2014-08-28
This week’s entire story–scripting and art and everything!–by Artaban! As always, you may check out a higher-resolution version of this strip over on the GoComics mirror.
Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
This week’s entire story–scripting and art and everything!–by Artaban! As always, you may check out a higher-resolution version of this strip over on the GoComics mirror.
I honestly can’t tell. Did they eat the other insects or just get the crap beaten out of them. Either way, their expressions in the last panel are hilarious.
I think they got beaten up. It appears the silverfish also did a number on the millipede file, which explains why it was nowhere to be found when Tip went looking for it.
I don’t know where the pink heart next to the curled up millipede came from though. Maybe it was attached to his picket sign?
I bet their now feeling foolish about not using that plague now. It is a shame great people are never really understood while they are alive and instead or just labeled crazy or insane. It also would have fix that whole ecosystem situation they were having.
I *think* they got beaten up, as the one on the right is morosely clutching all that remains of their book.
In the spirit of constructive criticism: The art this week has been fantastic, and the dialogue quite good, but the plot has been hard to follow. I think the biggest problem is that the panels don’t flow into each other. I could take them, remove the dialogue, and place them in any order and you’d be hard-pressed to re-sort them correctly. I’m not sure *how* to improve them, I’m afraid, not being a cartoonist.
The only other issue I’ve noticed is that it’s hard to distinguish the millipede and mite dialogue. I’d suggest using different colours, or word balloons with different shapes, or the like, in future.
I thought it looked like the mite lines were in all-caps.
I’ve also been very confused by the mite/millipede dialogue switches. The first strip in particular threw me, and I had to read it a few times before I even saw the mites.
Enjoying it otherwise, though! 🙂
I *just* realized that the mites speak in all caps and the millipedes don’t.
(TUNE: “Over The Rainbow”, Arlen & Harburg)
Somewhere, under the Annex,
Millipedes
Have a file on themselves
That nobody ever reads!
Somewhere, under the Annex,
We want peace …
Other species appear,
Our numbers will soon decrease!
Dear centipedes and silverfish,
Come share our wisdom, for we wish
A meeting!
But when those arthropods appear,
They’re kicking our collective rear!
We take … a … beat-ing!
Down there, under the Annex,
Sharing’s fun!
Since our file’s been destroyed,
It seems that our day is done!
A tear falls from our compound eye …
They kicked our fannies,
Guess … we’re … gon-na … die!
Yeah it was. In the second frame, the picket sign on the right has a couple of pink hearts.
Authentic millipede defensive curl in panel 4! You can tell this is an artist who has followed the great Millipede nation through all their triumphs and disasters.
…they also go like that when they die : (
Poor millipedes.
Probably ate it. I’ve moved things around in my, er, library, and found book spines eaten by *something*…
By the way, the GoComics comic doesn’t look any better to me than the one here—leastways not on my equipment. I can zoom the strip there, and that’s okay…