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« on: February 03, 2005, 01:45:51 pm »
I must admit to being slightly confused by this one.

What's up with the royal garb? Is Onstad still high? What is Ultra Peanut going to say about this?

Perhaps that's it, the end of this two day storyline and we won't even see her again for two years.
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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2005, 01:49:26 pm »
Fee-reep is going all Edgar Allen Poe on that toy's ass.
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2005, 01:51:26 pm »
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Perhaps that's it, the end of this two day storyline and we won't even see her again for two years.


oh, but i'm down.  She is bad for FreeReep.  He deserves so much better.  (I wish I were five, and a cartoon.)

Anyone else think the drawing style in the last few frames is a bit sketchy?

Also, I wish I cold read tab, and play guitar.  I'm gonna make my roomate play that when she gets home.
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2005, 02:14:26 pm »
I will admit to being a little confused by today's strip.  However, as a former guitar player I love "B?" and "G-ish".  Also "Reverently, like a King burying his son" is highly evocative.  I know how that sounds, don't you?
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« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2005, 02:17:10 pm »
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I will admit to being a little confused by today's strip.  However, as a former guitar player I love "B?" and "G-ish".


I did like G-ish.
It did leave me overly confused, but hell, I don't always feel a need to totally understand them.

Or what's going on at all for that matter!
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« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2005, 02:56:40 pm »
For those curious

http://www.megalink.net/~tmann/king.mid


(I'm in class, so I haven't listened to it yet)

The last bar is a little dicey, there's five notes in it in 4/4  :)




Edit:

I just listened to it, and it really does sound like something you would play while a king was burying his baby son. I wasn't expecting it to sound like anything.
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« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2005, 03:10:14 pm »
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I must admit to being slightly confused by this one.

What's up with the royal garb? Is Onstad still high? What is Ultra Peanut going to say about this?

Perhaps that's it, the end of this two day storyline and we won't even see her again for two years.


It all makes sense as part of an anthology.

The music is very apropos though. I would pay for an Achewood songbook.
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« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2005, 03:32:37 pm »
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For those curious

http://www.megalink.net/~tmann/king.mid


(I'm in class, so I haven't listened to it yet)

The last bar is a little dicey, there's five notes in it in 4/4  :)




Edit:

I just listened to it, and it really does sound like something you would play while a king was burying his baby son. I wasn't expecting it to sound like anything.


Nice!

Chris, do you write music too?  Are you a guitar player?  Is there anything you can't do?
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« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2005, 03:34:31 pm »
Yes, when you buy the book it'll be funny.  You really can't laugh until you've spent money.  There's a rule about this.

I did enjoy breaking out my guitar first thing in the morning and playing a soundtrack to a cartoon, though.   It was so delightful that I had to make myself some chocolate milk because I felt like I was five again.

I also was going to make an mp3 of the music as I interpreted it (that's the problem with tab - no time measure in the notes) but that midi is lovely (although I think the tempo is too fast and not "king burying his son" enough).

Anyway, I think the last panels are what Teodore is thinking his music sounds like, and not what Philippe is actually doing in reality, but the two match up themeatically.

This is one of the best strips in a long time, people.

DON'T BE INGRATES
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« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2005, 03:46:53 pm »
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DON'T BE INGRATES


I think my brain is about to explode.
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« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2005, 03:55:54 pm »
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DON'T BE INGRATES


I think my brain is about to explode.


Yes, seriously. What parallel universe have we entered that I'm snarky and Jough is telling us not to be ingrates?

DO YOU HAVE A GOATEE AND A DUELING SCAR JOUGH
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« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2005, 04:53:12 pm »
Gad I wish MORE comic strippers were [ex-?] graphic designers. This layout is SO well done. Many Kudos, Mr. Onstad.
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« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2005, 05:10:40 pm »
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Gad I wish MORE comic strippers were [ex-?] graphic designers. This layout is SO well done. Many Kudos, Mr. Onstad.


The many-small-panels format allows for room for things like the musical notation: a leitmotif that spans multiple panels yet still allows sequential storytelling to happen.

I've said it before and will say it again: more real estate is good. I like the many-panels format.
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« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2005, 05:41:21 pm »
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I've said it before and will say it again: more real estate is good. I like the many-panels format.


Ditto.
I got the Calvin and Hobbes Sundays book for christmas, and Watterson talks a lot about how he liked getting to use more experimental layouts to tell the stories, or excerpts thereof, and I've always liked how it crops up in Achewood. And the evolution over a few strips of the stoned many panels to this.
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« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2005, 06:17:35 pm »
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I've said it before and will say it again: more real estate is good. I like the many-panels format.


Ditto.
I got the Calvin and Hobbes Sundays book for christmas, and Watterson talks a lot about how he liked getting to use more experimental layouts to tell the stories, or excerpts thereof, and I've always liked how it crops up in Achewood. And the evolution over a few strips of the stoned many panels to this.


Scott McCloud talks about a similar thing in Reinventing Comics. One of the reasons he believes the intArweb is a great place to publish comics is because there are no spacial restrictions or pages that need to be turned, if that is the artist's wish. On the serailzer pages, there is this comic called Fetus X, which is a perfect example of this.
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