PHOEBRUARY RETURNS!!!
Every few days I'll upload a different classic Phoebe February pic. There's been a lot of them.
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As for this comic...
This comic doesn't look like it took forever to finish. It looks like another dumb comic. But dang did it take forever to finish. It's the little things that add up: the large number of characters, the motorcycle (which requires a hunt for the appropriate reference pics and all that), the new character (which requires a bit of design work to get right). It all slows me down.
But with that, this little min-arc has ended. Onto other things.
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PHOEBRUARY RETURNS!!!
Every few days I'll upload a different classic Phoebe February pic. There's been a lot of them.
VOTE TO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PHOEBE!!!
As for this comic...
This comic doesn't look like it took forever to finish. It looks like another dumb comic. But dang did it take forever to finish. It's the little things that add up: the large number of characters, the motorcycle (which requires a hunt for the appropriate reference pics and all that), the new character (which requires a bit of design work to get right). It all slows me down.
But with that, this little min-arc has ended. Onto other things.
Honestly, there is a story or two here…I mean having a Hannah focused story would be a interesting change of pace from the usual Puck Shenanigans…
There are several stories here. Agreed. Not sure I’ll tell them, but they’re there.
Can… Can we at least have a voting incentive glimpse of whatever they’re off to do at panel 3?
Alas, we can’t. The cameras weren’t on.
Nice 🙂 Thank you again for your efforts
Also with the Harley – definitely fiction.
A surprise, and yet inevitable.
That’s some good writing, right there!
I don’t do surprises. I only do inevitable surprises.
The Harley was a surprise to me. But after the previous strip about Hannah’s reputation preceding her I was half expecting a girl. And Cassidy is great, well done drawing her Electric Gecko.
Takes a lotta muscle to wrestle a Harley. Is she up to it?
I think she’s up to it.
I wonder… is this the one and only time we’re ever going to see Cassidy, or is she to become a recurring character? hmm…
Well, maybe not the ONLY time…
If there was a significant amount of work involved in designing her, then it would seem to be wasteful for her to never appear again 🙂
Cassidy. Cassidy! Cassidy!!! CASSIDY!!!!!
I want to know where I can get that left-handed Harley, with the exhaust on the non-traditional side.
I bet you do.
It’s hard to get ref pics of the non-iconic side of a bike.
… you mean this bike has right side and mirrored right side, but no left side?
It has no other side. It is 2D only. Like the drawings in ancient Egypt. All the most critical info must be contained in profile.
I don’t know anything about motorcycles but this thread made me ponder how Panel 2 – which worked fine for me – came to have the motorcycle pointing left (to me) instead of right.
We’ve previously established the standard Front Of The House shot, with the steps on the right. Hannah is heading to the seat on the back of the bike so it makes visual sense for that to be closer to her, and therefore the bike points left.
That means the pipes have to be on the left because they look butch. Not know anything on the subject I used the google which said, “Roger Hughes….If you have a single low-mounted exhaust pipe, it makes sense for ease of maintenance to put it on the opposite side to the drive chain, which would otherwise be slightly trickier to access. And chains are almost always on the left, not least because so are side-stands, and the leaning bike offers the chain a bit more protection from the rain when the bike is parked up. And side stands are on the left, because you always get on a bike from the left. And you always get on a bike from the left, because you always get on a horse from the left. And you always get on a horse from the left, because otherwise you would sit on your sword, which you wear on your left hip so that it can be drawn with your right hand. So the exhaust pipe is on the right.”
No doubt this is taking things too far, but it happens when reading webcomics because the search engines is only that far away. Perhaps the lesson is not to worry, it’s more important to have a panel that looks good (which Panels 2+3 especially do) than one that would be useful in a shop manual.
I adhere to the ‘what looks good’ philosophy of media creation, not the ‘accuracy and continuity’ school. If you watch ‘Return of the Jedi’, Luke has one hand with a black glove (his robotic hand). The hand that wears the glove switches from left to right about fifty times in one battle scene. And that’s fine by me. It was the result of editing in post to create more fluid action flow. The editors would regularly flip film to get better results.
That’s fine. And if anything, it’s fun to have errors to pick apart in the comments section.
oh, absolutely! It’s a comic, not a shop manual.
