Re: Nerd Boy, episode 257

"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
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> >> 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.
8<
> >Hmm... The text is sprawling out all over the place. The only solution I
> >can see is to shorten NB's line or move FB. The first is very hard to do
> >and still convey the same thing, and the other just looks odd; they're
> >already a bit far apart for a conversation IMO.
>
> 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 _________ /( _________
>
>
> (This would mean, of course, that you would have to retain your
> immediate segue into frame 3)

Yeaurgh! You're not serious, right? That makes for -very- weird scanning;
the reader will probably just skip over Fan Boy's first line!

> I knew that! I was
> joking! You think
> I'm an idiot?!     ,,,
>       `OO          ..'
>       .||.        .||.
> ______ bb ________ || _________
>
> Note that Fanboy is now standing a little closer to Nerdboy. Maybe you
> could put something like a table or a vending machine between them so
> that it makes sense that they are standing so far apart?

That might make sense. Too bad I didn't think of that when I made it.

8<
> >> >> Remove the extraneous *laugh* *point* from above Fanboy. His
> >> >> expression says it all
8<
> >         You're not making
> >         any sense Fan Boy.
> >               ,
> >             OO  *hm?*
> >     *huh?* .||.
> >             bb
>
> This seems entirely different from the *point! laugh!*. That
> demonstration there is thoughts and dialogue. 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!*.

> >They seem to be using dialogue as sound effects. Similarly, I wanted to use
> >actions as sound effects. Fan Boy literally gives off a *point! laugh!* sound.
>
> 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?

--
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