IT’S ANOTHER MONTH OF RERUNS!!!
This November we’ll be taking a trip down memory lane and looking at a bunch of costumes from previous Halloweens. A new (old) incentive will pop up every few days, so…
As for this comic…
I’ll readily admit that Hannah’s observation might have been a little more applicable about six years ago, when popular music sort of hit a veritable booty-centric zenith. But there’s always been a kernel of truth to this statement ever since Sir Mixalot opened the floodgates in the mid-90’s.
I spent a lot of time and thought trying to figure out how to graphically depict Daphne listening to earbuds, given the fact that she doesn’t have human years in the regular place on the head where ears go. I think the end result is as not entirely wrong as I can get it.
Well, I can’t think of a way that Daphne can go deaf with modern personal listening devices. Let’s hope that humanity learns to dial it down.
Although, I’m curious as to what the specific muses were for the TMNT’s original namesakes.
Probably pasta.
Booty. Probably booty from all genders too, however repressed they had to be.
Where is this story going ?
Never where it intiially points to is my guess.
This story, honestly, is not really going anywhere big. It’s a short, minor beat just showing Daphne’s attempt to make a friend. And to further establish Hannah as a character.
She’s not a character. She’s a roller coaster. Narf.
You can say that again!
3rd panel looks fine to me. I think so long as you have the ‘bud’ part sitting in the actual ear hole (at the base of the ear), it’ll look like it works. And that’s the main thing. In real life might not stick in properly, but so long as it looks like it does, good enough for a comic.
I do like seeing this uncertain side of Daphne. She’s trying to be better, but completely uncertain of how to be. It’s sort of adorable.
Attack of, the KILLER TOMATOES! Sorry, that shirt it just.. (waves hand in french)
yes, I am sure my village misses me but until I pass the test I will not return.
I await the day when we get songs about ankles…. 😛 AWVG
All those HOT ANKLE BEATS!
What about shoulders, collarbones and craniums?
Hard sells.
Google search returned several songs about ankles, starting with “Jessie Reyez – Ankles” and “Young Soulia the Realest – Bend it over”. Whatever the song about ass was it might be less dirty than these two.
What about a video about them?
I just noticed that the ear bud case is empty, so I thought that Hannah had the other one in. But I went back to when she first appeared at the door and it’s not in her ear then…. sooo….
Where is it?
Let’s assume she put it in her left ear at some point between panel one and panel two.
I just didn’t want to draw that part.
Well, we all have our different tastes in music…
I thought all music was about arse?
From “Leck mich im Arsch” by Mozart (covered by Insane Clown Posse) and “”Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber” by Trnka z Křovic.
To “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Queen and “I Like Big Butts” by Sir Mixalot.
They all have a good beat and you can twerk to them.
You are not wrong.
I think work for Daphne with her terrier ears. Now, if you had created Daphne as a basset hound mutant, then you’d have an issue… and a lot of constant drooling to account for.
Sorry… earbuds work for Daphne.
Basset hounds are already horrible mutants. They need no more mutation.
Well, I liked “Baby Got Back,” by Big Daddy as by the Kingston Trio…
I am unfamiliar but admittedly curious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfyjGIm-oaI
…if you’re that curious.
It is as I expected. Very worth it.
I remember listening to Sir Mixalot in the 1980s when I was going to school at ITT Tech Nashville, so 1988 at the latest.
I was going from the release of “Baby Got Back” as the most quintessential of booty jams, but you are right.
I think you did the earbuds fine. And Daphne’s worth the effort. She’s a great character.
Well, there are always fashions. Or, it’s a topic she enjoys.
I’ve given up on music. If I can’t find a girl who wants to listen to Der Fliegender Hollander with me, we’ll just have to find other things to do together.
I still love music, including some of the newer stuff. Some. I do find artists I really love through YouTube and online, but the top 40 music is usually not as much my jam right now. But sometimes.
The openly rebellious are oft amateurish, while true professionals are the hard-core hidden ones like Hannah . . .
Too true.
It’s been an ongoing field of study. Sir Mix-A-Lot was following up on the research of Mercury, et al.
A long and storied academic tradition.
