Comments on: Go With What you Know.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:47:31 +0000

Perhaps it is not a spaceship, but a giant blimp. That’s also pretty super-villianish, if you ask me. Am loving this strip (linked throught the Girl Genius site, if I remember correctly, which is actually unlikely). I noted all the comparisons to Bill Watterson and Berke Breathed in previous posts, and am forced to agree. Forced, I tell you! They held an anchovy to my head! (Damn penguins!) There is much to admire in your artwork, your characters and your left-of-centre humour. Great stuff. Thanks for helping keep this Interweb thingy interesting.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:15:39 +0000

Yeah, I suppose that’s true. I’ll probably still change the word ‘planets’ to ‘cities’ though.

By: Cole

Cole — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:40:44 +0000

RE: “future heavy flashback”

Piffle. It’s common knowledge that tech-based supervillains are well ahead of the curve. A-OKosher.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:26:18 +0000

Yeah, I do have a similar font. I use it in metafour for the nerd voice :

http://jetpacksandtimemachines.com/2007/06/13/communication-trouble/
I thought about using it for grandpa too but then I started thinking about altering it, to make a darker and top-heavy version. I thought villainous fonts maybe should be more top-heavy

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:27:05 +0000

One possibility would be to keep the electronic bubbles the way you have them drawn here but use an electronic-looking font, instead of handwritten. MAybe a font like this: http://www.brainybetty.com/PPT9/fonts.3.gif

Might be a bit much but it definitely communicates electronic.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:51:46 +0000

Hey thanks guys.

@Scott: Yeah, I think I should just make a template for it for adam’s grandpa, but first I have to figure out exactly what the best way is to communicate “electronic”

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:50:22 +0000

Nice! My favorite part of this strip is panel two. Great job at conveying total pandemonium. As for electronic speech bubbles, they are a pain to draw.

By: The Cheesinator

The Cheesinator — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:50:16 +0000

hahaha, this sort of portrays all parents as the aged evil genius….”Hmmm, i don’t want to do the work, who’ll do it for me? Ah yes, the kids, i’ll just make it sound cool”

By: Jarrett

Jarrett — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:31:07 +0000

It’s like talking to a rock pile…

By: jim

jim — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:33:38 +0000

yeah, the font is too small for it, I know. If I were going to be shrinking this down to standard strip size, I’d have to raise the point size by two. It would be a problem in certain formats for print, most notably if it were appearing in newspapers. I guess at some point I will have to re-evaluate what my goals are and make a decision on that, but since I already told jarrett off when he suggested I enlarge the font so I could put my comic on Sherpa, I’m loath to change it now.