Who is Ellen - 08 - HD
Added 2022-07-01 03:25:33 +0000 UTCAssistance.
This wasn’t supposed to be up yet, but I guess I made a mistake. Yay.
Commentary
Everyone's favorite characters return! HOORAY!
This storyline has gotten me started on over-making backgrounds so that they're large and reusable, which encouraged Ellen's animation in the first panel. The visible background is but a fraction of a premade background I used in the previous comic. Fully zoomed out, 196 comic books would be visible, as would part of the checkout counter.
The background in the panels with Rich and Larry is nothing so elaborate. I'm all set up to make it something so elaborate, but I considered how much was actually visible in this comic, and decided "yeah, the reusable version of THAT can wait."
Meanwhile, it 100% made sense to put in the time on the backgrounds with rows and columns of comics, because ye gods, so many comics. Comics without titles or anything, but given I'm working alone of this and have deadlines, we're taking the minimalist approach, here.
Comments
Rich and Larry are part of the Moperville University crowd, not the Moperville South High School crowd, so they wouldn't be tuned in to the high school rumor mill.
ijuinkun
2022-07-06 07:57:49 +0000 UTCThey know that Ellen's dating Nanase, not Grace? Ok, sure, they *are* comic shop people, so they have some added exposure. I just thought the rumor mill would've confused the issue a bit more for them by now.
Some Ed
2022-07-06 01:12:54 +0000 UTCThat's deeply weird. I believe you, but it's just a very strange idea to me.
Carl Fink
2022-07-02 22:16:34 +0000 UTCI've known a number of people who have had the idea that 'bisexual' meant that one would be in a relationship with a member of the opposite sex and having affairs with members of the same sex, and that was the only way it worked. Yes, I recognize there are many issues with the statement above, but it accurately reflects the views expressed by the people I'm talking about.
Some Ed
2022-07-02 19:36:02 +0000 UTCOMG, the Moperville comic store has that much diversity in its comics? I'll admit I don't really help the situation because I don't buy comic books anymore, but I seem to recall seeing something in excess of 50% batman the last time I went to a bookstore. I'll admit that some of those were comic books in which Batman did a crossover into some other hero's comic book, but I feel like it still counts as OMG holy Batman.
Some Ed
2022-07-02 19:32:23 +0000 UTCThat got answered, in a remarkably convoluted and EGS-specific way. Unless you mean Ellen Degeneres.
Carl Fink
2022-07-02 00:44:58 +0000 UTCI'll do one better. Why is Ellen?
Jesse Kopelman
2022-07-01 22:47:03 +0000 UTCWell, one of them has anyway...
Hurley
2022-07-01 18:25:13 +0000 UTCLookslike Larry has levelled up
John Trauger
2022-07-01 17:28:07 +0000 UTCLarry does know about bi/pan people, as he himself wondered if he was bi because he thought Tedd was cute. But even here in the real world, some people have trouble understanding that being bi means being attracted to more than one gender, especially if a bi person is in a relationship with someone whose gender isn't the same as their own. So Larry's reaction seems pretty realistic to me.
M.
2022-07-01 13:27:00 +0000 UTCThey've come a long way from Tedd's troubles during a card game I'm happy for them
IvyReed
2022-07-01 12:45:34 +0000 UTCDoes Larry(?) not know about bisexual/pansexual people? What year does this story take place, anyway?
Carl Fink
2022-07-01 10:38:03 +0000 UTCRecognizing that she is Nanase's girlfriend (even if they don't know/remember Ellen's name), and that being so makes her "off the market" even though she doesn't have a boyfriend, is definitely progress for them.
ijuinkun
2022-07-01 09:25:24 +0000 UTCThe sad thing is of the 196 comics, 95 of them are Batman titles because that's all DC supports anymore
Jaye R.
2022-07-01 05:43:53 +0000 UTCYou know what? For these two, that's actually progress.
KC
2022-07-01 03:57:51 +0000 UTCI think I liked Rich and Larry best in their first appearance, when they encapsulated nerdjerks. Since then, they've been relatively ordinary.
Stephen Gilberg
2022-07-01 03:42:51 +0000 UTC
