HALLOWEEN TIME!!! NEW VOTING INCENTIVES!!!
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As for this comic…
There is another reason why the cast needs to split up, by the way, and it’s a very practical one: I’m tired of drawing all six of them in every comic. The amount of work it takes me to draw a comic is usually determined by the number of individual character images contained in the four panels. So the most common (and easy) comic structure has two characters talking in panel one, a close-up of character A in panel 2, a close-up of character B in panel 3, and another mid shot of the two characters in the final panel. Total character images drawn = 4.
Now look at this comic: six characters in panel 1, three in panel 2, four in panel 3, and six in panel 4 (Miranda’s head is barely in frame but I’m counting it anyway). Total characters drawn = 19. It’s not visually impressive or striking or obviously labor-intensive in any way, but this comic took me forever.
So the gang is splitting up to save my sanity.
Remember: It’s all for one, one for all, and every man for himself. Now spread out!
Best policy.
Does this mean that you’re trying to take over Canada’s Funderland?
That park is probably nowhere nearby. Probably.
Depends on whether they run into someone pretending to be supernatural, or just some regular-joe chainsaw-wielding maniac.
Or a supernatural chainsaw-wielding maniac. Double duty!
That usually only become known in sequals.
Man, the light from that streetlight they’re presumably standing under really understands which parts of the people to highlight.
Key thing: there is no streetlight. The light is just imaginary.
I see, well that imaginary light has a vivid imagination. And it apparently knows what it likes.
I guess it does. Honestly, I struggle with the concept of lighting in general. So the lighting may be less a function of the lighting knowing what it likes and more a function of the lighting not knowing what it’s doing.
Re: your Alt-Text – I suspect you’re right.
Fred drove that van very well, but I do suspect he wasn’t banging on all cylinders.
Did you just say that 2 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 4 characters ???
Oh, right … Canada uses the metric system;
6 metric characters = 4 U.S. customary characters .
We’re different in Canada.
COME to the dark side!
We have cookies and limited divisibility by three.
What TYPE of cookies?
Whad’ya want? I live in Massachustts, so I’m legally obligated to offer you chocolate chip. But who about some nice lemon snaps?
If you don’t like those, we can open negotiations. I saw the Alton Brown episode on cookies.
Alternately, you can go to Connecticut where the Quakers are, I hear they make mean Oatmeal Raisin cookies!
I hear dads make the best oatmeal cookie.
Stay sane.
If they have to split up, then this makes sense. Puck’s in one party and Daphne’s in the other so they’ve got combat covered. Puck has a vested interest in Colin, so she has motivation there and Phoebe doesn’t noticibly annoy Daphne’s so she’s got a better than even chance there.
It’s a functional breakdown. Kinda.
Chutzpa in one party and confidence tricking in the other. I-don’t-wan’a-mess-with-them mixed with bait in both. Why not capitalize on what works?
In one hand I have your sanity, in the other hand I have an awesome and impressive comic of 19 characters…hmmmm…..well, I hear that sanity is overrated.
“Sanity is overrated” has been my mantra for quite some time.
Cliche #1 of horror movies. ALWYS split up
Cliche #2 — The virgins always live or are last to die.
Life is imitating art! How sublime!
Or art imitating life imitating art. Or something like that.