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As for this comic…
This is one of the first times I have EVER broken the four panel rule in this comic, but for this sort of unique scenario, I felt it fitting. It also helps that the first six panels are basically half-panels, making them divide and equate nicely to three real panels. So it's not technically breaking the rules.
For what it's worth, I thought the first dress actually looked kind of cute. Any other opinions out there? Which one is the best/worst of the bunch?
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As for this comic…
This is one of the first times I have EVER broken the four panel rule in this comic, but for this sort of unique scenario, I felt it fitting. It also helps that the first six panels are basically half-panels, making them divide and equate nicely to three real panels. So it's not technically breaking the rules.
For what it's worth, I thought the first dress actually looked kind of cute. Any other opinions out there? Which one is the best/worst of the bunch?
i don´t recognise even one of them, blame my rigorous refusal to watch romantic comedies 😉
as for the best dress…sorry, they´re all yuck, though nr.3 wins on the ‘worst’ front – choking, pink, and that pattern….brr. the last one is a serious contester though – honestly, did they steal that one from barbie?!
Actually, I was thinking maybe Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island could pull that one off, but Daphne, absolutely not.
Sheldon Copper would tear that dress off of Amy Farrah Fowler in an instant because of the cow catcher.
The last one is my favorite, and was a suggestion of my wife. Pulled from a movie, like all of them. It’s wonderfully bad, is it not?
@ Peya Luna
The easiest one is NO Romantic Comedy.
#5? Yeah, I wouldn’t call Carrie a romcom, lol
#1Twilight
#2 Grease (Sandy’s dress didn’t have the floral thingy between her boobs..)
#3 Andy from Pretty in Pink
#6 Harry Potter, and the Goblet of Fire
#7 Napoleon Dynamite
I can’t place #4.
That’s a new record at six in a row! Though 2 is wrong. Close.
#1 or #4; part of this may be I like her pose in #1. White is soo not her color. That last one looks like something Shirley Temple might have worn. Just, no.
White is not her color? WHY?!? I never understand that ‘not her color’ thing. Though in truth, I feel that white prom dresses look a little bit too much like bride-in-training dresses to me.
…white prom dresses look a little bit too much like bride-in-training dresses to me.
Or like nighties. Otherwise, I don’t see that. White, like black, should by rights go with anything because it isn’t a colour as such.
A dress is a frame for the young woman. A contrasting frame makes the picture pop out. Daphne is pale so she needs a dark dress.
I appreciate that Marilyn Monroe violated this rule but she popped out in ways that Daphne doesn’t or at least won’t.
I see what you mean. I am sometimes in agreement with that. But not always.
Allow me to share a link to a website of a book that my Mom got me when I was twelve. That tells you what “your colors are.” https://www.colormebeautiful.com/ For years I carried a little booklet that came with the book with fabric swatches.
My wife has long held to the theory that my color choices are SO outlandishly bad I must be colorblind. I am not colorblind. I just have terrible taste.
Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. My bf wears nothing but gray, navy, burgundy and (oddly enough) pink shirts. He says that where he went to college, pink shirts were de rigueur. They do look good on him (he hates white)
I can immediately date your bf’s college years quite clearly to the 1980’s, when pink was just viewed as cool. For, like, everyone. Pink IS cool. Though I’m not confident enough in my manliness to follow in his footsteps.
I think #1 (albeit a bit too plunging of a neckline) and #4 (albeit lacking shoulder straps) are quite nice. #3 is pretty hideous though.
I hate #3, though it is a pretty culturally iconic dress that many women will insist is not hideous. Women like my wife. But to me, it is hideous.
What Daphne thinks:
Dresses 1, 2 & 4; too much cleavage.
Dress 3; polka dots.
Dress 4; too low cut, cleavage and peach.
Dress 5; she’s not Marilyn Monroe and she isn’t going near any subway grate. That, and she doesn’t like snickers bars.
Dress 6; she’s looking for Tyler not Rhett Butler.
Dress 7; she isn’t strawberry shortcake and she’ll burn the hat, if any.
Now, I like dress one. But that doesn’t count.
What does the wife think, Gecko?
Yeah, Daphne is going as a character from the Broadway Show HAIR.
Hair, get it ?
snicker
Oh ha.
Cat, you just summoned the Monty Python response of the 15 ton weight. Please remain where you are for 3, 2, 1. . .
Well, I don’t think my wife likes any of them, though she has a soft spot for #3 only due to the cultural weight of said dress. If you were a girl in the 80’s, you know that dress. And it means something.
@EG
#3 is clearly the absolute wurst.
Your just pi**ed that he didn’t make a gimp outfit for Daphne.
@pat
yeah….
🙁
Where does dress #3 come from Gecko?
