Titles have always been hard for me.
January 3, 2007 7:48 PM Subscribe
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.
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.
Floaters
posted by armoured-ant at 8:06 PM on January 3, 2007
posted by armoured-ant at 8:06 PM on January 3, 2007
Foam. Foamy. Seafoam. Quantum foam. Space foam. Spacetime foam.
Something like that. It's light and frothy, ocean, space, you get the drift.
posted by mediareport at 8:06 PM on January 3, 2007
Something like that. It's light and frothy, ocean, space, you get the drift.
posted by mediareport at 8:06 PM on January 3, 2007
Ink Space
posted by armoured-ant at 8:07 PM on January 3, 2007
posted by armoured-ant at 8:07 PM on January 3, 2007
Oh, the gravity.
posted by armoured-ant at 8:08 PM on January 3, 2007
posted by armoured-ant at 8:08 PM on January 3, 2007
2nd Frank. Frank is all anybody should name anything.
posted by Science! at 8:11 PM on January 3, 2007
posted by Science! at 8:11 PM on January 3, 2007
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.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:17 PM on January 3, 2007
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.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:17 PM on January 3, 2007
Space Tentacles.
posted by furiousthought at 8:21 PM on January 3, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by furiousthought at 8:21 PM on January 3, 2007 [1 favorite]
Verne's Jewels
posted by icontemplate at 8:27 PM on January 3, 2007
posted by icontemplate at 8:27 PM on January 3, 2007
Make the astroanut female, the squid male.
Don't be ridiculous! Everyone knows that squid are the most feminine of all marine cephalopod mollusks!
posted by aubilenon at 8:29 PM on January 3, 2007
Don't be ridiculous! Everyone knows that squid are the most feminine of all marine cephalopod mollusks!
posted by aubilenon at 8:29 PM on January 3, 2007
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.
posted by Ynoxas at 8:36 PM on January 3, 2007
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.
posted by Ynoxas at 8:36 PM on January 3, 2007
The Inky Darkness
posted by Pater Aletheias at 8:47 PM on January 3, 2007
posted by Pater Aletheias at 8:47 PM on January 3, 2007
It makes no sense, but I love "Crack Spider's Bitch".
posted by roue at 9:12 PM on January 3, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by roue at 9:12 PM on January 3, 2007 [1 favorite]
Zero and Geez.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:14 PM on January 3, 2007
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:14 PM on January 3, 2007
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.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 9:16 PM on January 3, 2007
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.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 9:16 PM on January 3, 2007
Tentacles
Tentacle Porn
Calamartians
Calamari
Mesonychoteuthis
posted by Pollomacho at 9:22 PM on January 3, 2007
Tentacle Porn
Calamartians
Calamari
Mesonychoteuthis
posted by Pollomacho at 9:22 PM on January 3, 2007
Deep Space Calamari.
Major Matt Squid.
Chucky and Sucky.
posted by Dizzy at 9:28 PM on January 3, 2007
Major Matt Squid.
Chucky and Sucky.
posted by Dizzy at 9:28 PM on January 3, 2007
Mild High
Zero Gee
Inky & the 'Splain
Stranger Here Myself
posted by rob511 at 9:28 PM on January 3, 2007
Zero Gee
Inky & the 'Splain
Stranger Here Myself
posted by rob511 at 9:28 PM on January 3, 2007
Evolution Xtreme!
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:50 PM on January 3, 2007
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:50 PM on January 3, 2007
Long distance.
posted by Divine_Wino at 10:11 PM on January 3, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Divine_Wino at 10:11 PM on January 3, 2007 [1 favorite]
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.
posted by Coda at 12:35 AM on January 4, 2007
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.
posted by Coda at 12:35 AM on January 4, 2007
What about "Ink Blot", "Ink Blog" or (for English mefites) "Sick Squid"?
posted by booksprite at 1:31 AM on January 4, 2007
posted by booksprite at 1:31 AM on January 4, 2007
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!
posted by Slothrop at 2:50 AM on January 4, 2007
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!
posted by Slothrop at 2:50 AM on January 4, 2007
"arms of a dilemma" and the squid's name is, of course, Dilemma.
posted by FreezBoy at 5:27 AM on January 4, 2007
posted by FreezBoy at 5:27 AM on January 4, 2007
He could have a friend who works in the NASA offices called "Dilbert".
Wait.
posted by Dizzy at 7:26 AM on January 4, 2007
Wait.
posted by Dizzy at 7:26 AM on January 4, 2007
Aqua Knot
posted by infinitewindow at 9:01 AM on January 4, 2007
posted by infinitewindow at 9:01 AM on January 4, 2007
Cthulhu and Pals
Me and My Squid
Holy Fuck a Talking Squid!
Holy Fuck the Talking Squid!
Zogaar the Volcanop God
posted by Mister_A at 9:05 AM on January 4, 2007
Me and My Squid
Holy Fuck a Talking Squid!
Holy Fuck the Talking Squid!
Zogaar the Volcanop God
posted by Mister_A at 9:05 AM on January 4, 2007
Response by poster: 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!
posted by inging at 11:16 AM on January 4, 2007
Though I might just re-name the thing everyday, so I can use them all.
Thanks, everyone!
posted by inging at 11:16 AM on January 4, 2007
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.
posted by The Deej at 11:34 AM on January 4, 2007
posted by The Deej at 11:34 AM on January 4, 2007
Ink/Jet.
posted by Dizzy at 3:30 PM on January 4, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Dizzy at 3:30 PM on January 4, 2007 [1 favorite]
inky void- like the drawings.
posted by pointilist at 6:29 PM on January 4, 2007
posted by pointilist at 6:29 PM on January 4, 2007
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posted by Rumple at 7:51 PM on January 3, 2007