IT'S NO-NEW-NOVEMBER!!!
November is a rough month for me, so it's time for another trip down memory lane! Every two days or so, a new voting incentive from the past will reappear! Vote often to see 'em all!
VOTE TO BLAST TO THE PAST!!!
As for this comic...
I tried to get an early start to this comic because I knew the shot of Daphne's bedroom would be a bit more laborious. Thus, I dedicated last Thursday night to getting the pencils done for all of the other panels. I was feeling pretty good about myself. Then I forgot all of the drawings at work on Friday. My job is sadly not one where you can easily access the office on weekends. I was locked out. It couldn't wait until Monday or the comic would never be done in time. And so I sat down to re-draw all those panels a second time. So I've drawn most of this comic twice.
Yay me.
This has happened to me before, on #489 many years ago. You'd think I would have learned my lesson but no.
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Chapter: Prince of Dappled ShadeCharacters: Daphne Hannah Tyler (aka Taylor)Tags: basement bedroom lucky room
IT'S NO-NEW-NOVEMBER!!!
November is a rough month for me, so it's time for another trip down memory lane! Every two days or so, a new voting incentive from the past will reappear! Vote often to see 'em all!
VOTE TO BLAST TO THE PAST!!!
As for this comic...
I tried to get an early start to this comic because I knew the shot of Daphne's bedroom would be a bit more laborious. Thus, I dedicated last Thursday night to getting the pencils done for all of the other panels. I was feeling pretty good about myself. Then I forgot all of the drawings at work on Friday. My job is sadly not one where you can easily access the office on weekends. I was locked out. It couldn't wait until Monday or the comic would never be done in time. And so I sat down to re-draw all those panels a second time. So I've drawn most of this comic twice.
Yay me.
This has happened to me before, on #489 many years ago. You'd think I would have learned my lesson but no.
Wow. I have to say that I would have thought that the Puck would have been able to give Daphne a room with a more colorful appearance in her own design by now.
Well, maybe. But some rooms are beyond sprucing up.
I dunno…some plasterboard, some faux-wood paneling…clean up the ceiling panels…some paint…some cheap wall-to-wall carpet on the floor…it could look just like a 1960s / 1970s basement rumpus room.
The horror.
First, good work.
Second, Tylor should decorate their first home together.
Third, yes. Yes, you are.
Fourth, Anime posters would make that better. Get that girl some DBZA and Cowboy Beebob art!
Anime posters would definitely make that better. Also some furniture, but she’s probably lucky to have table and bed. At least I hope it’s bed and not just mattress on boxes. I don’t see any other problem.
It’s got a metal frame under the mattress. It’s a bed. Legally speaking.
Anime posters are all dependent on which anime they’re from. I shall not comment on the ones I view negatively, but let’s just say that some of them speak volumes.
So, you’re thinking SpyxFamily? Or maybe Dr. Who posters. I once had one of the Fourth Doctor in Bessie.
Fourth Doctor is best doctor. But I’m old. It was all about that scarf.
Don’t forget the jelly babies. It speaks volumes about the Doctor that the world could be falling apart and he still takes time to offer someone a jelly baby.
Jelly babies are amazing and should be more wildly available on this side of the pond.
No trouble.
personally I her see as a TriGun and Ghost In The Shell fan.
O.K., so that’s your job.
“Now, let’s talk about the mail. I’ve been meaning to talk to you about the mail. Can we talk about the mail, Tyler? Pepe Silvia, this name keeps comin’ up over and over and over again. Every day Pepe’s mail’s getting sent back to me. Pepe Silvia, Pepe Silvia, I look in the mail, this whole BOX is Pepe Silvia! So I say to myself I gotta find this guy. I gotta go up to his office, I gotta put this mail in this guy’s hands or he’s gonna come down here looking for his mail. So I go up to his office, and what do I find out, Tyler? There is no Pepe Silvia, the man does not exist! So I decided, I gotta dig a little deeper. There’s no Pepe Silvia? I’ve got BOXES full of Pepe!
So I start marching my way to Carol to H.R. and I knock on her door and I say ‘Caaarol, Caaarol! I gotta talk to you about Pepe!’ and when I open the door what do I find? There’s not a single desk in that office, there is no Carol in H.R. Tyler, half these people have been made up. This office is a ghost town”
(Paraphrased from the famous Sunny scene).
You know the scene. References within references.
As basements go, it doesn’t look bad. Is that box marked “furbies”? And is she using her desk as a dresser? I ask because that looks like a bra strap hanging out of the middle drawer.
