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Question: Titles have always been hard for me.

inging — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:48:40 -0800

Help me name my comic, please!

The main characters are a squid and an astronaut. They are currently unnamed characters, and I'm pretty sure I'd want to avoid the Name&Name title format. Not a whole lot happens, they mostly just chat. It is, perhaps, not that funny, but I resolved this New Year's to take my projects more seriously. So, I want to come up with a name, which, I guess, will help me take it more seriously. Crazy reasoning aside, I'm having difficulty coming up with something I like for more than ten minutes.

I'm open to any suggestions. Samples of the comic here and here.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:51:05 -0800

cephalosophy

By: sanko

sanko — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:53:43 -0800

Frank.

By: danb

danb — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:57:36 -0800

Very Thin Pen Line

By: justgary

justgary — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:06:38 -0800

Lots of Nothing.

By: armoured-ant

armoured-ant — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:06:39 -0800

Floaters

By: mediareport

mediareport — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:06:40 -0800

Foam. Foamy. Seafoam. Quantum foam. Space foam. Spacetime foam.

Something like that. It's light and frothy, ocean, space, you get the drift.

By: armoured-ant

armoured-ant — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:07:33 -0800

Ink Space

By: armoured-ant

armoured-ant — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:08:55 -0800

Oh, the gravity.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:11:03 -0800

Frank & Cat

By: Science!

Science! — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:11:36 -0800

2nd Frank. Frank is all anybody should name anything.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:17:44 -0800

Names don't matter. Seriously. What matters is what you do with it. Think about it: Farside, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, none of them were great names, but they became great names based on the comics. Take special note of Calvin and Hobbes, which followed the name & name format.

But if you insist.

astrosquid

10 legs

ink cloud

squid mission

squid and astronaut

Hello houston

houston we have a problem

Sea of life

Sailing the Stars

Apollo 19

Big mouth

Downtown at the coffee shop

Metasquid

Look now

Did you see that?

Uncontrolled talking

A little chat

Shooting the shit

Shooting the breeze

Great day for sailing

Mission squid

Life with squids and astronauts

Back and forth

Shhh, we're talking

astroquid

Sqastroanut

Between heaven and hell

Middleground

Major Tom and his squid

4 point landing

Sea Space

Rancid chicken

Would you like some tea

Suction cup

Squids in space

Floating in the sea

Liferaft

Liquid Courage

Infected by madness

And of course:

Frank and Betty. Make the astroanut female, the squid male.

By: furiousthought

furiousthought — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:21:22 -0800

Space Tentacles.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:23:25 -0800

20,000 Leagues (Above and) Under the Sea

By: icontemplate

icontemplate — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:27:14 -0800

Verne's Jewels

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:29:59 -0800

Make the astroanut female, the squid male.

Don't be ridiculous! Everyone knows that squid are the most feminine of all marine cephalopod mollusks!

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:32:58 -0800

Aether

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:36:36 -0800

My first thought was "Blue Ocean, Black Sea" or similar (water, space, blah)

However, I like WCityMike's a lot, but would recommend calling it just "40,000 Leagues". That would represent the distance between them. Or something.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:43:55 -0800

Verne's Jewels
I like that! Only 2nd to Frank.

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:47:28 -0800

The Inky Darkness

By: neustile

neustile — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:58:55 -0800

Grigori

Which is the name of both a famous (fictional) super-intelligent squid and a famous (dead) cosmonaut.

By: roue

roue — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:12:32 -0800

It makes no sense, but I love "Crack Spider's Bitch".

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:14:31 -0800

Zero and Geez.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:16:29 -0800

Calamari.

Cosmic Calamari.

Calamari Cosmonaut.

Inky Abyss.

Ink.
(Ooh I kinda like that one just because it's simple. Also your drawings appear to be done in ink? I can't really tell, the lines are so thin.)

Inky void.

Something to do with the word void, because I think that's what these two have most in common.

Also, I just now realized that these two characters are in their own "habitats." I was wondering at first what an astronaut was doing in the ocean...
"The Space Between" (too bad it's a song, I think...)

