December 22, 2025December 18, 2025 by zbicyclist Not Animated Image CIDU Leigh Rubin, Rubes 6 Comments Related
As the dolphin suggests, it’s a comic strip and not an animation. The image will forever show the two dolphins in exactly that spot. If it were animated, they’d crash into each other. A little Treachery of Images to start the morning. LikeLike
Andrew has it. They’re frozen forever in pre-collision. They’ll spend eternity waiting for the impact that never comes. LikeLike
Even if this were animation, this frame would be frozen like this forever. It is the future frames that should be worried! LikeLike
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As the dolphin suggests, it’s a comic strip and not an animation. The image will forever show the two dolphins in exactly that spot. If it were animated, they’d crash into each other. A little Treachery of Images to start the morning.
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Andrew has it. They’re frozen forever in pre-collision. They’ll spend eternity waiting for the impact that never comes.
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So, since the dolphins are aware they are in a comic, does this count as a 4th wall comic?
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Even if this were animation, this frame would be frozen like this forever. It is the future frames that should be worried!
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Didn’t John Keats cover this situation in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
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What is Ode to a Grecian, is what Grecian urns.
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