouds. The look/stlye of the people in it (their appearing carelessnes was also discussed in the article) made it clear to me again how LONG this was ago. People looked as in "Full house" or "Friends". (Another take - not related to the photopgraphy - is, that the time between the fall of the Berlin wall, and the attack on the WTC was far less than the time since the attack.) --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 09:02, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
 
 
A comment on the actual comic instead of the passage of time ... nobody mentioned Cueball's skull imploding in the last panel? [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 11:58, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 
:I read it as a furrowed forehead. Albeit that a non-linedrawing head does this with mostly just by wrinkles that emerge as the face frowns, the options for portraying this with Randall's penmanship of semi-ovoid heads (surprisingly expressive, you can get the direction and attitude from the sweep of the 'brush'!) requires something different.
 
:As an 'early' comic, I think it is different from how contemporary ones would do it. Some 'grizzle' lines emanating from the character's head, or floating punctuation. Perhaps even finer forehead lines on the (already more nuanced) head-space?
 
:Though modern Cueballs don't tend to face the 'camera' as much as this one does. With exceptions, they tend to be more in profile (however much up and down they may face, it's often more left/right than here). I have an image in mind of a "straight towards the reader" cueball head... I can't remember which comic it might have been, but it was early-to-mid era and not at all recent. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.77|172.70.162.77]] 14:26, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 
 
I was born after this comic, yet I am old enough to read (and edit) this comic. Greetings from the future! [[User:SilverTheTerribleMathematician|SilverTheTerribleMathematician]] ([[User talk:SilverTheTerribleMathematician|talk]]) 17:52, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 

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