Also also, I second Aether.

Also also also, I like the samples so far, so be sure to let me/us know when you go public with this.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:22:14 -0800

Tentacles

Tentacle Porn

Calamartians

Calamari

Mesonychoteuthis

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:28:18 -0800

Deep Space Calamari.
Major Matt Squid.
Chucky and Sucky.

By: rob511

rob511 — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:28:51 -0800

Mild High
Zero Gee
Inky & the 'Splain
Stranger Here Myself

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:31:18 -0800

I third æther

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:32:47 -0800

Icarus & Icky.
Spock 'N' Sushi.
Cuttle and Shuttle.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:49:38 -0800

Lovecraft and Lovell.
Floaters.
Meat Sacks.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:50:41 -0800

Evolution Xtreme!

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:11:38 -0800

Long distance.

By: Coda

Coda — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:35:28 -0800

Astroteuthis (from architeuthis, the great squid)

Tentisicles

An Illustrated Conversation Between A Cosmonaut And A Squid (and then each strip would be titled In Which Blah Blah Blah)

So... clever, stupid, and overly literal.

By: artdrectr

artdrectr — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:56:46 -0800

Throw Me A Line

By: booksprite

booksprite — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:31:29 -0800

What about "Ink Blot", "Ink Blog" or (for English mefites) "Sick Squid"?

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:01:50 -0800

Time and Tide

By: Slothrop

Slothrop — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:50:36 -0800

Just in case my irony/sarcaso-meter is off, Frank is already the name of a very well-known comic, one that is surreal no less. So, I think that would be out.

I loved "cephalosophy" (first suggestion). "Verne's Jewels" is also very nice.

Your astronaut looks like an iPod. Or a Gameboy. But going with iPod, my title suggestion would be:

'Pods

In fact, I like the idea of a talking iPod better than the idea of an astronaut.

My New Year's resolution was to finish my comic as well. I started in the Fall and have 10 of the proposed 110 pages done. But I'll get there. So will you! Good luck!

By: pracowity

pracowity — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:55:54 -0800

squibs

By: Alt F4

Alt F4 — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:48:41 -0800

Inky Void

By: FreezBoy

FreezBoy — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:27:44 -0800

"arms of a dilemma" and the squid's name is, of course, Dilemma.

By: FreezBoy

FreezBoy — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:28:24 -0800

... or "Dill" for short.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:26:46 -0800

He could have a friend who works in the NASA offices called "Dilbert".
Wait.

By: muddgirl

muddgirl — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:41:23 -0800

I like "Ink", and I like your comic.

By: SinisterPurpose

SinisterPurpose — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:00:24 -0800

Just throwing mine into the mix: No Air Anywhere

By: umbú

umbú — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:17:21 -0800

ink
inky void
or
floaters

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:53:56 -0800

23 Squidoo.

By: infinitewindow

infinitewindow — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:01:42 -0800

Aqua Knot

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:05:12 -0800

Cthulhu and Pals

Me and My Squid

Holy Fuck a Talking Squid!

Holy Fuck the Talking Squid!

Zogaar the Volcanop God

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:05:36 -0800

err, volcano.

*explodes*

By: inging

inging — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:16:56 -0800

Oh, man, you are all wonderful! Thank you so much. I like pretty much every single suggestion here, and now I'm going to have to whittle it down to one.

Though I might just re-name the thing everyday, so I can use them all.

Thanks, everyone!

By: The Deej

The Deej — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:34:15 -0800

Oh, and the "Frank" thing is from another thread where people discussed dumb AskMe questions, with "Name my cat" among the most hated. Someone suggested they should all be answered "Frank." So a few of us smartasses had to answer that way, or we would not be able to renew our Smartass Licenses within the 10 day grace period to be effective for 2007.

By: gigawhat?

gigawhat? — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:04:26 -0800

Squid To Spaceman

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:30:51 -0800

Ink/Jet.

By: pointilist

pointilist — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:29:49 -0800

inky void- like the drawings.