i wish i had known this all along.

So, I finished making my C++ program which prints out the text of any particular three-panel A Softer World comics by number, a random three-panel A Softer World comic, or a generated comic (using the text of the first panel of a random strip, the text of the second panel of a random strip, and the text of the third panel of a random strip). Finally got the whole comic so far transcribed (except the six-panel comics), and got the text file formatted properly so the program works right. (Well, almost right. Still have to figure out how to get the very first comic to print.)

Naturally, as soon as I got it working, I started generating the mixed-up comics. And got a lot of really bizarrely spot-on results. (The surreal ones I expected, but there are also perfectly-understandable sad ones!)

 

( some make perfect sense )

 

( others take some thought )

I don't know if this will be amusing to anyone other than me, but I thought I'd throw it out here!