Com'c #18

Publiseringsdato: 06.nov.2013 16:42:31

*growl* VOOOTES...

Commentary

Woah, this commentary is long. Sorry!

It's Wednesday, it's Com'cday and it's Newcharacterday! That last one should be on the calendars. It could replace Mondays. No, wait. Fridays. Mondays are often assosciated with bad stuff, and Fridays are more a day of good stuff. Or maybe Wednesday, since that's what it is today, and there's no Com'c on Fridays (currently). I don't know.

Tuesdays, maybe? Because Tuesdays and Thursdays starting with the same letter can be inconvenient and the name Thursday comes from a much cooler Norse god than Tuesday does. Replacing Tuesdays with Newcharacterdays would eliminate the need to specify which T-day you mean, by making the week go MNWTFSS instead of MTWTFSS. To eliminate the similar problem of Saturday and Sunday, just switch to the Norwegian names - mandag, tirsdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, lørdag and søndag (and yes, no caps) - or with our replacement for Tuesday: mandag, nyfigurdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, lørdag, søndag.

Oh, wow. I really went off track there. I'm supposed to talk about the str'p!

So, yeah. Meet Jane, the Marc's brainy zombie sister. We'll get to know her better soon.

About Jane

Jane is the third of the Second Batch characters. She hasn't changed that much since I first drew her in my scribble book, but some parts are different. For one, I quickly chose to abandon the small and pointy nose I'd drawn her with and give her the same nose as Marc (or a copy of it, anyway, luckily for Marc), to show relation. Also, the huge gap where her brain presumably used to be stretches all the way to the front/top of her head, while in the scribble book she has a lot more forehead and a clearly defined top of the head before it went down in the back and met with the hole.

By the way, if you hadn't noticed, she has a huge hole in her head where her brain presumably used to be.

Jane as a character... as I've mentioned, we'll get to know her better soon, but I can point out this in case you missed it: Marc says she's his little sister. In other words, she's younger than he is. I imagine Marc as around 17 (two years older than me)... I'm thinking she is around 13. ^{(P.S. February 18, 2014: Uh, what are you talking about, past me? I'm thinking she's a bit older than that. 15, maybe?)} However, she doesn't really act that age - she might actually be one of the most sensible and mature characters so far. It might be a family trait, because I think that way about Marc too. He was supposed to be a stereotypical male teenager around my age (not a compliment) who likes music with a taste similar to mine, but I think he has become the most normal and level-headed person in the comic, very different from what I would call a stereotypical male teenager. (Note: "stereotypical" and "typical" are two very different words.)

About speech bubbles

One of the most annoying things to do while making the str'ps has been the pointy bit on speech bubbles that shows who is talking. Now, why haven't I been sensible and done it the way I did it this time before now?! -.- In every str'p since the beginning, I've drawn the speech bubbles by "hand", using the pencil in Paint. That includes the pointy bit. This time, however, I tried out some new ways to make speech bubbles, including the rounded rectangle tool. I didn't like it very much, and went back to hand-drawn bubbles - but then I got the idea to quite simply make the bubbles themselves without the pointy bit and use the line tool to make two lines towards the talking character's mouth and then remove the appropriate part of the outline of the bubble itself.

Why haven't I tried that earlier? No idea. I'm stupid like that some times.

I also used a similar method on the connection between pairs of speech bubbles from one person - instead of hand-drawing that connection (not as much of a problem as the pointy bit), I made two parallel lines and used those. So much easier.

So yeah, making speech bubbles got a little less annoying today.

^{(P.S. February 18, 2014: Yes, and I certainly don't miss my pre-str'p-#20 methods of speech-bubble drawing. Thank you, past me, for making that change!)}

Question!

Is it rude to ask someone you just met, in all honesty, if they are a zombie? It would be fun to hear some feedback on that! :)