Grrl Power #986 – Smoosh is in the air
Just to make sure all the text on this page is fully legible, I’m going to post this page over at Patreon so everyone can see the double size version.
For some reason, I decided to include two different pages on this page. I don’t usually do color coded word bubbles, so hopefully this all makes sense and you guys can follow along. I had actually considered doing character specific word bubbles when I started the comic, but I’m really glad I decided against it for a few reasons. For one, back before I started, I read a lot of webcomics – some were good, most were people who had some funny ideas or had some interesting stories to tell, but weren’t the best artists. Not that a comic has to have impeccable art necessarily, but there is a threshold of acceptability I think, and that includes not just the art, but also stuff like coherent sequential storytelling skills, layouts and design. There were definitely a few webcomics I gave up on because the artist decided to put black “monster text” over bright red word bubbles (note that I use a fairly legible bold font for Tom and put it over more of a creamy red/red/orange instead of a blinding rose red) or they would use some fancy script font in all caps. If I’d started the comic with character specific word bubbles, I would have felt obligated to use unique combinations of fonts and colors for every single person. There’s only so many properly legible combinations, and somewhere around page 300 I’d be putting teal lettering over bright orange bubbles using a sound effects font for “Barista #3” and honestly it would become an absolute eyesore and really, there’s only a few cases where it would even be helpful. It’d be a TON of extra work to keep track of and not that many readers would even pay attention to it, (Not everyone even realizes Sydney’s orbs slowly orbit her from panel to panel) and if I tried to do something clever like having a shapeshifter using the wrong text/color combination, I’m guessing like 5% of people would get it, 15% would think I messed up, and no one else would notice.
So that’s why I don’t do it. Usually.
And yes, the final panel is supposed to say “Marital Arts,” not “Martial Arts.”
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update:
Nothing to report unfortunately. Was working on the vote incentive thing.
October’s vote incentive is up! This is a redraw of a comic I did in 2011 I think, but never published. I had originally pictured the comic going through an establishment phase, and then taking occasional breaks from the storylines for little one-off moments like these. Which I guess I could still do. I just got wrapped up in the story telling and forgot.
So Dabbler and Sydney are up late one evening on night watch but Dabbler has just discovered Cinemax…
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If that’s Dabbler’s reaction to
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People laugh when I mention Skinemax, but if not for it I wouldn’t have found a Jpop song I liked after losing the cassette it was on.
So, he’s studied under Haposai?
Deus has had the same lessons
Help me sort this name in…. that was the tiny old guy in Ranma1/2 right? The underwear thief.
Math adventures spin off, when?
well Ranmas original run was from 1987 till 1996. Haposai was like 400 years old during the run of Ranma and had no intentions of ever dying from old age due to absorbing life force from stolen female lingerie.
this comic is set in like 2010. and Math is 32. so born in ~1978. Ranma was 16 when he came to the Tendos Dojo.
i’d say there is a very high chance that Math is directly within Ranma canon!
Now I’m imagining math in ranma… he’s very powerful, but he seems closer to real world martial artist than ‘member of the nerima wrecking crew’ (though it’s a bit tricky to pin down)
Like he doesn’t have any ki blasts or weird ass techniques that break human physiology.
So I feel like if he was a member of the cast, he’d have been in the equivalent of the hentai hoard. He’s a Badass anywhere that isn’t nerima but he wasn’t playing with the big boys.
So now im imagining math as a furinkan high student who begged happosai to train him so he could win a challenge against ling ling and lung lung (he would have been 9 when ranma was 15 at the start of the show… though since the other characters don’t age he could be their peer) and he never quite made it, and now he’s being a badass elsewhere to train to one day show the nerima wrecking crew how far he’s come.
I doubt he’s a member of the wrecking crew… he shows NO signs of having been exposed to Jusenkyo (the cursed springs). And he’s was definitely splashed with enough pool water to cause a transformation if he had been.
Unless THIS is his cold water form… quick, someone splash him with hot water. Wait, that doesn’t work – there are LOTS of pools, but I doubt there’s a pool of Drowned Gaijin Male!
:'(
No but there is very tragic story of how dumb white tourist fall in spring and drown! But is not called Pool of Drown Gaijin Male, because this is China not Japan!
(I have no remorse for taking on the linguistic affectations of the Jusenkyou tour guide, that was how he spoke)
I think the equivalent Chinese word is ‘Laowai’ or ‘Gweilo’.
