Exhausted or strung out: just right for Hannelore.
she also appears to have forgotten her pantsKind of interesting:
Overwhelming consensus on the forum is that Hanners is adorable.
Overwhelming consensus on the same forum is that a photo nearly everyone agrees looks like she would look like in real life (even the SFW version) is creepy.
What's going on here? The question's not rhetorical, not confined to Hanners or even QC.
I don't have time to trawl the forum's geological layers, but I do remember a discussion over whether we'd want a Hanners in our lives for real, as much as we generally like her in the comic.
it's a combination of things: the harsh low angle lighting, the outdoor location, the dark time of night, the expression and bodylanguage, tha haggard look of the girl's face. the human brain takes in all this data and, lacking context, attempts to descipher what it means using past experience; it tells us a fragmen of a story & that story isn't a pretty one.
a girl alone, outside at night in a dark & presumably isolated location. even if we can't see the car we can recognize the angle and quality of the light as characteristic of headlights. she looks like she's been through an ordeal, and doesn't seem to be aware she's about to have her picture taken.
who is she? where is she? and why is she there in the middle of the night? who is taking the picture? did he drive her there in his car, or did he come upon her while driving? and
why is he taking a picture like this?
the whole thing looks like something ominous the police might find while investigating a missing person case. or possibly in some serial killer's trophy room, showing the last moments of a victim's life.
my compliments to the photographer and the model.
