Page 43 of this. It still has no name.
This is one of those pages where I’ll have to come back and edit stuff later. Don’t look at the orange picture right here until after you looked at the link. Unless you don’t care about the comic, but if that was the case I don’t imagine you’d care about its construction phase, either. Not in a sincere fashion that it would be worth my trouble to accommodate, certainly.
I added the letters this time with a dippin’ ink pen. I’m sure this is reflected in the improved legibility of the text. The pen ran out of ink really fast. I didn’t try to render the creatures with it. I may need to switch paper types again. Not right away, though; I want to savor my last remaining excuses for unsatisfactory quality.
Intially the creature was held like this and so the alarmed expression made more sense. however, then the way it hit the wall didn’t. The way it looked smiling with its body upright but its head pointed downwards was so deliciously stupid that everything else had to change to match it.
Also, I just realized that my most animated and dynamique character is a chair with arms. And I still don’t know what “dynamic” means. However, the “still” suggests that I did not in fact just realize the latter fact that but have been aware for an extended period gosh I can’t believe I always struggle to fit words into panels.
Grimbling sez:
One day I want a dedicated television-watching hat of my very own. Nobody would see me wearing it of course, sitting all alone, watching repeats of crime investigation shows I’ve watched ten times already. Ahh.
Honored Telephone sez:
I couldn’t agree more with Treco in the fifth panel. What’s worse is that that thing looks so incredibly proud of having opinions which are almost certainly terrible. Indeed, if the past is any guide for predicting the future, it most likely was simply going to comment on how wonderful it found its own feet and/or bow tie.
I’m not quite sure what’s going on the the Kumquat panels; the first, especially, is a complete mystery to me. I assume that in the subsequent panels, biv is expressing dismay at the fact that Pog now has the package, though I must say that I my initially reading, I had not even noticed that Pog had the package in the first place, instead assuming that the increasingly green Kumquat was simply dismayed at Pog’s taste in both fashion and entertainment, which disturbed biv on such a fundamental level, zuh felt compelled to flee this cheap, tawdry world and spend the rest of biv’s life seeking refuge in the simple childhood pleasure of propelling one’s self down an endless, loopy slide, forever. Admittedly, I have difficulty imagining Kumquat having ever been a child in first place, but biv’s expression is in any case not so much that of one reveling in a reverie of fond childhood remembrances, but rather more of one seeking an elusive state of contentment which one desperately seeks but has never truly experienced.
Also, there were no skeletons in the version of Super Mario Land I played. It would seem I played the better version.
Zinkugel sez:
McGrimb
It is important for the hat to which you entrust important duties like this to be dedicated to them. The last thing any of us need are slack-off head adornments. Particularly when they slack off from slacking-off.
Telefonohono:
Kumquat is still talking to Doctrel Gorp about bubbles on the telephone stand-in object. It may be possible to shuffle the frames so that initiates the page. I liked the Treco frames not sharing rows so that things seem more organized. This illusion is important because things are obviously not at all organized. Frame six is expendable and possibly counter-productive.
The terrible cartoon pog creates the impression of watching was not as funny in execution as it had been in my mind five years ago so I felt I should change the subject before ending the page to make it not seem like I was too proud of the non-joke. I also wished to show the kumquat creature getting off the slide (that is what it is) and going some place but there was not space for that. “Pages” in general continue to cause a great amount of trouble.
I decided kumquat is least unlikable with minimalist expressions. The sort encountered on the review page, for example, is one that I don’t at this time expect to get much further use out of. I will probably change my mind eventually.
Also, there are people in this world who would see all properties of the past ret-conned to have skeletons in them. So watch out.