Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 28-32 March 2011 (1891-1895)
JackFaerie:
I thought Jeph did Dora really well in the last comic, except, admittedly, in the last panel.
Honestly, his problem with her is pretty simple. I don't know why, but he can't seem to figure out how to locate her features in her face, and also that she has a narrow face, not a round or square one. He seems to do better with broad-faced female characters (like Faye and Marigold). Dora's face, especially when drawn full-on, needs to TAPER from just below her eyes to her chin. A girl will look swollen and unattractive if her lower face is rounder than her upper face, which is kinda what keeps happening with Dora. Also, people with longer, narrower faces don't look good with a mouth too close to the chin. Dora looks good in all the other panels because her face is tapered properly and her mouth is slightly higher up. Jeph also for some reason makes Dora's nose really bulbous in profile when in fact it's sharp and pointy.
To sum up: when drawing her face-on, she needs a narrower face, a narrower nose, and her features better balanced in said face. See?
It doesn't look quite right still because I feel the mouth remains somehow off, but it's better. (Whoever said her mouth is drawn too big is right, I feel--again, it would work on a character with a wider face, but not with Dora.) I've done this on another picture of Dora before.
(here I just narrowed down the face and did nothing else.)
Carl-E:
Back in black (hair), bloody red lipstick.
There's something going on in there, under the hair - I wonder what...
mike837go:
I think we're missing the point on the '20 minutes away' issue.
The friends are worried about their social interaction. Right now everybody are an easy walk from each other (some in the same building).
Dora will be an effort to visit outside of work. Then the DUI problems....
jwhouk:
A little bit of speculation:
In doing some Google Maps searches, I've come to the conclusion that CoD - if it existed in "The Real World" - would probably be located on or around 30 Pleasant Street in NoHo. (There is a bakery at the intersection of Pleasant and Armory, which wouldn't be too much of a stretch.) The main reason for this is where Panda House was located back in the earlier days of the strip. (Panda House closed its NoHo location a while back.)
So - assume she takes an apartment in Amherst, somewhere downtown (Main Street). Probably about a 17-19 minute drive.
EDIT: Oh. I think I see a problem with this - she'd have to drive right through the Amherst College campus every day. Tack on an extra two minutes for that. And the Amtrak line is right down the street. Eeeech.
WaffleIron:
On second looks, her whole head is too big for her body in the last panel AND all her facial features are too big for her head.
Kind of ironic on a comic about a fucked up sense of scale.
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