If only they could find an old shed door to cross the river.<p>The similarities between this ongoing xkcd and _why's most recent publican are really interesting. Thematically I find the stories very similar, they feel as though they come from the same author to me (I know Randall is not _why). Their choice of delivery also come to mind.<p>I am very happy there are more dedicated people than myself in the world, otherwise I would miss out on these stories unfolding.
The (now) 621 page thread on xkcd forums is essential reading:<p><a href="http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101043" rel="nofollow">http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101043</a>
At around frame 170 I wrote a script[1] that grabbed the images automatically as well as logging all of the file names. Was a very fun and perfectly timed project for helping me learn python. I completely forgot about it and am happy to say it's still running and has been collected the images correctly for the past two months. I've been pushing the collection of images to github as well in a separate repo[2] because at the time I couldn't find anywhere to one hit download all the images.
The linked viewer however is at 1354 whilst I'm up to 1355, I'm curious as to at what point I grabbed an excess frame.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/Lockyy/newpix" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Lockyy/newpix</a>
[2] <a href="https://github.com/Lockyy/xkcdTimeImages" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Lockyy/xkcdTimeImages</a>
Some part of me wonders how he can keep up this pace and thinks that he must have a computer program generating new frames somehow. Then I look at things like the sand castle and doubt that a computer program could have come up with anything like that and assume that we'd have caught on to any formulaic repetition by now.
<i>now more individual frames than there are XKCD comics.</i><p>That's kinda a silly claim. Most of the Time frames are part of an ongoing scene, so each new frame is just an addition on top of the old frame. Your Time viewer has a differential view against the next/previous frame so you can see it in action.<p>Saying it's "more frames than all the other comics" is like saying one episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has more frames than X. Yeah, numbers can be bigger than other numbers, but they aren't the sameness of comparison.
Here's an animation of all the frames<p><a href="http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1190:_Time" rel="nofollow">http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1190:_Time</a>