And if we didn’t have anything to talk about, what would we talk about?
Miranda seems to be thinking “C’mon Mom, it’s the 2020’s! Don’t look so shocked.
Hey, the 2020’s can sneak up on anyone. Why, just the other day it was the 1990’s!
I hear yah, Gecko.
Puck is over 630 years old if I recall correctly, she shouldn’t be this naive. Her memory loss wasn’t total, she just lost 10 years I believe.
This is not Puck being naive. This is just Puck being surprised.
Yeah but she spent about 575 of those years with homosexuality (if indeed that’s what this is, she’s just riding a motorcycle) being so unthinkable it was rarely referred to. That’s a long habit to break.
Best read up on your lore Puck is only female, or human for that matter, when she wants to be. Nor was homosexuality as much the norm in that part of the world as our Victorian predecessors wanted everyone to believe.
Boy, wasn’t it?
Glad to see Cassidy provided the backseater with a helmet (panel 2). Thank you for that extra bit o’safety!
Helmet was added in post. Thought that safety was important.
So what curious form of magic allows Cassidy’s hair to flair out into professional-stylist perfection after being mushed to her head by the helmet?
And excuse me. Harley-Davidson is trading at a high of nearly $47 per share. And the Harley Iron 1200 is among the best-selling motorcycles on the planet. All it takes to afford one is a steady job as a corporate CEO and a second mortgage on your home.
The same curious form of magic that keeps Phoebe’s clothing in place.
And for what it’s worth, I think that Harley Davidson will be making money by catering to men’s midlife crises for many decades to come. It’s a lucrative market.
As someone who tried (and failed) to draw a motorcycle from reference not long ago, I applaud your effort.
It is a very complex device. And unlike cars, motorcycles wear their working bits on the outside. You can simplify it, but eventually it stops being a motorcycle and instead just becomes a vague symbol of one.
“It’s not a motorcycle, baby, it’s a chopper.”
I have never been sure where the chopping comes in.
Solid look and a sweet bike. (Though I opt for a quieter rebellion with sweet electric torque.. to each their own).
Though that would wreck the hairdo pretty quick.
Quiet rebellion is no rebellion at all! Rebellion is always LOUD!
I don’t have to care about “LOUD”. I’m just gone. Seriously, those things are fractions of a second away from top-notch sports car acceleration.
Quiet rebellion is SUBVERSIVE REBELLION.
The rebellion that strikes with no warning & no mercy.
Meanwhile, she doesn’t need to be a geezer, just a wealthy collector of classy motorcycles.
My mom wasn’t a bad girl. She was a very nice girl. With a reputation. Mind you, I didn’t know her when she was actively riding.
Good thing too.
My mom, Jólakötturinn (The Yule Cat) despises bad fashion.
Oddly, I never discussed Blue Hair with her.
The very possibility of such an unnatural shade has likley never crossed her otherwise homicidal cortex.
And would cause her indigestion.
I’m sure she rode a motorcycle. A special feline motorcycle.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/06/20/10/3579E1C400000578-0-image-a-21_1466413625274.jpg
(There exist pictures of cats on cat-sized motorcycles… but this one is cooler!)
You ask. The Internet provides.
My Google-fu is strong! 😎
…Just occurred to me that I’m boasting about being able to find a cat picture on the Internet. 😐
Going to slink way in shame now.
“…Just occurred to me that I’m boasting about being able to find a cat picture on the Internet.
“Going to slink way in shame now.”
Ah! But you found the RIGHT one.
Is that poor cat on a leash? ! Bad human, cats shouldn’tbe leashed.
For all we know, Cassidy could have grown up from infanthood in garages and body-shops, and earns WELL more than enough to own a Harley.
Likely.
Well, we see more evidence of the roller-coaster life.
It’s a wild coaster. It really is.
EG, thanks for drawing an American motorcycle! I’ll say “Cassidy” as a first name is gender ambivalent. As a guy called “Chris” I’m aware there are more than a few names like that, such as Dana, Terry, Bobby, and Phil. 🙂
American motorcycles are not the coolest amongst the youths of today. But ‘cool’ goes in and out. ‘Iconic’ never fades. And American bikes are iconic.
Merrill, Lesley, Ashleigh. . .