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First time I've had all five of the television show's cast in a picture ... though most of the Fraggle gang in the background. This might be a good time to explain that this illustrations parallel the stories I've written (and will write in future), but are different in many details. For instance, when Darl was first introduced to the gang by Kiki, he hadn't come by his hockey jersey. Yet in the picture, there it is in all its glory! Nor has anyone realized yet that Darl just does not sing, so Red's side comment doesn't make sense.Related content
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Kiki, there are also Smart Creatures. They'd want to interview fraggles, study their civilization, send drones into Fraggle Rock, study your biology...
And there are Cruel Creatures ! They'd want to vivisect you, hurt you in every way. Trouble is, you can't tell silly, smart and cruel creatures apart by looking at them... I'm surprised that Travelling Matt hasn't fallen afowl of the WRONG ones.
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I worry about that... so far the innate capacity for Silly Creatures to disbelieve in Fraggles has protected them well enough, but it may not last if there is systematic study of the matter. I suspect it may be be necessary for Madam Trash Heap to use a little magic to eventually close Fraggle Rock off from our world.
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There is a movie whose title I can not recall -slipped around a corner In my mind- about a man who mysteriously changed into a fish and with the abilities of the species of fish he was now ,helped win WWII.
So,likewise, Darl was always meant to be a fraggle and fate fixed the mistake of him being born a human.
Tho I have an idea of HOW it happened, I will keep my own counsel and let you reveal the answer. I tire of offending people...
One last note: This can serve as the cover to issue #1 or 2.
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"The Incredible Mr. Limpet" with Don Knotts. I used to have that comic and saw the movie as a kid. I don't have the comic anymore, but I think I may have a commercial videotape. I suppose Mr. Limpet was meant to be a fish, since there wasn't much explanation for becoming one. He fell in the water, basically, and "drowned." Darl Fraggle had to have a little magical help.
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From left to right:
Gobo, Boober Wembley, Red. Doozers afar off.
This can be the cover to a comic book on Darl's debut into Fraggledom. Covers do not necessarily accurately show the action within.
Issue #1
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It's an amusing idea, what I am far too slow as a comic book artist. I was slow to begin with, but have only gotten slower as I got older, and I've long since given up the idea of doing extended comic stories. A couple of pages, three or four maybe ... that's all. But, yeah... comic covers don't accurately reflect the contents.
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My chptr will end with the fraggles consulting Marjory about Darl's songlessness. She suggests a mindmeld by a prolonged deep dream-sharing session. "Darl's transformation is not complete, is not finished" she said.
They inquire further, but her two attendants say "The Great Trashpile has spoken ! Nyah !".
That ends my chptr, as Casper has already left to rescue somebody else. I did this once before, having my story barge into somebody else's.
Darl could say about Marjory "I had a messy room at times, but all it ever "said" to me was 'Clean me up and put me away ! ' "
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Well, it has to be highly non-official. Your chapter is walking all over the developing premises of what I've been writing myself.
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Which is why the story takes place in an indefinite possible future. My muliverse allows for alternate timelines and the paradoxes thus created. I discussed such messes in a chptr of DOMDANIEL DAZE .
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In one Fraggles comic by Star, there was a story titled TIME MACHINE. The fraggles somehow get ahold of a metronome, and try timing all their activity to it. Somehow it gets reset to top speed and the fraggles so speed up all their activity that bedlam & breakage result ! They then decide to gert rid of the metronome and go back to their normal accustomed pace.
In another, the Gorgs find an unexplained monster in the cellar , a monster that takes on whatever shape is in your imagination.
In a third, Cotterpin expresses a reluctance to be a builder, wishing to become - a fraggle ! The legend of how fraggles evolved from doozers is brought up. This alarms her friends and loved ones. The foreman decides that she'd do best as a construction designer, working on blueprints, BUT HE'LL decide what is to be designed. Cotterpin still schemes to work her own ideas into such.
I have two books, one on the evolution of fraggles from doozers and the other on how Red & Boober got trapped in a blocked cave while preparations are being made for a surprise party for Boober and Red is told to keep Boober from accidentally straying into the Great Hall until everything is set up. While hoping for rescue, each finds out surorising things about the other.
