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Jono 2007-10-18
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Sooo much text | I feel vaguely guilty about creating comics with so much freaking text in them, because comics are supposed to be a visual medium and you're supposed to show-not-tell and dialogue should be kept short and snappy and all that other stuff. This one is particularly bad -- text covers half of every panel. But I just can't figure out how to say what I want to say in fewer words, so fixing the text/picture ratio would require doubling the number of panels in the comic, which would mean even longer between updates. Readers, what do you think about this? Does the preponderance of text make the comic so dense and chewey as to be inedible, or not? |
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sushux
2007-10-19
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The bay of bengal panel is a bit text-intense, but otherwise the rest are fine. Maybe there's a way to intercut many different smaller images instead of a map? I somehow imagine the future as no longer using maps. So few people know geography nowadays anyway. Or maybe just cutting down the text a bit and simplifying the crisis? |
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isaac
2007-10-19
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Oh man, that last panel: throwaway gag, or _foreshadowing_? Is perhaps the plot finally appearing on the horizon? And does it involve robots? ...why does tux have a recycling bin on his head? |
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Jono 2007-10-19
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I originally planned panel 5 to be a montage of Bangladeshi refugee mothers holding screaming babies in front of barbed-wire fences and uncomfortable-looking soldiers, but it was going to take forever to draw and I just wanted the thing to be done so I figured the map would be easier. To get the map right I scaled a real map to the right size, printed it out, and traced over it, so it ended up being probably just as much work.
Isaac: I'd say it's foreshadowing. |=`) Tux has a recycling bin on his head because he's the comic relief character and he got stuck inside it earlier in the episode and hasn't been able to get out. In other words, the same reason there's a gratuitous panty shot in the last panel: because it's a really bad anime. Interface design point: In the first panel, her left hand is performing the magic gesture to dismiss the on-screen virtual keyboard (which is how you type on this computer), while her right hand is invoking a pie menu. |
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Alexis
2007-10-19
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It doesn't make it inedible, but the panels with less text are definitely more enjoyable. Is Ubuntu-tan riding a pig? |
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Jono 2007-10-19
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It's a warthog. Because the first release of Ubuntu was code-named "Warty Warthog". |
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sushux
2007-11-19
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I just noticed the reference to the Tokyo 2012 disaster. Is that when someone took a bite out of Tokyo? |