Don’t apologize for your anger.
on April 12, 2017 at 12:01 amChapter: Depth Perception
Location: Storage and Lockdown
I forget, is there something that triggers Danny’s “emotion vs logic” soliloquy here? Did he learn it from Ruth, or is he just randomly specifically wise in a way that gets Sal to learn the Important Lesson? I’ve honestly lost track.
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Originally posted:
August 1, 2002
Also,
I always took this giant search for how to view and move through the world as sort of an exploration of how to think from the author.
Danny is simply incapable of being in a big plotline conclusion thing without shoehorning in some sort of moral. 😛
my guess, danny is (as often) the tool for a setup. sal gets character growth shortly before prison!
…heh…danny’s a tool…
I’m gonna start shouting DEPTH PERCEPTION whenever I feel motivated now.
What Danny is doing isn’t a soliloquy, a soliloquy is when an actor speaks the characters thoughts aloud to the audience.
Allow the Simpsons to demonstrate (around 00:50) into the video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VCW_ng1GEG4
It seems weird for Danny to just see Joyce smash through a wall and then talk to her about anger…? Did he see her fight Sal?
/swiss cheese memory
/too much laziness to look back like twelve pages
Dude, I want a career
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Bitter sour buttcheese!
What you said to me in the rain
Aw-haw!
I’m finding it a bit weird too, though apparently Joyce can handle getting smashed through a wall pretty well.
Very much agreed.
When you see your old dormmate after over three years of separation (which started with them spontaneously moving all the way across the ocean to do missionary work) smash through a fucking wall while fighting some magic giant robot in the other room,
something like that warrants at least two pages of freak-out before getting out full sentences, let alone a fuckin’ paragraph of soft comfort.
Oddly enough, Danny has a much more fitting freak-out once the battle is over.
I choose to believe that Sal’s change of heart happened because her hair isn’t blocking one of her eyes for once. She meant depth perception literally.
Her eyes are both uncovered first when she sees Danny. It makes a lot of sense as an actual symbolic move now that you point it out! Though personally I wonder if it would’ve made more sense to have it happen first on this page instead. Hm.
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/hi-danny/
I misread Sal’s last line as ‘Death Perception’ at first, and thought it was an amusing pun.
To be an abductee is to walk with death.
(sorry, I don’t actually know any references to Tsukihime proper so you’ll hafta make do with Fate. ;>_>)
I always assumed it was like something that spontaneously occurred to him given the events that just took place? Which thinking about it makes no sense, but hey
This one sticks out because I’m pretty sure it was the ‘current’ strip at the time I went back to read the archives. And since I’ve been waiting to do so, here’s the meandering story of how I found it.
When I first got online, I found myself looking at a lot of random Transformers sites, and found one belonging to a guy named Tengu. He had a feature called ‘Badass Transformer of the Month’ where I first learned about stuff like the Wreckers. He did a ‘crossover’ with some guy named Walky who had a feature called ‘Dumbass Transformer of the Month’, and of course I read all of those, finding them the height of comedy, and read everything on Walky’s Transformers site. Updates had been few and far between, so I finally took notice of some webcomic he was doing, some sort of side project to his masterwork of describing how terrible toy robots are by comparing them to Gambit. Anyway. ‘Depth Perception’ implied the silly webcomic about college roommates got deep later on, so I finally read it.
I found it in my summer of senior year of highschool.
I was bored and having found a few good webcomics, decided to look around for more.
A youtube video directed me towards a few new ones (and a couple I already read)
Some I liked, some not.
I picked up
Darth and Droids,
8bit theater(after it finished)
It’s Walky! (and by extension DoA).
Goblins:Life through their eyes (It gets dark.)
They helped in those first couple of awkward weeks.
This strip literally changed me. I cannot possibly describe the full extent in which my life has been improved by the understanding that many apparent contradictions are merely the differently skewed perspectives of two separate but equal entities and that their overlaid, combined views give a much closer version of reality than either of them alone.
As Willis admits, in a reread, this looks forced into the narrative and a bit hamfisted. I can only imagine that a much younger Willis was very excited and eager about sharing this conclusion to which he had arrived so the telling is imperfect. However, I still remember reading this back then and staring at the screen for solid five minutes, mouth agape as things clicked in my mind and suddenly everything made sense.
Thank you, David.
I read that last panel as “death perception” at first which didn’t seem weird at all to me considering how Sal’s been acting.
Yeah, uh… as with many things in this arc, Danny’s monologue here comes out of nowhere for the reader who ain’t plugged into any other content streams (like the writer’s brain) that may’ve been going at the time.
Yay for Danny being randomly psychic, I guess…. ?
If I was Danny, my first reaction would have been more along the lines of “You mean my best friend, my ex-girlfriend, my psycho stalker, and my fiance’s childhood friend are ALL government secret agents? What a coincidence!”
The dramatic zoom-in is what made it funny for me, I think that if she just said it on a long shot it wouldn’t be quite as narmy.
And it’s espacially glaring since this part of It’s Walky! generally has pretty good grip on how to do drama well
Yeah, the close-up makes it feel like she’s activating some sort of anime magic power or something.