3-13 Sorry
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007– Commentary –
J.D.: I enjoyed coloring the mugs and the coffeepot.
Craig: The first panel is a little different than our usual style. It focuses on the coffee being poured rather than the speakers. It also establishes that this is early morning, since Dean has coffee ready to offer. Tara interrupted him as he got dressed.
J.D.: It strikes me that Dean must drink a lot of coffee for him to have a full pot for himself.
Craig: One word: Thermos. It makes the day go by at +5 speed. 😀
J.D.: And then you hit -10 speed as you slow down when you get home.
Craig: Yeah. Coffee crashes are harsh.
J.D.: I wouldn’t know. I don’t like coffee. Which is ironic, as I’m told I make a very good cup.
Craig: That you do. The white mug on the right has a logo for “The Big E.” For those not familiar, that’s a really big five-states-fair in the northeast U.S. J.D. and I go every year.
J.D.: Though not as exhibitors.
Craig: Yeah. Not much call for board games at a farm show. 🙂
J.D.: Or comics. But there’s a wonderful harpist by the name of Jerry Marchand, who we visit each year at the fair and buy his newest CDs.
Craig: And it happens to be great music for working on Penance. So it all comes around. 🙂
September 5th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Tara seems to have become very masculine, not that she’s had many panels since the Zampona. Her posture in the second panel would fit a man very well. She must be sticking her hips forward and arching her back a little bit or something that gives that impression overall. I wouldn’t say anything if I thought she was just being confrontational, but these signs indicate a more relaxed, almost strutting around type of posture. Almost. It isn’t a very athletic, ready-to-fight kind of stance. And since you said you might be changing these around, I thought I’d just point that little bit out. Maybe it wasn’t intentional. I don’t really know too much about art anyways.
Also, in the first panel, the fluid could be changed to compensate for the usual triangular spout design I see all the time on coffee mugs. It looks a little bit like a rectangular area of coffee is getting through the entire length of the spout, which I’m a little doubtful of. It’s a little hard to explain.
I’m going to shut up now.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:10 am
It’s funny, I see her leaning back in panel 2, but it looks more like a “I’m sceptically taken back considering that’s not what you said on the air” pose … maybe that’s just me :p
And [Offtopic] why, why do so many coffee pots have spouts that dribble down the side – it’s not that much of an engineering feat to have a non-drip, non-dribble pot, yet irritatingly few manage it [/rant].
September 5th, 2007 at 11:21 am
“For a moment, I believed Rex [while I was on the air]”… could this be some minor witchcraft at work?