Strip #44
— Friday, September 22, 2006
Notes, Thoughts, &c.
Lewis's Notes
Some of you might wonder what aspects of the script Ben brings to the comic, and what aspects I bring to it. You can extrapolate from the following.
If Ben wrote the comic alone, it would be about medieval mathemeticians, and disputes they had. If I wrote the comic alone, it would be the story of Metal Hands McGee, a super hero who wears metal gauntlets that produces the sound effect "Catamo". Terror Island is the result of mixing those two comic visions.
Ben's Notes
Here are the things I like about the way this strip turned out:
- The em-dashes in panel 1 both fell at the ends of lines, which looks
kind of interesting.
- I managed to arrange Jame's line in panel 3 into a fairly good
ellipse, which is tricky for seven-deck speech bubbles.
- The first two panels each hide one of the food items, and the last
two panels display them fully.
There's probably also some plot advancement or character development in there. I didn't really check. Some day we'll eliminate those factors, and the comic will just be about arranging words into ellipses.