A simple social miscalibration
I think this is the most sophisticated page I can make, with my limited toolbox. To get any better than this, I have to get help in.
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I think this is the most sophisticated page I can make, with my limited toolbox. To get any better than this, I have to get help in.
When you’re barfing next to two melodica players, there’s nowhere to go but up.
Nonsense. It’s an avant-garde symphony!
“Movement for Two Hoboes And A Mooncalf”, composed for melodica and intestinal tract. Coming soon to the Royal Albert Hall.
Am I yhe only one who mistook them for bottles at first glance?
No, i did too.
I have no doubt that they were at first, but the artist decided the bottles didn’t look right, and rather than redo the panel, he changed them to melodicas. Because It’s His Universe.
Jog on, they were melodicas from the start
This make us more and more worried.
I did the same. So used to television & movie portrayals of someone drinking from a bottle in a paper bag while sitting on a stoop.
The first, perhaps, but not the last..
I briefly entertained the idea they might be novelty flasks disguised as melodicas, to allow people to smuggle booze into settings where alcohol is prohibited but melodicas are not, but now I’m having trouble coming up with a plausible scenario where that would be the case.
Are they late night buskers or merely aficionados of a nocturnal melodica?
A scene like this demands a proper soundtrack to set the mood. Those two just noticed and filled the obvious need. Too bad we can’t hear it.
My cousin is a pro melodica player. His duet with an off-balance dryer deserves to be seen. https://www.facebook.com/binyomin.ginzberg/posts/10155112586010695
Hahahahaha!
You just made my life 24% better!
Thank you for sharing this masterpiece!
What better way to start the day than a little klezmer?
Your cousin is a fine man.
I expected to see Sam Spade lurking in an alley, a saxophone player snuggled up against him.
Don’t get help. It wouldn’t improve it, just change it into something different.
The melodica playing seems to have interested a cat. Or perhaps they have merely confused the cat.
Are we sure it isn’t a Flerkin? Stalking its prey in the pale moonlight?
If you can confuse a cat, you can also puzzle a puma, bewildebeest, and trouble a Thomson’s gazelle.
You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a fish.
Mildred is just the sweetest♡♡♡. The way she apologizes to Lottie is so sincere ♡. So “In vino veritas”♡. And the page is so full of beautiful grays! The atmosphere is amazing. The prospective so accurate. And Lottie final, theatrical exclamation is so powerful! I could stay hours just looking at this single page♡.
I want to kbow about the two shadowy figures next to the lamppost in panel 3. And who is running on the rooftops in panel 1 — and why?
know, not kbow
They look a bit clownish.
Yes, their noses seem to be glowing.
I hope our heroes haven’t attracted unwanted attention due to their investigations.
Something about this nighttime landscape rings disturbingly of Kesh Gremlin. Maybe it’s just Mildred’s bad bout with the booze.
I’d say Sesh Gremlins are ultimately created by the same forces the create this kind of nighttime atmosphere, but I doubt that John’s planning to re-use the Sesh Gremlin idea so soon. And I’m not sure a Sesh Gremlin would fit in this story, anyway.
I’m inclined to agree. Like Giant Days I don’t think the supernatural effects anything in Wicked Things.
This isn’t Wicked Things, though, it’s Bad Machinery. As such, the supernatural is very much in play here, I would think.
That said, John just finished a sesh gremlin story, so I don’t think he’ll go that well again.
It’s not Bad Machinery, either. I think this is essentially a one-shot story.
This page is MUSIC.
Look at the quality of that truck’s cab and undercarriage. Beautiful.
Also, I love the ground-level wind effects throughout.
This is indeed a damn fine page, John. In composition, pacing and use of tones, you’re in a class with Will Eisner.
Not one, but TWO melodica players AND une chat noir? Très sophistiqué indeed
Tackleford at night is… interesting.
Loving the film noir look of this page, the shifting perspectives really make it work.
Thank you for rewarding careful viewers.
This page is great. GREAT.
Pretty sure Rohrsach is lurking
I am very impressed by this page. The way your artwork has evolved over the years is fascinating.
Tilted horizons, 3-point perspective, grayscale to show it’s night, tendrils of mist to deepen the atmosphere and a cliffhanger emblazoned on the side of a perfectly rendered middle ground eighteen-wheeler.
Nice tools. Who would you need to get in?
(That’s not to say I’m not head over heels in love with Max Sarin’s genius crafting, mind you – well-sharp tools in her toolbox.)
I am so incredibly very not one to talk, but if you have only two close friends (Mildred and Shauna) — who might easily drift away from you at the same time (as they in fact did) — perhaps you should expand your social horizon. Even the main characters on “Coupling” had at least five or six, much less likely to lose track of all at once.
[“happy trotting smile-a-lotting elf”; it never before occurred to me that elves “trotted” 😉 ]