Wedding Crasher
on September 4, 2021 at 12:01 amDialogue is back! Interesting strip titles return! And of course it’s Head Alien who breaks the silence. It had to be.
As noted previously, the wedding was drawn after I’d been doing Dumbing of Age for a while. Note Dorothy’s painted upper lip. Honestly, drawing this page was extremely fun, entirely due to the convergence of a two things:
- Head Alien has never had a face before. He’d never been able to ACT to this level before, with eyes and a mouth and anything beyond body posture and the suggestion of expression through a warping helmet visor. And so I had the sudden luxury of deciding, for real, how this guy’s face would work if you actually got to see it. What kind of faces is he making under there?
- That face is Dorothy’s. Again, Dorothy had been solidly established as capital-D Dorothy over in Dumbing of Age, so doing Head Alien’s acting THROUGH hyperserious Yale-bound studious Dorothy? Just wrong in all the fun ways.
I love Head Alien staring at Dorothy’s hands in panel 3 — “hey one of these is usually a claw”
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Such an excellent selection of Smug Asshole Smiles this page. It’s great.
So before the first resurrection Head Alien had a claw on the right and a hand on the left. First resurrection, he gets a claw on the left, and a hand on the right. Second time, he gets two hands.
I can only assume his third resurrection will be as a
drab littlecrab.Nope. Three hands, no claw. He’s gonna be a Frankensteinian abomination alien.
Just once. But then he’ll know he can be happy as a clam.
He was a drab little Head Alien once.
Carcinisation strikes again!
It is the ultimate life form.
Does it still classify as a Hijacked by Ganon when he’s doing it to himself?
…somehow, Head Alien returned.
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I may have to use “Wanna Dance” as the title of a DoA fanfic, if I ever actually write one of the ideas floating around in my head.
Yeah, this came way later. It got pointed out a while back that, in 2012, I left a comment on Shortpacked! that said for two years the last panel of Joyce and Walky! had been Joyce ruffling Walky’s hair. So I hopped on over to Tumblr, where I remembered you talking about how much fun this was to draw, and from here, at least, we’re definitely in 2012 territory. I remembered correctly there being a gap! And now I can place, roughly, where that gap was.
Oh right! I have the email I got from when I could finally afford Joyce and Walky!. It’s from February 2011, and sure enough, there’s a link to [joyceandwalky dot com/members/theend dot html] at the bottom, which is where you were uploading the wedding, so at least some of it had been drawn then.
I remember reading the subscription strips in early 2012, and given how this particular page’s last line stuck with me, I suspect it was up when I did that initial read. (Though I could easily be wrong, my memory being as it is a hot mess.)
Wouldn’t it have been funny if it were ANTI-Head Alien who ended up stuck in Dorothy’s brain instead?
Wouldn’t be all that dramatic though.
No but it would have been funny if all these diabolical plans had been foiled because HAII didn’t consider the possibility.
Also kind of funny to think of Anti-HA’s meek personality apologizing for living rent-free in Dorothy’s head. “Oh excuse me, how did I get here? Dreadfully sorry, please go about your life, I’ll just watch from here. Any good TV on?”
Huh. I wonder what it is about panel 4 that makes me feel it’s not quite a Head Alien face. Strange. Possibly it’s just that Dorothy’s face doesn’t allow it to work properly.
Very grateful the dialogue’s back, though.
I think there are some unwritten, subconscious rules as to how Heady’s visor works, and having the eyebrows come to a point like that would violate them. Heady never has expressions that would make the top or bottom line of the visor have a hard angle in it, that I can remember.
I drew some very rudimentary Head Alien heads to test this theory, using the brow line from each panel as reference, and yeah, panel four is the only one you can’t fudge to get a real smooth line in there.
The lower line of Head Alien’s visor has been concave (with the upper being convex to match) on occasion, right? Maybe that could work for the likes of panel 4?
Hey, since when is this comic a talkie?
I’m not used to seeing this many evil grins on Dorothy’s face in one strip.
That’s because this strip was specially filmed in Becky-Vision.
Oh he’s less pure evil and more snarky and sarcastic, that’s the head alien i know
For some reason, the art in panel 3 makes me think of Narbonic.
I like the eyebrow movements over the glasses.