I had a fun thought, might need a bit of tweaking to actually fit into the comic:
Hannah is actually very open about her “Cheap Thrills” self-identity, but being blind, she’s naturally reliant on other people to pick out her clothes for her, and tell her what they are. Her parents, indulgent but having their own ideas about how they want their admittedly vulnerable teenage daughter to present to the public eye… lie to her about what clothes she owns and what they hand to her.
Hannah genuinely believes she’s currently wearing a black goth skirt, a backwards baseball cap with “Malcom X” on the crown, and a T-shirt that reads “F@#* Da Police!” with a large middle finger icon.
If no one tells her, how is she to know she isn’t?
A fascinating concept. Though I think Hannah’s presence is a carefully crafted masquerade that reflects both her personal sense of style AND serves as an intentional smoke screen for her parents. I feel that Hannah is usually the craftiest person in the room, even when that room contains Daphne. The idea that someone could pull the wool over her eyes doesn’t sit well with me. Though admittedly that idiom doesn’t really work for the blind.
Here’s another spin then…
Daphne and & Hannah shows up for a rap concert, Hannah in a red/yellow/green knit “beret” (there’s another name for that, I forget now).
Some frowning guy in dreadlocks and the same hat takes issue; “You know… it’s pretty inappropriate to wear that hat if you’re not black. Cultural appropriation isn’t cool.”
Hannah: “What? Am I… Am I NOT black? All these years… WHY WOULD NO ONE TELL ME THIS! (sobs).”
(Rastafarian dude backs away awkwardly as Daphne comforts the crying blind girl.)
Daphne: (whispers) “You’re evil and I love it!”
Hannah: “(sniff) Next you’re going to tell me you’re not black either? Aren’t these those ‘dreadlock’ things I’ve heard about?” (tugs on a doggy ear).
Daphne: “Uuuuuuh…”
Hannah: “Gotcha too!”
Why would no one tell her?
Also, she seems more like the type of person who’d have a persona for her parents and one for the rest of the world. That is, she wants her parents to think of her as the sort of person who wears THAT. And she likes her friends to know that she’s the kind of person listen to THAT. There are layers here.
Her parents wouldn’t tell her deliberately, whereas everyone else she encountered would default to the natural assumption that she knew what her own clothes look like.
Anyway, it was just a funny idea, which might have made for a good comic if not for the fact that EC has already stated he wants to build her as a much more competent/crafty character. This way is fun too.
It’s been a long time since I was a teen. I’d have assumed someone would have told her unless she were a total periah.
I think that Daphne should just lose the human ears — they haven’t been seen in a while so a subtle character change when no one is looking is fine.
Lose the human ears? She never had them!
I guess you are right, I could have sworn that she did back when you changed her hairstyle.
Never had em. Just a weird blank space at the sides of her head. One of the reasons I changed her hairstyle was to obscure this.
I went back to the beginning to get it correct in my head. It must have been the alternate reality me that saw them. I had always wondered why she had both. This kind of thing has happened to me before, it’s a strange world in which I live.
Maybe you were thinking of Emily the Cat Girl? Because Emily definitely does have human ears, because she’s technically human. Though spiritually cat.
Daphne shows her “I’m Not The Instigator” side, truly a rarity thus far and so a bit of character development for her. I wonder if Hannah can persuade her of the advantages of excelling at school, not out of any interest in learning, but as a means of manipulating her parents.
I shudder to think.
Suddenly I am having visions of Hannah in the preppie gear twerking against Pappy Snorf. I rather like it.
I am disturbed.
Papa Shnorf wouldn’t have it. Both because Hannah is underage and because even were she not, she can’t handle The Papa Life!
You know how the Papa rolls.
Huh… Well, I bet there’s a story behind how Hannah came to be a fan of ass themed music. Then again, now it makes me curious if Daphne or Tyler listen to Japanese metal bands.
I would guess that both Tyler and Daphne are, like many young people today, not really much into music. The students I teach today are casually aware of music, and sort of passively engage with it, but it’s not as much a part of their identity as it was for previous generations like mine.
@EG, “Music soothes the savage beast.” By you-know-who. 😉
Was it Ronald McDonald? How many guesses do I get?
:)) I meant to say “breast” but that’s a different body part. 😉 (For those who don’t know it was Shakespeare.)