Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2912 to 2916 (9-13 March 2015)
bhtooefr:
MIG also uses shield gases, so...
SeaWoodStage:
I'm not a huge fan of the "sigh" bubble, just as I don't really like the "huggin' it out" or "relationship status: optimistic" things. Otherwise, though, I really like this comic. I like the perspective in the first panel, I like the storytelling from Faye's perspective (especially because it implies that Dora was either tactful or miserable enough to leave the scene), I like the last shot of Faye leaving because it's so sad, and yet full of optimistic possibility at the same time.
I see different methods from Jeph now, ever since the Faye-hospital-POV strip. The comic just feels different. To be honest, up until two days ago I felt it was getting a bit stilted, but now I'm back to loving the story-telling and the artwork in general, I just don't like the "captions" part of it. I feel like if Jeph had drawn that "sigh" panel slightly differently, we wouldn't need the caption. That being said, I'm no-one to talk because I can't even draw a stick-figure properly, and QC is the only webcomic I check every day.
Omega Entity:
I agree, that the captioning was pretty unnecessary. Honestly, it feels like he's taking a lot of stylistic cues from manga lately. There's an obscene amount of captioning present in a lot of those. The sigh bubble is also extremely common. I'm just waiting for the angry X to start popping up on people's foreheads when they get pissed off.
SeaWoodStage:
I haven't read any manga, but I'm happy to know I'm not alone in my dislike of the captioning. Is the angry X in manga a stylised frown, or has it become more of a shortcut to show that a character is angry? Or both? (Edited because managa isn't a thing).
Omega Entity:
Righthand side of the head. It's pretty much shorthand for the character being angry - thus how you can tell that even though a character may be smiling, they're covering up seething rage simmering just beneath the surface.
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