Manga with transforming robots
on January 21, 2018 at 12:01 amMy panels are a lot more complex in these Fans crossover strips! Lots more stuff is crammed into each strip than usual, so each panel is more likely to have multiple layers of action. Check out Rikk and Joyce conversing in the far background of the main action in panel two, for example.
The universe’s calendars being out of sync reflects tiny orbital variations… and the fact that It’s Walky more or less acknowledged real calendar dates (doing Halloween and Christmas strips on Halloween and Christmas, for example), whereas Fans took its sweet time because I didn’t want the characters to age out of college too fast. I had plans for Katherine (Shanna’s aforementioned friend) to be joining law school at the start of the second semester, and I hadn’t written that story, so it couldn’t be the second semester for the Fans yet.
“That… can’t be what it LOOKS like, can it?” David does a great job selling the body language between Rikk and Joyce as something Alisin might worry about. Alisin was once the sort of person who might’ve taken a complete stranger into the cargo bay to join the Mile High Club, and Joyce and Rikk are… not, so there’s some projection going on here. But there’s a subtler sense in which her fears aren’t totally unfounded. You’ll see.
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“OH NO… they’re checking out the cargo bay without me??”
look it’s a fuckin’ sweet cargo bay
While Alisin is worried that it’s a sweet-fuckin’ cargo bay.
I smell a set up.
The “Alisin and Rikk are having some trouble” stuff in this story is strong material I think. Especially the bit that’s coming up, which is really smart and well done
Agreed.
And Rick, a few strips back, had that inner monologue showing he is the exact kind of guy to be attracted to Joyce’s countenance, her manner, her all-lovingness, as much as the unmissable physical attractiveness of her face and hair, big baby blues, and figure.
Plus I hafta add how much his phrase “Before our bed grew cold” gets me in that previous strip. He’s young but that speaks of being an old soul.
Joyce is definitely not the type to do that. Anti-Joyce probably would, but she’s hindered by not existing anymore.
Just because she got shot in the head doesn’t mean she isn’t still here in our [Joyce’s] hearts.
Her fears aren’t totally unfounded. She’s not paranoid. You’re paranoid.
You’ll see. You’ll all see.
Originally Posted:
April 30, 2003