VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

INsights: Several things may have been lost in the translation… The gang gathered Friday night, and ended up playing scatagories. At one point, a gang member tried to put down Helen Keller as their answer for a Notorious Person for the letter “K”. I think we had to explain what notorious meant (maybe, or maybe they were just being funny). Anywho. it was funny. Much ribbing and joking. Much discussion of how everyone hates Helen Keller.  I jotted it down as a joke to exploit in the strip. Perhaps due to the giggles I had. I had the giggles. For some reason i didn’t focus the script/note (scribbled hastily in the dark, on a yellow legal pad i’m constantly recording various ideas upon) on the basic premise that everyone hates poor old helen keller for one reason or another. hmm.

Sooo, here we are. Rather than try to explain that our heroes are playing that particular board game, I went with ambiguous phrasing (“put down”). I’d noted the usual suspects line, verbatim, but while putting the strip together it occurredd to meee that it didn’t make sense to say Keller convinced the world she didn’t exist. Thought maybe it implied a sorrow at the lack of education in the world, like she’d been forgotten, and that isn’t something i want to do with the strip (wag a finger at society). So I toyed with “She wasn’t a sexist” for  a while. But figured this would rub lady readers the wrong way. Tried “she was the devil” for a while, because in mind it ties back into the original quote. Too thinky, and still didn’t make sense. So I spent some time fretting over “geez, how does one create a punchline? what do i find funny here really?” which reminded me that I’ve been drifting pretty far from funny town with recent strips. eek.

Anywho. The obvious punchline seemed to be focusing on the “person” side of Viddy’s complaint, instead of the “Notorious” side. oh ho ho. How unexpected. And i kind of liked the weirdness of implying she wasn’t human. Although there may be kind of a dark implication that anyone who is deaf dumb and blind shouldn’t be considered human. Which I can live with. but hope no one thinks of right off the bat. erk.

Art wise: he is viddy. finally. wee. toyed around with his non-speaking mouth a bit, because i don’t like the old smirk. And thought it too extreme to use the tried and true “exasperated” mouth. I guess maybe only I know what I mean there. hmm. Anywho. Spent a few hours fucking around with the helen keller frames. Trying to be like a back lit keiser soze. failing. Found myself distracted by trying to make good fire with vector art (until I discovered some useful filters). The colors kind of suck. Not explodey flamey enough. but i can live with my shitty color sense. for now. Again I pondered putting a scategories game box in the first two frames, just enough so someone might get that alternate meaning. butttttt fuck it. it’s late.

In other news, it seems my endless Illustrator glitch problems are definitely related to Zune software. If i run zune software, i won’t be able to save in Illustrator until i reboot the computer. If i should, sayyyyy, try to plug in my Zune Hardware (sayyyy because it’s running low on battery juice), and sayyyyy i was playing music while plugging it in, then it might sayyyyy start up the fucking software automatically. Meaning i’d have to restart the computer again, although i’d just restarted it. This might possibly drive me a little nuts, and lower my patience for super polishing the strip. just sayyying.