Wellll, with a few hundred generations of martial arts masters as ancestors, it is quite possible, there are a few Tendos and Saotomes in his line.
Possible, though if so I wonder how they lost so much. Like, by end of manga it’s stated that by nerima standards, if a 3 ton Boulder to the face temporarily stuns you, you’re considered a wimp. Granted stalwart goes to 16 tons no sweat, and is only mid-range high teir for the team, but considering that’s the nerima baseline prior to any special techniques, going from them to math is a significant decrease in base stats. Math is awesome, don’t get me wrong, but from what we’ve seen he isn’t quite up to anime standards. I could be misreading though. Though that raises the question if math will get access to scrolls of esoteric techniques later on or if he and the side characters will go relatively un-buffed as the series goes on
Nah, the 3 ton boulder thing would only apply if you’d had breaking point training, which was itself a special technique. At least, in the series as far as I followed it. Admittedly I haven’t read the whole thing. (Maybe when I retire…)
Its actually cast wide. But its also at the very end of the manga that its confirmed, so I understand why you missed it.
The final arc sees the group fighting a partly ascended pheonix deity (long story) and at one point in the fight, Ranma chucks a big ol’ rock in said deity’s face, resulting in that being (known as saffron) being momentarily stunned (the equivalent of having one’s bell rung and needing to shake it off, but not being down for the count)
This results in Mousse, probably the least durable of the main cast of fighters, saying something to the effect of “what? that boulder cant have weighed more than three tons! Ranma chucks stuff like that at us all the time, why is this guy so affected?”
And Ryouga replies something like: “I get it! hes throwing around so many fire attacks and keeping space, hes never been in a real fight! hes a total wimp!”
(to which Saffron’s aid looks at them both like theyre absolutely insane)
Of course, being a pheonix he could regenerate and flash fry someone alive with his fire, so it was still a tough battle, but the main point I was getting at was the existance of that line
Ryouga is still by far the most durable cast member, but remember how early on the breaking point training was? as is normal with martial arts anime, stuff scales quite a bit by the end. By that point people had ki blasts, Ranma could go invisible and shoot vacuum blades, And Mousse could pull bombs the size of the great bhudda statue out of his robes.
Hmm, I am sitting here reading this and thinking what the hell are you talking about? I have read the entire Ranma series, and I don’t remember any of this. Time to do a reread.
To be fair, It was like one panel in the last major arc. I only latched onto it cus I love fanfiction and attempting to accurately power scale different serieses is fun for me.
Its vokume 38, chapter 405, page 7 if you’re curious. (just did a quick skim)
As for the other feats mentioned, i cant site them as directly. The ki blasts are pretty well known (the shi shi hokodan arc) The invisibility and vacuum blades are from the Ryu Kumon arc (though ranma never uses them again as the schools are ‘sealed’) The giant bomb mousse pulled I dont remember when it happened. it might have been anime only? but I remember it happening.
So any guesses as to what he turns into when he gets soaked with cold water?
My guess is wet. But I’m interested in hearing what other people think.
You’re thinking of Happosai.
D’oh I just read the beginning of this thread and my post is completely unnecessary apparently. :)
For a minute I was like, who the hell is TOM? Also, nearly first! I bloody love this comic, for god’s sake Dave, come to NYCC one of these years!
Not sure taking Math’s clothes would really affect the way he carries himself around.
Why does Math know marital arts? Because one time he checked out the wrong book to study and had already mastered most of the contents before realizing the mistake. That is my head canon and I’m sticking to it.
Mine is similar. Except it wasn’t one time. I mean, maybe it was one time he realized his mistake, but other than that. Not. one. time.
Jabberwocky at least seems impressed by Math’s skills in this regard.
Or in Detla’s stance on it … not quite sure which.
PS Dang no ability to edit your own comments.
Who says it can’t be both? They are not mutually exclusive perspectives. ;)
To be fair, they never specified that they were interested in a threesome that included HIM.
Detla: Hey, Sydney. We’re going back to my room for some recreation. Do you want to join us?
Sydney: Sure. What are you thinking of doing? Uno, Monopoly, mind puzzles?
Jabberwokky: We were thinking of naked aerobics with lots of contact, similar to the ones that gives Dabbler a charge.
Sydney: Na-a-a-a-ked aerobics? I see. I’ll, uh, pass.