“Pretty in Pink”.
Interesting. I pictured Sissy Spacek in Carrie for dress #5, not Marilyn Monroe. I guess prom is traumatic for a lot of folks. Hahahaha
Dum Dums.
They are all from Movies, and although inspired (kudos to the gecko), are not difficult.
Here is a clue – one of them is RED in the movie – but not initially.
Dress 5 seems most reasonable to me, but I mostly wanted to comment to say this is the first time I noticed Daphne’s ears reacting along with the rest of her, I really like that detail
Well, the pose changed so little from panel to panel, I needed to infuse a bit of uniqueness in each shot. The ears are helpful for that.
I like #2
Very frilly.
#1 Twilight – so easy
Yes.
#6 Hermione Grainger
Yes.
#3 Pretty in Pink
That’s the most recognizable one here.
I didn’t recognize any of them. But 3 looks like the tailor stole a tablecloth and made it worse. 🙂
#5 is the only one I would be caught dear in, except at a masquerade party
And that’s kind of the story behind that dress in the very famous movie from which said dress originates.
I’ve trying real hard not to cheat and give away ones others have guessed.
I want to find just one more…..
WOW
You can hardly even see the marks from the curtain rod.
@Lokitsu
Why are people so cruel ?
😛
Susan would look good in even #7 (the worst).
But she would never choose it.
Bet your sweet tail 😛
Stumped on #2 and #7
Not tellin’ on #4 and #5 (both already revealed on Patreon)
#2 is the least popular of the movies on this list, so no surprise. #7 is … kinda niche.
#2 Smurfs visit NYC
#7 Smurfs visit NYC
My job is done
I must say, most of them look like they came straight out of a lot of coming-of-age movies from the 80s with Molly Ringwald. Though that last one in the last panel looks more like something a figure skater wore to the Olympics, now that I think about it.
I will admit, though, that I actually think the blue one isn’t awful. A bit low cut I think, but the color’s nice on her. Maybe that solid blue color with dress number 3? (Nooo polka dots!)
Yes, now that you mention it, that last dress is SO Tonya Harding.
Bodice #1 and skirt #5 in the blue of #1 would be ideal. The hint of underboob is daring enough to make a rival cry while the smooth flare is classier that #1’s triple lampshade. The color makes her fur really pop visually, I feel. Daph’s visually interesting enough on her own (as indeed are most women) that she doesn’t need the doodads and fiddle faddle of #2, #3, #6+#7.
Let us not speak of polka dots. They have their place at a picnic, but at a ball will only make a rival cry with laughter.
#4 is almost perfect, except the color is too close to Daphne’s – the blue is a much better frame for her natural beauty – and of course she won’t be comfortable in strapless. Let someone else wear it.
Of course what do I know about fashion? I went to an all-boys’ high school and although some would have been delighted to dance with each other the priests forbade.
You seem to have very defined and thoughtful opinions for a man who knows nothing of fashion.
My profession is all about providing very defined and thoughtful opinions on subjects about which we know nothing.
If you WANT a thoughtful argument in favor of #7 it’ll cost ya. Can’t live on pro bono (as web comic artists know so well!)
I feel that Daphne would not like the absolute cleveage of #1.
Yeah, it is a little much.
Spectacular !
No Game of Thrones? No Titanic ? No Gone with the Wind ? No Klingons ?
SHAME !
Going strictly with prom dresses from movies. Or prom-type high school dance dresses. Not just Hollywood dresses in general.
@EG
Well, considering how far both the Star Trek and the Star War franchises have degenerated, a “Klingon Prom” comedy might be in the works as we speak.
Star Trek has degenerated. Star Wars, I feel, is kind of lost. Trek is in an identity crisis because the people at the helm desperately don’t want the franchise to be what it always has been: a geeky, sometimes cerebral sci-fi with emphasis on characters and very little in the way of gritty action. Star Wars, meanwhile, is alternately lost down a ‘let’s relive the nostalgic past’ hole and then flirts with a ‘let’s change this is new and stupid ways’ cycle. But let’s not talk about either franchise, because it’s depressing me.
You’re telling me. I haven’t recovered yet from going to see “The Force Awakens” and gradually realizing that They just remade EP 4 (“A New Hope”) with Daisy Ridley instead of Mark Hamill. Grrr!
@Susan
Thanks for ruining my day.
You haven’t seen it yet? Perhaps it’s for the best, In fact, I know it’s for the best.
You’d have thunk Phoebe would have bundled one of her mum’s: ELIZABETH TAYLOR.
The best Elizabeth Taylor ever looked was in that white bathing suit in “Suddenly Last Summer.” Put a pool wrap on it and it would crush Prom. Course, you would have to look like Young Liz to start off with
Yeah, that’s a dangerous choice. Especially if it gets wet, like in that movie.