That box IS marked ‘furbies’. And the desk is probably being used as a dresser.
I was trying to figure out where she keeps her collection of fringe sci-fi/anime/comics tee shirts.
We can’t see the whole room. She’s got a closet.
Daphne had to fight Harry Potter for this room, didn’t she?
Uh-oh! Daphne’s gone full conspiracy-theory diagramming!
Always a good sign, right?
Wow. I’m sure that it’s no better for you… But I find the revelation that the Prom arc was ongoing FIVE YEARS AGO to be deeply painful in an “Oh God, my arthritis!” sort of way…
No, it’s worse for me. Because I go back and look at those comics, and I think, “This comic looks like poop.” Then I realize I’ve been wasting my life working on this ugly, long-running comic.
Not so, Gecko. If you’ve been wasting your life drawing this comic, I’ve been wasting my life reading it. We all know two negatives make a positive, so there you go.
Though the reading takes dedication, which I appreciate, the comicking takes 12-20 hours a week. Which is about ten thousand or so hours. Conservatively. Now THAT is wasted time.
Though a better use of my time, I suppose, than just watching Friends reruns.
Most things are better than that.
Are you though Hannah? Your sense of smell is better, so you know exactly how clean Daphne keeps her room.
Honestly, not as bad as a though, although the perspective makes it look larger than it probably is.
Yeah, I think they filmed it with a wide angle lens. Probably smaller in reality.
Like they did in some shots in Freefall.
Well there goes my impression of Daphne as a heartless capitalist opportunist, unless one of those cardboard boxes conceals her ill-gotten, untaxed, monetary gain.
But that’s a far cry from basement dwelling, paranoid conspiracy theorist.
Why do I have the feeling that we are seeing one of the consequences of Phoebe’s breakdown and self-imposed exile. No way would she have stood for Daphne living in a state absent of style.
The boxes under the bed are all cash.
I knew it.
She needs a launderer.
For both clothes AND money.
EG, you drew the ultimate in demonic footwear, but drawing saddle shoes in Hannah. Despicable, diabolic, demonic.
At least the room has drywall so she can pin those photos to the wall. Kinda hard to do that with cinder block.
The room isn’t nearly as bad as many other teen girls rooms, but the bare light bulb has it’s own ambiance…
What’s wrong with the footwear? Seriously?
Er . . . well . . . it’s not the crack house next door, it’s got that going for it . . . . . . . . up until we see the crack house and its interior decor, I’m thinking.
Maybe it’s nicer over there.
Uh, well, she has a carpet (I think). No wardrobe though and a bed sized for a eight year old without even a head board
That room just speaks of grinding poverty
I think it’s cheap carpet. Bed might just be poorly scaled. It’s a twin size.
For some reason I am reminded of the dwellings of one Collin Robinson. For some reason…
Colin Robinson knows luxury when he sees it.
Definitely a “deer in the headlights” look going on there.
When you’re so in the zone, you can’t escape.
I love that her ears are straight up!
Expressive ears. My fave.
Daphne looks X-files spooky or maybe Paranormal . . .
Insert X-Files theme song here.
If I said that what I missed was Flecked Phoebe, would Blonde Puck come after me? <8(
Yes. Probably.
Eep!
Daphne is giving off vibes of The Question. A criminally underrated DC character.
I am sadly very uninformed on most DC characters.
I don’t have any anime posters, but I do have a limited edition Shadow the Hedgehog poster.
Is that better or worse?
I have never played a Sonic game I just got the poster for free.
That is, to quote Ophelia, “both better. And worse.”
I’ve never seen a basement with a drop ceiling before. She must have had it installed just to waterstain the tiles.
Drop ceilings are quite common around here in basements. They ‘finish’ the ceiling, but allow for access to cables, pipes, etc. it was especially common back in the 80s and 90s. Now, not so much.
I noticed that when I first saw it, so I went a digging.
Yeah, a whole bunch in basements, easy way to cover the floor joists and the cabling/plumbing I suppose.
Designs have moved away from 4×2 to 2×2 with embossed designs.
Saw one that looked like a French 17th century ceiling, quite nice.
Not really something I expected but does make a lot of sense.
Where’s Phoebe’s robo tiger from
The moon. I’m pretty sure.
I meant the show
No show. It was an original creation of mine from an old April Fool’s Day post.
Ugh! I’d absolutely hate living in a room like that! No wonder Daphne’s so snarky! :p
If one does not care about one’s environment, simplicity and efficiency will conquer aesthetics.