My Writing and Thoughts on Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Inhuman Condition
In case it isn’t clear, I’ve been trying to make the tails on Arachne/Nancy’s speech bubbles look like spider web, at least when she’s in costume, or just pissed. I’m trying to individualize speech bubbles for most of my heroes, hence Max’s speech bubbles looking like atoms sometimes. But I can’t quite get her’s to come out right.
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The astute reader might notice that Peregrine is running at extremely high speeds despite it being established that he has difficulty gaining traction. However, I would point out that in this case he has the opportunity to push off of a wall, earning most of his momentum without the issue of traction. How he’s making such sharp turns is an entirely different story, in that I really have no f**king idea. Hey, I got half way there, that’s better than most writers in this genre bother with.
Suddenly, shading! I wasn’t planning to start doing this until later, but I got tired of these looking as crappy as they did.
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My original idea for this comic involved him calmly lamenting that he had to quit being a hero because his super-suit kept giving him cancer. Seriously. I really need to work on this whole “comedy” thing.
Striped sweater=criminal again. Really killing it with the symbolism lately.
Special thanks to my friend Kayla, for inspiring this comic. Well, I say inspired, she suggested I copy that comic that’s been floating around the Internet forever but I’m too lazy to find a source for about Spider-Man shooting spiders out of his wrists, I told her my original idea for this strip in which the joke was that Arachne’s only power was wall-crawling and she had no idea how to fight, so the cutaway panel was of her ripping a criminal’s face off, and she suggested I not do that. So here this is.
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You can tell they’re bad guys because one is wearing a black-and-white striped sweater.
If this doesn’t seem to make much sense, it may be because I released two of these today and you didn’t check the first one. It might also be because this comic is largely nonsensical.
If you’ve been wondering desperately what the waitress’s story is, you must be very easily entertained. Also you’ll get some answers next week. If you’ve been wondering desperately where the hell this comic is going, you and me both, bucko.
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I’m going to be really, really evil and provide a link to the TV Tropes page this comic references. See you suckers in like a month!
Note that I’ve released this page with the next one today. That’s right: two comics! On the same Tuesday! Like Christmas in July, baby!
And in case you missed the update on last week’s comic, remember to Vote for Kong Tower