X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,e852db44e2f0563e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-29 13:57:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: llizard Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 257 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:56:56 -0400 Organization: via Internetdirect, Canada; zone 6A (or is it 5b?) Message-ID: Reply-To: llizard@idirct.ca References: <64nakuose1rtnlj00lg7ojqjscs3janekv@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 111 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:18577 In article , "Joaquim G�ndara" wrote: >"llizard" skrev i meddelandet >news:64nakuose1rtnlj00lg7ojqjscs3janekv@4ax.com >> In article , "Joaquim >> G�ndara" wrote: >> >"llizard" skrev i meddelandet >> >news:v1gakuk3bei1pqu4miqv1jonm12vtbbi6a@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?) -- llizard aka ejm >%^7^^^7^^ llizard@idirec+.ca ASCII-art & ASCII-animation www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/ascii-art/ If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "idirct"