Sunday, August 31, 2008
#0053 Carrots
By Glaivester
This joke is pretty much unrelated to anything else in this storyline, but I wanted to use it because I had thought of it a long time ago (probably when I was in fifth or sixth grade in 1990-1991). It came from the fact that I had a guinea pig and my brother had a rabbitt, and I noticed that unlike Bugs Bunny they didn't stop eating when they finished the root. Of course, they did eat the orange part too, but I liked the idea of a rabbit who only liked the greens.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
#0052 More Wiggly Mischief
By Glaivester
Wiggles da Rabbit is a fantasy rabbit, which explains his omnivorous food choices.
I just realized that Mikhail's room has been portrayed as purple since #0042, while it was originally portrayed as sky blue in #0025. I think it will be purple from now on, and the previous color will just be considered a mistake. However, the color of downstairs is a sort of seafoam both in #0025 and now.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
#0051 Anxieties
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Not a very original joke, I'm afraid.
So more on the characterizations. Wiggles da Rabbit is meant to sound like some low-pitch voiced cabbie from somewhere in lower-class New York. This bit of surrealism is designed more or less to once again show Mikhail's wacky side and to provide some "funny animal" moments without making funny animals exist literally in the "Augustawell Universe."
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Monday, August 11, 2008
#0050 Wiggles Da Rabbit
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The re-appearance of that weird rabbit from strip #0042! He is likely to become a recurring guest character on the series, along with Angus McGuffy and the Hobson's Choice Guy.
I have had trouble keeping the size and shape of Scott's chin straight. It should be large, somewhat pointed, and tilted to one side (see the 1st panel of #0049). Too often I have made it symmetrical (1st panel of #0048, or too big (today's comic) or not pointy enough (see his profile picture). My hope is that the more I draw each character, the more consistent they will all become.
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Friday, August 8, 2008
#0049 Scott Dresses Up
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In case it isn't obvious from the context, Scott and Robyn are going to a science fiction convention, and are going as a couple.
Scott is dressed as Mimic (Calvin Rankin) and Robyn as Blink (Clarice Ferguson), specifically the versions from Exiles.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
#0048 Mikhail the Lifeguard
So this is Mikhail's new job to help solve his family's financial problems. I spent some time on the beach background in the last panel.
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#0047 Troubles for Mikhail
The previous two strips were both one-offs, revealing a more positive side of Patience's character: her compassion and her resourcefulness. Nevertheless, they did not produce an arc: neither what happened with the scheming girls or at the party was revealed.
While this and the next strip are both based on the same joke; namely, Mikhail's cartoonishness, they are also going to be part of an arc and will involve another character heretofore only seen once.
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#0046 Not a Tank Top
So Patience hasn't been wearing a tank top all this time!
That's really all there is to this strip. A little gag showing that there is more to Patience than there appears to be at first.
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Monday, August 4, 2008
#0045 Patience, Kilroy, and the Fence
In case you are unaware of this expression, here is the wikipedia entry and a picture of it as a graffito with an accompanying picture.
This strip reveals a lot about Patience and Chastity's relationship. They bicker a lot, but are willing to help each other out. Patience, being a Freshman in college (actually, she just finished her freshman year, but will be a freshman again next year, this not being a "real time aging" strip), is still interested in the fate of the girls who are still in high school (although it is not stated, the girls they are spying on are high school girls). She was unpopular in high school, and seeks to help out others like herself. When it comes to women whom she feels are "out," she can be as passionate for justice as Emerson is for his various political and economic causes.
Chastity cannot resist jabs at her sister's appearance, to which Patience responds by threatening physical violence (which is consistent with her previous behavior in chasing those who needled her). This is the first strip in which Patience comes off more sympathetic than another major character (unless you count the bit-part Kenneth has in #0014).
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Saturday, August 2, 2008
#0044 Patience in the Morning
Chastity tries to get her sister up to fish with her. Just a little play on a phrase, and yes, the "fishing team," let alone its name, is rather contrived. But I had writer's block.
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