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1/0 starts, appropriately enough, with darkness. Tailsteak, the ever present and all powerful narrator and author thinks for a moment and says "Let there be light" and from there on goes about creating his universe. He starts by stealing bit characters from other Web Comics, talking to them, creating other characters from them and begging them to do something interesting. And they wonder about and fear, the end. At 1000 strips, a nice round number at which point their creator, Tailsteak has told them "Your universe will end." Not to be confused with Divide by Zero.

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  • 1/0 starts, appropriately enough, with darkness. Tailsteak, the ever present and all powerful narrator and author thinks for a moment and says "Let there be light" and from there on goes about creating his universe. He starts by stealing bit characters from other Web Comics, talking to them, creating other characters from them and begging them to do something interesting. And they wonder about and fear, the end. At 1000 strips, a nice round number at which point their creator, Tailsteak has told them "Your universe will end." Not to be confused with Divide by Zero.
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  • 1/0 starts, appropriately enough, with darkness. Tailsteak, the ever present and all powerful narrator and author thinks for a moment and says "Let there be light" and from there on goes about creating his universe. He starts by stealing bit characters from other Web Comics, talking to them, creating other characters from them and begging them to do something interesting. As any good author will tell you, a good character is your worst enemy. If you are doing your job properly, you don't know what they will do, they write themselves they will do things occasionally that will really mess up your plans for long term plots or break dramatic moments with idiotic questions. A good author doesn't control their characters, their characters control themselves. And that is where 1/0 is masterful -- The characters are aware, and they don't always agree with Tailsteak. They know everything we do, they know who the president is and how long a year is, even though neither exist in their universe. Confronted with overt intervention by their author they strike for months of strips, refusing to speak or move or think until he promises never to change the laws of physics again. They contemplate where they go when Tailsteak isn't writing them, they question whether they, as fictional characters are actually alive or if their writer is just schizophrenic. And they wonder about and fear, the end. At 1000 strips, a nice round number at which point their creator, Tailsteak has told them "Your universe will end." In less prosaic terms, 1/0 is a Web Comic that was started to get the author a girlfriend, when he began to explore the possibilities of a series that firmly established there was No Fourth Wall for one of the most poignant examples of Meta Fiction yet. Not to be confused with Divide by Zero. Tailsteak is still around now that 1/0 is complete -- he's working on new projects on a new site. He also recently started a new continually updating comic: Leftover Soup.
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