One alternate end in a fan-fic, was for the two to find another way out, into a parallel world where they become - the first GELFLINGS. The ancestors of the Gelfling people so tied in with the Skeksies and the UrRu and Aughra, and the Dark Crystal...
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I never read the comics. The accelerated speed is a good idea. However, the monster in the cellar story was an actual filmed episode -- I think the monster was named Goony, might have been thinking of a different monster. But that's the story, along with involuntarily taking on the shape of whoever imagines him. There was also a story about Cotterpin Doozer running away from the Doozer Dome, wanting to be a Fraggle and have fun. But it doesn't sound entirely like the story I know. It is true that Architect decides that Cotterpin should learn to be an architect herself, someday. But I don't recall anything about Doozers and Fraggles evolved from each other -- although it sounds like something that Doozers might be conceited enough to believe.
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In a tale you did of Darl seeing Kiki for the first time, you subtly bring up the oddity that fraggles are invisible to anybody who hasn't been touched by one, Just like in the Harry Potter novels, a thestral is imvisible to anybody who has not seen & understood a death.
In a fan-fic I am planning, should I get my system fully up, I am adopting your notion that Casper can not adjust his size in Fraggle Rock. It will also have the psychopath fraggle, a blind fraggle (the sculptor) and probably Darl. They call Casper Ankleman. It's all tentative, tho. My energies have ebbed over the years and I have ailments ...
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I had a thought about Caspar the Ghost that might be useful. I speculated that ghosts would actually teach ghostly tricks to the living. The problem is that the living ought not to learn things about the dead, and, by so blurring the line between them, become closer to being a ghost one's self. One might learn too much, and find that you are unexpectedly on the wrong side of life! It could make an interesting story, if you want the idea.
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There's conflicting evidence about Fraggle visibility from the program. Traveling Matt seems to be visible wherever he goes in Other Space ... but clearly Gobo was invisible to Doc in the final episodes. My best guess is that Matt dresses up in explorer's duds, and shoes, and people naturally accept him without realizing he's NOT a Silly Person. Even so, I speculate that some people, particularly children, are inclined to see that Fraggles are real.
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Oh, the one in the robe is Mokey. Blame the show never being shown on network TV and the comics not appealing to me.
BTW, you have a knack of showing toes shrouded in fur.
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I kinda figure it out that the Fraggle in the robe was Mokey.
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Yeah. No bear-skin rub deep, but not naked toes either. This was a decision on my part that stems from aethetics, but also from the show's original development sketches, which seem to show that Fraggles are actually furry all over, but thicker around the body. This doesn't show up on the puppets, however.
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If that's Cantus in the robe, then there's going to be friction bet him and Darl. In one fan-fic, Cantus talks about nothing but singing the song that is supposed to be inside each Fraggle, just like Yoda speaks of the Force.
There IS a song inside me, but it makes no sense. The muse can't be forced.
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Some of us have songs that we have to pretend we don't so that someone else seems to be doing the singing?
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I never drew Cantus (who has something like Muttonchops and a top-knot), but you better believe if that Darl frustrates Cantus, and vice versa! It does work out at the end.
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Uncle Matt's idiotic assertions cause Darl a great deal of mirth ... but he will learn that contradicting Matt only infuriates the old duffer, so Darl keeps what he knows to himself unless someone asks him privately, later. Eventually it will be assumed that Matt is full of hot air, but only over a good deal of time.
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Since Darl was once human, maybe he can straighten out the mess created by Traveling Matt's idiotic observations. I list a few:
1 - Saw the Statue of Liberty and thought it was a gigantic Gorg about to smash him with its club !
2 - Saw a woman with a hair-dryer. Thought she was using a primitive Walkman.
3 - Saw some kids using hula hoops. Thought they were poorly designed belts that had to be kept spinning.
4 - Saw a upside-down photo of a girl relaxing in bed with a phonograph - Thought she had somehow glued herself to the ceiling !
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Is Darl the human who was promised by a fraggle that he would become one ? Looks like that threat was carrried out !
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Not exactly "promised" -- and there are discrepancies between the eventual prose story I envision, and various art. The image was too good to pass up because it didn't really fit the plot. This would be one of them.
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Very nice picture. I like the others in the back ground.
(P.S. if you do work out a way to become a fraggle, share it.)
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All in good time... it will be in the story "Magic Will Find You," which ought to be the 4th. written. (Two have been written so far.)
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