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I likely overdid it with Time Flies… at least in terms of the number of panels. It clocks, an unintended pun, in at over 200 panels and could easily be longer! Chronologically this comic will come immediately after Rock, which will provide a stark contrast to the passage of time from that comic. In Rock nearly two years pass in a few, short panels, which already contrasts with the first dozen or so comics that together span one day and night (for comparison there are more comics in the first day than there are panels in the seven seasons that pass in Rock). Immediately following Rock comes this comic lasting no more than a few fleeting seconds, but will likely contain more panels than all the panels in the comics preceding it combined. The intention is to represent time at a near standstill, it barely passes even though long periods feel like they should go by. Further irony is found in the title as time doesn’t fly at all in this comic. For good measure there is also a fly. Visual gags are provided by an erratic and senseless flight pattern that eventually ends where it began (one will never understand the zig zagging of flies). Dry humor, or at least something unique, can be found in the tracing of the fly’s flight by the dotted line. It is common in comics to use dotted lines to represent movement, especially flight, although I can’t think of an instance where each panel traces only the single addition of a dot. Its mundane to show each frame of movement even though in reality that is how time moves. Most comics try to have quick changes from panel to panel to represent action, this comic has many panels and hardly anything happening (certainly nothing worthwhile). So contrary to the title time may not seem to fly in this comic, but at least I didn’t write Time Crawls… – Zachary