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No. 714: A gimmick not seen in 522 strips

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A gimmick not seen in 522 strips

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/dinosaur/?comic=714

Strip by: David Morgan-Mar

T-Rex: We're upside down again!
Utahraptor: This is very disorienting.
T-Rex: You're here early.
Utahraptor: It's also reversed us temporally!
Dromiceiomimus: Se we're reversed in x, y, and t, but not z.
T-Rex: Are you saying we're
T-Rex: TWO DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERS?
T-Rex: Now I'm less excited than I was at the beginning...

The author writes:

You wouldn't believe how disorienting it was to edit this comic in Photoshop. I apply a simple sequence of keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures to undistort, colour balance, crop, and resize the image from the original photo. I've done it hundreds of times and it just flows naturally. But for this one, I kept hitting the wrong keys and doing the operations in the wrong sequence.