Re: Nerd Boy, episode 257

In article <ai3q09$10mfr9$1...@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de>, "Joaquim
G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote:

>"llizard" <lli...@NOPOLLUTIONwildmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
>news:64n...@4ax.com
>> In article <ai3m0d$10idcf$1...@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de>, "Joaquim
>> G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote:
>> >"llizard" <lli...@NOPOLLUTIONwildmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
>> >news:v1g...@4ax.com
>8<
>> >> Move Fanboy over a little so that his "um" doesn't seem like part of
>> >> Nerdboy's words.
>> >
>> >It's meant to look as if he's interrupting him. However, I wasn't very
>> >satisfied with it either.
>>
>> Okay, how about this:
>>
>> Actually, I'm glad Mandy left!
>>  She was so full
>>   of crap!           Um..
>>          `            `,,,
>>          OO            ..'
>>         .||.          .||.
>>   ______ bb __________ || ____________
>>
>> I realize that it doesn't look exactly like an interruption this way
>> but at least there is no doubt that Fanboy is saying "Um" (When I
>> first read the strip, I thought that Nerdboy had said "Um" because he
>> was trying to sidestep from saying such terrible things about Mandy.
>
>Hmm... The text is sprawling out all over the place. The only solution I
>can see is to shorten NB's line or move FB. The first is very hard to do
>and still convey the same thing, and the other just looks odd; they're
>already a bit far apart for a conversation IMO.

How about the following:


Actually,
I'm glad          Um..
Mandy `            `,,,
left!  OO           ..'
She   .||.         .||.
was___ bb _________ || ____________   
so full of crap!      
                  She's standing right behind you.
                   `,,,
       OO           ..'
      .||.          -)).
______ bb _________ /( _________


(This would mean, of course, that you would have to retain your
immediate segue into frame 3)

I knew that! I was 
joking! You think
I'm an idiot?!     ,,,
      `OO          ..'
      .||.        .||.
______ bb ________ || _________

Note that Fanboy is now standing a little closer to Nerdboy. Maybe you
could put something like a table or a vending machine between them so
that it makes sense that they are standing so far apart?

[snip]

>> >> Remove the extraneous *laugh* *point* from above Fanboy. His
>> >> expression says it all
>> >>
>> >>                                      OK, don't
>> >>                                     answer that.
>> >>                                               `                      ,,,
>> >>                                                OO                    ~~'
>> >>                                               .||.                  -||.
>> >>   jg__________________________________________ dd __________________ ||
>> >
>> >But it was Popeye-stylee!
>>
>> I'm not familiar with that unsubtle style. Happily, it has been eons
>> since I have seen a Popeye cartoon.
>
>It's not unsubtlety, they usually just repeat things all around the character.
>
>         You're not making
>         any sense Fan Boy.
>               ,
>             OO  *hm?*
>     *huh?* .||.
>             bb

This seems entirely different from the *point! laugh!*. That
demonstration there is thoughts and dialogue. The *point! laugh!*
seems to be an spoonfeeding explanation for readers who may be unable
to make out Fanboy's expression.

>They seem to be using dialogue as sound effects. Similarly, I wanted to use
>actions as sound effects. Fan Boy literally gives off a *point! laugh!* sound.

Hmmmm. It doesn't work for me. (How exactly does a *point! laugh!*
sound?)

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