That last clarification there was quite apt as I was definitely going to ask about that, as I’ve seen them misspell ‘martial’ as ‘marital’ a ridiculous amount of times while reading through Chinese Light Novels.
You sure they are misspellings? o_O
FINALLY! FINALLY someone actually uses “Marital Arts” correctly and not just as a type of “Martial Arts.”
THANKS YOU!! THAT MADE MY DAY!!
The Marital Arts are a thing in *Paranoia* where Friend Computer does not make mistakes. They are popular in sections of Alpha Complex where there the libido suppressants are poorly distributed.
Are you implying the Computer could possibly make a mistake? *TRAITOR!!* *bang*
(next clone up stage left.. ;) )
Wha…? Damn, I didn’t even notice till you mentioned it. So much for being at the Tendo Dojo – they DEFINITELY practice martial (not marital) arts – at least, the men don’t…
You just typoed when you wrote type instead of typo, and I find that very amusing.
just like the main reason vampires hire blood donors in place of secretaries, they really prefer the type-o’s
Okay that’s technically a pun … but unlike most puns, it was funny so I’ll give you a pass.
*quietly notes the corruption*
Good. Gooood… *cackles*
Are you running out of money to pay the ninjas or what?
I have to be more discerning on where I spend my ninja hit squad budget, admittedly.
https://i.imgur.com/RC8kwA6.png
in case you missed it. thought I’d make you a gravatar
(hope you like it)
I do like it :) Thank you.
The Color Coded word bubble Work Well on this page
My experience is sometimes they do sometime Not
Having a hard time visualizing the Teen Dabbler :D
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-311-succubi-rarely-diet-insert-joke-about-juice-cleanse/comment-page-2/
Bottom panel on the left, next to Tom and clutching her textbook.
Thank you for providing the link back. I wanted to see where Tom was in that scene. :)
Except, it doesn’t, very difficult to tell Syd-text from Max-text
Syd text is the yellow background with black text.
Dabbler text is the purple background with black text and a blue outline.
Maxima text is the yellow/gold background with black text and a purple outline.
Tom/Thothogoth is the dark orange background with black text. and different font.
They are not impossible, just difficult
I can see that. I’m just pointing out the differences for anyone else who might have been having as much trouble as you were having, since Sydnery and Maxima’s speech bubbles ARE very similar.
Yeah it works OK in the double resolution version but in this size you can’t see the boarders and the two colours are too similar to differentiate.
The colors for Maxima’s and Sydney’s speech bubbles are a bit too similar – it wasn’t clear to me at first whether they were supposed to be different.
Same. I didn’t notice it was Sydney in panel 2, 3, 5 and 6 until I read the comic for the 3rd time and noticed Dabbler was addressing Sydney in panel 3.
I feel like Sydney might be better off with a light-blue panel with slightly darker glow around the edge, to indicate her forcefield.
Only after reading this was I able to go back and differentiate between the Max bubbles and the Sydney bubbles. I was also confused because the purple outline is not noticeable on the first reading.
I read them from first blush as the correct voices somehow. They just seemed flavoured towards each speaker in a certain way, to me.
Yeah, my reaction to panel 2 was “that sounds more like something Sydney would say, is that still supposed to be Maxima or doesxthe color signify something?” That confusion could have been avoided by making the colors clearer.
This, yeah. They are way, way too similar.
oh dear… the aftermath of it must be complicated paperwork.
ps: Sydney doesn’t look amused watching that movie with Dabbler in the vote incentive
Math definitely deserves some reward for all the hard work he put in so far. The reward being putting in some… hard… work…?
Go Math!
I had to read it several times to finally figure out what color corresponds to who, but I like it
I like the page, but the only gripe I have is how similar Max and Syd’s text bubbles are in color. I know there is a purple border around Max’s but at first glance after seeing Syd’s it is hard to tell.
yeah, i would have given Sydney’s bubbles colored dots on the line of her bubbles with the colors of her orbs to make it clear
like this for example: https://imgur.com/a/vYC2B9R
Ooo, she’ll give her SUCH a pinch!
Math is my hero.
He just keeps raising the bra of excellence.
I’m going to assume that’s Jiggawatt’s bra he’s brandishing in the last panel because she matches her undergaments to her hair color for some reason.
Sorry, Jabberwocky’s. Have I mentioned I’m terrible at remembering names, to the point that I confused the kid’s and cats’ names back when we had all the kids still living with us and 14 cats/kittens all with p0eople names because they’re people, too?
