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WCDT 2937-2941 (13 - 17 April 2015)
Skewbrow:
I'm trying to read Claire's expressions in this strip. Her eyes in particular. Somehow I get the vibe that in the first panel she is siding with her brother, may be "eew", may be silently thinking that Marten can't be serious. But in the second and the third panels she is gradually warming up to the task of running with the joke.
Jeph has, of course, a lot of experience expressing things with the directions of the gaze alone. For example the dinner MartyMom, Marten and Faye shared about 2500 strips ago was epic in that regard.
Not ruling out the possibility that I am reading too much into all this.
tywren:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 15 Apr 2015, 22:23 ---I don't know if I'd call that date "epic." Maybe if the guy that hit him was taller, had scales, and breathed fire...
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One need not do battle with a dragon for the date to be epic, giants are a perfectly viable substitute.
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 16 Apr 2015, 08:00 ---I'm trying to read Claire's expressions in this strip. Her eyes in particular. Somehow I get the vibe that in the first panel she is siding with her brother, may be "eew", may be silently thinking that Marten can't be serious. But in the second and the third panels she is gradually warming up to the task of running with the joke.
Jeph has, of course, a lot of experience expressing things with the directions of the gaze alone. For example the dinner MartyMom, Marten and Faye shared about 2500 strips ago was epic in that regard.
Not ruling out the possibility that I am reading too much into all this.
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In panel one she has a snark fully loaded and ready to fire. In panel two and three she realises her artillery does not have infantry backup. In panel four she leads a cavalry charge instead.
(I think I lost track of my metaphor)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Lubricus on 16 Apr 2015, 02:09 ---Exactly! Does his hand actually HAVE either of the two powers? Why else would he have to ask?
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I read it as a nerd thing. Certain people, in certain moods, feel compelled to remove all ambiguity from a question before answering it.
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Apr 2015, 09:14 ---
--- Quote from: Lubricus on 16 Apr 2015, 02:09 ---Exactly! Does his hand actually HAVE either of the two powers? Why else would he have to ask?
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I read it as a nerd thing. Certain people, in certain moods, feel compelled to remove all ambiguity from a question before answering it.
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Me, for instance. It drives my dad crazy. Especially when I then follow up by coming up with more and more implausible scenarios trying to break the premise. (It usually works.)
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