More word ballons than usual for this page. Spandex Girl has a lot to say…..
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As a couple of the characters and several readers have noted, NanoMan probably wasn’t ‘alive’ in the first place, so he isn’t ‘dead’ at the moment. I was going to have him launch into this big speech about how the last bits of his organic self have been killed, but I get the sense that regular readers out there have figured that out already. So, to keep the story moving, I’m going to skip that chunk of exposition and continue forward.
I am going to have NanoMan speak in a different ‘robotic’ font to emphasize his now non-human aspect (it’s called Area51 from Comicraft for you font fans) so if you’re the kind of person who hears the character voices in your head, it should be a colder and more robotic voice than before.
Regular readers have probably also figured out that I am a big fan of fancy fonts. I think the biggest inspiration for that is the old Walt Kelly comic strip Pogo, which is one of the all-time great comic strips. Walt Kelly was not only a great cartoonist, but a gifted calligrapher, and when one of his characters spoke with a fancy affectation or a pretentious tone, Kelly would fill his word balloons with wonderful hand-crafted dialog. If you’ve never read any of Walt Kelly’s work, you should check it out.
You can tell I’m having fun with sound effects here. Hey, I took advantage of the Comiccraft New Year’s font sale, and I have to use them someplace, don’t I? You should notice that there’s another sound effect in the lower right of the last panel. It’s supposed to be a sort of swooshing sound like when a lot of sand particles swirl together when they are swept around by a heavy wind.   I wonder what could cause that?
Also, If you’re wondering, MegaMime is sliding down an invisible pole. Every time MegaMime pops into a story, I want to spend more time playing with the character. Guess I’m going to have to write that spin-off story some time….
