SPQR Blues 3 part IV (all)

[spqrblues]

<-- This is supposed to be a mountain.

These two installments go together.

Comments

[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

Ooooohhh! Lookie! It's a grumpy mountain!

:-0

It's smoking too. Mmm hmmm...

Nice teasing on Felix's part. It's hard to believe he doesn't notice Mus' undying adoration of him. Heh.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Maybe he's used to it from their babysitter/babysittee days. Or maybe he's a little wary of small young guys doting on him after the whole Domitian dealie. Or... he secretly really likes being adored, and goes to bed at night feeling all warm and fuzzy about it....

[wilypueo.livejournal.com]

Solid, though I am not sure what the effect of the mountain panel is supposed to be (perhaps some foreshadowing?

I wish I had a nice bakeshop girl to take care of me . . . Actually, I'd probably settle for a nice bakeshop

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

The mountain panel could be:

1. Setting the scene by utilising a longshot
2. Providing foreshadowing by reminding the reader of the everpresent threat
3. The artist got tired of drawing talking heads and didn't feel up to drawing another street-with-house-façade

Now I'm craving fresh-baked bread. Or maybe a sticky bun. Yes, definitely a sticky bun.

[wilypueo.livejournal.com]

Ah, I did understand it, but I guess the placement was awkward for me, seems like it begs to be at the beginning or end of the strip. Unless each row is to be considered a separate strip. And, you actually have pretty nice detail and progression of your backgrounds with talking heads that those panels never seem static/tiresome to me.

Don't mind me, I epitomize the, "If you can't do teach; if you can't teach, criticize" bit, i.e. I am not sure what I am talking about most of the time.

I could definitely go for a glazed flaky donut or maybe a random anpan or three.

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

1. Each row is to be considered a separate strip.

or

2. I am a daring maverick, who pulls all the way out from the characters, then ZOOMS! back in, for the emotional effect this has on the reader. Whatever emotional effect you got from it, I'm sure I intended that.

or

3. The juxtaposition of the simmering mountain and the information in the dialogue is significant. I'll need a while to think of something significant, but it's there, I'm sure.

I just had a flaky pastry for supper. The babbling above surely indicates that I need some protein instead....

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

Breakfast is on your adoring fans!

That's a very Munch-like mountain!

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I briefly passed out from a sugar high just looking at that photo...

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

Better that than volcanic fumes - or, more fun, at least!

[b2creative.livejournal.com]

Thanks to kyleen66, I now know what that icon is from. He's my favorite character.

(I don't watch much TV)

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

People keep recommending it to me, but it's been hard to get past the annoying commercials. And now it's going to be hard to catch up :P

[b2creative.livejournal.com]

That's why I ... uh ... find where previous episodes "fall off the truck", so to speak ...

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

So many of the original commercials were, "Lookit the imperiled blonde baby cheerleader in the short skirt! Look! Look! Also, here are a bunch of white males--oh, and an exotic or two. And did we mention the really young cheerleader? Looking troubled and vulnerable? In peril?" ...and I simply couldn't stomach watching the show itself that such a revolting marketing campaign promised. But, I will look around the loading dock and back alleys and see if anything tumbled off.

[b2creative.livejournal.com]

The commercials did not do it justice. The blond cheerleader is surprisingly well written, does a pretty good job of taking care of herself, and is just one of a nicely varied cast of characters. Of course, she's the one that would appeal to the male 20-30 age group, so that's undoubtedly why she's so prominent in the ads. That whole boozum thing, you know.