Severed Ties ------->The current arc

Never Mayhem · Post by **Never Mayhem** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:53 am

Ah, sacred inhaler. I'll most likely never know what it's like to have asthma, but if it can be this dramatic, I'm probably not missing out.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:18 am

If this were like some of the real life asthma attacks I've had, he wouldn'tve been able to get out of bed. But for the purposes of the story, he had to.

TheWhiteWhelk · Post by **TheWhiteWhelk** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:38 pm

I think the black ooze swallowed a reference line in the next to last panel. Evan looks like to be either leaping or awkward balancing his body on a single hand.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:07 pm

Yeah, that panel is horrible. I'm disappointed in myself.

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:40 pm

Business as usual, then.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:41 am

yeahduff wrote:Business as usual, then.

Peh.

Next page is better. Well most of it. It's also sort of not done.

TheWhiteWhelk · Post by **TheWhiteWhelk** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:05 am

Is that creative anachronism I smell, or just Shakespeare?

Is Maynard being a boob or a dick?

They can't all be gems, SL. I think this Tuesday's page made up.

Paul Escobar · Post by **Paul Escobar** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:13 am

The hell? Is Maynard ignoring Evan on purpose, or is he just completely oblivious?

I'm a tad late, but:

theSuburbanLetdown wrote:I'm glad it makes sense. It didn't turn out the way I envisioned it. I should've made more panels of choking. That's what I get for not thumbnailing this one first.

It works perfectly as it is. Thankfully, I don't know what it's like not being able to breathe, but that page makes it look very serious and very unpleasant - I mean, it's obvious it is just that by the next page when Evan falls to his knees, but the 20070302 page conveys the situation very well on its own.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:44 am

Maynard is kinda like, "Oh, this crap again."

TheWhiteWhelk wrote:Is that creative anachronism I smell, or just Shakespeare?

I was running out of time and couldn't get a proper background to work, so I just ripped off Will Eisner. Didn't work out too well.

TheWhiteWhelk · Post by **TheWhiteWhelk** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:13 pm

Heh, I was talking about the swords in the closet.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:37 pm

TheWhiteWhelk wrote:Heh, I was talking about the swords in the closet.

Oh. I'm glad you noticed them, because they're there for a reason. Heh heh heh.

TheWhiteWhelk · Post by **TheWhiteWhelk** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:00 pm

Maynard can *try* to hold Watchmen in one hand.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:29 pm

TheWhiteWhelk wrote:Maynard can *try* to hold Watchmen in one hand.

Yes! I knew someone had to notice.

Paul Escobar · Post by **Paul Escobar** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:08 am

Hehe, fun page. "Ashley told me to beat your ass". Poor Evan just can't geat a break. All that just because he was being really annoying...

Note to self: stop asking questions like "is Maynard ignoring Evan on purpose?" It's all explained eventually. Though reading a comic one page at a time every few days sometimes makes me impatient... Oh well.

Say, when's the End of Things book collection coming out?

Fallen_angel · Post by **Fallen_angel** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:46 pm

I just took it as an indication of how huge pandas are.

Never Mayhem · Post by **Never Mayhem** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:07 am

Fighting...! Hasn't been a lot of serious action in TEoT, not since the squirt gun wars, so this is a treat.

TheWhiteWhelk · Post by **TheWhiteWhelk** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:33 pm

Princess Bride quips, anyone?

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:49 pm

TheWhiteWhelk wrote:Princess Bride quips, anyone?

I have that movie memorized.

Karl Falcon · Post by **Karl Falcon** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:09 pm

Those swords look rather home-built, or at least heavily repaired. I tried my hand at making some foam swords a while back. All I got out of it was a broken oak dowel and my sister's badly bruised wrist.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:42 pm

Yeah, I wanted the audience to be able to tell that they are fake swords. I didn't want them to think I have no idea how to draw a sword. Plus the tape and tennis racquet grips look cool when drawn out.

These swords are built to Illinois State University Combat Club specifications. They're built from a PVC core, with at least 3 layers of open-cell camping foam, which it glued to the core. The blade is covered with a soft fabric, usually something like a pillowcase, then covered in duct tape. The pommel usually has a raquetball filled with pennies in it.

Since we didn't go to ISU and didn't fight in their club, my sword is made with only 2 layers of foam so I can stab quicker. In the world of foam sword fighting, I officially died in my final battle.