Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2-6 May 2011 (1916-1920)
Akima:
@Tergon: You have been Scunthorped. It made me snigger. <--- Now that you know how, only use your powers for good.
I think today's strip is way too meta, and not very funny.
Dust:
--- Quote from: CEOIII on 02 May 2011, 23:24 ---Kinda lost here. Mari drew a nice, yet WAY too self-deprecating comic, and her expression in the last panel says.........what the hell does that expression say?
--- End quote ---
"I got my drink, time to finish this... who drew this?"?
Smallpoxxer:
I think this comic shows a good example of how characters can sometimes write themselves. A comic artist can sit down planning the way the story is going to go one way and, by the time they have finished, the story ends up dramatically different without the artist really thinking about it.
I believe Jeph has told us in some of his news posts that he has done this.
Carl-E:
Manga Time (break it down!)
I'm not a regular manga reader, so maybe some of you can help with this...
I'm familiar with the (usually sexual) tension induced sweat bead symbol used in Mar bear's second panel.
But in the third it's replaced by a quartet of U's arranged in a radial fashion. I've seen this before, usually used when a character gets really angry. Thing is, it's usually on a forehead, and I always thought it represented some bulging veins from the character's increased blood pressure - they usually show up with exaggerated yelling and the like.
This is the first time I've seen it elsewhere - in the hair - and I was wondering if this is a common usage, or did Mari get it wrong (I think Jeph would have known better and is intentionally portraying Mari as not knowing, or maybe he doesn't know it himself, and only sees it as a symbol of frustration. Either that, or I'm completely off the mark here...)
Odin:
I've seen it *appear* to be in the hair before, but that would be as a still frame in an animation where it starts at the forehead and flies away from it in some random direction to indicate an apparently huge amount of irritation/sudden anger.
Also to indicate non-serious injury after someone cracks their head on the bottom of a shelf or something.
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