Destroy All Manga
Shaenon: This is another comic strip my friend Jason Thompson and I were working on at one point. It was called Destroy All Manga and was based on all our friends down at the manga publishing company. Speaking of Jason and manga, I highly recommend his tabletop game Mangaka, wherein you live the dream of being an overworked manga artist. I playtested it and it was awesome if you like drawing ridiculous things very quickly and badly, which is basically my life. One week left to back it on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/22092473/mangaka-the-fast-and-furious-game-of-drawing-comic
Channing: That’s… actually a pretty good sound effect. I think I would be good at the mentioned game because I can only draw things terribly. Although I now own a stylus and an iPad and a $6 art application, so brother, I’m prepared to WORK ON MY ART SKILLS.
Actually, I will probably use it to draw My Little Pony characters.
In summary, back Jason’s Kickstarter!
Stuff and nonsense, Shaenon, you draw “ridiculous things very quickly and” very well!
Wasn’t that a Japanese monster movie circa 1970?
Actually, the sound you usually hear when nobody’s talking is “*crickets*”…. : )
or the wind blowing – and they add tumbleweeds to the scene
Or ‘…’
usually the sound of silence begins when in restless dreams I walk alone…
And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
*golf clap*
But where are you going to find cobblestone these days?…
Wouldn’t “…” be a good way to portray silence?
That works in a speech bubble to show one character is rendered speechless, but not so much in the context it’s used in the strip where a whole group is silent.
All this time, I thought was little tiny Alexander Beetle noises (a more obscure music reference of the same era).
weebadoomp ! Hey, Google, next time I look, here it is!
I believe that ‘…’ is most often used in speech balloons to indicate which of the nontalking characters is not talking, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it as a sound effect. As Shaenon knows perfectly well.
Or more to the point, which of the non-talking characters was thinking of talking but was at a loss for words.