He’s waving two bras around, unless the black one in his right hand is his :P
*on phone with Ninja-Hit-Squads-R-Us*
“I know that I’m a bit over budget but you haven’t been reading what they’re writing! They HAVE to be taught a lesson! I’m a very good customer!… okay, thank you. Yeah. He does use the tagname of Random Guy. Yes…. oh yeah please, extra pain. Thank you. Bye.” *click*
It’s just too bad that I was smoking salted mackerel, with fire roasted mushrooms, onions, and radish tonight. There was even a persimmon/ginger pudding for dessert. If those poor, underpaid fellows come here tonight they may well have to switch to sumo wrestling!
The fortuitous timing sounds fishy… but maybe if I spice up the thread too and bring some sides, my own squad will sweeten the deal by revealing your location to me so they can carpool over with the rest of the dojo.
Bring some sake, warm.
Well, at your age the bra of excellence would be a bit lower.
Fortunately I’m not actually at an age where that pun would be accurate.
I do apologize if offense was given for the sake of a pun. It seems I came in a bit under the wire. I am, after all just a boob.
People seem to for get that we cannot actually see one another in these forums. No slight was actually intended.
Wonder fully said, that’s more up to a standard we punsters can support.
Unprovoked and tasteless ad hominem attacks aren’t really how we do things here. And ironically, Pander is the only one we know has passed a bar, so you’re really just undermining your own credibility as a community member.
While I’m sure Pander’s bras are indeed excellent, where they are is nobody’s business except her own. Unless she chooses to share said business, at least.
This thread has gone so off the rails. :)
* Eyes ‘thread’ in a clothing-related discussion suspiciously *
Tangentially, the fact that this forum derails in too-personal directions so rarely is one of the reasons I even get involved.
It did unravel fairly quickly, laced with puns as it is.
It was ever on the rails in the first place?
Wonder if Math is gonna demonstrate five point exploding-O technique
Awkward braces-and-glasses nerd Dabbler pinups when?
Holy shit, Sydney’s orbs actually visibily orbit her? I will never not notice this from now on.
Actually makes them a useful weapon too, something that shadow guy in the restaurant brawl learned the hard way.
Math also learned this to his detriment.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-120-faceball/
Though he adapted to that information rather quickly.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-133-tibiassault/
How many years have you not been paying attention?
Getting close to 10 years now.
Yes, they do orbit her head, but they also change their order.
So… Either they orbit at different speeds -or- Dave just randomly colors them…
In the last page, in panel 8, Sydney’s orbs (from left to right) are: yellow, green, purple, & red (just behind her hair); & in panel 9 they are: green, purple, gold, then red. It ought to have been: red Then gold, but the gold one passed the red one… Oops.
They only change their order if Sydney has recently been fondling them
When she’s not actively controlling them, they always have.
Sure, I just never noticed that it was a visual thing in comic, from frame to frame.
Max’s and Sydney’s speech bubbles are a little too similar. It would probably be OK if they ever had speech bubbles next to each other in the same panel, but they don’t. The reader probably won’t compare them until the dialogue suggests two characters are speaking.
(At least that’s how it went down in my case.)
Having Dabbler address Sydney directly on label three really helped with figuring out who’s talking. Great job!
*panel
autocorrect be damned!
I wonder if Detla a spy of a sort gathering information for another organization/antagonist. Her behavior, reactions and word selection in her questioning seems to suggest so.
Is that Cora or Tom going going on about Dabbler’s past as an awkward nerd? And for some reason I have him pegged as a band geek.
“I have him pegged” is probably a phrase best avoided when Dabbler is around…
Probably Tom/Thothogoth. It seems the ‘imagined’ classroom scene 600-plus pages ago may have been more than just an imagining.
In the band … in the horn section? (Another phrase to be careful with around Dabbler, now if not then!)
DaveB DID say in the author’s blurb for that comic that the last panel had been made canon. There was just too much good backstory detail in there for it not to be.
I need to learn these bra stealing marshal arts. My wife would love it, our girlfriend would giggle, but she is ace so its more for the pure comedy with her. Still, I neeeeeeed it
It wasn’t a typo in the word bubble, it is indeed “marital arts”, the practices of love, rather than “martial arts”, the practices of beating the crap out of your opponent.
It’s a marital-arts chi stunt. Interesting use of it, though.
