Re: Nerd Boy, episode 257

"llizard" <lli...@NOPOLLUTIONwildmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> In article <ai4jk9$uqekm$1...@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de>, "Joaquim
> G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote:
> >"llizard" <lli...@NOPOLLUTIONwildmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> >> In article <ai3q09$10mfr9$1...@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de>, "Joaquim
> >> G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote:
> >> >"llizard" <lli...@NOPOLLUTIONwildmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> >> >news:64n...@4ax.com
> >> >> In article <ai3m0d$10idcf$1...@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de>, "Joaquim
> >> >> G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote:
> >> >> >"llizard" <lli...@NOPOLLUTIONwildmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> >> >> >news:v1g...@4ax.com
> >> >8<
> >> >> >> Move Fanboy over a little so that his "um" doesn't seem like part of
> >> >> >> Nerdboy's words.
> [snip]
> >> How about the following:
> >>
> >>
> >> Actually,
> >> I'm glad          Um..
> >> Mandy `            `,,,
> >> left!  OO           ..'
> >> She   .||.         .||.
> >> was___ bb _________ || ____________
> >> so full of crap!
> >>                   She's standing right behind you.
> >>                    `,,,
> >>        OO           ..'
> >>       .||.          -)).
> >> ______ bb _________ /( _________
8<
> >Yeaurgh! You're not serious, right? That makes for -very- weird scanning;
> >the reader will probably just skip over Fan Boy's first line!
>
> It doesn't seem weird at all. Nerdboy's words frame him and his final
> line actually points over neatly to Fanboy. When I look at it,
> Fanboy's "Um" in the middle of that stream does show that he is trying
> to interrupt Nerdboy.

Well, frankly, I really don't like it. It doesn't work at all for me.

8<
> You can always produce a second edition. It wouldn't be the first
> time...

I hadn't posted it here yet, so it wasn't "official".

8<
> >> The *point! laugh!* seems to be an spoonfeeding explanation for
> >> readers who may be unable to make out Fanboy's expression.
> >
> >Nooonononono. I understand how it can be mistaken for spoonfeeding, given the
> >unclear medium. The fact is that I've seen it in comics where the pointing is
> >perfectly obvious; the index finger is simply accompanied by a *point!* sound
> >effect. Similarly, I've seen the sound effect *stare!*.
>
> Just because it's in other comics doesn't make it any more acceptable.

Just because you haven't read the other comics doesn't mean no one else has.
I want to and need to draw inspiration from other comics.

> Either the drawing is selfexplanatory or it is not. In this case, in
> context, it is clear that Fanboy is laughing at Nerdboy.

Good. Then the sound effects shouldn't be a problem.

8<
> >> Hmmmm. It doesn't work for me. (How exactly does a *point! laugh!*
> >> sound?)
> >
> >Actually, that's the whole point of it. It was supposed to be a joke. There
> >-is- no *point!* sound! I'm not trying to be overly clear and explain that
> >Fan Boy is pointing. There's been plenty of pointing in the comic strip
> >without any explanations, why would I start now?
>
> And THAT is my point exactly (no pun intended). Why should you start
> now?

I haven't.

> The extraneous *point* *laugh* detracts from Nerdboy's "OK, don't
> answer that", which is the punchline (at least I thought that was the
> punchline)

A weak punchline, which I wanted to combine with a postpunchline joke,
Calvin & Hobbes style.

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