January 19, 2011
page 42 (scroll down!) of this. It isn’t making any more sense or coming out any faster, but by Gumby it is getting weirder looking. I think my brain is melting. In another year or so the comic will probably resemble a kindergarten finger-painting. This is called artistic maturity. Did you know Pablope Picasso actually made stuff that looked like stuff before he got famous? Yes yes, I am now putting all hope of success on my becoming harder to understand.
Pugnax sez:
Hey, Dumbnose changed color since biv’s previous appearance! Unless we are to assume that is a different dumb-nosed character who happens to dress identically.
While things are admittedly overall a bit weirder-looking in this episode, it seems to have had the strange side effect that the bow tie fool looks slightly more normal (by imp standards) in the first and second panels of the second-to-last row. Alas, I know it is but an illusion. Incidentally, that thing should have rolls of toilet paper thrown at it more often.
Also, I first read Treco’s comment in the fifth panel as “I sure told that other Thwimp what’s what!” Perhaps this might have been a more interesting alternative.
Preflubmrinkt sez:
I always thought of that thing as being brown or orange. I was surprised when I saw that it was being pink on the previous occasion. Maybe I decided at that point “orange is unoriginal! Make it pink instead” and forgot later. I don’t remember; I forgot. Also, on the page where the thing appears as pink, I (or it) either misspelled keilphix or established that the old spelling was inaccurate, and I’m not sure what’s true there, either!
I thought by drawing differently I could get the page done faster. However, now I have picked up a fascination with coloring things in stranger ways so the time is thus extended anew!
I shall take your “thwimp” suggestion before the council. Because otherwise they’ll take it first and then neither of us will have it!