Well, it admittedly was not a prom, but we were invited to a birthday party for the richest (and nicest) lady in our town. One of her nieces went just like that. She did have the legs to carry it off, but it offended me as I was dressed to the nines. I very much doubt she noticed, or would have cared if she had.
All those are really rotten, EG. as you must know. The dress from last month is by far the best, assuming Daffy could look attractive, which I am not ready to concede
So if she’s a lost cause, all dress choices, by nature, will be bad ones, right?
Yes. but there are degrees of badness
@Susan
The elegance of the simple slinky black dress cannot be surpassed.
Looking at this dress montage, I can, for once, believe that Phoebe is Satan’s daughter.
The breeding will always out, as they say.
I’d go with Number Five, but, somehow, they all seem inappropriate for wedding dresses.
Good thing she’s only going to the prom then!
Hmmmmm.
Take the waist down of the 5th.
Take the waist up of the 3rd.
Get rid of the sleeves
Make it backless from halfway up the torso.
Take the colour of the first, make it 50% lighter, and plain with no patterns.
Result? Either something that looks okay, or an abomination.
You are a veritable Dr. Frankenstein.
Eeerk. You sound like that one episode of “Say yes to the dress” with the onscenely rich Angolan bride.
My personal opinion of her various dresses:
1>5>2>4>6>3.
I thought I recognized the first and fifth dress until I read it’s from movies and went “Oh, so I was right I had seen them before!”
Can’t remember what movies (because it’s been way too long since I actually saw said movies).
That said, I chuckled audibly at Daphne’s response in the last panel (which, admittingly, I also thought would be something that she would do).
Now I’m curious what kind of dress she’ll get in the end…
I am in total agreement with your ranking of the dresses, with the addition of #7 going last. But I also agree with Daphne that none of them are really her.
Somehow forgot to rank the 7th dress. But yeah, it was going to be last anyway.
could it be…..is nr. 5 is from carrie?!….as in the original brian-de-palma, not one of the who knows how many remakes….that would *so* fit what daph has in mind for her rival 😉
i totally hope you´ll provide the solution to this riddle at the next update or it´ll drive me batty 😉
@Peya Luna
Totally Carrie.
You nailed it.
THIS IS NO. 7
Napoleon Dynamite
YES!!!!!! Someone finally got dress #7!
My wife unabashedly admits that she had a grade eight grad dress that looked almost exactly like that. It was, as she noted, the dress of that era. And according to the standard of the times, it was indeed pretty. Now not so much.
No.2, my favorite, remains a mystery.
GREASE is close, but ain’t it.
Only #2 remains totally unsolved. This one will be very hard.
#2 Buffy
Someone got it!!!
Buffy’s Dress is too good for Daphne !
[no longer lurking] Regardless of Daphne’s preferences, I know someone who’d be devastating in #1, in that very vivid blue. Actually, I know *two* someones, both completely unaltered, on whom that blue would work marvelously. Thank you for the flashbacks.
@BP
Agreed.
No.1 requires more “padding” than Daphne possesses.
Enh, not necessarily. That dress actually, I think, works better the less padding you’ve got. Or let’s put it this way: the less padding you’ve got, the more that dress hooks towards the ‘elegant’ side of things, whereas more padding makes it hook towards the ‘Yowza!’ side of things. Which is sometimes the goal, but you can’t be too yowza. I know many male readers will disagree with me, but trust me. Too much yowza is not the way to impress the real people girls are trying to impress at prom: other girls.
@EG
I’m bucking the trend as I really don’t like No.1 “Twilight”.
It’s a bit sleezy, too “Las Vegas”.
No.4 “Back to the Future” is highly under-rated, and would be much improved with different and contrasting colors.
Exactly! A lot of crazy runway stuff is designed that way. It only looks publicly acceptable becuase they’re putting it on girls who have very little features.
I am not a fan of the selection process for fashion models, but whatever. They want the eyes on the clothes, not the girl.
Obviously, you have never watched “The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.”
Well, that’s different. Very different.
You describe two someones and don’t even give us a general description or picture. That, sir, is against the rules of gentlemanly behavior!
I’m not allowed to share the photos; one, at age 74, still looks like mid forties, stands about 64 inches tall, is not quite to the “yowza” stage, is very lightly-freckled (nowhere near as thoroughly as Puck), has saphire-blue eyes, still needs no visible or invisible means of support, and her hair is still black, in a pixie-tending-toward-Dorothy-Hamil do. The other is first-generation Taiwanese-American, aged early-fifties, looks no older than 30, stands 58 inches tall, is athletic-and-slim like a swimmer and runner, has jet black straight hair down to her knees, is just shy of “Wowsa”, and likewise still needs no visible means of support.