Like most marital-arts moves, it requires practice with a partner to master.
Yay, nice to hear from other poly peeps in a normal world context.
So the real question for the vote incentive: was it Dabbler’s turn or Math’s to pick the movie for movie night?
Also, Jabber considering sex with someone other than Dabbler? And, of all people, Math? Is she alright?
Math, aside from being Pervish, is probably the only anime-style martial artist around who’s interesting for her to train with. A shared interest and physical exertion, and it doesn’t take all that long for ‘interesting’ to turn into ‘Interesting.’
They’re the kind of match that’s probably *TOO* obvious, really. I’ve been expecting it (not particularly shipping it, but expecting it) since the parking lot rumble.
And Detla appears to be some kind of Martial-arts based character as well, making the threesome fairly unsurprising – to the extent that threesomes are ever unsurprising anyway. They’re not the default, but happen a lot more than I’d have expected back in high school.
I like the idea of Dabbler and Tom as cute nerdy highschool sweethearts.
Is it weird that I hate how much action Math seems to get, considering how much of a letch he is?
‘Course, I very much prefer girl/girl action anyways, so that doesn’t help, but Gawd, I hate the idea of his lewd behavior being rewarded.
Where do you read that he was going to be rewarded?
Please to be showing me the panel that that is revealed to be happening in?
I’m not sure how you’d read the last row of panels and not conclude that both women are opting in to his proposition? It’s just the timing they’re not agreed on yet.
Just figured, while they liked the idea of a threesome, they just hadn’t accepted him being part of it
I’m trying to think, but I can’t recall him ever getting in team laid. Presumably Dabbler would give him a go, but the only other time I recall him getting something besides, ‘ew, you lech’ or similar responses was when he gathered various muscular men as a trade off in a ‘look but don’t touch’ scenario by the pool. Unless we’re counting Cora? I’d discount her, as she’s not in their command structure, but up to you.
Most of his letchery, when acknowledged, has been almost exclusively at his expense, such as the changing room poster and the ‘Physical Training in lingerie’ gag. I’d guess that he’s mainly hanging with them for the groupies, or hoping he’ll be seduced by the Baroness (or non-brand name equivalent) repeatedly.
Does remind me, I’m surprised we haven’t seen a Dabbler disguise in a Baroness costume.
So far as I’m aware, it’s only been Cora so far, but Brichins pegged it….both Jazza & Detla both implied that they wouldn’t mind sleeping with him in the bottom row of panels. It’s only his timing that’s off atm.
I just think he’s a more more fun of a character when he’s cockblocked.
Maybe it’s the prejudices I’ve imagined about characters in my own head too, but I also dislike the idea of Jazza sleeping with him….I know, her attraction to Xuriel is a new experience that she’s having after their big fight at the restaurant, but I guess I just sort of latched onto it?
:shrug: M’eh….what do I know anyways?
Varia could be added to the list of potentials. Math was studying her quite intently (on Max’s orders… in a way of sorts) https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-537-cake-exchange/ , and she did attend the meeting shortly after with “sex hair” https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-546-meet-the-new-grrl-same-as-the-old-grrl/ .
I do note that even in the meeting where Jabbers confronts Dabbles about her lingering obsession, Jabbers is ALSO caught midway through a statement regarding how Math would have to engage with her in an equitable manner if he wanted to see her tits again… which, frankly, is not a closing of that door, only a statement that negotiations are required.
The sad thing is I pride myself on picking up on little clues like that, and I TOTALLY missed that one! Nicely done spotting that Varia and Math probably had sex. :)
I dunno. Math seems to be a pretty harmless lecher to me. First and foremost, I see him very specifically NOT engaging in deception or coercion, which as far as I’m concerned are pretty much the only reasons to be annoyed about lechers anyway. He’s not making noises about commitments he’ll never live up to, he’s just advocating for sex-as-friendly-exercise.
Honestly surprised he and Dabbler aren’t a regular thing, since she’s coming from more-or-less the same place. Or maybe they are a regular thing offpanel.
To quote Susan Sarandon, “His lust is so sincere!”
If it wasn’t being rewarded why would he be doing it? He’s not in frickin’ high school any more.
If somebody old enough to have experienced success and failure more than a few times is still acting in a way known to fail… it’s because they want to fail.
