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2006-04-12: Escape Phrase 32
The last panel.
I was going for a cross between "adorable" and "mysterious".
I decided today that this is gonna have to be a FIVE-chapter story. Well, something like that.
This comic is in the storyline:
- Escape Phrase
This was intended to be a 24-hour comic but my hand hurt too much twelve pages in. And then it turned into a crazy experimental study of the interaction between form and content in the comics medium.
Text transcript
[[Jimothy is sitting at a computer, reading, and listening to an audio-book.]] Adams Morgan: No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one -- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy -- a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands. [[Night has falled. Jimothy is still at the computer, still listening.]] Adams Morgan: What? With all three masts making such an everlasting thundering against the side; and every sea breaking over us, fore and aft. [[The art style suddenly reverts to its original sparse black-and-white.]] Adamas Morgan: Think of Death and the Judgment then? No! no time to think about Death then. Jimothy: Eh? [[Jimothy peeks into the bedroom, where Tsamantha has fallen asleep.]] Tsamantha: zzzkkrt snkrkrk