Well then, that will do.
Actually the blue one looks very good.
It’s not that bad. I dislike the bottom of the dress, but it’s … fine.
#3 looks like Pretty in Pink.
It is. Indeed.
#1 looks like Twilight. #2 could be Grease, or if not, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. #3 Pretty In Pink #4 Prom (the movie) #5 could be Carrie. #6 looks like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. #7 could be “Never Been Kissed” of “Footloose” but probably neither.
You’re right on 1, 2 (second choice), 3, 5 and 6. You win the ‘most right choices’ award. And I’ve never seen nor even heard of ‘Prom’ (the movie), but looking it up, yeah… Kind of glad I didn’t. There may well be a dress in that movie, though, that pays homage to the dress this one is based on.
Man, I must be on a watch list. Two replies binned 🙁
@Susan
EG has your number.
That is a five-star use of panel splitting, comrade.
I don’t deviate from form very often. But this was one opportunity I thought would work.
Is this the first Puck with more than five panels ?
Yes. Unless you count comic #80, which had nine panels. But that one’s kind of a cheat.
@EG
Forgot about that one.
FWIW, of the ones we’ve seen, I vote for #5.
Horror fans would back you on that.
Without reading all of the comments….
3 – Pretty in Pink
4 – Back to the Future
5 – Carrie
6 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Four in a row. Almost bingo!
You have forgotten. The free space square.
#4 Mean Girls.
Mean Girls? Now you’re just guessing.
Older. Think 80’s. You gotta go back … to the past.
@EG
Pshaw. (can I say that ? it is rather vulgar)
“Smurfs in NYC” was guessing.
First – I agree that the blue is the cutest, and most attr(rowrr)active. But, as she is trying on dresses, for you to say the multi-panel format is most FITTING … did you do that on purpose?
Uhhhhhhh… Yes. Yes. Totally intentional. Because I am a genius. (Whew. I think they bought it.)
I have to say that I have not been following any of the comments on this series, so t his may be a repeat of a bunch of other comment, but I think the actual dress will be irrelevant, as it is going to end up in that iconic scene from the movie Carrie.
Then she should choose dress #5, which is Carrie’s dress.
@EG
Hey, why not show up in Carrie’s Gown – POST-ATTACK.
Streaked all over with red dye, and hair with globs in it.
I’ve never even seen a woman do that for Halloween, but I think it would be inspired !
Or she could end up in my “Flapper” dress. Actually, I would buy that, including the shoes: http://tinypic.com/m/jv58xk/3
@Susan
Doesn’t work without the HAIR.
No, she definitely has some issues going on
Is that the dress that marty’s mcflys mom wore to her prom in panel 4? and the 5th Carries dress? 6th one I am pretty sure is Hermione’s dress from the Yule ball..other ones no idea..
You are correct on all three. That’s some good dress recognition you’ve got there.
#1 and #2 look pretty good on her. Would turn my head. 🙂
Yeah, honestly, neither are bad. A bit showy or frilly for Daphne, though.
#4 has to be from one of my favorite movies – Back to the Future. It looked good on Lea Thompson and now that I relook at it, it looks good on Daphne too!
Honest admission: Lea Thompson in that dress was a large component of my young sexual awakening. Seeing that vision on the screen was one of the first times my young brain thought, “Looking at her makes me … happy? I think that’s the right word?”
#3, #6 and #7 are ruleouts. #4 works well, but then I’m That Girl. You know the one.
I don’t, actually.
The blue one! The blue one!
(She doesn’t need to look like a wedding cake.) 🙂
Blue also kinda looks like a wedding cake, though. A blue wedding cake.
My favorite was also the blue one. I do like dresses 4 and 5 also. The 2 one looks like a wedding dress. 3 and 7 are a joke right? 6 looks Victorian.
P.S Had to look up Requisite…Damn you!
They’re all jokes from various movie proms.
I liked the first white one. But it’s not Daphne. I’m not sure what IS Daphne, but not that.
Mostly because she said no. And scowles are not good accessories.
I agree. Scowls are the worst accessories.
The poofy bridesmaid sleeves were the final clue that tipped Daphne off. No one dresses like Snow White unless someone else forces them to.
Or every girl in the 80’s.
Taste the rainbow of glow effects!
I like color. And have bad design taste.
My only cautionary is I think you overestimate how clear and intuitive your glow colours are to the audience. It would be one thing if you used a very small quantity of colours and a particular colour always represented a specific emotion, but this page really showcases that you are apparently switching colours at random, which is confusing to anyone trying to decode meaning from it.
They don’t mean anything. The colors are for color’s sake.