Math is being lecherous but he’s honest about it, not engaging in coercion or deception, and not misleading anyone about commitments. The most heinous thing he does is the bra trick, and he’s employing it mostly as an advanced flirting technique rather than a setup for non-consensual gropes.
In other words, he’s making himself as appealing as possible to the ladies who are into simple thrills. No strings attached and no recriminations is stereotypical for guys, but, NEWSFLASH! appeals to ladies just as often.
The only reason women acting on that impulse isn’t a regular thing is because we’ve found so many ways to censure and punish female sexuality. If we stop doing that – heck, if women were in charge and could be secure about it – then everybody would get laid twice as often.
Note: This post contains opinions. These opinions are mine and mine alone, but I don’t mind if other people use them.
It kinda seems that in humans, the impulse to deny others sexual gratification is even stronger than the impulse for sexual gratification.
Thothogoth is surprisingly likable, now that he’s stopped his “fear my power and obey my commands” rant. At least for now.
To be fair to him, he never led with that. He mentioned the armies at his command, but only really as a response to Maxima getting pushy, and more as a ‘could do’ rather than a ‘going to anyway’. Apart from that, his attention was focused on simply having a word with Xuriel about previous business.
Achilles will definitely not be ok with that threesome. Pretty sure he thinks he laid claim to Detla.
It’s only Math’s assumption that Detla is considering him to ‘balance the equation’ with, rather than just taking him as a cue and/or excuse.
That may just be the best face of Dabbler <3
And when I posted that, I thought I was commenting on the Vote Incentive :p
A “Panel 8 complaint”… Where’s the tattoo?
Ahem.
Covered up by Jabbs pushing her top up?
Good news: She was decided to try a threesome.
Bad news; She wants it to be her and 2 guys.
Worst news: You aren’t one of the guys
In the invotive: did someone swap Sydney’s and Dabbles’ brains around? There is NO way Sydney would be that blasé about a movie like that, and why the blank would Dabbles of all peoples look so shocked?
She’s not shocked, she’s nerding out on her favourite soap opera.
I suspect it’s in Sydney’s category of ‘such laughably bad acting/writing/performance that she can treat it as a comedy’. Meanwhile, Dabbler has gained a new appreciation for the lengths some Humans will go to in the name of a cause.
You… do recall it wasn’t long ago incomic-time that Sydney was too embarrassed to undress around other women, right?
And just because she finally ‘got some’, cereally doubt her attitude towards naked lesbian soft-porn would have changed that quickly
I’m not forgetting that, but what Sydney is comfortable doing herself is not necessarily the same as what she’s comfortable seeing on screen. Especially if she’s treating it in a different mental context – if she’s focusing on the production quality more than the actual content, then that puts a filtering layer in the way of the embarrassment. Sort of like dubious sci-fi B-movies: it’s one thing to watch them ‘straight’ on their own terms, it’s something quite different to watch them as if recording a MST3K-like commentary.
Next vote picture is Dabbler with glasses, yes?
Yes please
Nerdy Dabbles and Twiggy Maxi
Something tells me those two would have probably gotten on, best buds even
someone subscribes to the Anything Goes style of martal arts. Happosai would have found a very willing student i think.
Since you made a typo and forgot the i it’s impossible for me to tell if you wanted to write martial or marital. XD
This arc is definitely going places that no one at all anticipated.
I hadn’t even noticed the last panel saying marital arts until I read the commentary. Also while I do agree that black on fully saturated red would be terrible, comics that don’t do that but are otherwise simplistic in both art and story can be fun if you want to numb your brain for a bit. Bob & George and 8 Bit Theater come to mind. The former even has uploaded a ton of fan comics in case you want to set the bar for your entertainment even lower. :-)
I mean hey, back in the 2000s I was like “hey free comics” and read them. Also I was like “hey free games” and played even those types of RPG Maker 2000 games that were not that great at all. There are quite a few legitimately awesome ones out there though of course.
Same here, use to play those crappy games all day, usually because they were short
As you said, some good ones, same with the early comics
Is this the 1st time we’ve seen Dabbler …. embarrassed?
By ANYTHING??
Well, that is the nature of adolescence, I guess.
As an aside to Dave, one thing I’ve seen done with off screen speech bubbles, that might work for you, is putting little symbols or chibi faces at one corner of the speech bubble. Most if not all of the team has those little choker symbols, right? Plus, I miss the little extra panel chibis.
Yeah, little facial pictures would probably have been easier. Plus DaveB -has- done that before.