From MonSFFan Danny Sichel, who writes:
RAIN VERSUS LAUNDRY: a key for identifying webcomics about young women enmeshed in time-travel shenanigans, set in major Canadian cities.
1: The comic is set in:
a) Toronto
b) Montreal
2: The comic updates:
a) Monday/Wednesday/Friday
b) Daily
3: The comic is formatted as:
a) 3 to 5 horizontal panels, with speech bubbles
b) infinite canvas with large blocks of text
4: The protagonist uses a cane because:
a) she’s got glaucoma and is legally blind
b) she’s ruined her knees
5: When there’s multiple instances of the protagonist co-existing as a result of time travel:
a) each one will inevitably become the next.
b) they can be mutually exclusive and hugely different.
6: The sidekick was originally:
a) someone who tried to bully the protagonist in high school
b) an innocent bystander who the protagonist rescued from a deathtrap
7: The mad scientist lives:
a) now
b) a hundred years ago
8: The possibly malevolent supernatural entity looks like:
a) a blonde guy with a limp
b) a shapeshifter – sometimes it’s a TV, sometimes it’s a snake, sometimes it’s a ball of energy, but it always glows green.
9: The terror is:
a) existential – the protagonist realizes that whatever she does with her life, her friendships are doomed and she’ll end up homeless and living decades in her own past without any free will
b) physical – the protagonist is being chased by trans-temporal zombies and a big violent Russian guy and a skull-headed monster based on the corpse of a beagle but now it’s the size of a van
10: The time travel is:
a) super subtle, with no visual indicators except for things appearing, disappearing, and or growing
b) super flashy, with bright colors and flickering lights
11: The timeline is:
a) immutable
b) badly fractured into a dozen alternates or more
12: The writer is:
a) working from a tight plan
b) guided by dozens of suggestions from the readers
If your answers are all A, you are reading “It Never Rains”, by Kari Maaren. (http://itneverrainscomic.com/)
If your answers are all B, you are reading “All-Night Laundry”, by Zach Hall under the name ‘Jack Fractal’. (http://all-night-laundry.com/)
If your answers are a combination of A and B, I don’t know what you’re reading.