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# I do love your sense of timing JJ
The expressions and the actions all add to a joke, making sometimes unextraordinary things amusing
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:03, archived)
# ^ this
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:04, archived)
# Comedy is timing.....
....and pies.
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:15, archived)
# Mmmmmmmm, pie
(Mrs Trellis GIN, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:16, archived)
# lots of them
(Toshiro thinks Chloe is #1, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:16, archived)
# How can you have timing in a cartoon strip?
It's a random access thing; people can read it as fast or as slow as they wish, in whatever order they wish.
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:16, archived)
# I'm not sure how it works
but frame 3 definitely counts as comic timing.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:20, archived)
# I ain't got no timing... I ain't go no timing...
I ain't got NO timing

Now THAT's timing :)
(I helped save b3ta! Hamster Trippin' aka Mr. Titts, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:21, archived)
# There are subliminal messages in the strip to tell you how long to look at each frame.
Tsk!
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:21, archived)
# Ah.

At last, a technical explanation rather than a declamation of my theory.
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:26, archived)
# Happy to help..
:)
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:28, archived)
# If you read it fast or slow
you are still reading relative pauses assuming you read it all
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Wed 17 Oct 2007, 13:23, archived)